A week's conversation on the plurality of worlds
By: By Monsieur Fontenelle. Translated from the last Paris edition, wherein are many improvements throughout; and some new observations on several discoveries which have been lately made in the heavens. By William Gardiner, Esq. To which is added, Mr. Secretary Addison's Oration, made at Oxford, in defense of the new philosophy
Contributors: Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719; Gardiner, William, active 1728, translator; Curll, Edmund, 1675-1747, bookseller; Samuel Johnson and William Samuel Johnson Libraries (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Edition: The second edition.
Publisher: Printed for E. Curll in the Strand
Published: 1728
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Plurality of worlds; Early works to 1800
Notes: The first edition of the Gardiner translation has title: Conversations on the plurality of worlds.

Head- and tail-pieces, factotum initials.

Signatures: A⁸ B-I¹² K⁶ (final two leaves blank).

English short title catalogue (ESTC), N25366

Gift; Johnson family; 1914.

Translation of: Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes.