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A discovery of new worlds. From the French. Made English by Mrs. A. Behn. To which is prefixed a preface, by way of essay on translated prose; wherein the arguments of Father Tacquet, and others, against the system of Copernicus (as to the motion of the earth) are likewise considered, and answered: wholly new.

Accession number
PML 151675
Creator
Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757.
Published
London : Printed for William Canning at his shop on the Temple-cloysters, 1688.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
Translation of: Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes.
First edition in English.
List of errata mounted at end of preface.
Publisher's advertisement: p. 158-[159].
Description
22 p.l., 158, [1] p. ; 18 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Contemporary calf.
Classification
Department