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 253
is hardlyconceivable that matter once projected to suchenormous distances should ever be collected againby the feeble attraction of such a body as a comet—a consideration which accounts for the rapid pro- 204 WONDERS OF THE HEAVENS. gressive diminution of the tails of such as have beenfrequently… … degrees long. Their edges were well defined, andbright: the middle portions emitted a very faintlight. The space between these separate tails wasas dark as the rest of the heavens. At the moment when the drawing was made, the head of thecomet was below the horizon. The dotted linesindicate the…
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