A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century / Fourth Edition

by Agnes M. Clerke

[505] Month. Not., vol. xxiv., p. 162.

[506] Am. Jour. of Science, vol. vii., 1874, p. 92.

[507] Young, The Sun, p. 103.

[508] Ann. Bur. Long., 1879, p. 679.

[509] Ibid., 1878, p. 689.

[510] Himmelsphotographie, p. 273.

[511] Ranyard, Knowledge, vols. xiv., p. 14, xvi., p. 189; see also the accompanying photographs.

CHAPTER III

RECENT SOLAR ECLIPSES

By observations made during a series of five remarkable eclipses, comprised within a period of eleven years, knowledge of the solar surroundings was advanced nearly to its present stage. Each of these events brought with it a fresh disclosure of a definite and unmistakable character. We will now briefly review this orderly sequence of discovery.