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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... author , was seen for some hours about two degrees from the sun's limb , with a powerful telescope , and is the last instance of the kind on record . In most comets the head is white , or has a pale watery appearance . Occasionally ...
... author , was seen for some hours about two degrees from the sun's limb , with a powerful telescope , and is the last instance of the kind on record . In most comets the head is white , or has a pale watery appearance . Occasionally ...
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... author The fine comet of July , 1819 Second comet of 1811 , measured by Herschel The great comet of 1807 , measured by Herschel Miles . 5300 5100 5000 4270 3500 • 3280 2640 538 428 125 The celebrated comet of 1811 , measured by Herschel ...
... author The fine comet of July , 1819 Second comet of 1811 , measured by Herschel The great comet of 1807 , measured by Herschel Miles . 5300 5100 5000 4270 3500 • 3280 2640 538 428 125 The celebrated comet of 1811 , measured by Herschel ...
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... author has left two contradictory observations , one of which cannot be reconciled with the elements of Halley's comet ; but as the Chinese relation agrees extremely well with those elements , and this body was certainly due about 1301 ...
... author has left two contradictory observations , one of which cannot be reconciled with the elements of Halley's comet ; but as the Chinese relation agrees extremely well with those elements , and this body was certainly due about 1301 ...
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... authors in that year , which was visible , in the western sky , in Ursa Major , offers nothing contradictory to its identity with Halley's , and , in fact , the few circumstances related of it agree much better with the elements of ...
... authors in that year , which was visible , in the western sky , in Ursa Major , offers nothing contradictory to its identity with Halley's , and , in fact , the few circumstances related of it agree much better with the elements of ...
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... author , which was read before the Royal Astronomical Society , in January , 1850. * The following is a tabular view of the most probable epochs of perihelion passage . The reader will under- stand that much uncertainty attaches to the ...
... author , which was read before the Royal Astronomical Society , in January , 1850. * The following is a tabular view of the most probable epochs of perihelion passage . The reader will under- stand that much uncertainty attaches to the ...
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