The Mysterious Comet: Or the Origin, Building up, and Destruction of Worlds, by means of Cometary Contacts
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The Mysterious Comet: Or the Origin, Building up, and Destruction of Worlds, by means of Cometary Contacts. By Comyns Beaumon (London, Rider & Co.,1932). First edition, rare. An eccentric speculative-cosmology work by British writer and journalist Comyns Beaumont. In the book, Beaumont presents a sweeping catastrophist theory of the universe: planets, moons, and even civilizations are created and destroyed through collisions with comets. He interprets ancient myths, Biblical stories, and geological evidence as remnants of real cometary catastrophes — including the Flood and the fall of Atlantis. Mixing astronomy, mythology, and theology, Beaumont argues that comets are the builders and destroyers of worlds, the cosmic agents responsible for both creation and apocalypse. Written in semi-scientific language but entirely speculative in nature, it anticipates later works such as Immanuel Velikovsky’s Worlds in Collision (1950).
288, (16) pp. + (16) plates. 22 x 14,5 cm. 0.620 kg.
Publisher’s cloth, tight binding with a few light spots. Fine pages and plates with some light foxing, and some foxing to the page edges.
