Proceedings American Philosophical Society Vol 49 1910

Author : American Philosophical Society
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ISBN 13 : 9781331940043
Total Pages : 518 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 69 written by American Philosophical Society and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 69: Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, 1910 It is such a long time since one has had the opportunity of seeing a large comet that the sight of this beautiful object suspended in the quiet summer morning skies with its slender graceful tail streaming upwards into the night, was something long to be remembered. It was a very impressive picture and those who were fortunate enough to see it at its best must have been struck with its quiet and majestic beauty. This was specially the case for a few mornings in the middle of August when the moon was absent, and as late as the first week in September when, though very low in the east and visible only for a few minutes before dawn killed it, the tail could be traced for a distance of fifteen degrees or more. This comet was discovered by Mr. Zaccheus Daniel at Princeton, N. J., on 1907, June 9. Though it proved to be one of the brightest comets that have appeared in the past twenty-five years, it was in some respects a disappointing object - disappointing only, however, in the want of new phenomena. It was visible to the naked eye for two full months. At one time its tail attained a length of twenty-five degrees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.