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ILLUSTRATIONS
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| Cover Designs by William Stevens | |
| Halley’s Comet of 1910 | |
| The Terror of the Comet in Antiquity | 13 |
| The Terror of the Comet in Mediæval Times | 20 |
| The Terror of the Comet at the Present Day | 25 |
| The Latest Photograph of the Comet of 1910 | 28 |
| Napoleon’s Comet of 1811 | 53 |
| The Great Comet of 1843 | 56 |
| Comet of Tel-el-Kebir, 1882 | 59 |
| Halley’s Comet of 1835 | 62 |
| Halley’s Comet of 1682 | 69 |
| Halley’s Comet of 1066 in the Bayeux Tapestry | 78 |
| William the Conqueror, an English Dream | 81 |
| Portrait of Edmund Halley | 92 |
| The Orbit of Halley’s Comet | 103 |
| Relative Sizes of the Earth, the Moon and Halley’s Comet | 103 |
| Donati’s Comet of 1858 | 106 |
| The Civil War Comet of 1863 | 109 |
| Coggia’s Comet of 1874 | 112 |
| Halley’s Conception of a Collision with the Comet | 119 |
TO THE COMET
“Thereby Hangs a Tail.”—Shakespeare.
Lone wanderer of the trackless sky!
Companionless! Say, dost thou fly
Along thy solitary path,
A flaming messenger of wrath—
Warning with thy portentous train
Of earthquake, plague and battle-plain?
Some say that thou dost never fail
To bring some evil in thy tail.
W. Lattey.
