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• 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 the 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 habituations ; 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.
  Published: (1772)
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  Author: Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
  Published: (1683)
• Two lectures on comets : read in the chapel of Harvard-college, in Cambridge, New-England, in April 1759 : on occasion of the comet which appear'd in that month : with an appendix .
  Author: Winthrop, John, 1714-1779.
  Published: (1759)
• Two lectures on comets, read in the chapel of Harvard-college, in Cambridge, New-England, in April 1759 : on occasion of the comet which appear'd in that month : with an appendix .
  Author: Winthrop, John, 1714-1779.
  Published: (1759)
• A history of the doctrine of comets : a paper read before the American Historical Association at its second annual meeting, Saratoga, September 10, 1885
  Author: White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918.
  Published: (1887)