Astronomische  Jahrsbericht.     1898  onwards.
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II.  —  HISTORIES

M.  Bailly,  Trait e  de  V astronomic  Indienne  et  orien-
tate,    1787.
M.  Bailly,  Histoire  de  V astronomic  ancienne.     1718.
M.  Bailly,  Histoire  de  V astronomie  moderne.     1785.
M.  Delambre,   Histoire  de  I 'astronomic '.     6  vols.,
1817  to  1827.
This  is  the  most  detailed  critical  compendium
up  to  that  date.
R.  Grant,  History  of  Physical  Astronomy.     1852.
An    admirable    record    of    developments    of
Newtonian  theory.
W.  Whewell,  History  of  the  Inductive  Sciences.
F.  Epping  and  J.  N.  Strassmeier,  Astronomisches
aus  Babylon.     1889.
J.  L.  E.  Dreyer,  History  of  the  Planetary  Systems
from  Tholes  to  Kepler.     1906.
A.   M.   Clerke,   History  of  Astronomy  during  the
Nineteenth  Century.     1902.
W.  W.  Bryant,  A  History  of  Astronomy.     1907.
A.  Berry,  A  Short  History  of  Astronomy.     1898.
III.  —  HISTORICAL,   OR   EPOCH-MAKING,    BOOKS

N.  Copernici,  De  revolutionibus  orbium  ccelestium
libri  vi.     Nurimburgae,  1543.
The  last  serious  support  to  the  Greek  epicyclic
school.
Tycho    Brahe,    Astronomiae   instauratae    progym-
nasmata.     4°,  Uraniburgi,  1602.
The  fundamental  work  of  the  inductive  school.
J.  Kepler,  Astronomia  nova.     Fol.  Pragae,   1609.
Building   the   Keplerian  solar   system  on  the
observations   of   Tycho  Brahe  by  brilliant  de-
monstrations.
Bibliography


G.  Galilei,  Sidereus  nuncius.     4°,  Bononias,  1655.
Commencement  of   the   science   of  observing
the  physical  features  of  the  heavens.
J.   Horrocks,   Astronomia  Kepleriana,   defensa  et
promota.     4°,  Londini,  1678.
Posthumous  work  containing  the  clearest  con-
ception of  gravitation  before  Newton.
Sir    I.    Newton,    Philosophies   naturalis   principia
mathematica.     1687.
Expounding,  among  other  matters,  universal
gravitation  and  its  consequences.  The  highest
example  of  inductive  reasoning  ever  produced.
In  the  writer's  opinion,  the  only  books  in  the
same  rank  are  Euclid's  Geometry,  Kepler's  Astro-
nomia nova,  and  Clerk  Maxwell's  Electricity  and
Magnetism.
P.  S.  de  Laplace,  Mecanique  Celeste.  1802.
