Star-land: Being Talks With Young People About the Wonders of the Heavens

by Robert S. Ball

Name.	Mean Distance from Centre of Neptune.	Periodic Time. Days.
Anonymous	220,000 miles.	5.87690

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INDEX.

• A.
• Active Volcanoes, Number of, [112].
• Adams, of Cambridge, and Leverrier, of Paris, [249].
• Address of Mr. John Smith, [330].
• Africa would be better known if on Moon, [105].
• Air as Blanket to keep Earth Warm, [8].
• Air not Transparent, [125].
• ” Pump, [183].
• ” Resistance of, [182].
• Alcor, [343].
• Aldebaran, [389].
• Algol, [342], [385].
• Alpha Centauri, [319];
• Railway to, [338].
• Ancient Theory to account for Rising and Setting of Sun, [48].
• Andromeda, [385].
• Andromeda, Nebula in, photographed by Mr. Roberts, [364].
• Andromedes, [310].
• Annual Motion of Earth round Sun, [56].
• Annular Eclipses, [88].
• Apparent Smallness of Distant Objects, [25].
• Appearance of the Sun, [35].
• Appearance of the Sun during a Total Eclipse, [40].
• Arctic Sun, [66].
• Area of Moon’s Surface, [82].
• Ariel, [243].
• ” Distance and Period of, [392].
• Arthur’s Seat, Volcano, [114].
• Asaph Hall, Professor, [195].
• Asteroids or Small Planets, [203].
• Astronomer and Mathematician, [144].
• Astronomers, How they measure the Distances of the Heavenly Bodies, [19].
• Astronomical Facts, Table of, [391].
• Astronomie, l’, A French Journal, [30].
• Athlete on Moon, [131].
• Atlantic, Sun dropped into, [48].
• Atmosphere of Moon, [125].
• Attraction of Gravitation, [119], [186].
• August Meteors, [309].
• Auriga, [385].
• Auvergne, Ancient Volcanoes in, [114].
• Awful Vista of Lessons, [371].
• Axis of Earth Constant in Direction, [69].
• B.
• Babies on the Moon, [130].
• Balloon, How supported, [124].
• Bands on Saturn, [224].
• Bear, Great, [381];
• Little, [383].
• Belts on Jupiter, [215].
• Benefits that we receive from the Sun, [10].
• Betelgeuze, [388].
• Biela’s Comet, [311].
• Blanket to keep Earth Warm, [8].
• Books, Number of, Necessary to describe Universe, [372].
• Brahe, Tycho, [170].
• Brightness of Saturn, [223].
• ” ” the Stars, [340].
• ” ” ” Sun, [1].
• Brighton Coach, [138].
• British Museum Collection of Meteorites, [313].
• British Natural History Museum, [370].
• “Brown Bess,” [68].
• Brussels, [328].
• Bull, Constellation of the, [388].
• Burning-glass, Experiment with, [3].
• Button illuminated, [152].
• C.
• Cambridge Observations of Neptune, [251].
• Capella, [385].
• Carigou, Mount, in Pyrenees, [31].
• Caroline Island, [42].
• Cart-wheel, Measurements with, [173].
• Cassiopeia, [384].
• Castor and Pollux, [345].
• Celestial Library, [372].
• ” ” Size of, [373].
• Changes of the Seasons, [66].
• Changes of the Sun with the Seasons, [57].
• Charles I., [19].
• Christmas Time, What the Sun does for us at, [10].
• Clerk-Maxwell’s Top, [182].
• Clock to count Sun’s Distance, [18].
• Clouds a Form of Steam, [15].
• ” fill our Rivers, etc., [15].
• ” on Jupiter, [216].
• ” ” Mars, [191].
• ” ” Neptune, [253].
• ” ” Saturn, [224].
• ” ” Uranus, [243].
• Cluster in the Centaur, [328].
• Clusters of Stars, [327].
• Coal, Mode of Production of, [11].
• ” Whence came it?, [11].
• Coal-pit, [201].
• Cock and the Sun, [66].
• Codde, Marcus, Picture of Sunset, [30].
• Coldness of Mountain Tops, [8].
• Collier, Eye of a, [201].
• Color of Stars, [340].
• Columbiad Theory of Meteorites, [314].
• Comet attracted by Sun, [274].
• ” colliding with Earth, [281].
• ” Encke’s, [143], [259].
• Comet, Great, of September, 1882, [277].
• Comet, Halley’s, [263].
• ” Identification of a, [258].
• ” Materials of a, [276].
• ” Movements of a, [255].
• ” of Biela, [311].
• ” of 1861, [281].
• ” seen at Sun’s Edge, [278].
• ” Speed of a, [256].
• ” Weighing Scales for a, [276].
• Comets and Shooting Stars, [255].
• ” Disposition of Tails of, [257].
• ” Extravagance of, [283].
• ” Tails of, [281].
• Common, Mr., [278].
• Comparative Sizes of Planets, [139].
• Comparison of Solar System and Nebula, [367].
• Cooling of Earth and Moon, Illustration of, [116].
• Copenhagen, Residence of Tycho, [170].
• Corona of the Sun, [44].
• Cotton Yarn, [334].
• Crape Ring of Saturn, [225].
• Craters on the Moon, [108].
• Craters, Terrestrial and Lunar, compared, [113].
• Cricket on the Moon, [131].
• Cunarder’s Lights at Sea, [326].
• D.
• Danish Hounds of Tycho Brahe, [172].
• Day and Night, [46], [51].
• Daylight, Stars seen in, [59].
• Deimos and Phobos, Satellites of Mars, [200].
• Deimos, Distance and Period of, [391].
• Desertion, Herschel’s, [231].
• Dewar, Professor, [53], [55], [187].
• Dictionary, Worcester’s, Use of, [269].
• Dione, Distance and Period of, [392].
• Direction of Earth’s Axis Constant, [69].
• Discoveries of Kepler, [174].
• ” ” Newton, [178].
• Disguised Stars, [205].
• Disposition of Comets’ Tails, [257].
• Distance of the Sun, [17], [210], [391].
• Distances of Heavenly Bodies, How measured, [19].
• Distances of Nebulæ, [365].
• ” ” the Stars, [332].
• Distant Objects, Apparent Smallness of, [25].
• Double Stars, [342];
• Motion of, [344].
• D. Q., [210].
• Drawing of the Solar System, [135].
• Dufferin, Lord, [65].
• Dunsink Observatory, Telescope of, [95].
• Dust from Meteors, [292].
• E.
• Eagle in West of Ireland, [27].
• Earth, Annual Motion of, [56].
• ” colliding with Comet, [281].
• ” Diameter of, [391].
• ” Distance of, from Sun, [391].
• Earth, History of, as seen from Stars, [337].
• Earth, Internal Heat of, [115].
• ” Moon-view of, [78].
• Earth, Period of, [391].
• ” Rank of, in Space, [329].
• ” Rotation of, [49], [391].
• ” viewed from Sun, [28].
• ” Visibility of, [369].
• Eclipse, Total, Appearances seen during, [40].
• Eclipses, How produced, [84].
• ” Annular, [88].
• ” of Jupiter’s Satellites, [219].
• ” ” Moon, [89].
• Edinburgh Castle, [114].
• Effect of Moon’s Distance on its Appearance, [89].
• Electric Lamp, Heating Effect of, [6].
• Ellipse, [167];
• Importance of, [169].
• ” and Parabola, [169], [275].
• Elliptic Paths of Planets, [169].
• Enceladus, Distance and Period of, [392].
• Encke’s Comet, [143], [259];
• Periodicity of, [260].
• Eros, [210].
• Eternal Snow on Mountain Summits, [9].
• Euclid, [22].
• Evening Star, [151].
• Examining Moon, Quarter the Best Time for, [107].
• Experiment with Burning-glass, [3].
• Explosion of Krakatoa, [113].
• Express Train to the Sun, [19].
• Extinct Craters on the Earth, [114];
• on the Moon, [114].
• Eye of a Collier, [201].
• Eyes, Use of Two, [19].
• F.
• Facts, Table of Useful Astronomical, [391].
• Five o’Clock Tea, Sun’s Share in, [10].
• Finlay, Mr., [278].
• Flagstaff, Height of, [110].
• Flora, Lawn-tennis on, [209].
• Fly-boats on Royal Canal, Smooth Motion of, [52].
• Flying Machines, [208].
• Focus, [5];
• of Ellipse, [170].
• Football on Moon, [131].
• Fossil Trees, [11].
• France, Extinct Craters in, [114].
• Friday, [135].
• G.
• Galle of Berlin finds Neptune, [251].
• Geissler’s Tubes, [361].
• Geography of Mars, [188].
• ” ” the Moon, [105].
• George III. and Herschel, [238].
• Georgium Sidus, [240].
• Giant Planets, [212];
• Orbits of, [213].
• Globe, Shadow of, [170].
• Grand Meteors, [295].
• Gravitation, [120], [186].
• ” on Moon, [128].
• ” ” Small Planets, [209].
• ” ” the Sun, [132].
• Great Bear, [161];
• Number of Stars in, [323];
• How to find, [381].
• Green, Mr., [193].
• Greenwich, [138].
• Grinding Specula, [235].
• “Guards,” [383].
• H.
• Habitability of Moon, [123].
• ” ” Other Worlds, [133].
• Hall, Professor Asaph, [195].
• Halley’s Comet, [263];
• Reappearance of, [266].
• Heat, Internal, of Earth, [115].
• ” of the Sun, [1].
• Heating Effect of Electric Lamp, [6].
• Height of Flagstaff, [110].
• ” ” India-rubber Ball, [19].
• ” ” Meteor, [296].
• ” ” the Sun, [57].
• Herschel, Caroline, [233], [239].
• ” William, [230].
• ” ” at Windsor, [238].
• Herschel’s Saturn, [239].
• “Hœdi,” or Kids, [385].
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell, [370].
• Hot Water and the Sun, [14].
• Houzeau, [322].
• How Astronomers measure the Distances of the Heavenly Bodies, [19].
• How Planets are weighed, [142].
• ” to find the Planets, [390].
• ” ” name the Stars, [381].
• ” ” split up a Ray of Light, [351].
• Humming-top, [182].
• Hundreds of Thousands of Libraries required, [376].
• Hyperion, Distance and Period of, [392].
• I.
• Iapetus, Distance and Period of, [392].
• Identification of Comets, [258].
• India-rubber Ball, Height of, [19].
• Inner Planets, The, [134].
• Insects, Leaf-like, [204].
• Institution, Royal, [53].
• Internal Heat of Earth, [115].
• Inventory of Worlds, [379].
• Iris of the Eye, [202].
• Iron Vapor, [291].
• Island, Caroline, [42].
• J.
• Janssen’s Picture of Sun-spot, [36].
• Jupiter, [214].
• ” compared with Earth, [214].
• Jupiter’s Belts, [215].
• ” Clouds, [216].
• ” Diameter, [391].
• ” Distance, [391].
• ” Internal Heat, [218].
• Jupiter’s Period of Revolution, [212], [391].
• Jupiter’s Rotation, [215], [391].
• ” Satellites, [218].
• ” ” Eclipses of, [220].
• Jupiter’s Satellites, Distances and Periods of, [392].
• Jupiter’s Weight, [214].
• K.
• Kaiser Sea, [192].
• Kepler, [174];
• His Laws, [177], [186].
• Kilauea, Volcano, [112].
• Kirkwood’s Description of Meteor Shower, 1833, [301].
• Krakatoa Eruption, [113].
• L.
• Lalande’s Observations of Neptune, [253].
• Latitude defined, [68].
• Lawn-tennis on Flora, [209].
• Law of Motion, First, [183].
• Laws of Kepler, [177].
• Leaf-like Insects, [204].
• Leonids, [308].
• ” Orbit of, [302].
• “Letters from High Latitudes,” [65].
• Leverrier, of Paris, and Adams, of Cambridge, [249].
• Life on the Moon, [123].
• ” ” Other Worlds, [369].
• ” ” Small Planets, [209].
• Light, Velocity of, [219].
• Limit of Visibility, [102].
• Lion, Eyes of, [202].
• Little Bear, [383].
• Little Sunbeam, [17].
• London, Model of, [91].
• Lowell, Mr., [194].
• Lunar Athlete, [131].
• ” Babies, [130].
• ” Craters, [108].
• ” ” Origin of, [111].
• ” Cricket and Football, [131].
• ” Eclipses, [89].
• ” Foxhounds, [131].
• ” Geography, [105].
• ” Postman, [130].
• ” Seas, [108].
• M.
• Magnesium, [350].
• Magnet attracting Ball, [187].
• Man on the Moon, [77].
• Maps of the Stars, [206], [318];
• How to make, [389].
• Mars, [134], [160].
• ” and his Movements, [160].
• ” Atmosphere of, [194].
• ” Color of, [161].
• Mars, Diameter and Distance of, [391].
• Mars, General Direction of Motion of, [165].
• Mars, Geography of, [188].
• ” Period of, [391].
• ” Polar Snows on, [193].
• ” Retrograde Motion of, [162].
• ” Rotation of, [192], [391].
• ” Satellites of, [194].
• ” Seas on, [193].
• ” Views of, [189], [190].
• ” When to observe, [160].
• Materials of a Comet, [276].
• Mathematician and Astronomer, [144].
• Measurements with a Cart-wheel, [173].
• Measuring-rod used by Astronomers, [333].
• Mercury, [134], [141].
• Mercury, Diameter, Distance, Period, and Rotation of, [391].
• Mercury, Transit of, [142].
• ” Weight of, [142].
• ” Where to find, [142].
• Meteor, Height of a, [296].
• ” of Dec. [21], 1876, [297].
• ” ” Nov. [6], 1869, [292].
• Meteoric Dust, [292].
• Meteorites, [312].
• Meteorites, Columbiad Theory of, [314].
• Meteorites in British Museum, [313].
• Meteoroids, [285].
• Meteoroids heated by Friction of Air, [288].
• Meteoroids, Velocity of, [286].
• Meteors, [284].
• ” August, [309].
• Methuselah, [376].
• Milky Way, [327].
• Mimas, Distance and Period of, [392].
• Minor Planets, Size and Number of, [207].
• Mirror for Reflecting Telescope, [234].
• Mode of Production of Coal, [11].
• Model of Lunar Crater, [110].
• Monday, Why so called, [74], [135].
• Mont Blanc, [8].
• Moon always shows Same Face, [118].
• Moon, Imaginary Voyage to, [124].
• ” Life on, [123].
• ” rising in West, [198].
• ” Size of, [79], [101].
• Moon’s Appearance, Effect of Distance on, [89].
• Moon’s Area, [82].
• ” Atmosphere, [125].
• ” Diameter, [391].
• ” Distance, [391].
• ” Movements, [84], [118].
• ” Phases, [74].
• ” Time of Revolution, [391].
• Moon-view of Earth, [78].
• Morning Star, [151].
• Motes in Sunbeam, [292].
• Motion, Annual, of Earth, [56].
• Motion of Planet round Sun illustrated, [188].
• Mount Carigou in the Pyrenees, [31].
• Mountains on the Moon, How measured, [108].
• Mountain Tops, Coldness of, [8].
• N.
• Naming the Stars, [381].
• Nasmyth, [35].
• National Debt, [339].
• Nature of Saturn’s Rings, [225].
• Nebula in Orion, [388].
• ” Ring, in Lyra, [354].
• Nebulæ, [353].
• Nebulæ and Solar System compared, [367].
• Nebulæ, Distances of, [366].
• ” Photographs of, [362].
• Nebulæ, Stars in, [366].
• ” What made of, [359].
• Neptune, Discovery of, [244].
• Neptune, Former Observations of, [252].
• Neptune’s Brightness, [252].
• ” Clouds, [253].
• Neptune’s Diameter, Distance, Period, and Rotation, [391].
• Neptune’s Size, [253].
• ” Satellite, [253].
• Neptune’s Satellite, Distance and Period of, [393].
• Neptune’s Time of Revolution, [213].
• Newton’s Discoveries, [178].
• Night and Day, [46], [51].
• Noonday Gun, [5].
• North Pole, [53];
• Continual Day at, [70];
• Sunshine at, [71].
• November Showers of Meteors, [299].
• Number of Books Necessary to describe Universe, [372].
• Number of Minor Planets, [207].
• ” ” Stars, [321].
• O.
• Oberon, [243];
• Distance and Period of, [392].
• Objects, Distant, Apparent Smallness of, [25].
• Observing Robes, [172].
• Occultation of Star by Moon, [126].
• Octagon Chapel, Bath, Organist of, [231].
• Old Moon in New Moon’s Arms, [77].
• Orbit of Leonids, [302].
• Orbits of Giant Planets, [213].
• ” ” Uranus and Neptune, [250].
• Orion, [387].
• Oxygen Necessary to Life, [124].
• P.
• Pacific Ocean, Track of Eclipse across, [42].
• Parabola, [169], [269].
• ” and Ellipse, [169], [275].
• Parabolic Reflectors, [272].
• Pegasus, Square of, [384].
• Pendulum, [54].
• Periodicity of Comets, [263].
• Perseids, [309].
• Perseus, [327], [385].
• Perturbation of Encke’s Comet, [146].
• Phases of Mercury, [142].
• ” ” the Moon, [74].
• Phases of Venus, [152].
• Phobos and Deimos, Satellites of Mars, [200].
• Phobos, Distance and Period of, [391].
• Phœbe, [229].
• Photographic Search for Planets, [207].
• Photographing the Nebulæ, [362].
• Photographs of the Heavenly Bodies, [207].
• Photographs of the Moon, [107], [109].
• Pit-eyes, [201].
• Planetary Time Table, [179].
• Planets, How to find the, [390].
• ” Small, or Asteroids, [203].
• ” Small, Search for, [205].
• Planets, Small, Size and Number of, [207].
• Pleiades, [363], [385];
• Apparent Change in Position of, [387].
• “Pointers,” [383].
• Polar Snows on Mars, [193].
• Pole, North, [53];
• Continual Day at, [70];
• Sunshine at, [71].
• Pole Star, [383].
• Postman on the Moon, [130].
• Prediction of Halley, [264].
• Preserved Sunbeams, [13].
• Prism, Refraction of Light through, [351].
• Prominences on Sun, [44].
• Proportion of Sunlight received by Earth, [9].
• Pupil of the Eye, [201].
• Pupil of the Eye as Large as a Dinner Plate, [203].
• Q.
• Quarter the Best Time for examining the Moon, [107].
• Quicksilver, [141].
• R.
• Radiant Point of Meteor Shower, [308].
• Railway to Alpha Centauri, [338].
• Rank of Earth in Space, [329].
• Reappearance of Halley’s Comet, [267].
• Recorder, Sunshine, [5].
• Reflectors for Lighthouses, [271].
• Refraction of Light through Prism, [351].
• Relative Sizes of Earth and Sun, [31].
• Requisites for Astronomical Discoveries, [199].
• Resistance of Air, [182].
• Retrograde Motion of Mars, [162].
• Rhea, Distance and Period of, [392].
• Rifle, [68].
• Rigel, [388].
• Ring Nebula in Lyra, [354].
• Rings of Saturn, [224].
• Rings of Smoke, [357].
• Rising and Setting of Sun, Ancient Theories of, [48].
• Roberts, Mr. Isaac, [325];
• His Photograph of Great Andromeda Nebula [364].
• Rotating Globe of Oil, [215].
• Rotation of Earth, [49].
• Rotation of Earth, Illustration of, [53].
• Rotation of Jupiter, [215].
• ” ” Mars, [192].
• ” ” Sun, [39].
• Rowton Meteorite, [313].
• Royal Canal Fly-boats, [52].
• Royal Institution, [53].
• S.
• St. Paul’s Cathedral on the Moon, [103].
• Sandwich Isles, Crater in the, [112].
• Satellites, [195].
• ” of Jupiter, [218].
• ” ” Mars, [194].
• ” ” Saturn, [229].
• Satellites of Uranus, Revolution of, [243].
• Saturday, [135].
• Saturn, [222].
• ” and Earth, [223].
• Saturn’s Bands and Clouds, [224].
• ” Brightness, [223].
• Saturn’s Diameter and Distance, [391].
• Saturn’s Internal Heat, [224].
• ” Period, [391].
• ” Rings, [224].
• ” Rotation, [391].
• ” Satellites, [229].
• Saturn’s Satellites, Distances and Periods of, [392].
• Saturn’s Time of Revolution, [212].
• Scale of Universe, [319].
• Search for Small Planets, [205].
• Seas on Mars, [193].
• ” ” the Moon, [108].
• Seasons, Changes of the, [66].
• Seasons, Changes of the Sun with the, [57].
• Seen and Unseen Universe, [377].
• Shadow of Globe, [170].
• Shape and Size of the Sun, [29].
• Shooting Stars and Comets, [255].
• Shooting Stars, What becomes of them, [290].
• Sidus, Georgium, [240].
• Sirius, [318].
• ” How to find, [389].
• Sirius, Position of, on Map of Universe, [319].
• Size of Celestial Library, [373].
• ” Minor Planets, [207].
• ” Moon, [79], [101].
• ” the Sun, [29].
• Sizes, Comparative, of Planets, [139].
• Sizes, Comparative, of Earth and Sun, [31].
• Smith, Mr. John, his Address, [330].
• Smoke Rings, [357].
• Snow on Mountain Tops, [9].
• Snowball, [294].
• Sodium, [350].
• Solar Gravitation, [132].
• ” Prominences, [44].
• Solar System and Nebula compared, [367].
• Solar System, Drawing of the, [135].
• Spectroscope, [352].
• Speculum Grinding, [235].
• ” Metal, [235].
• Speed of Planets, [138].
• Splendor of Venus, [151].
• Spots on the Sun, [33].
• Square of Pegasus, [384].
• Star eclipsed or occulted by Moon, [126].
• Star Maps, [206], [318];
• How to make, [389].
• Stars, [318];
• Number of, [321].
• ” are Suns, [320].
• ” Clusters of, [327].
• ” Disguised, [205].
• ” Distances of, [332].
• ” Double, [342];
• Motion of, [344].
• ” How to name the, [381].
• ” seen in Daylight, [59].
• ” Variable, [341].
• ” What made of, [347].
• Steam, Clouds a Form of, [15].
• Steel melted by Sunbeams, [7].
• Strontium, [348].
• Sun and Sirius compared in Brightness, [320].
• Sun, Benefits that we receive from the, [10].
• Sun, Express Train to, [18].
• Sun must be Hotter than Molten Steel, [7].
• Sun’s Appearance, [35].
• ” Attraction on a Comet, [274].
• ” Corona, [44].
• ” Diameter, [391].
• ” Distance, [17], [158], [210], [391].
• ” Heat and Brightness, [1].
• ” Rotation, [39], [391].
• ” Shape and Size, [29].
• ” Share in Five o’Clock Tea, [10].
• ” Spots, [33].
• ” Sunbeams, Preserved, [13].
• Sunday, [74], [135].
• Sunlight, Proportion of, received by Earth, [9].
• Sunset at Marseilles, [30].
• Sunshine at North Pole, [71].
• ” Recorder, [5].
• T.
• Tails of Comets, [281].
• Telegraph used for Comets, [267].
• Telescope of Dunsink Observatory, [96].
• Telescope of Yerkes Observatory, [98].
• Telescopes, [92];
• Reflecting, [232];
• Herschel’s, [233].
• Telescopic Aid, [200].
• ” View of Moon, [101], [104].
• Tethys, Distance and Period of, [392].
• Theory to account for the Sun’s Rising and Setting, [48].
• Thursday, [135].
• Ticket to Alpha Centauri, [339].
• Time occupied by Light and Stars, [335].
• Titan, Distance and Period of, [392].
• Titania, [243].
• Titania, Distance and Period of, [392].
• Top-spinning under Air Pump, [183].
• Total Eclipse of the Sun, Appearances during, [40].
• Toy, Burning-glass not merely a, [6].
• Train to the Sun, [18].
• Transit of Venus, [154].
• Trouvelot’s Drawing of Eclipse, [41].
• Trouvelot’s Drawing of Solar Prominences, [45].
• Tuesday, [135].
• Twilight, [47].
• Two Eyes Better than One, [19].
• Tycho Brahe, [170].
• Tycho’s Method of Observing, [172].
• Tyndall’s, Professor, Heating Effect of Electric Lamp, [6].
• U.
• Umbriel, [243].
• Umbriel, Distance and Period of, [392].
• Universe, Seen and Unseen, [377].
• “Up, Guards, and at them,” [337].
• Uranus and Earth compared, [243].
• Uranus, Clouds on, [243].
• ” Color of, [242].
• ” Diameter of, [391].
• ” Discovery of, [237].
• ” Distance of, [391].
• Uranus, Former Observations of, [241].
• Uranus, Period of, [391].
• ” Rotation of, [391].
• ” Satellites of, [242].
• Uranus, Satellites of, Distances and Periods of, [392].
• Uranus, Time of Revolution, [213].
• ” Weight of, [243].
• Ursa Major, or Great Bear, [381].
• Use of Two Eyes, [19].
• Utility of Telescope, [200].
• V.
• Vapor of Iron, [291].
• Variable Stars, [341].
• Vega, [337].
• Velocity of a Planet, [138].
• ” ” Light, [219].
• Venus, [134], [150].
• Venus, Appearance of, during Transit, [157].
• Venus as a World, [158].
• ” Composition of Air on, [160].
• Venus, Diameter and Distance of, [391].
• Venus, Gravitation on, [159].
• ” Greatest Brilliance of, [152].
• Venus, in Telescope, [151].
• ” Period and Rotation of, [391].
• Venus, Sun’s Distance deduced from Transit of, [158].
• Venus, Temperature of, [159].
• ” Transit of, [154].
• Venus, When and where to seek, [150].
• View of Earth from the Sun, [28].
• Views of Lunar Scenery, [104], [109].
• ” ” Mars, [189], [190].
• Visibility, Limit of, [102].
• ” of Earth, [369].
• Volcanoes, Number of, [112].
• Voyage to the Moon, [124].
• ” ” Sun, [2].
• Vulcan, [48], [49], [57].
• W.
• Waste of the Tail-making Material of Comets, [283].
• Water, Hot, and the Sun, [14].
• Water-mill turned by Sun, [16].
• Water on Moon, [127].
• Waterloo, [68], [337].
• Wednesday, [135].
• Weighed, How Planets are, [142].
• Weighing Scales for Comets, [276].
• Weight of Jupiter, [214].
• ” ” Mercury, [149].
• ” ” Uranus, [243].
• Weights on the Moon, [127].
• ” ” ” Sun, [132].
• What Nebulæ are made of, [359].
• ” Stars are made of, [347].
• Wind, Cause of, [14].
• Wind-mill turned by Sun, [15].
• Worcester’s Dictionary, Use of, [269].
• Y.
• Yellowstone Park, [115].
• Yerkes Observatory, Chicago, Telescope at, [98].

Transcriber’s Notes

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