174

50. What our Ancestors saw in a Comet 177

After Ambroise Pare (1858)

51. Prodigies seen in the Heavens by our Forefathers 178

52. The orbit of a Periodic Comet 182

53. The tails of Comets are opposed to the Sun 185

54. A Meteor 191

55. Shooting Stars of November 12, 1799 196

From a contemporary drawing

56. Fire-Ball seen from the Observatory at Juvisy, August
10, 1899 199

57. Explosion of a Fire-Ball above Madrid, February 10,
1896 200

58. Raphael's Fire-Ball (_The Madonna of Foligno_) 202

59. A Uranolith 203

60. Motion of the Earth round the Sun 222

61. Inclination of the Earth 224

62. The divisions of the globe. Longitudes and latitudes 226

63. To find the long and short months 230

64. The Full Moon slowly rises 234

65. The Moon viewed with the unaided eye 236

66. The Man's head in the Moon 237

67. Woman's head in the Moon 238

68. The kiss in the Moon 239

69. Photograph of the Moon 240

70. The Moon's Phases 241

71. Map of the Moon 247

72. The Lunar Apennines 251

73. Flammarion's Lunar Ring 253

74. Lunar landscape with the Earth in the sky 254

75. Battle between the Medes and Lydians arrested by an
Eclipse of the Sun 266

76. Eclipse of the Moon at Laos (February 27, 1877) 269

77. The path of the Eclipse of May 28, 1900 273

78. Total eclipse of the Sun, May 28, 1900, as observed
from Elche (Spain) 281

79. The Eclipse of