The Earth and Sky by  E. S. Holden
Table of Contents
The Earth Is Not Flat
The Earth Is Round
The Earth Is a Large Globe
The Earth in Space
The Sun
The Moon
Why the Bright Part of the Moon Changes Its Shape
The Stars in Their Courses

Back Matter






[Illustration]

Part of a photograph of the moon, taken at the Lick Observatory.
(Moon's age, 8 days 1 hour) The moon's north horn is shown



[Illustration]

Drawing of the planet Mercury



[Illustration]

Map of the two hemispheres of the planet Venus



[Illustration]

Drawing of one side of the planet Mars, made at the Lick Observatory



[Illustration]

Drawing of one side of the planet Mars, made at the Lick Observatory



[Illustration]

Drawing of one side of the planet Jupiter, made at the Lick Observatory



[Illustration]

Drawing of one side of the planet Jupiter, made at the Lick Observatory



[Illustration]

Drawing of the planet Saturn, made at the Lick Observatory



[Illustration]

Drawing of the total solar eclipse of July 1878, in Colorado



[Illustration]

Photograph of the total solar eclipse of January 1889, in California



[Illustration]

Fall of the great California meteor of 1894



[Illustration]

View of the Observatory at Harvard College



[Illustration]

The fifteen-inch telescope of the Harvard College Observatory. (Its glass is 15 inches across.)



[Illustration]

Distant view of the Lick Observatory of the University of California. (It is on a mountain 4,200 feet high.)



[Illustration]

The west front of the Lick Observatory, showing the dome of the thirty-six inch telescope



[Illustration]

The six-inch telescope of the Lick Observatory



[Illustration]

The twelve-inch telescope of the Lick Observatory



[Illustration]

The forty-inch telescope of the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago.


Copyright (c) 2005 - 2020   Yesterday's Classics, LLC. All Rights Reserved.