Year: 1900 Language: english Author: Newcomb, Simon Genre: Technical book Publisher: American book company Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 250 Description: Two objects have been kept in view in preparing this little book. One was to condense those facts and laws of the science which are of most interest and importance to the general intelligent public within so small a compass as not to make a very serious addition to the curriculum of the highschool or college. The other was so to present the subject that as little formal mathematics as possible should be necessary to its mastery of the first object little need be said. The typical person constantly kept in mind has been the inquiring layman seeking to know something of the heavenly bodies and their relation to the earth, including such subjects of human interest as the changing seasons, the measure of time, and the varyingaspects of the planets.The second object involves more serious questions. Can an idea of the laws and phenomena of the celestial motions be conveyed to a pupil who has not completed the regular course in geometry and physics T he author believes that it can. It cannot, indeed, be denied that the professional astronomer, engineer, surveyor, and navigator who are to make astronomical observation s and computations must have a fairly completetraining in at least the elementary branches of mathematics. But this training is not essential to him who desires only a command of general ideas, without proposing to make technical application s of the science. What is really essential are those conceptions of motion and form which o n e may derive from everyday observation, and the understanding of a few elementary definitions in geometry and physics. Additional info: This is full version of book without any locked pages.
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Elements Of Astronomy
Language: english
Author: Newcomb, Simon
Genre: Technical book
Publisher: American book company
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 250
Description: Two objects have been kept in view in preparing this little book. One was to condense those facts and laws of the science which are of most interest and importance to the general intelligent public within so small a compass as not to make a very serious addition to the curriculum of the highschool or college. The other was so to present the subject that as little formal mathematics as possible should be necessary to its mastery of the first object little need be said. The typical person constantly kept in mind has been the inquiring layman seeking to know something of the heavenly bodies and their relation to the earth, including such subjects of human interest as the changing seasons, the measure of time, and the varyingaspects of the planets.The second object involves more serious questions. Can an idea of the laws and phenomena of the celestial motions be conveyed to a pupil who has not completed the regular course in geometry and physics T he author believes that it can. It cannot, indeed, be denied that the professional astronomer, engineer, surveyor, and navigator who are to make astronomical observation s and computations must have a fairly completetraining in at least the elementary branches of mathematics. But this training is not essential to him who desires only a command of general ideas, without proposing to make technical application s of the science. What is really essential are those conceptions of motion and form which o n e may derive from everyday observation, and the understanding of a few elementary definitions in geometry and physics.
Additional info: This is full version of book without any locked pages.
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