A dissertation on comets, extracted from the writings of the most eminent modern astronomers and philosophers. In a letter to a reverend professor. To which is prefixed the theory of a comet
A 1700 London treatise on comets, printed for the bookseller C. Corbett, compiled from leading astronomers and natural philosophers and addressed in letter form to a reverend professor. The pictures are small black-and-white woodcut and engraved ornaments and vignettes, plus a shaded engraved plate of overlapping spheres with radiating lines, which a designer could borrow for dense repeating borders, emblem-style roundels, or early scientific diagram textures.
