The Solar System: Six Lectures Delivered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December, 1902 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

McDonnell, Rev. Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440051178 ISBN 13 : 9781440051173

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore the Solar System through the lens of early 20th-century science and its bold questions.

This concise, lecture‑style work examines planetary motion, the shapes of orbits, and how scientists infer the nature of distant worlds. The book traces how astronomers link observation to theory, from Kepler’s ellipses to Newton’s gravity, and what those ideas reveal about the Sun’s reach, the planets, and their satellites. It blends detailed reasoning with accessible explanations, offering a window into both established facts and the era’s enduring mysteries.

• How planets move in ellipses and how their speeds reveal orbit shapes
• How rings around Saturn form a central part of the planet’s system
• What meteorites and meteors tell us about bodies in our solar system
• Evidence and debates about Mars, including observations and canal hypotheses

Ideal for readers curious about how early astronomers built a coherent picture of the solar system from observation, theory, and careful deduction.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440051178
• ISBN 13: 9781440051173
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 148
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