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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. 1337. Two Comets were seen this year at the same time uone of which appeared in the sign Taurus, for the space of four Months, and before that was gone, another was seen, which continued blazing with the former, for three Months. wIt was not a Crinite but a Barbaete Star. It was first seen in the feet of Pegasus, the Coma (or Beard) extending it self very broad ⟨p. 81⟩and pointing towards the East. Observable consequents whereof▪ were, the death of the King of Sicily. In the East there were great stirs about a Successor to the Imperial Crown. Wars between the Turks and Thracians, who were miserably slain, and thirty thousand carried into captivity at once. In some places a prodigious cold Winter, so as that the Cross bearing Army had their Noses and Fingers frozen. A formidable Army of Locusts devoured Bohemia, Austria, and other Countries: The breadth of which Army was twenty eight miles, the length of it could not be found: when they flew they darkened the Air, as if the Heavens had been covered with a cloud.
A.D. 1337. Two Comets were seen this year at the same time uone of which appeared in the sign Taurus, for the space of four Moneths, and before that was gone, another was seen, which continued blazing with the former, for three Moneths. wIt was not a Crinite but a Barbaete Star. It was first seen in the feet of Pegasus, the Coma (or Beard) extending it self very broad ⟨p. 81⟩and pointing towards the East. Observable consequents whereof▪ were, the death of the King of Sicily. In the East there were great stirs about a Successour to the Imperial Crown. Wars between the Turks and Thracians, who were miserably slain, and thirty thousand carried into captivity at once. In some places a prodigious cold Winter, so as that the Cross bearing Army had their Noses and Fingers frozen. A formidable Army of Locusts devoured Bohemia, Austria, and other Countries: The breadth of which Army was twenty eight miles, the length of it could not be found: when they flew they darkened the Air, as if the Heavens had been covered with a cloud.