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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... Italy ; and another grand comet in the summer of the same year , was bright enough to be discerned before sun - set . The second comet of 1618 , was distinctly seen in full daylight by Marsilius , in Bohemia . The comet of March , 1843 ...
... Italy ; and another grand comet in the summer of the same year , was bright enough to be discerned before sun - set . The second comet of 1618 , was distinctly seen in full daylight by Marsilius , in Bohemia . The comet of March , 1843 ...
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... Italy , Germany , and France , and was of a reddish or yellow colour . Camerarius says it belonged to the class Pogonia . The Chinese astronomers found the comet in Gemini on August 5th , and it was last perceived on the 8th of ...
... Italy , Germany , and France , and was of a reddish or yellow colour . Camerarius says it belonged to the class Pogonia . The Chinese astronomers found the comet in Gemini on August 5th , and it was last perceived on the 8th of ...
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... scarcely discerni- ble with considerable optical power under an Italian sky . The presence of moonlight and unfavourable weather during the next fortnight , delayed the comet's discovery at other places ; but on the 21st , 46 THE COMETS .
... scarcely discerni- ble with considerable optical power under an Italian sky . The presence of moonlight and unfavourable weather during the next fortnight , delayed the comet's discovery at other places ; but on the 21st , 46 THE COMETS .
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... this year . Judging from the vague accounts left us by eye - witnesses , we may infer that it vas one of the finest comets recorded in history . It was observed in Italy between the west and north , REMARKABLE COMETS . 103.
... this year . Judging from the vague accounts left us by eye - witnesses , we may infer that it vas one of the finest comets recorded in history . It was observed in Italy between the west and north , REMARKABLE COMETS . 103.
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... Italy between the west and north , with a tail directed towards the north - east . It in- creased daily in size and brightness as it approached the sun . On Palm Sunday , March 19th , and two fol- lowing days , its increase was ...
... Italy between the west and north , with a tail directed towards the north - east . It in- creased daily in size and brightness as it approached the sun . On Palm Sunday , March 19th , and two fol- lowing days , its increase was ...
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