Part 2

Introduction 91

Infancy of Bailly.--His Youth.--His Literary Essays.--His Mathematical Studies 93

Bailly becomes the Pupil of Lacaille.--He is associated with him in his Astronomical Labours 97

Bailly a Member of the Academy of Sciences.--His Researches on Jupiter's Satellites 103

Bailly's Literary Works.--His Biographies of Charles V.--of Leibnitz--of Peter Corneille--of Moliere 106

Debates relative to the Post of Perpetual Secretary of the Academy of Sciences 110

History of Astronomy.--Letters on the Atlantis of Plato and on the Ancient History of Asia 114

First Interview of Bailly with Franklin.--His Entrance into the French Academy in 1783.--His Reception.--Discourse.--His Rupture with Buffon 121

Report on Animal Magnetism 127

Election of Bailly into the Academy of Inscriptions 155

Report on the Hospitals 157

Report on the Slaughter-Houses 165

Biographies of Cook and of Gresset 167

Assembly of the Notables.--Bailly is named First Deputy of Paris; and soon after Dean or Senior of the Deputies of the Communes 169

Bailly becomes Mayor of Paris.--Scarcity.--Marat declares himself inimical to the Mayor.--Events of the 6th of October 179

A Glance at the Posthumous Memoir of Bailly 193

Examination of Bailly's Administration as Mayor 195

The King's Flight.--Events on the Champ de Mars 206

Bailly quits the Mayoralty the 12th of November, 1791.--The Eschevins.--Examination of the Reproaches that might be addressed to the Mayor 211

Bailly's Journey from Paris to Nantes, and then from Nantes to Melun.--His Arrest in this last Town.--He is transferred to Paris 217

Bailly is called as a Witness in the Trial of the Queen.--His own Trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal.--His Condemnation to Death.--His Execution.--Imaginary Details added by ill-informed Historians to what that odious and frightful Event already presented 225

Portrait of Bailly.--His Wife 250

HERSCHEL.

Personal History 258

Chronological Table of the Memoirs of William Herschel 266

Improvements in the Means of Observation 271

Labours in Sidereal Astronomy 285

Labours relative to the Solar System 289