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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. 1432. A total mSolar Eclipse was attended with a small Comet. The next year another great Comet of a red and fiery aspect, was was seen. nIt continued blazing all night long; ⟨p. 87⟩nor was it extinct for a quarter of a year together. Remarkable Events, were, a Dearth of six years continuance. oAn inundation throughout all Germany, in Thuringia 40 Villages perished in that Flood, also several Towns in Bohemia. In the Spring time there was a great Snow continuing for 40 days together, so that Beasts & Birds perished in great multitudes. Hunger brought the wild Beasts upon the Towns, either to kill or to be killed. A flame of War was kindled between the Duke of Saxony and the Prince of Brandenburg. France was sorely distressed. The King of Portugal and the King of Poland died. The Duke of Venice, was beheaded. The Pope had like to have been stoned to death, being forced to disguise himself, and so to flee out of Rome.
A.D. 1432. A total mSolar Eclipse was attended with a small Comet. The next year another great Comet of a red and fiery aspect, was was seen. nIt continued blazing all night long; ⟨p. 87⟩nor was it extinct for a quarter of a year together. Remarkable Events, were, a Dearth of six years continuance. oAn inundation throughout all Germany, in Thuringia 40 Villages perished in that Flood, also several Towns in Bohemia. In the Spring time there was a great Snow continuing for 40 dayes together, so that Beasts & Birds perished in great multitudes. Hunger brought the wild Beasts upon the Towns, either to kill or to be killed. A flame of War was kindled between the Duke of Saxony and the Prince of Brandenburg. France was sorely distressed. The King of Portugal and the King of Poland died. The Duke of Venice, was beheaded. The Pope had like to have been stoned to death, being forced to disguise himself, and so to flee out of Rome.