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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. 1456. A Comet appeared in Cancer, and another in Leo, extending it self over two of the sCelestial Signs (h. e. 60 degrees.) This Blazing Star was attended with a direful Earth-quake in Italy, by means whereof thirty thousand persons lost their lives, also a great Plague. Bloody Wars between the Turks and the Hungarians. That brave Prince of Transylvania, Hunniades, after he had destroyed two hundred of the Turks ships, and in one Battle slain forty thousand of them, died. The young King of Hungaria, on the day appointed for his Marriage▪ di•d suddenly. One of Hunniades his Sons being then a Prisoner, and expecting Sentence of death, was ⟨p. 90⟩2set at liberty, and chosen King, so that there was a sudden and stupendous alteration of affairs. Scanderbegs Wars and the great Commotions caused thereby, were about this time.
A D. 1456. A Comet appeared in Cancer, and another in Leo, extending it self over two of the sCoelestial Signs (h. e. 60 degrees.) This Blazing Star was attended with a dir•ful Earth-quake in Italy, by means whereof thirty thousand persons lost their lives, also a great Plague. Bloody VVars between the Turks and the Hungarians. That brave Prince of Transilvania, Hunniades, after he had destroyed two hundred of the Turks ships, and in one Battle slain forty thousand of them, died. The young King of Hungaria, on the day appointed for his Marriage▪ di•d suddenly. One of Hunniades his Sons being then a Prisoner, and expecting Sentence of death, was ⟨p. 90⟩2set at liberty, and chosen King, so that there was a sudden and stupendous alteration of affairs. Scanderbegs Wars and the great Commotions caused thereby, were about this time.