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• Aberation of light
• Adams, John C., his discovery of Neptune
• Adhara
• Airy, George Biddell, seventh Astronomer Royal,
  • his early life
  • his work at Cambridge
  • comes to Greenwich
  • his relations with the Visitors
  • his autobiography
  • his character
  • his labours
  • attacks on
  • his distinctions
  • his resignation
  • his death
  • anecdote of
  • his conduct re Adams
  • his water telescope
• Alderamin
• Almagest
• Almanac making
• Alpha Aquilae, telescope for
• Alpha Cygni, telescope for
• Altazimuth the
• Altazimuth the, description and work of, and the following pages
• Altazimuth Department and the following pages
• American time
• Andromeda nebula
• Anemometer, use of
• Anemometer, trace of
• Angstrom
• Anson, Commodore
• Apparent time
• Arcturus, motion of
• Argelander, star catalogue of
• Art of Dialling, the
• Assistants, position of the,
  • increased to six
  • as drudges
  • strict regulation of
  • listed for 1900
• Astrographic chart
• Astrographic, Department and the following pages
• Astrographic, dome
• Astrographic, telescope and the following pages
• Astronomers Royal, the
• Astrophysical researches
• Aurorae
• Automatic register
• Axis of the earth, precession of

• Ball, Time
• Barometer, use of the
• Barometer, use of the
• Battery basement
• Beaufort, Captain
• Bessel quoted
• Betelgeuse
• Birkenhead, wreck of the
• Bliss, Nathaniel, fourth Astronomer Royal, history of
• Bradley, James, third Astronomer Royal
  • his life
  • his ordination
  • Vicar of Bridstow
  • Savilian Professor of Astronomy
  • discovers Aberration of Light and the following pages
  • becomes Astronomer Royal
  • labours of
  • character of
• Bradley's transit room
• Brinkley, Dr.
• British Mariner's Guide, the
• Bunsen
• Buys Ballot's law
• Castor
• Castor
• Catalogues, star,
  • very earliest
  • Ptolemy's and the following pages
  • Modern, contents of
  • At Greenwich, and elsewhere
• Cepheus
• Charles II., warrants of and following page
• Christie, W. H. M., eighth Astronomer Royal, work of
• Chromosphere of the sun
• Chronograph, the
• Chronograph room
• Chronometer business
• Chronometer business
• Chronometers,
  • Harrison's improvements in, and the following pages
  • tests of
  • 'runs' of
  • romance of
• Circle Department and the following pages
• Clock, Astrographic driving
• Clock, driving 28-inch telescope
• Clocks, standard
• Columbus, aim of voyage of
• Comet, appearance of a
• Comet, Wells
• Comets, observation of
• spectra of
• Commutator, the
• Comte, assertion of
• Constant of Aberration
• Cook, Captain, work of
• Copper, use of in Observatory
• Corona of the sun
• Crabtree, James
• Crosthwait, Joseph

• Dallmeyer telescope
• Declination and the following pages
• Denebola
• Distances of planets
• Distances of sun
• Double-Star Department and the following pages
• Double Stars
• Dublin time
• Dunkin, Edwin

• Earth, the, movements of
• Eclipses of the moon
• Eclipses of the sun, July 25, 1748...;
• Eclipses of the sun, other and the following pages
• Electric Railway, influence of
• Equation of Time, the
• Equation of Time, the
• Equatorial
  • Shuckburgh's
  • the great 28-inch
  • the Merz, 12 3/4-inch
  • 28-inch, driving clock of
  • 28-inch, use of
  • clock-driven
• Eros, discovery of
• Eros, photographs of
• Errors in observations, noting of and the following pages
• Evaporation

• Faculae of the sun
• Flamsteed, John,
  • his report on SaintPierre's proposal
  • his report on SaintPierre's proposal
  • appointed first Astronomer Royal
  • appointed first Astronomer Royal
  • his autobiography
  • his studies
  • his almanac
  • sent to London
  • enters Jesus College, Cambridge
  • completes his observatory
  • acquaintance with Newton
  • takes his degree
  • his work
  • warrant for his salary
  • position of
  • his ordination
  • his pupils
  • his trouble with Newton and the following pages
  • his catalogue,
  • his letter to Sharp
  • his death
  • his labours
• Flamsteed House
• Fraunhofer mounting
• French time

• Galileo, his discovery of Jupiter's satellites
• Gamma Draconis
• Gamma Draconis
• Gamma Virginis
• Gascoigne, William
• Gemma Frisius, plan of
• George of Denmark, Prince
• German mounting
• German mounting
• Gould, Dr.
• Graham
• Gravitation, the bond of the universe
• Great comet of 1882, the
• Great comet of 1882, the
• Greatrackes, Valentine
• Green, Charles
• Greenwich time
• Greenwich time, distribution of

• Halley, Edmund,
  • his life
  • his early work
  • his catalogue of stars
  • elected F.R.S.
  • his work on Kepler's laws
  • becomes captain
  • Savilian Professor of Geometry
  • Astronomer Royal
  • observations on saros of the moon
  • pressed by Newton
  • his death
  • his services to science
  • his pay
  • nominates his successor
  • his transit instrument
• Halley's comet
• Harrison, James, timekeepers of,
  • and other methods
  • tested to Jamaica and Barbadoes
  • reward money
  • photograph off
• Heineken, Rev. N. S.
• Heineken quadrant
• Heliographic Department and the following pages
• Herschel, Caroline
• Hipparchus, catalogue of
• Hodgson, Mr.
• Hooke, Robert
• Hooke, Robert
• Horrox, Jeremiah
• Huggins, Sir W ., his use of spectroscope

• International Photographic Survey
• Ireis
• Iron quadrant
• Isobars

• Jupiter,
  • satellites of
  • satellites of
  • atmosphere of

• Keill, John
• Kendall, Larcum
• Kepler, laws of
• Kew, photo-heliograph, the
• Kinnebrook, David
• Kirchhoff's use of spectroscope

• Latitude, finding the
• Ledgers, chronometer, romance of
• Leverrier, his discovery of Neptune
• Libraries
• Linacre, G.
• Lindsay, Thomas, quoted
• Litchford, W .
• Local apparent time
• Longitude
  • finding the, at sea
  • problem of
  • determination of
• Longitude nought
• Lower computing room
• Lunars, method of

• Magnetic Department, work of
• Magnetic Department, description of and the following pages
• Magnetic inclination and declination
• Magnetic needles, movements of
• Magnetic needles, movements of
• Magnetic observatory
• Magnetic pavilion
• Magnetic storms
• Magnetic storms
• Mars
  • distance of
  • atmosphere of
  • satellites of
• Maskelyne, Nevil,
  • fifth Astronomer Royal
  • practical work of
  • Astronomer Royal
  • his work
  • his publications
  • his observations and work and the following pages
  • his death
  • his character
  • recommends his successor
  • his mural circle
• Mean solar clock
• Mean time
• Meldrum, Dr., on sun spots
• Meridian, the
• Mew telescope
• Meteorological Department, work of
• Meteorological Department, description of and the following pages
• Micrometers, use of
• Microscopes, use of
• Milky Way
• Miller, Professor
• Milne, Professor, on earth movements,
• Minor planets
• Molyneux, Samuel
• Moon, observation of the and the following pages
• Moon, eclipses of
• Moore, Sir Jonas
• Moore, Sir Jonas, death of
• Morin
• Mounting telescopes, modes of
• Mudge, Thomas
• Mural arc,7-feet
• Mural circles
• Mural circles

• Names of stars, origin of
• Nares, Sir George
• Nautical Almanac, the,
  • Records Moon's movement
  • For mariners
  • Started by Maskelyne
• Navigation, state of primitive
• Neptune
  • discovery of
  • atmosphere of
  • satellite of
• New altazimuth, the
• New altazimuth, the
• New Observatory, the
• New Observatory, the
• New stars
• Newcomb, Professor, on growth of Observatory
• Newcomb, Professor, on Greenwich observations
• Newton, Sir I.
  • his absent-mindedness
  • his trouble with Flamsteed and the following pages
  • on Kepler's laws
  • his Principia
  • his pressure on Halley
  • his discovery of gravitation
• North terrace, the
• Northumberland equatorial
• Nutation of the earth

• Observation
  • modes of, 156,
  • modes of,176,
  • modes of,188;
  • by reflection, 196;
  • of comets, 224
• Observatory, Greenwich,
  • work of
  • foundation of
  • warrant for building
  • posttion of
  • foundation stone laid
  • condition of
  • enlargement of
  • recent extensions of
  • description of and the following pages
  • staff of
  • work of and the following pages
  • visitors to
  • new altazimuth building
  • magnet house
  • magnetic pavilion
  • new Observatory
  • future of
  • reflex zenith room
  • objects of
• Occultations by the moon, and the following pages
• Octagon room,
  • original building
  • mounting of wind instruments
  • roof of, description
• Oldenburg, Mr.
• Orion nebula
• Orion nebula

• Parallax of stars
• Paramour, the
• Paris, conference at
• Paris, noon at
• Philip III., offer of
• Photographic registration,
  • to record meteorological measures
  • to record magnetic variation
  • Solar observations
  • Solar observations
• Photographic refractors
• Photographs, star
• Photo-heliographs, and the following pages
• Piazzi, discovery of
• Pleiades, the
• Polar plumes of the corona
• Polaris
• Pole-star, variatiom of
• Pond, John, sixth Astronomer Royal,
  • his life
  • his reign
  • his salary
  • his assistants
  • his observations
  • censured by Visitors
  • his observations of stars
• Pound, James
• Precession of earth's axis
• Principia, publication of
• Proctor, R. A., attack of
• Ptolemy, Claudius, catalogue of
• Publication, the problem of
• Publication, the problem of

• Quadrant, Heineken
• Quadrent, the iron

• Railway time
• Rain gauge
• Record rooms
• Reflection, observation by
• Reflex zenith room
• Reflex tube
• Refraction, effects of
• Right ascension and the following pages
• Roberts, Dr. Isaac
• Romer, discovery of
• Rosse, Lord
• Royal Society and Flamsteed, and the following pages

• Saint-Pierre, Le Sieur de, propesal of
• Saint-Pierre, Le Sieur de, propesal of
• Sappho
• Saros of the moon
• Satellites, discovery of
• Saturn, atmosphere of, satellites of
• Saturn, atmosphere of, satellites of
• Schaeberie's comet
• Schedar
• Schiehallion, attraction of
• Schtonfeld
• Scotchmen, anecdote of
• Sharp, Abrabam
• Sheepshanks, Rev. James, on Airy
• Shuckburgh equatorial
• Sidereal clock
• Sirius
• Sloane, Dr.
• 'Smith, Mr.,' his chronometer
• Solar photographs
• Solar storms
• Solar storms
• Sound waves
• South, Sir James
• South, Sir James
• South-east equatorial, the
• South-east equatorial, the
• Spectroscope, use of
• Spectroscopic Department, and the following pages
• Spots, sun,
• Spots, sun, and the following pages
• Staff of Observatory
• Staff of Observatory, work of, and the following pages
• Standard time
• Stars
  • observations of
  • observations of
  • observations of
  • origin of names of
  • movements of
  • catalogues of and the following pages
  • catalogues of
  • composition of and the following pages
  • colour of
  • classes of
  • census of
  • photographs of and the following pages
  • motions of
  • motions of
• Story, Mr. A. M.
• Sun
  • distance of the
  • distance of the
  • spots on and the following pages
  • spots on
  • eclipses of, and the following pages
  • chromosphere of
  • motions of
• Sunshine recorder
• Swiss time

• Tebb, Mr. W .
• Tebbutt's comet
• Telescope
  • the great transit
  • 28-inch
  • astrographic
  • Shuckburgh
  • Thompson
  • Thompson
  • Thompson
• Thalen
• Thermometer, use of
• Thermometer, use of
• Theme, Dr.
• Thompson photo-heliograph,
  • description
  • description
  • description and photograph
• Time
  • ball
  • Department, the, and the following pages
  • desk
  • foreign
  • signals
  • standard

• Transit, Halley's
• Transit circle, the
• Transit circle, mode of observation with, and the following pages
• Transit circle, Troughton's
• Transit Department, and the following pages
• Transit observations, number of
• Transit pavilion
• Transit pavilion
• Transit room
• Transit room
• Troughton's transit circle

• Uranus,
  • discovery of
  • atmosphere of
  • satellites of

• Vanes, use of
• Venus, distance of
• Victoria
• Visitors
  • the Board of
  • censures Pond
  • work of
  • constitution of
• Visitors to Observatory

• Warrant for Flamsteed's salary
• Water telescope
• Weather predletions, and the following pages
• Winds, study of
• Witt, Herr, discovery of
• Working Catalogue, the

• Zenith sector
• Zenith sector
• Zenith tube
• Zenith tube
• Zeta Ursae Majoris
• Zubeneschamal