LIST OF DIAGRAMS

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[1.]The Ptolemaic Idea of the Universe19
[2.]The Copernican Theory of the Solar System21
[3.]Total and Partial Eclipses of the Moon64
[4.]Total and Partial Eclipses of the Sun67
[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 Earth81
[7.]The "Ring with Wings"87
[8.]The Various Types of Telescope113
[9.]The Solar Spectrum123
[10.]A Section through the Sun, showing how the Prominences rise from the Chromosphere131
[11.]Orbit and Phases of an Inferior Planet148
[12.]The "Black Drop"153
[13.]Summer and Winter176
[14.]Orbit and Phases of the Moon184
[15.]The Rotation of the Moon on her Axis187
[16.]Laplace's "Perennial Full Moon"191
[17.]Illustrating the Author's explanation of the apparent Enlargement of Celestial Objects195
[18.]Showing how the Tail of a Comet is directed away from the Sun248
[19.]The Comet of 1066, as represented in the Bayeux Tapestry263
[20.]Passage of the Earth through the thickest portion of a Meteor Swarm269