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Astronomy: various views of Donati's comet in the night sky. Process print.
Reference: 46241i- Ephemera
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An account of the comet of the year 1811.
Date: [1811?]- Pictures
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Astronomy: a comet seen over London. Wood engraving.
Date: 1860Reference: 46242i- Ephemera
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The new comet : drawn at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
Date: [1844]- Pictures
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Astronomy: a comet in the night sky. Wood engraving, ca. 1860.
Date: 1860Reference: 46240i- Books
The comet of 1577: its place in the history of astronomy / by C. Doris Hellman.
Hellman, Clarisse Doris, 1910-1973.Date: 1944- Digital Images
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Ambroise Pare, Les Oeuvres, 1579: fearful comet
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The comet / [John Seares].
Seares, John.Date: 1835- Pictures
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Astronomy: an anthropomorphic comet, with a tail composed of earth-bound objects. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
Date: 1860Reference: 46246i- Books
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An account of a new comet. By Miss Caroline Herschel. Read at the Royal Society, Nov. 9, 1786.
Herschel, Caroline Lucretia, 1750-1848.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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An essay towards the history of the principal comets that have appeared since the year 1742 ; including a particular detail of the return of the famous comet of 1682 in 1759, according to the calculation and prediction of Dr. Halley / compiled from the observations of the most eminent astronomers of this century ; with remarks and reflections upon the present comet ; to which is prefixed by way of introduction a letter upon comets, addressed to a lady by the late M. de Maupertuis. Written in the year 1742.
Burney, Charles, 1726-1814.Date: 1769- Pictures
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Astronomy: a mechanism for a model of the motion of a comet. Engraving after B. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Reference: 46166i- Pictures
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Astronomy: stars in the night sky, with Encke's comet. Coloured engraving by J. Basire, 1851 after C. Piazzi Smyth.
Smyth, C. Piazzi (Charles Piazzi), 1819-1900.Date: [1851]Reference: 46239i- Books
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Remarks on the new comet. By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. Read at the Royal Society, Nov. 16, 1786.
Herschel, William, Sir, 1738-1822.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A short account of the solar system, and of comets in general: together with a particular account of the comet that will appear in 1789. By Bartholomew Burges.
Burges, Bartholomew.Date: --1789- Pictures
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Astronomy: the astronomer Sidrophel, using a telescope, misidentifies a kite as a comet. Etching by W. Hogarth, ca. 1721.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1721Reference: 46336i- Archives and manuscripts
Letter from John Bevis concerning "the present comet"
Date: 1745-1748Reference: MS.5403/13Part of: Folkes, Martin (1690-1754)- Books
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The worthies, or The tail of the comet.
Villiers, George, active 1785-1790.Date: 1787?]- Pictures
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Astronomy: an ancient scholar (Aristotle?) observing a meteor or comet using a telescope. Engraving by J. Kip, 1694, after G. Freman.
Freman, G.Date: [1694]Reference: 46392i- Books
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Two lectures on comets, read in the chapel of Harvard-College, in Cambridge, New England, in April 1759. On occasion of the comet which appear'd in that month. With an appendix, concerning the revolutions of that comet, and of some others. By John Winthrop, Esq. Hollisian Professor of the Mathematics and Philosophy at Cambridge. Published by the general desire of the hearers.
Winthrop, John, 1714-1779.Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0006348 "Collided between the sun and a comet"
Date: June 1939Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/53/29Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
Story of a comet. Oil painting by L.R. Faléro.
Faléro, Luis Riccardo, 1851-1896.Reference: 45965i- Books
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Account of the discovery of a new comet. By Miss Caroline Herschel. In a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K.B. P.R.S. From the Philosophical transactions.
Herschel, Caroline Lucretia, 1750-1848.Date: 1796]- Ephemera
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The path of the great comet of 1858, will be traced in space, with explanatory remarks / Music Hall, George Street, Edinburgh.
Date: [1859?]- Books
On the expected return of the great comet of 1264 and 1556; with a history of former appearances, compiled from various authors and ephemerides for facilitating its re-discovery / By J.R. Hind.
Hind, J. Russell (John Russell), 1823-1895.Date: 1848