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Illness and the influence of the stars

Could alien germs from space have caused major pandemics across the world? Taras Young investigates the ideas of a few unconventional scientists who believe this to be the case.

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  • Astronomy: comets in a night sky. Engraving.
  • Astronomy: comets in a night sky. Engraving.
  • Astronomy: diagram of the path of comets. Engraving.
  • Observations on the comet.
  • Ephemera Collection, Comet Whiskey label
  • A prognostication everlasting of right good effect, fruitfully augmented by the author, containing plaine, briefe, pleasant, chosen rules to iudge the weather by the sunne, moone, starres, comets, rainbow, thunder, clowdes, with other extraordinary tokens, not omitting the aspects of planets, with a briefe iudgement for ever, of plentie, lacke, sicknes, dearth, warres, &c. opening also many naturall causes worthie to be knowne ... / corrected and augmented by Thomas Digges his sonne.
  • Astronomy: a comet seen over London. Wood engraving.
  • An account of the comet of the year 1811.
  • The new comet : drawn at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
  • Astronomy: a comet in the night sky. Wood engraving, ca. 1860.
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