Babbage's
Lectures On Astronomy
Given at The Royal Institution, 1815
- 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
Charles Babbage at the Royal Institution: An Analytical Account of his 1815 Lectures
