N00277:137
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. 882. A Comet with a long tail was seen in the Month of January twithin a few days after which Lewis the King of Germany died, also the King of France died that year. The Normans fell upon Germany, and burned the famous City of Trevirs. There was this year an attempt to poison the Pope (John the 8th.) but the poison not being strong enough, one took an hammer and knocked out his brains.
A D. 882. A Comet with a long tail was seen in the Moneth of January twithin a few dayes after which Lewis the King of Germany died, also the King of France died that year. The Normans fell upon Germany, and burned the famous City of Trevirs. There was this year an attempt to poyson the Pope (John the 8th.) but the poyson not being strong enough, one took an hammer and knocked out his brains.
- tCalvisius, Lycosthenes, Alstedius.
A.D. 902, A Comet appeared in the month of May, for forty days. uThe Hungarians sell with a great Army upon Italy, destroying famous Cities. And in Lombardy they laid all waste before them. The Saracens spoiled Greece, and the Islands of the Mediterranean Sea. Lewis the King of the Longobards being taken Prisoner by Berengerius (the Popes Emperor) had his eyes put out. Soon after this Donaldus the King of Scotland died.
A.D. 902, A Comet appeared in the moneth of May, for forty dayes. uThe Hungarians sell with a great Army upon Italy, destroying famous Cities. And in Lombardy they laid all waste before them. The Sarazens spoiled Greece, and the Islands of the Mediterranean Sea. Lewis the King of the Longobards being taken Prisoner by Berengerius (the Popes Emperour) had his eyes put out. Soon after this Donaldus the King of Scotland died.