The following sources are gratefully acknowledged. All other diagrams and photographs are by the author.
Figure 1–1: National Solar Observatory/Sacramento Peak, Sunspot, New Mexico.
Figure 1–2: John Walker, Fourmilab, Switzerland.
Figure 1–3: High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.
Figures 1–4, 13–3, and 13–4: G.F. Chambers, Handbook of Descriptive Astronomy (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1877).
Figure 1–5: SOHO/Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope consortium. SOHO is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.
Figure 1–6: NASA and the crew of Apollo 12.
Figure 1–7: Royal Astronomical Society, from the Memoirs, 1836.
Figure 1–8: NASA and the crew of Apollo 11.
Figure 1–9: John Kennewell, Learmonth Solar Observatory, Western Australia.
Figures 1–10, 1–11, and 3–5: J.F.Blake, Astronomical Myths, Based on Flammarion’s “History of the Heavens” (MacMillan, London, 1877).
Figures 1–12, 1–14, 3–3, 3–4, 7–1, 7–2, 9–2, and 15–4: Royal Astronomical Society.
Figure 1–13: Simon Newcomb, Popular Astronomy (MacMillan, London, 1878).
Figures 2–2, 4–3, 4–4, and 5–7: F.Dyson and R.v.d.R.Wooley Eclipses of the Sun and Moon (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1937).
Figure 2–4: CNES (France) and the crew of Mir mission 27.
Figures 2–5, 15–7, and 15–8: Fred Espenak, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.
Figure 2–6: M.Payen, Selenelion ou Apparition Luni-Solaire en l’Isle de Gorgone, 1666. Reproduced in L’Astronomie (Paris), volume 12, pp.13–18, 1893; courtesy W.G.Waddington, University of Oxford.
Figure 2–7: John Hisco, Astronomical Society of South Australia.
Figure 3–6: H.Rider Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines (Cassell, London, 1886).
Figure 4–2, H.Spencer Jones, General Astronomy (Edward Arnold, London, 1922).
Figures 4–5 and 4–6: S.A.Mitchell, Eclipses of the Sun (Columbia University Press, New York, 1923).
Figure 4–8: Geraint Lewis and Michael Irwin; William Herschel Telescope, La Palma.
Figure 4–9: Warrick Couch, Richard Ellis, Space Telescope Science Institute, and NASA.
Figure 5–2: Courtesy of the SOHO/LASCO consortium. SOHO is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.
Figure 5–3: Clementine image courtesy U.S. Naval Research Laboratories.
Figure 5–4, 5–5, and 5–6: Norman Lockyer, Recent and Coming Eclipses (MacMillan, London, 1900).
Figure 6–1: NASA and the crew of Apollo 14.
Figure 6–2: Courtesy Steven Bell (H.M. Nautical Almanac Office), and the Royal Astronomical Society.
Figure 8–1: Washington Irving, Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Philadelphia, 1892).
Figure 8–2: Thomas McKenney and James Hall, History of the Indian Tribes of North America (Philadelphia, 1837–1844).
Figure 9–1: J.J.Grandville, Un Autre Monde (Paris, 1844).
Figure 10–1: Cortland (NewYork) Evening Standard, May 28, 1900.
Figure 10–2: The Bell System Technical Journal, volume 27, pp. 510–588, 1948.
Figure 10–3: Courtesy Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Figure 11–1: Courtesy the Maria Mitchell Association, Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Figure 12–1: Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, and NASA.
Figure 12–2: Malin Space Science Systems and NASA.
Figure 12–4: Erich Karkoschka, Space Telescope Science Institute, and NASA.
Figure 12–5: NASA and the Voyager imaging team.
Figure 13–1: Brian Handy and the Transition Region And Coronal Explorer mission team.
Figure 13–5: John Spencer, Space Telescope Science Institute, and NASA.
Figure 14–1: NASA and Space Telescope Science Institute.
Figure 15–2: National Space Development Agency of Japan.
Figure 15–3: Peter Davison, Department of Land Administration, Perth, Western Australia.