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site opinion will disappear, as the opinion which generally 

 prevailed up to the 16th century of the meteoric origin of 

 comets has long since done. Although in ancient times the 

 astrological corporation of the " Chaldeans in Babylon/* a 

 large part of the Pythagorean school, and Apollonius the 

 Myndian, regarded comets as celestial bodies, returning at 

 determinate periods in long planetary paths, on the other 

 hand, the powerful anti-Pythagorean school of Aristotle arid 

 Epigenes, combated by Seneca, declared them to be products 

 of meteorological processes in our atmosphere ( 678 ). Ana- 

 logous fluctuations of opinion between cosmical and telluric 

 hypotheses, between external space and the atmosphere of 

 our own planet, will in the end conduct us, in the case of 

 aerolites also, to the reception of just views. 



