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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. 676. (Circiter) A Comet was seen divers times. fOnce it appeared for three Months together, being seen in the Morning in August, rising in the East. In appearance like unto a flaming Pillar. The Plague and Famine followed, also a great Drought, so that it rained ⟨p. 55⟩not gin some places for the space of three years together, The Saracens came with a great fleet into Sicily, and brake in upon the Roman Empire like a flood. Pope Donas died this year.
A. D. 676. (Circiter) A Comet was seen divers times. fOnce it appeared for three Moneths together, being seen in the Morning in August, rising in the East. In appearance like unto a flaming Pillar. The Plague and Famine followed, also a great Drought, so that it rained ⟨p. 55⟩not gin some places for the space of three years together, The Sarazens came with a great fleet into Sicily, and brake in upon the Roman Empire like a flood. Pope Donas died this year.
- fSigebert, Hist. Eccles. Cent. 7. C. 13.
- gBellarmine Chronol. in Anno 678. Alstedius Chron. Cap. 49. & in Encycloped. P. 2171.
A. D. 684. A Comet was seen in the Months of December, January, and February. It was observed in the day time as well as in the night, near the seven Stars, shining with a dim light not unlike to that of the Moon when covered with a thin Cloud.