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CHAPTER IX Famous Eclipses of the Moon 101 CHAPTER X The Growth of Observation 105 CHAPTER XI Spectrum Analysis 121 CHAPTER XII The Sun 127 CHAPTER XIII The Sun—continued 134 CHAPTER XIV The Inferior Planets 146 CHAPTER XV The Earth 158 CHAPTER XVI The Moon 183 CHAPTER XVII The Superior Planets 209 CHAPTER XVIII The Superior Planets—continued 229 CHAPTER XIX Comets 247 CHAPTER XX Remarkable Comets 259 CHAPTER XXI Meteors Or Shooting Stars 266 CHAPTER XXII The Stars 278 CHAPTER XXIII The Stars—continued 287 CHAPTER XXIV Systems of Stars 300 CHAPTER XXV The Stellar Universe 319 CHAPTER XXVI The Stellar Universe—continued 329 CHAPTER XXVII The Beginning of Things 333 CHAPTER XXVIII The End of Things 342 Index 351

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