In the Sun King's Cosmos : Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France.

Goldstein, Claire.

In the Sun King's Cosmos : Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France. - 1st ed. - Chicago : Northwestern University Press, 2025. ©2025. - 1 online resource (304 pages) - Rethinking the Early Modern Series . - Rethinking the Early Modern Series .

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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.

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France-History-Louis XIV, 1643-1715. France-Civilization-17th century. Kirch comet. Comets-1664. Comets-Public opinion-History-17th century. Arts, French-17th century. Comets in literature. Comets in art. Louis-XIV,-King of France, 1638-1715-Cult.


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