Popular Astronomy Volume 6 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...go back to the Sanskrit lor an answer. Prof. Max Muller rightly says ("On the Religions of India "): "It is no longer denied that for throwing light on some of the darkest problems that have to be solved by the student of language, nothing is so useful as a critical study of Sanskrit." Here the word for the Moon is Mas, which is masculine. Mark how even what Hamlet calls " words, words, words," lend their weight and value to the adjustment of this great argument. The very Moon is masculine, and, like Wordsworth's child, is " father of the man." Pola Jahrbuch of Observations for 1897. Volume II of the Pola Jahrbuch of observations ior 1897 has just been received. It is a fine.largeoctavo volume of 168 pages with plates and illustrations setting outwork in meteorology mainly, very well. Transcendent.-. Space. Professor Charles II. Chandler, Professor of Mathematics. Ripou College, some months ago prepared a thoughtful paper on Transcondental Space and read the same before the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. The same will be found in Vol. XI of its transactions. Catalogue of the Magnitudes of 1,081 Stars by A. Stanley Williams.--We have recently received from A. Stanley Williams, 20 Hove Park Villas, Sussex, England, a copy of his Catalogue of the Magnitudes of 1,081 Stars, lying between--30 declination and the South Pole, from observations made in the years 1 885-6, during the course of a voyage to Australia, round the Cape of Good Hope and back by the Red Sea, and includinga stay of two months in Australia. The plan of this work was to nelect seven groups of comparison stars from the Harvard Photometry, and to make several hundred observations of the brightness of stars north of south declination 30, ...