The system of the stars
The System of the Stars (1890), a non-technical survey of sidereal astronomy in the nineteenth century, contains some of the earliest published astrophotographs. The work is important today in the context of the nineteenth-century intellectual debates on the relationship between the sciences and religious belief.
Print Book, English, 2010, [1890]
Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge, 2010, [1890]
xix, 424 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9781108014168, 110801416X
868256622
1. The task of sidereal astronomy
2. THe methods of sidereal research
3. Sirian and solar stars
4. Stars with banded spectra
5. Gaseous stars and nebule
6. Sidereal evolution
7. Temporary stars
8. Variable stars of long period
9. Variable stars of short period
10. The colour of the stars
11. Double stars
12. Variable double stars
13. Stellar orbits
14. Multiple stars
15. The pleiades
16. Star cluster
17. THe forms of nebule
18. The great nebule
19. The distance and changes of nebule
20. The distance of the stars
21. Translation of the solar system
22. The proper motions of the stars
23. THe milky way
24. Status of the nebule
25. The construction of the heavens
This is digitally printed version, 2010
Appendix. Tables of stellar data: p. [399]-409