| FIG. | | PAGE |
| 1. | The Ptolemaic Idea of the Universe | 19 |
| 2. | The Copernican Theory of the Solar System | 21 |
| 3. | Total and Partial Eclipses of the Moon | 64 |
| 4. | Total and Partial Eclipses of the Sun | 67 |
| 5. | "Baily's Beads" | 70 |
| 6. | Map of the World on Mercator's Projection, showing a portion of the progress of the Total Solar Eclipse Of August 30, 1905, across the surface of the Earth | 81 |
| 7. | The "Ring with Wings" | 87 |
| 8. | The Various Types of Telescope | 113 |
| 9. | The Solar Spectrum | 123 |
| 10. | A Section through the Sun, showing how the Prominences rise from the Chromosphere | 131 |
| 11. | Orbit and Phases of an Inferior Planet | 148 |
| 12. | The "Black Drop" | 153 |
| 13. | Summer and Winter | 176 |
| 14. | Orbit and Phases of the Moon | 184 |
| 15. | The Rotation of the Moon on her Axis | 187 |
| 16. | Laplace's "Perennial Full Moon" | 191 |
| 17. | Illustrating the Author's explanation of the apparent Enlargement of Celestial Objects | 195 |
| 18. | Showing how the Tail of a Comet is directed away from the Sun | 248 |
| 19. | The Comet of 1066, as represented in the Bayeux Tapestry | 263 |
| 20. | Passage of the Earth through the thickest portion of a Meteor Swarm | 269 |
