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Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization

Richard J. Goodrich - Prometheus
Format: Hardcover
Halley's Comet visits the earth every seventy-five years. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets were evil portents. In 1705, Edmond Halley liberated humanity from these primordial superstitions (or so it was thought) , proving that Newtonian mechanics rather than...
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