Comet observations, 16th century
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Comet observations, 16th century
Comet observations. 16th-century artwork of the positions of four comets in the night sky, with Latin labels for the winds (Notus, south; Zephyrus Favonius, west; Aquilo, north; Eurus Subsolanus, east). One comet is shown with the south-west wind Africus Lips. This woodcut is from De cometis dissertationes novae (1580) by the Swiss physician and theologian Thomas Erastus (1524-1583). This work was part of an extensive debate about comets taking place among scholars in Europe at the time, prompted by the comet of 1577-8. Erastus argued that comets could not cause pestilence as was popularly believed
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1500s 16th Century Book Classical Comet Cometary Comets Diagram East Label Labeled Labelled Labels Latin Mythology Names North Observing Page Plotting Solar System South Swiss Tail Tails Text West Wind Winds 1580 Boreas Mono Chrome
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