Astronomy, a handy manual for students and others (1918)
Dyson, Frank Watson, Sir, 1868-1939 · New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. · leaf 69
the year 1759. Before the reappearance ofthe comet, Clairaut, calculating the perturbing effectsof the planets it had encountered in its path, pre-dicted that the comet would be at the point of itsorbit nearest to the Sun or at perihelion on April 13,1759. The comet was discovered at the end of… … 58 ASTRONOMY Greenwich Observatory with an error of only threedays. The early history of this comet is interesting,as it has been identified with comets of which historicrecords are preserved. Diagram XXX, taken from theBayeux tapestry, represents a comet which appearedin 1066, and was accounted an…
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