The Story of EclipsesChambers, George F. (George Frederick)
History
The Story of Eclipses
Chambers, George F. (George Frederick)
Eclipses
CHAMBERS, G. F. _The Tourist’s Pocket-Book._ [Vocabulary of 16
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THIMM, C. A. _Spanish Washing Lists for both Sexes._ 6_d._
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[Illustration: DIAGRAM OF CONSPICUOUS STARS AND PLANETS LIKELY TO BE
VISIBLE DURING THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN, MAY 28, 1900.]
INDEX.
⁂ The Eclipses referred to in the Chapters on History (VIII.-XIII.) are
not, as regards dates, dealt with in this Index.
A.
Aberdour, Lord, 159.
Agathocles, The Eclipse of, 120.
Ahaz, Dial of, 90, 96, 101.
Airy, Sir G. B., 48, 74, 83, 84, 89, 110, 111, 113, 115, 123, 124, 144,
164, 167.
_Almanac, British_, 219.
_Almanac, Nautical_, 26, 35, 234, 238.
Ammianus Marcellinus, 133.
_Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_, 136, 137, 138, 142, 143, 146, 148, 205, 206,
207, 208, 209.
_Annales Fuldenses_, 143, 207.
Annular Eclipses of the Sun, 16.
Apollonius of Tyana, 130.
Arabian Records, 132, 138.
Arago, 125, 164.
Archilochus, 108.
Aristophanes, 199.
Ascending Node, 18.
Asser, 144.
B.
Baily, F., 57, 112, 122, 164.
“Baily’s Beads,” 57, 64, 164.
Barker, Sir R., 102.
Bede, 205.
Beer, 217.
Bible, Eclipses mentioned in, 86.
Biot, E., 80.
“Black” Eclipses of the Moon, 189.
Blackness of the Moon during Solar Eclipses, 43.
Blake, 48.
Boillot, 135.
Bosanquet, J. W., 91, 95, 101.
C.
Calvisius, 133, 137, 146, 221.
Carlini, 164.
Carrington, R. C., 60.
Cassini, 158.
Caussin, 139.
Cedrenus, 208.
Celoria, Prof., 150.
Chinese Eclipses of the Sun, 75.
—— of the Moon, 197.
Chromosphere, 60.
_Chronicon Scotorum_, 143.
Churton, Archdeacon, 210.
Cicero, 108, 109, 118.
Classical History, Eclipses mentioned in, 107.
Clavius, 64, 152.
Columbus, 211.
Confucius, 81.
Conjunction of the Moon, 31.
Copper colour of Moon in Lunar Eclipses, 192.
Corona, 56, 62, 105, 130, 144, 157, 159, 161, 168, 169.
Coronium, 69.
Crabtree, W., 215.
Crucifixion, The darkness at, 129.
D.
Delambre, 81.
De La Rue, W., 168.
De Louville, 158.
Descending Node, 18.
Dial of Ahaz, 90, 96, 101.
Digit explained, 28.
Diodorus Siculus, 120.
Diogenes Laërtius, 94.
Dion Cassius, 128, 130.
Draconic Month, 20.
Dreyer, J. L. E., 221.
Du Sèjour, 37, 39.
E.
Earthquakes and Eclipses, 75.
Earth-shine, 61.
Eclipsareon, Ferguson’s, 222.
Eclipse, Derivation of the word, 11.
——, number of in a year, 13.
—— of the Moon, 11.
—— of the Sun, 11.
——, Theory of, 15.
Eclipse of the Sun of May 28, 1900, 9, 40, 66, 71, 239.
Ennius, 118.
F.
Ferguson, J., 215, 221.
Ferrer, Don J., 163.
Flamsteed, J., 155, 215.
Florence of Worcester, 143.
Forster, 192.
Freeman, Prof. E. A., 146.
Full Moon, 13.
G.
Gassendi, P., 215, 221.
Gaubil, 80.
Gemma Frisius, 152.
Gilliss, Lieut. J. M., 168.
Ginzel, 75, 131.
Glaber, 145, 208.
Glycas, 92.
Grant, R., 131.
Graydon, 174.
Gregorius Turonensis, 135.
H.
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