A beginner's star-book; an easy guide to the stars and to the astronomical uses of the opera-glass, the field-glass and the telescope (1912)
Murphy, Edgar Gardner, 1869-1913 · New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 109
sed, their orbits are so vastas to permit their return only after hundreds or even thousands of years. Our illustrations 94 H Bccjinners Star*Boo?i are chiefly from photographs of Halleys Comet taken at its recent return. It has returnedperiodically for many centuries, sharing intimately in some of… … COMET MOREHOUSE, 1908 Photographs from tht- Yerkes Observatory ; taken three hours apart we now know that comets are altogether harmless to our Earth, they were often supposedby the ancients to be the forerunners of calamity if not the symbols of divine displeasure.In noting our photographs of the…
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