Author Description

Authors and essays in this volume are:Sir Robert Stawell Ball: Atoms and Sunbeams -- The Wanderings of the North PoleSir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin): The Age of the Sun?s HeatRichard Anthony Proctor: The Past and Future of our EarthRobert Simpson Woodward: Mathematical Theories of the EarthGiovanni Virginio Schiaparelli: The Rotation and Physical Constitution of the Planet Mercury -- The Planet Mars George Howard Darwin: Meteorites and Stellar Systems William Harkness: Magnitude of the Solar System Ormsby McKnight Mitchel: The Stability of the Solar SystemEdmund Ledger: The New Planet, ErosEdward Singleton Holden:Sidereal Astronomy: Old and New-- Photography the Servant of Astronomy-- The Beginnings of American AstronomySir John Frederick William Herschel: Stellar ParallaxCharles S. Hastings: The History of the TelescopeWilliam Huggins: Results of Spectrum Analysis Applied to Heavenly Bodies-- Celestial Spectroscopy-- The New Astronomy David Gill: An Astronomer?s Work in a Modern ObservatoryPierre Simon: The System of the WorldCThe Nebular Hypothesis George M. Searle: Marquis de Laplace -- Are the Planets Habitable?