FACING PAGE
[I.—Northern Constellations][124]
[II.—Equatorial Constellations][190]
[III.—Map of Mars][246]
[IV.—The Pleiades][344]
[Protractor][In pocket at back of book]

LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE
[A Total Solar Eclipse][Frontispiece]
[The Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Mass.][24]
[Isaac Newton][46]
[Galileo Galilei][52]
[The Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, Cal.][60]
[The Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, Wis.][100]
[The Moon, one day after First Quarter][150]
[William Herschel][234]
[Pierre Simon Laplace][364]

ASTRONOMY


CHAPTER I

DIFFERENT KINDS OF MEASUREMENT