With portraits and other illustrations. A collection of 28 lectures on thehistory and progress of astronomy. Some selections of these lectures areentitled Coper... » 

With portraits and other illustrations. A collection of 28 lectures on thehistory and progress of astronomy. Some selections of these lectures areentitled Copernicus and the motion of the Earth Tycho Brahe and the earliestobservatory Kepler and the laws of planetary motion Galileo and the inventionof the telescope Sir Isaac Newton Roemer and Bradley and the velocity oflight Herschel and the motion of the fixed stars Bessel the distances of thestars and the discovery of the stellar planets discovery of Neptune tides andplanetary evolution. «