Useful library 'Homeland'. St. Petersburg publishing house A. A. Kaspari. 1906. 160 p. ill. Hardcover. slightly reduced format. Frequent publication. Fascinating and informative "Journey through the Universe" in two separate issues (with through pagination) published by A.A. Kaspari presents a popular natural scientific overview of astronomical knowledge about the Solar system and its inhabitants - planets and their inhabitants, asteroids, aerolites, meteorites, falling stars and, in great detail, about comets and their centuries-old observation. Content. - Movement in the solar system. The concept of the solar system. What does the movement of the planets seem to us and what it really is. An example of the apparent movement of the planet Venus. An example of the movement of the planet Mars. Movement from west to east. Attempt of general view. Earth and Moon. Features in the movement of the Moon. Mars and small planets. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Wonderful discovery (Neptune). The main foundations of the discovery of Leverrier. Great discovery (Newton). Travel through the Universe. Departure. Stop on the way between the Earth and the Moon. We reach the Moon. On the Moon. What do we do on the Moon? Some of the scientific fantasies. Two blurs in the way (why there is no atmosphere on the Moon and it is constantly facing the Earth with one side). Some travel encounters (Venus and its horns). Further travel adventures (Venus and Mercury). The surface of the Sun. The size of the Sun. We demand all respect for the cubic mile. The wastefulness of space in the solar system. The solar system in miniature. What shows the model. What we can sometimes see in the sky. On Mars. Small planets. The orbits of small planets. Two special comets. Jupiter, the heaviest of the planets. How to live on Jupiter. Jupiter's satellites. Saturn and its ring. How Saturn got a ring. Life on Saturn. The alleged inhabitants of the ring of Saturn. The fate of the ring of Saturn. Uranus. Neptune. The position of comets in the solar system. Calculated and uncalculated comets. A peculiar property of comets. Comet 1680. Comets that appeared between 1729 and 1759. Comets that appeared in 1769 and 1770. Comets from 1807 to 1811. What happened to Halley's Comet in 1835. Comets of 1843 and 1858. Comets of 1880 and 1882. Falling stars and meteors. Fall of aerolites. Height and mass of meteorites (with table). Appendix. On the size of the earth's orbit. With 34 explanatory illustrations, drawings and engravings.