Elements of astronomy ... with explanatory notes, and questions for examination (1855)
Brocklesby, John, 1811-1889 · New York, Farmer, Brace & co. · leaf 272
albodies is without doubt very numerous, for, according toSir John Herschel, the list of those on record before theinvention of the telescope amounts to several hundred. 1. Comet from the Greek kome, signifying hair. Describe each of them in full 1 Do all comets possess tails or trains 1 Does a… … COMET OF 1819. The telescope has added materially to this number, fornot a year passes without some being brought to lightfrom the depths of that obscurity in which they musthave forever remained, if the astronomer had continuedto gaze upon the heavens with his unaided eye. Withinthe last century,…
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