Astronomy with an Opera-glass: A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical InstrumentsServiss, Garrett Putman
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Astronomy with an Opera-glass: A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments
Serviss, Garrett Putman
Astronomy
Tycho Brahe, invents Antinous, 55.
places Hamal in Aries, 75.
studies the star of 1572, 87.
Tycho, 122, 131.
Upsilon Tauri, 100.
Uranus, discovery of, 19.
how to find, 142.
Ursa Major, map of, 27.
mythology of, 28.
stars in the feet of, 28.
Ursa Minor, map of, 27.
mythology of, 28.
Vega, 49.
Venus, mistaken for artificial light, 2.
opera-glass observation of, 139.
Virgil, description of Taurus, 96.
Virgo, map of, 50.
mythology of, 51.
Vision, seeing with averted, 13.
Voltaire, story of "Micromegas," 115.
Vulpecula, map of, 56.
Webb, Rev. T. W., on telescopes, 5.
on 35 M, 18.
Western Fish, 73.
Winter, brilliancy of the heavens in, 91.
map of the stars of, 92.
Woman in the Moon, 121.
Zeta Corvi, 25.
Cassiopeia, 86.
Leonis, 11.
Lyrae, 50.
Scorpionis, 36.
Tauri, a pointer to the Crab Nebula, 97.
Zi Argus, 116.
Zodiac, 16.
Zodiac, divided among the Twelve Apostles, 86.
of Dendera, 14.
Zoellner, estimate of Sirius's light, 46.
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