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  Published: (1757)
• 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, concerning the revolutions of that comet, and of some others. By John Winthrop, Esq. Hollisian Professor of the Mathematics and Philosophy at Cambridge. Published by the general desire of the hearers
  by: Winthrop, John
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• A short account of the solar system, and of comets in general : together with a particular account of the comet that will appear in 1789. By Bartholomew Burges
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