 | Joel Dorman Steele - Astronomy - 1899 - 374 pages
...former, says the sky was covered with innumerable fiery trails, which incessantly traversed the sky. From the beginning of the phenomenon, there was not a space in the heavens three times the diameter of the moon that was not filled every instant with the celestial fireworks,... | |
 | J Roche - Science - 1990 - 418 pages
...(Humboldt and Bonpland 1822). For four hours thousands of falling stars were noticed. Bonpland stated that there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the Moon that was not filled at every instant with bolides and falling stars. Meteors were seen up to sunrise... | |
 | Mark Littmann - Nature - 1999 - 364 pages
...Biot was trying to prove that meteorites come from the Moon. CHAPTER 4 The November meteors in history There was not a space in the firmament equal in extent...to three diameters of the moon which was not filled with burning stars. £ BONPLAND quoted by Alexander von Humboldt (1799)' ONE OF the first missions... | |
 | Petrus Matheus Marie Jenniskens - Science - 2006 - 14 pages
...quoted saying that: 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.so Humboldt interviewed eye witnesses during his exploration of the interior of the... | |
 | Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - Meteorology - 1867 - 550 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...a space in the firmament equal in extent to three 4iameters of the moon which was not filled every instant with bodies of falling stars. All the meteors... | |
 | Isaac Sharpless, George Morris Philips - Astronomy - 1882 - 324 pages
...described it as follows : " Thousands of bodies and falling stars succeeded each other during four hours. From the beginning of the phenomenon there was not...the' moon which was not filled every instant with falling stars." On November 13, 1833, the most brilliant display of meteors on record occurred. It... | |
 | 1867 - 514 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...phenomenon there was not a space in the firmament equal iu extent to three diameters of the moon which was not filled every instant with bodies of falling... | |
 | Great Britain - 1857 - 872 pages
...observed the spectacle on ',..,.• coast of Mexico. The former reinarles : — " Thousands of bolides and falling stars succeeded each other during four...direction was very regular from north to south. From the begiuniii!,' of the phenomenon there was not a space in (be firmament conal in extent to three diameters... | |
 | Physics - 1819 - 502 pages
...atmosphere. No clouds were visible. The observer, from the beginning of the phenomena, could not perceive a space in the firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, that was not at every instant filled with fire-balls and fallingstars — the latter in greatest number.... | |
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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... 
