Harold Jacoby

Practical Talks by an Astronomer Harold Jacoby

Originally published in 1902, Practical Talks by an Astronomer is a narrative account of the author. It contains an interesting overview of Astronomy, written at the turn of the 20th century. It is composed of eighteen topics in two hundred and ten pages with actual photographs of the moon on the first quarter, Spiral nebula in constellation Leo, nebula in Andromeda, the Dumb-Bell nebula, star-field in constellation Monoceros, solar corona on a total eclipse, a forty-ich telescope in Yerkes observatory and the Yerkes observatory in the University of Chicago.