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The Solar System - Six Lectures - Lowell.djvu

Title The Solar System; six lectures delivered at the Massachusetts institute of technology in December, 1902
Author Percival Lowell
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THE

SOLAR SYSTEM

Six Lectures

DELIVERED AT THE MASSACHUSETTS

INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

IN DECEMBER, 1902

BY

PERCIVAL LOWELL

NON-RESIDENT PROFESSOR OF ASTRONOMY AT THE

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

AND DIRECTOR OF THE LOWELL OBSER-

VATORY, FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA



BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1903

Copyright, 1903,

By PERCIVAL LOWELL.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED



Published May, 1903.

CONTENTS
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I. Our Solar System 1
II. Mercury 27
III. Mars 47
IV. Saturn and its System 72
V. Jupiter and his Comets 94
VI. Cosmogony 116
 
ELEMENTS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
table    
I. Orbital Elements facing 134
II. Bodily Elements facing 134



ERRATA

Page 23, line 8.

For \frac{m}{a-d^{2}} \,\! read \frac{2m}{{(a-d)}^{2}} \,\!

Page 74, line 18.

For Pierce read Peirce.

Page 104, second line under diagram.

For P read O.

Page 123, line i.

After momentum insert projected at right angles to it.

The Solar System - Six Lectures - Lowell.djvu