Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization by Richard J. Goodrich

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

Richard J. Goodrich

240 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

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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 ...

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