This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance of the extent o….

Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimes….

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even….

In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again….

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords..

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach..