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Side-lights on astronomy and kindred fields of popular science
essays and addresses by Simon Newcomb ...

Published 1906 by Harper & brothers in New York, London .

Table of Contents

The unsolved problems of astronomy.
The new problems of the universe.
The structure of the universe.
The extent of the universe.
Making and using a telescope.
What the astronomers are doing.
Life in the universe.
How the planets are weighed.
The mariner's compass.
The fairyland of geometry.
The organization of scientific research.
Can we make it rain?
The astronomical ephemeris and nautical almanac.
The world's debt to astronomy.
An astronomical friendship.
The evolution of the scientific investigator.
The evolution of astronomical knowledge.
Aspects of American astronomy.
The universe as an organism.
The relation of scientific method to social progress.
The outlook for the flying-machine.

Classifications

Library of Congress QB51 .N56

The Physical Object

Pagination vii, [1] p., 1 l., 349, [1] p.

ID Numbers

Open Library OL7194776M
Internet Archive sidelightsonastr00newcrich
LC Control Number 06034834

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