TELESCOPIC VIEW OF EN'CKE's COMET, BY STRUVE, AS IT APPEARED ON NOV. 7, 1828. 



COMETARY INFLUENCES. 



CHAPTEE I. 



1. Popular tendency to connect terrestrial events \rith celestial phenomena. 

 2. Popular opinions as to influences of Comets. 3. Explanation 

 of Comets, their nature attractions their shape, volume, and 

 mass tails density non-luminous. 4. Question discussed as 

 to a Cornet encountering the Earth, and the result Comet of 

 L^Si', of 1805 Probabilities of such an occurrence. 5. Question 

 discussed as to the temperature of the seasons being aflected by 

 Comets. 6. Question discussed as to the Earth passing through the 

 tail of a Comet, and the probable consequences. 7. Suppositions 

 adopted by some authors as to Comets producing epidemic diseases 

 Comet of 1680 Great Plague of London Comet of 1668 alleged to 

 have produced a remarkable epidemic among cats in Westphalia, 



8. Comet of 1746 Earthquakes of Lima and Callao ascribed to it. 



9. Various influences ascribed to particular Comets Earthquakes 

 Plagues the success of the Turks under Mahommed II. 



1 . Ix all ages, and among all people, a tendency has prevailed 

 to connect terrestrial events with celestial phenomena. Popular 

 opinion in such cases seeks no reason for its foundation. No 

 attempt to establish any such relation as that of cause and effect 



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