| [CHAPTER I] |
| PAGE |
| The Ancient View | 17 |
| [CHAPTER II] |
| The Modern View | 20 |
| [CHAPTER III] |
| The Solar System | 29 |
| [CHAPTER IV] |
| Celestial Mechanism | 38 |
| [CHAPTER V] |
| Celestial Distances | 46 |
| [CHAPTER VI] |
| Celestial Measurement | 55 |
| [CHAPTER VII] |
| Eclipses and Kindred Phenomena | 61 |
| [CHAPTER VIII] |
| Famous Eclipses of the Sun | 83 |
| [CHAPTER IX] |
| Famous Eclipses of the Moon | 101 |
| [CHAPTER X] |
| The Growth of Observation | 105 |
| [CHAPTER XI] |
| Spectrum Analysis | 121 |
| [CHAPTER XII] |
| The Sun | 127 |
| [CHAPTER XIII] |
| The Sun—continued | 134 |
| [CHAPTER XIV] |
| The Inferior Planets | 146 |
| [CHAPTER XV] |
| The Earth | 158 |
| [CHAPTER XVI] |
| The Moon | 183 |
| [CHAPTER XVII] |
| The Superior Planets | 209 |
| [CHAPTER XVIII] |
| The Superior Planets—continued | 229 |
| [CHAPTER XIX] |
| Comets | 247 |
| [CHAPTER XX] |
| Remarkable Comets | 259 |
| [CHAPTER XXI] |
| Meteors Or Shooting Stars | 266 |
| [CHAPTER XXII] |
| The Stars | 278 |
| [CHAPTER XXIII] |
| The Stars—continued | 287 |
| [CHAPTER XXIV] |
| Systems of Stars | 300 |
| [CHAPTER XXV] |
| The Stellar Universe | 319 |
| [CHAPTER XXVI] |
| The Stellar Universe—continued | 329 |
| [CHAPTER XXVII] |
| The Beginning of Things | 333 |
| [CHAPTER XXVIII] |
| The End of Things | 342 |
| [Index] | 351 |