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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. 1211. A Comet was seen in the Month of May, near to the Arctic Pole, continuing for the space of 47 days, in the evening the tail pointed eastward, and in the morning westward. dSoon after which the Tartars (who were before an unknown Nation) made a doleful irruption upon Poland. The Russians coming in to their succour, were cut off by a lamentable slaughter. There were Wars between the Turks and the Moors. The Saracens betaking themselves to their ships were vast multitudes of them drowned. Two hundred thousand of them were slain. The Popes Thunderbolt set the Empire on fire, and so it did England, where also there was great trouble by reason of a Welsh rebellion. Moreover, about this time the Albigenses were again cruelly persecuted an• slaughtered by the bloody Papists.
A.D. 1211. A Comet was seen in the Moneth of May, near to the Arctick Pole, continuing for the space of 47 dayes, in the evening the tail pointed eastward, and in the morning westward. dSoon after which the Tartars (who were before an unknown Nation) made a doleful irruption upon Poland. The Russians coming in to their succour, were cut off by a lamentable slaughter. There were Wars between the Turks and the Moors. The Sarazens betaking themselves to their ships were vast multitudes of them drowned. Two hundred thousand of them were slain. The Popes Thunderbolt set the Empire on fire, and so it did England, where also there was great trouble by reason of a Welch rebellion. Moreover, about this time the Albigen•es were again cruelly persecuted an• slaughtered by the bloody Papists.
- dMichov. Hist. Polon▪ Funccius.