The Story of Eclipses

by George F. Chambers

[100] Itinerarium Curiosum, 2nd ed., vol. i. p. 180.

[101] Mem. de Mathématique et de Physique de l’Acad. des Sciences, 1724, p. 259.

[102] Phil. Trans., vol. xl. pp. 181, 184. 1737.

[103] Phil. Trans., vol. xlv. p. 586. 1750. This is the man who under the designation of “Lord Aberdour” observed the eclipse of 1737 (ante).

[104] Rev. W. Stukeley, Rector of St. George’s, Queen’s Square, London, Diary, vol. xx. p. 44, ed. “Surtees Soc.,” vol. lxxvi. p. 384.

[105] Le Gentil, Voyage dans les Mers de l’Inde, vol. ii. p. 16. Paris, 1769.

[106] Phil. Trans., vol. lxix. p. 105. 1779.

[107] Phil. Trans., vol. lxxxiv. p. 39. 1794.

CHAPTER XIII.

ECLIPSES OF THE SUN DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.