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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.
CHAP. V. Of Comets which appeared between the Year 50• and 1000, with some remarkable Events.
A D. 519. A Bearded Comet appeared 26 days, in the East, pointing westward. uAfter which there was a wonderful Earth-quake, whereby many (not only persons but) whole Cities perished.
A D. 519. A Bearded Comet appeared 26 dayes, in the East, pointing westward. uAfter which there was a wonderful Earth-quake, whereby many (not only persons but) whole Cities perished.
- uCalvisius ex Cedreno, Alsted.
A. D. 533. A formidable Comet appeared in the Month of December, in the sign o• Sagittarius. wThis was followed with an Earth-quake. A popular tumult in Constantinople. A Plague at Antioch and in other places. The Hun cause troubles in Europe.