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EARTH AND HEAVENLY BODIES 



Jeans, The Stars in Their Courses (Macmillan) 

 Jeans, The Universe Around Us (Macmillan) 

 Jeans, Through Space and Time (Macmillan) 

 McFee, Secrets of the Stars (Crowell) 

 Harrison, Daylight, Twilight, Darkness, and Time 

 (Silver) 



Reports which may be prepared 



1. Dwarf and giant stars 



2. The discovery of Neptune 



3. The spectroscope and how it aids the astrono- 

 mer 



4. Telling time 



5. Harnessing the tides 



6. Historic comets 



7. A rocket trip to the moon 



8. A trip to Mars 



9. The rings of Saturn 



10. What we know of spiral nebulae 



11. The asteroids 



12. The nebular hypothesis 



13. The planetesimal hypothesis 



14. The giant sun 



15. An eclipse of the sun 



16. Astronomical observatories 



17. Astronomical instruments 



18. How space is measured 



19. The stuff that stars are made of 



20. Star legends and myths 



21. The building of the new 200-inch telescope 



22. The calendar 



Great scientists you should know about 



1. Ptolemy 



2. Copernicus 



3. Galileo 



4. Isaac Newton 



5. Johann Kepler 



6. Tycho Brahe 



7. William Herschel 



8. John Herschel 



9. Percival Lowell 

 10. Pierre Laplace 



Investigations and things to do 



1. Learn to photograph the heavenly bodies. 



2. Make a star finder. 



3. Make a planisphere. 



4. Make a simple refracting telescope. 



5. Make a reflecting telescope. 



6. Learn to plot the path of a planet. 



7. Make a model of the solar system, using balls 

 of different sizes to represent the planets. 



