The comet images in the Book of Miracles often appear accompanied by natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods and plagues which Waterman explains were all “understood as part of a continuum ...

In the 17th century, scientists used physics to explain the miracles described in the Bible. A book purporting to prove that a comet caused Noah's Flood became a best-seller.

A NASA digital photograph of the Southern lights is rich and precise and beautiful; an illustration of a comet in the circa 1550 Augsburg Book of Miracles, which was thought to foreshadow calamity ...