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Tables of Contents for Fire in the Sky
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Introduction
1. Prelude: the beginning of telescopic astronomy and the background of British astronomy and artistic traditions
2. The heavens on fire: the eighteenth century
3. The comet-crazed century opens
4. The triumph of realism
5. Donati's comet, the watershed
6. The origin of comet (and meteor) photography
7. The triumph of the imagination
8. Comets and the new century
Epilogue: comets and the new millennium
Appendices
List of illustrations
Bibliography
Index.