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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. 842. A Comet was observed in Aquarius.p
- pFunccius, Eckstormius. Car••an de subtil. L. 4.
A.D. 844. A Comet was observed by Albumasar to be above Venus. As for the remarkable Events attending these Comets, thus frequently appearing in so short a space, there are many memorable passages noted by Historians as happening about this time. e. g. The death of the Emperor Ludovicus Pius, and of Pipin King of ⟨p. 58⟩France. The Saracens came upon Italy like a flood, not leaving Rome it self untouched; many of them perished in the waters as they returned into Africa ▪ qAn unhappy War brake out between Lotharius and his two Brethren Lewis and Charles. A mighty Army was brought into the Field, Lotharius was worsted. The greatest part of the Nobility and Flower of the French Nation was slain. *Not long after this in Germany, Famine prevailed so as that the Parents did eat their own Children, and sometimes Children their Parents.
A.D. 844. A Comet was observed by Albumasar to be above Venus. As for the remarkable Events attending these Comets, thus frequently appearing in so short a space, there are many memorable passages noted by Historians as hapning about this time. e. g. The death of the Emperour Ludovicus Pius, and of Pipin King of ⟨p. 58⟩France. The Sarazens came upon Italy like a flood, not leaving Rome it self untouched; many of them perished in the waters as they returned into Africa