Snyder, Isaac Newton · [Liberty, Ind., Press of Express printing co.] · leaf 111
d. 10i LOOKING SKYWARD. CHAPTER XL COMETS.What problems they propound to us, when, as in somebeautiful display of pyrotechnics the arch of Heaven isilluminated with their fantastic light.—Flammarion. The name is from the Greekcoma, meaning long-haired. These objects have been seen and known to… … Showing the three kinds of orbits of comets—the outer beingan hyperbola, the middle parabola, and the inner an ellipse. 108 COMETS. but what are anxious to a high degree, to see a cometwhen it is foretold to appear as a naked eye exhibi-tion, in the morning or evening sky; but as the peo-ple are…
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