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CONTENTS.

Chap.		Page
24.	The doctrine of Hipparchus about the stars	59
25.	Examples from history of celestial prodigies; Faces, Lampades, and Bolides	ib.
26.	Trabes Cælestes; Chasma Cœli	60
27.	Of the colours of the sky and of celestial flame	ib.
28.	Of celestial coronæ	61
29.	Of sudden circles	62
30.	Of unusually long eclipses of the sun	ib.
31.	Many suns	ib.
32.	Many moons	63
33.	Daylight in the night	ib.
34.	Burning shields	ib.
35.	An ominous appearance in the heavens, that was seen once only	ib.
36.	Of stars which move about in various directions	64
37.	Of the stars which are named Castor and Pollux	ib.
38.	Of the air, and on the cause of the showers of stones	65
39.	Of the stated seasons	66
40.	Of the rising of the dog-star	67
41.	Of the regular influence of the different seasons	ib.
42.	Of uncertain states of the weather	69
43.	Of thunder and lightning	ib.
44.	The origin of winds	70
45.	Various observations respecting winds	71
46.	The different kinds of winds	73
47.	The periods of the winds	75
48.	Nature of the winds	77
49.	Ecnephias and Typhon	79
50.	Tornadoes; blasting winds; whirlwinds, and other wonderful kinds of tempests	80
51.	Of thunder; in what countries it does not fall, and for what reason	ib.
52.	Of the different kinds of lightning and their wonderful effects	81
53.	The Etrurian and the Roman observations on these points	82
54.	Of conjuring up thunder	83
55.	General laws of lightning	84
56.	Objects which are never struck	86
57.	Showers of milk, blood, flesh, iron, wool, and baked tiles	87
58.	Rattling of arms and the sound of trumpets heard in the sky	88
59.	Of stones that have fallen from the clouds The opinion of Anaxagoras respecting them	ib.
60.	The rainbow	89
61.	The nature of hail, snow, hoar, mist, dew; the forms of clouds	90
62.	The peculiarities of the weather in different places	91
63.	Nature of the earth	ib.
64.	Of the form of the earth	94
65.	Whether there be antipodes?	ib.
66.	How the water is connected with the earth. Of the navigation of the sea and the rivers	97
67.	Whether the ocean surrounds the earth	98

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