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Image from a 16th-century broadsheet telling of a celestial apparition which occurred on March 2, 1561 over Nuremberg.
One of hundreds of such accounts which appeared in Germany in the 1500s. Our latest post explores: publicdomainreview.org/collect…
Signs and Wonders: Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany
From the mid-sixteenth century, broadsheets depicting wondrous, celestial events circulated widely across the Holy Roman Empire against the backdrop of Reformation.The Public Domain Review
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The early German broadsheets were full of strange celestial phenomena. I suspect but cannot prove that this tale originated from them:
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