Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies

LibriVox recording of Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Todd. Read in English by Librivox volunteers The progress of astronomy from age to age has been far from uniform—rather by leaps and bounds: from the earliest epoch when man's planet earth was the center about which the stupendous cosmos wheeled, for whom it was created, and for whose edification it was maintained—down to the modern age whose discoveries have ascertained that even our stellar universe, the vast region of the solar domain, is but one of the thousands of island universes that tenant the inconceivable im