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An Irish astronomer and talented mathematician, Sir Robert Stawell
Ball (1840-1913) was also a prolific writer of popular astronomy.
As a young man, Ball conducted observations of nebulae using Lord
Rosse's telescope - at the time the largest in the world. His Story
of the Heavens displays the same fascination with the beauties and
mysteries of the sky, providing a detailed survey of the history
and contemporary situation of the solar system, and speculating
about the possibility of life on other planets. Originally
published in 1885, when Ball was Andrews Professor of Astronomy in
the University of Dublin and Royal Astronomer of Ireland, this
beautifully illustrated volume covers all eight planets, the Sun,
as well as double stars, distant suns, comets, and the Milky Way.
Extremely popular in its time, this book remains relevant today for
its historical account of astronomy as a science.
The Earths Beginning are lectures which were delivered in the Royal
Institution of Great Britain. It considers the majestic subject of
the evolution of the solar system of which our earth forms a part.
The nebular theory discloses the beginning of this earth itself. It
shows how the foundations of this solid earth have been laid, and
how it is that we have land to tread on and air to breathe. But the
subject has a scope far wider than merely in its relation to our
earth.
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