Sunday, February 15, 2009

Vintage astronomy texts


Some nostalgic, vintage astronomy texts...

Aristotle


Ball, R. S.


Bethe, Hans

"Supernovae"


Brahe, Tycho

Astronomicall Coniectur [A New Star]


Copernicus, Nicolaus


Elger, Thomas Gwyn

The Moon: A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features


Galilei, Galileo

"Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems"

"Astronomy: The Transit of Venus"

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Guillemin, Amédée

The Sun


Hoyle, Fred

Frontiers Of Astronomy


Koresh [Cyrus Reed Teed]

The Cellular Cosmogony: Or, The Earth a Concave Sphere

The Solar System: Six Lectures Delivered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December, 1902


Milne-Home, David

Essay on Comets, Which Gained the First of Dr. Fellowe's Prizes, Proposed to Those Who Had Attended the University of Edinburgh Within the Last Twelve Years (1828)


Mitchel, O. M.

The Astronomy of the Bible


Murray, David

"The Transit of Venus"

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Newcomb, Simon

Sidelights On Astronomy


Proctor, Richard A.

Transits of Venus: A Popular Account of Past and Coming Transits, From the First Observed by Horrocks A.D. 1639 to the Transit of A.D. 2012


Ptolemy

Tetrabiblos


Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio

"The Rotation and Physical Constitution of the Planet Mercury and the Planet Mars"


Serviss, Garrett P.

Astronomy with the naked eye

Curiosities of the Sky: A Popular Presentation of the Great Riddles and Mysteries of Astronomy


Smith, Charles H. [editor]

Man's Place in the Universe: A Study of the Results of Scientific Research in Relation to the Unity or Plurality of Worlds


Somerville, Mary

Mechanism of the Heavens


Stimson, Dorothy

The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican Theory of the Universe


Todhunter, I

A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and the Figure of the Earth from the Time of Newton to That of Laplace--Volume 1

A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and the Figure of the Earth from the Time of Newton to That of Laplace--Volume 2


Tyson, Winston C.

Celestial Amusements


Wallace, Alfred Russel

Is Mars Habitable? A Critical Examination of Professor Lowell's Book "Mars and Its Canals," With an Alternative Explanation


Whewell, William

The Plurality of Worlds

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