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Devil's hells and astonomer's heavens : religion, method, and popular culture in speculations about life on comets / Sara Schechner Genuth.
Schechner Genuth, Sara.Date: 1992- Books
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Some new enquiries relating to the following curious subjects. Viz. A threefold motion of the earth. ... To which is added an appendix containing an enquiry into the nature of comets ; ... By W. Wall, ...
Jackson, Benjamin Habakkuk.Date: [1718?]- Books
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A popular lecture on the astronomy and philosophy of comets. In which the opinions of the antients, and the discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, relative to those bodies, are introduced and explained. By Samuel Dunn, Master of an Academy at Chelsea. Read to some of the Author's Pupils, unacquainted with the more intricate Parts of speculative Mathematics.
Dunn, Samuel, -1794.Date: M,DCC,LIX. [1759]- Books
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The language of comets, or blazing stars. A lively call to repentance for National Sins. Or, A Theological and Historical Essay, occasioned by a Blazing Comet hanging over Great Britain and Ireland, viz. in the Months of January, February, and Part of March 1743-4. Wherein Their Several Kinds are set forth, as well as their Appearances in divers Ages and Countries; with what may soberly and fairly be deduced therefrom, touching God's holy Ends in sending them, consistently with Reason, Experience, and the standing Maxims of God's Government of the World, as attested by his Written Word and confirm'd by Oath. With A just Rebuke to the Reigning Vices of the Age, or National Impieties; not without some prudential Methods formerly successful for reforming the same. Design'd to allay all popular and unreasonable Fears, and to Chear and Erect the Hearts of the British Nation, with Considerations of a solid and substantial Nature. By a presbyter of the Church of England.
Philalethes, Presbyter of the Church of England.Date: 1745- Books
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A philosophical and familiar essay on comets ... / from the writings of Sir Isaac Newton, Dr. Halley, etc. including an account of the great comet, which apeared in 1680 ... as also of those subsequent, and the present comet.
Rivers, DavidDate: [1811]- Books
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Sir Isaac Newton's mathematick philosophy more easily demonstrated: with Dr. Halley's account of comets illustrated. Being forty lectures read in the publick schools at Cambridge / By William Whiston ... For the use of the young students there. In this English edition ... corrected and improved by the author.
Whiston, William, 1667-1752.Date: 1716- Books
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A discourse on comets. Containing, a brief description of the true system of the world, And An Enumeration of all the Discoveries which have been yet made concerning those temporary Appearances, With respect to their Orbits, Forms, Velocity, Magnitudes, Distances, Tails, &c. Particularly that whose Return is expected in this or the following Year. Extracted from the writings of Sir Isaac Newton, and other astronomers. To which is added, the opinion of that illustrious author, concerning the use of comets, the origin of matter; and his definition of the supreme being of the universe. Collected by J. L. Cowley, Mathematician.
Cowley, John Lodge, 1719-1797.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
Cometomantia. A discourse of comets: shewing their original substance, place, time, magnitude, motion, number, colour, figure, kinds, names, and, more especially, their prognosticks, significations and presages / Being a brief resolution of a seasonable query, viz. Whether the apparition of comets be the sign of approaching evil? Where also is inserted an essay of judiciary astrology, giving satisfaction to this grand question, whether any certain judgments and predictions concerning future events, can be made from the observation of the heavenly bodies? Both occasioned by the appearance of the late comets in England and other places. [Anon. By J.E.?].
Date: 1684- Books
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The elements of physical and geometrical astronomy. By David Gregory, M. D. late Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, and Fellow of the Royal Society. Done into English, with additions and corrections. The second edition. To which is annex'd, Dr. Halley's synopsis of the astronomy of comets. The whole newly revised, and compared with the Latin, and corrected throughout, by Edmund Stone, F. R. S. In two volumes. ...
Gregory, David, 1659-1708.Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726]- Books
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A new theory of comets; (laws of motion,) &c. plainly shewing, that they are not solid, compact, fixed and durable bodies like those of the Planets: But that they are Solar Meteors, or Exhalations of the same nature with our smoke, which flying to a certain distance from the Sun, thicken (or draw together) to such a Mass, that at last their own Gravity forces them back into its Blaze; where they no sooner arrive but they take Fire, and are violently thrown off in right Lines thro' the Universe, till their own Flames have exhausted their Substance. - The whole being freed from the absurd Opinion, and Error of Sir Isaac Newton, upon this Subject: To which are added, several debates on the above, with the author's answer: Till at last this Theory, now stands confirmed beyond all Contradiction. By Michael Woods, F.R.S.
Woods, Michael.Date: MDCCLXVIII [1768]- Books
The age of two-faced Janus : the comets of 1577 and 1618 and the decline of the Aristotelian world view in the Netherlands / by Tabitta van Nouhuys.
Nouhuys, Tabitta van.Date: 1998- Books
Putting myself in the picture : a political, personal, and photographic autobiography / Jo Spence.
Spence, JoDate: 1988- Books
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Sir Isaac Newton's mathematick philosophy more easily demonstrated: with Dr. Halley's account of comets illustrated. Being forty lectures read in the publick schools at Cambridge. By William Whiston, M. A. Mr. Lucas's, Professor of the Mathematicks in that University. For the Use of the Young Students there. In this English edition the whole is corrected and improved by the author.
Whiston, William, 1667-1752.Date: 1716- Ephemera
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Observations on the comet.
Date: [1807?]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001931: Reproduction of a woodcut captioned "The figure of a Fearful Comet"
Date: May 1931Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/18/16Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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The comet: a poem.
Byles, Mather, 1707-1788.Date: 1744- Pictures
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Astronomy: various views of Donati's comet in the night sky. Process print.
Reference: 46241i- Books
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Catastrophe mundi, or, Europe's many mutations until the year 1701 : being an astrological treatise of the effects of the triple conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1682 and 1683, and of the comets 1680 and 1682, and other configurations concomitant : wherein the fate of Europe for these next 20 years is ... more than probably conjectured ... : also, an ephimeris [sic] of all the comets that have appeared from ... 1603 to the year 1682 .. : whereunto is annexed the hieroglyphicks of Nostrodamus ... / by John Holwell.
Holwell, John, 1649-1686?Date: 1682- Books
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A vvonderful prognostication or prediction for these seuen yeeres insuing : shewing the strange and wonderfull comets and meatuors, beginning this present yeere, 1604 / written in French by the Lord of Billy.
Billy, Himbert de, approximately 1544-approximately 1630Date: 16[0]4- Books
Contribution à l'étude des eaux sulfureuses de Bagnères-de-Luchon vers la fin du XVIIIe siècle / [Jean Comet].
Comet, Jean.Date: 1922- Pictures
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Astronomy: a comet seen over London. Wood engraving.
Date: 1860Reference: 46242i- Books
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An account of a new comet. By Miss Caroline Herschel. Read at the Royal Society, Nov. 9, 1786.
Herschel, Caroline Lucretia, 1750-1848.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Ephemera
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An account of the comet of the year 1811.
Date: [1811?]- Books
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Remarks on the new comet. By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. Read at the Royal Society, Nov. 16, 1786.
Herschel, William, Sir, 1738-1822.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Ephemera
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The new comet : drawn at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
Date: [1844]