Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science, by Simon Newcomb This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science Author: Simon Newcomb Posting Date: June 13, 2009 [EBook #4065] Release Date: May, 2003 First Posted: October 30, 2001 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SIDE-LIGHTS ON ASTRONOMY *** Produced by Charles Franks, Robert Rowe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HTML version by Al Haines. SIDE-LIGHTS ON ASTRONOMY AND KINDRED FIELDS OF POPULAR SCIENCE ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES BY SIMON NEWCOMB CONTENTS PREFACE I. THE UNSOLVED PROBLEMS OF ASTRONOMY II. THE NEW PROBLEMS OF THE UNIVERSE III. THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE IV. THE EXTENT OF THE UNIVERSE V. MAKING AND USING A TELESCOPE VI. WHAT THE ASTRONOMERS ARE DOING VII. LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE VIII. HOW THE PLANETS ARE WEIGHED IX. THE MARINER'S COMPASS X. THE FAIRYLAND OF GEOMETRY XI. THE ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH XII. CAN WE MAKE IT RAIN? XIII. THE ASTRONOMICAL EPHEMERIS AND NAUTICAL ALMANAC XIV. THE WORLD'S DEBT TO ASTRONOMY XV. AN ASTRONOMICAL FRIENDSHIP XVI. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATOR XVII.