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20082 matching newspaper pages in total. Washington, DC has the most hits (1577 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.

1. Daily National Intelligencer — 1817-08-28, page 2

   … towards us, as the planets do that is specially proved by phases observed in the comet of 1744 the enlightened part of which was visible but by half. (Mem. Acad.) If …

   … luminous than the nut, as if it had at its circumference some luminous fibres. The comet of 1665 was very clear, according to Hevelius and according to M. Cassini, the comet of 1682 was as round and as clear as Jupiter. Thus we must not regard the hair, …

   … their or bits,is reduced to 61 up to this time (1772), in reckoning for but one comet those of 1456, of 1531, 1507, KB2 and 1759, which are well recognized to be but …

2. Daily National Intelligencer — 1819-07-27, page 2

   … nuclei, approach nearest to the sun; and is less, still nearer the nucleus of the Comet,than towards the extremity of the tail; 7. The tails are somewhat blighter, and …

   … tails always appear broader at their up per extreme than near the centre of the Comet; 9. The tails are always transparent; and the smallest stars appear through them …

   … . The nucleus, which is sometimes called the head or body of the Comet, viewed through a te lescope, shews a very different face from those of the fixed …

3. Daily National Intelligencer — 1825-04-22, page 2

   … Naval Forces in the W. Indies, &c. COMETS. The method of calculating the orbit of a comet lias been greatly simplified, since the time New ton first published his indirect …

   … solution fora par abolic orbit. The return of the comet of 1759, according to Halley’s prediction, drew the atten tion of mathematicians to the invention of formu las …

   … hours. Our countryman, Rittenhouse, com-m ted the elements of the orbit of the comet of 1770, by the methods then in use, and in his letter, printed in the first volume …

4. Daily National Intelligencer — 1831-06-25, page 2

   … bear me company.” “And a confoundedly unlucky dog he would be,” murmured Jekyll. HALLEY’S COMET, Oil THE COMET OF 1834. There are few comets that are visible to the naked eye, and on this account …

   … the comet, whose return figures among the calculated memorabilia of the year 1834, is entitled …

   … to an early and special notice. So far as modern observations reach, this comet was^seen for the first time in the year 1465, and it approached to a distance of …

5. Daily National Intelligencer — 1834-09-15, page 2

   … to the Perihelion. It must excite pity, but certainly not astonish ment, that a Comet should excite terror in minds unacquainted with the facts that, with all its, to …

   … enlarging and elongating. It is found approach ing the sun, and in a few evenings, a comet is re cognized, and every succeeding evening its angle of motion is discovered …

   … comets, too, are often curved, bend ing, in general, towards the region which the comet has left, as if moving somewhat more slowly, or, as if resisted in their course …

6. Daily National Intelligencer — 1834-10-01, page 2

   … sun carries the planets with him; but does the sun also carry the comets? Has any comet ever been known to follow the sun as the planets do Would not the motion of our …

   … sun continually vary the periodicity of any comet, and also its orbit It is said that Halley’s will now or very soon appear and, if it should be so, it will furnish a good …

   … opportunity of observing the relative bearings of the motions of the comet, and the sun, as they pass each other. The mathematician thinks he completely occupies …

7. Daily National Intelligencer — 1834-11-21, page 2

   … Bavaria, brother-in-law of tiie King. He has reserved for his own u e, 1,800 florins. Halley's Comet. —Seeing in your paper an extract from a New York paper, stating that Halley’s comet was visi ble in the constellation Taurus, I beg leave to state that that comet will not be visible to us, previously to Au gust, 1835, and that its nearestapproach …

8. Daily National Intelligencer — 1835-09-05, page 3

   … annexed Card, publish ed in the New Haven Herald, we learn that the long expected Comet has at length made itsappear ance. The honor of its first discovery (at least in …

   … this country,) belongs to Professor Olmsted and Mr. Loomis of Yale College. Halley’s Comet. —Yesterday morning, August 31s<, we had the satisfaction of first observing this …

   … changed its place among the stars, in which case no doubt would remain of its being a Comet. The approach of the twilight prevented our ascertaining this point yester day; …

9. Daily National Intelligencer — 1835-09-07, page 2

   … confiscation of merchandise by Murat, according to the decrees of Berlin and Milan. The Comet.—The following paragraph, being an extract of a letter from Mr. Rogerson, of the …

   … Observatory, London, was published in the Bristol (England) Gazette of June 13th The Comet of Halley now arrests the attention of the astronomical world. It is making its way in its …

   … neighborhood of Jupiter, but as yet invisible even to a good telescope. I expect this Comet will be seen by assisted vision in July and August, and become visible to the naked …

10. Daily National Intelligencer — 1835-09-11, page 3

    … and sup port in all the wise and healthful measures which he may adopt.— Patriot. HALLEY’S COMET. FROM THE NEW HAVEN HERALD OF FRIDAY. Having been favored with a sky unusually …

    … se rene, we have continued our observations on the Comet every morning since the 31st August, from one to three o’clock, during which time …

    … in the Philosophical Transaction for 1833, being No. 337 of the catalogue. The Comet appears nearly circular, is about two min utes in diameter, brightest in the centre …

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