Comet Lore: Halley's Comet in History and Astronomy

Name: Comet Lore: Halley's Comet in History and Astronomy
Author: Emerson, Edwin

Emerson, Edwin

Comets; Halley's comet

_POST HOC, NON PROPTER HOC:
           Sic veteres de multis rebus opinabantur,
             Eodemque dicto eas jugiter absolvisse
                     Recte sibi visi sunt,
              Vt puta quaecumque et qualiacumque
            Cometarum saeculares reditus sequuntur.
               CVR TV ITAQVE, forsitan quaeras,
          Haec auditu minime jucunda nobis narrasti,
    Terrae motus, fluminum inundationes, annonae defectus,
              Pestes mortiferas, incendia, bella,
                  regumque magnorum excidia?
                      Si tibi cordi est,
                   LECTOR BENEVOLENTISSIME,
                  rationem nostram didicisse,
                      eia, veram accipe:
                     MVNDVS VVLT DECIPI._


_FINIS._

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Comet Lore: Halley's Comet in History and Astronomy

Comet Lore: Halley's Comet in History and Astronomy

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