Front Matter
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Table of Contents
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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INTRODUCTION: SHARED CULTURE, SEPARATE SPACES
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Ancient Signs
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Monsters and the Messiah
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Divination
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Portents and Politics
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From Natural Signs to Proximate Causes
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The Decline of Cometary Divination
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Comets, Transmutations, and World Reform in Newton’s Thought
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Halley’s Comet Theory, Noah’s Flood, and the End of the World
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Refueling the Sun and Planets
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Revolution and Evolution within the Heavens
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CONCLUDING REMARKS: POPULAR CULTURE AND ELITE SCIENCE
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APPENDIX: RECENT RESURGENCE OF COMETARY CATASTROPHISM
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NOTES
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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