History of Astronomy
Author(s): George Forbes
Genre(s): Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics
Narrators: Larry Wilson, Jennifer Henry, Ian Virly, Ben Prince, Availle, Realisticspeakers, Justin Ordway, Courtney Miller, KevinS
Number of Chapters: 16
Length: 04 hours and 38 minutes
Language: English
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