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... comets, eclipses, new stars, meteor showers, and remarkable conjunctions ofthe planets, as well asplaguesand famines ... comet presaged famine, or an eclipse war. Even ifthese men were sometimes led to evolve lawsof cause andeffect which ...
... comets, eclipses, new stars, meteor showers, and remarkable conjunctions ofthe planets, as well asplaguesand famines ... comet presaged famine, or an eclipse war. Even ifthese men were sometimes led to evolve lawsof cause andeffect which ...
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... comet has been a member of the solar system, and to identify it in the Chinese observations of comets asfar back as 12 B.C. Cowelland Cromellin extended the dateto 240B.C.In thesame way the comet 1861.i. has been traced back in the ...
... comet has been a member of the solar system, and to identify it in the Chinese observations of comets asfar back as 12 B.C. Cowelland Cromellin extended the dateto 240B.C.In thesame way the comet 1861.i. has been traced back in the ...
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... comets, and falling stars, andof the position of the solstices, and ofthe obliquity of the ecliptic—records become ... comets were added. Biot gave a listof these, andMr.John Williams, in 1871, published Observations of Comets from 611 B.C..
... comets, and falling stars, andof the position of the solstices, and ofthe obliquity of the ecliptic—records become ... comets were added. Biot gave a listof these, andMr.John Williams, in 1871, published Observations of Comets from 611 B.C..
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George Forbes. Williams, in 1871, published Observations of Comets from 611 B.C. to 1640 A.D., Extracted from the Chinese Annals. With regardto those centuries concerning whichwehave no astronomical Chinese records, it isfairtostate that ...
George Forbes. Williams, in 1871, published Observations of Comets from 611 B.C. to 1640 A.D., Extracted from the Chinese Annals. With regardto those centuries concerning whichwehave no astronomical Chinese records, it isfairtostate that ...
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