But indeed all the whole story of Comets and Planets, and the Production of the World, is founded upon such poor and trifling grounds, that I have often wonder'd how an ingenious man could spend all that pains in making such fancies hang together.
The Celestial Worlds Discover';, or, Conjectures Concerning the Planetary Worlds, Their Inhabitants and Productions (p. 160), Printed for Timothy Childe. 1698