APPENDIX 



REFERENCE-LIST 



CHAPTER I 



THE SUCCESSORS OF NEWTON IN ASTRONOMY 



1 (p. 10). An Account of Several Extraordinary Meteors or 

 Lights in the Sky, by Dr. Edmund Halley. Phil Trans, of 

 Royal Society of London, vol. XXIX., pp. 159-162. Read 

 before the Royal Society in the autumn of 1714. 



2 (p. 13). Phil. Trans, of Royal Society of London for 1748, 

 vol. XLV., pp. 8, 9. From A Letter to the Right Honorable 

 George, Earl of Maccles field, concerning an Apparent Motion 

 observed in some of the Fixed Stars, by James Bradley, D.D., 

 Astronomer Royal and F.R.S. 



CHAPTER II 



THE PROGRESS OF MODERN ASTRONOMY 



1 (p. 25). William Herschel, Phil. Trans, for 1783, vol. 



III. 



2 (p. 30). Kant's Cosmogony, ed. and trans, by W. Hartie, 

 D.D., Glasgow, 1900, pp. 74-81. 



1 (P- 39)- Exposition du systeme du monde (included in 

 (Euvres Completes), by M. le Marquis de Laplace, vol. VI., p. 



498- 



4 (p. 48). From The Scientific Papers of ]. Clerk-Maxwell, 

 1 by W. D. Nevin, M.A. (2 vols.), vol. I., pp. 372-374. 

 This is a reprint of Clerk-Maxwell's prize paper of 1859. 



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