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Astronomy: a large, bright, comet in the night sky over Winchester, being observed by two men. Engraving by H.R. Cook, 1811, after Pether.
Date: May 1, 1820Reference: 46238i- Books
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Lectures and collections / made by Robert Hooke.
Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703Date: 1678- Pictures
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Astronomy: a comet in the night sky. Wood engraving, ca. 1860.
Date: 1860Reference: 46240i- Pictures
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Astronomy: an anthropomorphic comet, with a tail composed of events of 1853. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1850-1859Reference: 46246i- Books
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A synopsis of the astronomy of comets. By Edmund Halley, Savilian Professor of Geometry, at Oxford; And Fellow of the Royal Society. Translated from the original, printed at Oxford.
Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.Date: 1705- 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
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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- Ephemera
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Date: [1984?]- Ephemera
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An account of the comet of the year 1811.
Date: [1811?]- Ephemera
Oversize ephemera. EPH+3.
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An essay on comets, their nature, the laws of their motions, the cause and magnitude of their atmosphere, and tails; with a conjecture of their use and design.
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1744- 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- Books
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Diarium astrologicum et metheorologicum anni a nato Christo 1586. Et de cometa quodam rotundo omnique cauda destituto, qui anno proxime elapso, mensibus Octobri & Nouembri conspiciebatur, ex obseruationibus certis desumta consideratio astrologica; / per Eliam Olai Cimbrum nobili viro Tychoni Brahe in Astronomicis exercitijs inseruientem. Ad loci Longitudinem. 37. Gr. Latitudinem. 56. Gr.
Morsing, Elias Olsen Cimber, 1540-1590.Date: [1586]- Books
Libro del nuevo cometa : Valencia, Pedro de Huete, 1573 ; Littera ad Bartholomaeum Reisacherum, 1574 ; Summa del prognostico del cometa Valencia, Juan Navarro, 1578 / Jerónimo Muñoz ; introducción, apéndices y antología por Víctor Navarro Brotóns.
Muñoz, Jerónimo, -approximately 1591.Date: 1981- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001931: Reproduction of a woodcut captioned "The figure of a Fearful Comet"
Date: May 1931Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/18/16Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- 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: various views of Donati's comet in the night sky. Process print.
Reference: 46241i- Pictures
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Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including Napoleon III on horseback with a smiling Queen Victoria, a flag-draped coffin, and a battle. Coloured lithograph, [c.1867?].
Date: 1866Reference: 46311i- 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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Prælectiones physico-mathematicæ Cantabrigiæ in scholis publicis habitæ. Quibus Philosophia Illustrissimi Newtoni Mathematica Explicatius traditur, & facilius demonstratur: cometographia etiam Halleiana commentariolo illustratur. A Gulielmo Whiston, A. M. Et Mathesews Professore Lucasiano. In Usum Juventutis Academicae.
Whiston, William, 1667-1752.Date: M.DCC.X. [1710]- Books
Meteorologicorum libri sex. Cui accessit in hac ultima editione Thomae Fieni, et Lib. Fromondi Dissertationes de cometa anni MDCXVIII. Et clarorum virorum Judicia de pluvia purpurea Bruxellensi / [Libert Froidmont].
Froidmont, Libert, 1587-1653.Date: 1655-1656- Books
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An account of the discoveries concerning comets, with the way to find their orbits, and some improvements in constructing and calculating their places. For which Reason are here added New Tables, fitted to those Purposes; Particularly with regard to That Comet which is soon expected to return. By Thomas Barker, Gent.
Barker, Thomas, 1722-1809.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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Conjectures upon the nature and motion of meteors, which are above the atmosphere. By Thomas Clap, A.M. late president of Yale-College.
Clap, Thomas, 1703-1767.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]- 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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A discourse on comets. Containing, a brief description of the true system of the world, And An Enumeration of all the Discoveries which have been yet made concerning those temporary Appearances, With respect to their Orbits, Forms, Velocity, Magnitudes, Distances, Tails, &c. Particularly that whose Return is expected in this or the following Year. Extracted from the writings of Sir Isaac Newton, and other astronomers. To which is added, the opinion of that illustrious author, concerning the use of comets, the origin of matter; and his definition of the supreme being of the universe. Collected by J. L. Cowley, Mathematician.
Cowley, John Lodge, 1719-1797.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]