Capella, 38, 66

Cassiopeia, 36

Castor, 44, 68

Catalogue of Lalande, 65

Catharine of Alexandria, 3

Centaur, 52, 64, 65, 80

Ceres, 147

Chaldean pastors, 30

Chaldeans, 271

Chariot of David, 32

Charioteer, 38

Chart of Mars, 140

Chatelet, Marquise du, 4

Chiron, The Centaur, 30, 51

Chromosphere, 102

Clairaut, 3

Clerke, Agnes, 7

Cnidus, 31

Coggia's Comet, 187

Comet of Biela, 197
of 1811, 186
of 1858, 174

Comets, 111, 185

Constellations, 28
figures of, 31
Autumn, 54

Constellations, Spring, 52
Summer, 53
Winter, 51

Copernicus, 125

Corona Borealis, 40

Corona of the Sun, 104

Cygnus, 40

D

de Blocqueville, Madame, 5

de Breteuil, Gabrielle-Emilie, 4

de Charriere, Madame, 5

Deneb, 41

des Brosses, 5

Diaz, Bartholomew, 176

Dipper, 32, 34

Donati, 187

Double star, stellar dial of, 86

Double stars, 68, 70

Dragon, 36

du Chatelet, Marquise, 4

E

Eagle, 41

Earth, 205
ancient notions of, 19
distance from the sun, 215
how sustained, 21
inclination, 224
in space, 20
motion of, round the Sun, 222
movement of, 217
rotundity of, 206
viewed from Mars, 144
viewed from Mercury, 119
viewed from Venus, 130
weight, 210

Eclipse of Sun, May, 1900, 273

Eclipses, 259

Ellicot, Andrew, 195

Entretiens sur la Pluralite des mondes, 9

Equator, 225

Eudoxus, 31

Evening Star, 123

F

Faculae, 98, 100

Fire-balls, 198

Flammarion's Lunar Ring, 253

Fleming, Mrs., 7

Fontenelle, 9

Foucault, 219

G

Galileo, 95, 98, 125, 244

Galle, 168

Globe, divisions of, 226

Great Bear, 32, 34, 35

Great Dog, 50

Grecian Calendar, 229

Greek alphabet, 33

H

Hall, Mr., 143

Halley, 181

Halley's Comet, 3, 175

Heavens, map of, 61

Hercules, 41, 66, 79

Herdsman, 39

Herschel, Caroline, 6

Hevelius, 246

Hipparchus, 31

Houses of the Sun, 43

Huggins, Lady, 8

Huyghens, 49

Hyades, 44

Hypatia, 3

J

Janssen, 102

Jupiter, 148
satellites, 155
telescopic aspect of, 150

K

Klumpke, Miss, 7

Kovalevsky, Sophie, 6

L

Lacaille, 292

Lalande, 3, 9, 65, 292

Latitudes, 226

Leonids, 195

Lepaute, Madame H