A popular history of astronomy during the nineteenth century / by Agnes M. Clerke.

  • Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary), 1842-1907.
Date:
1887
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    Beer and Miidler, survey of lunar surface, 312, 313, 315; studies of Mars, 323 Bessel, biographical sketch, 36-8; reduction of Bradley’s observations, 40 ; sidereal survey, 41 ; parallax of 61 Cygni, 45 ; disturbed move- ment of Sirius and Procyon, 52; death, 53; trans-Uranian planet, 99 ; Halley’s comet, 128 ; theory of instrumental errors, 153; personal equation, 154 ; rotation of Mercury, 296; lunar atmosphere, 3x1 ; op- posite polarities in comets, 371; mathematical theory of cometary emanations, 392; multiple tails, 395 Biela, discovery of comet, 120 Bird's quadrant, 4 Birmingham, relative ages of stars, 424 note; discovery of T Coronse, 429 Birt, rotation of a sun spot, 182; establishment of Selenographical Society, 314 Black Ligament, 282-3 Bode, popular writings, 6; solar con- stitution, 71 ; a planet missed, 90; found, 92 Bode’s Law, 90, 94, 104, 106, 332 Boeddicker, observations during lunar eclipse, 317 Boguslawski, centre of sidereal revo- lutions, 50; observation of Halley's comet, 129 Bohrn, solar observations, 185, 187 Bolometer described, 267-8 Bond, G. P., his father’s successor, 108 ; light of Jupiter, 335 ; fluidity of Saturn’s rings, 343 ; Donati’s comet, 370-2; double star photo- graphy, 443 Bond, W. C., discovery of Hyperion, xo6 ; sketch of life, 107; Saturn’s dusky ring, 108; resolution of nebulae, 149, 438 ; celestial photo- graphs, 193, 443; satellite-transit on Jupiter, 338 Bonn Durchmusterung, 41, 458 Borda, repeating circle, 153 Boss, observations on comets, 401, 406 Bouguer, solar atmospheric absorp- tion, 266 Bouquet de la Grye and Arago, pho- tographs of Venus on the sun, 304 Bouvard, Tables of Uranus, 98 Bradley, powers of obsei’vation, 3 ; discoveries, 4 ; Astronomer-Royal, 4 ; solar translation, 12 ; star dis- tances, 13, 20 ; observation on Cas- tor, 23 ; instruments, 4, 35, 151 ; observations reduced by Bessel, 40 Brahe, Tycho, star of 1572, 31 Brandes, observation of Andromedes, 383 Brandes and Benzenberg, heights of meteors, 375 Brayley, meteoric origin of planets, 355 Bredichin, structure of chromosphere, 243 ; red spot on J upiter, 340; spectrum of Coggia’s comet, 390 ; repulsive forces in comets’ tails, 393-4, 4i5; three types, 395, 399, 401, 405 Brewster, diffraction theory of corona, 84 ; atmospheric lines in solar spec- trum, 169 ; absorption spectra, 172 Brinkley, supposed stellar parallaxes, 4i Brisbane, observatory at Paramatta, 8 Brooks, fragment of great comet, 414; rediscovery of Pons’ comet, 417 Briinnow, measurements of stellar parallax, 452 Bruno, Giordano, motion of stars, 21 Buffham, rotation of Uranus, 347 Buffon, internal heat of Jupiter, 335 Bunsen, discovery of spectrum ana- lysis, 167 Burnham, discoveries of double stars, 454, 468 Burton, canals of Mars, 327; rotation of Jupiter’s satellites, 339 Busch, daguerreotype of eclipsed sun, 210 Campbell, polarisation of coiona, 215 Carrington, astronomical career, 182- 4; sun-spot observations, 184-5; solar rotation, 186 ; spot-distribu- tion, 187; luminous outburst on the sun, 201-2 ; Jovian and sun-spot periods, 205 ; origin of comets. 419 Cassini, Domenico, discoveries of Sa- turnian satellites, 106 ; of division in ring, 107; period of solar infla- tion, 185 ; solar parallax, 274 ; ro- tation of Venus, 299 ; of Mars, 322 ; spots on Jupiter, 336, 341; satellite transit, 338 Cassini, J. J., stellar proper motions, 12 ; sun’s limb notched by a spot, 66 ; theory of corona, 82 ; rotation of Venus, 299; structure of Saturn’s rings, 343 Cavendish experiment, 75, 308 Ceraski, new variable, 428 Ceres, discovery, 91-3; diameter, 95 Chacornac, observation on a sun spot,