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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. 1513. A Comet appeared in Cancer, ccontinuing from December to the latter end of January. The colour various, the stream long▪ see• all night. This year that great Blazing Star which had put the whole Christian World into a flame, died, viz. Pope Julius II. The King of Scotland with an Army of sixty thousand invaded England, but he was slain in battle, and (besides three Bishops, twelve Earls, seventeen Lords) many thousands with him. The King of Denmark died. Insurrections in many places in Germany followed. The next year the Popes Legate made a Proclamation in Hungaria, that whatsoever would go out against the Turks should have Indulgences granted them, whereupon a great rabble gathered together, but instead of warring against the Turks, they sell upon their own Countrymen, ⟨p. 95⟩•lew seventy thousand of them, amongst which were four hundred of the Nobles. The Turks and Christians had a bloody engagement; an hundred thousand of the Turks best Soldiers were cut off in one day. About this time Armenia was conquered by Selimus, and annexed to the Ottoman Dominions, v. Rica•t of the present state of the Armenian Church, P. 389.
A.D. 1513. A Comet appeared in Cancer, ccontinuing from December to the latter end of Ianuary. The colour various, the stream long▪ see• all night. This year that great Blazing Star which had put the whole Christian World into a flame, died, viz. Pope Iulius II. The King of Scotland with an Army of sixty thousand invaded England, but he was slain in battel, and (besides three Bishops, twelve Earls, seventeen Lords) many thousands with him. The King of Denmark died. Insurrections in many places in Germany followed. The next year the Popes Legate made a Proclamation in Hungaria, that whatsover would go out against the Turks should have Indulgences granted them, whereupon a great rabble gathered together, but instead of warring against the Turks, they sell upon their own Countreymen,