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Scientific American, Vol. 47, No. 16 (October 1882) (1882)

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e devised for signaling by ing light of dawn, the comet as a whole rivaled in beauty tle heeding the commotion it had caused among the dwellers sound, a species of gigantic fire cracker, for example, or and magnitude the great comet of 1858 (Donati's) seen under on this small planet. Daily the… … COMET AS SEEN BY THE EYE. working smith by the name of Johnstone, who proposed it the present short period by the theory that at the two pre- in 1823 for the Thames Tunnel, in lieu of the plan adopted vious returns, it passed so near the sun as to graze the solar The cut herewith represents, as…

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