ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL, 



THE BANDS PASS, PERU . 

 UPPER GLACIER OF THE GRINDELWALD 

 ANNUAL REVOLUTION OF THE EARTH ROUND THE SUN 

 PHASES AND MOVEMENTS OF THE MOON ROUND THE 1 

 EARTH . J 



MAP OF THE MOON REDUCED, FROM THE LARGE 1 



MAP OF . . . ; . "k ''"- . J 



CRATF.R OF KILAWEA . . -. . . 



THE VINDA PASS, PERU ... . . , . 



PETRIFIED CASCADES OF PAMUOUKKALESSI, (THE 



ANCIENT HlERAPOLIs) . . , 



MAP OF THE ORINOCO . . 



ESTHOZO PASS, MADEIRA . . 

 CEDAKS OF SOLOMON, MOUNT LEBANON . 

 CHARACTER OF CLOUDS . . . . . 

 MAPS OF THE SIDEREAL HEAVENS, JANUARY TO APRIL 



APRIL TO JULY . 



AUGUST TO OCTOBER 



NOVEMBER TO JANUARY 



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Designer. 

 J. Drayton 

 P. Philips 



Engraver. 

 E. Raddiffe 

 E. Raddiffe 

 J. Dower 



J. Dower 



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Sargent. Birs Nimrod , . . ~T 



Portrait of Thales 6 



Pythagoras of Samos . . 8 



Ptolemy 11 



System of Ptolemy . . . > . 12 



Obelisk of Heliopolis 15 



Harvty. Portraits of Copernicus, Keppler, and Ga- 

 lileo 17 



Sargent. Portrait of Tycho Brahe . . . . 23 

 - Tycho Brahe's Observatory . .24 



Uraniberg, or Castle of the Heavens . . 26 



Ha>vcy. Portraits of Halley, Newton, and Her- 



schel . .... 33 



Sargent. Greenwich Observatory . . . . 37 



Newton's Birthplace .... 38 



Room in which Newton was born . . 41 



Halley 's Tomb, Sydenham Churchyard . 41 



Tail-piece, Halley's Comet . . . 48 



Astronomy . . . 



Sun at Midnight at the North Cap" . 

 Parhelion . . ''.' 



Spots in the Sun . . 



Annular Eclipse . . , . 



Zodiacal Light 



Orbits of Mercury, Venus, attd Jupiter 

 Transit of Venus 



PAOB 



Sargent. Astronomy 49 



. 51 

 . 53 

 57, 58 

 . 61 

 . 62 

 64, 65 

 66 



Vessels at Sea showing the Rotundity of the 



Earth . . . ..... . 70 



Syene, near Alexandria i fr| 



The Orbit of the Earth . . . .73 



Tail-piece, Sunset , : , . . . 75 



A.Forrester. Initial N 76 



Sargent. Spots in the Moon ... 83 85, 86 



Moonlight at Sea t . . . 89 



Initial E . . .... 89 



Aspect of Mars .... 91 



