Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 286
e whose orbit has been calcu-lated by Edmund Halley, and which was named afterhim. It was in 1682 that this comet appeared in itsgreatest brilHancy, accompanied with a tail which didnot measure less than thirty-two millions of miles. Bythe observation of the path which it described in theheavens,… … A Comet Comets 255 1759. Never did scientific prediction excite a morelively interest. The comet returned at the appointedtime; and on the 12th of March, 1759, reached itsperihelion. Since the year 12 before the Christian era,it had presented itself twenty-four times to the Earth.It was principally…
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