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Astronomy for beginners by Hereward Carrington is a compact popular-science primer written in the early 20th century. It offers a clear, accessible introduction to astronomy for lay readers, outlining how the cosmos works and how we study it. The book opens by separating astronomy from astrology, then tours the solar system: the Sun (its layers, spots, and influence), each planet from Mercury to Neptune (with notes on moons, rings, atmospheres, and habitability), the minor planets, and the Moon’s features, phases, and origin. It surveys theories of solar-system formation (from Laplace to the planetesimal hypothesis), maps the sky’s constellations, and explains meteors, meteorites, comets, nebulae, and the Milky Way. Carrington summarizes stellar facts—numbers, distances (light-years), motions, temperatures, and types (fixed, double, colored, variable, temporary), plus star clusters. He describes eclipses, transits, and occultations, and introduces the tools that revolutionized astrono

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Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius

Astronomy for
Beginners

Hereward Carrington, Ph.D.

Author of the following Little Blue Books: No.
679, “Chemistry for Beginners;” No. 491, “Psychology
for Beginners;” No. 419, “Life: Its
Origin and Nature;” No. 524, “Death and
Its Problems;” No. 493, “New Discoveries
in Science;” No. 409, “Great
Men of Science;” etc., etc....

HALDEMAN-JULIUS COMPANY
GIRARD, KANSAS

Copyright, 1925,
Haldeman-Julius Company

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