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Contents

Pope.—From Lord Byron.—From Young.—Some modern Poetry.—An American Incident.—Comets and Hot Weather.—The Earl of Malmesbury.—Arago rebukes wild speculations.—French writers.—Fontenelle.—Lambert.—Supposed allusions in the Bible to Comets.—Maunder's opinion
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
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CHAPTER XV.

COMETARY STATISTICS.

Statistics not generally appreciated.—Difficulty of being precise in dealing with Cometary Statistics.—Nuclei.—Comae.—Tails.—Orbits.—Number of Comets recorded and calculated.—Duration of visibility.—Periodical Comets and their returns.—Direction of Motion of Periodical Comets.—Perihelia.—Ascending Nodes.—Inclinations of Orbits.—Perihelion Distances.—Direction of Motion.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
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APPENDIXES:

I.
A Catalogue of Recent Comets, 1888-1908.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
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II.
A Supplementary Catalogue of Comets recorded, but not with sufficient precision to enable their Orbits to be calculated
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
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III.
The Literature of Comets
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
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IV.
Ephemeris of Halley's Comet, January-July, 1910
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
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GENERAL INDEX:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
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