Astronomy for Amateurs: A Practical Manual of Telescopic Research in All Latitudes, Adapted to the Powers of Moderate Instruments
- ISBN-10
- 1330053028
- ISBN-13
- 9781330053027
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 332
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-06-12
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Author
- John A. Westwood Oliver
Description
Excerpt from Astronomy for Amateurs: A Practical Manual of Telescopic Research in All Latitudes, Adapted to the Powers of Moderate Instruments The aim of this volume is entirely practical. Its pages are intended to afford the amateur astronomer, possessed of limited instrumental means but yet anxious to devote his labours to the furtherance of astronomical science, such hints and suggestions as will help him to direct his efforts into the channels which experience has indicated as best fitted to his qualifications and equipment. The amount of valuable work in astronomy that can be efficiently done by amateurs is not inconsiderable, as a glance at the history of the science will show. It is true that the size and excellence of the telescopes in public observatories has of recent years been steadily increasing, the disparity between the magnificent instrument in the Lick Observatory and a 'common' telescope of twenty years ago being almost ludicrous; but then the quality and power of the instruments in the hands of amateurs has been gradually improving also, and there is no reason to doubt that within their respective spheres the professional and amateur astronomers, so far as equipment is concerned, have undergone development about equally. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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