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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... Messier had been looking out for the comet during the whole of the year 1758 , and many other astronomers searched the heavens for it , after the knowledge of Clairault's important results had reached them . It was not destined ...
... Messier had been looking out for the comet during the whole of the year 1758 , and many other astronomers searched the heavens for it , after the knowledge of Clairault's important results had reached them . It was not destined ...
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... Messier was much interrupted by cloudy weather , but on the 21st he caught a glimpse of the comet , and observed it regularly for the three weeks following . Delisle , then director of the observatory at Paris , would not allow him to ...
... Messier was much interrupted by cloudy weather , but on the 21st he caught a glimpse of the comet , and observed it regularly for the three weeks following . Delisle , then director of the observatory at Paris , would not allow him to ...
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... Messier . Its aspect in 1759 was not so imposing in these parts of the world as some astronomers had anticipated , but this was mainly owing to its position near the vapours of the horizon , when it would otherwise have been most ...
... Messier . Its aspect in 1759 was not so imposing in these parts of the world as some astronomers had anticipated , but this was mainly owing to its position near the vapours of the horizon , when it would otherwise have been most ...
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... Messier in 1770 , which was known to have suffered enormous pertur- bations through the attraction of Jupiter . The ques- tion was not set at rest till after the appearance of a complete memoir on the subject , by M. Leverrier , who ...
... Messier in 1770 , which was known to have suffered enormous pertur- bations through the attraction of Jupiter . The ques- tion was not set at rest till after the appearance of a complete memoir on the subject , by M. Leverrier , who ...
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... Messier at Paris on the 8th of April , 1766 , and afterwards observed by La Nux at the Isle of Bourbon , was undoubtedly moving in an ellipse of moderate length of revolution . Burck- hardt made the periodic time a little over five ...
... Messier at Paris on the 8th of April , 1766 , and afterwards observed by La Nux at the Isle of Bourbon , was undoubtedly moving in an ellipse of moderate length of revolution . Burck- hardt made the periodic time a little over five ...
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