Details
- Length
- 4 hr 57 min
- Sections
- 19
- Language
- English
- Level
- College
- Read by
- LibriVox volunteers
- Source
- LibriVox
- Internet Archive
- practical_talks_by_an_astronomer_1701_librivox
- Rights
- Public domain — LibriVox recording of a public-domain text
Chapters
- 00 - Preface 2:01
- 01 - Navigation at Sea 11:51
- 02 - The Pleiades 9:39
- 03 - The Pole-Star 12:25
- 04 - Nebulae 11:43
- 05 - Temporary Stars 13:56
- 06 - Galileo 11:17
- 07 - The Planet of 1898 13:43
- 08 - How to Make a Sun-Dial 29:58
- 09 - Photography in Astronomy 38:58
- 10 - Time Standards of the World 29:02
- 11 - Motions of the Earth's Pole 9:28
- 12 - Saturn's Rings 16:10
- 13 - The Heliometer 11:54
- 14 - Occultations 10:56
- 15 - Mounting Great Telescopes 18:25
- 16 - The Astronomer's Pole 15:50
- 17 - The Moon Hoax 11:47
- 18 - The Sun's Destination 18:21