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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. 1071. An Oriental Comet appeared in the Morning for twenty five days. tThe stream long and flaming. Great Seditions and Commotions in Holland followed. Spain flamed with War, the three Sons of Ferdinand striving for Dominion, until Sanctius overcame his two Brethren, but was himself the next year treacherously slain▪ and his Brother Alfonsus was brought out of a Monastery to wear a Crown. The Saxons rebelled. Great Contentions arose between the Emperor and the Pope, until at last the Pope caused the imperial Majesty to lie down under his feet. Diogenes (the Emperor of the East) had wars with the Turks. His Army was betrayed by his Son in Law Andronicus, so was he taken by the Turk•, who after they had treated him with great civility, gave him his liberty again, but Andronicus made a Prisoner of him, and caused his eyes to be put out, not using any Medicines for his healing, so that worms bred in his eye holes, whereby he died miserably.
A.D. 1071. An Oriental Comet appeared in the Morning for twenty five dayes. tThe stream long and flaming. Great Seditions and Commotions in Holland followed. Spain flamed with War, the three Sons of Ferdinand striving for Dominion, until Sanctius overcame his two Brethren, but was himself the next year treacherously slain▪ and his Brother Alfonsus was brought out of a Monastary to wear a Crown. The Saxons rebelled. Great Contentions arose between the Emperour and the Pope, until at last the Pope caused the imperial Majesty to ly down under his feet. Diogenes (the Emperour of the East) had wars with the Turks. His Army was betrayed by his Son in Law Andronicus, so was he taken by the Turk•, who after they had treated him with great civility, gave him his liberty again, but Andronicus made a Prisoner of him, and caused his eyes to be put out, not using any Medicines for his healing, so that worms bred in his eye holes, whereby he died miserably.
- tPraetorius, Alstedius.