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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. 1038, A Comet was seen. kThis year Conrad the Emperor being in Parma, The People proved tumultuous & seditious, the event of which was, many of the Citizens were destroyed, and the City was burnt. A great Battle was Fought between the Emperor of the East, and the Saracens, who having civil discords among themselves were overcome, The King of Castle subdued the Mores, whose King was killed. The King of Hungaria died this year. Pandulph was by the Emperor ejected out of his Principality, lThessalonica and other places were grievously afflicted with a Famine. The next Year several Princes expired; and the Emperor died suddenly.
A.D. 1038, A Comet was seen. kThis year Conrad the Emperour being in Parma, The People proved tumultuous & seditious, the event of which was, many of the Citizens were destroyed, and the City was burnt. A great Battle was Fought between the Emperour of the East, and the Sarazens, who having civil discords among themselves were overcome, The King of Cast•ll subdued the Mores, whose King was killed. The King of Hungaria died this year. Pandulph was by the Emperour ejected out of his Principality, lThessalonica and other places were grievously afflicted with a Famine. The next Year several Princes expired; and the Emperour died suddenly.
- kCalvisius.
- lBerosus.
A.D. 1042. A Comet was seen the sixth of October, continuing all that Month with long flaming Locks, having its Progress from the East towards the West.