335 INDEX. ADDISON, 2 Altitude, 145, 214, 242, 304 Angles, measurement by, 57 Apparent size, 56 Arcturus, 252 Asteroids, 186 orbits of, 188, 189 Astrolabe, 299 Astrology, 285 Atmosphere, 157 Baker, quoted, 182 Bear, Great, 10, 12, 246, 251 Little, 250, 251 Biela, 235 Ceres, 187, 189 Chalmers, quoted, 42, 217, 261 Chumularee, 101 Circles, greater and less, 141 141, 281 orbits of, 40, 228 Comet of Halley, 231 Conic Sections, 229 Conjunction, 76 Constantine, 276 Constellations, 15, 149, 243 Cook, Captain, 8 Copernicus, 20 Cross, constellation of the, 252 Darwin, quoted, 149, 209 Bissextile, 270 Bode, 211 Boötes, 252 Cusps, 117 Burning-glass, action of, 69 Calendar, 267 Day, natural, 281, 285 Camelopardalus, 252 sidereal, 254 Cassini, 254, 257 Cassiopeia's chair, 11 Centrifugal force, 94 Camoëns, quoted, 93, 253, 300 Declination, 241 Disk, 65, 113 Dominical Letter, 276 Draco, 242, 252 Moon, 101, 109 axis of, 11, 95, 212 density of, 101 diameter of, 96 Galaxy, 245 Galileo, 63, 192, 201, 260 Earth, appearance of, to the Golden Number, 275 Gravitation, 29, 210 96 distance from the Sun, Harding, 187 Harvest and Hunter's Moon, 111 Sir J., 202, 216, 246, 257 Horizon, 156, 214 Eclipses, 119, 137, 243 solar, 123 - artificial, 305 Horrox, 85 partial, 123 Hours, 282, 286 total, 124 annular, 124, 128) central Hour-glass, 286 lunar, 132 Ecliptic, 74, 140, 241 Elements, 231 Emersion, 195 Encke, 233 Epact, 276 Ephemeris, 79, 268 Epicycloid, 19 Immersion, 195 Inclination of Axes, 186 of Orbits, 74 Jerome, 297 Jews, 282 Julian Period, 277 Julius Cæsar, 269, 284 Juno, 187, 189 Equation of Time, 275, 281, | Jupiter, angle subtended by, Jupiter, form of, 191 satellites of, 192, 246, 259 Mercury, phases of, 72 Kater, Captain, 202 sage, 79 Kings, Second Book of, quoted, Meridian, 98, 176, 213, 214 297 Latitude, 189, 213, 273 241, 242, 243, 274 Leap-Year, 269, 270, 276 Libration, 111 Meyer, 208 Micrometer, 243 Midday, 281, 282 Latitude and Longitude, 174, Midnight, 281, 282 Light, progressive motion of, Month, 108, 271, 286 Newton, 28, 174, 226, 236, 255 | Pleiades, 252 Nice, Council of, 276 Nights, 284 Nodes, 112, 122 Obliquity of equator with Observatory of Greenwich, 176, 188, 243 Occultations, 195, 254 Olbers, 187 Opposition, 76 |