Excerpt from The Museum of Science and Art, Vol. 2 Chap. I. - 1. Popular tendency to connect terrestrial events with 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 Comet encountering the Earth, and the result - Comet of 1832, of 1805 - Probabilities of such an occurrence - 5. Question discussed as to the temperature of the seasons being affected 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.