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... comet 1861.i. has been traced back in the Chinese records to 617 A.D.1 The theoretical views founded on Newton's great law of universal gravitation led to the con- clusion that the inclination of the earth's equator to the plane of her ...
... comet 1861.i. has been traced back in the Chinese records to 617 A.D.1 The theoretical views founded on Newton's great law of universal gravitation led to the con- clusion that the inclination of the earth's equator to the plane of her ...
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... comets , and falling stars , and of the position of the solstices , and of the obliquity of the ecliptic --- - records become rare , until 776 B.C. , when eclipses began to be recorded once more with some approach 12 History of Astronomy.
... comets , and falling stars , and of the position of the solstices , and of the obliquity of the ecliptic --- - records become rare , until 776 B.C. , when eclipses began to be recorded once more with some approach 12 History of Astronomy.
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... comets were added . Biot gave a list of these , and Mr. John Williams , in 1871 , published Observations of Comets from 611 B.C. to 1640 A.D. , Extracted from the Chinese Annals . With regard to those centuries concerning which we have ...
... comets were added . Biot gave a list of these , and Mr. John Williams , in 1871 , published Observations of Comets from 611 B.C. to 1640 A.D. , Extracted from the Chinese Annals . With regard to those centuries concerning which we have ...
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... comets of 1577 , 1580 , 1582 , 1585 , 1590 , 1593 , and 1596 , and proved that they too had no measurable parallax and must be very dis- tant . The startling discovery that stars are not necessarily permanent , that new stars may appear ...
... comets of 1577 , 1580 , 1582 , 1585 , 1590 , 1593 , and 1596 , and proved that they too had no measurable parallax and must be very dis- tant . The startling discovery that stars are not necessarily permanent , that new stars may appear ...
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... the body must revolve in a curve which may be any one of the sections of a cone a circle , ellipse , parabola , or hyperbola ; and he found that those - comets of which he had observations move in parabolæ round 70 History of Astronomy.
... the body must revolve in a curve which may be any one of the sections of a cone a circle , ellipse , parabola , or hyperbola ; and he found that those - comets of which he had observations move in parabolæ round 70 History of Astronomy.
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