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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. 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. sAs for remarkable Events attending this Prodigy, they were such as these. Great Wars in many places of the World. e. g. In Asia, between the Christians and the Saracens. In Europe, between the Emperor and the Vandals. The King of Norway, with a thousand Ships invaded England; He cruelly wasted the Land; murdering above a thousand of the Clergy, but was in Battle overcome by the King of England, and slain. In the latter end of the year William the Duke of Normandy (commonly though improperly called the Conqueror) came into England, there was a bloody Battle fought between him & Harold, then King of England, wherein Harold was slain, after which the Land became Subject to the Normans. Also, a ⟨p. 68⟩great Drought, Plague, and Famine attended these Blazing Stars.
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 dayes. 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. sAs for remarkable Events attending this Prodigy, they were such as these. Great Wars in many places of the World. e. g. In Asia, between the Christians and the Sarazens. In Europe, between the Emperour and the Vandals. The King of Norway, with a thousand Ships invaded England; He cruelly wasted the Land; murdering above a thousand of the Clergy, but was in Battle overcome by the King of England, and slain. In the latter end of the year William the Duke of Normandy (commonly though improperly called the Conquerour) came into England, there was a bloody Battle fought between him & Harold, then King of England, wherein Harold was slain, after which the Land became Subject to the Normans. Also, a