Astronomy

Astronomy for Amateurs

Camille Flammarion

Camille Flammarion’s *Astronomy for Amateurs* is a concise, twelve‑chapter guide that opens with a lyrical…

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy

Richard A. Proctor

Richard A. Proctor’s Myths and Marvels of Astronomy is a Victorian‑era popular‑science collection that…

The Story of the Heavens

Robert S. Ball

The work is a nineteenth‑century scientific treatise that opens with a detailed illustration of a total solar…

The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

Thomas Nathaniel Orchard

Thomas Nathaniel Orchard’s work is a scholarly companion that sets out to illuminate the astronomical…

The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler

David Brewster

David Brewster’s work is a nineteenth‑century biographical study that groups together the lives of three…

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition

Agnes M. Clerke

Agnes M. Clerke’s work is a popular history of nineteenth‑century astronomy, revised for a fourth edition in…

The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe

Dorothy Stimson

The Story of Eclipses

George F. Chambers

History of Astronomy

George Forbes

Pioneers of Science

Sir Oliver Lodge

A Field Book of the Stars

William Tyler Olcott

The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture

E. Walter Maunder

A Text-Book of Astronomy

George C. Comstock

Astronomy of To-day: A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language

Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage

The discovery of a world in the moone: or, A discovrse tending to prove that 'tis probable there may be another habitable world in that planet

John Wilkins

Time and Tide: A Romance of the Moon

Robert S. Ball

Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work

Henry White Warren

Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works

Edward S. Holden

Other Worlds Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries

Garrett Putman Serviss

Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science

Simon Newcomb

Curiosities of the Sky

Garrett Putman Serviss

Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction.

Richard A. Proctor

Lectures on Stellar Statistics

C. V. L. Charlier

Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers

Garrett Putman Serviss