a 4 JVlifcellanea Curtoja. 



Earth, and confequently have had more nota- 

 ble Parallaxes. But hitherto none has threaten'd 

 the Earth with a nearer Appulfe, than that 

 of 1680. For by Calculation I find, that No- 

 vemb. n°, i h , 6\ P.M. that Comet was not 

 above the Semi-diameter of the the Sun to 

 the Northwards of the Way of the Earth. 

 At which Time, had the Earth been there, 

 the Comet would have had a Parallax equal 

 to that of the Moon, as I take it. This is 

 fpoken to Aftronomers : But what might be 

 the Confequences of fo near an Appulfe j or 

 of a Contad ; or, laftly, of a Shock of the 

 Cceleftial Bodies, (which is by no means im- 

 poflible to come to pafs) I leave to be dif- 

 cufs^d by the Studious of Phyfical Matters, 



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