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In The High Heavens
Author: Robert S. Ball

IN THE HIGH HEAVENS - 1910 - PREFACE TO THE NEW EIIITION - To HAVE revised this volume for the present edition. It was impossible not to notice in the cllapter on the Fifth Satellite of Jupiter that still further discoveries in the sarue direction hat1 been nlade since that chapter was origi ldly written. The latter part of the chapter on the Bo... more »undaries of Astrorior ly is niainly an endeavour to weigh the argunlents for and against the truth of the nebular theory of the origin of the Solar System. I may, therefore, here say that further consideration of the subject only tends to make me feel more confident that the nebular theory does really express the law of nature. ROBERT S. BAT, L AMRIIIDGE, 21at February, 1906. THE present volume contains a sc ries of sketches of certain parts of astronomy which are now attracting a great deal of attention. I may specially mention among the novel parts of the book Chapters XIII. and XIV., relating to Meteorites. The last chapter, On the Constitution of Gases, discusses points which seem destined to be of great importallce in astronomy, while the first chapter studies, in a new light, the great question of the movement of our system. Although several of the chapters consist of articles contributed to the Contemporary or the Portnightly, yet it has been necessary to revise them in accordance with the advance of science. In certain cases considerable alterations have been found necessary. The opportunity has also been taken to provide for the illustration of the articles, which was not possible under the circumstances of their original appearance. It gives me much pleasure to acknowledge the kindly assistance which has been afforded. I am indebted to Dr. Downing, the Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac, for permission to reproduce the path of the Eclipse of 1893, to Mr. N. Green for his beautiful drawing of Mars, and to Mr. J. R. Gregory for the photograph of the large meteorite found at Youndegin, West Australia. I must finally express my thanks to my friends, the Rev. Maxwell H. Close and Mr. L. E. Steele, who have read the proofs through. ROBERT S. BALL. 111. TIIE WANDEI ING OF S TIIE Now11 1 01, , q 2 j IV. TIIE GREAT E CI, IISIE OF 1893 . . I - 1 V. THE FIFTHS ATI I,, 0 I V T EJ L I I . . I . 95 VI. Al.-zrw . . 116 VII. Iorxrrs 1s SI F CTI S A OS II IT OC S I Y I . . ILLS vr r. TIIF SEW ASTIIONOIIY . 170 rx. TIII Eoul. inr O s F I Z . . 196 X. Is rr rr. U NIVERSIEN IINIT E . 330 sr. IIo v T, osG CAN THE I AILIISI USTAI L N I VE l . 2.33 XII. TIII. 1 1 1 s W A VE O F 1892 . . 376 XIII. V1 1 1 01 F R OM TIIF SI Y . , 294 XIV. T I OII II IN O F A I SJ OILI . T I S . 333 xv. Ttrk C o s s u 0 1 r o, sis s . . 356 TILKT OPA I O Z F TIIE SOI, AR S Y TE . M . 27 Sl rl. l Fo az OF TIIE NEBULA IN S N E S VENB IC Lonr ltoss . . 35 THE CRAP, NEEUI, A . . 35 C O PARATIVIZ SIZES OF TIIE PLANEIS . 41 TIIE C I, OUDS ON JUII O I C S T I O I U , E R 1 4 11, I S91 . 45 PIIE MOVE IEN OF T T HE CELESTIAL P OI, E . . G2 ROTATION OF TIIE POLE . . F5 PAr11 OF TIIE IOON S S H ADOW AN D I N U R I U U IU N A TIIE SUJ- FA O C F E T HE EARTH . . S1 OI NITS OF TIIE SATELLITE OF S MARS. . 117 DIAIENSION O S F MARS AT ITS MEAN AND EXTI IC IE DISTAKCES . . . 119 THE SEASON I S N MARS . . 121 MARS AND ONE OF ITS SATELLITES . . 125 COMPARATIVSI IZ ES O F EAIWII M , ARS, MEI CUR A Y N , D THE MOON . . 129 MARS THROUGH THE TJ I, I SCOP . E 134, 135 X LIST OP ILLUS7 A3ZUA. PAIX 01 A h1 l1 OF h f . 4 . CANALS O N A R OB S SE ILVED BY MM. PEI KC A LI , U U THAI LO 1 N 88 , 6 . THE I EGI O O F N TH E MILKY W AY M OUT BILT...

ISBN-13: 9781408623725
ISBN-10: 1408623722
Publication Date: 10/29/2007
Pages: 384
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