Hevelius's book on comets. Title page of Cometographia (1668), by the Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius. This book described every aspect of comets

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Hevelius's book on comets. Title page of Cometographia (1668), by the Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius. This book described every aspect of comets and contained many detailed illustrations of comets and their trajectories.

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