Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1901)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 233
nearlyall cases, be found to have swunground and changed its apparentposition with respect to the cometsmotion ; so that it will still remaintrue that the tail is directed fromthe Sun, and the comet will move away from the Sun with itshead following the tail. The early astronomers described thetail… … i;Rookss comet (18S6 vj [yih May 1886) Comets 185 nearly 1900 years. Dion Cassius tells us of a cometseen in b. c. 12, about the time of the death of the The tails of comets appear to be made up from the materialparticles first projected toward the Sun from the nucleus in amanner incompletely…
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