57,58"dark, of moon,53,57,58Ecliptic, obliquity of,47Eddington,357Electra,19Elster,39Emerson,353Enceladus,89Encke,113,116,240Ennis,189Eratosthenes,250,297,345Eridanus,274-278Eros,69,70,71Eta Argus,177,287Eudemus,47Eudoxus,218,219,223Euler,56Eunomia,71Europa,252FFabritius,4,101Fabry,1Faint stars in telescope,176“False Cross,”156“Famous stars,”246Fath,130,213Faye,100February, Five Sundays in,36Fergani,189“Fisher Stars,”256“Fishes in Andromeda,”249Fitzgerald,127Flammarion,22,26,50,138,255,265,276Flamsteed,348“Flat earth” theory,32Fomalhaut,271,309,310Fontana,20Fontenelle,357Forbes,82,95,96Fornax,301Fournier,87Fovea,284Freeman,88Fréret,222Frisby,101Fritsch,21Furner,163GGale,78Galileo,3,4,80,82Galle,94,341Ganymede,268Gaseous nebula, spectra of,195-198,212Gassendi,14,139Gathman,118Gaubil,99Gauthier,103Gegenschein,131Gemini,257,258Geminid variables,187Gentil, Le,338,339Gertel,39Ghizeh, Pyramids of,353Gibbous phase of Jupiter,75Gill, Sir David,118,215,216,346Glacial epoch,42Gledhill,76Globular clusters,214,215Goad,12Goatcher,179“Golden apples,”258Golius,281Gould,229,278,301,304,309,310,326Grant,82,96,345Gravitation, Law of,15,40Greely,186Greisbach,80Groombridge 1830,159Grubb, Sir Howard,164Gruithuisen,21,25,26,28Gruson,127Guillaume,331Guthrie,25HHabitability of Mars,63-66"of planets,40Hadrian,248Halbert,78Hale,148,150Hall,15,131Halley,14,17,99,105,106,108,109,116,143,145,276Halm,122Halo,35,36Hanouman,284Hansen,351Hansky,27Harding,25,26,94“Harris, Mrs.,”90Hartwig,88,173Harvests,104Heat of sun,2,3,7Height of atmosphere,33Heis,132,175,189,227,229,344Helium,4Hepidanus,267,348Hercules,243,259,268Herod,18,53Herschel, Miss Caroline,193,194,324,357Herschel, Sir John,112,177,190,207,209,210,215,289,314,346,353Herschel, Sir Wm.,3,24,80,112,114,115,116,171,178,179,190,324,325Hesiod,17,220Hesperus,256Hevelius,99,116,221,296,299,300Hill,87,355Hind,19,30,54,105,111,180Hipparchus,135,221-223,226,250,278,281,293,329Hippocrates,258Hirst,333Holetschak,108Homer,17Honorat,84Hooke,74,128Horace,280Horologium,303Horus,145,258Horrebow,29Horrocks,337Hortensus, Martinus,139Hough,76Houzeau,227,229,262,274,344Hovedin, Roger de,53Hubbard,100Huggins, Sir Wm.,91,148,180Humboldt,30,82,83,124,128,134,154,157,342,352,357Hussey,88Hyades,157,252,253,257Hydra,288Hydrus,303Hyperion,88,90IIbn al-Aalam,225Ibn Alraqqa,281Icarus,284Indus,307Inhabited worlds,328,357Innes,78,168Intra-Mercurial planet,14,15,29Invention of telescope,342Io,252Ions,27Iris,71Isaiah,17,356Isis,252,261,282,283Istar,260JJansen,342Japetus,89,90Jason,257,285Johnson, Rev. S. J.,19Jonckheere,15Jones,129Jordan,174Jupiter,chap. viii."gibbous form of,75"and sun,8KKalevala,240Kapteyn,314,316,321,322,326,357Kazemerski,244Keeler,86,215Kelvin, Lord,206,315,316Kempf,174Kepler,52,57,298,340,341,351Khayyam, Omar,127Kimah,255Kimball,51Kimta,255Kirch,23,115Kirkwood,6Kleiber,123Klein,114,183Knobel,238,263Konkoly,183Koran,127,270Kreusler,4Kreutz,101,112LLacaille,294,301,302Lacerta,300Lagrange,345La Hire,20,21Lalande,143,144,284Landerer,52Langdon,25Langley, Prof.,3Laplace,43,44,98,346,351,354Larkin,65Lassell,77,128“Last in the River,”275-298Last year of century,37Lau,178,183Leo,259Leo Minor,298Lepus,278,279Lernæan marsh,258Leverrier,44,347,351Lewis,156,162Lewis, Sir G. C.,17Lexell’s comet,98Libra,262Life, possible, in Mars,63-65Light of full moon,1,51Lippershey,342Littrow,339Lockyer, Sir Norman,144,147Lodge, Sir Oliver,55Long,343,357Longfellow,156,273Lottin,42Lowell,22,43,59,61,64,88Lucifer,17Lucretius,320“Luminous clouds,”33,34Lunar craters,55,56"“mansions,”251"mountains,58"theory,56Lunt,179Lupus,294Lyman,25Lynn,37,38,96,106,179,243,244,310Lynx,296Lyra,243,244,266MMaclear,77Mädler,20,22Mæstlin,341Magi, star of,1,18,145Magnitudes, star,311Maia,19,256Mairan,357“Manger,”259Manilius,250,259,272Marius, Simon,82,83,231Markree Castle,3Marmol,76Mars,chap. vi.;axis of59;red colour of,60;water vapour in,60;clouds in,61;“canals” in,61Martial,17Mascari,22Ma-tuan-lin,186,267Mayer,24May transits of Mercury,15Maxwell, Clerk,86McHarg,16McKay,286Medusa,244Mee,88Melotte,82Mendelief,212Mensa,304Mercury,chap, ii.,258Merrill,121Messier,114Meteoric stones,119Meteors,33Metius,342Microscopium,302Milky Way,320,323,325,326,328Milton,263