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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... identity of the comets to which they refer , and such com- parison affords the most certain means of ascertaining the period of a comet , when it extends to many centuries . The direct solution of the problem of finding the time of ...
... identity of the comets to which they refer , and such com- parison affords the most certain means of ascertaining the period of a comet , when it extends to many centuries . The direct solution of the problem of finding the time of ...
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... identity of the comets , and remarking that the next revolution would be sensibly affected by the planet Jupiter , he thought the return to perihelion might be delayed till the beginning of the year 1759 . In advising the astronomers of ...
... identity of the comets , and remarking that the next revolution would be sensibly affected by the planet Jupiter , he thought the return to perihelion might be delayed till the beginning of the year 1759 . In advising the astronomers of ...
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... identity with the comet of 1682 , and the celebrated French cometographer , Pingré , has converted Halley's suspicion into a certainty . It was seen in the month of June , and is described by the historians of the day as great ...
... identity with the comet of 1682 , and the celebrated French cometographer , Pingré , has converted Halley's suspicion into a certainty . It was seen in the month of June , and is described by the historians of the day as great ...
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... identity The perihelion would fall about the beginning of April . This great body must have been a different one from Halley's , if all the accounts , European and Chinese , can be strictly relied upon . The preceding apparition is ...
... identity The perihelion would fall about the beginning of April . This great body must have been a different one from Halley's , if all the accounts , European and Chinese , can be strictly relied upon . The preceding apparition is ...
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... identity with Halley's , and , in fact , the few circumstances related of it agree much better with the elements of Halley's comet than with those of the great comet of 1680 , which many astronomers have regarded as the same that ...
... identity with Halley's , and , in fact , the few circumstances related of it agree much better with the elements of Halley's comet than with those of the great comet of 1680 , which many astronomers have regarded as the same that ...
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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