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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.
CHAP. VIII. The History of Comets which have been Observed from the Year 1500▪ to 1600. with the Events.
A D 1500. In the Month of April, a Comet awas observed in the sign of Capricorn, of a fearful magnitude, appearing for above a quarter of a year▪ and was seen in the day time as well as in the night. And another bthe same year in January, seen also in the Day, for above a week together. Four years after, there happened a Conjunction of the Superior Planets, which was attended with a notable Blazing Star almost as light as the Moon, so that people could see to Travel by the light of it. The next year another Comet was seen in April continuing two days. And again in August, under Coma Berenices, and near Charles Wane. Remarkable Events attending these Comets were, the death of the Arch Duke of Austria, and of the King of Spain, and of the King of Bohemia, and of the Queen in England. Plague, Famine, and sore Drought lasting from January to November, in some Countries. Prodigious Tempests and Inundations in other places. The Tartars wasted ⟨p. 94⟩Poland, the Muscovites Lithuania. The Bavaric War also War between the Germans, the Venetians, and French. The Spaniards began their most bloody Butcheries amongst the Indians. The Islands of Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica were exceeding populous, but the cruel Spaniards made them desolate. A Writer of their own confesseth that in a few years time, they killed more then ten hundred thousand Natives, fourteen times told.
A D 1500. In the Moneth of April, a Comet awas observed in the sign of Capricorn, of a fearful magnitude, appearing for above a quarter of a year▪ and was seen in the day time as well as in the night. And another