Project Gutenberg 2025-10-07 Public domain in the USA. 494 Giberne, Agnes 1845 1939 Pritchard, Charles 1808 1893 Pritchard, C. (Charles) 99000176 The story of the sun, moon, and stars $aCincinnati :$bNational Book Company, $c1898. Alan, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The story of the sun, moon, and stars" by Agnes Giberne is a popular astronomy primer written in the late 19th century. It introduces beginners to the solar system and the wider universe, explaining the sun, moon, planets, comets, and stars in clear, non-mathematical language. Blending scientific facts, historical notes, and vivid description, it aims to make contemporary astronomy understandable and engaging for general readers. The opening of the book begins with an admiring introduction by Charles Pritchard praising its simplicity and accuracy for beginners, followed by a contents list that promises a full tour from the solar system to modern methods. It then sets Earth in its true place as one planet among many, distinguishes stars (suns) from planets (worlds reflecting sunlight), and explains Earth’s motions, apparent celestial movements, vast stellar distances, and the zodiac. Next come the sun’s distance and scale, rotation and sun-spots, faculæ, prominences, and corona, with striking imagery of solar storms; a clear account of gravitation and inertia shows how orbits work, and a neat candle-and-orange model illustrates day/night and the seasons via Earth’s tilted axis. The narrative surveys the planetary family: Mercury through Mars, the asteroid belt, then Jupiter (with four large moons and rapid spin), Saturn (with rings and many moons), Uranus, and Neptune, supported by memorable size-and-distance analogies. A vivid “visit” to the moon portrays airless skies, extreme heat and cold, stark light and shadow, cratered landscapes, and Earth shining motionless in the lunar sky, before turning to comets—their once-feared appearances, ethereal nature, varied orbits, behavior near the sun, and famous examples like Halley and Encke—where the excerpt breaks off. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/storyofsunmoonst00gibe/page/n7/mode/2up 20221031064659giberne 1898 US en Astronomy -- Juvenile literature QB Text 721108 2025-11-30T10:17:20.211315 text/html 682493 2025-10-07T13:52:49 text/html 9518226 2025-11-30T10:17:31.251386 application/epub+zip 9514447 2025-11-30T10:17:22.631303 application/epub+zip 536893 2025-11-30T10:17:21.383328 application/epub+zip 10454326 2025-11-30T10:17:37.418205 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 10389667 2025-11-30T10:17:30.064450 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 621719 2025-11-30T10:17:18.505307 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 601702 2025-10-07T13:52:49 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16236 2025-11-30T10:17:37.587205 application/rdf+xml 19559 2025-11-30T10:17:21.631273 image/jpeg 3058 2025-11-30T10:17:21.510264 image/jpeg 9514829 2025-11-30T10:17:20.454289 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia