HALLEY’S COMET OF 1910, AS SEEN IN NEW YORK,
LOOKING WESTWARD, DURING THE LATTER PART OF MAY.
COMET LORE
Halley’s Cometin History
and Astronomy
By
EDWIN EMERSON
Author of “A History of the Nineteenth Century,” Etc.
PRINTED BY
THE SCHILLING PRESS
137-139 EAST 25th STREET
NEW YORK
Copyrighted, 1910, by Edwin Emerson
Entered at Stationers’ Hall, London
All rights reserved under Berne Convention
Printed in the United States of America by
the Schilling Press in New York
from the electrotyped plates
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Halley’s Comet | 7 |
| The Terror of the Comet | 10 |
| Famous Comets of Olden Times | 30 |
| The Star of Bethlehem | 39 |
| Great Events and Disasters Linked with Comets | 42 |
| Halley’s Comet the Bloodiest of All | 60 |
| The Story of Edmund Halley | 90 |
| What Are Comets? | 101 |
| Our Peril from Collision with the Comet | 113 |
| The End of the World | 122 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
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| Cover Designs by William Stevens | |
| Halley’s Comet of 1910 | Frontispiece |
| The Terror of the Comet in Antiquity | 13 |
| The Terror of the Comet in Mediæval Times | 20 |
| The Terror of the Comet at the Present Day | 25 |
| The Latest Photograph of the Comet of 1910 | 28 |
| Napoleon’s Comet of 1811 | 53 |
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