| FIG. | | PAGE |
| [1.] | The Ptolemaic Idea of the Universe | 19 |
| [2.] | The Copernican Theory of the Solar System | 21 |
| [3.] | Total and Partial Eclipses of the Moon | 64 |
| [4.] | Total and Partial Eclipses of the Sun | 67 |
| [5.] | "Baily's Beads" | 70 |
| [6.] | Map of the World on Mercator's Projection,
showing a portion of the progress of the Total Solar Eclipse Of August 30, 1905, across the surface of the Earth | 81 |
| [7.] | The "Ring with Wings" | 87 |
| [8.] | The Various Types of Telescope | 113 |
| [9.] | The Solar Spectrum | 123 |
| [10.] | A Section through the Sun, showing how the Prominences rise from the Chromosphere | 131 |
| [11.] | Orbit and Phases of an Inferior Planet | 148 |
| [12.] | The "Black Drop" | 153 |
| [13.] | Summer and Winter | 176 |
| [14.] | Orbit and Phases of the Moon | 184 |
| [15.] | The Rotation of the Moon on her Axis | 187 |
| [16.] | Laplace's "Perennial Full Moon" | 191 |
| [17.] | Illustrating the Author's explanation of the apparent Enlargement of Celestial Objects | 195 |
| [18.] | Showing how the Tail of a Comet is directed away from the Sun | 248 |
| [19.] | The Comet of 1066, as represented in the Bayeux Tapestry | 263 |
| [20.] | Passage of the Earth through the thickest portion of a Meteor Swarm | 269 |