1788 JOSEPH WITTER. A Poem on Gravity and Motion. Devotion through the New Astronomy. Missionary by King's College in February

by King's College in February 1737

Let them do all in their power to suppress vice and promote religion and virtue

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Address Delivered the Twenty-Eighth June

1788 JOSEPH WITTER. A Poem on Gravity and Motion. Devotion through the New Astronomy. Missionary by King's College in FebruaryAn exceptionally rare poetic rendering of the then new understanding of Newtonian Astronomy and Cosmology with theological and devotional reflections. This appears to be the only copy extant. It is mentioned as exceptionally scarce, untraced in any library, in Lost Books. American Poetry before 1821 by Roger E. Stoddard of the Harvard Library published in the PBSA, 1982. We locate not a solitary copy in Worldcat or Copac. No copies at auction. Evans