My reasons for dwelling earnestly on the points at issue (foot-note) 443 Suggestions for applying the direct parallactic method Tables referring to stations for observing transit of 1874:- Subject of eclipses inadequately treated in text-books Eclipse-limits Varying presentation of revolving circle (foot-note) V. Two views of a prominence by Zöllner (coloured) 304 307 308 343 To face page 439 IX. The transit of 1874, ingress To face each other between 5. Aristarchus' method of measuring Sun's distance 6. Hipparchus' 7. Diagram 8. Orbits and conjunction-lines of Mars and the Earth 9. Measurement of Mars's distance 16 17 19 21 22 10. Orbits of Venus and the Earth 26 11. Transits of Venus (illustrating Halley's method) 12. Illustrating Delisle's method of observing transits 13. Diagram 29 34 38 33. The author's double automatic twice-acting battery 34. Prismatic analysis of the Sun's surface 38. How the spectroscope makes prominences visible 39. Spectroscopic exhibition of motions of recess or approach . 135 135 136 . 137 138 (tangential slit) 171 . 179 180 . 190 . 219 . 220 . 221 . 222 46. Varying presentation of solar spot-zones 47. Sun-spot showing Nasmyth's willow-leaves 48. Large spot-group showing willow-leaves (Nasmyth) 58. Prominences seen during the eclipse of 1851 (Airy) . 236 . 247 247 . 247 64. Chandelier prominence seen in 1860 (Goldschmidt) 68. Illustrating distribution of prominences . 256 . 257 . 260 (De la Rue) 69. vast dimensions of . 268 70. Eclipsed Sun, August 1868, photographed at Aden. 71. Spectrum of prominence and of solar limb . 275 . 287 . 293 296 72. Widening of the hydrogen F-line in prominence-spectrum 73. Spectroscopic indications of solar cyclones 75. The first prominence seen by aid of spectroscope (Huggins) 76. Prominence seen by Huggins's method (Lockyer) 77. Same prominence ten minutes later 78. Prominences seen during American eclipse (1869) 79. Illustrating progress of Moon's shadow-cone during eclipse 80. The corona during eclipse of 1842 as photographed by Secchi in 1860 as drawn in 1868 at Mantawalok-Kekee 86. Diagram exhibiting incorrectness of 87. The Milky Way as a spiral 97. Parallactic displacement of Venus on Sun's disc 98. Varying presentation of Moon's orbit towards Sun 99. Illustrating effects of rotation and revolution 100. Diagram illustrating theory of eclipses. PAGE 446 447 450 . 457 458 . 461 . 462 . 465 varying presentation of revolving circles 466 theory of eclipses . . 470 477 477 477 |