XXXII. Account of a comet
@article{HerschelXXXIIAO,
title={XXXII. Account of a comet},
author={William Sir Herschel},
journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London},
pages={492 - 501}
}On Tuesday the 13th of March, between ten and eleven in the evening, while I was examining the small stars in the neighbourhood of H Geminorum, I perceived one that appeared visibly larger than the rest: being struck with its uncommon magnitude, I compared it to H Geminorum and the small star in the quartile between Auriga and Gemini, and finding it so much larger than either of them, suspected it to be a comet.
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