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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. 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. nManiatas falling out with the Emperor, sought to get the Imperial ⟨p. 66⟩iCrown upon his own head, for which end he betook himself to the Bulgarians, and obtained a Victory over the Imperial Army. Nevertheless he was himself mortally wounded▪ and soon after died. Also, the Servians rebelled against the Eastern Emperor, who lost forty thousand of his Soldiers in endeavouring to subdue them. It was in this year, that Hardecanute, owho then Reigned in England, after he had barbarously caused his Brother Harold to be dug out of his Grave; as he was Feasting, died suddenly of an Apoplexy. Alfred succeeding in the Kingdom, died within a few Months. Michael the Emperor of the East, after he had Reigned four Months removed his Queen Zoes putting her into a Monastery, whereupon the multitude made a tumult, pursuing the Emperor with stones, forcing him to set the Queen at liberty, and then took him and put out his eyes▪ and sent him away into a Monastery, and another person married Zoes and became Emperor. *This year a Famine began, which lasted se••n years.
A.D. 1042. A Comet was seen the sixth of October, continuing all that Moneth with long flaming Locks, having its Progress from the East towards the West. nManiatas falling out with the Emperour, sought to get the Imperial ⟨p. 66⟩iCrown upon his own head, for which end he betook himself to the Bulgarians, and obtained a Victory over the Imperial Army. Nevertheless he was himself mortally wounded and soon after died. Also, the Servians rebelled against the Eastern Emperour, who lost forty thousand of his Souldiers in endeavouring to subdue them. It was in this year, that Hardecanute,