SPECIAL RESULTS IN THE URANOLOGICAL 



A. 



RESULTS OF OBSERVATION IN THE URANOLOGICAL PORTION 

 OF THE PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSE. 



WE commence afresh with the depths of space and with the 

 remote sporadically-scattered clusters of stars which present 

 themselves to telescopic vision as faintly shining nebulae. 

 We descend step by step to the double stars, often of two 

 different colours, which revolve around a common centre of 

 gravity ; to the nearer strata of stars, one of which appears 

 to, include our planetary system ; and lastly, through this 

 planetary system to the air- and sea-surrounded spheroid 

 which we inhabit. I have noticed in an earlier volume, in 

 the introduction to the general picture of Nature, ( 47 ) that this 

 order is the only one which is suitable to the particular 

 character of a work which treats of the Cosmos ; in contradis- 

 tinction to an arrangement more directly accordant with the 

 immediate perceptions of sense, which should begin with our 

 terrestrial dwelling-place and the organic creation by which 

 its surface is enlivened, and should proceed from the appa- 

 rent to the real motions of the heavenly bodies. 



The uranological domain, as opposed to the telluric, di- 

 vides itself conveniently into two portions : one of which 



