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« Vote for 'Testament' | Main | more April Fool's Day » Friday, March 30, 2007The Theatre of CometsThe "bookart" blog BibliOdyssey is always worth checking out, but there's a particularly great entry up right now about "Theatrum Cometicum" (The Theatre of Comets), a 1668 volume providing accounts of over 400 comet sightings throughout history. It includes 80 lavish engravings, including this one:  Doesn't that look ominous? Like a missile strike on a peaceful hamlet? Posted by Joshua Glenn at 10:30 AM
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