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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. 1375. A Comet appeared cSoon after which the Emperor Charles the IV. died▪ Great tumults in Cracovia; a War in Thuringia lasting two years. Wickliffs Doctrine was condemned ⟨p. 84⟩in England. Seventeen To•ns in Flanders were crowned. The French •ook the •sle of Wight, burn Hasting, &c. Prince Edward died.
A.D. 1375. A Comet appeared cSoon after which the Emperour Charles the IV. died▪ Great tumults in Cracovia; a VVar in Thuringia lasting two years. Wickliffs Doctrine was condemned ⟨p. 84⟩in England. Seventeen To•ns in Flanders were crowned. The French •ook the •sle of Wight, burn Hasting, &c. Prince E•ward died.
- cLycosthenes, Rockenbachius.
A. D. 1380. (which year was famous for the first invention of Gu•s) A Comet dappeared in Aquarius, continuing three Months▪ And