92. THE KÖNIGSBERG HELIOMETER 312
93. PERTURBATIONS OF URANUS 320
94. URANUS' AND NEPTUNE'S RELATIVE POSITIONS 325
95. METEORITE 333
96. METEOR STREAM CROSSING FIELD OF TELESCOPE 334
97. DIAGRAM OF DIRECTION OF EARTH'S ORBITAL MOTION 335
98. PARABOLIC AND ELLIPTIC ORBITS 340
99. ORBIT OF HALLEY'S COMET 341
100. VARIOUS APPEARANCES OF HALLEY'S COMET WHEN LAST SEEN 342
101. HEAD OF DONATI'S COMET OF 1858 343
102. COMET 344
103. ENCKE'S COMET 345
104. BIELA'S COMET AS LAST SEEN IN TWO PORTIONS 346
105. RADIANT POINT PERSPECTIVE 348
106. PRESENT ORBIT OF NOVEMBER METEORS 349
107. ORBIT OF NOVEMBER METEORS BEFORE AND AFTER ENCOUNTER
WITH URANUS 351
108. THE MERSEY 355
109. CO-TIDAL LINES, SHOWING THE WAY THE TIDAL WAVE
REACHES THE BRITISH ISLES FROM THE ATLANTIC 359
110. WHIRLING EARTH MODEL 364
111. EARTH AND MOON MODEL 365
112. EARTH AND MOON (EARTH'S ROTATION NEGLECTED) 366
113. MAPS SHOWING HOW COMPARATIVELY FREE FROM LAND OBSTRUCTION
THE OCEAN IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE IS 369
114. SPRING AND NEAP TIDES 370
115. TIDAL CLOCK 371
116. SIR WILLIAM THOMSON (LORD KELVIN) 373
117. TIDE-GAUGE FOR RECORDING LOCAL TIDES 375
118. HARMONIC ANALYZER 375
119. TIDE-PREDICTER 376
120. WEEKLY SHEET OF CURVES 377
PIONEERS OF SCIENCE
PART I
_FROM DUSK TO DAYLIGHT_
DATES AND SUMMARY OF FACTS FOR LECTURE I
_Physical Science of the Ancients._ Thales 640 B.C., Anaximander 610
B.C., PYTHAGORAS 600 B.C., Anaxagoras 500 B.C., Eudoxus 400 B.C.,
ARISTOTLE 384 B.C., Aristarchus 300 B.C., ARCHIMEDES 287 B.C.,
Eratosthenes 276 B.C., HIPPARCHUS 160 B.C., Ptolemy 100 A.D.
_Science of the Middle Ages._ Cultivated only among the Arabs; largely
in the forms of astrology, alchemy, and algebra.
_Return of Science to Europe._ Roger Bacon 1240, Leonardo da Vinci 1480,
(Printing 1455), Columbus 1492, Copernicus 1543.
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