Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel by Ignatius Donnelly
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Others, again, have held that stars have been seen through the
comet's nucleus. [1. "Edinburgh Review," October, 1874, p. 207. 2. Ibid., p. 206.] {p. 68} Amédée Guillemin says: "Comets have been observed whose heads, instead of being nebulous, have presented the appearance of stars, with which, indeed, they have been confounded."[1] When Sir William Herschel discovered the planet Urania, he thought it was a comet. Mr. Richard A. Proctor says: "The spectroscopic observations made by Mr. Huggins on the light of three comets show that a certain portion, at least, of the light of these objects _is inherent_. . . . The nucleus gave in each case three bands of light, indicating that the substances of the nuclei consisted of glowing vapor."[2] In one case, the comet-head seemed, as in the case of the, comet examined by Padre Secchi, to consist of pure carbon. In the great work of Dr. H. Schellen, of Cologne, annotated by |
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