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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. 1419. pA Comet appeared. This year Albert the Emperor died. Great commotions were in the Empire by reason of the Turks; And Wars between the English and the French. The Marshal of France was burnt for Sorcery. The King of Bohemia died. A bloody Rebellion broke forth in Spain. The Council at Basil deposed the Pope▪ and chose a new one, which caused a notable Schism amongst the worshippers of the Beast, some adhering to the old Pope, and others to the new one. The next year was famous ⟨p. 88⟩for the first Invention of the Art of PRINTING, by John Guttenberg a Goldsmith in Strasburg.
A.D. 1419. pA Comet appeared. This year Albert the Emperour died. Great commotions were in the Empire by reason of the Turks; And Wars between the English and the French. The Marshal of France was burnt for Sorcery. The King of Bohemia died. A bloody Rebellion broke forth in Spain. The Council at Basil deposed the Pope▪ and chose a new one, which caused a notable Schisme amongst the worshippers of the Beast, some adhering to the old Pope, and others to the new one. The next year was famous ⟨p. 88⟩for the first Invention of the Art of PRINTING, by John Guttenberg a Goldsmith in Strasburg.
- pFunccius, Camerarius, &c.
A.D. 1444. About midsummer qa Blazing Star was seen in Leo. The King of Hungaria, with a great multitude of Christians was slain in Battle with the Turks. The King of France and the Helvetians fall out. Tumults happened in England. Amurathes the Turkish Emperor being distressed by the King of Hungaria, (who had at the persuasion of the Cardinal Julianus, violated his Covenant with Amurathas) prayed to God for help, vowing that if God would give him the victory, he would betake himself to a Monastery; Which after the Victory he accordingly performed, and resigned his Crown to another, whereby great commotions in the Turkish Empire, and the burning of Adrionople was occasioned. The next year, a terrible inundation of waters happened in the Netherlands, so as that above an hundred thousand persons lost their lives in that flood, besides an infinite multitude of Cattle.