{"id":61768,"date":"2023-10-02T02:56:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T02:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=61768"},"modified":"2023-10-03T05:19:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T05:19:53","slug":"comet-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/10\/02\/comet-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Comet madness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Freely online at the Library of Congress<\/a>, the popular science\/history book Comet madness : how the 1910 return of Halley’s comet (almost) destroyed civilization<\/em> (2023).<\/p>\n

Hairy Stars: Fear and Loathing in the Heavens
\nFrom Astrology to Astronomy
\nWhither the Comet?
\nThe Fabulous Flammarion
\nA Dangerous Tail
\nThe Unexpected Visitor
\nCyanogen Gas!
\nFrom Science to Science Fiction
\nAetna and the Wheel of Anxiety
\nApocalypse Now
\nThe Death of Kings
\nRationality Won’t Keep Out The Rain
\nUp on a Roof
\nCosmic Death Ray
\nHysteria’s Highwater Mark
\nSyzygy
\nThe Case of the Missing Tail
\nAnd We (Mostly) Lived Happily Ever After.<\/p>\n

Amazon UK will happily take your \u00a317 for the ebook<\/a>, but the LoC officially has it free.<\/p>\n

Lovecraft made a substantial scientific entry on the comet, for 26th May 1910, but seems to make no reference in the letters I have access too. Other than…<\/p>\n

I saw Halley’s in 1910 — but missed the bright one earlier in that year by being flat in bed with a hellish case of measles!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tolkien had an interest in astronomical phenomena, but I am told that his diary does not note Halley\u2019s Comet of 1910. To be fair, he was only a schoolboy at the time and swotting hard for vital exams in central Birmingham, a big industrial city not then noted for its pristine ‘dark’ night skies and star-gazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Freely online at the Library of Congress, the popular science\/history book Comet madness : how the 1910 return of Halley’s …<\/p>\n

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