356 Staj^-Showe7^s of Forme?' Times. 



(20.) A. D. 1029. "In the year 420, in the month Radjab, 

 [beginning July 16, A. D. 1029,] fell many stars with great noise 

 and very vivid Hght," 



" Dans I'an 420, au mois de Redscheb, il tomba beaiicoup d' 

 etoiles, avec accompagnement d'un bruit extraordinaire et de hi- 

 mieres tres vives." — Soyuii, Hist. Cair. fol. 338. First quoted 

 by Von Hammer : Comjdes Rend. 1837, L p. 293. Cited also 

 by M. Fraehn. 



Was this a shower of shooting stars, or only the fall of a num- 

 ber of meteoric stones ? 



(21.) A. D. 1060. In the Com.ptes Rendus of the French 

 Academy of Sciences, (1837, I, 532,) it is stated that M. de Para- 

 vey had found in an ancient history of Anjou, an account of a re- 

 markable fall of shooting stars which happened A. D. 1060. The 

 date of the month was not mentioned in the history. It is to be 

 hoped that the passage will be given in full. 



(22.) A. D. 1090. " M. Muncke states that in the year 1090, 

 according to the chronicles of that period, shooting stars appeared 

 in considerable numbers, during several consecutive nights." — 

 Trans, from M. QueteleVs Catalogue des Principales Appari- 

 tions d'' Etoiles Filantcs : (Brux. 1839,) p. 28; where reference is 

 Tnade to Gehlefs Diet, of Physics ^ viii, 1025. 



This may possibly be a typographical error for A, D. 1096. 



(23.) A. D. 1094. "At this period, so many stars fell from 

 heaven that they could not be counted. In France the inhabit- 

 ants were amazed to see one of them of great size, fall to the earth, 

 and they poured water on the spot, when to their exceeding as- 

 tonishment, smoke issued from the ground with a hissing noise." 



" A. D. 1094. Rex autem Willielmus [Victor] omnes fines 

 Wallias hostiliter ingressus * * * Eodem tempore tot stellae de 

 cceIo cadere visse sunt, quod non poterant numerari. Inter quas, 

 cum unam magnam quidem labi in Gallia gens stuperet, notatoque 

 loco, aquam ibi fudisset, fumum cum stridoris sono de terra exire, 

 obstupuit vehementer." — Matth. Paris Mon. Alb. Angli Hist, 

 major, etc. fol. Lond. 1640, p. 18. 



" The year 1094 was very remarkable for the number and fash- 

 ion of gliding stars, which seemed to dash together in manner of 

 a conflict." — Sir J. Hay ward, cited i7i Guthrie'' s History of E ng- 

 land. fol. 1744. Vol. i, p. 423. 

 It is not improbable that these events belong to the next year. 



