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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... Notes , will , it is hoped , be acceptable to the young student , as pre- senting in a small compass the results of a vast amount of time and labour which various astronomers have expended upon them . J. RUSSELL HIND . Grove - road , St ...
... Notes , will , it is hoped , be acceptable to the young student , as pre- senting in a small compass the results of a vast amount of time and labour which various astronomers have expended upon them . J. RUSSELL HIND . Grove - road , St ...
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... Notes , will , it is hoped , be acceptable to the young student , as pre- senting in a small compass the results of a vast amount of time and labour which various astronomers have expended upon them . J. RUSSELL HIND . Grove - road , St ...
... Notes , will , it is hoped , be acceptable to the young student , as pre- senting in a small compass the results of a vast amount of time and labour which various astronomers have expended upon them . J. RUSSELL HIND . Grove - road , St ...
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... 116 On the expected Great Comet A Catalogue of the Orbits of all the Comets hitherto computed , B.C. 370 to A.D. 1852 · 125 Notes to the Catalogue of Cometary Orbits . 139 THE COMETS . CHAPTER I. OF COMETS IN GENERAL - viii CONTENTS .
... 116 On the expected Great Comet A Catalogue of the Orbits of all the Comets hitherto computed , B.C. 370 to A.D. 1852 · 125 Notes to the Catalogue of Cometary Orbits . 139 THE COMETS . CHAPTER I. OF COMETS IN GENERAL - viii CONTENTS .
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... NOTES TO THE CATALOGUE OF COMETARY ORBITS . B.C. 370. 1847 v . Sept. - VI . Nov. 1848 1. Sept. 9 , 13 14 , 4 14 8 , 1 246 79 12 6 309 48 49 19 8 25 274 26 11 190 55 56 72 10 51 0.32999 310 34 39 211 32 29 84 24 50 0.31993 0.48790 ...
... NOTES TO THE CATALOGUE OF COMETARY ORBITS . B.C. 370. 1847 v . Sept. - VI . Nov. 1848 1. Sept. 9 , 13 14 , 4 14 8 , 1 246 79 12 6 309 48 49 19 8 25 274 26 11 190 55 56 72 10 51 0.32999 310 34 39 211 32 29 84 24 50 0.31993 0.48790 ...
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... 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 John Russell Hind. } # NOTES TO THE CATALOGUE OF COMETARY ORBITS . B.C. 370.
... 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 John Russell Hind. } # NOTES TO THE CATALOGUE OF COMETARY ORBITS . B.C. 370.
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