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his desire for a search, all the observations
of Fabricius and of Heller, and also a map
of the comet’s path among the stars, were
eventually unearthed in the most unlikely
manner, after being lost nearly three hun-
dred years. Hind and others were certain
that this comet would return between 1844
and 1848, but it never appeared.
When the spectroscope was first applied
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