Cometography
Subtitle: A Catalog of Comets (Cometography)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 27, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 666
ISBN-13: 9780521585064
Subjects: Comets; Popular astronomy; Science; Science/Mathematics; Astronomy - Solar System; Science / Astronomy; Astronomy - General
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.