Abstract
THE volume which we have before us contains, as its title indicates, a list of the orbits of all those comets which have up to the present time been calculated. As our readers may already be aware, this is not the first “Vcrziichniss” with which Prof. Galle has presented us, for one has only to refer to the second edition of “Olber's Methode zür Bcrechnung der Comctenbahnen,” by Encke, where will be found a collection of the orbits of comets which had appeared up to the year 1847. In the following or third edition, which came out in 1864, the list was expanded, revised, and brought up to date. The present “Verzeichniss” has, however, assumed larger proportions than its predecessors, containing as it docs over 300 pages, and so is published as a separate work.
Verzeichniss der Elemente der bisher berechueten Cometenbahnen.
By Prof. Dr. J. G. Galle. (Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1894)
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L., W. Elements of Cometary Orbits. Nature 50, 473 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050473a0
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