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Definition of Comets
1. comet [n] - See also: comet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comets
Literary usage of Comets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"85 comets From the 1780s Cavendish devoted a large body of work to the orbits of
comets, beginning, it seems, with the "comet" discovered by Herschel in ..."
2. A Short History of Astronomy by Arthur Berry (1899)
"The treatise on comets (1619) contained an account of a comet seen in 1607, ...
Following Tycho, Kepler held firmly the view that comets were celestial not ..."
3. Outlines of Astronomy by John Frederick William Herschel (1851)
"THE extraordinary aspect of comets, their rapid and seemingly irregular motions,
... The number of comets which have been astronomically observed, ..."
4. Outlines of Astronomy by John Frederick William Herschel (1853)
"THE extraordinary aspect of comets, their rapid and seemingly irregular motions,
... The number of comets which have been astronomically observed, ..."
5. Astronomy by Simon Newcomb, Günter Dietmar Roth, Arthur Beer, Edward Singleton Holden (1883)
"Its splendor will not soon be forgotten by those who have seen it. Encke's Comet
and the Resisting Medium.—Of telescopic comets, that which has been most ..."
6. General Astronomy by Harold Spencer Jones (1922)
"Only a small proportion of the comets which are discovered become sufficiently
... The discoveries of comets since the invention of the telescope have ..."
7. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1878)
"Miscellaneous Reflections— Could. from comets being miraculously produced." 72.
" That the reasons why comets cou'd not be the presages of Evil before the ..."
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