Astronomy: a meteor in the night sky. Coloured wood engraving, 1868.

Astronomy: a meteor shower in the night sky. Mezzotint after H. Robinson, 1783.

Astronomy: a meteor in the night sky over London. Mezzotint by M.C. Wyatt, 1850.

Astronomy: an ancient scholar (Aristotle?) observing a meteor or comet using a telescope. Engraving by J. Kip, 1694, after G. Freman.

Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences. Plus, la dioptriqve. Les meteores. Et la geometrie. Qui sont des essais de cete [sic] methode / [René Descartes].

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Illness and the influence of the stars

Meteors, or, A plain description of all kind of meteors : as well fiery and ayrie, as watry and earthy, briefly manifesting the causes of all blazing-stars, shooting stars, flames in the aire, thunder, lightning, earthquakes, rain, dew, snow, clouds, sprigs, stones, and metalls / by W.F.

Meteors; or, a plain description of all kind of meteors, as well fiery and ayrie, as watry and earthy. Briefly manifesting the causes of all blazing-stars, shooting-stars, flames in the aire, thunder, lightning, earthquakes, rain, dew, snow, clouds, springs, stones, and metalls / By W[illiam] F[ulke] Doctor in Divinity.

An account of a surprizing meteor, seen in the air March 19. 1718/19. at night. Containing, I. A description of this meteor, from the original letters of those who saw it in different places. II. Some Historical Accounts of the like Meteors before. III. A Demonstration that such Meteors are not Comets. IV. That such Meteors are not a Concourse of Vapours above our Atmosphere. V. That they are prodigious Blasts of Thunder and Lightenings in the upper Regions of our Air. VI. Observations from the whole. By William Whiston, M.A. sometime Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge.

A succinct treatise of popular astronomy: or, that science made plain, easy, and intelligible to every capacity. To which are subjoined, prognostics of the weather, From the Sun, Moon, Stars, Clouds, Meteors, &c. By a lover of the sciences.

A tale of two tubs: or, the B--------rs in Querpo. Being a humorous and satirical description of some principal characters that have long shone, in this Hemisphere, like Stars of the first Magnitude; but on being pass'd through a Poetical Alembick, are discover'd to be no better than stinking Meteors, engender'd in a Fog, and after glittering a-while, sink into a Caput Mortuum.

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Meteors, or, A plain description of all kind of meteors : as well fiery and ayrie, as watry and earthy, briefly manifesting the causes of all blazing-stars, shooting stars, flames in the aire, thunder, lightning, earthquakes, rain, dew, snow, clouds, sprigs, stones, and metalls / by W.F.

A succinct treatise of popular astronomy: or, that science made plain, easy, and intelligible to every capacity. To which are subjoined, prognostics of the weather, From the Sun, Moon, Stars, Clouds, Meteors, &c. By a lover of the sciences.

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Meteors, or, A plain description of all kind of meteors : as well fiery and ayrie, as watry and earthy, briefly manifesting the causes of all blazing-stars, shooting stars, flames in the aire, thunder, lightning, earthquakes, rain, dew, snow, clouds, sprigs, stones, and metalls / by W.F.

A succinct treatise of popular astronomy: or, that science made plain, easy, and intelligible to every capacity. To which are subjoined, prognostics of the weather, From the Sun, Moon, Stars, Clouds, Meteors, &c. By a lover of the sciences.