Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy, founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1899)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911. Celestial motions · Boston, Little, Brown and company · leaf 265
m to havehad a vague notion ofthe insufficiency of thisview, the German phi-losopher Chladni,celebrated for investi-gations of the laws ofsound, seems to havefirst expressed the trueconception of meteoricmatter, having pub-lished in 1794 the view,essentially unmodifiedto-day, that interplane-tary… … v: CHLADNI (1756-1827) Meteoric Bodies 209 The first definite establishment of the relation ofsuch a swarm to the solar system is principally due tothe labors of Professor Newton of Yale University, inthe case of the November meteors. The recurrenceof the shower as seen in the United States, 13th…
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