An account of a surprizing meteor, seen in the air March 19. 1718/19. at night. Containing, I. A description of this meteor, from the original letters of those who saw it in different places. II. Some Historical Accounts of the like Meteors before. III. A Demonstration that such Meteors are not Comets. IV. That such Meteors are not a Concourse of Vapours above our Atmosphere. V. That they are prodigious Blasts of Thunder and Lightenings in the upper Regions of our Air. VI. Observations from the whole. By William Whiston, M.A. sometime Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge.

People / Organizations

• William Whiston (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for W. Taylor, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, 1719.

Publication year

1719-1719

ESTC No.

T18934

Grub Street ID

224848

Description

36,[4]p.,plate ; 8⁰

Note

With a postscript and two pages of advertisements.