Chapter C: Cambridge Observations of Neptune, 251

Capella, 385.

Carigou, Mount, in Pyrenees, 31.

Caroline Island, 42.

Cart-wheel, Measurements with, 173.

Cassiopeia, 384.

Castor and Pollux, 345.

Celestial Library, 372.

” ” Size of, 373.

Changes of the Seasons, 66.

Changes of the Sun with the Seasons, 57.

Charles I., 19.

Christmas Time, What the Sun does for us at, 10.

Clerk-Maxwell’s Top, 182.

Clock to count Sun’s Distance, 18.

Clouds a Form of Steam, 15.

” fill our Rivers, etc., 15.

” on Jupiter, 216.

” ” Mars, 191.

” ” Neptune, 253.

” ” Saturn, 224.

” ” Uranus, 243.

Cluster in the Centaur, 328.

Clusters of Stars, 327.

Coal, Mode of Production of, 11.

” Whence came it?, 11.

Coal-pit, 201.

Cock and the Sun, 66.

Codde, Marcus, Picture of Sunset, 30.

Coldness of Mountain Tops, 8.

Collier, Eye of a, 201.

Color of Stars, 340.

Columbiad Theory of Meteorites, 314.

Comet attracted by Sun, 274.

” colliding with Earth, 281.

” Encke’s, 143, 259.

Comet, Great, of September, 1882, 277.

Comet, Halley’s, 263.

” Identification of a, 258.

” Materials of a, 276.

” Movements of a, 255.

” of Biela, 311.

” of 1861, 281.

” seen at Sun’s Edge, 278.

” Speed of a, 256.

” Weighing Scales for a, 276.

Comets and Shooting Stars, 255.

” Disposition of Tails of, 257.

” Extravagance of, 283.

” Tails of, 281.

Common, Mr., 278.

Comparative Sizes of Planets, 139.

Comparison of Solar System and Nebula, 367.

Cooling of Earth and Moon, Illustration of, 116.

Copenhagen, Residence of Tycho, 170.

Corona of the Sun, 44.

Cotton Yarn, 334.

Crape Ring of Saturn, 225.

Craters on the Moon, 108.

Craters, Terrestrial and Lunar, compared, 113.

Cricket on the Moon, 131.

Cunarder’s Lights at Sea, 326.

D.

Danish Hounds of Tycho Brahe, 172.

Day and Night, 46, 51.

Daylight, Stars seen in, 59.

Deimos and Phobos, Satellites of Mars, 200.

Deimos, Distance and Period of, 391.

Desertion, Herschel’s, 231.

Dewar, Professor, 53, 55, 187.

Dictionary, Worcester’s, Use of, 269.

Dione, Distance and Period of, 392.

Direction of Earth’s Axis Constant, 69.

Discoveries of Kepler, 174.

” ” Newton, 178.

Disguised Stars, 205.

Disposition of Comets’ Tails, 257.

Distance of the Sun, 17, 210, 391.

Distances of Heavenly Bodies, How measured, 19.

Distances of Nebulæ, 365.

” ” the Stars, 332.

Distant Objects, Apparent Smallness of, 25.

Double Stars, 342;
Motion of, 344.