INDEX

Abbot, C. G., 27, 34 Albedo of Earth, 54, 81 —— Jupiter, 127 —— Mars, 81 —— Moon, 54 Albumin sol, 15 Algol-type stars, 35, 144, 145 Antares, 38 Antoniadi, E. M., 97, 104 Archangel, climate of, 87, 88 Arcturus, 35, 37 Aristarchus, lunar crater, 48 “Astronomical unit,” 21 Atmosphere of, Mars, 76 ——, Moon, 53 ——, Sun, 25 ——, Venus, 112 Barnard, E. E., 89, 104 Beer, 60, 97, 98 Bond, G. P., 127, 128 Brewster, Sir David, 4 Calcium, 12, 36 Callisto, satellite of Jupiter, 131 Calory, 26 Campbell, W. W., 145 Carbon, 11, 34, 38, 39 Carbonic acid, 11 Cassini, 59, 60, 130 Ceres, minor planet, 41, 120, 121, 122, 131 Cerulli, V., 104, 108 Chromosphere, 28, 29 Cobalt, 33 Comet, Encke’s, 119 ——, Halley’s, 119 ——, spectra, 38 Copernican theory, 1 Copper, 33 Corona, 40 Coxwell, 25, 75, 79 Cyanogen, 37, 38 Czapek, F., 11, 13 Darwin, Sir G. H., 116 Dawes, W. R., 60, 63, 97, 99 Denning, W. F., 104 Dispersion, anomalous, 28 Doppelmayer, lunar crater, 52 Dubois, Eugene, 155 Eros, minor planet, 57 Europa, satellite of Jupiter, 131 Evans, J. E., 107 Faculae, 29, 30 Fauth, P., 50 Flamsteed, lunar crater, 52 Fluorine, 40 Fraunhofer, 33 Galileo, 51, 59, 131 Ganymede, satellite of Jupiter, 131, 132 Gay-Lussac, 75 Glaisher, J., 25, 75, 79 Goodacre, W., 49 Green, N. E., 60, 62, 63 Greenwich Hospital School, 107, 108 “Gulliver’s Travels,” 82, 156 Haeckel, E., 12 Halogens, 36, 40 “Harper’s Weekly,” 93 Helium, 37 Herschel, Sir J., 54 —— Sir W., 20, 49, 59, 60, 61 Hevelius, 51 Hippalus, lunar crater, 52 Hooke, R., 59, 60, 130 Huyghens, 59 Hydrocarbons, 38 Hydrogen, 11, 36, 37, 38, 41, 81 “Inhabitant,” 5 “Inhabited” Worlds, 2, 3, 4 Io, satellite of Jupiter, 131 Iron, 12, 33, 36 Jupiter, 122-32 ——, belts, 127, 129 ——, great red spot, 130 ——, proper motion of spots, 129 ——, satellites of, 128, 131 ——, white spots, 128, 130 Keeler, J. E., 122, 125 Kies, lunar crater, 52 Kirchhoff, 33 Lacus Solis, 97, 98, 99 Langley, S. P., 55 Lilliputians, 82, 83 Linné, lunar crater, 48 Lockyer, J. N., 60 Lowell, P., 65, 66, 67, 69, 71, 81, 97, 98, 99, 101, 103, 104, 105, 106, 108, 109, 110 Lucifer, 111 Mädler, 46, 48, 60, 97, 98 Maginus, lunar crater, 46 Magnesium, 12, 36 Manganese, 33 Mare Fecunditatis, 47 —— Humerum, 52 —— Nubium, 52 —— Serenitatis, 48 Mars, canals of, 57-70, 78, 101, 102 ——, conditions of, 71-95 ——, illusions of, 96-110 ——, meteorology of, 93-4 ——, oases of, 65, 98, 99, 101 ——, thermograph of, 91, 92 ——, winds of, 77 Mendeléeff, 39 Mercury, 114-18 Messier, lunar crater, 47, 48 Metabolism, 10, 11, 14, 15, 38 Millechau, 104 Milton, 51 Mira Ceti, 150 Molesworth, P. B., 49, 104 Moon, 43-56 ——, “terminator” of, 51 Mont Blanc, 25, 74, 80 Mount Everest, 75, 80 Nature of Vision, 99 Nebulae, spectrum of, 38, 40 Nebulium, 40 Negative elements, 36 Neison, E., 48, 53 Neptune, 132, 141 Newcomb, S., 93, 109 Nicholson, J. W., 40 Nickel, 33 Nilosyrtis, “canal” on Mars, 89 Nitrogen, 11, 37, 38, 39 Observatory, Chicago, 44 ——, Harvard College, 127 ——, Lick, 122 ——, Paris, 44 Occultation, 52, 53 Organic Life, definition of, 15 Organism, living, 6-19 Organo-genetic elements, 12, 38, 39 Osmosis, 15 Oxygen, 11, 36, 37, 38, 41 Periodic Law, Mendeléeff’s, 39 Phillips, T. E. R., 104 Phosphorus, 12 Photosphere, 28, 33, 36 Pickering, W. H., 47, 48, 53, 109 Pithecanthropus, 155 Planetary statistics, table of, 72, 73, 135 Platinum, 36 “Plurality of Worlds,” 2 Pollock, Master, 109 Potassium, 12 Poynting, J. H., 86, 87, 89, 115 Proctor, R. A., 34, 77 Prominences, 29, 30, 37 Protofluorine, 40 Protonilus, “canal” on Mars, 89 Protoplasm, 11, 12, 13, 15, 38, 40, 154 Pyramid, Great, 45 Refraction, anomalous, 28 Reversing layer, 36 “Rice-grains,” of Sun’s surface, 28, 29 Ring Nebula in Lyra, 40 Rosse, Lord, 55 Ruskin, J., 19 Saturn, 132 ——, Rings of, 138 Schiaparelli, G. V., 61, 62, 63, 64, 66, 97, 99, 107, 108, 116, 117 Schooling, T. Holt, 83 “Scientia,” 66 “Semi-suns,” 131, 132 Serviss, Garrett P., 17 Singapore, climate of, 87, 88 Sinus Sabaeus, marking on Mars, 97, 99 Sirius, 37 Sodium, 33, 36 “Solar Constant,” 26 Spectroscopic binaries, 144, 145 Spectrum, 53 ——, heat, 55 “Spurious” disc, 103 Stars, double, 35 ——, multiple, 35 ——, red, 38 ——, spectra of, 34, 38, 39 Stefan’s Law, 85 Stoney, G. Johnstone, 34 “Streaming,” 15 Sulphur, 11, 38 Sun, 20-32 Sunspots, 29, 30, 31, 38 ——, spectra of, 37 Swift, Dean, 82, 156 Table Mountain, 54 Thermograph of Mars, 91, 92 Titanium, 36, 37, 38 Tornadoes, 31, 137 “Twinkler,” 114 Tycho, lunar crater, 46 Uranus, 132, 140 Venus, 57, 111-18 Verworn, Max, 7 Very, F. W., 55 Vesper, 111 “Victoria,” hypothetical planet, 83 Wallace, A. R., 4 “War of the Worlds,” 104, 156 Waste, 151, 152 Water, indispensable factor, 15, 41 Wells, H. G., 104, 156 Whewell, 4 Williams, A. Stanley, 104 Wolf, Max, 40 Young, C. A., 26, 33

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[1] Chemical Phenomena in Life, pp. 62-3, by Dr. Frederick Czapek (Harper’s Library of Living Thought). The reader is strongly recommended to study this work in the present connection.

[2] Wonders of Life, by Ernst Haeckel, Professor at Jena University, p. 130.

[3] Wonders of Life, pp. 127-8.

[4] Chemical Phenomena in Life, p. 58.

[5] Ibid., p. 22.

[6] Other Worlds, by Garrett P. Serviss, pp. 63-4.

[7] Modern Painters, by John Ruskin.

[8] If this experiment could be carried out, it would be necessary to use a spring balance. If the object were weighed in a pair of scales or by a steelyard, the counterbalancing weights would be likewise affected in the same proportion, so that the equilibrium would be undisturbed.

[9] The movements of not a few double stars point to perturbations caused by the attraction of unseen bodies. There are also a number of instances known of “Eclipse” or “Algol-type” variable stars, in which the presence of a dark companion is indicated by the diminution of the light of the star at regular intervals.

[10] Proc. R. Soc., LXXX, 50, 1907.

[11] Nature, LXXX, 158 (April 8th, 1909).

[12] “Periodic Changes upon the Moon,” Memoirs, British Astronomical Association, Vol. XIII, p. 88.

[13] The Moon, by Philip Fauth, p. 156.

[14] Radiation in the Solar System: Its Effects on Temperature, and its Pressure on Small Bodies, by Dr. J. H. Poynting (Phil. Trans. of the Royal Society, Vol. 202 A).

[15] Publ. of the Astron. Soc. of the Pacific, Vol. II, pp. 286-8.