 | Geology - 1849 - 424 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,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Educational sociology - 1850 - 586 pages
...magnitude as to have ecUpsed tile sun. Seneca relates that such a coincidence happened sixty yeare before Christ, when a large comet was actually observed very near the sun.* The same author relates that a comet which appeared in th< time of the Emperor Nero was not inferior... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - 878 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 authoi relates that a comet which appeared in the time of the Emperor Nero was not inferior... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1869 - 590 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...the sun. Several, however, stand on record as having bcen bright enough to be scen with the naked eye in the daytime, even at noon and in bright sunshine.... | |
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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... 
