Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 211
nce has yet to penetrate. It has been affirmed that the heavenly space isas full of comets as the sea is of fishes. Onlythe brightest of these, however, are visible with-out the use of a good telescope. These easilyvisible ones differ little from one another in gen-eral appearance and consist of… … DIAGRAM SHOWING A SECTION OF THE ORBITS OFHALLEYS COMET AND THE EARTH. The various positions show where each will be at certain dates. Theillustration also shows how the comet changes from a morning to anevening object. in a direction away from the sun, and graduallyfades away into the sky, like…
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