New Light on the Black Death: The Cosmic Connection

No signatures.; 224 pages. Page dimensions: 234 x 155mm. "Over the years doubts have been expressed about the accepted view that the Black Death was caused by bubonic plague. By looking at the evidence of tree-rings and ice cores, Mike Baillie, Professor of Dendrochronology at Queen's University, Belfast, has identified a series of natural catastrophes at the beginning of the fourteenth century, caused by meteor strikes. On the basis of the current scientific evidence and of contemporary accounts of the nature and spread of the disease, he is convinced that the disease was air-borne not carried by rats." Selected chapter titles: The radiocarbon story; The Americas; Descriptive metaphor; Earthquakes and other issues; Back to the tree rings; The 1290s set the tone; Fourteenth-century ice and other records; The plague decade; Comet frequencies; Further elaboration on ammonium; Toads and snakes and dragons; Drawing together the strands.

Product Info

ISBN: 0752435981

ISBN-13: 9780752435985

Publisher: Tempus Publishing

Year: (2006)

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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