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... comet . Comets without tails , or with more than one . Their extreme tenuity . Their probable structure . Motions conformable to the law of gravity . Actual dimensions of comets . Periodical return of several . Halley's comet . Other ...
... comet . Comets without tails , or with more than one . Their extreme tenuity . Their probable structure . Motions conformable to the law of gravity . Actual dimensions of comets . Periodical return of several . Halley's comet . Other ...
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John Frederick William Herschel. Encke's comet - Biela's - Faye's — Lexell's — De Vico's - Brorsen's - Peter's . Great comet of 1843. Its probable identity with several older comets . Great interest at present attached to cometary ...
John Frederick William Herschel. Encke's comet - Biela's - Faye's — Lexell's — De Vico's - Brorsen's - Peter's . Great comet of 1843. Its probable identity with several older comets . Great interest at present attached to cometary ...
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... . Synoptic Table of the Elements of the Orbits of the Satellites , so far as they are known 545 IV . Elements of Periodical Comets at their last appearance .. 548 INDEX 549 OUTLINES OF ASTRONOMY . INTRODUCTION . ( 1. ) EVERY xvi CONTENTS .
... . Synoptic Table of the Elements of the Orbits of the Satellites , so far as they are known 545 IV . Elements of Periodical Comets at their last appearance .. 548 INDEX 549 OUTLINES OF ASTRONOMY . INTRODUCTION . ( 1. ) EVERY xvi CONTENTS .
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... comets , in whose apparent places among the stars , and among each other , the observation of a few days , or even hours , is sufficient to exhibit an indisputable alteration . ( 300. ) Uranography , then , as it concerns the fixed ...
... comets , in whose apparent places among the stars , and among each other , the observation of a few days , or even hours , is sufficient to exhibit an indisputable alteration . ( 300. ) Uranography , then , as it concerns the fixed ...
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... and possibly also of the medium sur- rounding it ( whatever it be ) which resists the motions of comets , cannot be thus eliminated . Note to the edition of 1833 . CHAPTER VII . OF THE MOON.- - - - -ITS 212 OUTLINES OF ASTRONOMY .
... and possibly also of the medium sur- rounding it ( whatever it be ) which resists the motions of comets , cannot be thus eliminated . Note to the edition of 1833 . CHAPTER VII . OF THE MOON.- - - - -ITS 212 OUTLINES OF ASTRONOMY .
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