...revolution. At the eight h 'period, in the year two thousand two hundred and fifty five, their calculations may perhaps be verified by the astronomers of some...future capital in the Siberian or American wilderness. II. The near approach of a comet may injure or destroy the globe which we inhabit; but the changes...

...revolution. At the eigluli period, in the year two thousarfd two hundred and fifty -five, their calculations may perhaps be verified by the astronomers of some future capital, in the Siberian or American wil<J*rn»i." [Vol. VII, p. 413—415.] of those evils, as war, famine, drought, and pestilenee; all...

...revolutions. At the eighth period, in the year two thousand two hundred and fifty-five, their calculations may perhaps be verified by the astronomers of some future capital in the Siberian or American CHAP. wilderness. • xxxVL II. The near approach of a comet may injure or Earthdestroy the globe which...

...revolutions. At the eighth period, in the year two thousandth hundred and fifty-five, their calculations may perhaps be verified by the astronomers of some future capital in the Siberia: or American wilderness. p.«rth- II. The near approach of a comet may injure or destroytb?...

...estimate of the periodic time be correct, Gibbon has speculated upon its course and phase engaging the astronomers of some, future capital in the Siberian or American wilderness. Calculating backwards the periodic time, Whiston brought a return of this comet into coincidence with...

...contemporaries. Gibbon, after his magnificent enumeration of the seven appearances of the comet of 1680, adds, " at the eighth period, in the year two thousand...skill equal to the highest operations of the science. This state of things is certainly recent. During the colonial period, and in the first generation after...

...estimate of the periodic time be correct. Gibbon has speculated upou its course and pb&ir engaging the astronomers of some future capital in the Siberian or American wilderness. Calculating backward the periodic time, Whinton brought a return of this comet into coincidcace with...

...estimate of the periodic time be correct, Gibbon has speculated upon its course and phase engaging the astronomers of some future capital in the Siberian or American wilderness. Calculating backwards the periodic time, Whiston brought a return of this comet into coincidence with...

...revolutions. At the eighth period, in the year two thousand three hundred and fifty-five, their calculations may perhaps be verified by the astronomers of some...future capital in the Siberian or American wilderness. II. The near approach of a comet may injure or destroy the globe which we inhabit ; but the changes...

...finishes by surmising that " at the eighth return, in the year 2355, the calculations of Bernoulli, Newton, and Halley may perhaps be verified by the...future capital in the Siberian or American wilderness." But it is now scarcely open to doubt that the period of the comet of 1680 amounts to, not hundreds,...