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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. 1017. A Comet in form like a Beam, appeared in the sign of Leo, continuing for the space of four Months. fThis was attended with Wars between the Danes and the Swedes. Also the Pope set the Normans and the Greeks together by the ears. The Bishop of Utreck took up arms against the Earl of Holland. The Jews in Italy were exposed to great miseries, because (as Historians relate) they were seen Mocking, Scourging, and Crucifying our Lord Christ in effigy. In some parts of the World the Plague raged, This year also, the Duke of Austria died, and the Duke of Bulgaria was slain. In France it rained Blood.
A D. 1017. A Comet in form like a Beam, appeared in the sign of Leo, continuing for the space of four Moneths. fThis was attended with Wars between the Danes and the Swedes. Also the Pope set the Normans and the Greeks together by the ears. The Bishop of Vtreck took up arms against the Earl of Holland. The Jews in Italy were exposed to great miseries, because (as Historians relate) they were seen Mocking, Scourging, and Crucifying our Lord Christ in effigie. In some parts of the World the Plague raged, This year also, the Duke of Austria died, and the Duke of Bulgaria was slain. In France it rained Blood.
- fHerli•ius, Mizaldus & alii.
A.D. 1031. Another gComet appeared. France was embroiled in civil Wars. Great mutations followed in Burgundy, by reason of the death of their King, which put an end to that Kingdom after it had continued for the space of 144 Years. Odo (the King of Burgundy his Sisters Son) put in for the Crown, but Conrad (then Emperor) waged War upon the Burgundians, and deposed […] The Vanaals fell upon the Empire, ⟨p. 65⟩