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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... 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 , was bright enough to be discerned before sun - set . The second comet ...
... 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 , was bright enough to be discerned before sun - set . The second comet ...
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... March , 1843 , by far the most imposing of the present century , was discovered in various parts of the world , two or three degrees only from the sun's limb : it must have far exceeded the planet Venus in bril- liancy . Instances are ...
... March , 1843 , by far the most imposing of the present century , was discovered in various parts of the world , two or three degrees only from the sun's limb : it must have far exceeded the planet Venus in bril- liancy . Instances are ...
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... March 1843 , and they have been remarked in a greater or less degree in other cases . Another curious phenomenon occasionally observed in the tails of comets is a curvature of the extremity , or of a greater or less portion , so as to ...
... March 1843 , and they have been remarked in a greater or less degree in other cases . Another curious phenomenon occasionally observed in the tails of comets is a curvature of the extremity , or of a greater or less portion , so as to ...
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... 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 .
... 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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... March , 1843 The first comet of 1780 The first comet of 1847 , discovered by the 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 ...
... March , 1843 The first comet of 1780 The first comet of 1847 , discovered by the 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 ...
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