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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. 763. A Blazing Star appeared for the space of ten days in the East. mAfter that in the West twenty one days. Another Comet was seen about two years after this. Remarkable Events attending these Prodigies, were, the Turks breaking in upon Armenia; an intolerable cold Winter, and after that as fiery a Summer, and a very afflictive Drought.
A. D. 763. A Blazing Star appeared for the space of ten dayes in the East. mAfter that in the West twenty one dayes. Another Comet was seen about two years after this. Remarkable Events attending these Prodigies, were, the Turks breaking in upon Armenia; an intollerable cold Winter, and after that as fiery a Summer, and a very afflictive Drought.
- mHist. Eccles. Cent. 8. Cap. 23.
A. D 814. A most strange kind of Comet was observed in the Month of November. nBoth the Light and the Figure of it was amazing to behold. It appeared like two Moons meeting ⟨p. 57⟩and departing, and sometimes like a Man without an Head. The principal Event attending this Prodigy was the death of Charles the Great. The Emperor himself was astonished at this Comet, (if we may call it a Comet) supposing it to portend his own Death, and great changes to follow in his Dominions.
A. D 814. A most strange kind of Comet was observed in the Moneth of November. nBoth the Light and the Figure of it was amazing to behold. It appeared like two Moons meeting