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Posted on April 13, 2013 via Species: Barocus with 1,999 notes
Source: speciesbarocus
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Great Comet of 1843
Illustration from
A popular treatise on comets (1861) by James C. Watson.
Can be found on the Internet Archive here.
Posted on March 15, 2013 via Damitr's... with 162 notes
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Comets in
Illustration from
(1861) by James C. Watson.
Can be found on the Internet Archive here.
Posted on March 10, 2013 via Damitr's... with 183 notes
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![cocoroachchanel:
a depiction of a comet that may have been an aurora borealis, 1527, germany anonymous
Im m d xx vii Jar ist neben den commetten gesehen / vil stramen als lang spieß dar zwieschen vil angesichter vnnd klainer schwerter vermist als sich ainer bleich rotten farb / zwischen dem sach man vil grosser flamen die gantz hell vnnd feurig schinen / vnnd die angesichter hin vnnd wieder gesehen mit haar vnnd bart ainer grawen wolcken farb als legen sie im blut stramen flissenden wasser durch einander zwirblen / als ob ob es als durch ein ander arbeitet das grausam gesehen hat / als etlich dies gesehen haben die send gestorben.
[In the year 1527 the comet was seen with many streaks like long spears, and in among them, many visages and daggers, all colored in pale red, and in between many enormous flames of bright and fiery hue, and here and there the visages appeared, bearded and hairy in gray as of clouds and as if in flowing water streaked with blood, glittering and sparkling, as if everything were in confusion – the whole hideous of appearance, so that some who had seen it died thereof.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/b5962c9163f1570ce5919120d85df643/tumblr_mh1lv0oePL1qzwcheo1_500.jpg)
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Posted on November 23, 2012 via the white hotel with 1,755 notes
Source: dayfaber.com
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Drawings of Comet Halley, 1836, by John Herschel.
Gouache on black fabric mounted on paper.
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.
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Posted on May 4, 2012 via Strictly Astronomy with 401 notes
Source: strictlyastronomy
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The great comet of 1881. Observed on the night of June 25-26 at 1h. 30m. A.M.
E.L. Trouvelot, chromolithograph, 1881-1882.
More of Trouvelot’s astronomical images are available at the NYPL Archive.
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Posted on January 7, 2012 via muted_posthorn with 653 notes
Source: The Atlantic
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![meadowfoam:
Astronomy: a comet in the night sky. Wood engraving, n.d. [c.1860?].](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltowhh2MFb1qze7sso1_500.jpg)
Astronomy: a comet in the night sky. Wood engraving, n.d. [c.1860?].
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W.G. Evans, Chart of comets, star clusters and nebula, 1856
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