Hindsight and popular astronomy

Part I: One question and two ironies

Part II: Positions, orbits and calculations

Part III: Sir John Herschel, "Treatise on Astronomy," 1833

Part IV: Sir George Biddell Airy, "Popular Astronomy," 1848

Part V: Heat, light and three bodies

Part VI: Sir John Herschel, "Outlines of Astronomy," tenth edition, 1869

Part VII: Simon Newcomb, "Popular Astronomy," 1878

Part VIII: Sir Robert S. Ball, "In the High Heavens," 1893

Part IX: Simon Newcomb, "Astronomy for Everybody," 1902

Part X: Things get strange: quanta and relativity

Part XI: Sir James Jeans, "The Universe Around Us," first edition, 1929

Part XII: Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, "Stars and Atoms," third impression, 1928

Part XIII: Sir James Jeans, "The Universe Around Us," fourth edition, 1944

Part XIV: In summary: reading the astronomers, 1833-1944.