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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... appearance of a great comet excited the utmost consternation , and on more than one occasion influenced the progress of sublunary affairs . One which became visible in the spring of 837 in the southern parts of the heavens , so alarmed ...
... appearance of a great comet excited the utmost consternation , and on more than one occasion influenced the progress of sublunary affairs . One which became visible in the spring of 837 in the southern parts of the heavens , so alarmed ...
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... appearance . Again , in June , 1456 , when the successes of the Turks under Mahomet II . excited the utmost fear at Rome for the safety of Christendom , a great comet ( known at the present day as Halley's ) was observed , and the Pope ...
... appearance . Again , in June , 1456 , when the successes of the Turks under Mahomet II . excited the utmost fear at Rome for the safety of Christendom , a great comet ( known at the present day as Halley's ) was observed , and the Pope ...
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... appearance in the telescope . Occasionally a low magnifying power will afford evidence of the existence of a stellar nucleus , but , on applying higher magnifiers , this appearance vanishes , the light towards the centre being merely of ...
... appearance in the telescope . Occasionally a low magnifying power will afford evidence of the existence of a stellar nucleus , but , on applying higher magnifiers , this appearance vanishes , the light towards the centre being merely of ...
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... appearance . Occasionally , however , the more condensed part has a dull reddish or yellowish tinge , or more rarely inclines to green . Out of forty - nine instances , in which the colours of comets were re- corded by the Chinese , we ...
... appearance . Occasionally , however , the more condensed part has a dull reddish or yellowish tinge , or more rarely inclines to green . Out of forty - nine instances , in which the colours of comets were re- corded by the Chinese , we ...
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... appearance : changes of form and apparent diameter are observed , which clearly indicate a gaseous nature , or at any rate are conclusive against the idea of solidity . The nucleus of the great and celebrated comet of 1680 is described ...
... appearance : changes of form and apparent diameter are observed , which clearly indicate a gaseous nature , or at any rate are conclusive against the idea of solidity . The nucleus of the great and celebrated comet of 1680 is described ...
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