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a parabolic orbit. He then predicted its re-
turn at the end of 1758 or beginning of 1759,
when he should be dead; but, as he said, ”if
it should return, according to our predic-
tion, about the year 1758, impartial poster-
ity will not refuse to acknowledge that this
was first discovered by an Englishman.”[3]
[ Synopsis Astronomiae Cometicae , 1749.]
Once again Halley’s suggestion became
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