
Eagle Book of the Universe is, according to the fly sheet, for boys and girls 12-16.
Space travel was in its infancy when this book was published, so all astronomy was purely
ground based. Many theories which are taken for granted today were not even formed when this
was written. Nevertheless, this book is an excellent start for budding astronomers and provides
a good historical account of theories current in early 1960.
Original Price : 15s (75p)
Published by : Longacre Press in 1960
Edited by : Walter Shepherd
Dimensions : 21cm x 26.5cm with 192 pages.
Selected highlights:
- Relativity - Einstein's theory gets an explanation.
- The Horse's Head Nebula still looks impressive, even in black and white.
- If the universe followed Ptolemy's model, I think we would all be dizzy!
- There are plenty of people alive today who still think that the earth is flat. At least that's what it states in Chapter 3.
CONTENTS | ||
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THE SOLAR SYSTEM | ||
Chapter 1 | Early Adventures in Astronomy | Page 7 |
2 | How Man Discovered His Own Planet | 15 |
3 | The Sun and Its Family | 22 |
4 | The Mystery of the Moon | 31 |
5 | Mercury, Venus and Mars | 40 |
6 | The Great Planets and Pluto | 49 |
7 | Asteroids, Comets, Meteors | 60 |
8 | How it all Started | 71 |
THE MILKY WAY | ||
9 | The Universe of Stars | 81 |
10 | Clouds of Gas and Dust | 93 |
11 | Giants and Dwarfs | 103 |
12 | Families of Stars | 116 |
THE UNIVERSE | ||
13 | Island Universe | 126 |
14 | What Relativity Means | 136 |
15 | What is the Universe Like? | 148 |
16 | Telescopes | 159 |
17 | The Spectroscope | 171 |
18 | Measuring the Stars | 180 |
19 | Space Probes | 187 |