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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... February , 1106 , was seen close to the sun all over Europe . That of March , 1402 , was visible day and night in the circumpolar regions of the heavens , in Germany and Italy ; and another grand comet in the summer of the same year ...
... February , 1106 , was seen close to the sun all over Europe . That of March , 1402 , was visible day and night in the circumpolar regions of the heavens , in Germany and Italy ; and another grand comet in the summer of the same year ...
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... - ary , 1840 , presented similar anomalies . Assuming that it had no light of its own , it should have appeared twice as bright on the 23rd of February as on the 21st of March , yet at the latter date Professor Plantamour 24 THE COMETS .
... - ary , 1840 , presented similar anomalies . Assuming that it had no light of its own , it should have appeared twice as bright on the 23rd of February as on the 21st of March , yet at the latter date Professor Plantamour 24 THE COMETS .
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... February , the comet was too near that luminary to be visible before the last week in March . It was found again by La Nux , at the Isle of Bourbon , on the 26th , and by Messier on the 31st ; and Delisle having withdrawn his interdict ...
... February , the comet was too near that luminary to be visible before the last week in March . It was found again by La Nux , at the Isle of Bourbon , on the 26th , and by Messier on the 31st ; and Delisle having withdrawn his interdict ...
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... February following , in Sagittarius and Scorpio , and remained in sight fifty days . This latter body appears most likely to have been Halley's , if the perihelion occurred on January 26th . But it is possible this comet may have ...
... February following , in Sagittarius and Scorpio , and remained in sight fifty days . This latter body appears most likely to have been Halley's , if the perihelion occurred on January 26th . But it is possible this comet may have ...
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... visible again early in 1842 , and to reach the perihelion point on April 12th . It was found by Dr. Galle at Berlin , on the 8th of February , and observed pretty generally in Europe until the 10th or 11th of THE COMET OF ENCKE . 67.
... visible again early in 1842 , and to reach the perihelion point on April 12th . It was found by Dr. Galle at Berlin , on the 8th of February , and observed pretty generally in Europe until the 10th or 11th of THE COMET OF ENCKE . 67.
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