Cometarum natura motus et origo
Subtitle: secundùm duas hodie celebriores Joh. Hevelii & P. Petiti celeberrimorum mathematicorum hypotheses ita declarata, ut non solùm novissimi illius nostri, sed insigniorum aliorum quorumque, quos anni 1677, 1665, 1664, 1661, 1652, 1647, 1618, 1607, 1590, 1585, 1580, 1577. & superiores, alii viderunt, & historia & naturalis ratio gratâ quadam brevitate exinde dignosci queat
By: Authore Joh. Christophoro Sturmio, mathem. et phys. p.p.
Contributors: Hevelius, Johannes, 1611-1687; Petit, Pierre, 1598-1677; Wülfer, Daniel, 1617-1685; Universität Altdorf
Publisher: Typis Johannis Henrici Schönnerstædt.
Published: 1681
Place of publication: AltdorfI
Language: lat
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Comets; Early works to 1800
Notes: Reissue of VD17 12:168410S, with partially reset title page; originally issued with different statement of authorship (following "dignosci queat"): "Haec eadem vero praeside M. Joh. Christophoro Sturmio mathem. et phys. p.p. Respondendo publice tuebitur Christophorus Fürer, ab Haimendorf & Wolckersdorf. d. 7. Maii MDCLXXXI."

Dedication to Daniel Wülffer on preliminary p. [3]-[4], with heading on p. [2] (verso of title); dated at end: "Dabam AltdorfI d. 6. Maji 1681." The first issue contains a 4-p. dedication to "sämtliche Tischgenossen" (often lacking in copies reported to VD17).

"Additamentum": p. 52 (a blank page in first issue).

Collation: 4to: pi² A-F⁴ G² [$3 signed]; 28 leaves, pp. [4 unn.] 1-52 + plates A, B.

Plates usually reported folded, but can be bound unfolded without loss of image.

Rare Book copy: Bound with 14 related works

VD17 12:161156S

BL German, 1601-1700, S3064 (532.e.25(12))

Lalande, J.J. Le F. de. Bib. astronomique, p. 302