In that year appeared a comet which again plunged Europe into alarm.

In every European country this alarm was strong, but in Germany strongest of all.

The churches were filled with terror-stricken multitudes.

Celich preaching at Magdeburg was echoed by Heerbrand preaching at Tubingen, and both these from thousands of other pulpits, Catholic and Protestant, throughout Europe.

In the midst of all this din and outcry a few men quietly but steadily observed the monster; and Tycho Brahe announced, as the result, that its path lay farther from the earth than the orbit of the moon.