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General Index
431

[Roman figures refer to the chapters, Arabic to the articles.]

Jupiter, mass of, ix. 183, 185

Jupiter, rotation of, viii. 160; ix. 187; xiii. 297

Jupiter, satellites of, ii. 43; vi. 121, 127, 129, 133; vii. 145, 150; viii. 160, 162; ix. 170, 184, 185; x. 210, 216; xi. 228, 248; xii. 267; xiii. 283, 295, 297

Jupiter's satellites, mass of, xi. 248

Kepler's Laws, vii. 141, 144, 145, 151; viii. 152; ix. 169, 172, 175, 176, 186, 194, 195; x. 220; xi. 244; xiii. 294, 309

Latitude (celestial), ii. 33, 42, 43; iii. 63; iv. 89

Latitude (terrestrial), iii. 68, 69; iv. 73; x. 221; xiii. 285

Latitude, variation of, xiii. 285

Law of gravitation. See Gravitation

Laws of motion, vi. 130, 133; viii. 152, 163; ix. 171, 179–181, 183, 186, 194, 195; xi. 232

Leap-year, i. 17; ii. 21, 22

Least squares, xiii. 275, 276

Letter to the Grand Duchess (of Galilei), vi. 125

Level error, x. 225 n

Lexell's comet, xi. 248; xiii. 305

Libra, first point of (♎), i. 13; ii. 42

Librations of the moon, vi. 133; x. 226; xi. 237, 239

Libros del Saber, iii. 66

Light-equation, xiii. 283

Light, motion of, velocity of, viii. 162; x. 208–211, 216, 220; xiii. 278, 279, 283, 302. See also Aberration

Logarithms, v. 96, 97 n

Long inequalities, xi. 243

Longitude (celestial), ii. 33, 39, 42, 43; iii. 63; iv. 87; vii. 139

Longitude (terrestrial), iii. 68; vi. 127, 133; vii. 150; x. 197, 216, 226

Longitudes, Bureau des, xi. 238

Lunar distances, iii. 68 n

Lunar eclipses. See Eclipses

Lunar equation, xiii. 282

Lunar theory,ii. 48, 51; v. 111; vii. 145; viii. 156; ix. 184, 192; x. 226; xi. 228, 230, 231, 233, 234, 240, 241, 242, 248; xiii. 282, 286, 287, 288, 290. See also Moon, motion of

Lunation, ii. 40. See also Month, synodic

Macchie Solari (of Galilei), vi. 124, 125

Magellanic clouds, xiii. 307

Magnetism, vii. 150; xiii. 276, 298

Magnitudes and Distances of the Sun and Moon (of aristarchus), ii. 32

Magnitudes of stars, ii. 42; xii. 266; xii. 280, 316. See also Stars, brightness of

Mars, i. 14–16; ii. 25, 26, 30, 51; iii. 68; iv. 81, 87; v. 108; vi. 129; vii. 136 n, 139–142, 144, 145; viii. 154, 161; ix. 181, 183, 185; x. 223, 227; xi. 235, 245; xii. 267; xiii. 281, 282, 284, 294, 295, 297. See also the following headings

Mars, canals of, xiii. 297

Mars, mass of, xi. 248

Mars, opposition of, viii. 161; xiii. 281, 284, 297

Mars, rotation of, viii. 160; xiii. 295, 297

Mars, satellites of, xiii. 295

Mass, ix. 180, 181, 185

Mass of the earth, sun, Venus .... See Earth, Sun, Venus .... mass of

Mecanique Analytique (of Lagrange), xi. 237