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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. 868. A Comet appeared rwhich was attended w•th a great Earth-quake. The next year the Emperor Lotharius died. The Danes cruelly wasted England, so did the Slavi do in Batavia at the same time. Michael the Emperor of the East, was deprived of the use of his reason, one of the meanest of his Servants killed him, and became an Emperor, between whom and the Saracens there were great conflicts. The Greek and Latin Churches were at variance, and the Patriarch of Constantinople was deposed.
A▪D. 868. A Comet appeared rwhich was attended w•th a great Earth-quake. The next year the Emperour Lotharius died. The Danes cruelly wasted England, so did the Slavi do in Batavia at the same time. Michae• the Emperour of the East, was deprived of the use of his reason, one of the meanest of his Servants killed him, and became an Emperour, between whom and the Sarazens there were great conflicts. The Greek and Latine Churches were at variance, and the Patriarch of Constantinople was deposed.
- rLavater. Alsted & alii.
A D 874. A Blazing Star with long and fiery Beams appeared in the beginning of April, continuing for a Month, being seen in the day as well as in the night sThe next year a Comet whose ⟨p. 59⟩colour was more red then useth to be, the tail very long▪ was seen in the Month of June. The Plague and Famine followed. The cruel Danes made more fearful slaughters in England, until they got the Land into their possession Ethus the King of Scotland, and the Emperor Lewis the second died this year. The Germans invade France with an Army. Italy was again sorely afflicted with the Saracens.