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 268
s nearest tothis position have their luminous courses most foreshortened, as Meteoric Bodies 211 of 33 or 34 years. Professor Newton showed thatthe bodies must move in one of five wrell defined represented by the shortest arrows; while those farthest fromthe radiant are visible through the longest… … THE APPARENT RADIATION OF METEORS(Denning) {A shower of Perseids, tJte arrows showing the vis-ible path of each meteor observed, and their pro-longation backward defining tlie position of theradiant i?i the sky} 212 Stars ci7id Telescopes orbits to satisfy this delay; but the investigation ofAdams,…
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