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OLIVER, ANDREW. An Essay on Comets. Folding engraved plate. [6], vi, 87 pages. 8vo, 197x121 mm, modern 1/4 leather; light soiling and spotting on half-title, lower margin of plate cropped slightly entering image, few dampstains in upper margin of last few leaves. Salem: Samuel Hall, 1772
first edition In addition to contending that comets might be inhabited and that objects in the solar system were surrounded by atmospheres of air, "Oliver explained the cometary tail phenomenon by supposing that the atmospheres of the Sun, Earth, and comets were similar and mutually repellent" (Yeomans). Brüning 1819; Crowe, page 114-15; Evans 12498; Yeomans, Comets, page 164.
