Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888 · New York, R. Worthington · leaf 190
t, in point of fact, it is only promise of light, not lightitself, that we have obtained. COMETS. 179 Discovered in 1826, Bielas comet was presently foundto be identical with one seen in 1772 by Montaigne, andagain by Pons in 1805. A careful study of the observationsshowed that the comet travels… … Fig. 10.—Bielas Comet in 1846, before its division into two. much as they have been recently by the threatened influenceof the larger planets in perihelion. The comet crossed theearths track several weeks before she herself came to theplace where the two orbits approach nearest, and it is…
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