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<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD>Acknowledgments</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>viii</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(3)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Illustration Credits</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>xi</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>INTRODUCTION   Fire in the Sky: Meteors, the Decisive Centuries, in British Art and Science</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>1</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(16)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>I  Prelude: The Beginning of Telescopic Astronomy and the Background of British Astronomy and Artistic Traditions</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>17</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(20)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>Color Plates I-XVI</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>facing p. 34</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>II  The Heavens on Fire: The Eighteenth Century</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>37</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(72)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>III  The Comet-Crazed Century Opens</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>109</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(70)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>IV  The Triumph of Realism</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>179</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(48)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>Color Plates XVII-XXXII</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>facing p. 226</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>V  Donati's Comet, the Watershed</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>227</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(18)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>VI  The Origin of Comet (and Meteor) Photography</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>245</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(18)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>VII  The Triumph of the Imagination</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>263</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(46)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>VIII  Comets and the New Century</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>309</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(8)</TD></TR><TR><TD>EPILOGUE   Comets and the New Millennium</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>317</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(14)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>COLIN T. PILLINGER</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TR><TD>Appendices</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>331</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(18)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Selected Bibliography</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>349</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(14)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Index</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>363</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE>

xiv, 369 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Discusses the history of comets and meteors in art in Britain

Fire in the sky : comets and meteors, the decisive centuries, in British art and science