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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... of a vast amount of time and labour which various astronomers have expended upon them . J. RUSSELL HIND . Grove - road , St. John's Wood , London , November , 1852 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. Of Comets in general - Their vi PREFACE .
... of a vast amount of time and labour which various astronomers have expended upon them . J. RUSSELL HIND . Grove - road , St. John's Wood , London , November , 1852 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. Of Comets in general - Their vi PREFACE .
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... astronomers , the time of perihelion passage . Unlike the planets , they move in every possible di- rection , and are seen as well near the poles as about the equatorial or zodiacal regions of the heavens . In the dark ages of ...
... astronomers , the time of perihelion passage . Unlike the planets , they move in every possible di- rection , and are seen as well near the poles as about the equatorial or zodiacal regions of the heavens . In the dark ages of ...
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... astronomers at the present day , is to be found in European chronicles . The Chinese astronomers , though they looked upon comets without any fears of their malignant agencies , had a very fanciful opinion respecting them , which never ...
... astronomers at the present day , is to be found in European chronicles . The Chinese astronomers , though they looked upon comets without any fears of their malignant agencies , had a very fanciful opinion respecting them , which never ...
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... astronomers in their observations of large comets , consists of a border of light surrounding the head on the side near the sun , and passing round in each direction , so as to form the commencement of the tail . The Coma is the ...
... astronomers in their observations of large comets , consists of a border of light surrounding the head on the side near the sun , and passing round in each direction , so as to form the commencement of the tail . The Coma is the ...
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... 60 ° in length . The great one , which appeared in the winter of 1618 , exhibited a tail no less than 104 ° long , according to Longomontanus , the Danish 6 astronomer . Kepler had observed it fully 70 ° in 12 THE COMETS .
... 60 ° in length . The great one , which appeared in the winter of 1618 , exhibited a tail no less than 104 ° long , according to Longomontanus , the Danish 6 astronomer . Kepler had observed it fully 70 ° in 12 THE COMETS .
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amongst the stars Aphelion appearance April arrival at perihelion astronomers August Author axis Berlin Biela bodies Bouvard bright Brorsen Burckhardt calculated Cambridge century Chinese observations Clausen Collegio Romano comet discovered comet observed Comet of Encke comet of Halley comet was observed computed constellation D'Arrest December detected diameter Discovered by Pons earth elements epoch exhibited February Gambart grand comet Greenwich Mean Halley's comet heavens Herschel Hevelius Hind History identity Isle of Bourbon January John Herschel July June Jupiter Königsberg Laugier least distance length Lexell March Marseilles Mechain miles month motion naked eye nebulosity November nucleus numbers observatory observed in Europe Octavo October Olbers Ophiuchus parabolic Paris path perihelion distance perihelion passage period of revolution periodical comet perturbations Peter Apian Pingré planetary probable Professor Encke right ascension Rome Rümker Second Edition Sept September Struve sun's tail tions Tycho Brahe Ursa Major Verrier Vico