Astronomy for beginners (Registro nro. 118832)
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| LC control number | 2004564085 |
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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 | Carrington, Hereward, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1880-1959 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Astronomy for beginners |
| 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 | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Little blue book ; no. 895 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2026-03-04 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Tim Miller, chenzw, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Astronomy for beginners by Hereward Carrington is a compact popular-science primer written in the early 20th century. It offers a clear, accessible introduction to astronomy for lay readers, outlining how the cosmos works and how we study it.<br/><br/>The book opens by separating astronomy from astrology, then tours the solar system: the Sun (its layers, spots, and influence), each planet from Mercury to Neptune (with notes on moons, rings, atmospheres, and habitability), the minor planets, and the Moon’s features, phases, and origin. It surveys theories of solar-system formation (from Laplace to the planetesimal hypothesis), maps the sky’s constellations, and explains meteors, meteorites, comets, nebulae, and the Milky Way. Carrington summarizes stellar facts—numbers, distances (light-years), motions, temperatures, and types (fixed, double, colored, variable, temporary), plus star clusters. He describes eclipses, transits, and occultations, and introduces the tools that revolutionized astronomy—telescopes, spectroscopy, and photography. Core physical ideas follow: tides, gravitation, the ether (as then conceived), and atomic analogies; alongside atmospheric and geophysical topics such as lightning, fireballs, magnetism, and the aurora. Practical matters—measuring time and space, the International Date Line, calendars—lead to brief notes on curved space, the darkness and cold of interstellar space, prospects for life beyond Earth, possible causes of ice ages, why stars twinkle, the Moon’s size illusion, and a closing set of concise definitions. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | Girard: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1925 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Astronomy |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Haldeman-Julius, E. |
| Fuller form of name | (Emanuel), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1888-1951 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Little blue book ; no. 895 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78112">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78112</a> |
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