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INDEX
303
- Moon, "First Men in," 3
- Mountains in Moon, 184–187
- Mount Whitney, 69, 70
- Mount Wilson, 69, 97-99, 120–124, 221
- Motor-car, 271
- Murray, Sir James, 71
- Nasmyth, James, 213, 218
- Nasmyth and Carpenter, 185
- Nautical Almanac, 186
- Nebula in Cygnus, 256
- Nebula, Great, in Andromeda, 113–115
- Nebula round Nova Persei, 297
- Nebula, Split.in Andromeda, 255
- Nelson, Horatio, 62
- Neon, 79
- Neptune, 160–164, 180, 295
- Newton, Sir Isaac, 12, 20–29, 34–37, 153, 278
- New Zealand, Solar Observatory, 231
- Nicholson, S. B., 180, 181
- Nile floods, 142
- Normans, 40
- North Pole, 34
- Nova Persei, 296–298
- Object glass, 123
- Obscuring patches, 252–257
- Oil in alcohol and water, 174–175
- Origin of planets, 170
- Oxford, 27, 37, 65,71, 268, 292
- Oxford Radcliffe Observatory, 183
- Oxford University Observatory, 119
- Pallas, 155
- Pan, Peter, 31
- Parabola, 35-38
- Parallax (see distance)
- Paris Observatory, 164
- Parsons, Hon. C. A., 83, 96
- Pasadena, 99, 127
- Patience (operetta), 220
- Pearson's Magazine, 47, 48
- Pendulum, 29–31, 43, 44, 285, 290, 295
- Perrine, C. D., 180, 181
- Perturbations, 158–164, 202
- Petrograd, 107
- Phoebe, 177–182
- Photography of Stars, 117, 118
- Piazzi, 152, 154, 178
- Pickering, W. H., 178
- Pisa, 7–9, 26, 43
- Pleiades, movements of, 279
- Plumb-line, 33
- Polarization of Corona, 244–248
- Poles of Mars, 139, 145
- Police, Astronomical, 152, 156
- Pressure of Air, 64–71
- Prism, 101, 129
- Proctor, R. A., 280, 281
- Prominences, 216, 217
- Ptolemy, 267
- Pulkovo, 107
- Punch, 133
- Puppets, 260, 261
- Radium, 210, 211
- Ramsay, Sir W., 79
- Range-finder, 55
- Rapid Stars, distances of, 269
- Rayleigh, Lord, 72, 78
- Reed, E. J., 133
- Refraction, 99–102
- Repsolds, 107
- Retrograde Satellites, 180–182
- Ribbons, coloured, 130
- Riffelberg, 88
- Roemer, O., 168, 169
- Rosse, Lord, 96, 104, 115
- Rotation, effects of, 170–177
- Rotation of Earth, 29–34, 116
- Rotation of Sun, 195–198, 228 230
- Royal Astronomical Society, 21, 184
- Royal Institution, 169
- Royal Society, 26, 28
- Russell, John, R.A., 183
- St. Andrews, 296
- St. John, C. E., 222, 224
- San Francisco Earthquake, 108
- Satellites, formation of, 175, 208
