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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. 1264. A mighty Comet was seen this year, in the sign of Taurus, continuing for three Months, viz. from July to October 7. Its motion was retrograde. For at first it appeared before the Morning Star, but at last after it. lThe stream was long and broad, appearing before the body of the Star was seen. When that came above the Horizon, it extended it self Westward over the one half of the Heavens. It was observed by the Writers living in that age, that that Blazing Star disappeared the very night in which the Pope died. Other Remarkables attending this Comet were these; The Earl of Angers did at the Popes instigation remove out of France, and fell upon Sicily, causing the King there to be treacherously killed. Armenia was all in a flame▪ by means of Banducar (the King of Babylon) his coming upon them. Hetruria was in an uproar. Spain was set upon by the Saracens, who slew and were slain in great multitudes. England blazed with Civil Wars. It would make this Discourse too voluminous, if we should expatiate particularly upon the strange and amazing revolutions which happened there, as well as in other parts of the World about this time.
A.D. 1264. A mighty Comet was seen this year, in the sign of Taurus, continuing for three Moneths, viz. from July to October 7. Its motion was retrograde. For at first it appeared before the Morning Star, but at last after it. lThe stream was long and broad, appearing before the body of the Star was seen. When that came above the Horizon, it extended it self Westward over the one half of the Heavens. It was observed by the Writers living in that age, that that Blazing Star disappeared the very night in which the Pope died. Other Remarkables attending this Comet were these; The Earl of Angiers did at the Popes instigation remove out of France, and fell upon Sicily, causing the King there to be treacherously killed. Armenia was all in a flame▪ by means of Banducar (the King of Babylon) his coming upon them. Hetruria was in an uproar. Spain was set upon by the Sarazens, who slew and were slain in great multitudes. England blazed with Civil Wars. It would make this Discourse too voluminous, if we should expatiate particularly upon the strange and amazing revolutions which hapned there, as well as in other parts of the World about this time.