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THE COMET OF 1664.—“Cette comète de 1664,” remarks Pingré, in introducing the description of it given in his “Cométographie,” “a singulièrenlent exercé les presses des Imprimeurs,” and that this statement was justified will be evident to any one who may consult Lalande's “Bibliographie,” the catalogue of the library in the Observatory of Pulkowa, or the “Repertorium der Cometen-Astronomie,” by Dr. Carl of Munich; in the latter will be found references to some eighty works, either treating specially upon this comet, or in which it is noticed in more or less detail. And further, as Mädler observes: “Lubienietsky hat über ihn allein eiuen ganzen Quartband geschrieben, der freilich für unsere Zwecke sich auf einige Seiten reducirt;” the volume here referred to is the first of the “Theatrum Cometicum.”
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 29, 345–346 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029345a0
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