INDEX
- Abenezra, [205].
- Abulfeda, [200].
- Air on the moon, [230].
- Albategnius, [78].
- Aliacensis, [78], [205].
- Almamon, [205].
- Alps, [97].
- remarkable valley in, [225].
- Altai Mountains, [72], [200].
- chain of small craters near, [200].
- Animal life on the moon, [228].
- Apennines, [10], [96], [104], [137], [143], [222], [232].
- Apennines and Caucasus, strait between, [234].
- Apianus, [205].
- Archimedes, 143, [232].
- Aristarchus, [117], [153].
- Aristoteles, [76], [138].
- Atlas, [70].
- Atmosphere, lunar, [31].
- Atmospheres, how they may grow or decrease, [230].
- Azophi, [205].
- Barry, [189].
- “Bay of Rainbows,” [109], [111], [142], [157], [158].
- Bessel, [221].
- Bianchini, [110].
- Birt, [188].
- Blancanus, [78], [194].
- Bonpland, [189].
- Bubbles on the moon, [186].
- Bullialdus, [180]-[182], [183].
- mountains near, [183].
- Byrgius, [147].
- Calippus, [223].
- Campanus, [185].
- Capuanus, [185], [196].
- Carpathian Mountains, [215].
- Cassini, [225].
- Catharina, [72], [138], [199], [206].
- Caucasus Mountains, [97], [223].
- Caucasus and Apennines, strait between, [234].
- “Cavern life” on moon, [229].
- Cichus, [185], [196].
- Clavius, [99], [101], [146], [192].
- length of great wall of, [193].
- Cleft near shore of Mare Nubium, [186].
- Clefts on moon, resemblance of, to geological “faults,” [187].
- Cleomedes, [56].
- Color on moon, [155].
- Colorado Cañon, possible likeness of, to cleft on moon, [118].
- Copernicus, [102], [211].
- Craters, lunar, formation of, ascribed to falling masses, [201].
- theory of, advanced by W. K. Gilbert, [200].
- Cyrillus, [72], [138], [199], [206], [210].
- “Dark woman” in moon, [133].
- Darwin, Prof. George, [6].
- Dawes, [224].
- Day and night on moon, [63].
- Day on moon, length of, [95].
- Earth, light of, on moon, [50].
- Eclipse, lunar, [17]-[18].
- Eclipses, lunar, colors visible during, [29].
- Eclipses, why they do not occur every month, [38].
- Endymion, [70], [132].
- Eratosthenes, [104].
- Eudoxus, [76], [138].
- Fracastorius, [73].
- Fra Mauro, [189].
- Full Moon in winter, why it runs high, [170].
- Furnerius, [63].
- Gases, escape of, from moon, [229].
- Gassendi, [117].
- Gauricus, [196].
- Gay Lussac, [216].
- Gemma Frisius, [202].
- “Geology” of moon, [67].
- “Giantism” on the moon, [193].
- Gilbert, W. K., theory of lunar craters advanced by, [200].
- Gravitation on moon, [34]-[36].
- Grimaldi, [121], [132].
- Hæmus Mountains, [92], [220].
- Hansen, theory of, in regard to the other side of moon, [139].
- Harbinger Mountains, [118].
- “Harvest Moon,” [171].
- Heat of moon compared with that of sun, [164].
- Helen of Troy, [92].
- Hell, [196].
- Hercules, [70].
- Herodotus, [112], [158].
- cleft near, [118].
- Herschel, Sir William, his supposed discovery of active lunar volcano, [112].
- Hipparchus, [78].
- Hoar frost on moon, [34].
- “Hunter’s Moon,” [171].
- Inhabitants of moon, [31]-[32], [88], [95].
- Kepler, [114], [141], [152].
- Kies, [185].
- Lacus Somniorum, [93], [219].
- Landsberg, [217].
- Langrenus, [56], [123], [132].
- Lava floods on moon, [73], [152].
- Libration, effects of, on visibility of parts of moon, [57]-[58], Note.
- Life on the moon, [230].
- Light of moon compared with that of sun, [163].
- Lindenau, [202].
- Linné, changes in, [233].
- Loewy and Puiseux, opinion of, on lunar “seas,” [220].
- Longomontanus, [101], [146], [150], [195].
- Lubiniesky, [184].
- Lunar charts, their relative accuracy, [161].
- Lunar history, [62].
- Lunar month, [12].
- Lunar nomenclature, [59], [147].
- Lunar plains, darkening of, near sunset, [144].
- Lunar sickle, rule to determine position of, [168].
- Lunar vegetation, [32].
- Maginus, [100], [146], [196].
- Manilius, [122], [222].
- Marco Polo, [222].
- Mare Crisium, [52], [55].
- Mare Fœcunditatis, [65].
- Mare Frigoris, [76].
- Mare Humorum, [106], [117], [150].
- Mare Imbrium, [103], [142], [144], [224].
- Mare Nectaris, [68], [135].
- Mare Nubium, [102], [148], [180].
- Mare Serenitatis, [74], [135], [219], [232].
- Mare Tranquillitatis, [74], [135].
- Mare Vaporum, [103].
- “Marsh of a Dream,” [68], [91].
- Mass of moon, [35].
- Maurolycus, [75], [142], [204].
- Menelaus, [92], [221].
- Mercator, [185].
- Month, lunar, [12].
- Moon, birth of, and Pacific Ocean, [6].
- Moon and earthquakes, [165].
- Moon and the weather, [164].
- Moon and volcanoes, [165].
- “Moon Maiden,” [10], [96], [103], [122].
- Mount Hadley, [222].
- New Moon, photograph of, [49].
- New Moon and the weather, [169].
- Newton, deepest crater on moon, [107].
- Nicollet, [188].
- Night, advance of, over moon, [131].
- Nodes of moon and their revolution, [38]-[39].
- Oceanus Procellarum, [105], [150].
- submerged rays in, [151].
- Orbit of moon, [8].
- Origin of moon, [6].
- Pacific Ocean and birth of moon, [6].
- Palus Somnii, [68].
- Path of moon about sun, [16]-[17], Note.
- Petavius, [62], [123].
- Phases of moon explained, [13]-[16].
- Phlægrean Fields, [60].
- Photographs, lunar, [47]-[49].
- Photometry, lunar, [153]-[154].
- Piccolomini, [72], [200].
- Pickering, Prof. William H., observations of Linné by, [233].
- Pico, [231].
- Pitatus, [186], [195].
- Plato, [105], [114], [132], [225].
- Plinius, [224].
- Poetry of the moon, [96].
- Posidonius, [224].
- Prism binoculars for viewing moon, [122].
- Proclus, [68].
- remarkable brilliance of, [90].
- Projectile force on moon, [37].
- Promontorium Ænarium, [189].
- Promontory Acherusia, [224].
- Promontory Heraclides, [109].
- Promontory Laplace, [109].
- Ptolemæus, [98].
- Pytheas, [216].
- Rabbi Levi, [202].
- Reinhold, [217].
- Riccioli, nomenclature of, for lunar objects, [69].
- Rings, ranges of, on moon, [97]-[98].
- Riphæan Mountains, [190].
- Rotation of moon “braked” by tides, [20].
- Rotation of moon, illustrated, [19]-[20].
- Sacrobosco, [206].
- Schickard, [115].
- Schmidt, observation of Linné by, [233].
- Schröter, “lunar city” discovered by, [218].
- “Seas,” lunar, character of beds of, [142].
- Shadow of moon during eclipse, [40].
- length of, [40].
- Shadows on moon, topography revealed by, [100]-[101].
- used to measure heights on moon, [63].
- Sidereal revolution of moon, [11].
- Sinus Æstuum, [103].
- Sinus Iridum, [109].
- Sinus Medii, [103].
- Sinus Roris, [159].
- Size of moon, [8].
- Sky as seen from moon, [29].
- Snow, can it exist on the moon? [69].
- Snow, non-existence of, on moon, [69].
- South polar region of moon, [77].
- South pole of moon, [106].
- Stadius, [218].
- Stöfler, [75].
- row of rings near, [204].
- “Straight wall,” [187].
- Strait between Apennines and Caucasus, [234].
- Sulpicius Gallus, [222].
- Sunrise, slow progress of, on moon, [94].
- Sunshine, effects of, when vertical on moon, [100].
- Surface of moon, nature of, [9].
- size of, [9].
- Synodic revolution of, [11]-[12].
- Tacitus, [200].
- Telescopic power, limits of, [120].
- Teneriffe Mountains, [231].
- “Terminator,” meaning of, [63].
- Theætetus, [225].
- Theophilus, [71], [138], [198], [206].
- Tidal attraction, forcing moon away in reaction of, [6].
- “Tidal friction,” [20].
- Tides, causing of, by moon and sun, [21].
- Twilight, why none on moon, [64].
- Tycho, [10], [98], [106], [146], [191].
- Vegetation on moon, [32], [115], [142], [144], [227].
- Vendelinus, [59], [123].
- Venus seen by daylight, [149].
- Verne, Jules, “Trip to the Moon,” [4].
- Volcanic craters on moon, [60].
- Volcanoes, lunar, [54].
- Water on the moon, [53].
- “Weathering” on the moon, [197].
- Weight on the moon, [36].
- Werner, [78], [205].
- Wilhelm I., [102], [195].
- Zagut, [202].
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