A Century's Progress in Astronomy

Name: A Century's Progress in Astronomy
Author: Macpherson, Hector

Macpherson, Hector

Astronomy -- History

Struve—Life and work of Henderson—Work of Peters, Otto
          Struve, Brünnow, and Ball—Measures of Gill—Parallax of
          first-magnitude stars—Relative and absolute parallax—Work
          of Kapteyn—Application of
          photography—Star-catalogues—Argelander’s
          ‘Durchmusterung’—Work of Schönfeld—Work of Gould—The ‘Cape
          Photographic Durchmusterung’—Work of Gill and
          Kapteyn—International chart of the heavens—Work of
          Peck—Proper motions of the stars—Star-drift—Discoveries of
          Proctor and Flammarion—Radial motion—Work of Huggins,
          Vogel, and Campbell—Solar motion
  CHAPTER X.                                                         169
                          THE LIGHT OF THE STARS.
      Work of Fraunhofer and Donati—Life and work of Secchi—His
          types of spectra—Life and work of Huggins—Photography of
          spectra—Life and work of Vogel—His classification of
          spectra—Work of Dunér—Of Pickering—Spectroscopic
          catalogues—Analysis of spectra—Stellar photometry—Life and
          work of E. C. Pickering—Variable stars—Work of
          Goodricke—Of Argelander, Schmidt, Heis, Schönfeld—Studies
          of Dunér—Of Gore—Photographic
          discoveries—Classification—Algol variables: their
          explanation—Explanation of other variables—η
          Argus—Temporary stars—Of 1848—Of 1866—Of 1876—Of 1885—Of
          1892—Photographic discoveries—Nova Persei, 1901—New star
          of 1903—Theories of temporary stars
  CHAPTER XI.                                                        197
                        STELLAR SYSTEMS AND NEBULÆ.
      Life and work of John Herschel—Binary stars—Computation of
          orbits—Work of Wilhelm Struve—Of Otto Struve—Of
          Burnham—Satellites of Sirius and Procyon—Astronomy of the
          invisible—Work of Pickering and Vogel—Spectroscopic
          binaries—Work of Bélopolsky and
          Campbell—Star-clusters—Nature of nebulæ—Spectroscopic work
          of Huggins—Of Copeland—Nebular photography—Work of
          Roberts, Barnard, Wolf—Of Keeler
  CHAPTER XII.                                                       214
          STELLAR DISTRIBUTION AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE.
      Work of John Herschel—Researches of Wilhelm Struve—Extinction
          of light—Mädler’s “central sun”—Distribution of
          nebulæ—Work of Proctor—Aggregation of stars on the
          Galaxy—Work of Gore and Schiaparelli—Studies of
          Gould—Researches of Kapteyn—Of Newcomb—Is the Universe
          limited? Newcomb’s argument—Observations of
          Celoria—Researches of Seeliger—External Universes—Gore’s
          speculations
  CHAPTER XIII.                                                      227
                            CELESTIAL EVOLUTION.
      Laplace’s nebular hypothesis—Helmholtz and solar
          contraction—Theories of solar heat—Objections to Laplace’s

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