Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected. — Edmond Halley Copy Share Image
Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of… — Edmond Halley Copy Share Image
This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance of the… — Edmond Halley Copy Share Image
Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the… — Edmond Halley Copy Share Image
In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to foretell, that… — Edmond Halley Copy Share Image
