Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 193
ty to the middle of the last century cursedthe apparition of these hirsute stars, which broughtdesolation to the heart of man, and poured their fatal ASTRONOMY FOR AMATEURS effluvia upon the head of poor Humanity. The historyof the superstitions and fears that they inspired of oldwould furnish… … Fig. 49.—The Great Comet of 1858. moment the prejudices attaching to the most famouscomets whose passage, as observed from the Earth, hasbeen preserved to us in history. Without going back to the Deluge, we note that theRomans established a relation between the Great Comet THE COMETS of 43 B. c.…
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