User:MarkRisner/The Universe Around Us

The Universe Around Us is a science book written by English astrophysicist Sir James Jeans, first published in 1929 by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press.

Contents
Chapter
 * Introduction - The Study of Astronomy - Page...1
 * I      Exploring the Sky...14
 * II     Exploring the Atom...98
 * III    Exploring in Time...151
 * IV     Stars...161
 * V      Carving out the Universe...210
 * VI     The Solar System...237
 * VII    Beginnings and Endings...276
 * Index...290

There are 32 pages of photographic plates:

Plates

 * I     The Discovery of Pluto - Facing Page...16
 * II    The Milky Way in the neighbourhood of the Southern Cross...17
 * III   The Milky Way in the region of p Ophiuchi...18
 * IV    The Star-cloud in Sagittarius...19
 * V     Part of the outer regions of the Great Nebula M31 in Andromeda...22
 * VI    Planetary Nebulae:
 * 1) N.G.C. 2022
 * 2) N.G.C. 6720 (The Ring Nebula)
 * 3) N.G.C. 1501
 * 4) N.G.C. 7662...23
 * VII   The Nebula in Cygnus...24
 * VIII  The Trifid Nebula M20 in Sagittarius - Following...24
 * IX    The "Horse's Head" in the Nebula in Orion...24
 * X     The Great Nebula M31 in Andromeda - Facing...25
 * XI    The Nebula N.G.C. 891 in Andromeda seen edge-on...26
 * XII   The Nebula N.G.C. 7217...27
 * XIII  The Lesser and Greater Magellanic Clouds...30
 * XIV   The Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules...31
 * XV    Stellar Spectra...32
 * XVI   The Doppler Effect in Stellar Spectra...33
 * XVII  The central region of the Great Nebula M31 in Andromeda...68
 * XVIII The Nebula M33 in Triangulum...69
 * XIX   The Nebula N.G.C. 7331 in Pegasus, and a remote Cluster of faint Nebula - Facing...70
 * XX    Nebular Spectra....71
 * XXI   The Nebula N.G.C. 4594 in Virgo...74
 * XXII  A compact Cluster of faint Nebulae in Pegasus...75
 * XXIII The twin Nebulae N.G.C. 4567-8...76
 * XXIV  The Nebula M81 in Ursa Major...77
 * XXV   The tracks of a- and b-particles...122
 * XXVI  Collisions of a-particles with atoms...123
 * XXVII The "Whirlpool" Nebula M51 in Canes Venatici...220
 * XXVIII A sequence of Nebular Configurations:
 * 1) N.G.C. 3379
 * 2) N.G.C. 4621
 * 3) N.G.C. 3115
 * 4) N.G.C. 4594 in Virgo
 * 5) N.G.C. 4565 in Berenice's hair...221
 * XXIX   Two Nebulae (N.G.C. 4395, 4401) suggestive of Tidal Action...244
 * XXX    The Nebula N.G.C. 7479...245
 * XXXI   The Nebula M101 in Ursa Major...252
 * XXXII  Saturn and its System of Rings...253