A compendium of astronomy: being a concise description of the most interesting phenomena of the heavens (1849)

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LIST OF DIAGRAMS, In No. 3 Set. (THE PAINTINGS ARE THREE INCHES IN DIAMETER.) 1. System of Ptolemy. 2. Copernicus and Newton. 3. Elliptical Orbits of the Planets. 4. Inclination of the Planets’ Orbits. 5. Spots on the Sun. 6. Telescopic View of Venus, showing Three Phases. 7. of Mars. 8. of Jupiter. 9. of Saturn. 10. Comparative Sizes of the Sun and Planets. 11. Comparative Distances of the Planets from the Sun- 12. Comparative Sizes of the Sun’s Disk, as seen from the different Planets. 13. Orbit of Biela’s Comet. 14. Appearance of different Comets. 15. Direct and Retrograde Motions of Planets. 16. Signs of the Zodiac. 17. The Seasons. 18. Telescopic View of the Moon. 19. of the Southern Cusp, in the Moon’s first quarter. 20. Phases of the Moon. 21. Imaginary View of the Earth as seen from the Moon. 22. Cause of the Sun’s and Moon’s Eclipse. 23. Inclination of Moon’s Orbit. 24. Diagram to explain Cur- vilinear Motion. 25. Parallax. 26. Refraction and Twilight. 27. Constellation Orion. 28. Ursa Major. 29. Various Nebula;. 30. Imaginary View of the Milky Way as seen from a remote Nebula.