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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. I.
That Comets are not in the Air, but in the Starry Heaven: their Origin, & true Matter enquired into.
THat Comets are not in the Air, but in the Starry Heaven: their Origin, & true Matter enquired into.
CHAP. II.
The several sorts of Comets considered. The natural Reason of the Blaze. The time of their Appearance cannot certainly be predicted. Notwithstanding their proceeding from natural causes they may be portentous signs of evil Events.
The several sorts of Comets considered. The natural Reason of the Blaze. The time of their Appearance cannot certainly be praedicted. Notwithstanding their proceeding from natural causes they may be portentous signs of evil Events.