Thus Descartes’s rectilinear cometary trajectory, which he filched from Kepler, collapses, and many things about comets in his fable of the world may be added, which almost two thousand years ago had been shown to be impossible by Lucretius.

— David Gregory Inaugural Lecture by David Gregory M.D. Savilian Professor of Astronomy (1692)

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