PREFACE

pp v-viii

Contents

pp ix-xi

PLATES IN VOL. I

pp xii-xii

CORRIGENDA IN VOL. I

pp xii-xii

A SHORT ACCOUNT OF SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL'S LIFE AND WORK, chiefly from unpublished sources

pp xiii-lxiv

UNPUBLISHED PAPERS

pp lxv-cxx

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND ELSEWHERE

1 - Observations on the periodical Star in Collo Ceti (1780)

pp 1-4

2 - Observations relating to the Mountains of the Moon (1780)

pp 5-15

3 - Observations on the Rotation of the Planets round their Axes (1781)

pp 16-29

4 - Account of a Comet [Discovery of Uranus] (1781)

pp 30-38

5 - On the Parallax of the Fixed Stars (1782)

pp 39-57

6 - Catalogue of Double Stars (1782)

pp 58-90

7 - Description of a Lamp-Micrometer (1782)

pp 91-96

8 - A Paper to obviate some Doubts concerning the great Magnifying Powers used (1782)

pp 97-99

9 - A Letter [on the name of the Georgian Planet] (1783)

pp 100-101

10 - On the Diameter and Magnitude of the Georgium Sidus; with Description of Disc and Periphery Micrometers (1783)

pp 102-107

11 - On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System (1783)

pp 108-130

12 - On the remarkable Appearances at the Polar Regions of the Planet Mars (1784)

pp 131-156

13 - Account of some Observations tending to investigate the Construction of the Heavens (1784)

pp 157-166

14 - [Second] Catalogue of Double Stars (1785)

pp 167-222

15 - On the Construction of the Heavens (1785)

pp 223-259

16 - Catalogue of One Thousand new Nebulæ and Clusters of Stars (1786)

pp 260-303

17 - Investigation of the Cause of that Indistinctness of Vision which has been ascribed to the smallness of the Optic Pencil (1786)

pp 304-310

18 - Remarks on the new Comet (1786)

pp 311-311

19 - An Account of the Discovery of Two Satellites of the Georgian Planet (1787)

pp 312-314

20 - An Account of Three Volcanoes in the Moon (1787)

pp 315-316

21 - On the Georgian Planet and its Satellites (1788)

pp 317-326

22 - Observations on a Comet (1789)

pp 327-328