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Start of eBook	1
LECTURE I.	1
LECTURE III.	1
LECTURE V.	2
APPENDIX.	2
INDEX	2
LECTURE I.	2
LECTURE II.	23
LECTURE III.	48
LECTURE IV.	62
LECTURE V.	81
LECTURE VI.	95
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION.	104
APPENDIX.	116
FOOTNOTES:	122
INDEX.	125
Earth, daily orbit of, 74	126
Faraday, Michael, his discovery of magneto-electricity, 218	126
Goethe on fluorescence, 165	126
Hamilton, Sir William, of Dublin, his discovery of conical refraction, 209	126
Janssen, M., on the rose-coloured solar prominences, 204	127
Kepler, his investigations on the refraction of light, 14, 207	127
Lactantius, on the natural philosophers of his time, 13	127
Magnetization of light, 141	128
Nature, a savage’s interpretation of, 4	129
Ocean, colour of the, 35	129
Pasteur referred to, 219	129
Quartz, chromatic phenomena produced by, 139	129
Schwerd, his observations respecting diffraction, 87	129
Talbot, Mr., his experiments, 201	130
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Vassenius describes the rose-coloured solar prominences in 1733, 204	131
Water, deportment of, considered and explained, 105, 106	131

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