 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1859 - 528 pages
...was to be seen. From the first appearance of the phenomenon, there was not in the firmament a space equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, which was not filled every instant with bolides and falling stars. The first were fewer in number, but as they were of different sizes, it was impossible... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...13th November, 1799, we witnessed a most extraordinary scene of shooting meteors. Thousands of bodies and falling stars succeeded each other during four...of the moon which was not filled every instant with bodies or falling stars. All the meteors left luminous traces or phosphorescent bands behind them,... | |
 | 1867 - 878 pages
...glance." Ilumboldt, in his long account of the shower of 1799, in his " Personal Narrative," states that, from the beginning of the phenomenon, there was not...firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon that was not filled at every instant with bolides and falling stars; while in 1766 the inhabitants... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1864 - 554 pages
...of shooting-meteors. Thousands of bodies and falling-stars succeeded each other during four hours. From the beginning of the phenomenon, there was not...of the moon which was not filled every instant with bodies or falling-stars. All the meteors left luminous traces or phosphorescent bands behind them,... | |
 | 1864 - 968 pages
...of them attained a height of 40°, and all exceeded 25° or 30° Mr. Bonpland relates, that from tha beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space...firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, that was not filled at every instant with bolides and falling stars The Guoiqueries in the Indian suburb... | |
 | 1866 - 448 pages
...November, 1799, •we witnessed a most extraordinary scene of shooting-meteors. Thousands of bodies and falling stars succeeded each other during four...the Moon, which was not filled every instant with bodies or falling stars. All the meteors left luminous traces or phosphorescent bands behind them,... | |
 | Francis Beckford Ward - 1866 - 600 pages
...that of Humboldt, of the shower of 1799, in which it is stated, amongst other illustrations, that, " from the beginning of the phenomenon there was not...firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, that was not filled at every instant with fulling stars." Again in the year 1833, the meteors were... | |
 | Religion and science - 1867 - 524 pages
...13th November, 1799, we witnessed a most extraordinary scene of shooting meteors. Thousands of bolides and falling stars succeeded each other during four...to three diameters of the moon which was not filled with bolides or falling stars. All the meteors left luminous traces, or phosphorescent bands, behind... | |
 | Meteorology - 1867 - 560 pages
...extraordinary scene of shooting meteors. Thousands of falling stars succeeded each other during a period of four hours. Their direction was very regular from...of the moon which was not filled every instant with bodies of falling stars. All the meteors left luminous traces of phosphorescent bands behind them,... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - Astronomy - 1867 - 888 pages
...extraordinary scene of shooting meteors. Thousands of bodies and falling stars succeeded each other daring 4 hours. Their direction was very regular from north...was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to 3 diameters of the Moon, which was not filled every instant with bodies or falling stars. All the meteors... | |
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Towards the morning of the 13th of November, 1799, we witnessed a most extraordinary scene of shooting meteors. Thousands of bodies and falling stars succeeded each other during four hours. Their direction was very regular from north to south. From the... 
