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OTHER WORLDS
BY GARRETT P. SERVISS.
OTHER WORLDS.
Their Nature and Possibilities in the Light of the LatestDiscoveries. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.20 net; postageadditional.
No science has ever equaled astronomy in its appeal to theimagination, and recently popular interest in the wonders of thestarry heavens has been stimulated by surprising discoveries andimaginary discoveries, as well as by a marked tendency of writersof fiction to include other worlds and their possible inhabitantswithin the field of romance.
Mr. Serviss's new book on "Other Worlds, their Nature andPossibilities in the Light of the Latest Discoveries," summarizeswhat is known. With helpful illustrations, the most interestingfacts about the planets Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, etc., as wellas about the nearest of all other worlds, the moon, are presentedin a popular manner, and always from the point of view of humaninterest—a point that is too seldom taken by writers on science.
ASTRONOMY WITH AN OPERA-GLASS.
A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with thesimplest of Optical Instruments. Illustrated. 8vo. Cloth, $1.50.
"By its aid thousands of people who have resigned themselves to theignorance in which they were left at school, by our wretched systemof teaching by the book only, will thank Mr. Serviss for thesuggestions he has so well carried out."—New York Times.
PLEASURES OF THE TELESCOPE.
A Descriptive Guide to Amateur Astronomers and All Lovers of theStars. Illustrated. 8vo. Cloth, $1.50.
"The volume will be found interesting by those for whom it iswritten, and will inspire many with a love for the study ofastronomy, one of the most far-reaching of thesciences."—Milwaukee Journal.
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.
CHART OF MARS. After Schiaparelli.
Other Worlds
Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the light of the latestdiscoveries.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
Author of
"Astronomy with an Opera-glass" and "Pleasures of the Telescope"
With Charts and Illustrations
"Shall we measure the councils of heaven by the narrow impotence ofhuman faculties, or conceive that silence and solitude reignthroughout the mighty empire of nature?"
—Dr. Thomas Chalmers.
New York
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1901
Copyright, 1901,
By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
TO
The Memory
OF
WILLIAM JAY YOUMANS.
PREFACE
The point of view of this book is human interest in the other worldsaround us. It presents the latest discoveries among the plane