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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... . The Chinese astronomers found the comet in Gemini on August 5th , and it was last perceived on the 8th of September in the constellation - Virgo ; they describe its course amongst the stars , THE COMETS . 35 CHAPTER IV The comet of ...
... . The Chinese astronomers found the comet in Gemini on August 5th , and it was last perceived on the 8th of September in the constellation - Virgo ; they describe its course amongst the stars , THE COMETS . 35 CHAPTER IV The comet of ...
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... constellation Leo , and con- tinued visible fifty - six days . The second was seen in February following , in Sagittarius and Scorpio , and remained in sight fifty days . This latter body appears most likely to have been Halley's , if ...
... constellation Leo , and con- tinued visible fifty - six days . The second was seen in February following , in Sagittarius and Scorpio , and remained in sight fifty days . This latter body appears most likely to have been Halley's , if ...
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... constellations afford the most satis- factory proof that they belong to the comet of Halley . It passed from Gemini , through Leo , Bootes , Hercules , Ophiuchus , into Scorpio , where it was lost in the sun's rays , fifty - six days ...
... constellations afford the most satis- factory proof that they belong to the comet of Halley . It passed from Gemini , through Leo , Bootes , Hercules , Ophiuchus , into Scorpio , where it was lost in the sun's rays , fifty - six days ...
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... constellation Draco without the assistance of a telescope . When viewed under suitable optical aid , it was found to exhibit a bright nuclear condensation , from which the nebulosity streamed off in a fan - like form , the general ...
... constellation Draco without the assistance of a telescope . When viewed under suitable optical aid , it was found to exhibit a bright nuclear condensation , from which the nebulosity streamed off in a fan - like form , the general ...
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... constellation Aries . It presented a small round nebulosity , with a feeble condensation of light towards the centre . The same comet was recognised independently by M. Gambart at Mar- seilles on the 9th of March , when it was situate ...
... constellation Aries . It presented a small round nebulosity , with a feeble condensation of light towards the centre . The same comet was recognised independently by M. Gambart at Mar- seilles on the 9th of March , when it was situate ...
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