Lessons in astronomy including uranography. A brief intoductory course without mathematics (1896)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston, London, Ginn and company · leaf 225
they fade out and vanish in the dis-tance. The large ones are magnificent objects, sometimes asbright as Venus, and visible by day; with a head as large asthe moon, and having a train which extends from the horizonto the zenith, and is really long enough to reach from the earthto the sun. Such… … Fig. 58. —Naked-eye View of Donatis Comet, Oct. 4,1858. (Bond.) In ancient times, comets were always regarded with terror, as atleast presaging evil, if not actively malignant, and the notion stillsurvives in certain quarters, though the most careful research goes to § 289] DESIGNATION OF COMETS.…
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