Comet Lore
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...blood drawn in the long fight between the British and Boers. A little later, though, the Boers found another, more woful significance for the blazing of the Comet. Under the leadership of Piet Relief, a thousand Boer families had trekked across the Drakensberg Mountains into Natal. A solemn treaty of peace with the Zulu warriors was entered into with Dingaan, the chief of the Zulus at Dingaan's Kraal. Suddenly the Zulus pounced upon the unsuspecting Piet Relief and his sixty-five Boer followers and massacred them to a man. Then the Zulus, numbering some 10,000 warriors, swept out into the veldt and made for the Boer wagon trains. Near Colenso, at a spot called Weenen (weeping), in remembrance of the dreadful tragedy there perpetrated, the Zulus overwhelmed the Boer laager and slaughtered all its inmates--41 men, 56 women, 185 children and 250 Kaffir slaves. After this bloody massacre, equalling in horror the Massacre of the Alamo on the other side of the world, the Comet of 1835-36 was seen no more. HIS was the first return of the Comet predicted by A Halley. Hence it must be reckoned as the first appearance of "Halley's Comet" under his name. It was first seen on Christmas night, 1758, by John Palitsch, a Saxon farmer, near Dresden, who was looking for it with a self-constructed telescope of eightfoot focus. The Comet did not become visible to the sun on March 12, 1759. After that it was seen throughout Europe during April and May, appearing at its brightest during the first week in May. Later it was seen to advantage in the Southern Hemisphere. In Germany, where it was seen at its fiercest, the Comet was taken as a token of the bloody Seven Years' War, which was then being fought between Frederick the Great and his enemies on all sides. The omin...
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Comet Lore
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...blood drawn in the long fight between the British and Boers. A little later, though, the Boers found another, more woful significance for the blazing of the Comet. Under the leadership of Piet Relief, a thousand Boer families had trekked across the Drakensberg Mountains into Natal. A solemn treaty of peace with the Zulu warriors was entered into with Dingaan, the chief of the Zulus at Dingaan's Kraal. Suddenly the Zulus pounced upon the unsuspecting Piet Relief and his sixty-five Boer followers and massacred them to a man. Then the Zulus, numbering some 10,000 warriors, swept out into the veldt and made for the Boer wagon trains. Near Colenso, at a spot called Weenen (weeping), in remembrance of the dreadful tragedy there perpetrated, the Zulus overwhelmed the Boer laager and slaughtered all its inmates--41 men, 56 women, 185 children and 250 Kaffir slaves. After this bloody massacre, equalling in horror the Massacre of the Alamo on the other side of the world, the Comet of 1835-36 was seen no more. HIS was the first return of the Comet predicted by A Halley. Hence it must be reckoned as the first appearance of "Halley's Comet" under his name. It was first seen on Christmas night, 1758, by John Palitsch, a Saxon farmer, near Dresden, who was looking for it with a self-constructed telescope of eightfoot focus. The Comet did not become visible to the sun on March 12, 1759. After that it was seen throughout Europe during April and May, appearing at its brightest during the first week in May. Later it was seen to advantage in the Southern Hemisphere. In Germany, where it was seen at its fiercest, the Comet was taken as a token of the bloody Seven Years' War, which was then being fought between Frederick the Great and his enemies on all sides. The omin...
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789355755131 |
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| Publisher: | Alpha Edition |
| Publication date: | 12/29/2021 |
| Pages: | 94 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.23(d) |
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