Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds

by M. de Fontenelle

One of the Forty belonging to the French Academy; and Secretary to the Academy 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.