The Story of the Comets Simply Told for General ReadersClarendon Press, 1909 - 256 síður |
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apparition April astronomers bands Barnard Berberich Biela's Comet body bright brilliancy Brooks Brooks's Comet calculated chapter Chinese Coggia's Comet coma comet appeared comet's orbit comet's tail Crommelin cyanogen diameter discovery Donati's Comet Duration of Visibility E. E. Barnard Earth Earth's orbit elements elliptic orbit Encke's Comet fact faint Faye's Halley Halley's Comet head heavens Hind Holmes's Comet hydro-carbon July July 13 June June 30 Jupiter length Lexell's Lick Observatory light longitude March meteor shower miles months Morehouse's Comet motion naked eye nebulosity nebulous night noticed nucleus observations Observatory Ophiuchus parabola parabolic orbit passed path perihelion distance perihelion passage period assigned Periodical Comet Perrine photographic planets Plate polarisation rays regarded remarkable resemblance return to perihelion Second Periodical Comet seems seen Sept sharply defined solar spectra spectrum star Tempel weeks whilst Winnecke ΙΟ
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Síða 160 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...
Síða 161 - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Síða 153 - HUNG be the heavens with black, yield day to night ! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death ! King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.
Síða 161 - And there appeared another wonder in heaven ; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth...
Síða 162 - And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the Lord stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem.
Síða 157 - Amid the radiant orbs, That more than deck, that animate the sky, The life-infusing suns of other worlds; Lo! from the dread immensity of space Returning, with accelerated course, The rushing comet to the sun descends; And as he sinks below the shading earth, With awful train projected o'er the heavens, The guilty nations tremble. But, above Those superstitious horrors that enslave The fond sequacious herd, to mystic faith And blind amazement prone, th...
Síða 153 - When beggars die there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Síða 157 - Could he, whose rules the rapid comet bind, Describe or fix one movement of his mind? Who saw its fires here rise, and there descend, Explain his own beginning or his end?
Síða 179 - The Comets ; a Descriptive Treatise upon those bodies, with a condensed account of the numerous modern discoveries respecting them, and a table of all the calculated Comets from the earliest ages. By J. RUSSELL HIND, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society of London. An Astronomical Vocabulary ; being an Explanation of all terms in use amongst Astronomers at the present day.
Síða 155 - So spake the grisly Terror, and in shape, So speaking and so threatening, grew tenfold More dreadful and deform. On the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.