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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... Pingré saw it fully 75 ° long , being at sea at the time , between Teneriffe and Cadiz . Two days after- wards , this astronomer found it 90 ° Nux traced it 97 ° from the nucleus . of the present century which has been accompanied by a ...
... Pingré saw it fully 75 ° long , being at sea at the time , between Teneriffe and Cadiz . Two days after- wards , this astronomer found it 90 ° Nux traced it 97 ° from the nucleus . of the present century which has been accompanied by a ...
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... Pingré says he had observed them in the train of that which was visible in 1769. The pulsations were very distinctly seen in the tail of the grand comet of March 1843 , and they have been remarked in a greater or less degree in other ...
... Pingré says he had observed them in the train of that which was visible in 1769. The pulsations were very distinctly seen in the tail of the grand comet of March 1843 , and they have been remarked in a greater or less degree in other ...
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... Pingré , has converted Halley's suspicion into a certainty . It was seen in the month of June , and is described by the historians of the day as great , terrible , of extra- ordinary magnitude , ' training after it a tail which covered ...
... Pingré , has converted Halley's suspicion into a certainty . It was seen in the month of June , and is described by the historians of the day as great , terrible , of extra- ordinary magnitude , ' training after it a tail which covered ...
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... Pingré and Prosperin endeavoured to represent the apparent track of the comet in the heavens by means of parabolic elements , but without success . M. Lexell of the Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg has the merit of having first ...
... Pingré and Prosperin endeavoured to represent the apparent track of the comet in the heavens by means of parabolic elements , but without success . M. Lexell of the Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg has the merit of having first ...
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... Pingré , the well - known French writer upon the history of comets . In 1556 , at the latter end of February , or early in March , a comet became visible in the zodiacal constel- lation Virgo . It was closely watched at Vienna , by Paul ...
... Pingré , the well - known French writer upon the history of comets . In 1556 , at the latter end of February , or early in March , a comet became visible in the zodiacal constel- lation Virgo . It was closely watched at Vienna , by Paul ...
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