The Story of the Heavens

xii, 568 pp. Red full morocco, gilt titles and rules, marbled edges and endpapers. With 24 color plates and 101 illustrations. CONTENTS: Introduction; The Astronomical Observatory; The Sun; The Moon; The Solar System; The Law of Gravitation; The Planet of Romance; Mercury; Venus; The Earth; Mars; The Minor Planets; Jupiter; Saturn; Uranus; Neptune; Comets; Shooting Stars; The Starry Heavens; The Distant Suns; Double Stars; The Distances of the Stars; Star Clusters and Nebule; The Physical Nature of the Stars; The Precession and Nutation of the Earth's Axis; The Aberration of Light; The Astronomical Significance of Heat; The Tides; Appendix.