Author: LYNN, WILLIAM THYNNE ( 1835-1911) .
Title: Remarkable Comets : A brief survey of the most interesting facts in the history of cometan astronomy By William Thynne Lynn.
Description: London : Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Limited, 1904. 0. Small booklet. Beige linen over card covers, rubbed and soiled. 6.5" x 4" . pp.46 . Endpapers soiled, otherwise quite clean, with just rubbed and creased corners. ** "William Thynne Lynn (1835-1911), Assistant at Greenwich Observatory, and author of several books. He is best known, hoowever for the numerous short notes on astronomical matters he wrote in "The Observatory" for many years. Among these notes is an enigmatic one in 1902 in which he hinted that the Perseid comet might be identical with Kegler's comet.." - Dictionary of Minor Planet Names by Lutz D. Schmadel .

Keywords: 36915 Lynn, William Thynne Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Limited Science


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