THE author of this book is professor of astronomy in the University of Illinois. In 1930 he wrote “Astronomy”, containing five hundred pages and published by the Van Nostrand Company, New York. The ...

THIS book is intended for use as a text in introductory college courses in astronomy. It covers a very wide field, but the subject is so large that, in spite of the considerable size of the volume, ...

This introduction to the spectroscopy, mainly by radio astronomy, of interstellar molecules was written five years before the discovery of C60. It covers an introduction to interstellar medium and ...

Chapter I: Introduction: the dawn of astronomy -- Chapter II: The earth -- Chapter III: Tools and methods -- Chapter IV: The sun -- Chapter V: The moon -- Chapter VI: Eclipses and tides -- Chapter VII ...

pt. 1. Introduction -- Introduction to Navajo astronomy -- Introduction to Greek astronomy -- Introduction to Space Science -- pt. 2. Comparative astronomy ...