History of Astronomy

By Forbes, George

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Title:	History of Astronomy
Author:	Forbes, George
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature & thought, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy
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Preface: An attempt has been made in these pages to trace the evolution of intellectual thought in the progress of astronomical discovery, and, by recognizing the different points of view of the different ages, to give due credit even to the ancients. No one can expect, in a history of astronomy of limited size, to find a treatise on ?practical? or on ?theoretical astronomy,? nor a complete ?descriptive astronomy,? and still less a book on ?speculative astronomy.? Something of each of these is essential, however, for tracing the progress of thought and knowledge which it is the object of this History to describe.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS PREFACE BOOK I. THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD 1. PRIMITIVE ASTRONOMY AND ASTROLOGY 2. ANCIENT ASTRONOMY--CHINESE AND CHALD’ANS 3. ANCIENT GREEK ASTRONOMY 4. THE REIGN OF EPICYCLES--FROM PTOLEMY TO COPERNICUS BOOK II. THE DYNAMICAL PERIOD 5. DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE SOLAR SYSTEM--TYCHO BRAHE--KEPLER 6. GALILEO AND THE TELESCOPE--NOTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HORROCKS, ETC. 7. SIR ISAAC NEWTON--LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION 8. NEWTON'S SUCCESSORS--HALLEY, EULER, LAGRANGE, LAPLACE, ETC. 9. DISCOVERY OF NEW PLANETS--HERSCHEL, PIAZZI, ADAMS, AND LE VERRIER