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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... naked eye to attract general atten- tion . The Chinese , it is true , were very diligent in their celestial observations , yet many comets must have escaped their notice , since they had no telescopes to assist them . A considerable ...
... naked eye to attract general atten- tion . The Chinese , it is true , were very diligent in their celestial observations , yet many comets must have escaped their notice , since they had no telescopes to assist them . A considerable ...
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... naked eye , it consists , in nearly every case , of a roundish and more or less condensed mass of nebulous matter , termed the head , from which issues , in a direction opposite to that nf the sun , a train of a lighter kind of ...
... naked eye , it consists , in nearly every case , of a roundish and more or less condensed mass of nebulous matter , termed the head , from which issues , in a direction opposite to that nf the sun , a train of a lighter kind of ...
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... naked eye , forming with each other an angle varying from 138 ° to 170 ° : one tail was in the usual direction , and appeared shorter but brighter than the second , which streamed off from the nucleus towards the sun . A fine comet ...
... naked eye , forming with each other an angle varying from 138 ° to 170 ° : one tail was in the usual direction , and appeared shorter but brighter than the second , which streamed off from the nucleus towards the sun . A fine comet ...
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... naked eye in June 1845 had a bright planetary - looking nucleus , which must have been nearly 8000 miles in diameter , or about equal to that of the earth . On the 24th of January , 1836 , Mr. Maclear , at the Cape of Good Hope , saw a ...
... naked eye in June 1845 had a bright planetary - looking nucleus , which must have been nearly 8000 miles in diameter , or about equal to that of the earth . On the 24th of January , 1836 , Mr. Maclear , at the Cape of Good Hope , saw a ...
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... naked eye , the real diameter of the head appears to have differed but little from 1,000,000 miles , or more than four times the distance which separates the moon from the earth . No other on record has surpassed this . In most in ...
... naked eye , the real diameter of the head appears to have differed but little from 1,000,000 miles , or more than four times the distance which separates the moon from the earth . No other on record has surpassed this . In most in ...
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amongst the stars Aphelion appearance April arrival at perihelion astronomers August Author axis Berlin Biela bodies Bouvard bright Brorsen Burckhardt calculated Cambridge century Chinese observations Clausen Collegio Romano comet discovered comet observed Comet of Encke comet of Halley comet was observed computed constellation D'Arrest December detected diameter Discovered by Pons earth elements epoch exhibited February Gambart grand comet Greenwich Mean Halley's comet heavens Herschel Hevelius Hind History identity Isle of Bourbon January John Herschel July June Jupiter Königsberg Laugier least distance length Lexell March Marseilles Mechain miles month motion naked eye nebulosity November nucleus numbers observatory observed in Europe Octavo October Olbers Ophiuchus parabolic Paris path perihelion distance perihelion passage period of revolution periodical comet perturbations Peter Apian Pingré planetary probable Professor Encke right ascension Rome Rümker Second Edition Sept September Struve sun's tail tions Tycho Brahe Ursa Major Verrier Vico