The Natural History of Pliny, Vol. 1 (1855) - Page 27

xxiv CONTENTS.

Chap.		Page
24.	The doctrine of Hipparchus about the stars	1
25.	Examples from history of celestial prodigies; Faces (meteors), Lampades (torch-like meteors), and Bolides (fireballs)	1
26.	Trabes Cœlestes (celestial beams); Chasma Cœli (gaps in the sky)	2
27.	Of the colours of the sky and of celestial flame	4
28.	Of celestial coronæ (halos)	5
29.	Of sudden circles	5
30.	Of unusually long eclipses of the sun	6
31.	Many suns (parhelia)	6
32.	Many moons (paraselenae)	6
33.	Daylight in the night	6
34.	Burning shields	6
35.	An ominous appearance in the heavens, that was seen once only	6
36.	Of stars which move about in various directions	6
37.	Of the stars which are named Castor and Pollux	6
38.	Of the air, and on the cause of the showers of stones	6
39.	Of the stated seasons	6
40.	Of the rising of the dog-star	6
41.	Of the regular influence of the different seasons	7
42.	Of uncertain states of the weather	7
43.	Of thunder and lightning	7
44.	The origin of winds	7
45.	Various observations respecting winds	7
46.	The different kinds of winds	7
47.	The periods of the winds	7
48.	Nature of the winds	7
49.	Ecnephias (a sudden storm) and Typhon (a whirlwind)	8
50.	Tornadoes; blasting winds; whirlwinds, and other wonderful kinds of tempests	8
51.	Of thunder; in what countries it does not fall, and for what reason	8
52.	Of the different kinds of lightning and their wonderful effects	8
53.	The Etrurian and the Roman observations on these points	8
54.	Of conjuring up thunder	8
55.	General laws of lightning	8
56.	Objects which are never struck	8
57.	Showers of milk, blood, flesh, iron, wool, and baked tiles	8
58.	Rattling of arms and the sound of trumpets heard in the sky	8
59.	Of stones that have fallen from the clouds. The opinion of Anaxagoras respecting them	8
60.	The rainbow	9
61.	The nature of hail, snow, hoar, mist, dew; the forms of clouds	9
62.	The peculiarities of the weather in different places	9
63.	Nature of the earth	9
64.	Of the form of the earth	9
65.	Whether there be antipodes?	9
66.	How the water is connected with the earth. Of the navigation of the sea and the rivers	9
67.	Whether the ocean surrounds the earth	9