 | George Crabb - Industrial arts - 1830 - 438 pages
...planet, performing revolutions about the sun in elliptical orhits, which have the sun in one of the foci. It is divided into the nucleus or dense part; the...of light by which these bodies are distinguished. The comet is sometimes borne in coats of arras, when it is said to be streaming. COMMA (in Grammar).... | |
 | George Crabb - Industrial arts - 1830 - 384 pages
...elliptical orbits, which have the sun in one of the foci. It is divided into the nucleus or dense part j the head ; the coma, a faint light surrounding the...of light by which these bodies are distinguished. The comet is sometimes borne in coats of arms, when it is said to be streaming. COMMA (in Grammar).... | |
 | George Crabb - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 426 pages
...planet, performing revolutions about the sun in elliptical orbits, which have the sun in one of the foci. It is divided into the nucleus or dense part; the...of light by which these bodies are distinguished. The comet is sometimes borne in coats of arms, when it is said to be streaming. COMMA (in Grammar.)... | |
 | George Crabb - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 434 pages
...elliptical orbits, which have the sun in one of the foci. It is divided into the nucleus or den Be part ; the head; the coma, a faint light surrounding...of light by which these bodies are distinguished. The comet is sometimes borne in coats of arms, when it w said to he streaming. COMMA (in Grammar.)... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...and performing revolutions about the sun in elliptical orbits, which have the sun in one of the foci. It is divided into the nucleus or dense part ; the...When a comet is westward of the sun, and rises or seta before it, the light appears in the morning like a train beginning at the body of the comet, and... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 872 pages
...and performing revolutions about the sun in elliptical orbits, which have the sun in one of tbe foci. It is divided into the nucleus or dense part; the...light surrounding the head ; and the tail, which is tbe long train of light by which these bodies are distinguished. When a comet is westward of tbe sun,... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 880 pages
...> the foci. It is divided into the *vclntg or H dense part • the kead ; the coma, a faint light 5 surrounding the head ; and the tail, which is «•...these bodies • are distinguished. When a comet is west" ward of the sun, and rises or sets before it, the light appears in the morning like a tram beginning... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 852 pages
...head ; and the tail which is ne long train of light by which these bodies are distinguished. >Vhen a comet is westward of the sun, and rises or sets before t, the light appears in the morning like a rain beginning at the body of the comet, and extending westward... | |
 | Jeremiah Peabody Jewett - Barnstead (N.H.) - 1872 - 302 pages
...motion of this comet in passing around- the sun was from west to east." Noah Webster says : "When the Comet is westward of the sun and rises or sets before it, the light appears in the morning like a train, beginning at the body of the Comet, and extending westward and diverging... | |
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... performing revolutions about the sun in elliptical orbits, which have the sun in one of the foci. It is divided into the nucleus or dense part ; the head ; the coma, a faint light surrounding the head ; and the tail, which is the long train of light... 