Eruption of Volcanoes-astonishing one substances thrown out by causes of Euclid, account of translations of his works Eudoxus, the contemporary of Plato his theory of solid spheres Europe and America, comparative temperatures of European Astronomers, many great ones have been astrologers Evaporation, degree of, at various places Evening Star, the planet Venus Examples and illustrations of traverses Eccentricity of the planetary orbits, table of of the earth's orbit, variable Experiments on the attraction of mountains for connecting the observations of Greenwich and by Cavendish on the earth's density to fix the length of the French metre on the pendulum, account of ASTRONOMY Eye, unassisted, does not discern stars below the fifth magnitude ASTRONOMY no judge of the distances of the stars Feline quadrupeds differ in the new and old world Figure of the earth that of an oblate spheroid investigated by Clairault ancient opinions concerning known to the Egyptians and Chaldæans why not a perfect sphere and magnitude of the earth, how ascertained their occultations by the moon how distinguished from the planets tables of nutation and aberration for, how formed annual parallax of some determined longitude found by their occultations Flamsteed, account of his discoveries Flinders' account of the coral reefs Flying quadrupeds, account of Fossil Shells found on the tops of mountains Bones, found, of known and unknown quadrupeds Forests in Lapland grow in a very low temperature for solar nutation France, degree of the meridian measured in, by Cassini by La Caille, &c. 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OF ASTRO.105, 106 ASTRONOMY HIST, OF ASTRO. 54-59 indentical with that of the Hindoos sphere said to have been invented by Cheron Greeks, proverbial contempt of, by the Hindoos unacquainted with astrology in early ages Greenwich and Paris, experiments for connecting their obser- Gulf-stream, account of that current wrecks brought by, led Columbus to discover Ame- rica Gunpowder, used to ascertain longitudes Hadley's Quadrant described 43, 44 Hall, Basil, his description of the landscape on the coast of Lima ASTRONOMY of the day, why greatest in the afternoon Heaths, the whole genus peculiar to the old world Heavenly Bodies, their declinations, how ascertained their azimuth, how determined effects of refraction on their appearance all affected alike by refraction their distances and magnitudes deduced from their apparent positions, how affected their position depressed by parallax Heights of the principal mountains on the globe Heliostat, an instrument for conveying an instantaneous signal, described ASTRONOMY HIST. OF ASTRO.. 87 128 104 80 81 23 24 30 181 46 16, 17 36 46, 47 51 60, 61 Hemispheres, northern and southern, comparative temperatures of PHYS. GEOG. GENERAL INDEX. Herschell, a name for the planet Uranus from that of its dis- coverer Herschell's discovery of two of Saturn's satellites Hindoos, their astronomy similar to that of the Chinese their zodiac similarly divided identical with the Greek their astronomy, history of tabular view of its elements their astronomical tables, account of vast antiquity of their tables of the sun, moon, and planets used the gnomon in their astronomical observations plagiarism from, by Ptolemy of extraordinary . 117 . 117 History of Astronomy, principal periods in .. pendulum clocks discovered Saturn's ring also one of Saturn's satellites his improvements of the telescope Hydrostatics, the fundamental principle of Hypotheses of the four planets between Mars and Jupiter being Impiety, Alphonso, king of Castile, accused of Galileo accused of, by the church Improvements in the art of observing in the telescope, by Huygens in Hadley's quadrant by Borda Indeterminate problems readily solved by the Hindoos Insects, their locality the same as the plants on which they feed PHYS. GEOG, largest and most splendid in the torrid zone of reflecting instruments, account of Islands, general observations on how formed by the coral animalcules Italy, a degree of the meridian in, measured by Beccaria and his Rudolphine tables, motions of the planets from La Caille and others measure a degree of the meridian in France of Good Hope at the Cape his catalogue of the fixed stars in the southern hemi- sphere account of his astronomical labours Lake of Geneva, much diminished within the memory of man Land and Sea, general view of, on the earth Breezes, account of on which Alexandria was built, did not exist in the time Landscape on the coast of Lima, described La Place's determination of a lunar inequality hypotheses on the origin of the solar system PHYS. GEOG. . 116 95, 96 96 98 097, 98 14 9, 10 1, 2 32 12 Lapland, a degree of the meridian in, measured by Mauper- Latitudes, terrestrial, methods of determining Law by which the periods of rotation of all satellites are re- gulated PHYS. GEOG. theory of, completed by Cassini Libyan Deserts, account of the sand-drifts in Light, its rays proceed in a curve which is concave towards the earth of its passage through transparent media of the moon, owing to reflexion nature of that reflexion its progressive motion demonstrated Aberration of-general view of discovery of, by Dr. Bradley proof of the earth's annual motion affects the apparent position of the heavenly table of, for the fixed stars, how formed .. time in which it traverses the planetary orbits discovered Lima, landscape on its coast described Limits, &c. of lunar eclipses of solar eclipses of the zodiac, what originally Locality of insects, that of the plants on which they feed Logarithmic and natural sines, tangents, &c. sines, tangents, &c. for every quarter point of the ASTRONOMY Page 145 59 HIST. OF ASTRO. ASTRONOMY HIST. OF ASTRO. ASTRONOMY NAVIGATION HIST. OF ASTRO. • 50 ASTRONOMY HIST. of ASTRO. ASTRONOMY 228-231 HIST. OF ASTRO. 100-108 |