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Memorandum by John Conduitt, King's College Library, Cambridge, Ms Keynes 130. n° 11


The comet of 1680 after five or six revolutions will fall into the Sun


The comet of 1680 after five or six revolutions will fall into the Sun,
and so much increase the heat of the Sun
that this earth will burn, killing all life.
Since the Earth appeared to be built on the ruins of a former world,
such a catastrophe, moreover, had probably happened previously,
which meant that the present inhabitants of our planet had resulted from a new creation.