Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Lockyer, Winifred James, Mrs., d. 1879 · New York, C. Scribner & co. · leaf 219
rice ofthe winds and according to the fortuitous play of solar rays,the vaporous agglomerations which form comets, take everypossible form under the impulsion of cosmical forces more orless intense. At their approach to the fiery body, theirsubstance distends itself, assumes a wonderful size, and… … Fig. 39. Comet of 1811. an instance of this lightness in the comet recently observed in1862; the form and position of the luminous appendageschanged from day to day; and observers might have Cirmets. ^ 209 believed that even a portion of the substance of the nnclensflowed into sj>ace. On the…
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