Comet Halley's First Expected Return: English Public Apprehensions, 1755–58

The long-term motion of comet Halley

D. K. Yeomans, T. Kiang · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1981 · 113 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Astronomy, Physics +17

The Death of Adam: Evolution and Its Impact on Western Thought

Heinrich Meyer, John C. Greene · Books Abroad · 1961 · 102 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +9

A new theory of the earth, from its original, to the consummation of all things : wherein the creation of the world, in six days, the universal deluge, and the general conflagration, as laid down in the Holy Scriptures, are shewn to be perfectly agreeable to reason and philosophy : with a large introductory discourse concerning the genuine nature, stile, and extent of the Mosaick history of the creation

William Whiston · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1975 · 15 citations

Humanities, History, Philosophy +10

VII. Some considerations about the cause of the universal Deluge, laid before the Royal Society, on the 12th of December 1694

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London · 1724 · 10 citations · Full text

Humanities, History, Theology +2