LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

The Cliffs of Flamanville[Frontispiece.]
The Annual Revolution of the Earth round the Sun, with the Signs of the Zodiac and the ConstellationsPage [ix]
The Earth's Year, and the Months" [xiv]
An Astronomer at WorkTo face page [1]
The Northern Constellations" [49]
The Constellations from the Sea-Shore" [65]
The Zodiac of Denderah" [102]
I.Babylonian Astronomers[19]
II.Druidical Worship[37]
III.Chaldean Astronomers[87]
IV.The Zodiac and the Dead in Egypt[108]
V.The Legends of the Druids[123]
VI.The Nemæan Lion[146]
VII.Heavens of the Fathers[191]
VIII.Death of Copernicus[208]
IX.The Solar System[225]
X.The Discovery of the Telescope[227]
XI.The Foundation of the Paris Observatory[229]
XII.The Legend of Owen[315]
XIII.Christopher Columbus and the Eclipse of the Moon[336]
XIV.Prodigies in the Middle Ages[358]
XV.An Astrologer at Work[385]
XVI.The End of the World[429]
1.The Earliest (Aryan) Representation of the Earth[12]
2.Ancient Gaulish Medals, Bearing Astronomical Signs[42]
3.Ancient Celestial Sphere[58]
4.Positions of the Great Bear on September 4[62]
5.Constellation of the Bear[63]
6.Constellation of Orion[73]
7.Chart of Constellations in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries[78]
8.Flamsteed's Chart[79]
9.Arabian Sphere of the Eleventh Century[84]
10.Ancient Chinese Pieces of Money, Bearing Representations of the Zodiac[93]
11.The Zodiac[96]
12.Diagram Illustrating the Position of Certain Stars, b.c. 1200[98]
13.Curious Fifteenth Century Figure, Representing Eleven different Heavens[150]
14.Ptolemy's Astronomical System[181]
15.The Epicycles of Ptolemy[184]
16.Heavens of the Middle Ages[188]
17.Emblematic Drawing from Ancient Astronomical Work[193]
18.Egyptian System[194]
19.Capella's System[195]
20.The Copernican System[205]
21.Tycho Brahe's System[212]
22.Descartes' Theory of Vortices[216]
23.Vortices of the Stars[218]
24.Variation of Descartes' Theory[219]
25.The Earth Floating[237]
26.The Earth with Roots[237]
27.The Earth of the Vedic Priests[238]
28.Hindoo Earth[239]
29.The Earth of Anaximander[240]
30.Plato's Cubical Earth[241]
31.Egyptian Representation of the Earth[243]
32.Homeric Cosmography[247]
33.The Earth of the Later Greeks[256]
34.Pomponius Mela's Cosmography[257]
35.The Earth's Shadow[262]
36.Ditto[263]
37.Ditto[264]
38.Ditto[264]
39.The Cosmography of Cosmas[268]
40.The Square Earth[269]
41.Explanation of Sunrise[271]
42.The Earth as an Egg[273]
43.The Earth as a Floating Egg[274]
44.Eighth-Century Map of the World[276]
45.Tenth-Century Maps[277]
46.The Map of Andrea Bianco[283]
47.From the Map in Hereford Cathedral[285]
48.Ditto[286]
49.Cosmography of St. Denis[291]
50.The Map of Marco Polo[293]
51.Map on a Medal of Charles V[294]
52.Dante's Infernal Regions[311]
53.Paradise of Fra Mauro[322]
54.The Paradise of the Fifteenth Century[324]
55.Representation of a Comet, Sixteenth Century[349]
56.An Egg marked with a Comet[352]
57.The Roman Calendar[403]
58.Diagram Illustrating the Order of the Days of the Week[413]

The Earth's Year, and the Months.