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  <dc:title>Unpublished paper, 'On comets' by William Thornton</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Thornton discusses the role of heat and electricity in the movements of planets and comets, and experiments carried out to test this theory. He also discusses the effect of the moon on sheep fertility. Includes one figure in the text.

Subject: Astronomy

Written by Thornton in the City of Washington [United States]. Received by the Royal Society in August 1825.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>22 February 1824</dc:date>
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