Valley Tan | 1859-02-08 | Page 1 | A New Step in Cometology

A NEW STEP in the theory of the curvature of the comets tail has been at length accomplished by professor pierce it is so full and satisfactory is that the form of the tail of the great comet which ell I 1 has just disappeared rigidly computed by him lm from rem purely theoretical considerations does not sensibly differ from the apparent form the germs of it are to be found in the profound investigations of kepler newton prggy pringle e and and younger herschel boston courier u r ier