A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
CHAPTER X
RECENT COMETS
Donati's Comet--The Earth again Involved in a Comet's Tail--Comets of the August and November Meteors--Star Showers--Comets and Meteors--Biela's Comet and the Andromedes--Holmes's Comet--Deflection of the Leonids--Orbits of Meteorites--Meteors with Stationary Radiants--Spectroscopic Analysis of Cometary Light--Comet of 1901--Coggia's Comet 323