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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. 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.
A.D. 423. This Year upon a great Eclipse of the Moon, a Comet appeared, qafter which Prodigious showers of Blood were rained down upon Toulouse in France for a whole day together. A terrible Persecution was raised against the professors of the truth in Africa, by Gense•icus. Theodoricus the King of the Visigoths warring against Attila, was slain.
A.D. 423. This Year upon a great Eclipse of the Moon, a Comet appeared, qafter which Prodigious showers of Blood were rained down upon Tholous in France for a whole day together. A terrible Persecution was raised against the professors of the truth in Africa, by Gense•icus. Theodoricus the King of the Visigoths warring against Attila, was slain.