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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Comets of 1618 and the European Printing Press.- Chapter 3: The Visual Culture of the 1618 Comets.- Chapter 4: THE GREAT COMET OF 1618: An Archaeopoetic Study.- Chapter 5: The astronomical charts of the Jesuits: The Table of De tribus cometis years MDCXVIII Disputatio astronomica.- Chapter 6: The Comets of 1618 in Germany and Wilhelm Schickard’s Manuscript Treatise.- Chapter 7: THE COMETS OF 1618: Tales from India.- Chapter 8: Celestial Portents in 1615−1619 and the Manchu Overthrow of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).- Chapter 9: Comets over Iberia: Astronomical Observations, Cometary Theory and Astrological Prognostications in Spain and Portugal (1618).- Chapter 10: Writing Past Futures: Celestial Omens and the Historiography of the Thirty Years’ War.- Chapter 11: The Comets of 1618 and Astrological Prognostication in Seventeenth-Century England.
