Astronomical Curiosities: Facts and Fallacies

by J. Ellard Gore

[214] Ibid., p. 534.

[215] Ibid.

[216] Ma-tuoan-lin, quoted by Chambers, Handbook, p. 570.

[217] Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1893, p. 798.

[218] The Observatory, October, 1898.

[219] Grant’s History of Physical Astronomy, p. 293.

[220] Ibid., p. 294.

[221] Humboldt’s Cosmos, vol. i. pp. 89, 90 (Otté’s translation).

[222] Celestial Objects, vol. i. p. 211, footnote.

[223] Denning, Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings, p. 248.