The phenomena prove that the tail of a comet is vapour from its head which, when the comet is greatly heated in the neighbourhood of the sun in perihelion, continually rises up and moves away into the regions opposite the sun.

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

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