A treatise of comets, containing I. An explication of all the various appearances of the late comet, . . . Illustrated with a Plan of the Earth’s and Comet’s Orbits. II. The history of comets from the earliest Account of those kinds of Planets, . . . III. The distance, velocity, size, solidity, and other properties of those bodies consider’d; . . . illustrated also by a Copper-Plate
London: printed for Jacob Robinson in Ludgate-Street, MDCCXLIV [1744]. First Edition. First Edition of this tract on the nature and historical perceptions of comets. 8vo: [2],46pp, with two copper-engraved folding plates, one showing the comet’s path and one demonstrating the origins of the comet’s tails. Beautifully bound by Fitterer in..... more