Astronomy (Registro nro. 118236)
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| control field | 20260610134809.0 |
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| LC control number | 04004433 |
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QB |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Clerke, Agnes M. |
| Fuller form of name | (Agnes Mary), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1842-1907 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Astronomy |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-12-21 |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | History, by A.M. Clerke -- Geometrical astronomy and astronomical instruments, by A. Fowler -- The solar system, by A.M. Clerke -- The sidereal heavens, by J.E. Gore. |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Astronomy" by Agnes M. Clerke, A. Fowler, and J. Ellard Gore is a scientific publication written in the late 19th century. It offers a concise, illustrated survey of astronomical knowledge, combining history, the principles of celestial mechanics and observing techniques, and accessible accounts of the solar system, stars, clusters, nebulae, and comets.<br/><br/>The opening of the volume sets its aim—a compact, well‑illustrated synopsis—then outlines four parts: a historical survey, geometrical astronomy and instruments, the solar system, and the sidereal heavens. It proceeds with a swift history from Hipparchus and Ptolemy through the Arab custodians to Copernicus, Tycho, Galileo, and Kepler, culminating in Newton’s unifying gravitation and its mathematical confirmation by Lagrange and Laplace. Alongside theory, it spotlights Britain’s observational tradition at Greenwich (Flamsteed, Halley, Bradley, Maskelyne), advances in instrument making, and the rise of powerful reflectors and refractors under William and John Herschel, Lord Rosse, and others. The narrative then introduces the “astronomy of the invisible” (the prediction of Neptune), the birth of astrophysics via spectrum analysis and stellar chemistry, and the transformative role of celestial photography with dry plates. At the start of the next section, the text turns to basics of observing from Earth—horizon and curvature, rough sizing of the globe, sensible versus rational horizon, zenith and nadir, and the sky’s apparent daily rotation around the north celestial pole near Polaris. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Astronomy |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Fowler, A. |
| Fuller form of name | (Alfred), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1868-1940 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Gore, J. Ellard |
| Fuller form of name | (John Ellard), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1845-1910 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008881840">https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008881840</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77516">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77516</a> |
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