Personal Narrative Of Travels To The Equinoctial Regions Of America During The Years 1799-1804 - Volume 1 - By Alexander Von Humboldt And Aime Bonpland.

































































































































 -  These difficulties would in great part
be removed, if the direction of the movement of falling-stars
allowed us to - Page 561
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These Difficulties Would In Great Part Be Removed, If The Direction Of The Movement Of Falling-Stars Allowed Us To Consider Them As Bodies With A Solid Nucleus, As Cosmic Phenomena (Belonging To Space Beyond The Limits Of Our Atmosphere), And Not As Telluric Phenomena (Belonging To Our Planet Only).

Supposing the meteors of Cumana to have been only at the usual height at which falling-stars in general move,

The same meteors were seen above the horizon in places more than 310 leagues distant from each other.* (* It was this circumstance that induced Lambert to propose the observation of falling-stars for the determination of terrestrial longitudes. He considered them to be celestial signals seen at great distances.) How great a disposition to incandescence must have prevailed on the 12th November, in the higher regions of the atmosphere, to have rendered during four hours myriads of bolides and falling stars visible at the equator, in Greenland, and in Germany!

M. Benzenberg observes, that the same cause which renders the phenomenon more frequent, has also an influence on the large size of the meteors, and the intensity of their light. In Europe, the greatest number of falling stars are seen on those nights on which very bright ones are mingled with very small ones. The periodical nature of the phenomenon augments the interest it excites. There are months in which M. Brandes has reckoned in our temperate zone only sixty or eighty falling-stars in one night; and in other months their number has risen to two thousand.

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