Early Astronomy

Early Astronomy, with 27 books, all published before 1923, includes history and theory, as well as practical information for amateurs/hobbyists.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our books are in plain-text format, not audio or video. You read them on your computer screen.

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Table of Contents

• Astronomy for Amateurs by Camille Flammarion
• Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett Serviss, 1909
• Discovery of a World in the Moone or a Discourse Tending to Prove that 'tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World in that Planet by John Wilkins, 1638
• Earths in Our Solar System Which are Called Planets by Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), 1758
• Eureka, a Prose Poem by Edgar Allan Poe
• A Field Book of the Stars by William Tyler Olcott, 1907
• The Future of Astonomy by Edward Pickering, 1909
• Great Astronomers by R.S. Ball, 1895
• Half-Hours With the Telescope, Being a Poppular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction by Richard Proctor, 1873
• History of Astonomy by George Forbes, 1909
• A History of Science, volume 3, Modern Developments of the Physical Sciences by Henry Smith Williams
• Is Mars Habitable? A Critical Examination of Professor Percival Lowell's Book "Mars and Its Canals", with an Alternative Explanation by Alfred Russel Wallace, 1907
• Kepler by Walter Bryant, 1920
• Lecons de Cosmographie a l'Usage (in French) by A. Guilmin, 1860
• Lectures on Stellar Statistics by C.V.L. Charlier, 1921
• The Moon by Thomas Gwyun Elger, 1895
• The New Heavens by George Ellery Hale, 1922
• Other Worlds by Garrett Serviss, 1901
• The Pratical Values of Space Exploration, Report of the Comittee on Science and Astroautics of the U House of Representatives, 1960
• Recreations in Astronomy, with Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Henry Warren
• Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Simon Newcomb, 1903
• Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb, 1906
• The Story of Eclipses, Simply Told for General Readers by Geore Chambers, 1900
• Time and Tide, a Romance of the Moon by sir Robert s. Ball, 1888
• Ueber die Schrecklichen Wirkungen des Aufsturzes eines Kometen auf de Erde und ueber die vor fuenftausend Jaren gehabte erscheinung dieser Art by August Heinrich Christoph Gelpke, 1835 (in German)
• The Uses of Astronomy, an oration, by Edward Everett, 1856
• Watchers of the Sky by Alfred Noyes