In the Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France - Hardcover
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In the Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France
Offering a new history of a formative cultural and political era through the cosmic phenomena that captured the public's imagination
In the winters of 1664-65 and 1680-81, the French public was galvanized by two bright comets whose elliptical orbits could not be mapped with contemporary geometry and that thus seemed to appear in random and unpredictable locations. Bookending the period during...
CLAIRE GOLDSTEIN is a professor of French at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Vaux and Versailles: The Appropriations, Erasures, and Accidents That Made Modern France.
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