INDEX.

⁂ The Eclipses referred to in the Chapters on History (VIII.-XIII.) are not, as regards dates, dealt with in this Index.

A.

Aberdour, Lord, 159.

Agathocles, The Eclipse of, 120.

Ahaz, Dial of, 90, 96, 101.

Airy, Sir G. B., 48, 74, 83, 84, 89, 110, 111, 113, 115, 123, 124, 144, 164, 167.

Almanac, British, 219.

Almanac, Nautical, 26, 35, 234, 238.

Ammianus Marcellinus, 133.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 136, 137, 138, 142, 143, 146, 148, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209.

Annales Fuldenses, 143, 207.

Annular Eclipses of the Sun, 16.

Apollonius of Tyana, 130.

Arabian Records, 132, 138.

Arago, 125, 164.

Archilochus, 108.

Aristophanes, 199.

Ascending Node, 18.

Asser, 144.

B.

Baily, F., 57, 112, 122, 164.

“Baily’s Beads,” 57, 64, 164.

Barker, Sir R., 102.

Bede, 205.

Beer, 217.

Bible, Eclipses mentioned in, 86.

Biot, E., 80.

“Black” Eclipses of the Moon, 189.

Blackness of the Moon during Solar Eclipses, 43.

Blake, 48.

Boillot, 135.

Bosanquet, J. W., 91, 95, 101.

C.

Calvisius, 133, 137, 146, 221.

Carlini, 164.

Carrington, R. C., 60.

Cassini, 158.

Caussin, 139.

Cedrenus, 208.

Celoria, Prof., 150.

Chinese Eclipses of the Sun, 75.

—— of the Moon, 197.

Chromosphere, 60.

Chronicon Scotorum, 143.

Churton, Archdeacon, 210.

Cicero, 108, 109, 118.

Classical History, Eclipses mentioned in, 107.

Clavius, 64, 152.

Columbus, 211.

Confucius, 81.

Conjunction of the Moon, 31.

Copper colour of Moon in Lunar Eclipses, 192.

Corona, 56, 62, 105, 130, 144, 157, 159, 161, 168, 169.

Coronium, 69.

Crabtree, W., 215.

Crucifixion, The darkness at, 129.

D.

Delambre, 81.

De La Rue, W., 168.

De Louville, 158.

Descending Node, 18.

Dial of Ahaz, 90, 96, 101.

Digit explained, 28.

Diodorus Siculus, 120.

Diogenes Laërtius, 94.

Dion Cassius, 128, 130.

Draconic Month, 20.

Dreyer, J. L. E., 221.

Du Sèjour, 37, 39.

E.

Earthquakes and Eclipses, 75.

Earth-shine, 61.

Eclipsareon, Ferguson’s, 222.

Eclipse, Derivation of the word, 11.

——, number of in a year, 13.

—— of the Moon, 11.

—— of the Sun, 11.

——, Theory of, 15.

Eclipse of the Sun of May 28, 1900, 9, 40, 66, 71, 239.

Ennius, 118.

F.

Ferguson, J., 215, 221.

Ferrer, Don J., 163.

Flamsteed, J., 155, 215.

Florence of Worcester, 143.

Forster, 192.

Freeman, Prof. E. A., 146.

Full Moon, 13.

G.

Gassendi, P., 215, 221.

Gaubil, 80.

Gemma Frisius, 152.

Gilliss, Lieut. J. M., 168.

Ginzel, 75, 131.

Glaber, 145, 208.

Glycas, 92.

Grant, R., 131.

Graydon, 174.

Gregorius Turonensis, 135.

H.

Hagen, 163.

Halley, E., 148, 157.

Hansen’s Lunar Tables, 89, 118, 119, 124.

Helium, 69.

Helps, Sir A., 211.

Herodotus, 109, 114, 116.

Herschel, Sir J., 217.

Herschel, Sir W., 161, 162.

Hevelius, 215.

Hezekiah, King of Judah, 90.

Hinckes, Dr., 89.

Hind, J. R., 38, 80, 89, 115, 116, 125, 138, 142, 143, 147, 148, 151, 153, 154, 167, 203, 204.

Hitzig, 87.

Homer’s Iliad quoted, 126.

Homer’s Odyssey quoted, 94, 126.

Huggins, Sir W., 131.

Humboldt, A. Von, 133, 142, 217.

Hunter, W., 102.

I.

Ideler, 81.

J.

Janssen, 169.

Jesuit Missionaries in China, 81, 95.

Johnson, Rev. S. J., 38, 80, 128, 131, 133, 135, 137, 138, 142, 144, 145, 150, 202, 210, 216, 222.

Jones, Capt. F., 113.

Josephus, 202.

Justin, 121.

K.

Kepler, 64, 152, 153, 213, 214, 220.

Kerigan, F., 227.

Kirchoff, 69.

L.

Lalande, J. De, 224.

Lander, R. and J., 228.

Langley, Prof., 171.

Lardner, D., His Hand-book of Astronomy cited, 12.

Lassell, W., 167.

Layard, Sir A. H., 113.

Leon of Corfu, 144.

Le Verrier’s Solar Tables, 89.

Lewis, Sir G. C., 110.

Liais, E., 44.

Limits, Lunar Ecliptic, 190.

Lingard, Dr., 150.

Livy, 125, 202.

Lockyer, Sir N., 178.

Lynn, W. T., 115, 131.

M.

Macartney, Lord, his Embassy to China, 224.

Maclaurin, 151, 153, 159.

Mädler, 217.

Magnitude of an Eclipse, 29.

Main, Rev. R., 88.

Maraldi, 158.

Matthew Paris, 210.

Maunder, E. W., 104, 106.

Meteorological effects of a solar eclipse, 54, 167.

Millosevich, 109.

Milton, J., 231.

Moon, Eclipses of, 186.

N.

Nautical Almanac, 26, 35, 234, 238.

Newcomb, S., 119, 127, 139, 144, 171.

Newcomb, S., His Astronomy cited, 26.

New Moon, 13.

Newton, Sir I., 198.

Nicias, 199.

Nineveh Tablets, 89.

Nodes, 18, 19, 30.

O.

Occultations, 10, 12, 235, 237.

Ockley, S., 138.

Oltmanns, 112.

Oppolzer, T. Von, His Canon cited, 35, 109, 218.

Opposition of the Moon, 31.

Orchard, Dr., 231.

P.

Partial Eclipses of the Sun, 17.

Pekin, Observatory at, 95.

Penumbra in Lunar Eclipses, 188.

Pepys, S., His Diary cited, 155.

Perry, S. J., 177, 193.

Philostorgius, 134.

Philostratus, 130.

Pickering, E. H., 184.

Pingré, 219.

Planets, Primary, 12.

——, Secondary, 12.

——, Visibility of during Eclipses, 61.

Pliny, 126, 200, 204, 213.

Plutarch, Lives, 108, 115, 117, 120, 126, 131, 199, 200, 201.

Polybius, 200.

Pope, A., 94, 233.

Powell, Sir G. B., 178.

Prominences, 59.

Pusey, Dr. E. B., 87, 88.

R.

Rawlinson, Sir H. C., 88, 111.

Red Flames, 59, 156, 159, 168.

Ricciolus, J. B., 220, 222.

Roger of Wendover, 149, 210.

Roger de Hoveden, 205.

Rothmann, R. W., 77.

Rümker, 48.

Russell, S. M., 78, 79, 198, 225.

S.

Santini, 164.

“Saros,” The, 14, 18, 112, 157.

Schnurrer, 142.

Schuster, 172.

Season of Eclipses, 29.

Seneca, 126.

Shadow Bands, 46.

Shadow of Moon on Earth, 36, 41, 49, 73.

Shakespeare, W., 229.

Smith, J. D., 48.

Smyth, Admiral W. H., 217.

Short, J., 159.

Suetonius, 126.

Snooke, W. D., 223.

Spain, Eclipse of 1900 visible in, 10.

Spots on the Sun, 67, 69.

Stannyan, Capt., 60, 156.

Staunton, Sir G., 224.

Stockwell, J. N., 131, 202, 223.

Stone, E. J., 193.

“Stiklastad,” “Eclipse of,” 144.

Struve, O., 164.

Struyck, N., 221.

Stukeley, Dr. W., 157, 160.

T.

Tacitus, 203.

Telegraph, Electric, and Eclipses, 179.

“Thales,” “Eclipse of,” 103, 109, 123.

Thirlwall, Bishop, 116.

Thucydides, 117, 118.

Tibullus, 126.

Todd, Mrs. D. T., her Total Eclipses cited, 25, 27, 50, 56, 65, 71, 136, 146, 173, 183, 223, 231.

Totality, Approach of, 49.

——, Darkness of, 53.

Transits, 10, 12, 235.

Trithenius, 204.

Trouvelot, 106.

Tycho Brahe, 137, 143, 150, 152, 213, 214, 220.

U.

Ulloa, Don A., 64, 161, 179.

Usher, Archbishop, 87.

V.

Valz, 164.

W.

Wallis, Dr., 155.

Wargentin, 216.

Wesley, W. H., 66.

William of Malmesbury, 145, 147.

Williams, J., 81, 82, 83, 85, 86.

Wolcott, Miss K. E., 106.

Wyberd, Dr., 154.

X.

Xenophon, 112, 113, 119.

Y.

Young, Prof., 178.

Z.

Zech, 119.

Transriber’s Note: The table below lists all corrections applied to the original text.

p. 014: [removed extra hyphen] more than 18-years → 18 years

p. 023: Phillipines → Philippines

p. 027: occuring at regular intervals → occurring

p. 048: Rumker mentions that → Rümer

p. 059: every sufficiently skilled obersver → observer

p. 070: [added closing bracket] (SUN-SPOT MINIMUM.)

p. 154: [removed comma] Greenock and Elgin, were near

p. 217: in the Carribean Sea → Caribbean

p. 227: A certain Mr F. Kerigan → Mr. F. Kerigan

p. 230: [removed comma] As, stars with trains of fire

p. 241: Casa Brisẽno → Briseño

p. 244: Vienna (57m.) → Vianna

p. 249: [normalized] Plasentia (256m.) → Plasencia

p. 250: Casa Brisẽno → Briseño