 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1857 - 584 pages
...stars succeeded each other during four hours. Their direction was very regular from north to south. From the beginning of the phenomenon there was not...of the moon which was not filled every instant with them. All the meteors left luminous traces or phosphorescent bands behind them, which lasted seven... | |
 | 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
...stars succeeded each other during four hours. Their direction was very regular from north to south. 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...stars succeeded each other during four hours. Their direction was very regular, from north to south. From the beginning of the phenomenon there was not...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... | |
 | Meteorology - 1867 - 560 pages
...succeeded each other during a period of four hours. Their direction was very regular from north to south. From the beginning of the phenomenon there was not...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,... | |
 | Religion and science - 1867 - 524 pages
...stars succeeded each other during four hours. Their direction was very regular from north to south. From the beginning of the phenomenon there was not...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... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1867 - 588 pages
...naturalists, Humboldt and Bonpland, then travelling in South America. During four hours, the latter state, there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent...the moon, which was not filled every instant with bodies or falling stars. All of them left luminous traces, or phosphorescent bands behind them, which... | |
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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... 
