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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. 1450. A Comet was seen this Summer, appearing a little after Sun-set, in form like a Sword, moving from the West towards the East. rThe Moon being at the full, this Comet is reported to cause it to suffer an Eclipse, (I do not remember that I have read the like of any Comet) whence the Turks were not a little astonished▪ at ⟨p. 89⟩the beholding of it. Remarkable events, were The Turkish Emperor died. The Eastern parts flamed with War. Constantinople was taken by the Infidels. The Empire was embroiled with civil Discords. Also Jack Cade his mad Rebellion in England happened in this year, when divers Nobles of the Land were murdered. The French taking advantage from the troubles in England seize upon all the English Territories there, leaving nothing to the English but Calais. This year Naples was shaken with an Earth quake, and thirty thousand persons were destroyed by that Earth-quake, in places adjacent.
A D. 1450. A Comet was seen this Summer, appearing a little after Sun-set, in form like a Sword, moving from the West towards the East. rThe Moon being at the full, this Comet is reported to cause it to suffer an Eclipse, (I do not remember that I have read the like of any Comet) whence the Turks were not a little astonished▪ at ⟨p. 89⟩the beholding of it. Remarkable events, were The Turkish Emperour died. The Eastern parts flamed with VVar. Constantinople was taken by the Infi•els. The Empire was embroyled with civil Discords. Also Jack Cade his mad Rebellion in England hapned in this year, when divers Nobles of the Land were murthered. The French taking advantage from the troubles in England seize upon all the English Territories there, leaving nothing to the English but Calice. This year Naples was shaken with an Earth quake, and thirty thousand persons were destroyed by that Earth-quake, in places adjacent.
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