A Century's Progress in Astronomy

by Hector Macpherson

INDEX.

[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] X [Y] [Z]

A Absolute parallax, [158]. Adams, J. C., [78], [116], [117], [118], [119], [120], [140]. Adams, W., [205]. Aerolites, [147], [148], [149]. Airy, Sir G. B., [27], [104], [117], [120]. Aitken, R. G., [202]. Alcyone (η Tauri), [217]. Aldebaran (α Tauri), [151], [166], [170], [172]. Algol (β Persei), [178], [182], [183], [184], [193], [204]. Al-Sufi, [180], [183]. Altair (α Aquilæ), [170]. Anderson, T. D., [191], [192]. Andromeda nebula, [180], [208]. Andromedæ (γ), [201]. Andromedæ (Nova), [180]. Andromedid meteors, [142], [149]. Angström, A. J., [50], [51]. Antares (α Scorpii), [171]. Aquila, [195]. Aquilæ (η), [185], [186]. Arago, F. J. D., [6], [11], [31], [37], [40], [118], [120], [129]. Arcturus (α Bootis), [165], [170]. Arequipa Observatory, [75]. Argelander, F. W. A., [27], [159], [167], [178], [179], [180], [218]. Argo Navis, [221]. Argus (η), [187], [188]. Armagh Observatory, [206]. Asteroids, [19], [62], [97]-102. Astronomer-Royal of Scotland, [134], [155], [191]; of England, [59], [17]; of Ireland, [151], [156]. Astronomy of the invisible, [203]. Aurigæ (Nova), [191], [192], [195]. Auwers, A., [167], [188], [203].

B Babinet, [230]. Baily, F., [159]. Bakhuyzen, H. G., [91]. Ball, Sir R. S., [23], [34], [108], [141], [149], [156], [158], [230]. Barnard, E. E., [19], [95], [107], [108], [110], [111], [113], [136], [191], [211]. Beer, W., [68], [69], [90]. Bellatrix (γ Orionis), [209]. Bélopolsky, A., [87], [110], [166], [185], [186], [204], [205]. Berlin Observatory, [119], [120]. Bessel, F. W., [24], [82], [116], [151], [152], [153], [154], [159], [167], [202], [203]. Betelgeux (α Orionis), [165], [171], [172], [182], [187]. Biela, W., [128]. Biela’s comet, [128], [129], [142], [143], [146], [149]. Birmingham, J., [189]. Bode, J. E., [97], [98], [152]. Bode’s Law, [97]. Boeddicker, O., [77]. Bond, G. P., [103], [109], [130], [136], [207]. Bond, W. C., [109], [112], [120]. ‘Bonn Durchmusterung,’ [159], [160], [218]. Bonn Observatory, [88], [97], [160]. Böotis (ε), [30]. Borisiak, [192]. Boss, L., [168]. Bouvard, A., [115], [116]. Bradley, J., [159], [167]. Brédikhine, T. A., [105], [131], [132], [133], [134], [135]. Brewster, Sir D., [50], [101], [178]. Brinkley, J., [151]. Brünnow, F., [156]. Bruno, G., [35]. Buffon, [103]. Bunsen, R. W., [51]. Burchell, [188]. Burnham, S. W., [201], [202], [212].

C Callandreau, O., [136]. Callandrelli, [151]. Cambridge Observatory, [116]. Campbell, T. (Poet), [2]. Campbell, W. W., [24], [107], [110], [166], [168], [187], [191], [193], [204], [205]. Canals of Mars, [91], [92], [93], [94], [95]. Cancri (ζ), [206]. Cancri (S), [180]. Canis Major, [188]. ‘Cape Durchmusterung,’ [161], [162]. Cape Observatory, [155], [157]. Capella (α Aurigæ), [170], [176], [193], [205]. Carnera, L., [100]. Carpenter, J., [73]. Carrington, R. C., [45], [46], [59]. Cassini, D., [21]. Cassiopeia, [221]. Castor (α Geminorum), [30], [200], [205]. Celoria, G., [202], [218], [221], [223], [224]. Centauri (α), [155], [188], [225]. Centaurus, [221]. Cephei (δ), [178], [182], [185], [186]. Cepheus, [221]. Ceres, [19], [98], [101]. Cerulli, V., [86], [91], [94]. Chacornac, [161]. Challis, J., [116], [119], [120]. Chambers, G. F., [31]. Chandler, S. C., [88], [89], [181], [184]. Chladni, E., [138]. Chromosphere, solar, [55], [56]. Clark, A., [202]. Clerke, Miss A. M., [3], [5], [8], [12], [13], [15], [25], [26], [34], [42], [58], [75], [86], [92], [105], [109], [124], [125], [131], [132], [133], [140], [142], [169], [186], [187], [189]. Clerk-Maxwell, J., [109], [110]. Coggia’s comet, [131], [132], [133]. Comet families, [135]. Comets, [24], [123]-137, [141], [142], [143], [144], [146], [149], [152]. Common, A. A., [107], [209]. Copeland, R., [134], [135], [190], [208]. Cornu, A., [189]. Corona Borealis, [188]. Corona, solar, [55], [57], [64]. Coronæ (Nova), [188], [189]. Crossley, E., [211]. Crux, [221]. Cygni (61), [152], [158]. Cygni (Y), [184], [185]. Cygni (Nova), [189], [190]. Cygnus, [152], [189], [221].

D Damoiseau, [78]. D’Arrest, H. L., [96], [119], [142], [212]. Dartmouth Observatory, [56]. Darwin, Sir G. H., [233], [234], [235], [236]. Dawes, W. R., [90], [117]. De la Rue, W., [52], [75]. Delaunay, C. E., [78], [79]. Dembowski, E., [201]. Deneb (α Cygni), [165]. Denning, W. F., [84], [85], [91], [95], [105], [111], [112], [144], [145], [146]. Deslandres, H., [110]. Dick, T., [85], [238]. Disc-theory, [32], [36], [38], [39], [214], [218]. Di Vico, F., [85], [86], [170]. Doberck, W., [201]. Donati, G. B., [130], [131], [169]. Donati’s comet, [130], [133], [136]. Doppler, C., [57], [58]. Doppler’s Principle, [58], [59], [87], [110], [165], [168], [203]. Douglass, A. E., [92], [107]. Draconis (λ), [182]. Draper, H., [136], [172], [175]. Dreyer, J. L. E., [206]. Dunecht Observatory, [157]. Dunér, N. C., [58], [59], [174], [175], [181], [184], [185], [201], [202], [233]. Dunkin, E., [27], [167]. Dunsink Observatory, [156].

E Earth, [76], [97], [103], [104], [147], [148], [149], [153], [154], [156], [236]. Earth-Moon system, [234], [235]. Easton, C., [221]. Eclipses, lunar, [77]. Eclipses, solar, [56], [57], [80], [81]. Edinburgh (Royal) Observatory, [195]. Electrical repulsion theory, [126]. Elger, T. G., [74]. Elkin, W. L., [157]. Encke, J. F., [30], [61], [119], [127], [128], [216]. Encke’s comet, [127], [128], [137]. Erman, [140]. Eros, [62], [101]. Ertborn, [85]. Euler, L., [88], [89]. Evolution, planetary, [228], [229], [230], [231]. Evolution, stellar, [33], [34], [231], [232].

F Faye, H., [60], [129], [230]. Faye’s comet, [129], [137]. Ferguson, J., [9], [178]. Flammarion, C., [87], [91], [95], [121], [147], [164], [187], [195], [201], [202], [226]. Flamsteed, J., [5]. Fleming, Mrs, [192], [195]. Forbes, G., [122]. Fraunhofer, J. [47], [48], [49], [50], [3], [151], [153], [169]. Fraunhofer lines, [48], [49], [50], [51], [169], [172]. Frost, E. B., [205].

G Galactic poles, [35], [224]. Galaxies, external, [32], [218], [225], [226]. Galaxy, or Milky Way, [32], [36]-42, [186], [211], [215], [216], [217], [219], [220], [221], [224], [225]. Galileo, [44], [107]. Galle, J. G., [62], [108], [109], [119], [142]. Galloway, T., [167]. Gambart, [128]. Gauss, C. F., [27], [98], [167]. Gautier, A., [45]. Gemini, [11], [194]. Geminorum (Nova), [194]. Geminorum (ζ), [180], [182], [185]. George III., [11], [23]. Gill, Sir D., [62], [136], [155], [157], [160], [161], [221]. Glasgow Observatory, [216]. Goodricke, J., [178], [183]. Gore, J. E., [24], [38], [179], [181], [182], [183], [192], [202], [215], [220], [225], [226]. Gould, B. A., [135], [160], [163], [180], [220], [221]. Grant, R., [216]. Gravitation, law of, [29]. Greenwich Observatory, [59], [117]. Grimmler, [192]. Groombridge (1830), [156], [162], [223]. Groombridge (1618), [156]. Gruithuisen, [87].

H Hale, G. E., [55], [57], [233]. Hall, A., [96], [111], [112], [156], [190]. Hall, Maxwell, [121]. Halley, E., [138]. Halley’s comet, [123], [130], [152]. Halm, J., [195], [196]. Hansen, P. A., [61], [78], [79]. Hansky, A., [57]. Harding, K. L., [99], [153], [220]. Hartwig, E., [190]. Harvard Observatory, [174], [175], [191]. Hasselberg, B., [148], [190]. Heis, E., [179], [220]. Heliometer, [153], [157]. Helium stars, [174]. Helmholtz, H., [61], [229]. Hencke, K. L., [99]. Henderson, T., [154], [155]. Henry, Paul and Prosper, [100], [114], [210]. Hercules, [167]. Herculis (α), [182]. Herculis (λ), [26]. Herschel, William, [1]-42, [43], [60], [63], [65], [69], [74], [77], [85], [90], [99], [103], [109], [111], [112], [115], [123], [150], [162], [167], [176], [196], [197], [207], [214], [216], [218], [224], [227]. Herschel, A., [144]. Herschel, Caroline, [6], [8], [9], [12], [13], [14], [30], [35], [127], [198]. Herschel, Sir J., [4], [17], [27], [30], [37], [50], [112], [113], [120], [130], [144], [167], [187], [188], [197], [198], [199], [200], [214], [215]. Hind, J. R., [99], [129], [135], [180], [188]. Hoek, [135]. Holden, E. S., [191]. Hough, G., [105]. Houzeau, J. C., [220]. Huggins, Lady, [172]. Huggins, Sir W., [54], [57], [74], [95], [106], [114], [131], [136], [165], [170], [171], [172], [173], [189], [190], [191], [193], [195], [207], [208], [212], [231]. Humboldt, A., [44], [139]. Hussey, W. J., [116], [201].

I Innes, R., [188]. Intra-Mercurial planet, [80], [81]. Italian spectroscopists, [54], [55].

J Janssen, P. J. C., [52], [53], [54], [57], [59], [112], [209]. Juno, [19], [99], [101]. Jupiter, [20], [75], [97], [101]-108, [112], [114], [121], [122], [135], [144], [146]. Juvisy Observatory, [164].

K Kaestner, [65], [124]. Kaiser, F., [90]. Kant, I., [34], [35], [101], [103]. Kapteyn, J. C., [27], [158], [161], [162], [168], [221], [222]. Keeler, J. E., [95], [114], [185], [208], [211], [212], [213], [231]. Kelvin, Lord, [229]. Kempf, P., [181]. Kepler, J., [5], [35], [137]. Kirchoff, G. R., [61], [169], [172]. Kirkwood, D., [140], [230]. Klein, H. J., [73]. Klinkerfues, E., [142], [202]. Konkoly, N., [175]. Küstner, F., [88].

L Lalande, [23], [152]. Lambert, J. H., [34]. Lamont, J., [44]. Langley, S. P., [77]. Laplace, P. S., [20], [33], [34], [77], [109], [148], [152], [195], [227], [228], [229]. Lassell, W., [112], [115], [117], [120]. Latitude, variation of, [88], [89]. Leipzig Observatory, [173]. Leonid meteors, [139], [140], [142]. Leonis (β), [183]. Lescarbault, [80]. Le Verrier, U. J. J., [61], [80], [81], [118], [119], [120], [142], [164]. Leyden Observatory, [91]. Libræ (δ), [180]. Lick Observatory, [93], [107], [166], [168], [191], [213]. Light, extinction of, [40], [215], [216], [224], [225]. Lindsay, Lord, [157]. Linné, [71], [72]. Lockyer, Sir J. N., [52], [53], [54], [55], [58], [149], [174], [191], [193], [195], [208], [209], [231], [232]. Lockyer, W. J. S., [210]. Loewy, M., [75]. Lohrmann, W. G., [68], [71]. Lohse, W. O., [88], [105]. Loomis, [188]. Lowell, P., [83], [84], [86], [87], [91], [92], [93], [94], [122], [236], [237]. Lowell Observatory, [92], [94], [106], [114]. Lund Observatory, [59]. Lupus, [221]. Luther, R., [100]. Lyra, [221]. Lyra (β), [178], [182], [185]. Lyrid meteors, [122].

M Maclaurin, C., [9]. Maclear, Sir T., [155]. Mädler, J. H., [27], [68], [69], [71], [96], [104], [202], [203], [216], [217], [218]. Magellanic clouds, [219]. Magnetism, [44], [60]. Mars, [18], [19], [90]-97, [101], [144], [236]. Maunder, E. W., [59], [60], [94], [95], [134], [145], [166], [224]. Mascari, A., [86]. Mayer, C., [164]. Mayer, J. R., [229]. Mazapil meteorite, [149]. Méchain, [127]. Mee, A., [68]. Melloni, [76]. Mercury, [18], [80], [81]-84, [97], [236]. Messier, C., [30]. Meteorites, [147], [148], [149], [229], [231]. ‘Meteoritic Hypothesis,’ [231], [232]. Meteors, [138]-149. Meudon Observatory, [59]. Milan Observatory, [82], [202], [224]. Milky Way. See Galaxy. Miller, W. A., [50], [172]. Mira Ceti, [11], [182], [186], [187]. Mitchel, O. M., [31]. Mizar (ζ Ursæ Majoris), [204]. Möller, A., [129]. Moon, the, [10], [24], [65]-79, [90], [95], [148], [228]. Moscow Observatory, [132]. Mouchez, A., [161]. Müller, G., [175], [181]. Munich Observatory, [44], [224].

N Napoleon, [67], [127]. Nasmyth, J., [73], [103]. Nebulæ, [30], [31], [207]-213, [228]. Nebular Hypothesis, [33], [195], [227], [228], [229], [230], [233]. Neison (Nevill), E., [73]. Neisten, [86], [105]. Neptune, [120], [121], [135], [229], [230]. Newall, H. F., [205]. Newcomb, S., [27], [64], [78], [89], [94], [162], [168], [220], [222], [223], [224], [232]. Newton, H. A., [140], [141]. Newton, Sir I., [2], [17], [29], [77]. Nichol, J. P., [31], [207]. Nordvig, L., [192].

O Olbers, H. W. M., [19], [20], [69], [98], [99], [123], [124], [125], [126], [127], [129], [130], [139], [148], [152], [153]. Olbers’ comet, [125]. Olmsted, D., [138], [207]. Ophiuchi (α), [183]. Orion, [221]. Orion nebula, [10], [33], [207], [208], [209], [213]. Orion stars, [174], [193], [209], [232]. Orionis (κ), [209]. Orionis (η), [209]. Orionis (θ), [209]. Orionis (U), [181], [182], [186], [187].

P Palisa, J., [100]. Pallas, [19], [99], [101]. Parallax, solar, [61], [62], [63], [101]. Parallax, stellar, [150]-158, [190]. Paris Congresses, [161]. Paris Observatory, [78], [118], [171]. Perrine, C. D., [81], [108], [194]. Perrine’s comet, [136]. Perrotin, H., [86], [91], [100], [114]. Peck, W., [162]. Persei (Nova), [192], [193], [194], [195]. Perseid meteors, [122], [141]. Perseus, [192], [221]. Peters, C. H. F., [100]. Peters, C. A. F., [142], [153], [155], [202]. Photography, astronomical, [54], [56], [57], [59], [75], [81], [94], [108], [113], [136], [158], [160], [161], [172], [175], [192], [193], [194], [203], [208], [209], [210], [211], [212]. Photometry, [176], [177]. Piazzi, G., [19], [20], [98], [150]. Pickering, E. C., [174], [175], [176], [177], [181], [182], [183], [185], [193], [194], [203], [204], [220], [221]. Pickering, W. H., [75], [76], [81], [91], [92], [93], [107], [113], [209]. Plana, G., [78], [79]. Pleiades, [124], [210], [217]. Pogson, N. R., [142], [180]. Pole Star, [205]. Pollux, [165], [170]. Pons, J. L., [127]. Pontécoulant, [79]. Potsdam Observatory, [46], [173], [176]. Pritchard, C., [158], [177]. Proctor, R. A., [4], [20], [38], [41], [90], [91], [104], [148], [163], [164], [218], [219], [220], [231]. Procyon (α Canis Minoris), [151], [203]. Prominences, solar, [52], [53], [55], [64]. Puiseux, P., [75]. Pulkowa Observatory, [200].

Q Quetelet, A., [139].

R Radiant points, meteoric, [139], [144], [145], [146]. Ranyard, A. C., [106], [146]. Red spot on Jupiter, [105], [106]. Regulus (α Leonis), [164], [165]. Relative parallax, [157]. Réseau, Photospherique, [59]. Resisting medium, [128]. Respighi, L., [55]. Reversing layer, [56], [57]. Ricco, A., [87], [105]. Rigel (β Orionis), [165], [209]. Ritchey, G., [194]. Roberts, A. W., [181]. Roberts, I., [209], [210]. Roche, E., [109]. Roman College Observatory, [85]. Rosse, third Earl of, [141], [156], [207], [208], [218]. Rosse, fourth Earl of, [77]. Rotation of the Sun, [58], [59]; of the planets, [82], [83], [84], [85], [86], [87], [104], [111], [112]. Rowland, H. A., [52]. Rutherfurd, L. M., [75], [169].

S Sabine, Sir E., [44]. Safford, T. H., [202]. Santini, G., [159]. Savary, F., [30], [199]. Satellites, [96], [107], [108], [112], [113], [115], [120], [121], [236]. Saturn, [20], [21], [22], [97], [103], [108]-113, [121], [135]. Schaeberle, J. M., [93], [107], [191], [203]. Scheiner, C., [44]. Scheiner, J., [166], [174], [176]. Schiaparelli, G. V., [82], [83], [84], [85], [86], [87], [91], [92], [114], [141], [143], [149], [201], [220], [224], [231], [235]. Schjellerup, H., [180]. Schmidt, J. F. J., [69], [70], [71], [72], [73], [104], [179], [180], [189]. Schönfeld, E., [160], [179], [180], [188], [189]. Schröter, J. H., [16], [65], [66], [67], [68], [69], [70], [74], [81], [82], [84], [85], [86], [87], [97], [99], [153]. Schwabe, S. H., [18], [43], [44], [46], [55]. Schwassman, A., [100]. Secchi, A., [52], [54], [55], [60], [72], [90], [114], [141], [170], [171], [173]. Secchi’s types of stellar spectra, [170], [171], [173], [174], [175], [189], [232]. See, T. J. J., [201], [202], [236]. Seeliger, H., [110], [195], [196], [202], [206], [224], [225]. Serviss, G. P., [158]. Sirius (α Canis Majoris), [151], [170], [173], [188], [202], [225]. Slipher, V. M., [106], [114], [204]. Sime, J., [27]. Sola, J. C., [112]. Solar cluster, [221], [222]. Solar system, motion of, [26], [27], [167], [168]. South, Sir J., [198]. Spectroscopic binaries, [203], [204], [205]. Spencer, H., [218]. Spica (α Virginis), [204]. Spörer, F. W. G., [45], [46], [54], [59]. Star-catalogues, [159], [160], [161], [162]. Star-clusters, [30], [31], [32], [206], [210]. Star-drift, [164]. Star-gauging, [36], [40], [41], [224]. Stars, distance of, [150]-158. Stars, distribution of, [35], [39], [40], [198]-214. Stars, double, [28], [29], [30], [197]-206. Stars, gaseous, [171], [174]. Stars, proper motion of, [162], [163], [164], [165]. Stars, radial motion of, [165], [166]. Stars, temporary, [156], [182], [188]-196. Stars, triple and multiple, [206]. Stars, variable, [177]-188. Stellar spectra, [169]-176, [187], [189], [190], [191], [193], [194]. Stellar universe, [35]-42, [214], [215]-226. Stereo-comparator, [100], [101]. Stokes, Sir G., [50]. Stone, E. J., [157], [160]. Stroobant, P., [88]. Struve, F. G. W., [3], [37], [38], [40], [42], [128], [151], [153], [200], [214], [215], [216], [218]. Struve, H., [201]. Struve, L., [27], [163], [167]. Struve, O. W., [27], [110], [115], [120], [153], [156], [163], [200], [201]. Stumpe, O., [167]. Sun, [15], [16], [17], [40], [43]-64, [65], [80], [81], [105], [125], [128], [170], [222], [228], [229], [230], [237]. Swift, L., [81]. Swift’s comet, [136].

T Tacchini, P., [55], [86], [87]. Taurus, [217], [221]. Tempel, E., [210]. Tennyson, [96]. Tidal friction, [79], [87], [233], [234], [235], [236]. Tisserand, F. F., [146]. Todd, D. P., [122]. Trans-Neptunian planet, [121], [122]. Trouvelot, E., [86], [87]. Tschermak, [148]. Tulse Hill Observatory, [171]. Turner, H. H., [194], [224]. Twining, A. C., [139].

U Upsala Observatory, [59]. Uranometria Argentina, [160]. Uranus, [11], [20], [22], [23], [97], [113], [114], [115], [118], [121], [135], [141], [230]. Ursa Major, [162], [164]. Ursæ Majoris (δ), [182]. Ursæ Majoris (ξ), [199].

V Venus, [18], [84]-88, [97], [235], [236]. Venus, transits of, [61], [62], [87]. Vega (α Lyræ), [151], [165], [170], [172], [173]. Very, F. W., [77]. Vesta, [19], [99], [101], [102]. Vogel, H. C., [84], [88], [95], [102], [106], [114], [131], [148], [166], [173], [174], [175], [183], [184], [185], [190], [191], [193], [195], [204], [209], [232], [233], [237]. Vulcan, [81].

W Washington Observatory, [96], [223]. Watson, J. C., [81], [100]. Webb, T. W., [72], [73], [104]. Weinek, L., [75]. Weiss, E., [142]. Well’s comet, [134]. Whewell, W., [218]. Williams, A. S., [110], [193]. Wilson, A., [16]. Winlock, J., [177]. Winnecke, F. A. T., [131]. Witt, K. G., [101]. Wolf, Max, [100], [181], [191], [194], [211]. Wolf, R., [44], [45], [188]. Wolf and Rayet, [171]. Wolf-Rayet stars, [171], [174]. Wollaston, W. H., [48]. Wright, T., [34], [110].

Y Yale Observatory, [157]. Yerkes Observatory, [55], [111], [202]. Young, C. A., [54], [56], [57], [58], [60], [87], [114], [190].

Z Zach, F. X., [97], [98], [152]. Zantedeschi, [77]. Zenger, [85], [88]. Zöllner, J. C. F., [54], [58], [60], [84], [103], [132], [232].