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La philosophie de l'antiquité avait laissé des traces profondes dans l'esprit humain: le cercle, seule courbe parfaite, continuait à dominer les sys tèmes par son admirable régularité, et l'histoire de la comète de Halley, entre tous les astres chevelus, est du plus haut intérêt par son action destruc tive des plus vieilles superstitions comme des notions scientifiques qui, par une longue hérédité, s'étaient acquis un caractère de nécessité. Qu'elle soit eeaminée par l'astronome, par l'historien ou par le philosophe, la comète de Hatley est la plus importante: la situation qu'elle occupa durant de longs siècles dans l'esprit des peuples ne le cède en rien à l'intérêt des recherches vraiment scientifiques qu'elle suscita et qu'elle est encore appelée à deter miner, ce qui peut légitimer un essai détaillé de son histoire et de son évolution.
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