id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt t148ff38q0s Laura Bland Unfriendly Skies: Science, Superstition, and the Great Comet of 1680 1904 .txt text/plain 302 10 37 After an introduction, four thematic chapters explore responses to the comets of the 1680s in England, Spain, North America, and Spanish America respectively. Chapter Five elaborates on the Catholic background established for Spain by showing how broad religious trends intersected with local circumstances of patronage and norms of argument in shaping the debate in Spanish America. cache/t148ff38q0s.txt txt/t148ff38q0s.txt