A book from the series "Public Scientific Library" . Edited by K. P. Friday . The third edition of the Russian translation from the fourth German edition, revised by the author. Additions from Arago, Bernard, Bolle, Helmholtz, Herschel, Laplace, Mitchell, Newcomb, Secchi, Schiaparelli, Flammarion and other astronomers. Additions about the latest discoveries written by Professor C. St Petersburg University . P. Glasenapp. Addition of ideas F. Al. Bredikhina, written by the observer astronomer of Yuriev University K. D. Pokrovsky . 32 tables with drawings, more than 60 portraits, about 300 illustrations, a map of the starry sky, several maps of the Moon and Mars, representing the movements of the main planets in 1899 and 1900 Astronomy of the East . - From Greeks to Copernicus . - The struggle for a new worldview . - Kepler . - Newton . - Huygens, Cassini and Dollond. - William Herschel and John Herschel . - Fraunhofer . - Bessel . - Gauss . - Enke . - Secki . - Sun: its energy, its origin. - The Sun: Its Present and Future. - Moon for simple eye and binoculars. - The moon when examined by a telescope. - On the surface of the Moon. - Inner planets . - Outer planets . - Comets . - Comets and meteors . - Stars. - Constellations. - Distances of stars . - Types of stars, double stars . - List. - Own motions of stars . - Variables and new stars. - Star clusters and nebulae . - Portraits . - Cards. - Tables.