A Voyage in Space/Index

by Herbert Hall Turner

INDEX

• Abbot, C. G., 200
• Adams, J. C., 159-164, 178
• Aerolite, Appley Bridge, 84
• Aeroplanes, 67, 7173
• Air Currents, 143
• Airy, Sir G. B., 161-163
• Aldebaran, 267
• Algol, 131-137
• Alice in Wonderland, 20
• American and English discoveries, 179, 180
• American tourist, 227
• Andromeda, Great Nebula in, 113–115
• Andromeda, Split Nebula in, 255
• Apparatus for Gravity, 22, 45
• Appley Bridge Aerolite, 84
• Approach and recession, effects of, 270-277
• Arcturus, 267
• Argon, 78
• Aristotle, 5, 13
• Astrologers, 157
• Astronomer Royal, 161–163, 180, 237
• "Astronomical Reprobate," 133
• Atmosphere of Earth, 63–81, 143
• Atmosphere of Mars, 138-144
• Atmosphere of Moon, 188
• Atmosphere of Sun, 241-248
• Atwood's machine, 29
• Australian Solar Observatory, 231

 

• Ball, Sir Robert, 18
• Balloons, 67, 68, 74–78
• Balls falling, 7–10
• Barnard, E. E., 42, 109, 144,180
• Base for measuring distances, 51–57
• Bayeux tapestry, 40
• Bellamy, F. A., 77
• Bellamy, Miss E. F., 283
• Betelgeuse, 267
• Billiard balls, 44, 166, 286
• Birds flying, 281–283
• Black drop, 60
• Bode, 150, 156, 160, 179, 230
• Bolton, Scriven, 147
• Boss, Lewis, 280, 288
• Brahe, Tycho, 14-16
• Bright stars, 251, 252, 261–263
• Brightness of Corona, 243, 244
• British Association, 78
• Britons, Ancient, 193
• Bull-roarer, 274
• Burning-glass, 103, 266

 

• Calcium Light, 218
• Camberwell Beauties, 79
• Cambridge, 26, 27, 161, 163
• Camera, 91
• Campbell, Elizabeth, 70
• Campbell, W. W., 69, 70
• Canals of Mars, 140
• Cape of Good Hope Observatory, 57, 116
• Carrington, R. C., 198, 199, 215, 224
• Cavendish, Henry, 13
• Cavorite, 3, 87
• Cawthron, J., 231
• Centre of our Cluster, 284–292
• Ceres, 153-155, 178
• Chamonix, 88
• Chinese Sunspots, 197, 204, 206
• Chromosphere, 216, 217
• Cigar, lighting a, 50
• Clark, Alvan, 106-108
• Cluster, Gravity and centre of our, 284-292
• Cluster in Hercules, 259
• Cluster in Taurus, 280
• Cluster in Ursa Major, 282-283
• Coelostat, 119–123
• Coin and Feather, 10
• Cold of space, 68–69, 266
• Collisions of Stars, 287, 288, 296, 298
• Colour, 91, 101–104, 126–130, 273–277
• Colour and musical scale, 273
• Colour change with motion, 273–277
• Colours of Double Stars, 277
• Comets, 19, 35, 42
• Common, A. A., 97
• Convergence of movements, 280, 288–291
• Cook, Captain James, 62
• Corona, 241-248
• Counts of Stars, 256-258
• Coxwell, 75
• Crabtree, 62
• Crawling as effect of distance, 269, 280
• Czar of Russia, 107

 

• Daily Graphic, 112
• Daily Mirror, 251
• Damping oscillations, 33
• Dark stars, 132–137, 252–257
• Darwin, Charles, 9
• Darwin, Sir G. H., 45
• Davidson, George, 108
• Dawes, Rev. W. R., 106
• Deception in size, 260–263
• Dewar, Sir James, 30, 80
• Diamonds, formation of, 83
• Diffraction, 61
• Discoveries in England and America, 179, 180
• Distance measurements, 49–63
• Distance of Planets, 150
• Distance of Stars, 89, 214, 262-270
• Distance of Sun, 88, 211
• Disturbance on Sun, 199
• Double Stars, 276–279

 

• Eagle, 268
• Earth seen from Mars, 145, 146
• Echo, 167, 249
• Eclipses, 119, 132–137, 165-169, 235–242
• Eclipse imitated, 235–242
• Eclipse of Moon, 231
• Eclipse of Sun, 232–242
• Eclipse Tracks, 233
• Egypt Eclipse, 248
• Ellipse, 17, 28
• England and America, discoveries, 179–180
• England, next Eclipse in, 234, 235
• Englishman, 38, 267, 268
• Escalators, 229
• Eyepiece, in, 123

 

• Faraday, Michael, 169
• Field of View in Telescopes, 105, 113
• Fixed Stars, 267, 268
• Flatness of Clusters, 283
• Fog in Space, 265
• Foucault, 29, 32

 

• Galileo, 7–9, 12, 24–29, 43–49, 77, 81, 123, 179, 196, 197, 295
• Galle, 163
• Gauss, 155
• Geneva, Lake (near Chicago), 110
• George III, King, 95
• George V, King, 115
• Georgium Sidus, 95

Gilbert, W. S., 220, 268

• Gill, Sir D., 261, 269
• Glacier, movement of, 294
• Glaisher, James, 74, 75
• Golf balls, hitting, 296
• Grahame-White, 72, 73
• Grating, 129
• Gravity, 5, 10–13, 21, 45, 153, 278, 284, 288
• Gray, 32
• Great Bear, 282
• Green, Mr. (of Royal Inst.), 174
• Green, N. E., 138, 140
• Greenwich, 57, 161, 162, 180, 195, 230
• Gregory, 82-85
• Griffith, George, 4, 164
• Groups of Stars, 278–284
• Grubb, Sir H., 116
• Gulliver's Travels, 106
• Gyro compass, 32–34
• Gyroscope, 32, 33, 181, 182
• Hagen, J. G., 29
• Haggard, Rider, Sir, 165, 166
• Hale, G. E., 99, 121–126, 137, 221, 222, 230
• Halley, E., 27, 28, 36–40, 162, 267, 268
• Halley's Comet, 19, 38–40, 201–202
• Halos round Star images, 251
• Hamburg, 107
• Hansky, 214–218
• Harvard Observatory, 97, 178
• Heath, J. (of Royal Inst.), 64, 175, 176
• Heat of Sun, 206–211
• Height of Mountains in Moon, 184–187
• Helium, 79
• Hencke, 155
• Herschel, Caroline, 95, 107
• Herschel, William, 93–96, 107, 156, 198
• Hertz, 169
• Hevelius, 91
• Hodgson, R., 198, 199, 215, 224
• Hollis, H. P., 39
• Home Rule, 146, 147
• Honeymoon in Space, 4, 164
• Hooke, R., 25–28
• Horrox, J., 62–64
• Huggins, Sir W., 212, 218, 271
• Hydrogen on Sun, 220–223

 

• Icaromenippus, 1
• Illustrated London News, 204
• Image in Telescope, 111–113
• Iron filings and magnet, 220

 

• Japanese Eclipse, 119, 237
• Jerusalem, 40
• Jockey, 111, 112
• Josephus, 39
• Juno, 155
• Jupiter, 147–149, 152, 157, 180, 202, 231
• Jupiter's Satellites, 109, 164–169, 179, 231

 

• Kapteyn, J. C., 289, 291
• Kelvin, Lord, 210, 211
• Kepler, 16–21, 27, 153
• Kinematograph, 287
• King Solomon's Mines, 165
• Kish-wau-ke-toc, 110
• Kites, 67, 75, 76

 

• Ladies of Mount Wilson Staff, 124
• Layers of Air, 67
• Lens, 102
• Leonid Meteors, 203–206
• Leverrier, U. J., 159–164, 178
• Lick, James, 107–109
• Lick Observatory, 70, 107, 116, 180
• Life on Planets, 140–146, 187
• Light, Velocity of, 89, 168, 250
• Light-years, 262, 282, 283
• Liquid Air, 140, 188–191, 266
• Los Angeles, 99, 127
• Lowell, Percival, 142–144
• Lucian, 1

 

• Maelstrom, 222
• Magdeburg Hemispheres, 64, 65
• Magnetic Storms, 228, 229
• Magnetism of Sun, 219–223
• Magnifying power, 111
• Magnitudes of Stars, 257, 258
• Mars, 69, 70, 106, 138–148, 152, 157, 180, 187
• Mars, Moons of, 106
• Matilda, Queen, 40
• Maunder, E. W., 224–230
• Maundeville, Sir J., 54
• Maxwell, J. Clerk, 149, 150, 169
• McClean, Dr. F., 115
• Melotte, P. J., 180, 181
• Mercury, 157, 295
• Meteorological Office, 67, 78
• Meteors, 79–85, 200–206
• Meteors causing Sunspots, 200–206
• Migrating, 284–294
• Milky Way, 251, 291, 292
• Minor planets, 152–156
• Mirror, 92-98, 103
• Momentum, Angular, 176–177
• Mont Blanc, 88
• Moon, 2–4, 13, 21, 47–56, 86, 87, 157, 165, 173–174, 182–188, 225
• Moon, "First Men in," 3
• Mountains in Moon, 184–187
• Mount Whitney, 69, 70
• Mount Wilson, 69, 97-99, 120–124, 221
• Motor-car, 271
• Murray, Sir James, 71

 

• Nasmyth, James, 213, 218
• Nasmyth and Carpenter, 185
• Nautical Almanac, 186
• Nebula in Cygnus, 256
• Nebula, Great, in Andromeda, 113–115
• Nebula round Nova Persei, 297
• Nebula, Split.in Andromeda, 255
• Nelson, Horatio, 62
• Neon, 79
• Neptune, 160–164, 180, 295
• Newton, Sir Isaac, 12, 20–29, 34–37, 153, 278
• New Zealand, Solar Observatory, 231
• Nicholson, S. B., 180, 181
• Nile floods, 142
• Normans, 40
• North Pole, 34
• Nova Persei, 296–298

• Object glass, 123
• Obscuring patches, 252–257
• Oil in alcohol and water, 174–175
• Origin of planets, 170
• Oxford, 27, 37, 65,71, 268, 292
• Oxford Radcliffe Observatory, 183
• Oxford University Observatory, 119
• Pallas, 155
• Pan, Peter, 31
• Parabola, 35-38
• Parallax (see distance)
• Paris Observatory, 164
• Parsons, Hon. C. A., 83, 96
• Pasadena, 99, 127
• Patience (operetta), 220
• Pearson's Magazine, 47, 48
• Pendulum, 29–31, 43, 44, 285, 290, 295
• Perrine, C. D., 180, 181
• Perturbations, 158–164, 202
• Petrograd, 107
• Phoebe, 177–182
• Photography of Stars, 117, 118
• Piazzi, 152, 154, 178
• Pickering, W. H., 178
• Pisa, 7–9, 26, 43
• Pleiades, movements of, 279
• Plumb-line, 33
• Polarization of Corona, 244–248
• Poles of Mars, 139, 145
• Police, Astronomical, 152, 156
• Pressure of Air, 64–71
• Prism, 101, 129
• Proctor, R. A., 280, 281
• Prominences, 216, 217
• Ptolemy, 267
• Pulkovo, 107
• Punch, 133
• Puppets, 260, 261

 

• Radium, 210, 211
• Ramsay, Sir W., 79
• Range-finder, 55
• Rapid Stars, distances of, 269
• Rayleigh, Lord, 72, 78
• Reed, E. J., 133
• Refraction, 99–102
• Repsolds, 107
• Retrograde Satellites, 180–182
• Ribbons, coloured, 130
• Riffelberg, 88
• Roemer, O., 168, 169
• Rosse, Lord, 96, 104, 115
• Rotation, effects of, 170–177
• Rotation of Earth, 29–34, 116
• Rotation of Sun, 195–198, 228 230
• Royal Astronomical Society, 21, 184
• Royal Institution, 169
• Royal Society, 26, 28
• Russell, John, R.A., 183

 

• St. Andrews, 296
• St. John, C. E., 222, 224
• San Francisco Earthquake, 108
• Satellites, formation of, 175, 208
• Saturn, 149, 157, 178–180, 202–206, 275–277
• Saturn, Ring of, 275–277
• Saturn, Satellites of, 165, 178, 181
• Saunder, S. A., 183-184
• Scale and colour compared, 273
• Selenium, 134
• Shadows of Lunar Mountains, 185
• Shakespeare, 24
• Shrinking of Sun, 174–177, 208–211
• Sights for observing, 15
• Sirius, 128, 262, 267, 282
• Sizes of Stars, 260–264
• Snow Horizontal Telescope, 120
• Sodium lines, 128
• Somersaults of Planets, 181, 182
• Sound, 85, 86, 167, 249
• Southern Cross, 251
• Spectroheliograph, 131, 216 223
• Spectroscope, 126–130,275–277
• Spider for balloons, 69, 77, 78
• Spreading of light, 264, 265
• Squint, 49–57, 262, 270
• Stars, distance of, 89
• Stars, streaming of, 284–291
• Stebbins, Joel, 134–137
• Stonehenge, 193, 194
• Stratton, F. J. M., 182
• Sun, 157, 192–248, 292–295
• Sun, distance of, 57–63, 88, 211
• Sun, movement of, 292–295
• Sun, photograph of, 195–196
• Sunrise, 193
• Sunspots, 195–198, 200–206
• Sun worship, 194
• Surface of Sun, 212–216
• Swift, Dean, 106
• Sykes, G., 144

 

• Taurus, Stream in, 280
• Telescope, 87–137
• Tennyson, A., 106, 268, 269, 297
• Theoria Motus, 155
• Tides, 226, 227
• Titius, 151
• Totem posts, 65, 66
• Tower Telescope, 121–126, 137
• Tracks of Eclipses, 233
• Train whistling, 271
• Tramp Abroad, 88, 294
• Transit of Venus, 57-63
• Trinity College, Cambridge, 26
• Trouvelot, 114, 115
• Turn-table, 177
• Twain, Mark, 88, 294

 

• Uraniborg, 15
• Uranus, 95, 156, 158–164, 180

 

• Vanishing Point, 281
• Vatican Observatory, 29
• Venus, 157
• Venus, Transit of, 57–63
• Verne, Jules, 2, 3, 11–13, 86, 87, 138, 183
• Vesta, 155
• Vesuvius, 185
• Victoria Telescope, 115
• Voyage in Space, 1, 266, 294
• Wallace, A. R., 141
• Waltzing of Stars, 277–279
• Washington Observatory, 106
• Water on Planets, 140–146, 188–189
• Watts, Dr. I., 116
• Week, Days of, 156
• Wells, H. G., 3, 87, 183, 188, 189
• Westminster Abbey, 164
• Whitworth Planes, 65
• Windmills, 72
• Wireless Telegraphy, 170
• Wireless Vibrations, 250, 293
• Wolf's Sunspot numbers, 201

 

• Xenon, 79
• Yerkes, C. T., 109
• Yerkes Observatory, 42, 104, 109, 110, 116

 

• Zodiac, 117, 153, 250