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46-58	November 1973 Article When the sun dies By Andrew Weil SEE ALSO: Weil, Andrew; Folklore; Journeys—Kenya; Journeys—Mexico; Kenya; Oaxaca (Mexico); Observations; Solar eclipses; Sun PDF IMAGES
29-36	March 1958 Article New discoveries about the birth, life, and death of the sun and other stars: This hydrogen universe (part I) By George W. (George William) Gray SEE ALSO: Interstellar hydrogen; Mount Wilson Observatory (Calif.); Nebulae; Observations; Stars; Sun PDF IMAGES
648-657	May 1925 Article How big is the universe? Notes on recent measurements of the Milky Way By Harlow Shapley SEE ALSO: Astronomy; Clusters; Cosmography; Galaxies; Milky Way; Observations PDF IMAGES
662-670	October 1916 Article The heavens through a spectroscope By C.G. (Charles Greeley) Abbot SEE ALSO: Astronomical spectroscopy; Observations; Spectra; Spectrum, Solar; Stars PDF IMAGES
919-928	May 1916 Article Death Valley and our future climate By Ellsworth Huntington SEE ALSO: Climate; Climatic changes; Death Valley; Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.); Observations; Owens Lake (Inyo County, Calif.) PDF IMAGES
46-58	June 1915 Article The last stand of the redwoods By Henry Seidel Canby SEE ALSO: Climate; Giant sequoia; Lumber camps; Lumbering; Observations; Sequoia National Park (Calif.); Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) PDF IMAGES
958-961	November 1914 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Climatology; International cooperation; Nationalism; Observations PDF IMAGES
259-268	July 1914 Article The variable sun By C.G. (Charles Greeley) Abbot SEE ALSO: Astrophysics; Abbot, C.G. (Charles Greeley); Contributions in astronomy; Journeys—Algeria—Bassour; Mount Wilson Observatory (Calif.); Observations; Plants, Effect of solar radiation on; Langley, S.P. (Samuel Pierpont); Sun PDF IMAGES
582-587	September 1912 Article Sun-storms and the earth By E. Walter (Edward Walter) Maunder SEE ALSO: Astronomical photography; Observations; Sun; Sunspots PDF IMAGES
96-98	June 1912 Article The planet Venus and its problems By William H. (William Henry) Pickering SEE ALSO: Observations; Venus (Planet) PDF IMAGES
788-794	October 1908 Article The earth as a magnet By F.A. (Frederick Alexander) Black SEE ALSO: Compass; Geomagnetism; Magnetic declination; Observations PDF IMAGES
192-196	January 1908 Article Different explanations of the canals of Mars By William H. (William Henry) Pickering SEE ALSO: Canals; Life on other planets; Mars (Planet); Observations; Surface PDF IMAGES
63-67	June 1906 Article Terrestrial magnetism By Cyrus C. (Cyrus Cornelius) Adams SEE ALSO: Discoveries in science; Geomagnetism; Geophysics; Magnetic declination; Observations PDF IMAGES
379-387	February 1906 Article What is a comet? By William H. (William Henry) Pickering SEE ALSO: Comets; Observations; Orbits PDF IMAGES
821-827	May 1905 Article Magnetic storms and the sun By E. Walter (Edward Walter) Maunder SEE ALSO: Experiments; Observations; Royal Greenwich Observatory; Sunspots PDF IMAGES
795-801	October 1904 Article The extent of the universe By Simon Newcomb SEE ALSO: Astronomy; Cosmography; Observations PDF IMAGES
411-419	August 1903 Article Photographing the moon By G.W. (George Willis) Ritchey SEE ALSO: Astronomical photography; Moon; Observations PDF IMAGES
886-895	May 1903 Article Photographing the nebulae with reflecting telescopes By G.W. (George Willis) Ritchey SEE ALSO: Astronomical photography; Astronomy; Nebulae; Observations; Reflecting telescopes; Technological innovations PDF IMAGES
425-428	February 1902 Article Man and the upper atmosphere By Reinhard Joachim Süring SEE ALSO: Aeronautics; Balloons; Observations PDF IMAGES
487-492	February 1902 Article Lopho, the quail By Barton Warren Evermann SEE ALSO: Observations; Quails PDF IMAGES
409-415	February 1899 Article The astronomical outlook. As related to the perfection of our instruments and methods of observation By Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Young SEE ALSO: Astronomical instruments; Astronomical photography; Astronomy; Observations PDF IMAGES
41-55	June 1897 Article Meteorological progress of the century By Henry Smith Williams SEE ALSO: Humboldt, Alexander von; Atmospheric circulation; Atmospheric temperature; Auroras; Franklin, Benjamin; Cyclones; Gulf Stream; Biot, Jean-Baptiste; Knowledge—Gulf Stream; Knowledge—Meteorology; Maury, Matthew Fontaine; Meteorites; Meteoritic hypothesis; Meteorology; North Atlantic Ocean; Observations; Ocean currents; Portraits; Tracking; Weather forecasting; Wells, William Charles PDF IMAGES
540-556	March 1897 Article Astronomical progress of the century By Henry Smith Williams SEE ALSO: Astronomical instruments; Astronomical photography; Astronomical spectroscopy; Astronomy; Career in astronomy; Bessel, F.W. (Friedrich Wilhelm); Meteoritic hypothesis; Nebulae; Observations; Portraits; Herschel, John F.W. (John Frederick William), Sir; Lockyer, Norman, Sir; Stars; Olbers, W. (Wilhelm) PDF IMAGES
635-640	September 1896 Editor's study/Article — (I-IV) By Charles Dudley Warner SEE ALSO: Life on other planets; Mars (Planet); 1874; Observations; Holmes, Oliver Wendell; Quotations; Space and time; Venus (Planet), Transit of PDF IMAGES
216-219	July 1894 Article The storage battery of the air By Alexander McAdie SEE ALSO: Atmospheric electricity; Observations; Tour Eiffel (Paris, France); Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.) PDF IMAGES
530-536	September 1893 Article Edward Emerson Barnard By S.W. (Sherburne Wesley) Burnham SEE ALSO: Astronomers; Astronomical photography; Biography; Comets; Barnard, Edward Emerson; Lick Observatory; Observations; Portraits; Satellites PDF IMAGES
66-76	June 1889 Article Saturn's rings By George Howard, Sir Darwin SEE ALSO: Career in mathematics; Roche, Édouard; Observations PDF IMAGES
994	May 1887 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Moon; Observations; Stars PDF IMAGES
625-632	September 1886 Article The central engine of the solar system By Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor SEE ALSO: Observations; Solar activity; Sunspots PDF IMAGES
809	October 1885 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Locomotive engineers; Observations; Railroad accidents; Venus (Planet) PDF IMAGES
809	October 1885 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Observations; Venus (Planet) PDF IMAGES
81-94	June 1883 Article Sunlight mysteries By William Cornelius Wyckoff SEE ALSO: Contributions in astronomy; Experiments; Influence; Mitchel, O.M. (Ormsby MacKnight); Observations; Langley, S.P. (Samuel Pierpont); Scientific expeditions; Solar radiation; Spectrum, Solar; Sun PDF IMAGES
523-536	March 1882 Article A small telescope, and what to see with it By Simon Newcomb SEE ALSO: Astronomy; Observations; Telescopes PDF IMAGES
583-589	March 1879 Article Climates for invalids By T.M. (Titus Munson) Coan SEE ALSO: Climatology; Effect of climate on; Human beings; Observations PDF IMAGES
139-141	June 1878 Article A manufactured comet By Simon Newcomb SEE ALSO: Astronomy; Comets; D'Angos; Fraud; Fraudulent claim of comet discovery, 1784; Malta; Observations PDF IMAGES
825-841	November 1874 Article Some talks of an astronomer By Simon Newcomb SEE ALSO: Astronomical instruments; Astronomy; Comets; Observations; Orbits; Planets; Sun PDF IMAGES
693-707	October 1874 Article Some talks of an astronomer By Simon Newcomb SEE ALSO: Astronomy; Earth; Foucault's pendulum; Observations; Orbit; Stars; Sun; Telescopes PDF IMAGES
288-291	January 1872 Article The growth of our theories of the weather By Edward Howland SEE ALSO: Meteorology; Observations PDF IMAGES
118-123	December 1871 Article Apian psychology and sociology By M.E. Lazarus SEE ALSO: Insect societies; Observations PDF IMAGES
275-285	July 1871 Article The climate of the Lake Region By Alexander Winchell SEE ALSO: Climate; Great Lakes; Great Lakes Region; Observations PDF IMAGES
701-705	April 1871 Article The Gulf Stream and the trade-winds. Their origin and law of movement By William L. Walker SEE ALSO: Gulf Stream; Heat; Observations; Radiation and absorption PDF IMAGES
78-80	December 1870 Article Inveigling Nature into a disclosure of her secrets By Jacob Abbott SEE ALSO: Light; Observations; Speed PDF IMAGES
21-34	June 1870 Article The mysteries of a thunder-shower By Jacob Abbott SEE ALSO: Atmospheric electricity; Observations; Thunderstorms PDF IMAGES
63-81	June 1870 Article The hot current of the Atlantic: A new theory of its fountain and flood By T.B. Maury SEE ALSO: Atlantic Ocean; Gulf Stream; Observations PDF IMAGES
818-825	May 1870 Article The spots in the sun By Jacob Abbott SEE ALSO: 1860; 1868; Observations; Solar eclipses; Sunspots PDF IMAGES
45-54	June 1866 Article “Are there other inhabited worlds?” By Henry Draper SEE ALSO: Life on other planets; Moon; Observations PDF IMAGES
572	March 1856 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Career in lunar observation; Moon; Observations; Ross, John, Sir PDF IMAGES
343-353	February 1855 Article The zone of planets between Mars and Jupiter By Elias Loomis SEE ALSO: Astronomers; Berlin; Hind, J. Russell (John Russell); Knowledge—Asteroids; Observations; de Gasparis PDF IMAGES
439-448	September 1850 Article Shooting stars and meteoric showers SEE ALSO: Meteors; Observations PDF IMAGES
265-268	July 1850 Article Greenwich weather-wisdom SEE ALSO: Greenwich; Meteorology; Observations PDF IMAGES

19	June 1859 Poem Sonnet By Park Benjamin SEE ALSO: Observations; Stars PDF IMAGES

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