Geology and Astronomy

Chapters

• 1 The Children of the Earth
• 2 The Stories that the Mountains tell
• 3 Young and Old Rocks: Granite
• 4 The First Rocks
• 5 Volcanic Rocks
• 6 The Restless Earth
• 7 Some Different Rocks
• 8 More About Limestone
• 9 Coal
• 10 The Work of Water
• 11 The Circulation of Water
• 12 Winds
• 13 Glaciers
• 14 The Story of Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh
• 15 The Heart and the Sun
• 16 The Sun's Daily Movement
• 17 The Sun during the Year
• 18 The Calendar
• 19 Sundials and Time
• 20 The Circling Start and the Pole Star
• 21 The Curvature of the Earth
• 22 Longitude and Latitude
• 23 The Circle
• 24 The Start and Sirius
• 25 The Daily Movement of the Start and Sun
• 26 The Zodiac and the Precession of the Equinox
• 27 The Cosmic or Platonic Year
• 28 The Seven Classical Planets
• 29 The Moon
• 30 Tides and Other Lunar Influences
• 31 Easter
• 32 The Planets
• 33 Pithagoras
• 34 Ptolemy
• 35 Copernicus
• 36 Tycho Brahe
• 37 Johannes Kepler
• 38 Galileo and the Telescope
• 39 Through the Telescope
• 40 Comets and Meteorites
• 41 The Atmosphere of the Earth