LIST OF DIAGRAMS
Reading edition
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1. The Ptolemaic Idea of the Universe 19
2. The Copernican Theory of the Solar System 21
3. Total and Partial Eclipses of the Moon 64
4. Total and Partial Eclipses of the Sun 67
5. "Baily's Beads" 70
6. Map of the World on Mercator's Projection, showing a portion of the progress of the Total Solar Eclipse Of August 30, 1905, across the surface of the Earth 81
7. The "Ring with Wings" 87
8. The Various Types of Telescope 113
9. The Solar Spectrum 123
10. A Section through the Sun, showing how the Prominences rise from the Chromosphere 131
11. Orbit and Phases of an Inferior Planet 148
12. The "Black Drop" 153
13. Summer and Winter 176
14. Orbit and Phases of the Moon 184
15. The Rotation of the Moon on her Axis 187
16. Laplace's "Perennial Full Moon" 191
17. Illustrating the Author's explanation of the apparent Enlargement of Celestial Objects 195
18. Showing how the Tail of a Comet is directed away from the Sun 248
19. The Comet of 1066, as represented in the Bayeux Tapestry 263
20. Passage of the Earth through the thickest portion of a Meteor Swarm 269