The romance of comets

“Lo! from the dread immensity of Space, Returning with accelerated pace, The rushing comet to the sun descends: And, as he shrinks below the shading Earth, With awful train proj...

Turning to the _Avesta_ writings, we find that the Parsees of ancient Persia classified comets as parihs, or fairies. _Pari_ is the Iranian word for fairy, and is derived from t...

To hunt for a comet in the ocean of space is as fascinating a hobby in its way as angling for a wily fish, requiring in either case an unlimited supply of perseverance, patience...

Hast thou ne’er seen the comet’s flaming flight? Th’ illustrious stranger, passing terror sheds On gazing Nations, from his fiery train Of length enormous, takes his ample round...

Until the photographic eyes of Science detected the peculiarities of comets, and mathematicians calculated with unerring accuracy their comings and goings, they were looked upon...

“With its three eyes—the eye of keenness, the eye of patient watchfulness, and the eye of artistic truth, photography promises to be a Cerberus to the science of the future, who...

“It would have been a gratification to know that everyone who saw this wonderful object, did so with the same feeling of elation and wonder—one would almost say veneration—with...

Among the author’s most treasured possessions is a clipping from the Cincinnati _Daily Gazette_ for February 18, 1874, containing a report of a lecture given by her father, on “...

Whence come these uncounted millions of bodies, rushing through space with inconceivable velocity? What purpose do they fulfill in the economy of the solar system? Are they the...

Among the most startling suggestions recently thrown out by men of science, not one, perhaps, has seemed more amazing to the general public than the idea put forward by Sir Will...