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Table of Contents
| Critical Account of the Life and Writings of the Author | iii |
| Lines on Fontenelle | X |
| Preface | xi |
| Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds | 1 |
| First Evening. | 4 |
| Second Evening. | 33 |
| Third Evening. | 59 |
| Fourth Evening. | 83 |
| Fifth Evening. | 110 |
| Sixth Evening. | 132 |
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FONTENELLE.
CONVERSATIONS
ON THE
PLURALITY OF WORLDS.
BY
BERNARD DE FONTENELLE,
One of the Forty belonging to the French Academy; and Secretary to theAcademy of Sciences.
WITH NOTES,
AND A CRITICAL ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S WRITINGS,
BY
JEROME DE LA LANDE,
SENIOR DIRECTOR OF THE OBSERVATORY AT PARIS.
Translated from a late Paris Edition, by
MISS ELIZABETH GUNNING.
London:
PRINTED BY J. CUNDEE, IVY-LANE;
SOLD BY T. HURST, PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1803.
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