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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. 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.
- qLycosthenes Lavater Alsted
A.D. 448. A Comet was seen in the sign of Leo, continuing many days. rThere followed a Prodigious Earth quake in the East. Attilae oppressed and destroyed a great part of Italy. The Venetians perished by a Flood. The Eutichean Heresy began to prevail.
A.D. 448. A Comet was seen in the sign of Leo, continuing many dayes. rThere followed a Prodigious Earth quake in the East. Attilae oppressed and destroyed a great part of Italy. The Venetians perished by a Flood. The Eutichean Heresie began to prevail.
- rHerlicius Eckstormius