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The true nature and cause of the tails of comets : Elucidated in a rationale agreeing with their several phanomena [sic]. By an enquirer

by Perkins, John
Published 1772

Printed and sold by Edes and Gill, in Queen-Street

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An essay on comets : their nature, the laws of their motions, the cause and magnitude of their atmosphere, and tails; with a conjecture of their use and design

by Mather, Cotton
Published 1744

Sold by Rogers and Fowle at their printing-house next to the prison in Queen-Street, Boston

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An essay on comets : in two parts. Part I. Containing an attempt to explain the phaenomena of the tails of comets, and to account for their perpetual opposition to the sun, upon th...

by Oliver, Andrew
Published 1772

Printed and sold by Samuel Hall, near the exchange

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Philosophical essays on the following subjects : I. On the principles of mechanics. II. On the ascent of vapours, the Formation of Clouds, Rain and Dew, and on several other Phaeno...

by Hamilton, Hugh
Published 1766

printed by J. Nourse, in the Strand

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Philosophical essays on the following subjects : I. On the ascent of vapours, the Formation of Clouds, Rain and Dew, and on several other Phoenomena of Air and Water. II. Observati...

by Hamilton, Hugh
Published 1783

printed for C. Nourse, in the Strand

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The universal system : or mechanical cause of all the appearances and movements of the visible heavens: shewing the true powers which move the Earth and planets in their central an...

by Lacy, John
Published 1779

printed for J. Buckland, in Pater-Noster-Row

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The theory of comets : illustrated, In Four Parts. I. An Essay on the Natural History and Philosophy of Comets; being the Substance of all that has been hitherto published on that...

by Martin, Benjamin
Published 1757

printed for the author, at the Sign of the Visual-Glasses and Globe, two Doors below Crane-Court, in Fleet-Street

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A discourse on comets : Containing, a brief description of the true system of the world, And An Enumeration of all the Discoveries which have been yet made concerning those tempora...

by Cowley, John Lodge
Published 1757

printed for the author, at the Academy, in Bell-Savage Yard, Ludgate-Hill; and sold by J. Payne, at Pope's-Head, in Pater-Noster-Row

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A treatise of comets, containing I. An explication of all the various appearances of the late comet, both in its own Trajectory and the Firmament of Fixt Stars, to its setting in the Sun-Beams: Illustrated with a Plan of the Earth's and Comet's Orbits. II. The history of comets from the earliest Account of those kinds of Planets, to the present Time; wherein the Sentiments of the Antient and Modern Philosophers are occasionally display'd. With Remarks on the Intentional End of Comets, and the Nature and Design of Saturn's Ring. III. The distance, velocity, size, solidity, and other properties of those bodies consider'd; and the wonderful Phaenomena of their Tails and Atmospheres accounted for. Illustrated...

by Smith, George
Published 1744

printed for Jacob Robinson in Ludgate-Street

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Gesammelte Werke Collected Works : Volume 1

by Schwarzschild, Karl
Published 1992

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Table of Contents: “.... Sun and Stellar Atmospheres -- 2. Sun and Stellar Atmospheres -- 3. Cometary Tails -- 3. Cometary...”

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Exploration of Halley’s Comet

Published 1988

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Table of Contents: “.../Halley and possible solar causes -- Activity of the plasma tail of comet P/Halley in March 1986...”

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Tidal Streams in the Local Group and Beyond : Observations and Implications

Published 2016

Springer International Publishing

Table of Contents: “... in the Galactic Anti center -- Tidal Tails and Clouds in Dwarf Galaxies and Globular Clusters -- Kinematically...”

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Visually Observing Comets

by Seargent, David A. J.
Published 2017

Springer International Publishing

Table of Contents: “... -- Ch 3 Toward the Modern Understanding of Comets -- Ch. 4 The Formation of Tails -- Ch.5 The Origin...”

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Modern Mysteries of the Moon : What We Still Don’t Know About Our Lunar Companion

by Foster, Vincent S.
Published 2016

Springer International Publishing

Table of Contents: “... with Glass -- Tale of a Tail -- Volcanoes -- Moonquakes -- Disappearing Magnetic Field -- Two Faced...”

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Observing Meteors, Comets, Supernovae and other Transient Phenomena

by Bone, Neil
Published 1999

Springer London

Table of Contents: “... Comet Discoveries -- 8.3 Observing Comets -- 8.4 Comets in Outburst -- 8.5 Ion-tail Disconnections...”

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Russian Space Probes : Scientific Discoveries and Future Missions

by Harvey, Brian, Zakutnyaya, Olga
Published 2011

Praxis

“... tail. The final part of the bookexamines the future of Russian space science and looks at planned new...”

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Hunting and Imaging Comets

by Mobberley, Martin
Published 2011

Springer New York

“... as the tail of a truly great comet, or be as easily visible as a zero-magnitude ‘broom star.’ In recent times...”

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The Formation and Dynamics of Galaxies

Published 1974

Springer Netherlands

Table of Contents: “... on Galaxy Formation and Evolution (Invited Paper) -- Recent Westerbork Observations of Head-Tail Galaxies...”

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Reviews in Modern Astronomy 2

by Klare, Gerhard
Published 1989

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Table of Contents: “... of the Upper Main Sequence -- Dynamics and Structures of Cometary Dust Tails -- Automated Data Analysis...”

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Dusty and Dirty Plasmas, Noise, and Chaos in Space and in the Laboratory

Published 1994

Springer US

Table of Contents: “... Beam -- 1.5 Plasma Tail and Dust Tail of Comets -- 1.6 CRRES Plasma Wave Observations during Quiet...”

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