Auroræ
- Subtitle
- Their Characters and Spectra
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE.3. LIST OF PLATES.4. CHAPTER I. THE AURORA AS KNOWN TO THE ANCIENTS.5. CHAPTER II. SOME GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS OF AURORÆ.6. CHAPTER III. SOME SPECIFIC DESCRIPTIONS OF AURORÆ, INCLUDING RESULTS OF THE ENGLISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1875-76.7. CHAPTER IV. PHENOMENA SIMULATING AURORÆ.8. CHAPTER V. SOME QUALITIES OF THE AURORA.9. CHAPTER VI. THE AURORA IN CONNEXION WITH OTHER PHENOMENA.10. CHAPTER VII. AURORA-LIKE PATCHES ON THE PARTIALLY-ECLIPSED MOON.11. CHAPTER VIII. AURORA AND THE SOLAR CORONA.12. CHAPTER IX. SUPPOSED CAUSES OF THE AURORA.13. CHAPTER X. SPECTROSCOPE ADAPTED FOR THE AURORA.14. CHAPTER XI. THE COMPARISON OF SOME TUBE AND OTHER SPECTRA WITH THE SPECTRUM OF THE AURORA.15. CHAPTER XII. SOME NOTES ON PROFESSOR ÅNGSTRÖM’S THEORY OF THE AURORA-SPECTRUM.16. CHAPTER XIII. THE OXYGEN-SPECTRUM IN RELATION TO THE AURORA (PROCTER AND SCHUSTER).17. PART III. MAGNETO-ELECTRIC EXPERIMENTS IN CONNEXION WITH THE AURORA.18. CHAPTER XIV. EXAMINATION OF GEISSLER TUBES UNDER ACTION OF THE MAGNET.19. CHAPTER XV. EFFECT OF MAGNET ON A CAPILLARY GLASS TUBE.20. CHAPTER XVI. EFFECT OF MAGNET ON WIDE AIR (AURORA) TUBE.21. CHAPTER XVII. EFFECT OF MAGNET ON BULBED PHOSPHORESCENT TUBE.22. CHAPTER XVIII. ACTION OF THE MAGNET ON THE ELECTRIC SPARK.23. CHAPTER XIX. THE DISCHARGE IN VACUO IN LARGER VESSELS, AND MAGNETIC EFFECTS THEREON.24. CHAPTER XX. SOME CONCLUDING REMARKS.25. APPENDICES.