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Tables of Contents for Babylon to Voyager and Beyond
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Introduction
1
1
The ancients
2
38
Early astronomy
2
2
The Babylonians
4
8
The Greeks
12
15
The Greeks in Egypt
27
5
Epicycles
32
8
Copernicus and the new cosmology
40
15
The `Dark' Ages
40
4
Copernicus
44
4
Tycho Brahe
48
7
Kepler and Galileo -- the fall of epicycles and the start of telescopic astronomy
55
36
Kepler
55
15
Early telescopes
70
2
Galileo
72
19
The mid and late seventeenth century
91
42
Saturn
91
7
Jupiter's satellites
98
4
New planetary characteristics
102
3
Solar parallax
105
1
The moon
106
4
Early concepts of gravity and Descartes' vortex theory
110
2
Isaac Newton
112
21
Consolidation
133
15
Halley's comet
133
3
Atmospheric refraction
136
2
Aberration of light
138
2
The 1761 and 1769 transits of Venus
140
6
Secular acceleration of the moon
146
2
The solar system expands
148
33
William Herschel and the discovery of Uranus
148
7
Saturn
155
4
Origin of the solar system
159
2
The first asteroids
161
5
The discovery of Neptune
166
15
The inner solar system in the nineteenth century
181
66
Vulcan
181
5
Asteroids
186
6
Comets
192
10
Meteor showers
202
9
Kreutz sungrazing comets
211
2
Mercury
213
3
Venus
216
3
The moon
219
8
The earth
227
6
Mars
233
14
The outer solar system in the nineteenth century
247
22
Jupiter
247
7
Saturn
254
10
Uranus
264
3
Neptune
267
2
Quiet interlude -- the twentieth century prior to the space age
269
81
Pluto
269
7
Mercury
276
2
Venus
278
6
Origin of the solar system
284
6
The moon
290
2
The earth
292
12
Mars
304
6
Internal structures and atmospheres of the four large outer planets
310
9
Jupiter
319
3
Saturn
322
4
Uranus
326
5
Neptune
331
5
Asteroids
336
5
Comets
341
9
The space age -- terrestrial planets
350
76
The earth
350
10
The moon
360
12
Origin of the solar system
372
7
Mercury
379
3
Venus
382
18
Mars
400
26
The space age -- the outer planets
426
88
Jupiter
426
26
Saturn
452
14
Uranus
466
11
Neptune
477
10
Pluto and Charon
487
4
Asteroids
491
11
Comets
502
5
Other solar systems
507
5
Concluding remarks
512
2
Glossary
514
9
Bibliography
523
10
Units
533
1
Name index
534
13
Subject index
547