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 TimeJ.N. Parker and son, 1852 - 184 oldal |
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... light towards the centre being merely of greater intensity than at the borders , without coming up suddenly to a point , so as to resemble a star . Telescopic comets are generally destitute of a tail , and appear most commonly as ...
... light towards the centre being merely of greater intensity than at the borders , without coming up suddenly to a point , so as to resemble a star . Telescopic comets are generally destitute of a tail , and appear most commonly as ...
8. oldal
... light surrounding the head on the side near the sun , and passing round in each direction , so as to form the commencement of the tail . The Coma is the nebulosity which surrounds a highly condensed or planetary nucleus . Some comets ...
... light surrounding the head on the side near the sun , and passing round in each direction , so as to form the commencement of the tail . The Coma is the nebulosity which surrounds a highly condensed or planetary nucleus . Some comets ...
11. oldal
... light , somewhat brighter near the head , and gradually fading away into darkness . In others a dark line has divided it into two branches , and instances are on record where two tails , evidently distinct from each other , have been ...
... light , somewhat brighter near the head , and gradually fading away into darkness . In others a dark line has divided it into two branches , and instances are on record where two tails , evidently distinct from each other , have been ...
12. oldal
... light , forming an angle of about 140 ° with the other . A comet mentioned by Diodorus Siculus , and ob- served by Aristotle in the year 371 B.C. , exhibited a train 60 ° long . Another , in the year 133 after the Christian era , was ...
... light , forming an angle of about 140 ° with the other . A comet mentioned by Diodorus Siculus , and ob- served by Aristotle in the year 371 B.C. , exhibited a train 60 ° long . Another , in the year 133 after the Christian era , was ...
13. oldal
... light attained the enormous distance of 65 ° from the head . It would lead us far beyond the limits of the pre- sent work , were we to particularize all the varied phenomena which have been observed in the tails of comets , but there is ...
... light attained the enormous distance of 65 ° from the head . It would lead us far beyond the limits of the pre- sent work , were we to particularize all the varied phenomena which have been observed in the tails of comets , but there is ...
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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 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 remarkable comet right ascension Rome Rümker Second Edition Sept September Struve sun's tail tions Tycho Brahe Ursa Major Verrier Vico
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