An edition of The orbs around us (1872)

The orbs around us

a series of familiar essays on the moon and planets, meteors and comets, the sun and coloured pairs of suns.

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An edition of The orbs around us (1872)

The orbs around us

a series of familiar essays on the moon and planets, meteors and comets, the sun and coloured pairs of suns.

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Longmans, Green, and co.
Language
English
Pages
337

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Subjects
Astronomy
Places
Solar system

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Cover of: The Orbs Around Us
The Orbs Around Us
May 8, 2006, Hesperides Press
Paperback in English
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Cover of: The orbs around us
The orbs around us: a series of familiar essays on the moon and planets, meteors and comets, the sun and coloured pairs of suns.
1902, Longmans
- New impression.
Cover of: The orbs around us
The orbs around us: a series of familiar essays on the moon and planets, meteors and comets, the sun and coloured pairs of suns
1902, Longmans, Green
- 2nd ed. --
Cover of: The orbs around us
The orbs around us: a series of familiar essays on the moon and planets, meteors and comets, the sun and coloured pairs of suns.
1875, Longmans, Green, and co.
in English - 2d ed.
Cover of: The orbs around us
The orbs around us: a series of familiar essays on the moon and planets, meteors and comets, the sun and coloured pairs of suns.
1872, Longmans, Green and co., Scribner, Welford and Armstrong
in English
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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 aërolites.
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.

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vi p., 3 \U+fffd\., 337 p. incl. front. (chart.) illus.
Number of pages
337

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