An essay on comets
Subtitle: in two parts, the whole interspersed with observations and reflections on the sun and primary planets
By: by Andrew Oliver.
Series: Library of American civilization -- LAC 13853.
Publisher: S. Hall
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Salem
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: Comets
Notes: Microfiche. Chicago : Library Resources, 1970. 1 microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of American civilization ; LAC 13853)
Table of contents: title: Part I. Containing an attempt to explain the phaenomena of the tails of comets, and to account for their perpetual opposition to the sun, upon philosophical principles; title: Part II. Pointing out some important ends for which these tails were probably designed, wherein it is shown that, in consequence of these curious appendages, comets may be inhabited worlds, and even comfortable habitations, notwithstanding the vast excentricities of their orbits.