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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.
CHAP. VI. A Continuance of the History of Comets, with the Events attending them unto the Year 1200.
A D. 1000. An horrendous Comet was seen appearing in the Month of December, about 9th P M▪ bThere followed a most terrible Earth quake. And great Wars between the Emperor of Constantinople and the Bulgarians. Otto the Emperor killed Crescentius who was then the principal man in civil power at Rome, whose Widow gave the Emperor a pair of Gloves infected with Poison, which proved his Death. Ekfard the Duke o• Saxony put in for the Imperial Crown, but he was resisted by the States of ⟨p. 62⟩the Empire, banished, and the next year killed▪ England was grievously infested by the cruel Danes. In Scotland the fish died in the waters, so as that they were in great multitudes cast upon the shore, putrefying and stinking, that the air was corrupted, and sickness followed. Also a grievous Famine attended this Comet, and a prodigious Drought, so as that both Men and Cattle died of thirst, most of the great Rivers in Europe might be waded over.
A D. 1000. An horrendous Comet was seen appearing in the Moneth of December, about 9th P M▪ b