10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMETOLOGY»
Discover the use of
cometology in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cometology and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
In a book where the language of science is also the language of mystery and poetry, these poems focus on accidents, calamities, and reverence.
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A History of Physical Theories of Comets, From Aristotle to ...
The available works either illustrate relatively short periods in the history of
physical cometology or portray a landscape view without adequate details. The
present study is an attempt to review – with more details – the major physical
theories ...
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A Cycle of Celestial Objects: For the Use of Naval, ...
Cometology can only be classed as a very recent branch of astronomy, since
comets have heretofore been generally deemed occasional meteors, and the
heralds of divine anger, by the sages of all nations and persuasions —
worshippers of ...
William Henry Smyth, 1844
Acont-ias, javelin-like; Ceratias, horn-like; Disceus, quoit-like; and Hippz-as,
horse-mane-like. Cometology can only be classed as a very recent branch of
astronomy, since comets have heretofore been generally deemed occasional
meteors, ...
William Henry Smyth, 1844
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The Ages of Two-faced Janus: The Comets of 1577 and 1618 and ...
The cometology of Antiquity can be divided into two strands: a naturalistic strand,
based above all on Aristotle and Ptolemy, and a more divinatory or teratological
strand based principally on the writings of Stoic authors.1 Both these traditions ...
Tabitta Van Nouhuys, 1998
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Fire and ice: a history of comets in art
Four. Cometology. Comes. of. Age. The telescope beckoned astronomers
beyond the confines of our solar system, promising a universe more vast than
previously imagined. During the eighteenth century, astronomical observations
were ...
Roberta J. M. Olson, National Air and Space Museum, 1985
Chapter. 1. Cometology. Before. Halley. •: '"' Aristotle's Perfect, Unchanging
Universe 'ince our earliest days, we have always turned our "eyes upward to the
heavens. The awesome mysteries of sun, moon, and stars have had the most ...
Donald Gropman, Kenneth Mirvis, 1985
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Comet Science: The Study of Remnants from the Birth of the ...
The term designating a comet which has just escaped from the Oort cloud and
whose first passage through the inner Solar System is being observed. ln
cometology, any force on the cometary nucleus which is not due to the
gravitational ...
Jacques Crovisier, Th R. Se Encrenaz, 2000
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Aedes Hartwellianae: Or, Notices of the Manor and Mansion of ...
(See Plate XIII.) At the very name of comet what a host of associations and ideas
arise ; what a mass of human errors and perversities does the history of
cometology exhibit ; what fear and dread have those wanderers so needlessly
inspired !
William Henry Smyth, 1851
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The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's ...
45-6, n. 57, examines the inconsistencies this change would have introduced into
Newton's cometology and argues that Gregory was recording his own opinion,
not Newton's, contrary to my own argument that Gregory was recording Newton's
...
Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, 2002
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMETOLOGY»
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cometology is used in the context of the following news items.
Why We Explore: A Comet Tale Told in Four Pictures
This preliminary geology map–maybe it is a cometology map?–shows at least 10 distinctly different formations. The diversity shows how ... «Discover Magazine, Sep 14»
