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Berard, Capt., shooting stars
Berzelius, on the chemical elements of aerolites and following 2 pages
Bergenberg, on meteors and shooting stars and next page.
Bergenberg, their periodic return in August
Bessel, on the ascent of shooting stars
Bessel, on their partial visibility
Biot, on the phenomenon of twilight and next page.
Biot, Edward, Chinese observations of aerolites
Bockh, origin of the ancient myth of the Nemean lunar lion
Boguslawski, falls of shooting stars
Boguslawski, falls of shooting stars
Brande, tails of shooting stars
Brande, tails of shooting stars
Brande, height and velocity of shooting stars
Brande, their periodic falls
Burnes, Sir Alexander, on the purity of the atmosphere in Bokhara
Capocci, his observations on periodic falls of aerolites and next page.
Chinese accounts of shooting stars
Chinese statements as to falling stars and meteoric stones
Chladni, on meteoric stones, &c.,
Chladni, on meteoric stones, &c.,
Chladni, on the selenic origin of aerolites
Chladni, on the supposed phenomenon of ascending shooting stars
Chladni, on the obscuration of the Sun's disc
Conde, notice of a heavy shower of shooting stars, Oct., 902.
Daimachos, on the phenomena attending the fall of the stone of Ægos Potamos
Diogenes, Laertius, on the aerolite of Ægos Potamos
Diogenes, Laertius, on the aerolite of Ægos Potamos
Diogenes, Laertius, on the aerolite of Ægos Potamos and next page.
Encke, his computation that the showers of meteors, in 1833, proceeded from the same point of space in the direction in which the earth was moving at the time.
Erman, Adolph, on the three cold days of May (11th--13th)
Euripides, his Phaeton
Falling stars,
Feldt, on the ascent of shooting stars
Forster, Dr. Thomas, monkish notice of 'Meteorodes'
Fræhn, fall of stars
Fusinieri on meteoric masses
Greek philosophers, hypotheses on aerolites and next page.
Greek philosophers, hypotheses on aerolites and next page.
Grimm, Jacob, graceful symbolism attached to falling stars in the Lithuanian mythology.
Halley, on the meteor of 1686
Halley, on the meteor of 1686
Heis's observations on shooting stars.
Hemmer, falling stars
Herodotus, Scythian saga of the sacred gold, which fell burning from heaven
Howard, on the climate of London
Humboldt, Alexander von, works of, quoted: Asie Centrale
Humboldt, Alexander von, works of, quoted: Essai Politigue sur la Nouvelle Espagne
Humboldt, Alexander von, works of, quoted: Relation Historique du Voyage aux Regions equinoxiales and following 2 pages
Humboldt, Alexander von, works of, quoted: Relation Historique du Voyage aux Regions equinoxiales
Humboldt, Alexander von, works of, quoted: Relation Historique du Voyage aux Regions equinoxiales
Humboldt, Alexander von, works of, quoted: Relation Historique du Voyage aux Regions equinoxiales
Humboldt, Alexander von, works of, quoted: Relation Historique du Voyage aux Regions equinoxiales
Humboldt, Alexander von, works of, quoted: Voyage aux Regions equinoxiales
Kepler, on shooting stars
Kepler, on the obscuration of the sun's disc
Kloden, shooting stars
Kloden, shooting stars
Krusenstern, Admiral, on the train of a fire-ball
Laplace, on the required velocity of masses projected from the Moon and next page.
Latitudes, Tropical, brilliant display of shooting stars
Laurentius stream of falling stars
Lawrence (St.), fiery tears
Lawrence (St.), meteoric stream
Lichtenberg, on meteoric stones
Madler, mean depression of temperature on the three cold days of May (11th--13th)
May, falling stars in
Meteoric stones, seldom fall from a clear sky
Meteoric stones, remarkable falls of
Meteoric stones, analysis
Muschenbroek. on the frequency of meteors in August
Nericat, Andrea de, popular belief in Syria on the fall of aerolites
Newton, considered the planets to be composed of the same matter with the Earth
November period, meteors of the
November period, meteors of the
October, falling stars in
Olbers, aerolites
Olbers, aerolites
Olbers, on their planetary velocity and next page.
Olbers, on the supposed phenomena of ascending shooting stars
Olbers, their periodic return in August
Olbers, November strean
Olbers, prediction of a brilliant fall of shoting stars in Nov. 1867.
Olbers, absence of fossil meteoric stones in secondary nd tertiary formations
Olbers' conjecture on shooting stars
Olmsted, Denison, of Newhaven, Connecticut, observations of aerolites
Olmsted, Denison, of Newhaven, Connecticut, observations of aerolites
Olmsted, Denison, of Newhaven, Connecticut, observations of aerolites
Olmsted, Denison, of Newhaven, Connecticut, observations of aerolites
Pallas, meteoric iron
Palmer, Newhaven, Connecticut, on prodigious swarms of shooting stars, Nov. 12 and 13, 1833.
Palmer, Newhaven, Connecticut, on the non-appearance in certain years of the August and November fall of aerolites
Pertz, on the large aerolite that fell in the bed of the river Narni
Peters, Dr. velocity of stones projected rom Ætna.
Periodic meteors, nymber of, observed at different hours, and in different months
Perseus, falling stars issuing from
Peter Martyr, on a fall of aerolites
Planets, Sir Isaac Newton on their composition
Planets, limited physical knowledgeof, Mars
Pliny, the elder, on aerolites and next page.
Pliny, the elder, on aerolites
Poissn, conjecture on the spontaneous ignition of meteoric stones and next page.
Posidonius, on the Ligyan field of stones
Quetelet, on aerolites
Quetelet, their periodic return in August
Remusat, Abel, Mongolian tradition on the fall of an aerolite
Rose, Gustave, on the chemical elements, &c., of various aerolites
Stellites revolving round the primary planets, their diameter, distance, rotation, &c.,; Saturn's
Schnurrer, on the obscuration of the sun's disc
Schrieber, on the fragmentry character of meteoric stones
Scythian myth of a fall of gold (meteors)
Shooting stars, upper limits of the height of, unascertained
Shooting stars, various colours
Shooting stars, magnitudes
Somerville, Mrs., on the volume of fire-balls and shooting stars
Sun, obscuration of its disc
Sun, 'sunstones' of the ancients
Sun, views of the Greek philosophers on the sun
Translators, notes, on a MS., said to be in the library of Christ's College, Cambridge
Tropical latitudes, transparency of the atmosphere and next page.
Turner, note on Sir Isaac Newton
Wartmann, meteors
Wrangel, Admiral, on the brilliancy of the Aurra Borealis, coincident with the fall of shooting stars and next page.