The certain predictions of the great Alcos, astrologer and mathematician in ordinary to the Duke of Parma : upon the two comets which have appeared in our hemisphere 1681.

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The certain predictions of the great Alcos, astrologer and mathematician in ordinary to the Duke of Parma : upon the two comets which have appeared in our hemisphere 1681.