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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... exhibited during the whole of its visibility , a well defined disk of the same magnitude and appearance : changes of form and apparent diameter are observed , which clearly indicate a gaseous nature , or at any rate are conclusive ...
... exhibited during the whole of its visibility , a well defined disk of the same magnitude and appearance : changes of form and apparent diameter are observed , which clearly indicate a gaseous nature , or at any rate are conclusive ...
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... exhibited two tails , both distinctly visible to the naked eye , forming with each other an angle varying from 138 ° to 170 ° : one tail was in the usual direction , and appeared shorter but brighter than the second , which streamed off ...
... exhibited two tails , both distinctly visible to the naked eye , forming with each other an angle varying from 138 ° to 170 ° : one tail was in the usual direction , and appeared shorter but brighter than the second , which streamed off ...
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... exhibited a train 60 ° long . Another , in the year 133 after the Christian era , was attended by a tail 50 ° long and 2 ° broad , according to the Chinese observations . The comet of 178 had an appendage of equal length . That of 390 ...
... exhibited a train 60 ° long . Another , in the year 133 after the Christian era , was attended by a tail 50 ° long and 2 ° broad , according to the Chinese observations . The comet of 178 had an appendage of equal length . That of 390 ...
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... exhibited curved tails 80 ° or 100 ° in length , the latter being particularly described by an observer in the southern hemisphere as having a strik- ing resemblance to a great sabre . ' Pingré noticed a curvature in the tail of the ...
... exhibited curved tails 80 ° or 100 ° in length , the latter being particularly described by an observer in the southern hemisphere as having a strik- ing resemblance to a great sabre . ' Pingré noticed a curvature in the tail of the ...
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... the horizon at the end of March , when it became conspicuous in this country , and the smaller comet of December and January 1844-5 exhibited the same phenomenon . CHAPTER II . OF THE REAL DIMENSIONS OF COMETS - 16 THE COMETS .
... the horizon at the end of March , when it became conspicuous in this country , and the smaller comet of December and January 1844-5 exhibited the same phenomenon . CHAPTER II . OF THE REAL DIMENSIONS OF COMETS - 16 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