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 254
ny require several thousandyears to complete a wholerevolution, and they areobservable for so small aproportion of their wholecourse that its length can-not be determined withaccuracy. The revolutionof the great comet of1858 (known as Do-natis) is accomplishedin about 2,000 years;the splendid comet… … DONATlS COMET (185SVI) {Drawn by G P. Pond, \th Octo-ber. The bright object near the: s head is Arcturus, over whichthe comet passed the following day,without appreciably dimming thestars light) an orbit of more than comet; also, on the Indian photographs of the total eclipse of12th December 1S71,…
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