 | Charles Adiel Lewis Totten - Bible - 1890 - 268 pages
...very sudden. He says that on returning home on the evening of Nov. 11, 1572, he was surprised to find a group of country people gazing at a star, which he was sure did not exist half an hour previously. It was then as bright as Sirius, which is the largest star in the heavens, and could be... | |
 | George Hayward Joyce - Logic - 1908 - 448 pages
...November) from his labo' ratory to his dwelling-house, was surprised to find a ' group of country-people gazing at a star, which he ' was sure did not exist half an hour before. It was ' then as bright as Sirius, and continued to increase till ' it surpassed Jupiter when brightest, and was visible... | |
 | John Millard (assistant librarian of the Surrey inst) - 1834 - 466 pages
...one evening (the llth of November) from his laboratory to his dwelling house, was surprised to find a group of country people gazing at a star, which...sure did not exist half an hour before. It was then bright as Sirius, and continued to increase till it surpassed Jupiter when brightest, and was visible... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1840 - 458 pages
...in 1572 was so sudden, that Tycho Brahe, returning home one day, was surprised to find a collection of country people gazing at a star which he was sure...did not exist half an hour before. It was then as bright as Sirius, and continued to increase until it surpassed Jupiter when brightest, and was visible... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1878 - 550 pages
...Tycho's attention having been first directed to the object on the evening of November n, by seeing "a group of country people gazing at a star which he was sure did not exist an hour before." This story is as much a mylh as anything in the volume before us, as will be evident... | |
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It was then as bright as Sirius, and continued to increase till it surpassed Jupiter when brightest, and was visible at mid-day. It began to diminish in December of the same year, and in March 1574, had entirely disappeared. 
