Author: BRÜCK Rémy :
Title: L'Origine des Etoiles Filantes.
Description: Bruxelles, C.Muquardt, 1869, in-8°, 155 pp. + qq; tables dépliantes, broché, couverture imprimée d'origine (légèrement abimée, sans perte de texte, exemplaire partiellement non coupé. Edition originale. The author, officer of the Belgian army, proposes a theory that cosmological magnetism guides the orbit of the comets. This theory goes along with other similar ideas about the influence of magnetism Allthough this was sold as science his ideas were finally exposed as quack theories. .

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