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 264
caps removed, each luminous meteor makes its ownexposure, and its trail is impressed among the stars upon the plate withabsolute precision) on development a fine, dark, nearly uniform line crossing it, dueto a meteor of uneven brightness in its flight; and this is thefirst meteor trail ever… … WINNECKE (1835-1897) (Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke was an astronomer of unusualtalent and exceptional versatility, as shotvn by his extensive researchesin both theoretic and obserzmtional astronomy, especially relating to thecomets (p. 193). He was for a time Vice-director at Pulkowa)
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