 ... in length about 10 or 12 diameters of the body. In the clear sky a brisk scintillation was observed, about the body of the meteor, like that of a burning fire-brand carried against the wind. It disappeared about 15 degrees short of the zenith, and...  Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch - Seite 111von Henry Ingersoll Bowditch - 1841 - 158 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Nicholson - 1810 - 844 Seiten
...burning tire-brand carried against the " wind. It disappeared about 15 degrees short of the ze'• nith, and about the same number of degrees west of the •'...pretty rapidly, fainter and fainter, as a red-hot caunou " ball would do, if cooling in the dark, only with much " more rapidity.— The whole period... | |
 | 1808 - 544 Seiten
...of the meteor, like that of a burning fire-brand carried against the wind. It disappeared about 15 degrees short of the zenith, and about the same number...cooling in the dark, only with much more rapidity. There was no peculiar smell in the atmosphere, nor were any luminous masses seen to separate from the... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 710 Seiten
...body of the meteor, like that of a burning firebrand carried against the wind. It disappeared about 15 degrees short of the zenith, and about the same number...but grew, pretty rapidly, fainter, and fainter, as a red hot cannon ball would do, if cooling in the dark, only with much more rapidity. There was no peculiar... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 Seiten
...not vanish instantaneously, but grew, pretty rapidly, fainter, and fainter, as a red hot cannon bull would do, if cooling in the dark, only with much more rapidity. There was no peculiar smell in the atmosphere, nor were any luminous masses seen to separate from the... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1809 - 532 Seiten
...of the meteor, like that of a burning fire-brand, carried against the wind. It disappeared about 15 degrees short of the zenith, and about the same number...but grew pretty rapidly fainter and fainter, as a red hot cannon-ball would do, if cooling in the dark, only with much more rapidity. There was no peculiar... | |
 | 1809 - 672 Seiten
...the wind. It disappeared about 15 degrees short of the zenith, and about the same numberof degree» west of the meridian. It. did not vanish instantaneously, but grew, pretty . rapidhr, faimer an<i fainter, aï a red-hot caanon ball would do, if cooling in UK daHc, only with... | |
 | Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1810 - 458 Seiten
...body of the meteor, like that of a burning firebrand carried against the wind. It disappeared about 15 degrees short of the zenith* and about the same number of degrees west of the meridian. It did not not vanish instantaneously, but grew, pretty rapidly, fainter and fainter, as a red hot cannon ball... | |
 | 1813 - 670 Seiten
...of the meteor, like that of a burning firebrand cairied against the wind. ' It disappeared about 15 degrees short of the zenith, and about the same number of degrees west of the meridan. It did not vanish instantaneously, but grew, pretty rapidly, fainter and fainter. The whole... | |
 | John Hubbard Wilkins - 1825 - 151 Seiten
...too much obscured by thick clouds, a conical train of paler light was seen to attend it waving, and in length about ten or twelve diameters of the body....but grew, pretty rapidly, fainter and fainter, as a red hot cannon ball would do, if cooling in the dark, only with much more rapidity. When the meteor... | |
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