The Adolfo Stahl lectures in astronomy, delivered in San Francisco, California, in 1916-17 and 1917-18, under the auspices of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1919)
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Aitken, Robert Grant, 1864-1951 · San Francisco Stanford University Press · leaf 90
that I have no doubt an observer on those nights of August,next year, from midnight on to daylight, will see dozens ofmeteors whose paths traced backwards would pass througha small area in the constellation of Perseus. In 1866 Schia-parelli computed the orbit of the Perseid meteors and noticedthat…
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