December 1908.
CONTENTS
| [CHAPTER I] | |
| PAGE | |
| The Ancient View | 17 |
| [CHAPTER II] | |
| The Modern View | 20 |
| [CHAPTER III] | |
| The Solar System | 29 |
| [CHAPTER IV] | |
| Celestial Mechanism | 38 |
| [CHAPTER V] | |
| Celestial Distances | 46 |
| [CHAPTER VI] | |
| Celestial Measurement | 55 |
| [CHAPTER VII] | |
| Eclipses and Kindred Phenomena | 61 |
| [CHAPTER VIII] | |
| Famous Eclipses of the Sun | 83 |
| [CHAPTER IX] | |
| Famous Eclipses of the Moon | 101 |
| [CHAPTER X] | |
| The Growth of Observation | 105 |
| [CHAPTER XI] | |
| Spectrum Analysis | 121 |
| [CHAPTER XII] | |
| The Sun | 127 |
| [CHAPTER XIII] | |
| The Sun—continued | 134 |
| [CHAPTER XIV] | |
| The Inferior Planets | 146 |
| [CHAPTER XV] | |
| The Earth | 158 |
| [CHAPTER XVI] | |
| The Moon | 183 |
| [CHAPTER XVII] | |
| The Superior Planets | 209 |
| [CHAPTER XVIII] | |
| The Superior Planets—continued | 229 |
| [CHAPTER XIX] | |
| Comets | 247 |
| [CHAPTER XX] | |
| Remarkable Comets | 259 |
| [CHAPTER XXI] | |
| Meteors Or Shooting Stars | 266 |
| [CHAPTER XXII] | |
| The Stars | 278 |
| [CHAPTER XXIII] | |
| The Stars—continued | 287 |
| [CHAPTER XXIV] | |
| Systems of Stars | 300 |
| [CHAPTER XXV] | |
| The Stellar Universe | 319 |
| [CHAPTER XXVI] | |
| The Stellar Universe—continued | 329 |
| [CHAPTER XXVII] | |
| The Beginning of Things | 333 |
| [CHAPTER XXVIII] | |
| The End of Things | 342 |
| [Index] | 351 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
LIST OF PLATES
| PLATE | |||
| The Total Eclipse of the Sun of August 30, 1905 | [Frontispiece] | ||
| [I.] | The Total Eclipse of the Sun of May 17, 1882 | To face page | 96 |
| [II.] | Great Telescope of Hevelius | " " | 110 |
| [III.] | A Tubeless, or "Aerial" Telescope | " " | 112 |
| [IV.] | The Great Yerkes Telescope | " " | 118 |
| [V.] | The Sun, showing several groups of Spots | " " | 134 |
| [VI.] | Photograph of a Sunspot | " " | 136 |
| [VII.] | Forms of the Solar Corona at the epochs of Sunspot Maximum and Sunspot Minimum respectively. (A) The Total Eclipse of the Sun of December 22, 1870. (B) The Total Eclipse of the Sun of May 28, 1900 | " " | 142 |
| [VIII.] | The Moon | " " | 196 |
| [IX.] | Map of the Moon, showing the principal "Craters," Mountain Ranges And "Seas" | " " | 198 |
| [X.] | One of the most interesting Regions on the Moon | " " | 200 |
| [XI.] | The Moon (showing systems of "Rays") | " " | 204 |
| [XII.] | A Map of the Planet Mars | " " | 216 |
| [XIII.] | Minor Planet Trails | " " | 226 |
| [XIV.] | The Planet Jupiter | " " | 230 |
| [XV.] | The Planet Saturn | " " | 236 |
| [XVI.] | Early Representations of Saturn | " " | 242 |
| [XVII.] | Donati's Comet | " " | 256 |
| [XVIII.] | Daniel's Comet of 1907 | " " | 258 |
| [XIX.] | The Sky around the North Pole | " " | 292 |
| [XX.] | Orion and his Neighbours | " " | 296 |
| [XXI.] | The Great Globular Cluster in the Southern Constellation of Centaurus | " " | 306 |
| [XXII.] | Spiral Nebula in the Constellation of Canes Venatici | " " | 314 |
| [XXIII.] | The Great Nebula in the Constellation of Andromeda | " " | 316 |
| [XXIV.] | The Great Nebula in the Constellation of Orion | " " | 318 |