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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... Paris it was judged to be 55 ° ; at the Isle of Bourbon , it was traced 60 ° and more by La Nux , while Pingré saw it fully 75 ° long , being at sea at the time , between Teneriffe and Cadiz . Two days after- wards , this astronomer ...
... Paris it was judged to be 55 ° ; at the Isle of Bourbon , it was traced 60 ° and more by La Nux , while Pingré saw it fully 75 ° long , being at sea at the time , between Teneriffe and Cadiz . Two days after- wards , this astronomer ...
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... Paris , and the Germans that of Berlin , in expressing the epoch of arrival at perihelion . 2. The longitude of perihelion , or the longitude of the comet at the time it reaches this point , as viewed from the sun's centre . It is ...
... Paris , and the Germans that of Berlin , in expressing the epoch of arrival at perihelion . 2. The longitude of perihelion , or the longitude of the comet at the time it reaches this point , as viewed from the sun's centre . It is ...
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... Paris have added much to our previous knowledge of the early Chinese observations . The first cometary orbit in our catalogue belongs to the body observed and described by Aristotle , 371 years before the Christian era . The value of ...
... Paris have added much to our previous knowledge of the early Chinese observations . The first cometary orbit in our catalogue belongs to the body observed and described by Aristotle , 371 years before the Christian era . The value of ...
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... Paris on August 26th ; the head then appeared as large as a star of the second magnitude . On the 29th the tail was curved , the concavity on the eastern side . On September 11th the head was so confused that it was not with- out ...
... Paris on August 26th ; the head then appeared as large as a star of the second magnitude . On the 29th the tail was curved , the concavity on the eastern side . On September 11th the head was so confused that it was not with- out ...
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... Paris , would not allow him to give notice to the astronomers of that city , that the long - expected body was in sight , and Messier remained the only observer before the comet was lost in the sun's rays . Such a discreditable and ...
... Paris , would not allow him to give notice to the astronomers of that city , that the long - expected body was in sight , and Messier remained the only observer before the comet was lost in the sun's rays . Such a discreditable and ...
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