Arizona republican., 1910-04-04
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 entertained concerning comets from the i earliest ages. The middle ages. if it were possible, had even more foolish ideas than antiquity. says the Indian i apolis News. Paracelsus held that comets were sent by 2ngels as d warn ing to the wicked. Alphonso VI of Portugal. when the comet of 1864 ap- peared. overwhelmed 1t with abuse and
 threatened il with his pistol. Halley s famous comet. the visitor that IS now expected. has already, says Camille Flammarlon, the distinguished French astronomer, in the Paris Figaro. visit ed this earth 34 times since the year T. F. C. Its first memorable appear ance, m the history of France was in s51. in the reign or Louis I. the good natured" An annonymous as I tronomer of that time wrote of it. Tn the middle cf the holy days of Easter. a phenomenon always fatal and fore boding appeared in the sky. From the time the emperor saw this he had no
 more repoSe He said to me, This sign
 announces there will be change of reign and the death of d prince He ! took counsel of the bishops. They told him he should pray, build churches and found mOnasteries. He did so, but he died three years later
 Halley's comet appeared again in April, 1066. a the moment that Vii ! liam the Conqueror was invading Eng land All the chroniClers wrote: "The Normans, guided by comet. are in- vading England" Matilda. the wife of | the Conqueror. has represented this | comet upon one of her tapestries. which any one my see today at BayeuX The kings of England have worn in
 their crown filigree work representing
 the tail "f this comet. which had such | signal influence upon the victory of Hastings.
 But the most celebrated nr is ap-
 pearances was that of June. 14J6. three years after the taking of Constan- | tinople by the Turks. Europe was a
 pre- to distress caused by this news The historians of the time describe i il as great and terrible: that it's tail | covered to celestial signs, that iy so de- grees: that it had a color like shining 1 gold and was an undulatinE flame. | They saw in il certain sign of divine
 wrath. The Mussulmans SAW in it d cross. the Christians. scimitar In SD great q. danger Pope CaliXtus III.
 called upon the faithful to recitc the Angelus with urore fervor to conjure
 the comet and the Turks.
 The celebrated surgeon, Ambrose Parc- thus described the cumct of l52S: This comet was so horrible and su I friChtful that it engendcred such great terror in the vulgar that many died of fear; others fell sick. IL appeared to
 be of excessive length. of color of blood; at the summit one saw the fig
 ure of q bent arm holding large sword in the hand as in the act of striking Al the point there Were three stars At the two sides in thc rays of this comet were seen q great number of hideous human faces with bristly hair and boards" one may infer that the imagination of that period had very good eyes to aid it
 Newton, having stated that following
 the unusual law uf attraction, the course of the comet of 1882 should be
 greatly elongated curve. tried. aided by Hallev. his co-worker and friend, tu
 represent this course mathematically and met with complete success Hal
 ley recognized later that the comet of 16S2 in it's course around the sun re- sembled two comets observed in t5St and 1907, and that if was without doubt the same comet and that it should re
 appear about 1I5S Haley had calcu- lated that the action of the planets would retard the next return of the
 comet and that he had predicted it's
 return for the end of t75S or the be ginning of 1759. The comet reappeared.
 II passed it's perihelion on March F. 1T59. d month before the day indi- catcd
 The orbit of Halley's comet is toda. completely determined. II accomplished revolution from 1759 to 1885 Its last passsgc to perihelion took place
 on the 18th of November of the latter year. which gave 2S.0O6 days for the
 revolution from t759 to 1885. instead
 of 27,937 days, which had been taken between 1882 and 1759. There was an
 augmentation of l35 days due to the
 influence of Jupiter and d diminutiOn
 of 6s days, due to Saturn. Uranus and
 the earth. The next return should be on the 24th of May. 1910. This revolu-
 ton should be shorter than the pre-
 ceding ones. or only 27,217 days, that is "A years and six months according
 to this calculant.