Yes, mortals may say that when they are sleeping in the grave, spring and summer will still smile and sing; husband and wife may ask themselves if they will meet again some day, in another sphere; but do we not feel that our destinies can not be terminated here, and that short of absolute and final nonentity for everything, they must be renewed beyond, in that starry Heaven to which every dream has flown instinctively since the first origins of Humanity?

As our planet is only a province of the Infinite Heavens, so our actual existence is only a stage in Eternal Life. Astronomy, by giving us wings, conducts us to the sanctuary of truth. The specter of death has departed from our Heaven. The beams of every star shed a ray of hope into our hearts. On each sphere Nature chants the pæan of Life Eternal.

THE END

INDEX

A
Aberration, [300]
Adams, [168]
Agnesi, Marie, [5]
Alcar, [34]
Aldebaran, [44], [66]
Alexandria, [3]
Algol, [39]
Ancients, views of, [30]
Andrew Ellicot, [195]
Andromeda, [37], [38]
Angles, [289]
Antares, [45], [66], [70]
Antipodes, [208]
Arago, [275]
Arcturus, [39], [66]
Asteroids, [146], [195]
Astronomie des Dames, [9]
Attraction, [208]
Aureole, [279]
Autumn Constellations, [54]
Axis, [225]
B
Babylonian Tables, [30]
Bartholomew Diaz, [176]
Bear, Little, [35]
Great, [32], [34], [35]
Betelgeuse, [49], [66]
Biela's Comet, [189], [198]
Bode's law, [167]
Bolides, [201]
C
Cancer, [72]
Capella, [38], [66]
Cassiopeia, [36]
Castor, [44], [68]
Catalogue of Lalande, [65]
Catharine of Alexandria, [3]
Centaur, [52], [64], [65], [80]
Ceres, [147]
Chaldean pastors, [30]
Chaldeans, [271]
Chariot of David, [32]
Charioteer, [38]
Chart of Mars, [140]
Châtelet, Marquise du, [4]
Chiron, The Centaur, [30], [51]
Chromosphere, [102]
Clairaut, [3]
Clerke, Agnes, [7]
Cnidus, [31]
Coggia's Comet, [187]
Comet of Biela, [197]
of 1811, [186]
of 1858, [174]
Comets, [111], [185]
Constellations, [28]
figures of, [31]
Autumn, [54]
Constellations, Spring, [52]
Summer, [53]
Winter, [51]
Copernicus, [125]
Corona Borealis, [40]
Corona of the Sun, [104]
Cygnus, [40]
D
de Blocqueville, Madame, [5]
de Breteuil, Gabrielle-Émilie, [4]
de Charrière, Madame, [5]
Deneb, [41]
des Brosses, [5]
Diaz, Bartholomew, [176]
Dipper, [32], [34]
Donati, [187]
Double star, stellar dial of, [86]
Double stars, [68], [70]
Dragon, [36]
du Châtelet, Marquise, [4]
E
Eagle, [41]
Earth, [205]
ancient notions of, [19]
distance from the sun, [215]
how sustained, [21]
inclination, [224]
in space, [20]
motion of, round the Sun, [222]
movement of, [217]
rotundity of, [206]
viewed from Mars, [144]
viewed from Mercury, [119]
viewed from Venus, [130]
weight, [210]
Eclipse of Sun, May, 1900, [273]
Eclipses, [259]
Ellicot, Andrew, [195]
Entretiens sur la Pluralité des mondes, [9]
Equator, [225]
Eudoxus, [31]
Evening Star, [123]
F
Faculæ, [98], [100]
Fire-balls, [198]
Flammarion's Lunar Ring, [253]
Fleming, Mrs., [7]
Fontenelle, [9]
Foucault, [219]
G
Galileo, [95], [98], [125], [244]
Galle, [168]
Globe, divisions of, [226]
Great Bear, [32], [34], [35]
Great Dog, [50]
Grecian Calendar, [229]
Greek alphabet, [33]
H
Hall, Mr., [143]
Halley, [181]
Halley's Comet, [3], [175]
Heavens, map of, [61]
Hercules, [41], [66], [79]
Herdsman, [39]
Herschel, Caroline, [6]
Hevelius, [246]
Hipparchus, [31]
Houses of the Sun, [43]
Huggins, Lady, [8]
Huyghens, [49]
Hyades, [44]
Hypatia, [3]
J
Janssen, [102]
Jupiter, [148]
satellites, [155]
telescopic aspect of, [150]
K
Klumpke, Miss, [7]
Kovalevsky, Sophie, [6]
L
Lacaille, [292]
Lalande, [3], [9], [65], [292]
Latitudes, [226]
Leonids, [195]
Lepaute, Madame Hortense, [3], [4]
Le Verrier, [167]
Little Bear, [35]
Little Dog, [50]
Lockyer, [102]
Longitudes, [226]
Lucifer, [122]
Lunar Apennines, [251]
landscape, [254]
topography, [252]
Lyre, [40]
M
Mars, [131]
chart of, [140]
Measurement, [289]
Medes and Lydians, [266]
Mercury, [114]
Meteorites, [201]
Meteors, [190], [191]
Metonic Cycle, [271]
Milky Way, [78], [87]
Mira Ceti, [77]
Mitchell, Maria, [7]
Mizar, [34], [69]
Moon, [232]
diameter of, [242]
distance of, [292]
geological features of, [245]
map of, [247]
mountains of, [246]
phases of, [241]
photograph of, [240]
revolution of, [234]
rotation of, [242]
size of, [242]
temperature of, [250]
total eclipse of, [263]
N
Nebula, in Andromeda, [81]
in Orion, [81]
in the Greyhounds, [82]
Neptune, [65], [166]
revolution of, [169]
Newton, [181]
Nucleus, [95], [185]
O
Orion, [48], [49], [81]
P
Parallax, [292], [293]
annual, [306]
Pearl, [40]
Pegasus, [38]
Penumbra, [96]
Periodic Comet, orbit of, [182]
Perseids, [195]
Perseus, [38], [70], [78]
Phenician navigators, [30]
Phœbus, [67]
Photosphere, [101]
Piazzi, [147]
Planets, [109], [113], [146]
distances, [110], [302]
orbits of, [115]
orbits of, [116]
Pleiades, [38], [39], [44], [83]
occultation of, [85]
Pleione, [84]
Polaris, [63]
Pole-star, [34], [63]
Poles, [225]
Pollux, [44]
Pope Calixtus, [176]
Prodigies in the heavens, [178]
Ptolemy, [31], [217]
R
Radiant, [195]
Riccioli, [246]
Rigel, [49], [70]
Roberts, Mrs. Isaac, [7]
S
Saidak, [34]
Saros, [271]
Satellites, [110]
Saturn, [156]
revolution of, [157]
satellites, [162], [165]
volume, [158]
Saturn's rings, [161]
Scarpellini, Madame, [7]
Scheiner, [95]
Schiaparelli, [139]
Secchi, Father, [7]
Seven Oxen, [32]
Sextuple star, [74]
Shepherd's Star, [11]
Shooting stars, [193], [194], [196]
Sirius, [66], [309]
Solar storms, [100]
flames, [105]
system, [65]
Somerville, Mrs., [6]
Spring constellations, [52]
Stars, distances, [62]
double, [68], [70]
first magnitude, [57]
number of, [60]
quadruple, [73]
second magnitude, [58]
shooting, [193], [194]
temporary, [77]
Stars, triple, [72]
variable, [75]
weight of, [313]
Star cluster in Hercules, [79]
in the Centaur, [80]
St. Catherine, [3]
Summer constellations, [53]
Sun, [88]
houses of the, [43]
measurement of distance, [297]
photograph of, [96]
rotation, [99]
temperature of, [105]
total eclipse of, [276]
weight, [106]
Sun and Earth, comparative sizes of, [93]
Sun-spots, [95], [101]
telescopic aspect of, [97]
T
Temporary stars, [77], [78]
Three Kings, [49]
Total eclipse of the moon, [263]
of sun, [276]
Triangulation, [288]
Triple Star, [72]
U
Umbra, [95]
Universe, [22], [23], [90]
Urania, [8], [9]
Uranoliths, [201], [204]
Uranus, [162]
V
Variable stars, [75]
Vega, [40]
Venus, [121], [296]
phases of, [124]
Vesper, [122]
Victor Hugo, [24]
W
Weighing worlds, [309]
Winter constellations, [51]
Z
Zodiac, constellations of, [46], [47]
Zones, [225]

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The French edition of this book is entitled Astronomy for Women.—Translator.

[2] 1 kilometer = 0.6214 mile; 100 kilometers may be taken as 62 miles. 1 kilogram is about 2.2 lb.; 5 kilograms = 11 lb.—Translator.