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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. 1394. A blazing Star in form flike a spit (which Astronomers are wont to look upon a• most unhappily ominous) with the head downward, and the Coma or Blaze pointing upwards, was seen in the West▪ moving Northward. This year the Pope died, and the next year the Duke of Austria. The King of Aragon as he was ⟨p. 85⟩hunting, beheld a Wolf (or rather a Devil in the same likeness) of a prodigious magnitude, at the sight whereof he was frighted to death. About that time, all the Jews in Germany were either killed or banished. Wickliffs Doctrine began to enlighten Germany. Troubles arose between the Germans and the Italians. The gTurks being informed that the Christians were at great variance amongst themselves, came with an Army of two hundred thousand, under Bajazet, and obtained a fatal and remarkable Victory over the Europeans. About this time the Duke of Lancaster made such an interest in England, as to cause King Richard to be deposed from his Throne, and after he had resigned the Crown, to be privately murdered by bloody Villains.
A.D. 1394. A blazing Star in form flike a spit (which Astronom•rs are wont to look upon a• most unhappily ominous) with the head downward, and the Coma or Blaze pointing upwards, was seen in the West▪ moving Northward. This year the Pope died, and the next year the Duke of Austria. The King of Arragon as he was ⟨p. 85⟩hunting, beheld a VVolf (or rather a Devil in the same likeness) of a prodigious magnitude, at the sight whereof he was frighted to death. About that time, all the Jews in Germany were either killed or banished. Wickliffs Doctrine began to enlighten Germany. Troubles arose between the Germans and the Italians. The