Show ALLEY S COMET M E T TI 7 I 1 By FREDERIC E C CAMPBELL Sc D. D D. President of the Department of Astronomy Brooklyn Ill Institute I b by Campbell 1 Ino p b t I I k h coo h b Centuries Centuries Halle's Halles I s 's H When 1 t the be Comet let Luck S U ol Carne to to 10 Stay Stay Star Prediction fit its Return Rr urn Return How a r Farmer F Uc Dc ices amea Dr Cook to tu euth reu Ceu- Ceu eu- eu kIrr urr rt tic The Comet IU Years liars lore fore Unbroken Trist-Unbroken Unbroken Dates Dates Datts since Mine MS fiG 6 A. A p D D. D l Comets Comet's s Part kart t. t i in 1 t the hc of and 1 I The The att Church Hells De Still ill r comet spends a very r mall tion tion of its time within human 10 it view it lit ens of the th triumphs of mo modern eru that it il has haK accurately traced course tum e throughout it its complete I- I id of I c fi years ears ar it is hi little of oC au achievement to follow I it I H through h the centuries lo lu the jl before forc t the c hristian Christian cia cra t pot not Dot be hc thought from the that bat it bears that Sir bit i L' L fey y r was the first ever CYer to tn see this thi object much J less that thit it into iato being r or first fint visited thi this ot l-ot sot of the universe in his Ila day Hal Hal- Ha the r-the comet U rt in n 3 and and he hI lied flied cl K sixt sixty vears as later awl and sixteen f en before the tho comets comet's next i 5 appear appear- f nut But the comet was WIS an HI old affair p ho looked upon it and aull when he lie Cull fully solved the problem of its ils liLy Ihly with a number of historical sis ta and d the periodical character of durns Urns to our sky it had been n t 2 its ils round of space apace for or apes ages I at t t the tho comet ori on entered h r system from distant rt legions inns f universe e is ji tie y ll certain within thin our confines Confins it was eat cap cap- i- i B a 31 J i is supposed by It Neptune our ant L iii ant known planet unit and iL its i became so o reduced that it was wu TIed to adopt tho the elliptical form orOl bit n which hith it now no travels tr Nun v o niJ happened no one can au know Hun knowL L It may have La h been ell within theof the theof theof of mankind or apes ages before re e know is ie that tho comet like liken jl oo n D is here and that thai it iL has been i Ion long time of tho Greatest discoveries O I m SATURN t- t ei f the Planets Affecting the go Comet met I m AORa Tn out of what an aro called S hall hail a t that the t be rent great comet t of cr He lie was familiar t th fact a l that remarkable comets comet Ken K-ea in 1531 1 and antI aut and ands sire r s two intervals interval o of 1 to so 0 marl nearly fir years cars car each cach that lie ll won won- ii Whether these theS three c hero WIO not lIot 1 it the Ibe same me comet returning with is It regularity Hi His liis u suspicion 1 waa wis cd 1 to conviction when he exam exam- e Cour t es 5 Of these three and toad them cn to fit it into each cach other so t that at at it was impo impossible siule any lIt Jon long long- lieve liec tha that l t thc they three j they tIllY d ally aIly Iy ono and 1111 t the tho h I same o. o that he did iel not go to back U r to i comet so l Stops with terror Iud and f was leas the same samo interval al i tad and he Lo L oot ot he be c l ignorant orant of that visitation ou I r 4 1 i r I 11 fat i y Jd r I I 5 r f 1 tri ii f b mk 1 I 1 t A 1 F SIR SIP EDMUND EDMUN r VALLEY HALLEY Whose Discovery of or the Perio Periodicity of or Comets at the Ely Early Age of CG G i I this Bran Brans 1 I. I of oi As lie He might a al also No easily asil Mayo have included tho the famous Cumin I of ur 1 i iu in u his bw survey HU 1 lint nit lilt it seems that Slat h he Hid not lint hut inthe in I he the three 0 dates of 1511 and ami JIll Ire h ii felt lt that h ho he hail hall sufficient data ilala to tu warrant arrant a rl prediction Ami 11 this thil 11 he lie lienow now ventured M neon namely upon that in inthe inthe the ear ar JiGS I Ihl hero rl would be bea a fresh nf of a 1 already fen HIl at tit least throe three times lime und and EO w o interested was as hn lie the till of his and ami III in sull prophecy to too confident that lie ho could not nut live o to witness S it it that 11 frankly expressed l a aLop hope Lop t that t t the h. h world would recognize recognise that it i L was m Englishman rn who made the tIll prediction HaplY hail hall been resting in 11 his grave ra c for sixteen f years veins Hn and ami astronomers all o cv Europe were hero watching for the ret re- re t fui u of t the hI Cornet r U I when a Saxony farmer George Ceorge jIJI eh h bv hy name 1 hayL having hav hn ing iut n n. love Jo of ot the tho stars Mars and InrI a small mall telescope telescope tele tele- scope SCUP became th the Dr Cook to steal the prize from the toiling of his hit dray day mid ami sighted 1 the tho monster on its ith ie- ie I turn hint trip it was on all Christmas Christinas night of the the- year 11 and henceforth this was 1 Halle alleys fancy's comet for he lie hail had made himself rail and the tho i visitant famous famo by hy u a first firt successful f prediction of or the return return return re re- re- re turn of a periodical comet t Ve We have c mentioned the feet fact that Halley strangely overlooked o other slates dates that he hI might Lavo o included in hits so- so o riet rles- rles au and that Owl the comet has haa traced back to tho timeR K before Christ The gaps aps arc are not Dot all filled in in tho earlier earlier ear car lier dates but hut this is is doubtless duo due to the tho want of records in an nn unscientific u age c H however with A. A D D D. 1 i if s ih t r 31 f rr l lt t a a i i f T r a t t i r c i ALLEYS ALLEY'S 8 COMET AS If IT WILL SOON APPEAR a I lOGO lOG not a n date dale Jfe i is missing nit although hough owing to tn the di disturbing influences of the planets jias passed cd bv h the comet in com com- mg n and going the i intervals ali differ from 7 1 4 t to 70 iI years us The jh earliest lute date winch which we possess posses is is it U. U l' l C. C 1311 10 Our next date is GOO WO years ans later Inter later namely A. A I D D. D 41 Then conies cones Now wo we come to an lID broken series Tics beginning with 1063 the I I date datI of the Norman lorman invasion of Engl Eng land under William t the he Conqueror II when hn the comet was ru i d to bo Lo n the I symbol of his all conquering sword and aud f stood lood n aghast hasl at the celestial The COI 1 comet t repeated its vi b bits its in i Hi 1222 1311 1378 rind and IU 1455 It Jt probably never tr produced such consternation eon con as in tin this latter year par No Noone Noone Noone one ilHa imagined that this was merely the return of an old iI visitor loT ah absolutely no nomore more mot than the return of new moon each month or of If the planet In 8 to apposition ion even even- two to wears years The fIle mind was is already in in a ferment Thin Turks had hail taken talen Constantinople and hero wern threatening to o overrun En- En rope and everything c ripe for tor destruction when the comet put met iu in au nn appearance confirming all fears and I seemingly depriving men of what little wit they the had left It was leas then that ac ac- cOIdin to tradition POI Por-o Por I issuer is issued js- js sued his hilt famous amou hull bull against the Turk the de devil deil il and the tic comet He lie at al least ordered or- or dered 1 special prayers to be he said laid and aud tho tiro church i bells to be rung at nt noon oon Joon which practice continues to lo this day dav Terrified by h the tho nightly which endured for mouths months the people pc poured inured th their I wealth at al the tc feet of the church imploring petitions that heaven might save sa the world from its doom In l. l t the comet almost forgotten was again on nu exhibition Following that it was va seen cn in tho the years 1007 1607 30 1682 when jewe viewed it 1 1750 W When when hen it t returned according to prediction and ancl 1833 1835 when it was last seen and by hy fomo some few who survive an anare nail and andare are about straining their eyes CIS to nee ICO it ita a again ain Now o in this thi year 1909 it has just been freshly sighted and aud before the year year car expires we shall han all hope to see it w with th the tho naked eve eC But this months of it its glory clory and will hill bo ho iu in tho the year 1111 now noel rO close chose l' l at hand Huch such i j iii the thc history of this famous comet 1 We e may nH say nay that it will next appear about lOSo 1953 HI and nn some few fow dill chil children dren cIren w who 10 sec it now will a again ain see cc it itin itin itin in that year or So far fur as wo know at intervals of about seventy five fi c years s s comet will hill continue to bo ho tho the wonder of earthly spectators till tm time timo shall be UC no more |