The wonders of the heavens, being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens; embracing the sun, moon, and stars, with descriptions of the planets, comets, fixed stars, double stars, the constellations, the galaxy, or milky-way, the zodiacal light, aurora borealis, or norhtern lights, meteors, clouds, falling stars, aërolites, &c (1837)
Bradford, Duncan. [from old catalog] · Boston, American stationers company · leaf 251
ast forty years, can believe that allcomets are formed on one model, need only exam-ine the archives of science to perceive how littlesuch an idea is founded on fact. Among the representations of comets given byHevelius, there are two of the comet of 1661, pre-senting quite a curious phenomenon.… … In the year 43 before Christ, we are told thata hairy star appeared which could be seen hy day-light with the naked eye. This comet was consider-ed by the Romans as the metamorphosis of the soulof Caesar, who was assassinated a short time before. In the year 1402 after Christ, we hear of twovery…
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