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CONTENTS.
OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
BOOK I.
	DEDICATION.	Page
C. Plinius Secundus to his friend Titus Vespasian		1
BOOK II.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD AND THE ELEMENTS.
Chap.
1.	Whether the world be finite, and whether there be more than one world	13
2.	Of the form of the world	16
3.	Of its nature; whence the name is derived	ib.
4.	Of the elements and the planets	18
5.	Of God	20
6.	Of the nature of the stars; of the motion of the planets	25
7.	Of the eclipses of the moon and the sun	34
8.	Of the magnitude of the stars	35
9.	An account of the observations that have been made on the heavens by different individuals	36
10.	On the recurrence of the eclipses of the sun and the moon	38
11.	Of the motion of the moon	40
12.	Of the motions of the planets and the general laws of their aspects	ib.
13.	Why the same stars appear at some times more lofty and at other times more near	42
14.	Why the same stars have different motions	47
15.	General laws of the planets	48
16.	The reason why the stars are of different colours	49
17.	Of the motion of the sun and the cause of the irregularity of the days	50
18.	Why thunder is ascribed to Jupiter	51
19.	Of the distances of the stars	52
20.	Of the harmony of the stars	ib.
21.	Of the dimensions of the world	53
22.	Of the stars which appear suddenly, or of comets	55
23.	Their nature, situation, and species	66