ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| The Star of Bethlehem (Burne-Jones) | [Frontispiece] |
| The Rainbow (Rubens) | [2] |
| Merodach and Tiamat | [25] |
| Cirrus and Cumuli | [47] |
| A Corner of the Milky Way | [94] |
| The Great Comet of 1843 | [102] |
| Fall of an Aerolite | [110] |
| Meteoric Shower of 1799 | [115] |
| The Assyrian 'Ring With Wings' | [126] |
| Corona of Minimum Type | [127] |
| St. Paul Preaching at Athens (Raphael) | [148] |
| The Ancient Constellations South of the Ecliptic | [155] |
| The Celestial Sphere | [156] |
| The Midnight Constellations of Spring, b.c. 2700 | [164] |
| The Midnight Constellations of Winter, b.c. 2700 | [165] |
| Ophiuchus and the Neighbouring Constellations | [189] |
| Aquarius and the Neighbouring Constellations | [192] |
| Hercules and Draco | [197] |
| Hydra and the Neighbouring Constellations | [200] |
| Andromeda and Cetus | [207] |
| Stars of the Pleiades | [219] |
| Inner Nebulosities of the Pleiades | [227] |
| Stars of Orion | [232] |
| Orion and the Neighbouring Constellations | [236] |
| Position of Spring Equinox, b.c. 2700 | [246] |
| Position of Spring Equinox, a.d. 1900 | [247] |
| Stars of the Plough, as the Winnowing Fan | [263] |
| 'Blow up the Trumpet in the New Moon' | [268] |
| Position of the New Moon at the Equinoxes | [316] |
| Boundary-stone in the Louvre | [318] |
| Worship of the Sun-God at Sippara | [322] |
| 'Sun, stand Thou still upon Gibeon, and Thou Moon in the Valley of Ajalon' | [350] |
| Map of Southern Palestine | [357] |
| Bearings of the Rising and Setting Points of the Sun from Gibeon | [363] |
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THE RAINBOW (by Rubens).
"The bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain."[ToList]
