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Comets, popular culture, and the birth of modern cosmology / Sara Schechner Genuth.
Schechner, Sara, 1957-Date: [1997], ©1997- Books
Comets : a chronological history of observation, science, myth, and folklore / Donald K. Yeomans.
Yeomans, Donald K.Date: [1991], ©1991- Books
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The wiltshire new phænomenon: or, the free-thinking Christian philosopher: being the philosophical essays of Mr. Charles White, hostler, At the King's-Arms, at Sarum, on the following subjects, viz. I. The being and attributes of God. II. Accidents and Comets. III. The Resurrection.
White, Charles, hostler.Date: M.DCC.LII. [1752]- Books
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The chronological remembrancer. Being an historical register of all the remarkable battles, sieges, Treaties, Conspiracies, Invasions, Massacres, Rebellions, Tryals, Executions, Plagues, Fires, Earthquakes, Comets, Eclipses, Storms, Revolutions, Births, Marriages, Coronations, preferments, deaths, and other memorable occurences, that have happened since the Creation to this Time, throughout the whole world; but more particularly Ireland and England.
Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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An essay towards a 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. A Letter upon Comets, Addressed To the Marchioness DU Chatelet, By the late M. DE Maupertuis. With a short Account of the Life of that celebrated Astronomer and Mathematician.
Burney, Charles, 1726-1814.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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An account of the remarkable comet, whose appearance is expected at the end of this present year 1757, or at the begining of 1758: with the dreadful effects that may probably happen by its near approach to the earth's orbit. Likewise observations on the other two remarkable Comets, which are expected to appear in the Years 1789, 2255. The whole illustrated with Reflections on the General Conflagration, &c. &c.
Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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An account of the remarkable comet, whose appearance is expected at the end of this present year 1757, or at the beginning of 1758: with the dreadful effects that may probably happen by its near approach to the earth's orbit. Likewise observations on the other two remarkable Comets, which are expected to appear in the Years 1789, 2255. The whole illustrated with Reflections on the General Conflagration, &c. &c.
Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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Philosophical essays on the following subjects: I. On the ascent of vapours, the Formation of Clouds, Rain and Dew, and on several other Phoenomena of Air and Water. II. Observations and conjectures on the nature of the aurora borealis, and the Tails of Comets. III. On the principles of mechanicks. By Hugh Hamilton, D.D. F.R.S. Professor of Philosophy in the University of Dublin.
Hamilton, Hugh, 1729-1805.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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Philosophical essays on the following subjects. I. On the principles of mechanics. II. On the ascent of vapours, the Formation of Clouds, Rain and Dew, and on several other Phaenomena of Air and Water. III. Observations and conjectures on the nature of the aurora borealis, and the Tails of Comets. By Hugh Hamilton, D. D. F. R. S. Professor of Philosophy in the University of Dublin.
Hamilton, Hugh, 1729-1805.Date: M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]- Books
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Philosophical essays on the following subjects. I. On the ascent of vapours, the Formation of Clouds, Rain and Dew, and on several other Phoenomena of Air and Water. II. Observations and conjectures on the nature of the aurora borealis, and the Tails of Comets. III. On the principles of mechanicks. By Hugh Hamilton, D. D. F. R. S. Professor of Philosophy in the University of Dublin.
Hamilton, Hugh, 1729-1805.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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Philosophical essays on the following subjects: I. On the ascent of vapours, the Formation of Clouds, Rain and Dew, and on several other Phoenomena of Air and Water. II. Observations and conjectures on the nature of the aurora borealis, and the Tails of Comets. III. On the principles of mechanicks. By Hugh Hamilton, D.D. F.R.S. Professor of Philosophy in the University of Dublin
Hamilton, Hugh, 1729-1805.Date: 1767- Books
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A companion, or supplement, to The ladies' diary, for the year 1791. Containing calculations and types of the eclipses of this year; with an Account of New Comets, &c. Also additional Solutions to Diary Enigmas, Rebuses, Charades, Queries, and Questions, which there was not room for in the Diary itself; With some New Enigmas, Rebuses, Charades, Queries and Questions, to be answered next year. By the Diary author.
Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823.Date: 1790]- Books
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The diary companion, being a supplement to The ladies' diary, for the year 1792. Containing answers to the last year's enigmas, rebuses, charades, Queries, and Questions; both in the Diary and Supplement. With some New Enigmas, Rebuses, Charades, Queries, and Questions, proposed to be answered next Year. Also, Calculations of the Eclipses; with a Continuation of the Account of New Comets, and other New Discoveries in the Heavens. By the Diary author.
Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823.Date: [1792]- Books
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The remembrancer: being an historical register of the most remarkable battles sieges treaties Conspiracies Rebellions Massacres Tryals Executions Plagues Fires Earthquakes Comets Eclipses Storms and other memorable occurrences in Great Britain, and even throughout Europe, from William the Conqueror, to the present year 1739. With an alphabetical index for readily finding out the very Day of the Year when they happened; as well as the Births, Marriages, Coronations, Deaths, &c. of the Sovereign Princes.
Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- 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
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An epitome of astronomy, with a concise history of its origin and progress; Being a companion to the lectures given on the dioastrodoxon, or, New transparent orrery, twenty-one feet diameter, By R.E. Lloyd. To which is added, an essay on the nature and appearence of Comets, (with an attempt to point out the errors of the present theory) and an apology for an enquiry into a new and more rational hypothesis. Price one shilling.
Lloyd, Robert Evans.Date: [1796?]- Books
Chronology of eclipses and comets, AD 1-1000 / D. Justin Schove.
Schove, D. Justin (Derek Justin)Date: 1984- Books
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The theory of comets, illustrated, In Four Parts. I. An Essay on the Natural History and Philosophy of Comets; being the Substance of all that has been hitherto published on that Head. II. Tables, containing the Elements of the Theory of a Comet's Motion, (in a Parabola or an Ellipsis) with their Nature and Use explained. III. The Method of constructing the Orbit of any Comet, and computing its Place therein; its Latitude and Longitude, as seen from the Earth or Sun; its Distance, Velocity, Magnitude, Length of Tail, and other Particulars relative thereto. IV. The Method of delineating the visible Path of a Comet in the Heavens, on the Surface of Celestial Globe; and for drawing the Trajectory by Protraction with Scale and Compasses. The whole adapted to, and exemplified in the Orbit of the Comet of the Year 1682, whose Return is now near at Hand. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1757- Books
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The astronomy of comets. In two parts. Part I. Containing a physical account of the solar system; the whole Theory of Comets, with the Rationale, or Physical Causes of these Phoenomena, from the earliest Ages to the present Time. Part II. Containing the practical methods of calculation. First, by the Properties of the Parabola without Tables; and secondly, by Tables prefixed to the Work, with the Construction of the Tables, whereby the Place and Distance of Comet from the Earth, together with its Latitude and Longitude in the Ecliptic, may, for any Time, be known, by any one who has but a common Skill in Plane Trigonometry. The whole Process of Calculation exemplified in the Comet which is expected to make its Appearance in the Year 1789. By Blyth Hancock, Teacher of the Mathematics.
Hancock, Blyth, 1721 or 1722-1795.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Pictures
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Astronomy: comets in a night sky. Engraving.
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Astronomy: comets in a night sky. Engraving.
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Astronomy: diagram of the path of comets. Engraving.
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The true nature and cause of the tails of comets. Elucidated in a rationale agreeing with their several phanomena [sic]. By an enquirer.
Perkins, John, 1698-1781.Date: 1772- Books
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An account of a surprizing meteor, seen in the air March 19. 1718/19. at night. Containing, I. A description of this meteor, from the original letters of those who saw it in different places. II. Some Historical Accounts of the like Meteors before. III. A Demonstration that such Meteors are not Comets. IV. That such Meteors are not a Concourse of Vapours above our Atmosphere. V. That they are prodigious Blasts of Thunder and Lightenings in the upper Regions of our Air. VI. Observations from the whole. By William Whiston, M.A. sometime Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge.
Whiston, William, 1667-1752.Date: 1719- 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