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Comets of the 17th century

August 17, 2020 by Maggie Kopp • ,

L. Tom Perry Special Collections contains a variety of comet pamphlets by European astronomers of the 16th and 17th centuries. If you enjoyed (or missed) comet NEOWISE this summer, we’d like to share some delightful woodcut illustrations from recent acquisitions to this collection. This engraving, from Erhard Weigel’s Speculum Uranicum aquilae Romanae sacrum (1661), depicts …

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A very rare comet pamphlet

February 7, 2014 by Maggie Kopp • , ,

Special Collections’ newest addition to the History of Science collection is a comet pamphlet by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius. The Epistola ad amicum de cometa, anno 1677 (in English: Letter to a Friend on the Comet of 1677) is Hevelius’s rarest publication – only one other copy exists in North American libraries. Hevelius (pictured here …

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