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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. 942: A Comet appeared in the Month of November continuing for about fourteen days. xThere followed Civil Wars in Italy. A great Sedition and Rebellion in France. The Turks invaded Turace. Constantine the King of Scotland betook himself to a Monastery. There was great Mortality of all sorts of living Creatures, and some parts of the World were afflicted with a sore Famine.
A.D. 942: A Comet appeared in the Moneth of November continuing for about fourteen dayes. xThere followed Civil Wars in Italy. A great Sedition and Rebellion in France. The Turks invaded Turace. Constantine the King of Scotland betook himself to a Monastary. There was great Mortality of all sorts of living Creatures, and some parts of the World were afflicted with a sore Famine.
- xEckstormius, Alstedius, Calvisius.
A.D. 944. A Comet appeared which was of marvellous magnitude near Cassiopaea, with fiery Beams issuing from it. yThe Plague, Floods, and Famine followed.
- yLycosthenes, Lavater, &c.
A.D. 975. A fiery Blazing Star was seen in the Month of August, continuing for eight ⟨p. 61⟩