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Literary
November 16, 1769
The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
What is this article about?
In 1769, an article from New York discontinues local observations of a recent comet due to poor visibility in America, expecting European and Eastern philosophers to provide insights confirming theories that solar spots are comets or worlds supplying fuel to the sun.
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New York, October 30, 1769.
The Philosophical Description of the Phenomena of COMETS, &c. is discontinued for the present, occasioned by want of an ocular demonstration, in AMERICA, of the late extra accidental comet's entrance into the atmosphere of the Sun, which could not possibly be obtained on these western parts of our GLOBE; but we have good reason to expect that philosophers in various parts of EUROPE, and the EASTERN COUNTRIES, had a fine opportunity for a visual demonstration, and have favoured the publick with their observations continued, until this most remarkable comet either fell upon the Sun's surface or revolved round it.
European and Eastern Publications (provided the comet descended directly to the sun) will indubitably fairly prove that the sun doth not subsist on its own native heat and light, and that the SOLAR SPOTS ARE COMETS. OR WORLDS, little pieces in the SUN; and they will likewise assist in determining whether any of the broken pieces of a blown up world can possibly be admitted in opinion to revolve in new formed orbits near to the sun, and within its full electrical force of attraction and repulsion, until its celestial fire has occasion for fresh supplies of fuel, agreeable to those propositions advanced for improvement in these philosophical speculations, or whether every individual macula, piece of a world, really adheres to, or floats upon, the surface of the Sun, in the course of its Revolution.
S. SP. SKINNER
The Philosophical Description of the Phenomena of COMETS, &c. is discontinued for the present, occasioned by want of an ocular demonstration, in AMERICA, of the late extra accidental comet's entrance into the atmosphere of the Sun, which could not possibly be obtained on these western parts of our GLOBE; but we have good reason to expect that philosophers in various parts of EUROPE, and the EASTERN COUNTRIES, had a fine opportunity for a visual demonstration, and have favoured the publick with their observations continued, until this most remarkable comet either fell upon the Sun's surface or revolved round it.
European and Eastern Publications (provided the comet descended directly to the sun) will indubitably fairly prove that the sun doth not subsist on its own native heat and light, and that the SOLAR SPOTS ARE COMETS. OR WORLDS, little pieces in the SUN; and they will likewise assist in determining whether any of the broken pieces of a blown up world can possibly be admitted in opinion to revolve in new formed orbits near to the sun, and within its full electrical force of attraction and repulsion, until its celestial fire has occasion for fresh supplies of fuel, agreeable to those propositions advanced for improvement in these philosophical speculations, or whether every individual macula, piece of a world, really adheres to, or floats upon, the surface of the Sun, in the course of its Revolution.
S. SP. SKINNER
What sub-type of article is it?
Essay
What keywords are associated?
Comets
Solar Spots
Philosophical Speculation
Astronomy
Sun Fuel
What entities or persons were involved?
S. Sp. Skinner
Literary Details
Title
The Philosophical Description Of The Phenomena Of Comets, &C.
Author
S. Sp. Skinner
Subject
Observations Of The 1769 Comet And Solar Theories
Key Lines
The Solar Spots Are Comets. Or Worlds, Little Pieces In The Sun;
The Sun Doth Not Subsist On Its Own Native Heat And Light