Our Astronomical Column

Abstract

THE D'ANGOS COMET OF 1784.—Encke's investigation relating to this reported comet appears in Zach's Correspondance Astronomique, as an “Imposture Astronomique grossière du Chevalier D'Angos, dévoilée par J. F. Encke, à Gotha.” Olbers, in a letter addressed to him, had, as already stated, asked his attention to the subject, saying, “I would invite you to the examination of a doubtful comet of which the result will be either the knowledge of the yet unknown orbit of a very remarkable comet, or the discovery of a most shameful imposture,” and adding particulars to which allusion is made in our previous note.