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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. 1340. A Comet in form like a Sword, appeared in the Month of March, near unto Spica Virginis, xmoving forward every day one Degree, until it came to the sign Le•, and there it vanished. This year Andronicus the Emperor died. A terrible Plague raged in Italy; War between England and France, wherein the French were egregiously worsted, their Navy burnt and broken by the English. The next year the Turks caused Poland, Moravia, Hungaria, to become miserable stages of Rapine, Blood, and Fire. An Earth-quake in Burgundy, removed two Mountains which fell upon the People thereabout. A ⟨p. 82⟩prodigious Tempest and destructive Flood happened in other parts.
A.D. 1340. A Comet in form like a Sword, appeared in the Moneth of March, near unto Spica Virginis, xmoving forward every day one Degree, until it came to the sign Le•, and there it vanished. This year Andronicus the Emperour died. A terrible Plague raged in Italy; War between England and France, wherein the French were egregiously worsted, their Navy burnt and broken by the English. The next year the Turks caused Poland, Moravia, Hungaria, to become miserable stages of Rapine, Blood, and Fire. An Earth-quake in Burgundy, removed two Mountains which fell upon the People thereabout. A ⟨p. 82⟩prodigious Tempest and destructive Flood hapned in other parts.
- xLavater, Palmerius, Praetorius, Eckstormius.
A.D. 1347. In the Month of August, a Comet appeared in Taurus, continuing sixty days.