
关于
An attempt has been made in these pages to trace the evolution of intellectual thought in the progress of astronomical discovery, and, by recognising the different points of view of the different ages, to give due credit even to the ancients. No one can expect, in a history of astronomy of limited size, to find a treatise on “practical” or on “theoretical astronomy,” nor a complete “descriptive astronomy,” and still less a book on “speculative astronomy.” Something of each of these is essential, however, for tracing the progress of thought and knowledge which it is the object of this History to describe. - Summary from the Preface
相关有声读物

Mars and Its Canals
Percival Lowell

One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe
William Carpenter

Stratagems and The Aqueducts of Rome
Sextus Julius Frontinus

The Einstein Theory of Relativity
Hendrik A. Lorentz

The Romance of Modern Mechanism
Archibald Williams

Captain Cook
Walter Besant

Radioisotopes in Medicine
Earl W. Phelan, United States Atomic Energy Commission