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Pingre and Oppolzer fix the date July 16th, 533 B.C. Thus are the relations of the chronologies of Jews and Egyptians established by these explorations. R. A. S. Monthly Notices, vol. lxviii., No. 5, March, 1908. He put the traditions into writing. Airy fixed the date May 28th, 585 B.C. But other modern astronomers give different dates.
Beyond the foot of the glacis on the S. a distinct cleft runs from a dusky spot to a group of small craters E. of Wargentin. There is a fine regular ring-plain with a small central mount W. of Inghirami. PINGRE. A ring-plain, about 18 miles in diameter, between Phocylides and the limb. HAUSEN. A ring-plain, close to the limb, N. of Bailly, which, but for its position, would be a fine object.
The difference amounts only to 8239 years; but even this small difference rather impairs the theory of Lalande and Pingré.
True, the period calculated for the comet of 1680, when Pingré and Lalande agreed in this unhappy guess, was 575 years; and if we multiply this period by five we obtain 2875 years, taking 1680 from which leaves 1195 years B.C., near enough to the supposed date of the capture of Troy.
'A comet of this kind, says Pingré, 'was that of the year 814, presaging the death of Charlemagne. So Guillemin quotes Pingré; but he should rather have said, such was the comet whose arrival was announced by Charlemagne's death and in no other way, for it was not seen by mortal man.
Dalrymple and some Geographers have laid down Roggeween's track very different from Mr. Pingre.
'Naturally, he says, 'the appearance of a comet is followed by plague, pestilence, and civil war; for the nations are deprived of the guidance of their worthy rulers, who, while they were alive, gave all their efforts to prevent intestine disorders. Pingré comments justly on this, saying that 'it must be classed among base and shameful flatteries, not among philosophic opinions.
What Seneca reproved Ephorus for supposing to have taken place in 373 b.c. what Pingré blamed Kepler for conjecturing in 1618 had then actually occurred under the attentive eyes of science in the middle of the nineteenth century!
It is the invention of Father Pingre, who was a regular canon of St. Genevieve, and member of the ci-devant Academy of Sciences. While we are in this quarter, let us avail ourselves of the moment; and, proceeding from the Halle au Ble along the Rue Oblin, examine the
Such as The World of Comets, by A. Guillemin; History of Comets, by G. R. Hind, London, 1859; Theatrum Cometicum, by S. de Lubienietz, 1667; Cometographie, by Pingre, Paris, 1783; Donati's Comet, by Bond.
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