Meteoric astronomy
- Subtitle
- A treatise on shooting-stars, fire-balls, and aerolites
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE.3. INTRODUCTION. A GENERAL VIEW OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM.4. CHAPTER I. SHOOTING-STARS.5. CHAPTER II. OTHER METEORIC RINGS.6. CHAPTER III. AEROLITES.7. CHAPTER IV. CONJECTURES IN REGARD TO METEORIC EPOCHS.8. CHAPTER V. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF METEORIC STONES—DO AEROLITIC FALLS OCCUR MORE FREQUENTLY BY DAY THAN BY NIGHT?—DO METEORITES, BOLIDES, AND THE MATTER OF ORDINARY SHOOTING-STARS, COEXIST IN THE SAME RINGS?9. CHAPTER VI. PHENOMENA SUPPOSED TO BE METEORIC—METEORIC DUST—DARK DAYS.10. CHAPTER VII. FURTHER RESEARCHES OF REICHENBACH—THEORY OF METEORS—STABILITY OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM—DOCTRINE OF A RESISTING MEDIUM.11. CHAPTER VIII. DOES THE NUMBER OF AEROLITIC FALLS VARY WITH THE EARTH'S DISTANCE FROM THE SUN?—RELATIVE NUMBERS OBSERVED IN THE FORENOON AND AFTERNOON—EXTENT OF THE ATMOSPHERE AS INDICATED BY METEORS.12. CHAPTER IX. THE METEORIC THEORY OF SOLAR HEAT.13. CHAPTER X. WILL THE METEORIC THEORY ACCOUNT FOR THE PHENOMENA OF VARIABLE AND TEMPORARY STARS?14. CHAPTER XI. THE LUNAR AND SOLAR THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF AEROLITES.15. CHAPTER XII. THE RINGS OF SATURN.16. CHAPTER XIII. THE ASTEROID RING BETWEEN MARS AND JUPITER.17. CHAPTER XIV. ORIGIN OF METEORS—THE NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS.18. CONCLUSION.19. APPENDIX.20. PUBLICATIONS OF J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., Phila.