| Definition of Astronomy—Fundamental Law of the Stars—Relations of the Earth to the Universe—Ordinary Appearance of the Sky—The Horizon, the Zenith, and the Meridian—Locating the Stars—Altitude and Azimuth—Circular or Angular Measure—Altitude Circles and Vertical Circles—The Apparent Motion of the Heavens—The North Star and Phenomena Connected with it—Revolution of the Stars round the Pole—Locating the Stars on the Celestial Sphere—Astronomical Equivalents of Latitude and Longitude—Parallels of Declination and Hour Circles—“The Greenwich of the Sky”—Effects Produced by Changing the Observer's Place on the Earth—The Parallel Sphere, the Right Sphere, and the Oblique Sphere—The Astronomical Clock—The Ecliptic—Apparent Annual Revolution of the Sun round the Earth—Inclination of the Ecliptic to the Equator: its Cause and its Effects—The Equinoxes—Importance of the Vernal Equinox—The Equinoctial Colure—The Solstices—Poles of the Ecliptic—Celestial Latitude and Longitude—The Zodiac—The Precession of the Equinoxes: its Cause and Effects—Revolution of the Celestial Poles—Past and Future Pole Stars | [3]-[64] |