Kepler's book on comets. Title page of De Cometis Libelli Tres (1619) by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630). This book contained detail

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Kepler's book on comets. Title page of De Cometis Libelli Tres (1619) by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630). This book contained details of Kepler's studies and observations of the comets of 1607 (later identified as Halley's Comet) and 1618. The title page text (in Latin) mentions (at top) how study of the comets covered astronomy, physics and astrology. The name of the author and his profession (mathematics) is at centre. Publication details, including the year the book was published, are at bottom.

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