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It was not till the time of Halley's comet, 1682, that modern astronomy began to consider the question of the possibly periodic character of cometic motions with attention.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 by Various

But the scattered cometic bodies which returned to the sun's neighborhood in 1668 and 1887 speak probably of millions of years which have passed since first this comet was formed.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 by Various

This," said Ben, pointing to one of the dark lines in the cometic spectrum, "this is produced by the vapor of carbon in the nucleus of the heavenly visitant.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales by Bierce, Ambrose

And if several such cometic masses thus travelled towards the centre, they would exhibit the wheel-like figure with bent spokes, which is seen in the spiral nebul�.

From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward

The author argues against cometic astrology with great ability.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene