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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. 1313, A great Northern pComet appeared fourteen days, having its motion towards the South. The next year a qComet was seen blazing in Virgo for six Months together. And in the ryear after that, another Blazing Star appeared in December. Thad. Hagecius swrites that the year 1315. was attended with two Comets, the one of which was in the Arctic Circle, the other near unto Mars, and in the same sphere with that Planet. Remarkable Events which attended these Blazing Stars, were, the Emperor being poisoned by a wicked Monk, a Civil War b•oke out in Germany about a successor to the Crown, which continued for eight ⟨p. 80⟩years together, to the unspeakable misery of the Countries subject to the Emperor. It rained all the Summer tlong, a terrible Famine and Plague followed, so that a third part of all creatures living perished. In Portugal and the Countries thereabouts, the Famine lasted for three years. In some places men were killed that others might eat them. In the City of Erfurt eight thousand persons died with hunger. The Scots went with a Fleet into Ireland, wasting the Country with fire and sword. A dismal blow was given to England; For King Edward IId. raised an Army consisting of an hundred thousand to fight the Scots, who not having half that number in their Army, by a Stratagem routed the English Army, killing an Earl▪ several Lords▪ seven hundred Knights and Esquires, and about fifty thousand common Soldiers.
A.D. 1313, A great Northern pComet appeared fourteen dayes, having its motion towards the South. The next year a