The System of the StarsCambridge University Press, 17. jún. 2010 - 464 síður Agnes Mary Clerke (1842-1907) published The System of the Stars in 1890 when she was a well-established popular science writer. The volume was intended to bring the educated public up to date with the progress made during the nineteenth century in the field of sidereal astronomy. The work was one of the first publications to be illustrated with astrophotography: it contains five astronomical photographs of nebulae. Such photographs had significant impact on the reception and popular acceptance of astrophotography as scientific data. In The System of the Stars, Clerke used the photographs to argue that the natural beauty and symmetry of the universe, displayed by astrophotography, proved the existence of a creator. The work is an important piece of popular Victorian scientific literature, and remains significant today in the context of the nineteenth-century intellectual debates on the relationship between the sciences and religious belief. |
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THE TASK OF SIDEREAL ASTRONOMY | 1 |
Distribution op 171 Periods op Variable Stars from Gores Bevised | 11 |
CHAPTER II | 12 |
SIRIAN AND SOLAR STARS | 35 |
1 152 Schjellerup 2 19 | 62 |
CHAPTER V | 66 |
Photographic Spectrum of the Great Nebula in Orion Huggins | 79 |
CHAPTEE VI | 87 |
Early DiscoveriesNumbersApparent ProximityBinary Systems | 163 |
CHAPTER XII | 177 |
CHAPTER XIII | 187 |
Four Double Stabs photographed at Paris from Mouchezs Pho tographie Astronomicue | 190 |
Orbits of the Components op y Virginis | 197 |
Orbits op the Components of a Centauri | 198 |
PAGE | 205 |
Stabs of the Trapezium | 218 |
CHAPTEE VII | 95 |
Changes in the Spectrum of Nova Cygni Vogel | 101 |
Catalogue 1888 | 109 |
Maxima op Miba in February 1885 and January 1886 | 111 |
Two Types or Maximum of U Geminorum Knott | 115 |
LightCurve of v Argus 18101890 | 118 |
The CollisionTheory of Variable Stars | 123 |
Curve of Sunspot Frequency 186777 Ellis | 125 |
CHAPTEE IX | 129 |
Distribution op all the Periods op Variable Stars undeb twenty DAYS | 130 |
Lightcurve of 0 Lyrje Argelander | 131 |
Lightcurve of B Sagitme 1884 | 132 |
Lightcurve of C Geminorum | 133 |
No 2 the two variables of shortest known periods | 134 |
Algol during an Eclipse | 138 |
Minimum of S Cancri | 140 |
Inserted Lightcurve of 10 Sagitmi Gore 1885 | 143 |
THE COLOURS OF THE STARS | 146 |
Spectra of the Component Stars of ff Cygni Huggins | 161 |
gendary Importance of the GroupThe Lost PleiadReal Populousness | 220 |
Globular and Irregular ClustersReticulated StructureSigns of Subdi | 234 |
Star Cluster in Sobieskis Shield M 11 photographed by Mr E E Barnard at the Lick Observatory | 237 |
PlanSketch op a Nebula Vogel | 256 |
Planetary Nebula resolved into Helical Form Balden | 258 |
Annular Nesula in Aquarius Holden | 260 |
CHAPTER XVII | 262 |
Spiral Nebula in Canes Venatici From a Photograph taken at HerAnV | 263 |
Spiral Nerula in Virgo From a Photograph taken at Heriny | 264 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 268 |
Diagram op the Great Nebula in Andromeda From Bonds Drawing inlSil | 270 |
THE GREAT NEBULAE | 283 |
CHAPTER XIX | 285 |
CHAPTEE XX | 297 |
CHAPTER XXI | 319 |
Difficulty of Ascertainment Minuteness of Quantities concernedMove | 334 |
Visual AspectGreat RiftInterruptionsBlack Openings Charts | 352 |
CHAPTER XXIV | 376 |
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