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VII. Account of the Extraordinary METEOR 
feen alt oW England, on the i ^th of March 
17 if. With a Demonflration of the uncommon 
Height thereof, Edm. Halley, LL, D. and 
Secretary to the Royal Society. 
HIS wonderful luminous Meteor which was feen 
in the Heavens on the 19th of March lafl:, as 
it was matter of Surprize and Aftonilbment to 
the Vulgar Spedlator, fo it afforded no lefs SubjeeJt of 
Enquiry and Entertainment to the fpeculativc and cu- 
rious in Phyfical things : Some of its Phanowerfa being 
exceeding hard to account for, according to the No- 
tions hitherto received by our Naturalifls ; fuch are 
the very great Height thereof above the Earth ; the 
vaft Quantity of- the Matter thereof; the extravagant 
Velocity wherewith it moved ; and the prodigious £x- 
plofions thereof heard at fo great a Diffance, whole 
Sound, attended with a very ienfible Tremour of the 
fubje6t Air, was certainly propagated through a Me- 
dium incredibly rare and next to a Vacuum. 
In Num* 341. of thele TranfaBions, I have colle( 3 ed 
what I could find of fuch-like Meteors, and fince, turn- 
ing over the Ephemerides of Kepler, I accidentally hit 
upon another, prior to all thofe there deferibed, and 
which was feen all over German'^. Of this the Words 
of Kepler are.* Die ~ Nov. 1623. Meteorwm ignitum, 
Clohus ardens ah occaju in. ortum volans tota pajlfim Ger- 
mania fuit cortfpeefus. In Auflria etiam fragorem exau- 
ditum affirmarunt epuafi a fulmine ; ^uod vanum tamen puto : 
nihil enim talc confamant defer iptienes epum extanu Yet 
neither 
