THE VINTAGE ASTRONOMY & TELESCOPE
COLLECTION
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A
truly wonderful collection of over 200 rare, out-of-print books compiled together
for the first time on one USB flash drive covering all aspects of ASTRONOMY, TELESCOPES and
the wonders of the sky.
Discover
the wonders of the solar system and the heavens. Read about the history of
astronomy and the stars that have fascinated man since the dawn of time. Study
vintage guides and manuals teaching you how to view the night sky with and
without the use of a telescope. Uncover the elements and principles of
spherical and physical astronomy, learn about the cycle of celestial objects
and planetary motion, examine the mathematics of the sky, investigate the
science of space and time, and much more! Overall, this is a truly stunning
archive, an absolute must for anyone with an interest in astronomy.
Some
of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and
will provide a valuable library of reference material for the beginner, amateur
and professional astronomer. The full list of titles speaks for itself!
This
wonderful collection of 206 vintage books provides literally 10,000’s of pages
of great content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the
books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format -
easy to read on your laptop, computer, tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader.
You can also print entire books or select pages.
The
Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:
A beginner's star-book; an easy guide to
the stars and to the astronomical uses of the opera-glass, the field-glass and
the telescope by E. G. Murphy (1912)
A century's progress in astronomy by H.
Macpherson (1906)
A compendious system of astronomy by M.
Bryan (1797)
A compendium of astronomy; containing the
elements of the science, familiarly explained and illustrated by D. Olmsted
(1850)
A cycle of celestial objects for the use of naval, military, and private
astronomers Vols. 1 & 2 by W. H. Smyth (1844)
A field book of the stars by W. T. Olcott
(1914)
A Handbook of descriptive and practical
astronomy Vols. 1 - 3 by G. F. Chambers (1889)
A Manual Of Spherical And Practical
Astronomy Vol. 2 by W. Chauvenet (1891)
A new astronomy by D. P. Todd (1897)
A new manual of the elements of astronomy,
descriptive and mathematical by H. Kiddle (1868)
A new resolution of the diameters and
distances of the heavenly bodies by common arithmetic by W. I. Loomis (1868)
A popular guide to the heavens by R. S.
Ball (1905)
A popular handbook and atlas of astronomy,
designed as a complete guide to a knowledge of the heavenly bodies and as an
aid to those possessing telescopes by W. Peck (1891)
A popular history of astronomy during the
nineteenth century by A. M. Clerke (1893)
A short course in astronomy and the use of
the globes by H. Kiddle (1871)
A short history of astronomy by A. Berry
(1899)
A study of the sky by H. A. Howe (1896)
A text-book of astronomy by G. C. Comstock
(1903)
A theorem on planetary motion; or,
Sunshine and shadow by C. Roberts (1881)
A treatise on astronomy, in which the
elements of the science are deduced in a natural order by O. Gregory (1803)
A treatise on astronomy, spherical and
physical; with astronomical problems, and solar, lunar, and other astronomical
tables by W. A. Norton (1867)
A treatise on spherical astronomy by R. S.
Ball (1908)
A treatise on the principal fixed stars
and constellations, with maps, illustrative of them as seen in the four seasons
by H. Whitall (1850)
An easy guide to the constellations with a
miniature atlas of the stars by J. Gall (1910)
An elementary treatise on astronomy by W.
A. Norton (1852)
An elementary treatise on physical
astronomy by R. Woodhouse (1898)
An historical survey of the astronomy of
the ancients by G. C. Lewis (1862)
An introduction to astronomy by D. Olmsted
(1839)
An introduction to astronomy by F. R.
Moulton (1916)
An introduction to astronomy in a series
of letters by J. Bonnycastle (1822)
An introductory treatise on dynamical
astronomy by H. C. Plummer (1918)
Ancient calendars and constellations by E.
M. Plunket (1903)
Astronography, or, Astronomical geography
by E. Willard (1854)
Astronomical discovery by H. H. Turner
(1904)
Astronomical essays, historical and
descriptive by J. E. Gore (1907)
Astronomical myths by J. F. Blake (1877)
Astronomical tables with precepts, both in
English and Latin, for computing the places of the sun, moon, planets, and
comets by E. Halley (1752)
Astronomy - a popular handbook by H.
Jacoby (1913)
Astronomy - Determination of time,
longitude, latitude, and azimuth by W. Bowie
(1917)
Astronomy by A. R. Hinks (1911)
Astronomy by J. N. Lockyer (1884)
Astronomy by J. P. Rambosson (1878)
Astronomy by observation by E. A. Bowen
(1886)
Astronomy by R. S. Ball (1878)
Astronomy by S. Newcomb (1883)
Astronomy by W. H. M. Christie (1882)
Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac
Newton's Principles by J. Ferguson (1806)
Astronomy for all by B. H. Burgel (1911)
Astronomy for amateurs by C. Flammarion
(1904)
Astronomy for beginners in thirty-two
lessons by F. Fellowes (1885)
Astronomy for everybody; a popular
exposition of the wonders of the heavens by S. Newcomb (1902)
Astronomy for schools and colleges by S.
Newcomb (1879)
Astronomy from a dipper by E. C. Clarke
(1909)
Astronomy in a nutshell, the chief facts
and principles explained in popular language by G. P. Serviss (1912)
Astronomy of to-day; a popular
introduction in non-technical language by C. G. Dolmage (1909)
Astronomy with an opera glass - a popular
introduction to the study of the starry heavens with the simplest of optical
instruments by G. P. Serviss (1890)
Astronomy with the naked eye; a new
geography of the heavens, with descriptions and charts of constellations,
stars, and planets by G. P. Serviss (1908)
Astronomy without a telescope; a guide to
the constellations, and introduction to the study of the heavens with the
unassisted sight by E. W. Maunder (1904)
Astronomy without mathematics by E. B.
Grimthorpe (1869)
Astronomy, a handy manual for students and
others by F. W. Dyson (1918)
Astronomy, new and old by M. S. Brennan
(1889)
Astronomy; the science of the heavenly
bodies by D. P. Todd (1922)
Celestial motions, a handy book of
astronomy by W. T. Lynn (1889)
Celestial objects for common telescopes
Vols. 1 & 2 by T. W. Webb (1893)
Cosmology by S. Clark (1860)
Curiosities of the sky, a popular
presentation of the great riddles and mysteries of astronomy by G. P. Serviss
(1909)
Descriptive astronomy; an elementary
exposition of the facts, principles, and theories of astronomical science by F.
R. Moulton (1912)
Easy star lessons by R. A. Proctor (1888)
Electro astronomical atlas ... with
explanatory notes, questions and answers by J. W. Spoor (1874)
Elementary astronomy; a beginner's
text-book by E. S. Holden (1899)
Elementary lessons in astronomy by J. N.
Lockyer (1889)
Elementary mathematical astronomy by C. W.
Barlow (1893)
Elements of astronomy by C. A. Young
(1890)
Elements of astronomy by J. Davis (1868)
Elements of astronomy by J. H. Wilkins
(1828)
Elements of astronomy by N. Lockyer (1875)
Elements of astronomy by S. H. Peabody
(1884)
Elements of astronomy by W. J. Rolfe
(1868)
Elements of descriptive astronomy by H. A.
Howe (1897)
Elements of theoretical and descriptive
astronomy by C. J. White (1901)
Extracts from Greenwich observations, 1855 (1857)
First observations in astronomy by M. E.
Byrd (1913)
Flowers of the sky by R. A. Proctor (1879)
From nebula to nebula by G. H. Lepper
(1917)
Gravitation the determining force by E. S.
Chapin (1887)
Gravitation; an elementary explanation of
the principal perturbations in the solar system by G. B. Airey (1884)
Great astronomers by R. S. Ball (1895)
Guy's Elements of astronomy by J. Guy
(1864)
Half-hours with the telescope; being a
popular guide to the use of the telescope as a means of amusement and
instruction by R. A. Proctor (1873)
Histoire de l'astronomie par E. L. Doublet
(1922)
Historical Account Of The Origin And
Progress Of Astronomy by J. Narrien (1833)
History of astronomy by G. Forbes (1909)
History of physical astronomy, from the
earliest ages to the middle of the 19th century by R. Grant (1852)
How to find the stars, with indications of
the most interesting objects in the starry heavens, and an account of the
astronomical lantern and its use by J. F. Clarke (1878)
Hutchinson's
Splendour of the heavens; a popular authoritative astronomy Vols. 1 & 2 by
T. Phillips (1921)
I dialoghi di Galileo Galilei sui massimi
sistemi tolemaico e copernicano - volume
unico by G. Galilei (1874)
In starland with a three-inch telescope; a
conveniently arranged guide for the use of the amateur astronomer by W. T.
Olcott (1909)
In the high heavens by R. S. Ball (1910)
Introduction to astronomy by J. I. Plummer
(1873)
Laboratory astronomy by R. W. Willson (1901)
Lessons in astronomy, including
uranography; a brief introductory course without mathematics by C. A. Young
(1903)
Letters on astronomy by D. Olmsted (1840)
Machinery of the heavens - a system of
physical astronomy by A. P. Pichereau (1884)
Manual of astronomy by C. A. Young (1902)
Mysteries of time and space by R. A.
Proctor (1883)
Myths and marvels of astronomy by R. A.
Proctor (1877)
New theories in astronomy by W. Stirling
(1906)
Notes on the nebular theory in relation to
stellar, solar, planetary, cometary, and geological phenomena by W. F. Stanley
(1895)
Origin of architectural design; or, The
archaeology of astronomy by L. H. McCoy (1912)
Our own and other worlds by J. Hamilton
(1903)
Outlines astronomy by J. F. W. Herschel
(1902)
Planetary and stellar studies - the
planets, stars, and nebulae by J. E. Gore (1888)
Pleasures of the telescope by G. P.
Serviss (1901)
Poole
bros' Celestial handbook by J. A. Colas (1892)
Popular astronomy by S. Newcomb (1882)
Practical and spherical astronomy by R.
Main (1863)
Practical astronomy with the unaided eye
by H. Macpherson (1912)
Practical talks by an astronomer by H.
Jacoby (1902)
Recent adventures in astronomy by A. H. Fison
(1899)
Recreations in astronomy by H. W. Warren
(1886)
Researches into the origin of the
primitive constellations of the Greeks, Phoenicians and Babylonians Vols. 1
& 2 by R. Brown (1899)
Round the year with the stars, the chief
beauties of the starry heavens as seen with the naked eye by G. P. Serviss
(1910)
Sky wonders by W. W. Rammsay (1893)
Smith's Illustrated astronomy by A. Smith
(1855)
Some
problems of sidereal astronomy by H. N. Russell (1919)
Splendors of the sky by I.
M. Lewis (1919)
Star groups - a student's guide to the
constellations by J. E. Gore (1891)
Star lore of all ages; a collection of
myths, legends, and facts concerning the constellations of the Northern
hemisphere by W. T. Olcott (1911)
Star-gazer's hand-book; a brief guide for
amateur students of astronomy by H. W. Elson (1902)
Star-land; being talks with young people
about the wonders of the heavens by R. S. Ball (1899)
Star-names and their meanings by R. H.
Allen (1899)
Stars and telescopes by D. P. Todd (1901)
Star-studies. What we know of the universe
outside the earth by E. Colbert (1871)
Stellar evolution, and its relation to
geological time by J. Croll (1889)
Studies in astronomy by A. K. Bartlett
(1881)
Tables of instrumental constants and
corrections for the reduction of transit observations made at the U. S.
Naval Observatory by J. R. Eastman (1873)
The Adolfo Stahl lectures in astronomy by
The Astronomical Society of The Pacific (1919)
The amateur astronomer by G. Riegler
(1910)
The amateur telescopist's handbook by F. M.
Gibson (1894)
The book of stars by A. F. Collins (1920)
The call of the stars by J. R. Kippax
(1919)
The common sights in the heavens by A. W.
Drayson (1862)
The correlation and conservation of
gravitation and heat, and some of the effects of these forces on the solar
system by E. Chapin (1867)
The earth as a cosmical system by R. Curry
(1882)
The earth's beginning by R. S. Ball (1909)
The elements of astronomy by D. N. Mallik
(1921)
The elements of astronomy by S. Vince
(1816)
The elements of astronomy for surveyors by
R. W. Chapman (1919)
The elements of astronomy, physical and
geometrical by D. Gregory (1715)
The elements of descriptive astronomy by
E. O. Tancock (1919)
The elements of the theory of astronomy by
J. Hymers (1840)
The essence of astronomy; things every one
should know about the sun, moon, and stars by E. W. Price (1914)
The expanse of Heaven; a series of essays
on the wonders of the firmament by R. A. Proctor (1889)
The family celestial by M. A. Shuler
(1915)
The first three sections of Newton's Principia by I. Newton (1821)
The geography of the heavens, and
class-book of astronomy accompanied by a celestial atlas by E. H. Burrit (1856)
The great centre an astronomical study by
J. C. Hamilton (1892)
The great facts of modern astronomy by W.
S. Henson (1871)
The heavens above - a popular handbook of
astronomy by G. A. Gillet (1882)
The heavens and their story by A. Maunder
(1908)
The heavens; an illustrated handbook of
popular astronomy by A. Guillemin (1867)
The marvels of the heavens by C. Flammarion
(1870)
The mathematics of the sky by C. J. Burton
(1920)
The mechanism of the heavens, or, familiar
illustrations of astronomy by D. Olmsted (1856)
The new astronomy by S. P. Langley (1889)
The new heavens by G. E. Hale (1922)
The new idea of astronomy and the sight of
the eye by D. W. Hunt (1878)
The pith of astronomy (without
mathematics); the latest facts and figures as developed by the giant telescopes
by S. G. Bayne (1896)
The planetarium and astronomical
calculator by T. Ostrander (1832)
The planetary and stellar worlds - a
popular exposition of the great discoveries and theories of modern astronomy by
O. M. Mitchel (1848)
The Road map of the stars by A. R. Parsons
(1911)
The romance of astronomy by R. K. Miller
(1873)
The romance of modern astronomy,
describing in simple but exact language the wonders of the heavens by H.
Macpherson (1911)
The romance of the heavens by A. W.
Bickerton (1901)
The science of astronomy by A. K. Bartlett
(1877)
The science of the stars by E. W. Maunder
(1912)
The scientific papers of Sir William
Huggins by W. Huggins (1909)
The sidereal messenger of Galileo Galilei
and a part of the preface to Kepler's Dioptrics containing the original account
of Galileo's astronomical discoveries by G. Galilei (1880)
The star people by G. Johnson (1921)
The star-guide by L. Clark (1886)
The stars and constellations; how and when
to find and tell them by W. H. Rosser (1879)
The stars and the earth by F. Eberty
(1849)
The stars by G. F. Chambers (1909)
The stellar heavens, an introduction to
the study of the stars and nebulae by J. E. Gore (1903)
The story of the heavens by R. S. Ball
(1891)
The story of the stars. New descriptive
astronomy by J. D. Steele (1884)
The telescope by M. P. Ward (1869)
The Trouvelot astronomical drawings manual
by E. L. Trouvelot (1882)
The universe and the stars, being an
original theory on the visible creation, founded on the laws of nature by T.
Wright (1837)
The witness of the stars by E. W.
Bullinger (1921)
The wonders of the heavens by D. Bradford (1837)
The worlds of space; a series of popular
articles on astronomical subjects by J. E. Gore (1894)
The young folks' astronomy by J. D.
Champlin (1881)
Thoughts on some important points relating
to the System of the world by J. P. Nichol (1846)
Through the depths of space, a primer of
astronomy by H. C. Macpherson (1908)
Time's telescope universal and perpetual,
fitted for all countries and capacities by D. Campbell (1734)
Traité d'astronomie pratique par A.
Souchon (1883)
Uranography and practical astronomy,
designed for private students by L. Lillard (1866)
Uranography, a brief description of the
constellations visible in the United States - with star-maps and lists of
objects observable with a small telescope by C. A. Young (1917)
An absolute must for anyone with an interest in astronomy, the stars,
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