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nebulous spots are interspersed with numerous stellar swarms* 

 The so-called black spots (Coal-sacks) of the Southern hemi- 

 sphere, pp. 291350. 



/5. SOLAR REGION, pp. 351466. 



I. The Sun considered as the central body, pp. 359 401. 



II. The Planets, pp. 402 166. 



A. General consideration of the planetary world, pp. 402466. 



a. Principal Planets, pp. 403 462. 



b. Secondary Planets, pp. 462466. 



B. Special enumeration of the planets and their moons fa parts 

 of the solar system, p. 467. 



Sun, pp. 467 170. 

 Mercury, pp. 470 473. 

 Venus, pp. 473476. 

 Earth, pp. 476, 477. 



Moon of the Earth, pp. 477 502. 

 Mars, p. 502504. 

 The small planets, p. 505 ; Flora, Victoria, Vesta, Iris, 



Metis, Hebe, Parthenope, Astraea, Egeria, Irene, Euno- 



mia, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Hygeia; 

 Jupiter, pp. 511 515. % 



Satellites of Jupiter, pp. 515 517. 

 Saturn, pp. 517 522. 



Satellites of Saturn, pp. 523, 524. 

 Uranus, pp. 524 523. 



Satellites of Uranus, pp. 526, 527. 

 Neptune, pp. 527530. 



Satellites of Neptune, pp. 531, 532. 



III. The comets, pp. 553 560. 



IV. Ring of the zodiacal light, pp. 561565. 



V. Shooting stars, fire-balls, meteoric stones, pp. 566 596. 

 Conclusion, pp. 597 601. 



Corrections and additions to vol. iii. p. xiii. 

 Index. 



Special analysis of the individual sections of the astronomical part 

 of the Cosmos. 



a. ASTROGNOSY. 



I. Cosmical space : Only isolated portions are measurable, p. 34. 

 Resisting medium, celestial atmosphere, cosmical ether, p. 36, notes 



