Gateway to the Classics: The Earth and Sky by E. S. Holden
 
The Earth and Sky by  E. S. Holden
Table of Contents
The Earth Is Not Flat
The Earth Is Round
The Earth Is a Large Globe
The Earth in Space
The Sun
The Moon
Why the Bright Part of the Moon Changes Its Shape
The Stars in Their Courses

Back Matter






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Part of a photograph of the moon, taken at the Lick Observatory.
(Moon's age, 8 days 1 hour) The moon's north horn is shown



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Drawing of the planet Mercury



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Map of the two hemispheres of the planet Venus



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Drawing of one side of the planet Mars, made at the Lick Observatory



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Drawing of one side of the planet Mars, made at the Lick Observatory



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Drawing of one side of the planet Jupiter, made at the Lick Observatory



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Drawing of one side of the planet Jupiter, made at the Lick Observatory



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Drawing of the planet Saturn, made at the Lick Observatory



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Drawing of the total solar eclipse of July 1878, in Colorado



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Photograph of the total solar eclipse of January 1889, in California



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Fall of the great California meteor of 1894



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View of the Observatory at Harvard College



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The fifteen-inch telescope of the Harvard College Observatory. (Its glass is 15 inches across.)



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Distant view of the Lick Observatory of the University of California. (It is on a mountain 4,200 feet high.)



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The west front of the Lick Observatory, showing the dome of the thirty-six inch telescope



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The six-inch telescope of the Lick Observatory



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The twelve-inch telescope of the Lick Observatory



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The forty-inch telescope of the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago.


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