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cometary world the reader is referred to books
on descriptive astronomy, or to monographs
on comets.[2] Nor can the very uncertain
speculations about the structure of comets’
tails be given here. A new explanation has
been proposed almost every time that a great
discovery has been made in the theory of
light, heat, chemistry, or electricity.
Halley’s comet remained the only one of
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