The story of Biela's comet

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Abstract
LADIIi:S AND GENTI,EMEN: I ask you to listen to-night to the story of Biela's comet.I will weave into the story enough of astronomy to justify its place in this course as a lecture.The story has none of the interest which human passions give to stories of human life, and yet if it shall not be to you as interesting as a Dovel, it will be because I shall spoil the story in telling it to YOll.It is a true story.In other words, I mean to separate sharply what we know from what we guess.One hundred and two years ago last night (March 8, 1772) a Frenchman named Montaigne, in the provincial City of Limoges, found a comet.He did what little he could with his small telescope to mark its place in the heavens, but it was not much that be could do.The comet was a faint one, not to be seen by the naked eye, and had a short tail, only one• eighth as long as across the disk of the moon.He did not dream that that little foggy speck of light was to be one day one of the most interesting comets in the solar system; in fact, that he himself was to be known to history only for having first seen it.This little comet is tbe hero of my story-a hero from humble life.Montaigne wrote to Paris of bis discovery, and they saw it three or four times before it disappe81'ed.* The renewed interest in Biela's comet created by the great shower of meteors
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Authors H. A. Newton
Journal american journal of science
Year 1886
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10.2475/ajs.s3-31.182.81
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https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.s3-31.182.81
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