The Comets: A Descriptive Treatise Upon Those Bodies. With a Condensed Account of the Numerous Modern Discoveries Respecting Them; and a Table of All the Calculated Comets, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time |
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... August 13th to the 23rd , Julian style . The comet was first seen at the end of July , and was visible in some parts until the beginning of September , its motion in the interval being from Leo into Libra . Lavather says it was observed ...
... August 13th to the 23rd , Julian style . The comet was first seen at the end of July , and was visible in some parts until the beginning of September , its motion in the interval being from Leo into Libra . Lavather says it was observed ...
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... through Ursa Major , Bootes , Serpens , and Ophiuchus . " " On the evening of the 15th of August , 1682 , Flam- steed's assistant saw a comet at the Royal Observatory , Greenwich . A few days later it was more visible 36 THE COMETS .
... through Ursa Major , Bootes , Serpens , and Ophiuchus . " " On the evening of the 15th of August , 1682 , Flam- steed's assistant saw a comet at the Royal Observatory , Greenwich . A few days later it was more visible 36 THE COMETS .
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... August 26th ; the head then appeared as large as a star of the second magnitude . On the 29th the tail was curved , the concavity on the eastern side . On September 11th the head was so confused that it was not with- out difficulty a ...
... August 26th ; the head then appeared as large as a star of the second magnitude . On the 29th the tail was curved , the concavity on the eastern side . On September 11th the head was so confused that it was not with- out difficulty a ...
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... August , close to the computed place , which at this time was in the neighbourhood of the star 【 Tauri . It was a faint , misty object , scarcely discerni- ble with considerable optical power under an Italian sky . The presence of ...
... August , close to the computed place , which at this time was in the neighbourhood of the star 【 Tauri . It was a faint , misty object , scarcely discerni- ble with considerable optical power under an Italian sky . The presence of ...
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... August 20th , the error of Professor Rosenberger's predicted place was only seven minutes of arc in right ascension and seventeen minutes in declination , which , with succeeding observations , showed that the peri- helion passage would ...
... August 20th , the error of Professor Rosenberger's predicted place was only seven minutes of arc in right ascension and seventeen minutes in declination , which , with succeeding observations , showed that the peri- helion passage would ...
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