Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 197
FiG. 50.—What our Ancestors saw in a Comet. After Ambroise Pare (1^28). scribes this awful phenomenon in terms anything butseductive, or reassuring, showing us the menacing swordsurrounded by the heads it had cut off (Fig. 50). Our fathers saw many other prodigies in the skies;177 … Cavalry, and a bloody branch crossing the sun, June ii, 1554. Fig. 51.—Prodigies seen in the Heavens by our Forefathers. 178 THE COMETS their descendants, less credulous, can study the facsimilereproduced in Fig. 51, of the drawings published in theyear 1557 by Conrad Lycosthenes in his curious…
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