 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...rare coincidence of a total eclipse of the sun, — a coincidence which happened, asrelated by Seneca, 60 years before Christ, when a large comet was actually...enough to be seen in the daytime, even at noon and in bright sunshine. Such were the comets of 1402 and 1532, and that which appeared a little before the... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...rare coincidence of a total eclipse of the sun, — a coincidence which happened, asrelated by Seneca, 60 years before Christ, when a large comet was actually...enough to be seen in the daytime, even at noon and in bright sunshine. Such were the comets of 1402 and 1532, and that which appeared a little before the... | |
 | John Farrar - Astronomy - 1834 - 504 pages
...rare coincidence of a total eclipse of the sun, a coincidence which happened, as related by Seneca, 60 years before Christ, when a large comet was actually...enough to be seen in the daytime, even at noon and in bright sunshine. Such were the comets of 1402 and 1532, and that which appeared a little before the... | |
 | Mrs. L. H. Tyler - Astronomy - 1837 - 302 pages
...coincidence of a total eclipse of the sun, — a coincidence which happened, as related by Seneca, 60 years before Christ, when a large comet was actually observed very near the sun." (294.) Of the use of comets in the solar system, astronomers are entirely ignorant : that they are... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1838 - 350 pages
...coincidence of a total eclipse of the Sun-^-a coincidence which happened, as related by Seneca, 50 years before Christ, when a large comet was actually observed very near the Sun. But M. Arago reasons in the following manner, with respect to the num! ber of comets : — The number... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...coincidence of a total eclipse of the sun, — a coincidence which happened, as -clated by Seneca, 60 years before Christ, when a large comet was actually...record, as having been bright enough to be seen in the day time, even at noon, in bright sunshine. Such were the comets of 1402 and 1532, and that which appeared... | |
 | Child rearing - 1840 - 460 pages
...such a magnitude as to have eclipsed the sun. Seneca relates that such a coincidence happened sixty years before Christ, when a large comet was actually observed very near the sun.* The same author relates that a comet which appeared in the time of the Emperor Nero was not inferior... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1842 - 344 pages
...rare coincidence of a tolal eclipse of the Sun — a coincidence which happened, as related by Seneca, 60 years before Christ, when a large comet was actually observed very near the Sun. ' But M. Arago reasons in the following manner, with respect to the number of comets : — The number... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1849 - 672 pages
...coincidence of a total eclipse of the sun,—a coincidence which happened, as related by Seneca, sixty-two years before Christ, when a large comet was actually...on record as having been bright enough to be seen with the naked eye in the daytime, even at noon and in bright sunshine. Such were the comets of 1402,1532,... | |
 | Science - 1849 - 428 pages
...coincidence of a total eclipse of the sun, — a coincidence which happened, as related by Seneca, sixty-two years before Christ, when a large comet was actually...on record as having been bright enough to be seen with the naked eye in the day-time, even at noon and in bright sunshine. Such were the comets of 1402,... | |
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... escape all observation, by reason of their paths traversing only that part of the heavens which is above the horizon in the daytime. Comets so circumstanced can only become visible by the rare coincidence of a total eclipse of the sun, a coincidence... 
