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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. 1058. A Comet was seen. pThe King of Poland died. A Famine in that Country followed. Isaacius qthe Emperor as he was going by water to Constantinople, was smitten with • flash of Lightning, which did so astonish him, as ⟨p. 67⟩that he laid down his Robes, and resigning his Crown unto one that was no way related to him, betook himself to a religious House, where of an Emperor he became a Porter.
A.D. 1058. A Comet was seen. pThe King of Poland died. A Famine in that Countrey followed. Isaacius qthe Emperour as he was going by water to Constantinople, was smitten with • flash of Lightning, which did so astonish him, as ⟨p. 67⟩that he laid down his Robes, and resigning his Crown unto one that was no way related to him, betook himself to a religious House, where of an Emperour he became a Porter.
- pFunccius, Alsted.
- qCalvisius.
A.D. 1066. An amazing Comet was seen by the whole World. rIt appeared first in the beginning of May, and continued for the space of forty days. The body of it was as big as the Moon when at the full, but as it began to have a stream; that increasing, the body of the Star decreased. Authors moreover affirm, that another Blazing Star (or the same again) did appear in the two following years.