In Chapter I we saw the Earth hanging in space, like a globe isolated on all sides, and surrounded at vast distances by a multitude of stars. These fiery orbs are suns like that wh...
Shooting Stars, Bolides, Uranoliths or Meteoric Stones What marvels have been reviewed by our dazzled eyes since the outset of these discussions! We first surveyed the magnificent...
In the incessant agitation of daily life in which we are involved by the thousand superfluous wants of modern "civilization," one is prone to assume that existence is complete only...
Our grand celestial journey lands us upon our own little planet, on this globe that gravitates between Mars and Venus (between War and Love), circulating like her brothers of the s...
The crimson disk of the Sun has plunged beneath the Ocean. The sea has decked itself with the burning colors of the orb, reflected from the Heavens in a mirror of turquoise and eme...
How Celestial Distances are Determined, and how the Sun is Weighed I will not do my readers the injustice to suppose that they will be alarmed at the title of this Lesson, and that...
And now, while thanking my readers for having followed me so far in this descriptive account of the marvels of the Cosmos, I must inquire what philosophical impression has been pro...
It is the delightful hour when all Nature pauses in the tranquil calm of the silent night. The Sun has cast his farewell gleams upon the weary Earth. All sound is hushed. And soon...
A.—Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars And now we are in the Solar System, at the center, or, better, at the focus of which burns the immense and dazzling orb. We have appreciated the...
B.—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Before we attack the giant world of our system, we must halt for a few moments upon the minor planets which circulate between the orbit of Mars...
A Journey through Space We have seen from the foregoing summary of the principal Constellations that there is great diversity in the brightness of the stars, and that while our eye...
Among all the celestial phenomena at which it may be our lot to assist during our contemplation of the universe, one of the most magnificent and imposing is undoubtedly that which...