The Story of the Solar System

by George F. Chambers

E. Earth, annual motion of, [75]; figure of, [70]. Earthshine, [66], [93]. Eccentricity of Planetary orbits, [10], [60], [75]. Eclipses of the Sun, [56], [57]; of the Moon, [120]. Ecliptic, plane of, [9], [10], [74]. Egyptian System, [72]. Elliptic Orbits, [10]. Elongation of Planets, [14]. Encke, J. F., [147]. Encke’s Comet, [167], [174], [175]. Equinoxes, [74]. Ewart, Gen. J. A., [178].

F. Faculæ on the Sun, [42], [43]. Faye’s Comet, [168]. Finlay’s Comet, [168]. Flammarion, C., [62], [66], [171]. Flamsteed, Rev. J., [140], [144].

G. Galileo, [89], [101], [120], [125]. Galle, J. G., [147]. Gassendi, [76]. Geodesy, [70]. Georgium Sidus, [141]. Goldschmidt, H., [4]. Granules, Solar, [38]. Gravity on the Sun and Planets, [183].

H. Hall, A., [109]. Halley’s Comet, [164], [171]. Heat rays of the Sun, [20]; of the Moon, [96]. Herschel, Sir W., [34], [40], [44], [58], [100], [103], [134], [137], [138], [142]. Herschel, Sir J. F. W., [24], [96], [99], [103], [132], [175]. Hind, J. R., [119], [173], [175]. Holden, E. S., [106]. Holland, Sir H., [78]. Holmes’s Comet, 1892, [159]. Homer’s Iliad, cited, [68]. Howlett, Rev. F., [47]. Huggins, W., [40]. Huygens, C., [127], [130]. Hyperbola, [162]. Hyperbolic Comets, [162].

I. Inclination of planetary orbits, [9]. Inferior Planets, [9], [12].

J. Janssen J., [47]. Juno (Minor Planet), [112]. Jupiter: its influence on Sun-spots doubtful, [51], [53]; on Comets, [171]; its light, [7].

K. Kepler, [55], [125], [166]. Kew Observatory, [47].

L. La Hire, [63]. Lalande, [34]. Lassell, W., [123], [142], [185]. Ledger, Rev. E., [84]. Le Monnier, [140], [144]. Le Verrier, U. J. J., [147]. Lexell’s Comet, [172]. Liais’s Comet, [170]. Logogriphs as to Venus, [68]; as to Saturn, [127].

M. Mädler, J. H., [63], [96]. Magnetism, Terrestrial, [55]. Maps, Astronomical, [112], [147]. Mars, [100]. Maskelyne, Rev. N., [139]. Mass of the Sun, and of the Planets, [20], [183]. Medium, Resisting, [175]. Mercury, [57]; phases of, [15]; its influence on Sun-spots, [51]; its luminosity, [67]. Milton, J., Paradise Lost, cited, [153]. Minor Planets, [110]. Montigny on Twinkling, [84]. Moon, [89]. Moonlight, Brightness of, [96]. Motions of the Planets, [10]. Mountains of the Moon, [90].

N. Napoleon I., [154], [176]. Nasmyth, J., [40]. Needle, Magnetic, [55]. Neptune, [143]; its influence on Uranus, [143]. Newton, Sir I., [176]. Nubian after-glow, [83]. Nucleus of a Sun-spot, [22].