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Index
Kapteyn Room, x, 14, 15, 233,
257–259, 266, 273
Kapteyn’s celestial spheres, x, 233,
257
Kapteyn’s star, 104–106
Kapteyn Universe, 249
Kapteyn, Willem, 2, 17, 67, 217, 278
Kay, Alan Curtis, 1
Keller, Christoph U., 256, 272
Kelvin-Helmholtz contraction time,
31
Kepler, Johannes, 27, 36, 37, 68, 278
Kerkhoven, Rudolf Eduard, 256
Knipperdolling, Bernhard, 16
Kohlschütter, Ernst Arnold, 197
Koomans, Elisabeth Cornelia, 12, 57
Kreiken, Egbert Adriaan, 244, 249,
264
Küstner, Karl Friedrich, 139, 141,
144, 193, 258, 260
L
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, 20
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, Marquis de,
82, 207
Leavitt, Henrietta Swan, 262
Leiden, specializes in everything, 257
Lembang (Bosscha) Observatory, 256
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 16
Leuschner, Armin Otto, 192
le Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph, 28
Lick Observatory, 192, 228
Lightyear, 40, 277
Lindsay, James Ludovic, 74
Linnæus, Carl Nilsson, 17
Lord Kelvin, see Thomson, William
Lord Rayleigh, see Strutt, John
William
Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon, 10, 198,
226, 232, 254
Louisiana Purchase, 126
Lowell Observatory, 192
Lunar eclipse, 66
Lusitania, 227, 261
M
M13, 190, 191, 262
M31, 101
Magellanic Clouds, 34, 99
Magnitude
absolute, 97, 268
apparent, 34
Main Sequence, 97, 281
Mannheim Sternwarte, 47
Maury, Antonia Caetana de Paiva
Pereira, 146, 188
Maxwell, James Clerk, 74
Mees, Rudolf Adriaan, 52, 54, 58
Meijering, Samuël Cornelis, 241
Meridian, 32
Meridian circle, 39
Mesdag, Ferdinand Taco, 206
Milky Way, 34
Minnaert, Marcel Gilles Jozef, 256
Molengraaff, Adolf Frederik, 257
Moll, Jan Willem, 210, 211, 257
Mouchez, Ernest Amédée Barthélemy,
82, 84
Mount Wilson Observatory, 144,
147, 266, 288
Mount Wilson Toll Road, 173
Moving cluster method, 141
Mulder, Gerardus Johannes, 17
Mulerius, Nicolaus, 5, 52, 53
Müller, Karl Hermann Gustav, 105
Multatuli, 22
N
National Academy of Arts and
Sciences (USA), 200, 215
National Geographis Society—
Palomar Observatory Sky
Survey, 85
Natural and Medical Sciences
Congress (NNGC), 237