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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.
CHAP. VII. A further Account of Comets, appearing from the Year of our Lord 1200. unto the Year 1500. with the most observable Events attending them.
CHAP. VII. A further Acccunt of Comets, appearing from the Year of our Lord 1200. unto the Year 1500. with the most observable Events attending them.
A D. 1200. A Comet appeared in 15 of Scorpio. Its motion was contrary to the order of the signs in the Zodiac. cIt was of a rotund figure, and in magnitude three times bigger then the morning Star, giving as much light as a fourth part of the Moon useth to do. This year was attended with Commotions in Alsatia, and almost all the upper Germany. There were also great mutations amongst the Vascons, whose Kingdom was swallowed up and divided by the Kings of Castle and Aragon. Philip the ⟨p. 72⟩King of France was excommunicated by the Pope. He at first made light of the Popes Bull, ejected the Bishops who adhered to the Popes in […]. But the next year, being afraid le•t the Pope should cause tumults and miseries in his Kingdom, he complied with him. The Bohemians and Thuringians had bloody Contests the next Year.
A D. 1200. A Comet appeared in 15 of Scorpio. Its motion was contrary to the order of the signs in the Zodiack. cIt was of a rotund figure, and in magnitude three times bigger then the morning Star, giving as much light as a fourth part of the Moon useth to do. This year was attended with Commotions in Alsatia, and almost all the upper Germany. There were also great mutations amongst the Vascons, whose Kingdome was swallowed up and div•ded by the Kings of Castell and Arragon. Philip the ⟨p. 72⟩