Essay on Comets

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Excerpt from Essay on Comets: Which Gained the First of Dr. Fellowess Prizes, Proposed to Those Who Had Attended the University of Edinburgh Within the Last Twelve Years This Essay stands in no need of a formal introduction. The following documents will sufficiently explain its origin, and the circumstances which have brought it forth to the world. On this account, the Author has little to address to the reader, but he may be permitted to remark, that the subject is one which does not demand so much a studied elegance of composition, as accuracy of related facts, and perspicuity of mathematical reasoning. This Essay, therefore, is not glossed over with the gay colouring of fancy, or enriched with the stores of classic association, nor does it require for its perusal any very profound knowledge of Astronomy. Originally never designed for publication, it ought not to be judged of by its own merits, but rather in relation to that academical object for which alone it was composed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.