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CONTENTS OF THE CATALOGUE. 



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lObservations of the Places of the Planets 357 



Observations of the Secondary Planets 357 



Lunar Observations 357 



Corrections : Refraction, and Parallax 357 



Moon's Appearance 358 



Observations of the Earth's Motion 358 



Geography 358 



Figure and Magnitude of the Earth 358 



Tabular domparison of Observations 362 

 Length of a Degree on the Level of the Sea 36a 



Length of the Pendulum 363 

 Ellipticity, or Excess of the Equator above 



the Axis • 363 



Density of the Earth 364 



Observations for finding the Situation of Places 364 



I Latitudes ' S65 



[Longitudes 365 



Particular Geography 365 



[Table of Heigh'ts - 367 



Observations of the Tides 368 



Naviu;ation 370 



Collections of Observations and Tables 37 1 



Corrections 371 



Klementsand Epochs 371 



Tables of Places of the Heavenly Bodies 373 

 Projections, Charts, Globes, Orreries, and other Instruments, 



illustrative of Astronomy and Geography 374 

 History of Astronomy and Geography 376 

 Properties of Matter in General 377 

 Divisibility of Matter 378 

 Repulsion, or Impenetrability 378 

 Inertia 379 

 Nature of Gravitation 379 

 Cohesion in General 380 

 [Cohesion and Capillary Action of Fluids 380 

 jFluidity of Liquids, and firmness of Solids 383 

 Heat and Cold 383 

 Sources of Heat and Cold 385 

 Sources simply Mechanical ; Friction, Compression 385 

 Combustion 385 

 ■Spontaneous Combustion 385 

 Effects of Heat 385 

 Temporary Effects and Measures of Heat. 385 

 Expansion. Pyrometers, Thermometers 385 

 lExpansions of different Substances 390 

 Effects of Heat on the Form of Aggregation 394 

 Freezing, Thawing, and Melting 394 

 Degrees of Fluidity 396 

 Boiling, Simple Evaporation, Sublimation, Vola- 

 tilisation and Deposition 396' 

 Construction of Thermometers 398 

 Comparative Table of Thermometers ' 399 



