Tales about the sun, moon, and stars

24. A Word or two more about the Eclipses of the Sun.

Eclipses. Total Eclipses. Annular Eclipses..

20. About the Harvest Moon, and about the Hunter's Moon. Ordi-
nary Changes of Time for the Rising of the Moon.......
21. More about the Harvest Moon, and about the Hunter's Moon
22. Parley tells about Eclipses

25. Why the Sun and Moon appear larger when on or near the

Horizon, or at their Rising and Setting, than when in the

Zenith, or in the middle of their Courses..

141

26. Other Explanations.....

147

27. Peter Parley's Hint at an Explanation. Parley extols the Art

of Drawing, and the Science of Perspective

151

28. Parley tells about the Stars

163

29. About the Fixed Stars. In what respect the Fixed Stars, so

called, are really fixed. Real and apparent Motion. Va-

riety of Colour. Distances from the Earth. Number. Small

Number of Stars ordinarily seen with the naked Eye...... 167

30. Magnitudes of the Fixed Stars. Amazing Magnitude of the

great Star Vega. Clusters of Stars

174

31. About the Constellations

181

32. About Nebules. Common Nebules. Stellar Nebules. Pla-

netary Nebules

185

Chap.

33. About the Milky Way, called by Sir William Herschel the

The

Projection of the Nebule of the Earth. About an Astrono-

mical Distribution of the Regions of the Heaven.

Milky Way sometimes called Saint-James's Way

...

Page

189

34. Parley tells about the Solar System, or System of the Sun 193

35. About an Orrery or Planetarium

199

41. About Vesta, Juno, Pallas, Ceres, and the Planet discovered

in 1836

222

42. About this Fifth New Planet, or Planet discovered in Italy,

in the Year 1836, by Signor Cacciatore

45. About the Planet Herschel, or Uranus, or the Georgium Sidus 234

46. About the Motions of the Planets

236

47. Parley tells about the Secondary Planets, or Satellites, or Moons 239

48. About all the Planets together, and about the Orbits of the

49. More about the Orbits of the Planets

50. About Comets..

51. Something more about Comets

52. About Halley's Comet, or the Comet of 1835 and 1836

53. About Shooting or Falling Stars. Enlarged Ideas of the Con-

265

tents of the Solar System. The November Asteroïds..... 275

54. More about Shooting or Falling Stars. About Star-jelly, or

....

288

Star-shot, or Nostoc. About Fire-balls and Aërolites. 280

55. Showers of Shooting or Falling Stars reported to have been

seen at Boston, and in other parts of North America, on the

13th and 14th of November, 1833

56. Shooting or Falling Stars observed by Sir John Herschel, at

the Cape of Good Hope, on the Morning of the 14th of No-

vember, 1835. Other Examples of the same or somewhat

and Months

57. Observation of the November Asteroïds in Europe, on the

Morning of the 14th of November, 1826..

291

296

Chap.

58. M. Arago's Explanation. Mr. Olmsted's Explanation. M. Biot's

that Shooting Stars, Fire-balls, and the Zodiacal Light itself,

are all Electrical Phenomena, and therefore Meteors only.

Account of the Phenomenon of the 13th of November, 1833,

as seen from Baltimore to New York, greatly different from

the Accounts from Boston, and entirely in contradiction to

the Planetary Fancy...

59. About the Support and Movements of the Heavenly Bodies.

About the Earth as one. About the perpetual Order of

60. Of the Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces. Professor Mozotti 313

61. Of some of the immediate Uses to Mankind, and to all living

Creatures, of the Lights of the Sun, Moon, and Stars..... 315

62. Seamen's Observations of the Sun, Moon, and Stars. Taking

an Altitude or Meridian. Keeping a Log. Various Civil

Uses. Hours and Distances, or Time and Space

63. About the Habitableness of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and all

the Stars. About a Plurality of Worlds..

64. Parley tells about the Earth

65. Something about the Earth and the Sun

66. Parley tells about Day and Night, and about the Four Seasons 344

67. About the Lengthening and Shortening of the Days....

68. Progress and Prospects of the Modern Knowledge of the Sun,

Moon, and Stars. Sir John Herschel's recent Account of

the South Celestial Hemisphere. His formal Declaration

against his imputed "Lunar Discoveries"

69. Parley tells about Telescopes. About Microscopes. About

the general Wonders of Creation

70. Thanks to illustrious Astronomers and Mathematicians. New-

ton and his Dog Diamond. History of James Ferguson.

His Poverty and Self-education. King George the Third

seeks to be instructed by him in Astronomy. Possible in-

fluence of the early Genius and Industry of Ferguson, upon

all the subsequent Progress of Astronomical Discovery in

Europe to this day. Love and Patronage of Arts, Sciences,

and Letters, by King George the Third; and his absolute in-

fluence upon the modern Knowledge of the Sun, Moon, and

HERE is a picture of a balloon. It is an immense bag of silk, as big as a small house. A

net is thrown over it. To the bottom of this net is attached a little car, in figure like a boat.

The balloon is filled with gas, which is a kind of air. This gas is very light, and as it rises up, it takes the balloon, car and all, up with it. There are two persons in the car, each with a flag in his left hand. You have heard about balloons and gas, in my Tales about Frost and Snow, and Winds, and Fiery Meteors.

The balloon has just begun to ascend. It is now no higher than the top of a house. A great many people are standing below, looking at the balloon. They can distinctly see the little car, and the aeronauts in it. They can see the little flags which they are waving in their hands. They can see the network that is over the balloon, and can easily distinguish the countenances of the adventurous persons who are now taking a ride into the regions of the clouds.

Describe a balloon. What carries up a balloon into the air?

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