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|-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |colspan = 3 style="font-size:160%;padding-top:1em; padding-bottom:1em;text-align:center;"|CONTENTS. |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |colspan = 3 style="text-align:center;padding-bottom:1em;font-size:85%;"|OF THE FIRST VOLUME. |-style="vertical-align:text-top;"

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|-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |colspan = 3 style="padding-top:1em; padding-bottom:1em;text-align:center;font-size:130%;"|BOOK I. |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" | |style="padding-top:1em; padding-bottom:1em;text-align:center;"|DEDICATION. |style="text-align:right;font-size:85%;"|Page |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |colspan = 2 style="padding-top:0.5em;"|C. Plinius Secundus to his friend Titus Vespasian |style="text-align:right;"|1 |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |colspan = 3 style="padding-top:1em; padding-bottom:1em;text-align:center;font-size:130%;"|BOOK II. |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |colspan = 3 style="text-align:center;padding-bottom:1.5em;font-size:85%;"|AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD AND THE ELEMENTS. |-style="vertical-align:bottom;" |style="text-align:right;font-variant:small-caps;font-size:85%;padding-right:1em;"|Chap. | | |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |width = 50 style="text-align:right;padding-right:1em;"|1. |width = 400 style="padding-left:2em; text-indent:-2em;"|Whether the world be finite, and whether there be more than one world |width = 50 style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|13

|-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|2. |Of the form of the world |style="text-align:right;"|16 |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|3. |Of its nature; whence the name is derived |style="text-align:right;"|ib. |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|4. |Of the elements and the planets |style="text-align:right;"|18 |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|5. |Of God |style="text-align:right;"|20 |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|6. |style="padding-left:2em; text-indent:-2em;"|Of the nature of the stars; of the motion of the planets |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|25 |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|7. |Of the eclipses of the moon and the sun |style="text-align:right;"|34 |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|8. |Of the magnitude of the stars |style="text-align:right;"|35 |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|9. |style="padding-left:2em; text-indent:-2em;"|An account of the observations that have been made on the heavens by different individuals |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|36 |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|10. |style="padding-left:2em; text-indent:-2em;"|On the recurrence of the eclipses of the sun and the moon |style="text-align:right;"|38 |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|11. |Of the motion of the moon |style="text-align:right;"|40 |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|12. |style="padding-left:2em; text-indent:-2em;"|Of the motions of the planets and the general laws of their aspects |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|ib. |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|13. |style="padding-left:2em; text-indent:-2em;"|Why the same stars appear at some times more lofty and at other times more near |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|42 |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|14. |Why the same stars have different motions |style="text-align:right;"|47 |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|15. |General laws of the planets |style="text-align:right;"|48 |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|16. |The reason why the stars are of different colours |style="text-align:right;"|49 |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|17. |style="padding-left:2em; text-indent:-2em;"|Of the motion of the sun and the cause of the irregularity of the days |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|50 |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|18. |Why thunder is ascribed to Jupiter |style="text-align:right;"|51 |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|19. |Of the distances of the stars |style="text-align:right;"|52 |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|20. |Of the harmony of the stars |style="text-align:right;"|ib. |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|21. |Of the dimensions of the world |style="text-align:right;"|53 |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|22. |Of the stars which appear suddenly, or of comets |style="text-align:right;"|55 |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="padding-right:1em;text-align:right;"|23. |Their nature, situation, and species |style="text-align:right;"|66 |}

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