An Essay on comets
Subtitle: in two parts
By: by Andrew Oliver, Jun
Series: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time -- 25005-25006
Publisher: S. Hall
Published: 1772
Place of publication: Salem, New-England
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: Comets -- Early works to 1800
Notes: "Part I. Containing an attempt to explain the phenomena of the tails of comets, and to account for their perpetual opposition to the sun, upon philosophical principles. Part II. Pointing out some important ends for which these tails were probably designed: wherein it is shewn, that, in consequence of these curious appendages, comets may be inhabited worlds, and even comfortable habitations; notwithstanding the vast excentricites of their orbits.  The whole interspersed with observations and reflections on the sun and primary planets."

Includes bibliographical references

Sabin, 57199

Microfiche. Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, 1998. 2 microfiches : negative. (Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time ; 25005-25006)