 Wherefore if according to what we have already said it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman.  The World of Comets - Síða 102eftir Amédée Guillemin - 1877 - 548 síðurHeildartexta - Um bókina
 | Karl F. Kuhn, Theo Koupelis - 2004 - 746 síður
...Sun.The white dust tail is curved. Wherefore if according to what we have already said [the comet] should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity...acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman. Edmond Halley coma (KOH-mah) The part of a comet's head made up of diffuse gas and dust. nucleus (of... | |
 | John C. Brandt, Robert D. Chapman - 2004 - 478 síður
...He 15 Fig. 1.5. Edmund Halley. (Yerkes Observatory photograph.) also wrote that if he were correct, "candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." Table 1.1 Hal ley's table of orbital elements of some comets The astronomical element of the motions,... | |
 | Mark Kidger - 2005 - 382 síður
...following comment: "If the comet should return according to our prediction, about the year 1758, immortal posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." In fact, after Halley 's death his calculations were checked by three French astronomers, Joseph-Jérôme... | |
 | 2005 - 356 síður
...Reading his calculations proved to be correct. But he expressed the hope that later generations would not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman. s Later generations have been, in one sense, generous to Halley. His name is forever associ ated with... | |
 | 1910 - 432 síður
...pathetically wrote, "If the comet should return, according to predictions, about the year 1758, impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this...first discovered by an Englishman." Posterity has justly paid the debt of appreciation, and, for all time, the comet "first to obtain a charter of permanent... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1906 - 1068 síður
...behind him : " Wherefore if it should return according to our prediction about the year 1758, impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." The comet reappeared Christmas night, 1758. At its last return in 1835 it was a fine object, with a... | |
 | 1910 - 964 síður
...wrote : " Wherefore, if it should return, according to our prediction about the year 1758, impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." As Halley prophesied, the comet returned, and was first observed on Christmas Day, 1758, and as the... | |
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