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“…gilt gas chandelier…”
“…a second meteor…”
“…burst in a great flash…”
“…two butter kegs…”
“On April 4, 1861…”
“…4.3-inch refractor telescope…”
“Thatcher’s Comet.”
“…explain the phenomenon.”
“…roused dread in Charles V…”
“On April 18…”
“…he resigned his commission…”
“…a ranking officer…”
“…by the end of April…”
“By May…”
“…streaking toward the horizon…”
“…gilt gas chandelier…”
The Richmond Dispatch (Richmond, VA), July 24, 1860, p. 1.
“…a second meteor…”
The Richmond Dispatch (Richmond, VA), August 9, 1860, p. 1.
“…burst in a great flash…”
The Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, VA), July 25, 1860, p. 3.
“…two butter kegs…”
The New York Times (New York, NY), August 9, 1860, p. 5.
“On April 4, 1861…”
The New York Daily Herald, April 9, 1861, p. 12.
“…4.3-inch refractor telescope…”
https://skyandtelescope.org/observing/lyrid-shower-kicks-off-year-of-great-meteor-watching/
“Thatcher’s Comet.”
The drawing of Thatcher’s Comet included in the printed book is an untitled piece by astronomer Edmund Weiss.
“…explain the phenomenon.”
The Richmond Dispatch (Richomond, VA), July 10, 1861, p. 1. I am actually combining a couple of different comets here, to avoid repetition.
“…roused dread in Charles V…”
“Comet Lore,” E.V. Heward, The Anglo-Saxon Review: A Quarterly Miscellany, Vol. 6, September 1900, p. 40.
“On April 18…”
The Richmond Dispatch (Richmond, VA), April 18, 1861, p. 1.
“…he resigned his commission…”
Williams, F. L. (1963). Matthew Fontaine Maury: Scientist of the sea. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, p. 363.
“…a ranking officer…”
Williams, F. L. (1963). Matthew Fontaine Maury: Scientist of the sea. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, p. 369.
“…by the end of April…”
The Buffalo Morning Express, April 25, 1861, p. 2. Eta Draconis is also known as Athebyne.
“By May…”
The Daily Exchange (Baltimore, MD), May 11, 1861, p. 2.
“…streaking toward the horizon…”
The Richmond Dispatch (Richmond, VA), July 6, 1861, p. 2.
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, NY), July, 3, 1861, p. 2.
