CONTENTS. 



Page 

 INTKODTJCTION. 



Historical Eeview of the attempts which had for their object 

 the consideration of the phenomena of the Universe re- 

 garded as a whole ..... 325 



SPECIAL RESULTS OF OBSEKVATION IN 

 COSMICAL PHENOMENA. 



A. UEAFOLOGICAI POETION of the physical description of 

 the universe. 

 a. ASTEOGWOSY ....... 2629 



I. Cosmical space, and conjectures respecting what 

 appears to occupy the intervals between the hea- 

 venly bodies . . . . . . . 30 42 



n. Natural and telescopic vision, p. 43 67 ; Scin- 

 tillation of stars, p. 6771 ; Velocity of light, 

 p. 7178 ; Photometric results, p. 7885 . 4285 



HI. Number, distribution, and colour of the fixed 

 stars, p. 86118 ; Clusters of stars, p. 119123 ; 

 Milky way, p. 124131 ..... 86131 



IV. Newly appeared and vanished stars, p. 132 

 147 ; Variable stars with recurring and mea- 

 sured periods, p. 147 171 ; Variation of light 

 in celestial bodies of which the periodicity has 

 not yet been investigated, p. 171177 . . 132 177 



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