 | Richard Anthony Proctor - Astronomy - 1872 - 406 pages
...shootingstars. Thousands of bolides and stars succeeded each other during four hours. Their motion was very regular from north to south. From the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, which was not filled each instant with shooting-stars.... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1872 - 396 pages
...shootingstars. Thousands of bolides and stars succeeded each other during four hours. Their motion was very regular from north to south. From the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, which was not filled each instant with shooting-stars.... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1873 - 360 pages
...1799, we witn^s^ed a most extraordinary scene of shooting meteors. Thousands of bolides, and fulling stars succeeded each other during four hours Their...the meteors left luminous traces, or phosphorescent oaiidi behind them, which lasted seven or eight seconds." Thu f&enumenmi wa0 witnessed by the Capuchin... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Constellations - 1873 - 358 pages
...November, 1799, we witnessed a most extraordinary sce^ne of shooting meteors. Thousands of bolides, and falling stars* succeeded each other during four...was not filled every instant with bolides or falling 'itars. All the meteors left luminous traces, or phosphorescent jandi behind them, which lasted seven... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1873 - 336 pages
...Bonpland observed the spectacle on the coast of Mexico. The former remarks : — " Thousands of bolides and falling stars succeeded each other during four...there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent o Rf W H a X 6 u to three diameters of the moon which was not filled every instant with them. All the... | |
 | Daniel Kirkwood - Comets - 1873 - 124 pages
...meridian. Some of them attained a height of 40°, and all exceeded 25° or 30°. Mr. Bonpland relates, 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. The Guaiqueries in the Indian... | |
 | English periodicals - 1873 - 934 pages
...extending from the true east thirty degrees towards the north and south. Mr. Bonpland relates 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 fireballs and shootingstars." Viewing in connection with... | |
 | Norman Macleod - 1873 - 1002 pages
...extending from the true east thirty degrees towards the north and south. Л1г. Bonpland relates 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 fireballs and shootingstars." Viewing in connection with... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Science - 1873 - 542 pages
...place in the sky extending from the true east 30° towards the north and south. Bonpland relates that from the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the firmament equal to three diameters of the moon which was not filled at every instant with fireballs and shooting stars."... | |
 | Henry Kiddle - Astronomy - 1870 - 194 pages
...of November, 1799, we witnessed a most extraordinary scene of shooting meteors. Thousands of bolidea and falling stars succeeded each other during four hours. Their direction was very regularly from north to south ; and from the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the... | |
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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... 
