Richard Anthony Proctor

Other Worlds Than Ours

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Produktbeschreibung

An astronomer's contribution to the Victorian debates on the possibility of life elsewhere in the solar system.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781108004176
• ISBN-10: 1108004172
• Artikelnr.: 26887118

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. What the earth teaches us
2. What we learn from the sun
3. The inferior planets
4. Mars, the miniature of our earth
5. Jupiter, the giant of the solar system
6. Saturn, the ringed world
7. Uranus and Neptune, the arctic planets
8. The moon and other satellites
9. Meteors and comets
their office in the solar system
10. Other suns than ours
11. Of minor stars, and of the distribution of stars in space
12. The nebulæ, are they external galaxies
13. Supervision and control.