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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. 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⟩laying wast above an hundred Villages, and carrying away many thousands of Captives. The Saracens burnt down many Towns and Cities in Syria. Also, with no less then a thousand Galleys they fell upon the maritime Islands. hIt is moreover observable, that a Flood, and Plague, and Famine did attend this Blazing Star.
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 Kingdome 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 Emperour) waged War upon the Burgundians, and deposed 〈…〉 The Vanaals fell upon the Empire, ⟨p. 65⟩laying wast above an hundred Villages, and carrying away many thousands of Captives. The Sarazens burnt down many Towns and Cities in Syria. Also, with no less then a thousand Gallies they fell upon the maritime Islands. hIt is moreover observable, that a Flood, and Plague, and Famine did attend this Blazing Star.
- gGlaber, Calvisius.
- hAlstedius.