ILLUSTRATIONS
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Cover Designs by William Stevens
Halley’s Comet of 1910 Frontispiece
The Terror of the Comet in Antiquity 13
The Terror of the Comet in Mediæval Times 20
The Terror of the Comet at the Present Day 25
The Latest Photograph of the Comet of 1910 28
Napoleon’s Comet of 1811 53
The Great Comet of 1843 56
Comet of Tel-el-Kebir, 1882 59
Halley’s Comet of 1835 62
Halley’s Comet of 1682 69
Halley’s Comet of 1066 in the Bayeux Tapestry 78
William the Conqueror, an English Dream 81
Portrait of Edmund Halley 92
The Orbit of Halley’s Comet 103
Relative Sizes of the Earth, the Moon and Halley’s Comet 103
Donati’s Comet of 1858 106
The Civil War Comet of 1863 109
Coggia’s Comet of 1874 112
Halley’s Conception of a Collision with the Comet 119
TO THE COMET
“Thereby Hangs a Tail.”—Shakespeare. Lone wanderer of the trackless sky! Companionless! Say, dost thou fly Along thy solitary path, A flaming messenger of wrath— Warning with thy portentous train Of earthquake, plague and battle-plain? Some say that thou dost never fail To bring some evil in thy tail. W. Lattey.