Astronomy books

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…

Astronomy for beginners

Hereward Carrington

Hereward Carrington’s Astronomy for Beginners is a concise survey of the most significant discoveries in…

Astronomy

Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary); Fowler, A. (Alfred); Gore, J. Ellard

The work is a collaborative survey of astronomy, divided into four sections that together map the discipline…

Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1

Alexander von Humboldt

The Witness of the Stars

E. W. Bullinger

The story of the universe. Volume 3 (of 4): The earth's garment : Flora

The story of the universe. Volume 1 (of 4): The starry skies

A Field Book of the Stars

William Tyler Olcott

The Beauties of Nature, and the Wonders of the World We Live In

Sir John Lubbock

A Text-Book of Astronomy

George C. Comstock

The universe around us

James Jeans

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

Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage

Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work

Henry White Warren

The music of the spheres: A nature lover's astronomy

Florence Armstrong Grondal

Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology

William Whewell

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

Garrett Putman Serviss

Letters on Astronomy in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers

Denison Olmsted

Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science

Simon Newcomb

Curiosities of the Sky

Garrett Putman Serviss

Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments

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

Stargazing: Past and Present

Sir Norman Lockyer