This Wonderful World
by
Agnes Giberne
Table of Contents
A Rapid Whirl
Heavenly Bodies
The Shape of Our Earth
Groups of Stars
How To Know the Stars
Some Other Worlds
Our Placid Companion
In Strong Contrast
Sizes and Distances
Air and Water
Mountains and Craters
Day and Night
Cooling Bodies
The Pathway of Venus
Possible Climates
What We See of Mars
Two Little Moons
Canals and Marshes
Is Mars Inhabited?
Little and Great
Still Rather Warm
Is Jupiter Inhabited?
A Wondrous Planet
Mutual Influences
The Power of Attraction
Rough Ore of the Universe
A Reduced Scale
Angles and Triangles
But—the Stars?
One among Many
The Sun's Make
Spots and "Flames"
Suns and Their Planets
Varieties of Stars
Small Wavelets
The Nature of Light
History in Starlight
A General Whirl
Star-Clusters and Nebulae
Far-Reaching!
Immensity—and Man