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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... "
A Compendium of Astronomy: Intended to Simplify and Illustrate the ... - Page 168
by John Vose - 1834 - 184 pages
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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of ..., Volume 1

Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1852 - 544 pages
...perceived them first. Thousands of bolides and falling stars succeeded each other during the space of four hours. Their direction was very regular from...south. They filled a space in the sky extending from due east 30° to north and south. In an amplitude of 60° the meteors were seen to rise ahove the horizon...
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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of ..., Volume 1

Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1852 - 536 pages
...perceived them first. Thousands of bolides and falling stars succeeded each other during the space of four hours. Their direction was very regular from...south. They filled a space in the sky extending from due east 30^ to north and south. In an amplitude of 60° the meteors were seen to rise above the horizon...
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Literary Gem, Volume 1

1854 - 602 pages
...No-I vembcr, 1799, we witnessed a moat extraordinary scene of shooting meteors. Thousands of bodies and falling stars succeeded each other during four...Their direction was very regular from north to south. From the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 41

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1857 - 624 pages
...spectacle on the coast of Mexico. The former remarks : — "Thousands of bolides and falling-starssueceeded each other during four hours. Their direction was very regular from north to south. From the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three...
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The National Magazine, Volume 11

Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1857 - 584 pages
...Bonpland observed the spectacle on the coast of Mexico. The former remarks : " Thousands of bolides and falling stars succeeded each other during four...Their direction was very regular from north to south. From the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three...
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The gallery of nature: a tour through creation, Volume 28

Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...13th November, 1799, we witnessed a most extraordinary scene of shooting meteors. Thousands of bodies and falling stars succeeded each other during four...Their direction was very regular from north to south. From the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three...
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The Wesleyan Sunday-school magazine [afterw.] The Wesleyan methodist Sunday ...

1866 - 448 pages
...November, 1799, •we witnessed a most extraordinary scene of shooting-meteors. Thousands of bodies and falling stars succeeded each other during four...Their direction was very regular, from north to south. From the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three...
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Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or ..., Volume 1

Religion and science - 1867 - 524 pages
...13th November, 1799, we witnessed a most extraordinary scene of shooting meteors. Thousands of bolides and falling stars succeeded each other during four...Their direction was very regular from north to south. From the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three...
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A New Manual of the Elements of Astronomy: Descriptive and Mathematical ...

Henry Kiddle - Astronomy - 1868 - 300 pages
...of November, 1799, we witnessed a most extraordinary scene of shooting meteors. Thousands of bolides and falling stars succeeded each other during four hours. Their direction was very regularly from north to south , and from the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the...
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The Elements of Theoretical and Descriptive Astronomy: For the Use of ...

Charles Joyce White - Astronomy - 1872 - 300 pages
...morning of the 13th we witnessed a most extraordinary scene of shooting meteors. Thousands of bodies and falling stars succeeded each other during four...Their direction was very regular, from north to south. From the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three...
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