Chacornac, 18, 84 Chamælion, 305 Chamberlin, 194 Chambers, 72 "Charles' Wain," 240 Chinese Annals, 19, 30, 105, 186, 223, 267, 330 Childrey, 128 Chiron, 295 Christmann, 281 Chromosphere, sun's, 4 Cicero, 49, 262, 280, 355 Circinus, 307 Clavius, 334 Climate, 45 "Coal Sack," 293, 320 Cobham, 88, 102 Colbert, 175 Colours of stars, 140, 141, 188-190 Coma Berenices, 297, 298 Comets, number of, 98 " tails of, 115, 116 Comet years, 104 Comiers, 99 Comstock, 90, 146 Condamine, 257 Conon, 297 Coon Butte mountain, 120, 121 Cooper, 3 Copeland, 76, 157 Corona, sun's, 1, 334 " round moon, 35, 36 Corona Australis, 295 Corvinus, 292 Corvus, 292 Cotsworth, 46 Cowell, 105 Crabtree, 337 Crater, 291 Craters on moon, 55, 56 Crawford, 348 Crecy, Battle of, 333 Crescent of Venus, 19, 20 Crommelin, 105, 111 Crucifixion, 18 Curtis, 344 Cusps of Venus, 20 Cygnus, (61), 155 Cynocephalus, 222 D Dante, 156, 258, 265 Dark shade on moon, 333 D'Arrest, 94 Darwin, Sir George, 158, 319 "David's Chariot," 241 Davis, 155 Dawes, 168 "Dawn proclaimer," 251 Delambre, 185 Delauney, 347 Dembowski, 190 Demetrius, 111 Denning, 11, 74, 77, 84, 86, 87, 89, 99, 118, 340 Derham, 21, 23 Deucalion, 268 De Vico, 21, 22 Diamonds in meteorites, 127 Dilkur, 251 Diodorus Siculus, 127 Diogenes Laertius, 41 Diomed, 272 Dione, 89 "Dipper," 241 Doberck, 160 Dollond, 24 Domitian, 334 Donati's comet, 100 Dorado, 304 Dordona, 256 Dorn, 245 Douglass, 81 Dragon, 242 Draper, 75 Drayton, 156 Dreyer, 115 Drifting stars, 152 Dryden, 242 Duncan, 187 Dunlop, 264 Dupret, 83 Dupuis, 245, 252, 257, 258, 259, 266, 267, 268 "Dusky star," 272 E "Earthen jar," 247 Earth's attraction on moon, 55 Earth's motions, 39 " rotation, 46 " surface, 32 "Earthshine" on moon, 51, 52, 56, 57 Eastmann, 316 Easton, 323, 324, 325 Eclipses, ancient, 52, 53, 57, 58 " dark, of moon, 53, 57, 58 Ecliptic, obliquity of, 47 Eddington, 357 Electra, 19 Elster, 39 Emerson, 353 Enceladus, 89 Encke, 113, 116, 240 Ennis, 189 Eratosthenes, 250, 297, 345 Eridanus, 274-278 Eros, 69, 70, 71 Eta Argus, 177, 287 Eudemus, 47 Eudoxus, 218, 219, 223 Euler, 56 Eunomia, 71 Europa, 252 F Fabritius, 4, 101 Fabry, 1 Faint stars in telescope, 176 "False Cross," 156 "Famous stars," 246 Fath, 130, 213 Faye, 100 February, Five Sundays in, 36 Fergani, 189 "Fisher Stars," 256 "Fishes in Andromeda," 249 Fitzgerald, 127 Flammarion, 22, 26, 50, 138, 255, 265, 276 Flamsteed, 348 "Flat earth" theory, 32 Fomalhaut, 271, 309, 310 Fontana, 20 Fontenelle, 357 Forbes, 82, 95, 96 Fornax, 301 Fournier, 87 Fovea, 284