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The Book of Stars: Being a Simple Explanation of the Stars and Their Uses to Boy LifeCollins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick)

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The Book of Stars: Being a Simple Explanation of the Stars and Their Uses to Boy Life

Name: The Book of Stars: Being a Simple Explanation of the Stars and Their Uses to Boy Life
Author: Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick)

Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick)

Astronomy -- Juvenile literature; Stars -- Juvenile literature

Magellan’s voyage, 67.
    Magnet, Earth a great, 77.
    Magnet, steel bar, 76.
    Magnetic lines of force, 76.
    Magnetic North Pole and true North Pole, 76, 88.
    Magnetic storms, 34.
    Magnitude of stars, 199.
    Man in the Moon, 93.
    Mariner’s compass, 78.
    Mars, 47, 49.
      is it peopled? 49.
      through a telescope, 149.
    Mean length, defined, 154.
    Mean solar time, 154.
    Mean time, 152.
    Mercury, 47, 48, 61.
      phases of, 48.
      through a telescope, 148.
    Meridian defined, 18.
      prime, 156.
      your, 61.
      zero, 156.
    Meridians, fixed, 157.
      of longitude, 85.
      standard, 86, 156.
    Meteorites, kinds of, 117.
      tests for, 117.
    Meteors, and meteorites, 116.
      orbits of, 116.
    Merit badge for starcraft, 193.
    Milk dipper in the Milky Way, 181.
    Milky Way, stars of the, 117, 118.
      through a glass, 150.
    Mizar in the Big Dipper, 11, 150.
    Moon, 89.
      Apennines on the, 146.
      aspects of the, 94.
      Copernicus on the, 148.
      crescent, 93.
      day and year of the, 94.
      and Earth joined together, 89.
      eclipse of the, 107.
      eclipse of Sun by the, 110.
      gibbous, 93.
      Grimaldi on the, 94, 147.
      Harvest and Hunter’s, 99.
      how it cracked, 144.
      if you were on it, 101.
      imitating volcanoes on the, 91.
      Man in the, 93.
      motions of the, 94.
      old, in the new Moon’s arms, 93.
      other things about the, 106.
      phases of the, how made, 94, 95, 96.
      photographing the, 188.
      seas on the, 144.
      seeing the, with the naked eye, 92.
      telling time by the, 105.
      through a telescope, 144.
      time marked by the, 151.
      a trip to the, 101.
      Tycho on the, 144.
      volcanoes on the, 91.
      weather, and the, 105.
      where it came from, 90.
    Moon girl, 146.
    Morning star, Venus, 50.
    Morse Code, 39.
    Motions of the Moon, 94.
    Mountain time, 160.

    Naked eye aids, 139.
    Naked eye view of the Moon, 93.
    Nebula, 114, 118.
      of Orion, great, 119.
    Nebular hypothesis, 119.
    Nebulæ, different forms of, 119.
    Neptune, the outpost planet, 47, 53.
      seeing, 53.
      through a telescope, 149.
    North, to find, by a watch, 45.
      with Capella, 24.
      with Orion, 23.
      with Pegasus, 19.
    North magnetic pole, 76.
    North Pole, 8.
      explorers at the, 87.
      how to know you are at, 87.
      shadows at, 88.
      true, and magnetic North Pole, 76, 88.
    North Star, 1, 2, 4.
      how to find, 1, 2.
      how to find latitude of, 83.
      sighting the, 2.
      through a glass, 150.
    Northern Cross, 202.
    Northern Lights, 34.

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The Book of Stars: Being a Simple Explanation of the Stars and Their Uses to Boy LifeCollins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick)

Science

The Book of Stars: Being a Simple Explanation of the Stars and Their Uses to Boy Life

Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick)

Astronomy -- Juvenile literature; Stars -- Juvenile literature

Magellan’s voyage, 67.
    Magnet, Earth a great, 77.
    Magnet, steel bar, 76.
    Magnetic lines of force, 76.
    Magnetic North Pole and true North Pole, 76, 88.
    Magnetic storms, 34.
    Magnitude of stars, 199.
    Man in the Moon, 93.
    Mariner’s compass, 78.
    Mars, 47, 49.
      is it peopled? 49.
      through a telescope, 149.
    Mean length, defined, 154.
    Mean solar time, 154.
    Mean time, 152.
    Mercury, 47, 48, 61.
      phases of, 48.
      through a telescope, 148.
    Meridian defined, 18.
      prime, 156.
      your, 61.
      zero, 156.
    Meridians, fixed, 157.
      of longitude, 85.
      standard, 86, 156.
    Meteorites, kinds of, 117.
      tests for, 117.
    Meteors, and meteorites, 116.
      orbits of, 116.
    Merit badge for starcraft, 193.
    Milk dipper in the Milky Way, 181.
    Milky Way, stars of the, 117, 118.
      through a glass, 150.
    Mizar in the Big Dipper, 11, 150.
    Moon, 89.
      Apennines on the, 146.
      aspects of the, 94.
      Copernicus on the, 148.
      crescent, 93.
      day and year of the, 94.
      and Earth joined together, 89.
      eclipse of the, 107.
      eclipse of Sun by the, 110.
      gibbous, 93.
      Grimaldi on the, 94, 147.
      Harvest and Hunter’s, 99.
      how it cracked, 144.
      if you were on it, 101.
      imitating volcanoes on the, 91.
      Man in the, 93.
      motions of the, 94.
      old, in the new Moon’s arms, 93.
      other things about the, 106.
      phases of the, how made, 94, 95, 96.
      photographing the, 188.
      seas on the, 144.
      seeing the, with the naked eye, 92.
      telling time by the, 105.
      through a telescope, 144.
      time marked by the, 151.
      a trip to the, 101.
      Tycho on the, 144.
      volcanoes on the, 91.
      weather, and the, 105.
      where it came from, 90.
    Moon girl, 146.
    Morning star, Venus, 50.
    Morse Code, 39.
    Motions of the Moon, 94.
    Mountain time, 160.

    Naked eye aids, 139.
    Naked eye view of the Moon, 93.
    Nebula, 114, 118.
      of Orion, great, 119.
    Nebular hypothesis, 119.
    Nebulæ, different forms of, 119.
    Neptune, the outpost planet, 47, 53.
      seeing, 53.
      through a telescope, 149.
    North, to find, by a watch, 45.
      with Capella, 24.
      with Orion, 23.
      with Pegasus, 19.
    North magnetic pole, 76.
    North Pole, 8.
      explorers at the, 87.
      how to know you are at, 87.
      shadows at, 88.
      true, and magnetic North Pole, 76, 88.
    North Star, 1, 2, 4.
      how to find, 1, 2.
      how to find latitude of, 83.
      sighting the, 2.
      through a glass, 150.
    Northern Cross, 202.
    Northern Lights, 34.

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The Book of Stars: Being a Simple Explanation of the Stars and Their Uses to Boy Life

The Book of Stars: Being a Simple Explanation of the Stars and Their Uses to Boy Life

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