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Truly fascinating stuff! Would love to see more posts like this!
Some fascinating images from a 16th-century treatise on comets, created anonymously in Flanders and now held at the Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, 1587. One can’t help but notice the stunning similarities to what we see in the skies today. The full title is: "Comets and their General and Particular Meanings, According to Ptolomeé, Albumasar, Haly, Aliquind and other Astrologers". The final figure is titled: Etching of the 'view of the organisation of the heavenly bodies' according to the pioneering astronomer William Herchel for The Gallery of Nature and Art: or, A Tour Through Creation and Science by the Rev. Edward Polehampton and John M. Good, 1813. Really interesting stuff, and it survived in incredible condition. Seems the phenomenon has been with us for a lot longer then many of us like to think!