[meteorite-list] Newspaper article, 06-1872 Comet Weather Influence
From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:53:36 2004 Message-ID: <OE146KDJ3WOp0dzO8OV00004ff9_at_hotmail.com> ------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C2A990.49339FE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Paper: Dixon Telegraph City: Dixon, Il Date: Wednesday, June 19, 1872 Page: 9 (fourth column). Cometary Influence on the Weather A Washingon paper stated recently that the impression prevails among scie= ntists there that the coming comet is the cause of the late dry spell of = weather which has been felt so severely till the late rains. If such a dr= aught is one of the first fruits of the coming meteor we might well dread= the harvest of distress and blight in store for it. But the idea of come= tary influence on the atmosphere can hardly be entertained by scientific = men. The fact has been well attested by a long series of observations tha= t there eccentric visitants do not radiate sufficient heat to affect the = most sensitive mercurial thermometer yet constructed; and from that it wo= uld seem to follow that the popular notions of their meteorologic agency = have no foundation. So far, however, from occasioning long dry spells, th= e flashing train has been popularly regarded as the augury of a bountiful= harvest and vintage. The comet of 1811 was supposed to have been the cau= se of the prolific and abundant crops which were almost universal in the = Old and New Worlds. Even now in the latter it is not uncommon to hear of = the great comet year, and wines have sometimes been sold at a high figure= , under the fancy of some influence in producing fine agricultural yields= , and it may be the spectroscope, with its wonderful powers of analysis, = may, ero (?) long, enable physicists to settle the long-agitated problem = of the constitution and influence of these vast nebulous streams. ------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C2A990.49339FE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><BODY STYLE=3D"font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV><B><FONT size=3D= 1> <P>Paper: Dixon Telegraph</P> <P>City: Dixon, Il</P> <P>Date: Wednesda= y, June 19, 1872</P> <P>Page: 9 (fourth column).</P></B></FONT><FONT face= =3D"Times New Roman" size=3D2> <P>Cometary Influence on the Weather</P> <= P>A Washingon paper stated recently that the impression prevails among sc= ientists there that the coming comet is the cause of the late dry spell o= f weather which has been felt so severely till the late rains. If such a = draught is one of the first fruits of the coming meteor we might well dre= ad the harvest of distress and blight in store for it. But the idea of co= metary influence on the atmosphere can hardly be entertained by scientifi= c men. The fact has been well attested by a long series of observations t= hat there eccentric visitants do not radiate sufficient heat to affect th= e most sensitive mercurial thermometer yet constructed; and from that it = would seem to follow that the popular notions of their meteorologic agenc= y have no foundation. So far, however, from occasioning long dry spells, = the flashing train has been popularly regarded as the augury of a bountif= ul harvest and vintage. The comet of 1811 was supposed to have been the c= ause of the prolific and abundant crops which were almost universal in th= e Old and New Worlds. Even now in the latter it is not uncommon to hear o= f the great comet year, and wines have sometimes been sold at a high figu= re, under the fancy of some influence in producing fine agricultural yiel= ds, and it may be the spectroscope, with its wonderful powers of analysis= , may, ero (?) long, enable physicists to settle the long-agitated proble= m of the constitution and influence of these vast nebulous streams.</P></= FONT><BR><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C2A990.49339FE0-- Received on Sun 22 Dec 2002 09:01:08 AM PST |
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