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 38
ce.That they are not, however, comets, their fixitysufliciently proves ; and when we come to examinethem with instruments of great power, such as re-flectors of eighteen inches, two feet or more inaperture, any such idea is completely destroyed.They are then, for the most part, perceived to… … the thirteenth nebula of Messiers list, as seen in thetwenty feet reflector at Slough.* Many of them,indeed, are of an exactly round figure, and conveythe complete idea of a globular space filled full ofstars, insulated in the heavens, and constituting initself a family or society apart from the…
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