Writer: George Forbes

Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Dave Maddock, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY BY GEORGE FORBES, M.A., F.R.S., M. INST. C. E., (FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, ANDERSON’S COLLEGE, GLASGOW) AUTHOR OF “THE TRANSIT OF VENUS,” RENDU’S “THEORY OF THE GLACIERS OF SAVOY,” ETC., ETC. CONTENTS PREFACE BOOK I. THE GEOMETRICAL