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THE fact that a little more than a month ago the planet Venus arrived at its maximum brilliancy when to the west of the sun, and therefore when the planet rises before the sun, has given rise to a flood of superstitious fears in this country, only to be equalled in modern times by that which the members of the Eclipse Expedition observed in Grenada last year, and chronicled in these columns, as having been met with among the semi-civilized inhabitants of that island.
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The Star of Bethlehem . Nature 37, 169–171 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037169a0
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