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Page 46
... tail being exactly in a straight line with the head and the sun , as it must be ( appreciably ) if the phenome- non were a mere luminous track , the end of the tail ( the part formed earliest ) would lie in the direction of a solar ray ...
... tail being exactly in a straight line with the head and the sun , as it must be ( appreciably ) if the phenome- non were a mere luminous track , the end of the tail ( the part formed earliest ) would lie in the direction of a solar ray ...
Page 48
... tail are , indeed , not always adequately realized by students of astronomy . We so often hear a comet's tail described as a vast stream of light ex- tending behind the comet- like the wake behind a swiftly - sailing ship that we are ...
... tail are , indeed , not always adequately realized by students of astronomy . We so often hear a comet's tail described as a vast stream of light ex- tending behind the comet- like the wake behind a swiftly - sailing ship that we are ...
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... tail . The new tail was perfectly of 1807 had two tails , neither of which straight , and very narrow , and , unlike the agreed exactly with a line tending directly primary tail , was directed almost exactly from the sun . The comet of ...
... tail . The new tail was perfectly of 1807 had two tails , neither of which straight , and very narrow , and , unlike the agreed exactly with a line tending directly primary tail , was directed almost exactly from the sun . The comet of ...
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JEREMY TAYLOR | 2 |
European Adventurers in India | 3 |
The Opening of the Swiss Federal Assem | 5 |
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