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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 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.
A D 874. A Blazing Star with long and fiery Beams appeared in the beginning of April, continuing for a Moneth, 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 Moneth 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 Emperour Lewis the second died this year. The Germans invade France with an Army. Italy was again sorely afflicted with the Sarazens.
- sHector Boethius L. 10. Fol. 208. Alstedius, Rockenbachius & alii habent Annum 876.
A D. 882. A Comet with a long tail was seen in the Month of January