Nonfiction · 1906
Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science
Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science, first published in 1906, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Epigraph
- Preface
- I — The Unsolved Problems of Astronomy
- II — The New Problems of the Universe
- III — The Structure of the Universe
- IV — The Extent of the Universe
- V — Making and Using a Telescope
- VI — What the Astronomers Are Doing
- VII — Life in the Universe
- VIII — How the Planets Are Weighed
- IX — The Mariner’s Compass
- X — The Fairyland of Geometry
- XI — The Organization of Scientific Research
- XII — Can We Make It Rain?
- XIII — The Astronomical Ephemeris and the Nautical Almanac
- XIV — The World’s Debt to Astronomy
- XV — An Astronomical Friendship
- XVI — The Evolution of the Scientific Investigator
- XVII — The Evolution of Astronomical Knowledge
- XVIII — Aspects of American Astronomy
- XIX — The Universe as an Organism
- XX — THE RELATION OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD TO SOCIAL PROGRESS (Footnote: An address before the Washington Philosophical Society)
- XXI — The Outlook for the Flying-Machine
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