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Edwin Emerson. Comet Lore
Comet Lore
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE COMING OF THE COMET
WHY HALLEY’S COMET?
THE TERROR OF THE COMET
THE EFFECTS OF COMETS ON MAN
THIS YEAR’S PROPHECIES
FAMOUS COMETS OF OLDEN TIMES
GREAT EVENTS CONNECTED WITH. HISTORIC COMETS IN ANTIQUITY
The Comets of Carthage
Mithridates’ Star
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM
GREAT EVENTS LINKED WITH. COMETS SINCE CHRIST
HALLEY’S BALEFUL COMET
THE STORY OF EDMUND HALLEY
WHAT ARE COMETS?
THE PERIL OF THE COMET
THE END OF THE WORLD
COLOPHON
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Edwin Emerson
Halley's Comet in History and Astronomy
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Tasso, the greatest of Italian poets after Dante, sang thus of Comets in his “Jerusalem Delivered”:
