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Astronomy: a comet in the night sky. Wood engraving, ca. 1860.
Date: 1860Reference: 46240i- Books
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A treatise of comets, containing I. An explication of all the various appearances of the late comet, both in its own Trajectory and the Firmament of Fixt Stars, to its setting in the Sun-Beams: Illustrated with a Plan of the Earth's and Comet's Orbits. II. The history of comets from the earliest Account of those kinds of Planets, to the present Time; wherein the Sentiments of the Antient and Modern Philosophers are occasionally display'd. With Remarks on the Intentional End of Comets, and the Nature and Design of Saturn's Ring. III. The distance, velocity, size, solidity, and other properties of those bodies consider'd; and the wonderful Phaenomena of their Tails and Atmospheres accounted for. Illustrated also by a Copper-Plate. By George Smith.
Smith, George, 1700-1773.Date: MDCCXLIV. [1744]- 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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The academy of play, containing, a full description of, and the laws of play, now observed in the several academies of Paris, Relative to The following Games, viz. Piquet, Quadrill, Ombre, Quintill, Piquemdrill, Imperial, The Reverse Papillon, L'Ambigu, Commerce, Tontine. Lottery, Ma Commere La Mariée, Triomphe, Tue Beast, La Mouche, Man D'Auvergne, The Farm. The Game of Hoc, L'Emprunt, Le Poque, Romestecq, Sizette, Guinguette, Le Sixte, Vingt-Quatre, La Belle, Gillet, Cul Bas, The Cuckoo, Brusquembille, The Comet. From the French of the Abbé Bellecour.
Bellecour, abbé.Date: [1770?]- Books
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Will-With-a-Wisp; or, the grand ignis fatuus of London. Being a lay-man's letter to a country-gentleman, concerning the articles lately exhibited against Mr. Whiston: Wherein are consider'd, I. His Haeretical Notions. II. His Expression at Cambrid. III. His Censure in Convocation. IV. His Cause before Delegates. V. His confident Challenges. VI. His Vii. His false Propheties. Viii. His whimsical Millennium. IX. His Comet in 1630. X. His hoasied Longitude. With Short Remarks upon some other Inferior Jack-A-Lant Horns. By a gentleman formerly of Queen's College, Oxon.
N. N., Gentleman formerly of Queen's College Oxon.Date: [1714]- 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- 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- 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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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- 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- Books
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The history of Israel Jobson, the wandering Jew. Giving a description of his pedigree, Travels in this lower World, and his Assumption thro' the Starry Regions, conducted by a Guardian Angel, exhibiting in a curious Manner the Shapes, Lives, and Customs of the Inhabitants of the Moon and Planets; touching upon the great and memorable Comet in 1758, and interwoven all along with the Solution of the Phaenomena of the true Solar System, and Principles of Natural Philosophy, concording with the latest Discoveries of the most able Astronomers. Translated from the original Chinese by M. W.
Date: 1757- 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]- 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]- Pictures
Story of a comet. Oil painting by L.R. Faléro.
Faléro, Luis Riccardo, 1851-1896.Reference: 45965i- 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- 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