"Cometic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a work of asserted discovery in meteorology. The theory of comets is that the joint attraction of the new moon and several planets in the direction of the sun, draws off the gases from the earth, and forms these cometic meteors. But how these meteors come to describe orbits round the sun, and to become capable of having their returns predicted, is ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan
... now conceded that meteoric showers are shreds and patches of cometic matter, dropped from the tail; ...
— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly
... invisible, surrounding it on all sides to an extent at least equal to the length of the tail. The rays of the sun in passing through or near the nucleus are so modified as to become visible in their further progress through the cometic atmosphere, while all the rest remain invisible. What we call the tail is merely a radius of the cometic atmosphere made visible, and as the comet moves through space, only different portions of the atmosphere come in sight, in ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 • Various |
