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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. 418. A Comet was seen in Libra, in the Month of September. oGreat Sedition and Commotions followed throughout Italy, and in Spain. The Africans prepared a formidable Fleet and marched towards Rome. Not long after this, Famous Hierom died. The Pestilent Heresy of Pelagius occasioned much trouble in the Churches.
A.D. 418. A Comet was seen in Libra, in the Moneth of September. oGreat Sedition and Commotions followed throughout Italy, and in Spain. The Africans prepared a formidable Fleet and marched towards Rome. Not long after this, Famous Hierom died. The Pestilent Heresie of Pelagius occasioned much trouble in the Churches.
- oHerlicius. Alstedius, & alii.
A.D. 423. An horrible Comet was seen flaming: pImmediately upon which the Emperor Honorius died. Casti•us with an Army cometh upon the Vandals and maketh great slaughter in Spain. The Scots and Picts grievously infest the Britons.
A.D. 423. An horrible Comet was seen flaming: pImmediately upon which the Emperour Honorius died. Casti•us with an Army cometh upon the Vandals and maketh great slaughter in Spain. The Scots and Picts grievously infest the Britains.
- pMercellinus. Eckstormius ex Scho••ero. Hevelius.