POPULAR GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS:—
Sir R. S. Ball.—Star-Land. (Cassell.)Agnes Giberne.—-Sun, Moon and Stars. (Seeley.)W. T. Lynn.—Celestial Motions. (Stanford.)A. & W. Maunder.—-The Heavens and their Story. (Culley.)Simon Newcomb.—Astronomy for Everybody. (Isbister.)
FOR BEGINNERS IN OBSERVATION:—
W. F. Denning.—Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings. (Taylor & Francis.)E. W. Maunder.—Astronomy without a Telescope. (Thacker.)Arthur P. Norton.—A Star Atlas and Telescopic Handbook. (Gall & Inglis.)Garrett P. Serviss.—Astronomy with an Opera-Glass. (Appleton.)
STAR-ATLASES:—
Rev. J. Gall—An Easy Guide to the Constellations. (Gall and Inglis.)E. M'Clure and H. J. Klein.—Star-Atlas. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.)R. A. Proctor.—New Star Atlas. (Longmans.)
ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS:—
Sir G. B. Airy.—Popular Astronomy; Lectures delivered at Ipswich. (Macmillan.)E. W. Maunder.—Royal Observatory, Greenwich; its History and Work. (Religious Tract Society.)
GENERAL TEXT-BOOKS:—
Clerke, Fowler & Gore.—Concise Astronomy. (Hutchinson.)Simon Newcomb.—Popular Astronomy. (Macmillan.)C. A. Young.—Manual of Astronomy. (Ginn.)
SPECIAL SUBJECTS:—
Rev. E. Ledger.—The Sun; its Planets and Satellites. (Stanford.)C. A. Young.—The Sun. (Kegan Paul.)Mrs. Todd.—Total Eclipses. (Sampson Low.)Nasmyth and Carpenter.—The Moon. (John Murray.)Percival Lowell.—Mars. (Longmans.)Ellen M. Clerke.—Jupiter. (Stanford.)E. A. Proctor.—Saturn and its System. (Longmans.)W. T. Lynn.—Remarkable Comets. (Stanford.)E. W. Maunder.—The Astronomy of the Bible. (Hodder and Stoughton.)
HISTORICAL:—
W. W. Bryant.—History of Astronomy. (Methuen.)Agnes M. Clerke.—History of Astronomy in the Nineteenth Century. (A. & C. Black.)George Forbes.—History of Astronomy. (Watts.)
BIOGRAPHICAL:—
Sir E. S. Ball.—Great Astronomers. (Isbister.)Agnes M. Clerke.—The Herschels and Modern Astronomy. (Cassell.)Sir O. Lodge.—Pioneers of Science. (Macmillan.)
ABERRATION,83"Achilles" (Minor planet),38Adams, John C.,39Airy,39"Algol,"86"Andromedes" (Meteors),80Apsides,24,28Argelander,81BARNARD, E. E.,88"Bear," The,14Biela's Comet,80Bouvard,39Bradley,81,83Bremiker,40CATALOGUES (star),81-83Centauri, Alpha,53"Ceres" (Minor planet),38Challis,40Charles II.,50Chromosphere,73Chronometer,50Clairaut,36Columbus,48Comets,36Comet, Halley's,37---- Biela's,80Conic Sections,34Constellations, the,15---- date of,16Cook, Capt.,50Copernicus,26,54,84"Copernicus" (Lunar crater),59,60Corona,73Cowell,37Crommelin,37DEGREES,43Dollond,47Double stars,85EARTH, form of,16---- size of,17,33Eclipses,72Ecliptic,21Ellipse,28Epicycle,25Eratosthenes,17"Eros" (Minor planet),38,52Eudoxus,21Excentric,24Eye-piece,45FACULÆ,70Flamsteed,50GALILEO,44Galle,40Gascoigne,46Gravitation, Law of,34HALL, CHESTER MOOR,47Halley,36Halley's Comet,37Harrison, John,50Herschel, Sir W.,37,47,84Hipparchus,24,81,83,87Hyperbola,34JOB, Book of,12,14"Juno" (Minor planet),38Jupiter,18,32,77-78KAPTEYN,85Kepler,28,44,88Kepler's Laws,29"Kepler" (Lunar crater),59LANGLEY,74Latitude, Variation of,84"Leonids" (Meteors),80Leverrier,39Lowell,63,64"Lyrids" (Meteors),80MAGNETIC STORM,76Magnetism, Earth's,76Magnitudes of stars,86"Mare Imbrium,"59Mars,18,52,62-66---- Canals of,63Maskelyne,50,82Maunder, Mrs. Walter,72,74Mercury,17,18,27,32,66-67Meteors,79,80Micrometer,46Milky Way,53,88Minor Planets,38,52Minutes of arc,44"Mira,"87Moon,11,14,21,32,33,49,55-62---- distance of,51"Nautical Almanac,"50,82Navigation,49Nebulæ,89Neptune,40,79Newcomb,65New stars,87Newton,29,31,47Newton's Laws of motion,31Nodes,35Nutation,83,84"OASES of Mars,"64Obelisks,42Object glass,45Observatories, Berlin,50---- Copenhagen,50---- Greenwich,50---- Mt. Wilson,48---- Paris,50---- Pulkowa,50---- St. Petersburg,50---- Washington,50---- Yerkes,47"PALLAS" (Minor planet),38Parabola,34"Perseids" (Meteors),80Photography,46Photosphere,69"Pilgrim" star,88Piazzi,38Planets,17Pole of the Heavens,13Pontécoulant,37Precession of the Equinoxes,36,83"Principia,"36Prominences,73"Ptolemæus" (Lunar crater),60Ptolemy,24,81RADIANT POINTS,80Radius Vector,28Reflectors,47Refractors,47SATURN,18,78-79Schiaparelli,63Schwabe,69Seconds of arc,44Sirius,53Solar System, Tables of,56-58Somerville, Mrs.,89Spheres, Planetary,21Spörer,71Spörer's Law,71Star catalogues,81-83---- clusters,88---- drift,85Stars, fixed,84---- proper motions of,84Sun,11,12,14,21,32,67-77---- distance of,51---- dials,43Sun spots,69---- spot maximum,71---- ---- minimum,71"Sun's Way,"85TELESCOPE, Invention of,45Transit Circle,82Tycho Brahe,27,44,88"Tycho" (Lunar crater),59,60,61URANUS,38,79VARIABLE stars,86---- ----, Long period,87Venus,18,27,67"Vesta" (Minor planet),38YOUNG, C. A.,74ZENITH,17,88Zodiac, Signs of,14,15,16,43
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