Storms, magnetic and volcanic. See Magnetism, Volcanoes.
Strabo, observed the cessation of shocks of erthquake on the eruption of
lava, 215; on the mode in which islands are formed, 227; description of the
Hill of Methone, 240; volcanic theory, 243; divined the existence of a
continent in the northern hemisphere between Theria and Thine, 289; extolled
the varied form of our small continent as favorable to the moral and
intellectual development of its people, 291, 292.
Struve, Otho, on the proper motion of the solar system, 146; investigations
on the propagation of light, 153; parallaxes and distances of fixed stars,
153; observations on Halley's comet, 105.
Studer, Professor, on mineral metamorphism. See note by Translator, 248.
Sun, magnitude of its volume compared with that of the fixed stars, 136;
obscuration of its disk, 132; rotation round the center of gravity of the
whole solar system, 145; velocity of its translatory motion, 145; narrow
limitations of its atmosphere as compared with the nucleus of other nebulous
stars, 141; "sun stones" of the ancients, 122; views of the Greek
philosophers on the sun, 122.
Symond, Lieut., his trigonometrical survey of the Dead Sea, 296, 297.
Tacitus, distinguished local climatic relations from those of race, 352.
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