# A Voyage in Space/Index

INDEX
* Abbot, C. G., 200
* Adams, J. C., 159-164, 178
* Aerolite, Appley Bridge, 84
* Aeroplanes, 67, 7173
* Air Currents, 143
* Airy, Sir G. B., 161-163
* Aldebaran, 267
* Algol, 131-137
* Alice in Wonderland, 20
* American and English discoveries, 179, 180
* American tourist, 227
* Andromeda, Great Nebula in, 113–115
* Andromeda, Split Nebula in, 255
* Apparatus for Gravity, 22, 45
* Appley Bridge Aerolite, 84
* Approach and recession, effects of, 270-277
* Arcturus, 267
* Argon, 78
* Aristotle, 5, 13
* Astrologers, 157
* Astronomer Royal, 161–163, 180, 237
* "Astronomical Reprobate," 133
* Atmosphere of Earth, 63–81, 143
* Atmosphere of Mars, 138-144
* Atmosphere of Moon, 188
* Atmosphere of Sun, 241-248
* Atwood's machine, 29
* Australian Solar Observatory, 231
* Ball, Sir Robert, 18
* Balloons, 67, 68, 74–78
* Balls falling, 7–10
* Barnard, E. E., 42, 109, 144,180
* Base for measuring distances, 51–57
* Bayeux tapestry, 40
* Bellamy, F. A., 77
* Bellamy, Miss E. F., 283
* Betelgeuse, 267
* Billiard balls, 44, 166, 286
* Birds flying, 281–283
* Black drop, 60
* Bode, 150, 156, 160, 179, 230
* Bolton, Scriven, 147
* Boss, Lewis, 280, 288
* Brahe, Tycho, 14-16
* Bright stars, 251, 252, 261–263
* Brightness of Corona, 243, 244
* British Association, 78
* Britons, Ancient, 193
* Bull-roarer, 274
* Burning-glass, 103, 266
* Calcium Light, 218
* Camberwell Beauties, 79
* Cambridge, 26, 27, 161, 163
* Camera, 91
* Campbell, Elizabeth, 70
* Campbell, W. W., 69, 70
* Canals of Mars, 140
* Cape of Good Hope Observatory, 57, 116
* Carrington, R. C., 198, 199, 215, 224
* Cavendish, Henry, 13
* Cavorite, 3, 87
* Cawthron, J., 231
* Centre of our Cluster, 284–292
* Ceres, 153-155, 178
* Chamonix, 88
* Chinese Sunspots, 197, 204, 206
* Chromosphere, 216, 217
* Cigar, lighting a, 50
* Clark, Alvan, 106-108
* Cluster, Gravity and centre of our, 284-292
* Cluster in Hercules, 259
* Cluster in Taurus, 280
* Cluster in Ursa Major, 282-283
* Coelostat, 119–123
* Coin and Feather, 10 ​
* Cold of space, 68–69, 266
* Collisions of Stars, 287, 288, 296, 298
* Colour, 91, 101–104, 126–130, 273–277
* Colour and musical scale, 273
* Colour change with motion, 273–277
* Colours of Double Stars, 277
* Comets, 19, 35, 42
* Common, A. A., 97
* Convergence of movements, 280, 288–291
* Cook, Captain James, 62
* Corona, 241-248
* Counts of Stars, 256-258
* Coxwell, 75
* Crabtree, 62
* Crawling as effect of distance, 269, 280
* Czar of Russia, 107
* Daily Graphic, 112
* Daily Mirror, 251
* Damping oscillations, 33
* Dark stars, 132–137, 252–257
* Darwin, Charles, 9
* Darwin, Sir G. H., 45
* Davidson, George, 108
* Dawes, Rev. W. R., 106
* Deception in size, 260–263
* Dewar, Sir James, 30, 80
* Diamonds, formation of, 83
* Diffraction, 61
* Discoveries in England and America, 179, 180
* Distance measurements, 49–63
* Distance of Planets, 150
* Distance of Stars, 89, 214, 262-270
* Distance of Sun, 88, 211
* Disturbance on Sun, 199
* Double Stars, 276–279
* Eagle, 268
* Earth seen from Mars, 145, 146
* Echo, 167, 249
* Eclipses, 119, 132–137, 165-169, 235–242
* Eclipse imitated, 235–242
* Eclipse of Moon, 231
* Eclipse of Sun, 232–242
* Eclipse Tracks, 233
* Egypt Eclipse, 248
* Ellipse, 17, 28
* England and America, discoveries, 179–180
* England, next Eclipse in, 234, 235
* Englishman, 38, 267, 268
* Escalators, 229
* Eyepiece, in, 123
* Faraday, Michael, 169
* Field of View in Telescopes, 105, 113
* Fixed Stars, 267, 268
* Flatness of Clusters, 283
* Fog in Space, 265
* Foucault, 29, 32
* Galileo, 7–9, 12, 24–29, 43–49, 77, 81, 123, 179, 196, 197, 295
* Galle, 163
* Gauss, 155
* Geneva, Lake (near Chicago), 110
* George III, King, 95
* George V, King, 115
* Georgium Sidus, 95
Gilbert, W. S., 220, 268
* Gill, Sir D., 261, 269
* Glacier, movement of, 294
* Glaisher, James, 74, 75
* Golf balls, hitting, 296
* Grahame-White, 72, 73
* Grating, 129
* Gravity, 5, 10–13, 21, 45, 153, 278, 284, 288
* Gray, 32
* Great Bear, 282
* Green, Mr. (of Royal Inst.), 174
* Green, N. E., 138, 140
* Greenwich, 57, 161, 162, 180, 195, 230
* Gregory, 82-85
* Griffith, George, 4, 164
* Groups of Stars, 278–284
* Grubb, Sir H., 116
* Gulliver's Travels, 106
* Gyro compass, 32–34
* Gyroscope, 32, 33, 181, 182 ​
* Hagen, J. G., 29
* Haggard, Rider, Sir, 165, 166
* Hale, G. E., 99, 121–126, 137, 221, 222, 230
* Halley, E., 27, 28, 36–40, 162, 267, 268
* Halley's Comet, 19, 38–40, 201–202
* Halos round Star images, 251
* Hamburg, 107
* Hansky, 214–218
* Harvard Observatory, 97, 178
* Heath, J. (of Royal Inst.), 64, 175, 176
* Heat of Sun, 206–211
* Height of Mountains in Moon, 184–187
* Helium, 79
* Hencke, 155
* Herschel, Caroline, 95, 107
* Herschel, William, 93–96, 107, 156, 198
* Hertz, 169
* Hevelius, 91
* Hodgson, R., 198, 199, 215, 224
* Hollis, H. P., 39
* Home Rule, 146, 147
* Honeymoon in Space, 4, 164
* Hooke, R., 25–28
* Horrox, J., 62–64
* Huggins, Sir W., 212, 218, 271
* Hydrogen on Sun, 220–223
* Icaromenippus, 1
* Illustrated London News, 204
* Image in Telescope, 111–113
* Iron filings and magnet, 220
* Japanese Eclipse, 119, 237
* Jerusalem, 40
* Jockey, 111, 112
* Josephus, 39
* Juno, 155
* Jupiter, 147–149, 152, 157, 180, 202, 231
* Jupiter's Satellites, 109, 164–169, 179, 231
* Kapteyn, J. C., 289, 291
* Kelvin, Lord, 210, 211
* Kepler, 16–21, 27, 153
* Kinematograph, 287
* King Solomon's Mines, 165
* Kish-wau-ke-toc, 110
* Kites, 67, 75, 76
* Ladies of Mount Wilson Staff, 124
* Layers of Air, 67
* Lens, 102
* Leonid Meteors, 203–206
* Leverrier, U. J., 159–164, 178
* Lick, James, 107–109
* Lick Observatory, 70, 107, 116, 180
* Life on Planets, 140–146, 187
* Light, Velocity of, 89, 168, 250
* Light-years, 262, 282, 283
* Liquid Air, 140, 188–191, 266
* Los Angeles, 99, 127
* Lowell, Percival, 142–144
* Lucian, 1
* Maelstrom, 222
* Magdeburg Hemispheres, 64, 65
* Magnetic Storms, 228, 229
* Magnetism of Sun, 219–223
* Magnifying power, 111
* Magnitudes of Stars, 257, 258
* Mars, 69, 70, 106, 138–148, 152, 157, 180, 187
* Mars, Moons of, 106
* Matilda, Queen, 40
* Maunder, E. W., 224–230
* Maundeville, Sir J., 54
* Maxwell, J. Clerk, 149, 150, 169
* McClean, Dr. F., 115
* Melotte, P. J., 180, 181
* Mercury, 157, 295
* Meteorological Office, 67, 78
* Meteors, 79–85, 200–206
* Meteors causing Sunspots, 200–206
* Migrating, 284–294
* Milky Way, 251, 291, 292
* Minor planets, 152–156
* Mirror, 92-98, 103
* Momentum, Angular, 176–177
* Mont Blanc, 88
* Moon, 2–4, 13, 21, 47–56, 86, 87, 157, 165, 173–174, 182–188, 225 ​
* 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 ​
* Saturn, 149, 157, 178–180, 202–206, 275–277
* Saturn, Ring of, 275–277
* Saturn, Satellites of, 165, 178, 181
* Saunder, S. A., 183-184
* Scale and colour compared, 273
* Selenium, 134
* Shadows of Lunar Mountains, 185
* Shakespeare, 24
* Shrinking of Sun, 174–177, 208–211
* Sights for observing, 15
* Sirius, 128, 262, 267, 282
* Sizes of Stars, 260–264
* Snow Horizontal Telescope, 120
* Sodium lines, 128
* Somersaults of Planets, 181, 182
* Sound, 85, 86, 167, 249
* Southern Cross, 251
* Spectroheliograph, 131, 216 223
* Spectroscope, 126–130,275–277
* Spider for balloons, 69, 77, 78
* Spreading of light, 264, 265
* Squint, 49–57, 262, 270
* Stars, distance of, 89
* Stars, streaming of, 284–291
* Stebbins, Joel, 134–137
* Stonehenge, 193, 194
* Stratton, F. J. M., 182
* Sun, 157, 192–248, 292–295
* Sun, distance of, 57–63, 88, 211
* Sun, movement of, 292–295
* Sun, photograph of, 195–196
* Sunrise, 193
* Sunspots, 195–198, 200–206
* Sun worship, 194
* Surface of Sun, 212–216
* Swift, Dean, 106
* Sykes, G., 144
* Taurus, Stream in, 280
* Telescope, 87–137
* Tennyson, A., 106, 268, 269, 297
* Theoria Motus, 155
* Tides, 226, 227
* Titius, 151
* Totem posts, 65, 66
* Tower Telescope, 121–126, 137
* Tracks of Eclipses, 233
* Train whistling, 271
* Tramp Abroad, 88, 294
* Transit of Venus, 57-63
* Trinity College, Cambridge, 26
* Trouvelot, 114, 115
* Turn-table, 177
* Twain, Mark, 88, 294
* Uraniborg, 15
* Uranus, 95, 156, 158–164, 180
* Vanishing Point, 281
* Vatican Observatory, 29
* Venus, 157
* Venus, Transit of, 57–63
* Verne, Jules, 2, 3, 11–13, 86, 87, 138, 183
* Vesta, 155
* Vesuvius, 185
* Victoria Telescope, 115
* Voyage in Space, 1, 266, 294
* Wallace, A. R., 141
* Waltzing of Stars, 277–279
* Washington Observatory, 106
* Water on Planets, 140–146, 188–189
* Watts, Dr. I., 116
* Week, Days of, 156
* Wells, H. G., 3, 87, 183, 188, 189
* Westminster Abbey, 164
* Whitworth Planes, 65
* Windmills, 72
* Wireless Telegraphy, 170
* Wireless Vibrations, 250, 293
* Wolf's Sunspot numbers, 201
* Xenon, 79
* Yerkes, C. T., 109
* Yerkes Observatory, 42, 104, 109, 110, 116