The orbs around us :
a series of familiar essays on the moon and planets, meteors and comets, the sun and coloured pairs of suns /
by Richard A. Proctor.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Longmans, Green, and Co.,
1875.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Notes: | Physical description: vi p., 3 leaves, 337 p. : ill. (chart.) ; 20 cm. |
Table of Contents:
Introduction : The gamut of light
Other habitable worlds
Other inhabited worlds
The Rosse telescope set to new work
The planet of love
The planet of war
A miniature sun
Shooting stars, meteors, and aeĢrolites
Meteors and meteor systems
Professor Tyndall's theory of comets
Comets and comets' tails
The sun's corona
What, then, is the corona?
The corona as a phenomenon of eruption
Colours of double stars.
Introduction : The gamut of light
Other habitable worlds
Other inhabited worlds
The Rosse telescope set to new work
The planet of love
The planet of war
A miniature sun
Shooting stars, meteors, and aeĢrolites
Meteors and meteor systems
Professor Tyndall's theory of comets
Comets and comets' tails
The sun's corona
What, then, is the corona?
The corona as a phenomenon of eruption
Colours of double stars.