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Astronomy: the Sun and His Family

Public domain audiobook

Astronomy: the Sun and His Family

by Julia McNair Wright

English· 04:40:56· 20 chapters
Can you tell what causes day and night, seasons and years, tides and eclipses? Why is the sky blue and Mars red? What are meteors and shooting stars? These, and a thousand other questions are here answered in a most fascinating way. - Summary by The Black Cat Magazine

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    The Fairy Story of the Skies

    17:07
  2. Chapter 2

    The Home of the Sun Family

    13:28
  3. Chapter 3

    The Parent Sun

    13:44
  4. Chapter 4

    The Sun's Eldest Child

    15:40
  5. Chapter 5

    Son Uranus

    14:18
  6. Chapter 6

    Saturn, the Eing Wearer

    15:04
  7. Chapter 7

    The Increase of the Sun Family

    17:22
  8. Chapter 8

    The Sun's Small Children

    14:05
  9. Chapter 9

    Bed Mars

    14:57
  10. Chapter 10

    Green Earth

    13:17
  11. Chapter 11

    The Early Days of the Earth

    14:28
  12. Chapter 12

    The Earth's Daughter

    11:46
  13. Chapter 13

    More About the Moon

    13:44
  14. Chapter 14

    White Venus

    14:07
  15. Chapter 15

    The Sun's Youngest Child

    12:54
  16. Chapter 16

    Eclipses and What They Tell

    13:32
  17. Chapter 17

    The Story of the Tides

    12:23
  18. Chapter 18

    The Far-off Stars

    14:09
  19. Chapter 19

    Meteors and Shooting Stars

    13:54
  20. Chapter 20

    The Vagrants of the Sky

    10:57