Cometography
Subtitle: A Catalog of Comets (Cometography)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 8, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 852
ISBN-13: 9780521585057
Subjects: Astronomical charts & atlases; Comets; History of science; Science; Science/Mathematics; Astronomy - General; Science / Astronomy
First sentence: Not long after the nineteenth century began, J. J. de Lalande offered a prize of 600 francs to the first person to discover a comet in the new century.