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Kometographia. Or A discourse concerning comets; wherein the nature of blazing stars is enquired…
Kometographia. Or A discourse concerning comets; wherein the nature of blazing stars is enquired into: with an historical account of all the comets which have appeared from the beginning of the world unto this present year, M.DC.LXXXIII. : Expressing the place in the heavens, where they were seen, their motion, forms, duration; and the remarkable events which have followed in the world, so far as they have been by learned men observed. : As also two sermons occasioned by the late blazing stars. / By Mr. Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Three lines of Scripture texts]Kometographia. Or A discourse concerning comets; wherein the nature of blazing stars is enquired into: with an historical account of all the comets which have appeared from the beginning of the world unto this present year, M.DC.LXXXIII. : Expressing the place in the heavens, where they were seen, their motion, forms, duration; and the remarkable events which have followed in the world, so far as thay have been by learned men observed. : As also two sermons occasioned by the late blazing stars. / By Mr. Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Three lines of Scripture texts]
printed by S.G. for S.S. i.e, 1683
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A.D. 217. dA Comet appeared in the sign of Pisces for 18 days. This was attended with the Death of Caracalla. The Emperor Antonius visiting the City of Alexandria, desired to see the Youth therein, and giving a sign to his Soldiers caused them to be cruelly slain. The Romans made great slaughter amongst the Goths. The ⟨p. 45⟩of Parthia came with a great Army against the Romans. The Emperor died.
A.D. 217. dA Comet appeared in the sign of Pisces for 18 dayes. This was attended with the Death of Caracalla. The Emperour Antonius visiting the City of Alexandria, desired to see the Youth therein, and giving a sign to his Souldiers caused them to be cruelly slain. The Romans made great slaughter amongst the Gothes. The ⟨p. 45⟩of Parthia came with a great Army against the Romans. The Emperour died.
- dCalvisius Lycosthenes.
After this time, no Blazing Star appeared (or however none is mentioned by any Historian, that I have met with) for near upon an hundred years. The next was eA. D. 306. soon after which Constantius Chlorus (the Father of great Constantine) died at York in England (then called Britain.) The blazing Star was attended with the most bloody and cruel Persecution that ever was, viz. that under Diocletian, who hoped he had (according to his design) destroyed all that did bear the Name of Christ throughout the Earth. This Year did Miletius his Schism happen. Within a few years Arius began to disseminate his Pestiferous Doctrine, and Donatism put the African Churches into an unhappy Blaze.