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NHG-P.769.034
6 Oct 1769:11,12,13 (677)
The Philosophical Description of Comets, Continued from our
last.
On January the 23d, 1743-4, a comet appeared in Britain,
whose apparent diameter of its nucleus was nearly equal to
that of Jupiter, consequently its real magnitude is found to
be five thousand eight hundred and sixteen times greater
than our earth;
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And for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak
The maker's high magnificence; what built
So spacious, and his line stretch'd out so far,
That man may know he dwells not in his own.
[attributed to] Milton.
. . . [55 lines, signed] S. Sp. Skinner.
New-York, Sept. 15, 1769. . . [79 lines, 60 lines about the
comet, 14 lines of calculations by A Gentleman at
Elizabeth-Town, New-Jersey, about the recent appearance of a
comet in Britain]
Boston. On the above, we are favoured with the following
lines from one of our correspondents in town.
Hail awful light! stupendous herald hail!
Whether now first, or from old night thy trail!
Vast as thy orb; thy period's wide domain:
Fields of the range! Thy heav'ns a space contain.
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