Art, Symbol & Imagination
A Comet Sweeping Past the Earth
A curved comet tail sweeps through a black field containing labelled Sun and Earth positions and a curved orbital path. The printed caption names a comet sweeping past the Earth. Donnelly uses the diagram to visualise a proposed encounter, rather than to reproduce a star-field photograph or document a specific observed event.
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Illustrator not identified. "A Comet Sweeping Past the Earth" [editorial title]. In Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel, Ignatius Donnelly. Eleventh edition, 1887, R. S. Peale and Company. Source scan leaf 104. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0043-0102
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Illustrator not identified. A Comet Sweeping Past the Earth. Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel. Scan leaf 104. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0043-0102