Comets. 125 



COMETS. 



AN ACCOUNT OP ALL THE C03IETS WHOSE OBBITS HAVE NOT BEEN CALCULATED. 



BY G. P. CHAMBERS. 

 (Continued from Page 374, Vol. vi.) 



1338. On April 15, a comet was discovered. The sun 

 being then in Taurus the comet was at the beginning of 

 Gemini. Its movement was from W. to E. with a declination 

 increasing N. It followed the sun and set about midnight. 

 On April 17 ', it was in 24 or 25° of Gemini. From a note by 

 Friar Giles, ib appears that its latitude was then 17° or 18° JST. 

 It remained in sight a fortnight or more. — (Chronieon Roto- 

 ■magense.) 



1340. On March 24, a comet was discovered, whose B,. A. 

 was 12° greater than ir Scorpii. " When first seen it was in 

 the latter part of Libra ; then it retrograded at the rate of 5° a 

 day, till it came to Leo, when it disappeared." It was visible 

 thirty-two days. — (Gregor. Hist. Bijzant. xi. 7, 5 ; De Mailla, 

 ix. 576 ; Gaubil.) 



1345. At the end of July, a comet appeared near the head 

 of Ursa Major. It advanced, day by day, to the Zodiac, and 

 when it reached the latter part of the sign Leo, where the sun 

 was, it disappeared. — (Gregor. xv. 5, 6.) 



1347. In the last year of the reign of Louis of Bavaria, a 

 comet appeared for two months. In Italy it was only seen 

 during fifteen days in August, in 16° of Taurus, in the head of 

 Medusa. — ( Chronieon Nuremburgense.) 



1356. On September 21, a comet was seen in 17° 10' of 

 the constellation Tehang ($, 7, \, v, k Hydras), it remained 

 visible till November 4. — (Gaubil.) When discovered it was 

 as bright as Regulus (a Leonis). — (Biot.) 



1360. A comet was seen in the E. for a few days, from 

 March 25. — (Chronieon Zwetlensis, De Mailla, ix. 633.) 



1362. [ii.] On June 29, a comet was seen in the circum- 

 polar regions with an K.A. 2' 90' (qy.) greater than /3 Capri- 

 corni. — (Biot says 9*9°.) It went to the S.W., and on August 

 2 had disappeared, having lasted six weeks. Its tail was one 

 foot (or degree) long. — (Gaubil ; Pingre, i. 440.) De Mailla 

 says that the comet appeared near a and /3 Aquarii, and that 

 its tail was more than a hundred feet long. — (Hist. Gen. ix. 

 640.) This account is altogether irreconcilable with Gaubil's. 

 Can there have been three comets this year, or does not De 

 Mailla rather refer to the first comet, whose orbit has been 

 calculated, and therefore appears elsewhere ? 



