The Solar System: Six Lectures Delivered At The Massachusetts Institute Of Technology In December, 1902 (1903) - Softcover

Lowell, Percival

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0548908192 ISBN 13: 9780548908198

Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

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IN the long perspective of knowledge, which begins with the close at hand and stretches to the infinitely remote, the solar system marks a middle distance. Between the intimacy possible with objects on this Earth and the distant recognition of the universe of suns, it furnishes an acquaintanceship combining something of the interest of the one with the grandeur of the other. Our knowledge about the solar system has greatly increased during the last quarter of a century; and first in the recognition of what makes part of it. To our solar system we now know belongs every heavenly body we see except the fixed stars and the nebulze. Not only are the Sun, Moon, and planets members of it, but meteors, shooting-stars, and comets we have found to be so, too. That all of these bodies are part and parc~l of what the Sun controls, I shall first Its position in space and ill knowledge. Its constituents.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; CHAr; 1 OUR SOLAR SYSTE:l; II MERCURY; III MARS; IV SATUR~ AXD ITS SYSTE:[; V JUPITER AND HIS CO~IETS; VI COS~IOGOXY ; PAGE; 27; 47; 94; II6; ELElIE~TS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM; TABLE; 1 ORI3ITAL ELDlEXTS; II BODILY ELE~lEXTS ; ERRATA; Page 23, line 8; For III; a-""d 2; Page i-t, line 18; read; For Pierce read Feirce; 2JJl; (a - d)z'; Page 104, second line under diagram; For P read O; Page 123, line I; facing 134; Jacillg 134; After momentum insert projected at right angles; to

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• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0548908192
• ISBN 13: 9780548908198
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 148
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