Table of Contents

Babbage's Lectures On Astronomy

Given at The Royal Institution, 1815

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Synopsis
• Lecture 1: Introduction to and History of Astronomy, from Thales to Copernicus
• Lecture 2: On Astronomical Instruments
• Lecture 3: Observing and Cataloguing the Heavens
• Lecture 4: Ascertaining the Figure of the Earth
• Lecture 5: On the Moon
• Lecture 6: On the Sun
• Lecture 7: The Inner Planets
• Lecture 8: On the Minor Planets (Asteroids) and also the History and Development of the Reflecting Telescope
• Lecture 9: The Outer Planets
• Lecture 10: On the Theory of Universal Gravitation
• Lecture 11: On Comets
• Lecture 12: Beyond the Solar System