  - FIGURE PAGE
- 1. The Planet Saturn Frontispiece
- 2. Inclination of Planetary Orbits 9
- 3. Comparative Sizes of Major Planets 11
- 4. Comparative Size of the Sun as seen from the Planets Named 17
- 5. Ordinary Sun-spots, June 22, 1885 22
- 6. Change of Form in Sun-spots Owing to the Sun’s Rotation 29
- 7. Sun-spots seen as a Notch 37
- 8. The Sun Totally Eclipsed, July 18, 1860 56
- 9. Venus, Dec. 23, 1885 64
- 10. Venus Near Conjunction as a Thin Crescent 65
- 11. Mare Crisium (Lick Observatory photographs) 90
- 12. Four Views of Mars (Barnard) 101
- 13. Mars, Aug. 27, 1892 (Guyot) 107
- 14. Jupiter, Nov. 27, 1857 (Dawes) 116
- 15. Saturn, 1889 123
- 16. General View of the Phases of Saturn’s Rings 126
- 17. Phases of Saturn’s Rings at Specified Dates 129
- 18. Saturn with Titan and its Shadow 137
- 19. Telescopic Comet with a Nucleus 154
- 20. Comet seen in Daylight, Sept., 1882 155
- 21. Quenisset’s Comet, July 9, 1893 156
- 22. Holmes’s Comet, the Head on Nov. 9, 1892 (Denning) 159
- 23. Holmes’s Comet, the Head on Nov. 16, 1892 (Denning) 159
- 24. Comet III. of 1862, on Aug. 22, showing Jet of Luminous Matter (Challis) 160
- 25. Sawerthal’s Comet, June 4, 1888 (Charlois) 165
- 26. Biela’s Comet, 1846 169
- 27. The Great Comet of 1811 177
- 28. The Great Comet of 1882 179
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STORY OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
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