 | 1891 - 850 páginas
...that year was called the "Year of Stars." In AD 1202, on the occasion of their thirty-second return, " the stars appeared like waves upon the sky, towards the east and west ; they flew about like grasshoppers, and were dispersed from left to right."* In concluding an account of the theory of shooting... | |
 | David Purdie Thomson - 1849 - 516 páginas
...the 19th October 1202 of our era — or on Saturday night, in the last Moharrem of the year 599 — " the stars appeared like waves upon the sky towards the east and west ; they flew about like grasshoppers, and were dispersed from right to left ; this lasted till daybreak ; the people were alarmed."... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 802 páginas
...seemed to be alive with flying meteors. In the month of October, 902, again, so many falling-stars were seen that the year was afterwards called the...like locusts, and were dispersed from left to right." A«shower of stars, accompanied by the fall of several aerolites, took place over England and France... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 832 páginas
...stars." Conde relates that the Arabs connected this fall with the death of King Ibrahim Ben- Ahmed, which took place on the night of the star-shower....waves upon the sky, towards the east and west ; they flow about like locusts, and were dispersed from left to right." A shower of stars, accompanied by... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - 1867 - 888 páginas
...;" and in another passage it says : " In the year 599, on Saturday night, in the last Mokarrun [Oct. 19, 1202], the stars appeared like waves upon the...sky, towards the east and west; they flew about like grasshoppers, and were dispersed from left to right ; this lasted till daybreak : the people were alarmed."... | |
 | 1871 - 778 páginas
...Stars." In some Eastern annals it is stated that in the year corresponding to October 19, 1202 AD, "the stars appeared like waves upon the sky towards the east and west ; they flew about like grasshoppers." In modern times a shower of stars occurred November 13, 1799, visible throughout the... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1873 - 336 páginas
...the year 599, on Saturday night, in the last Moharrem (1202 of our era, and on the 19th of October), the stars appeared like waves upon the sky, towards the east and west : they flew about like grasshoppers, and were dispersed from left to right: the people were terror-struck." Mohammed, in a... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - 1877 - 968 páginas
...;" and in another passage it says : " In the year 599, on Saturday night, in the last Moharruu [Oct. 19, 1202], the stars appeared like waves upon the...sky, towards the east and west ; they flew about like grasshoppers, and were dispersed from left to right ; this lasted till daybreak : the people were alarmed."... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - 1884 - 352 páginas
...revolution of the November meteors. — It is related in the annals of Cairo that on the igth of October, AD 1202, the stars appeared like waves upon the sky, towards the east and west ; they flew about like grasshoppers, and were dispersed from left to right. This shower corresponded with the thirty-second... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - 886 páginas
...the year 599, on Saturday night, in the last Moharrem, (t2O2 of our era, and on the igth of October,) the stars appeared like waves upon the sky, towards the east and west ; they flew about like grasshoppers, and were dispersed from left to right; this lasted till daybreak; the people were alarmed."... | |
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Moharrem, (1202 of our era, and on the igth of October,) the stars appeared like waves upon the sky, towards the east and west ; they flew about like grasshoppers, and were dispersed from left to right; this lasted till daybreak; the people were alarmed. 
