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WITH reference to Dr. Fotheringham's interesting comments in NATURE, June 9, p. 774, on the probable shower of Perseids in 1592, I thought it best to accept the date kindly sent to me by Mr. Beveridge, as it fell near the time when a shower might be expected to occur. However, the shower of 1592 appears to have been 19 days earlier than the correct time, and this (with another reason stated later) at once throws doubts on the identity of the display with the true Perseids.
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DENNING, W. Perseid Meteors in July 1592. Nature 111, 848 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111848c0
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