Through The Telescope (Illustrated) pdf

Un pastore scozzese, interessato alle civiltà orientali in generale, e faraoniche in particolare, e autore di un gruppo di libri che variavano tra libri di teologia e libri basati sulle sue letture estese e intense della storia delle civiltà in Oriente, e li riprodusse .

Through The Telescope (Illustrated) pdf da James Baikie

Through The Telescope (Illustrated): WITH 32 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS AND 26 SMALLER FIGURES IN THE TEXT

of the most important and interesting facts concerning the heavenly bodies, and to suggest to the general reader how much of the ground thus covered lies open to his personal survey on very easy conditions. Many people who are more or less interested in astronomy are deterred from making practical acquaintance with the wonders of the heavens by the idea that these are only disclosed to the possessors of
large and costly instruments. In reality there is probably no science which offers to those whose opportunities and means of observation are restricted greater stores of knowledge and pleasure than astronomy; and the possibility of that quickening of interest which can only be gained by practical study is, in these days, denied to very
few indeed.