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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. 1460. A notable Comet was seen. tThe King of France, and the King of Scotland died. Cracovia was laid waste w•th Fire and Sword. In England the Duke of York aspiring to the Throne, headed an Army, designing to depose the King, but was himself slain. His Son the Earl of March, put in for the Crown, between whom and King Henry VI. there was this year the bloodiest Battle fought that ever was known in England. No less then thirty seven thousand English-men were slain in one day. The Earl gets the Crown, and the King was kept Prisoner in the Tower. A Civil War began in France.
A D. 1460. A notable Comet was seen. tThe King of France, and the King of Scotland died. Cracovia was laid waste w•th Fire and Sword. In England the Duke of York aspiring to the Throne, headed an Army, designing to depose the King, but was himself slain. His Son the Earl of March, put in for the Crown, between whom and King Henry VI. there was this year the bloodiest Battel fought that ever was known in England. No less then thirty seven thousand English-men were slain in one day. The Earl gets the Crown, and the King was kept Prisoner in the Tower. A Civil War began in France.
- tPraetorius, Rockenbachius, Funccius.
A. D, 1470. A marvel […] Comet appeared this year. That great Mathematician Reg•omontanus (whom uPeter Ramus calls the glory of Germany) was accurate in observing that Prodigy▪ in all its motions, from whom Mizaldus hath given an exact description of it. The body of the Star, did at first seem small, but on a sudden it grew to a wondrous magnitude, and then again decreased. Sometimes of a white, otherwhile of a flame like aspect. The Blaze