" 2. THEORY OF TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN 15 " 3. THEORY OF AN ANNULAR ECLIPSE OF THE SUN 16 " 4. ANNULAR ECLIPSE OF THE SUN 16 " 5. PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN 17 " 6. SHADOW BANDS 47 " 7. RAYS OF LIGHT SEEN DURING TOTALITY 49 " 8. BRUSHES OF LIGHT 57 " 9. “BAILY’S BEADS,” FOUR STAGES, AT BRIEF INTERVALS (MAY 15, 1836) 58 " 10. CORONA OF 1882. SUN-SPOT MAXIMUM 68 " 11. CORONA OF 1867. SUN-SPOT MINIMUM 70 " 12. ECLIPSE OF JAN. 11, 689 B.C. AT JERUSALEM 100 " 13. THEORY OF AN ECLIPSE OF THE MOON 187 " 14. CONDITIONS OF ECLIPSES OF THE MOON 189 " 15. OCCULTATION OF JUPITER, AUG. 7, 1889 (IMMERSION) 237 " 16. OCCULTATION OF JUPITER, AUG. 7, 1889 (IMMERSION) 237 " 17. OCCULTATION OF JUPITER, AUG. 7, 1889 (EMERSION) 238 " 18. OCCULTATION OF JUPITER, AUG. 7, 1889 (EMERSION) 238 " 19. PATH OF THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN OF MAY 28, 1900 _at end of book._ THE STORY OF ECLIPSES. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. It may, I fear, be taken as a truism that “the man in the street” (collectively, the “general public”) knows little and cares less for what is called physical science. Now and again when something remarkable happens, such as a great thunderstorm, or an earthquake, or a volcanic eruption, or a brilliant comet, or a total eclipse, something in fact which has become the talk of the town, our friend will condescend to give the matter the barest amount of attention, whilst he is filling his pipe or mixing a whisky and soda; but there is not in England that general attention given to the displays of nature and the philosophy of those displays, which certainly is a characteristic of the phlegmatic German. However, things are better than they used to be, and the forthcoming total eclipse of the Sun of May 28, 1900 (visible as it will be as a partial eclipse all over Great Britain and Ireland, and as a total eclipse in countries so near to Great Britain as Spain and Portugal, to say nothing of the United States), will probably not only attract a good deal of attention on the part of many millions of English-speaking people, but may also be expected to induce a numerically respectable remnant to give their minds and thoughts, with a certain amount of patient attention, to the Science and Philosophy of Eclipses.