Introduction to Astronomy from Smith's illustrated astronomy : designed for the use of the public or common schools in the United States.

IN this book there are three chapters, occupying sixty-three pages, and a series of thirteen “notes” which take up the remainder of the text. In chapter i. we find a very general, yet simple ...

Foremost in this genre is 365 Starry Nights: An Introduction to Astronomy for Every Night of the Year by Chet Raymo (Prentice Hall, 1982). If your knowledge of astronomy is nil, this book is an ...

This was my very first astronomy book, which I received at the age of 8, and is in my opinion still among the very best as an introduction to not only the stars and constellations, but astronomy ...

We have failed to discover in what sense it can be regarded as an introductory work, unless it be an introduction to “arm-chair” researches in astronomy, or to the author's views on certain ...