Cometography: Ancient-1799Cometography is a catalog of every comet observed throughout history. It is the most complete and comprehensive collection of data on comets available. Cometography comes in four sequential volumes and this, the first, covers ancient times through to the end of the eighteenth century. Cometography uses the most reliable orbits known to determine all the key parameters of each well observed comet. Cometography also provides non-technical details to help the reader understand how the comet may have influenced various cultures at the time of its appearance. All the information in Cometography has been sourced directly from the original documents, including European monastic histories, Roman, Greek and Muslim texts, Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts. In many cases, dates of important historical events can be corrected based on the appearance of a comet. In this way, Cometography will be valuable to historians of science as well as providing amateur and professional astronomers with a definitive reference on comets through the ages. |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
A. G. Pingré ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE added Annales April astronomers August bright broom star Calculated path century Chin Chinese text Chronicle Closest coma comet appeared comet reached comet was seen computed continued date and location December declination described detected determined Disc discovered Earth east edited Enclosure extended faint February final France FULL MOON given Hasegawa Ho Peng Yoke hsien Hsin T'ang Hsü implying indicates the comet Italy January Japanese July June k'ao last detected Last seen length location indicate March maximum solar measured Méchain Messier minimum solar elongation month morning sky moved naked eye night Nihon Temmon Shiryo noted November nucleus object observation October orbit passed Peng Yoke 1962 period pointing position probably rays remained reported saw the comet says September similar sometime SOURCES suggested Sung T'ang shu tail telescope Temmon Shiryo 1935 translated Ursae visible Volume Vsekhsvyatskij written wrote
Populaire passages
Pagina 512 - And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the Angel of the Lord stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem.
Pagina 28 - And there were in the same country shepherds, abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them; and they were sore afraid.
Pagina 362 - ... being still under the horizon. This continued visible about the space of one month : and by that time it was so diminished that it could not be seen.
Pagina 356 - Just at the instant of the rebellion, the star was right over our heads. And one thing I very much wondered at was, that whereas before this rebellion, the tail stood away towards the westward ; from which side the rebellion sprang: the very night after — for I well observed it — the tail turned, and stood away toward the eastward; and by degrees it diminished quite away.
Pagina 511 - A terrible comet camanu was seen by the people of Ethiopia and Egypt, to which Typhon the king of that period gave his name ; it had a fiery appearance and was twisted like a coil, and it was very grim to behold : it was not really a star so much as what might be called a ball of fire.
Pagina 519 - ... practically all over the world. Finally, he declared that he had seen a star which he took to be that of Antinous, and gladly lent an ear to the fictitious tales woven by his associates to the effect that the star had really come into being from the spirit of Antinous and had then appeared for the first time.
Pagina 362 - In the year 1666 in the month of February, there appeared in this Countrey another Comet or stream in the West, the head end under the Horizon, much resembling that which was seen in England in the year 1680 in December.
Pagina 374 - This evening, looking out of my chamber window towards the west, I saw a meteor of an obscure bright colour, very much in shape like the blade of a sword, the rest of the skie very serene and cleare. What this may portend God onely knows ; but such another phenomenon I remember to have...
Pagina 519 - Thus there was a star resembling a sword, which stood over the city, and a comet that continued a whole year. Thus also before the Jews...
Pagina 116 - In the year of our Lord's incarnation 729, two comets appeared about the sun, to the great terror of the beholders. One of them went before the rising sun in the morning, the other followed him when he set at night, as it were presaging much destruction...
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Cometography: Ancient-1799 Volume 1 van Cometography: A Catalog of Comets, Gary W. Kronk |
| Auteurs | Gary W. Kronk, Maik Meyer, David Allan John Seargent |
| Uitgever | Cambridge University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 052158504X, 9780521585040 |
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