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" It is worthy of particular notice, that the point from which the meteors seemed to emanate was observed, by those who fixed its position among the stars, to be in the constellation Leo; and, according to their concurrent testimony, this radiant point... "
The Geography of the Heavens, and Class Book of Astronomy: Accompanied by a ... - Page 165
by Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - 1838 - 305 pages
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The Aerial World: A Popular Account of the Phenomena and Life of the Atmosphere

Georg Hartwig - Aeronautics - 1875 - 610 pages
...extraordinary display was that the meteors all seemed to emanate from one and the same point, which was observed by those who fixed its position among the stars to be in the constellation Leo. This point remained stationary among the stars during the whole period of observation, that is to say,...
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OUR FIRST CENTURY: BRING A POPULAR DESCRIPTIVE PORTRAITURE OF THE One ...

R. M. DEVENS - 1876 - 1014 pages
...this connection, is, that this radiating point was stationary among the fixed stars — that is, that it did not move along with the earth, in its diurnal...accompanied the stars in their apparent progress westward. According to the testimony of by far the greater number of observers, the meteors were, in general,...
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The National Memorial Volume: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the ...

Richard Miller Devens - United States - 1879 - 680 pages
...this connection, is, that this radiating point was stationary among the fixed stars — that is, that it did not move along with the earth, in its diurnal...accompanied the stars in their apparent progress westward. According to the testimony of by far the greater number of observers, the meteors were, in general,...
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American Progress: Or, The Great Events of the Greatest Century, Including ...

Richard Miller Devens - Industries - 1883 - 756 pages
...this connection, is, that this radiating point was stationary among the fixed stars — that is, that it did not move along with the earth, in its diurnal...accompanied the stars in their apparent progress westward. According to the testimony of by far the greater number of observers, the meteors were, in general,...
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The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year, Volume 6

Almanacs, American - 1835 - 360 pages
...length of time, and then was heard to explode with the noise of a cannon. The apparent radiant, or the point from which the meteors seemed to emanate,...position among the stars, to be in the constellation Leo. At New Haven it appeared in the bend of the sickle (a collection of stars in the breast of Leo), a...
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