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Forbes-George

HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY

BY

GEORGE FORBES,

M.A., F.R.S., M. INST. C. E.,

(FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, ANDERSON'S COLLEGE, GLASGOW)

AUTHOR OF "THE TRANSIT OF VENUS," RENDU'S "THEORY OF THE :GLACIERS OF SAVOY," ETC., ETC.

1909

INDEX

Abul Wefa, 24 Acceleration of moon's mean motion, 60 Achromatic lens invented, 88 Adams, J. C., 61, 65, 68, 69, 70, 87, 118, 124 Airy, G. B., 13, 30, 37, 65, 69, 70, 80, 81, 114, 119 Albetegnius, 24 Alphonso, 24 Altazimuth, 81 Anaxagoras, 14, 16 Anaximander, 14 Anaximenes, 14 Anderson, T. D., 137, 138 Ångstrom, A. J., 102 Antoniadi, 113 Apian, P., 63 Apollonius, 22, 23 Arago, 111 Argelander, F. W. A., 139 Aristarchus, 18, 29 Aristillus, 17, 19 Aristotle, 16, 30, 47 Arrhenius, 146 Arzachel, 24 Asshurbanapal, 12 Asteroids, discovery of, 67, 119 Astrology, ancient and modern, 1-7, 38

Backlund, 122 Bacon, R., 86 Bailly, 8, 65 Barnard, E. E., 115, 143 Beer and Mädler, 107, 110, 111 Behaim, 74 Bessel, F.W., 65, 79, 128, 134, 139 Biela, 123 Binet, 65 Biot, 10 Bird, 79, 80 Bliss, 80 Bode, 66, 69 Bond, G. P., 99, 117, 122 Bouvard, A., 65, 68 Bradley, J., 79, 80, 81, 87, 127, 128, 139 Bredechin, 146 Bremiker, 71 Brewster, D., 52, 91, 112 Brinkley, 128 Bruno, G., 49 Burchardt, 65, 123 Burnham, S. W., 134

Callippus, 15, 16, 31 Carrington, R. C., 97, 99, 114 Cassini, G. D., 107, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118 Cassini, J., 109, 129 Chacornac, 139 Chaldæan astronomy, 11-13 Challis, J., 69, 70, 71, 72 Chance, 88 Charles, II., 50, 81 Chinese astronomy, 8-11 Christie, W. M. H. (Ast. Roy.), 64, 82, 125 Chueni, 9 Clairaut, A. C., 56, 63, 65 Clark, A. G., 89, 135 Clerke, Miss, 106, 146 Comets, 120 Common, A. A., 88 Cooke, 89 Copeland, R., 142 Copernicus, N., 14, 24-31, 37, 38, 41, 42, 49, 128 Cornu, 85 Cowell, P. H., 3, 5, 64, 83 Crawford, Earl of, 84 Cromellin, A. C., 5, 64

D'Alembert, 65 Damoiseau, 65 D'Arrest, H. L., 34 Dawes, W. R., 100, 111 Delambre, J. B. J., 8, 27, 51, 65, 68 De la Rue, W., 2, 94, 99, 100, 131 Delaunay, 65 Democritus, 16 Descartes, 51 De Sejour, 117 Deslandres, II., 101 Desvignolles, 9 De Zach, 67 Digges, L., 86 Dollond, J., 87, 90 Dominis, A. di., 86 Donati, 120 Doppler, 92, 129 Draper, 99 Dreyer, J. L. E., 29,77 Dunthorne, 60 Dyson, 131

Eclipses, total solar, 103 Ecphantes, 16 Eddington, 131 Ellipse, 41 Empedocles, 16 Encke, J. F., 119, 122, 123, 133 Epicycles, 22 Eratosthenes, 18 Euclid, 17 Eudoxus, 15, 31 Euler, L., 60, 61, 62, 65, 88, 119

Fabricius, D.,95, 120, 121 Feil and Mantois, 88 Fizeau, H. L., 85, 92, 99 Flamsteed, J., 50, 58, 68, 78, 79, 93 Fohi, 8 Forbes, J. D., 52, 91 Foucault, L., 85, 99 Frauenhofer, J., 88, 90, 91

Galilei, G., 38, 46-49, 77, 93, 94, 95, 96, 107, 113, 115, 116, 133 Galle, 71, 72 Gascoigne, W., 45, 77 Gauss, C. F., 65, 67 Gauthier, 98 Gautier, 89 Gilbert, 44 Gill, D., 84, 85, 128, 135, 139, 140 Goodricke, J., 136 Gould, B. A., 139 Grant, R., 27, 47, 51, 86, 134 Graham, 79 Greek astronomy, 8-11 Gregory, J. and D., 87 Grimaldi, 113 Groombridge, S., 139 Grubb, 88, 89 Guillemin, 122 Guinand, 88

Hale, G. E., 101 Hall, A., 112 Hall, C. M., 88 Halley, E., 19, 51, 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 79, 120, 122, 125, 129 Halley's comet, 62-64 Halm, 85 Hansen, P. A., 3, 65 Hansky, A. P., 100 Harding, C. L., 67 Heliometer, 83 Heller, 120 Helmholtz, H. L. F., 35 Henderson, T., 128 Henry, P. and P., 139, 140, 143 Heraclides, 16 Heraclitus, 14 Herodotus, 13 Herschel, W., 65, 68, 97, 107, 110, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 126, 127,

 130, 131, 132, 141, 142

Herschel, J., 97, 111, 133, 134, 142 Herschel, A. S., 125 Hevelius, J., 178 Hind, J. R., 5, 64, 120, 121, 122 Hipparchus, 3, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 36, 55, 60, 74, 93, 137 Hooke, R., 51, 111, 114 Horrocks, J., 50, 56 Howlett, 100 Huggins, W., 92, 93, 99, 106, 120, 129, 137, 138, 142, 144 Humboldt and Bonpland, 124 Huyghens, C., 47, 77, 87, 110, 116, 117

Ivory, 65

Jansen, P. J. C., 105, 106 Jansen, Z., 86

Kaiser, F., 111 Kapteyn, J. C., 131, 138, 139 Keeler, 117 Kepler, J., 17, 23, 26, 29, 30, 36, 37, 38-46, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 63,

 66, 77, 87, 93, 127, 137

Kepler's laws, 42 Kirchoff, G.R., 91 Kirsch, 9 Knobel, E.B., 12, 13 Ko-Show-King, 76

Lacaile, N.L., 139 Lagrange, J.L., 61, 62, 65, 119 La Hire, 114 Lalande, J.J.L., 60, 63, 65, 66, 72, 139 Lamont, J., 98 Langrenus, 107 Laplace, P.S. de, 50, 58, 61, 62, 65,66, 123, 146 Lassel, 72, 88, 117, 118 Law of universal gravitation, 53 Legendre, 65 Leonardo da Vinci, 46 Lewis, G.C., 17 Le Verrier, U.J.J., 65, 68, 70, 71,72, 110, 118, 125 Lexell, 66, 123 Light year, 128 Lipperhey, H., 86 Littrow, 121 Lockyer, J.N., 103, 105, 146 Logarithms invented, 50 Loewy, 2, 100 Long inequality of Jupiter and Saturn, 50, 62 Lowell, P., 111, 112, 118 Lubienietz, S. de, 122 Luther, M., 38 Lunar theory, 37, 50, 56, 64

Maclaurin, 65 Maclear, T., 128 Malvasia, 77 Martin, 9 Maxwell, J. Clerk, 117 Maskelyne, N., 80, 130 McLean, F., 89 Medici, Cosmo di, 48 Melancthon, 38 Melotte, 83, 116 Meteors, 123 Meton, 15 Meyer, 57, 65 Michaelson, 85 Miraldi, 110, 114 Molyneux, 87 Moon, physical observations, 107 Mouchez, 139 Moyriac de Mailla, 8

Napier, Lord, 50 Nasmyth and Carpenter, 108 Nebulae, 141, 146 Neison, E., 108 Neptune, discovery of, 68-72 Newall, 89 Newcomb, 85 Newton, H.A., 124 Newton, I., 5, 19, 43, 49, 51-60, 62, 64, 68, 77, 79, 87, 90, 93, 94,

 114, 127, 133

Nicetas, 16, 25 Niesten, 115 Nunez, P., 35

Olbers, H.W.M., 67 Omar, 11, 24 Oppolzer, 13, 125 Oudemans, 129

Palitsch, G., 64 Parallax, solar, 85, 86 Parmenides, 14 Paul III., 30 Paul V., 48 Pemberton, 51 Peters, C.A.F., 125, 128, 135 Photography, 99 Piazzi, G., 67, 128, 129, 139 Picard, 54, 77, 114 Pickering, E.C., 118, 135 Pingré, 13, 122 Plana, 65 Planets and satellites, physical observations, 109-119 Plato, 17, 23, 26, 40 Poisson, 65 Pond, J., 80 Pons, 122 Porta, B., 86 Pound, 87, 114 Pontecoulant, 64 Precession of the equinoxes, 19-21, 55, 57 Proctor, R.A., 111 Pritchett, 115 Ptolemy, 11, 13, 21, 22, 23, 24, 93 Puiseux and Loewy, 108 Pulfrich, 131 Purbach, G., 24 Pythagoras, 14, 17, 25, 29

Ramsay, W., 106 Ransome and May, 81 Reflecting telescopes invented, 87 Regiomontanus (Müller), 24 Respighi, 82 Retrograde motion of planets, 22 Riccioli, 107 Roberts, 137 Römer, O.,78, 114 Rosse, Earl of, 88, 142 Rowland, H. A., 92, 102 Rudolph H.,37, 39 Rumker, C., 139

Sabine, E., 98 Savary, 133 Schaeberle, J. M., 135 Schiaparelli, G. V., 110, 111, 124, 125 Scheiner, C., 87, 95, 96 Schmidt, 108 Schott, 88 Schröter, J. H., 107, 110, 111, 124, 125 Schuster, 98 Schwabe, G. H., 97 Secchi, A., 93, 144 Short, 87 Simms, J., 81 Slipher, V. M., 119 Socrates, 17 Solon, 15 Souciet, 8 South, J., 133 Spectroscope, 89-92 Spectroheliograph, 101 Spoerer, G. F. W., 98 Spots on the sun, 84;

 periodicity of, 97

Stars, Parallax, 127;

 proper motion, 129;
 double, 132;
 binaries, 132, 135;
 new, 19, 36, 137;
 catalogues of, 19, 36, 139;
 spectra of, 143

Stewart, B., 2, 100 Stokes, G. G., 91 Stone, E. J., 139 Struve, C. L., 130 Struve, F. G. W,, 88, 115, 128, 133

Telescopes invented, 47, 86;

 large, 88

Temple, 115, 125 Thales, 13, 16 Theon, 60 Transit circle of Römer, 78 Timocharis, 17, 19 Titius, 66 Torricelli, 113 Troughton, E., 80 Tupman, G. L., 120 Tuttle, 125 Tycho Brahe, 23, 25, 30, 33-38, 39, 40, 44, 50, 75, 77, 93, 94, 129, 137

Ulugh Begh, 24 Uranus, discovery of, 65

Velocity of light, 86, 128;

 of earth in orbit, 128

Verbiest, 75 Vogel, H. C., 92, 129, 135, 136 Von Asten, 122

Walmsley, 65 Walterus, B., 24, 74 Weiss, E., 125 Wells, 122 Wesley, 104 Whewell, 112 Williams, 10 Wilson, A., 96, 100 Winnecke, 120 Witte, 86 Wollaston, 90 Wolf, M., 119, 125, 132 Wolf, R., 98 Wren, C., 51 Wyllie, A., 77

Yao, 9 Young, C. A., 103 Yu-Chi, 8

Zenith telescopes, 79, 82 Zöllner, 92 Zucchi, 113

Contents

PREFACE

BOOK I. THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD

• 1. PRIMITIVE ASTRONOMY AND ASTROLOGY

• 2. ANCIENT ASTRONOMY--CHINESE AND CHALDÆANS

• 3. ANCIENT GREEK ASTRONOMY

• 4. THE REIGN OF EPICYCLES--FROM PTOLEMY TO COPERNICUS

BOOK II. THE DYNAMICAL PERIOD

• 5. DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE SOLAR SYSTEM--TYCHO BRAHE--KEPLER

• 6. GALILEO AND THE TELESCOPE--NOTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HORROCKS, ETC.

• 7. SIR ISAAC NEWTON--LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION

• 8. NEWTON'S SUCCESSORS--HALLEY, EULER, LAGRANGE, LAPLACE, ETC.

• 9. DISCOVERY OF NEW PLANETS--HERSCHEL, PIAZZI, ADAMS, AND LE VERRIER

BOOK III. OBSERVATION

• 10. INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION--SIZE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

• 11. HISTORY OF THE TELESCOPE--SPECTROSCOPE

BOOK IV. THE PHYSICAL PERIOD

• 12. THE SUN

• 13. THE MOON AND PLANETS

• 14. COMETS AND METEORS

• 15. THE STARS AND NEBULÆ

• INDEX

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