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COMETS. 



AN ACCOUNT 03? All THE COMETS WHOSE OKBITS HATE NOT BEEN CALCULATED. 



BY G. F. CHAMBEES. 

 {Continued from Page 137, Vol. vi.) 



1155. A comet was seen on May 5. — (Chronicon Monasterii 

 Admontensis.) 



1162. On November 13, a great comet appeared in the 

 square of Pegasus. It went towards % and yjr Aquarii. Its 

 tail was more than 10° long. — (Gaubil.) 



1165. [i. and ii.] Two comets appeared this year, in Au- 

 gust before sunrise. The one in the N. the other in the S. — 

 (Chronica de Mailros.) 



1181. In July a comet was seen. — (Chron. Mailr.) It ap- 

 peared shortly before the death of Pope Alexander III. 

 which happened on August 30. — (Cavitellius Annates Cremo- 

 nenses.) Graubil mentions a new star seen on August 11, 

 under the footstool of Cassiopeia. It disappeared after 156 

 •days. Nothing is said as to its having had any movement. 



1198. In November a comet appeared for fifteen days. It 

 announced the death of King Richard I. — (Coggeshall, Chro- 

 nicon Anglicanum.) Richard died on April 6, 1199. 



1204. In the year of the capture of Constantinople by the 

 Latins, a great comet appeared. — (Sicardus, Chronicon.) 



1208. A comet appeared. — (Chronicon Weichenstephenensi.) 

 A brilliant star, like a fire, appeared after sunset for two 

 weeks. The Jews regarded it as a sign of the approach of 

 the Messiah. — (Csesar Heisterbacensis, Excerpta Hist. Me- 

 mordb.) 



1211. In May a comet was seen for eighteen days in 

 Poland. — (Cromer, Polonia, vii.) 



1214. In March two terrible comets were seen. — (Bcethius, 

 Scot. Hist, xiii.) No doubt a single comet with a considerable 

 N. declination, which will accord with the statement of one 

 comet preceding, and the other following the sun. 



1217. " In the autumn, after sunset, we saw a beautiful 

 sign ; a star which soon sank below the horizon. This star 

 was towards the S., pointing a little W. Its position 

 faced the crown of Ariadne." — (Chronicon Conradi Abbatis 

 Urspergensis.) Pingre understands the above expression to 

 mean that the comet's azimuth was as much W. of S. as that 

 of Corona Borealis was W. of N. — (Comet i. 398.) 



1222. In the months of August and September, a fine star 

 of the first magnitude, with a large tail, was seen near the 

 place where the sun sets in December. — (Annul. Wavel. } etc.) 



