The Comets: A Descriptive Treatise Upon Those Bodies. With a Condensed Account of the Numerous Modern Discoveries Respecting Them; and a Table of All the Calculated Comets, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time |
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| Title | The Comets: A Descriptive Treatise Upon Those Bodies. With a Condensed Account of the Numerous Modern Discoveries Respecting Them; and a Table of All the Calculated Comets, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time |
| Author | John Russell Hind |
| Publisher | J.N. Parker and son, 1852 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 29 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 184 pages |
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