A popular lecture on the astronomy and philsophy of comets In which the opinions of the antients, and the discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, relative to those bodies, are introduced and explained. By Samuel Dunn, Master of an Academy at Chelsea. Read to some of the Author's Pupils, unacquainted with the more intricate Parts of speculative Mathematics

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