Detail View: JCB Digital Collections: An essay on comets, in two parts. : 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. 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 excentricities of their orbits. The whole interspersed with observations and reflections on the sun and primary planets. /

Author: 
Oliver, A. 1731-1799. (Andrew),
Author (contributor): 
Brown, Moses, 1738-1836
Author (contributor): 
Brown, Nicholas, 1769-1841
Title: 
An essay on comets, in two parts. : 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. 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 excentricities of their orbits. The whole interspersed with observations and reflections on the sun and primary planets. /
Publisher: 
Printed and sold by Samuel Hall near the Exchange
Begin Publication Date: 
1772
MMS Id (Alma identifier): 
991030819299706966
Permanent Call Number: 
1-SIZE D772 .O48e
Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number): 
STAT_NOTE_1_ACCESSION #: 35909
Uniform Resource Identifier: 
https://archive.org/details/essayoncometsint00oliv_0, https://archive.org/details/essayoncometsint00oliv_1
Subjects: 
Comets.
Subjects: 
Comets--Orbits.
Subjects: 
Planets.
Subjects: 
Astronomy.
Subjects: 
Sun.
Subjects: 
Imprint 1772.
General Note: 
Signatures: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) [A]⁴ B-M⁴ (M4 verso blank); Errata: p. vi.; Engraved tail pieces.; Includes a folded plate with diagrams bound to face p. 84.
Local Note: 
John Carter Brown Library copy 1 bound in 19th century full red morocco; all edges untrimmed.; Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 1: Mr. Nico. Brown's [book]; ms. inscription at head of half-title page; Moses Brown junr. given him by his honoured father Nich. Brown: ms. inscription on half-title page.; John Carter Brown Library copy 2 unbound and untrimmed.; Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 2: Mr. Moses Brown: ms. inscription on half-title page.
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