INDEX
E. E. (Edmund Edward) Fournier d'Albe translation
Alpha Centauri, 38, 42
Andromeda, 70, 85
Animalculæ, 165
Atmospheres, planetary, 105
Atoms and stars, 157
Aurora Borealis, 175
Bernoulli, 166
Bessel, 100
Bode, 188
Champollion, hieroglyphics, 143
Cherbourg, 97
Communication, interplanetary,
141
Earth currents, 135
Eiffel Tower, 164
Electrons, 137
Fontenelle, 184
Frauenhofer, 171
Galileo, 101
Giacobini, 97
God, 174
Gravitation, 105, 124
Gruithuisen, 100
Guzmann, prize, 153
Habitability of planets, 170
Harding, 101
Hercules, 160, 162
Homer, 95
Huygens, 185
Invisible universe, 175
Jupiter, 23, 41, 123, 125, 187;
(red spot), 126
Juvisy Observatory, 107, 135,
138
Kant, 182
Kircher, 184
Leibnitz, 166
Life, conditions, of, 106
Littrow, J. von, 141, 145
Magnetic variations, 131
Magnetic storms, 134
Mars, 14,105, 111, 145, 187, 204;
communication with, 117;
flashes on, 111; polar snows,
113; rotation, 114
Materialism, 173
Mayer, 101
Mercury, 185, 203
Milky Way, 163, 170
Molecules, 164
Moon, 9, 41, 105, 116, 141, 201
Neptune, 20, 35, 41, 219
Nice Observatory, 97
Pascal, 168
Renan, 88
Saturn, 18, 41, 189
Scheiner, 181, 192, 195, 210, 215,
220
Silicon, 210
Sirius, 47
Spectrum analysis, 127, 200
Stars and atoms, 157
Stars, speed of, 159
Sunspots, 134, 135
Temperature of planets, 127, 197
Venus, 95, 204; rotation, 107
Wavelengths of light, 171
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