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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. 1380. (which year was famous for the first invention of Gu•s) A Comet dappeared in Aquarius, continuing three Months▪ And eanother (or the same) appeared again within two years, Remarkable Events, were▪ a terrible Plague. The death of the King of France, and of the King of Hungaria. Locusts in Germany. A prodigious Rebellion happened in England. The Kings Collector behaving himself rudely, was knocked in head by one whom he had affronted and enraged, whereupon no less then an hundred thousand of the rabble rout gathered together, and seized upon the Tower of London, in which was the King and Queen, and caused the Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, Lord Chief Justice, and others to be barbarously slain.
A. D. 1380. (which year was famous for the first invention of Gu•s) A Comet dappeared in Aquarius, continuing three Mon••hs▪ And eanother (or the same) appeared again w•thin two years, Remarkable Events, were▪ a terrible Plague. The death of the King of France, and of the King of Hungaria. Locusts in Germany. A prodigious Rebellion hapned in England. The Kings Coll•ctor behaving himself rudely, was knocked in head by one whom he had affronted and inraged, whereupon no less then an hundred thousand of the rabble rout gathered together, and siezed upon the Tower of Londo•, in which was the King and Queen, and caused the Lord Chancellour, Lord Treasurer, Lord Chief Justice, and others to be barbarously slain.
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