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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. 1516. A Comet dof a Lunar nature, was seen for some days. The King of Spain died. The next year Luther began to declare against indulgences. Soon after which great Commotions and mutations followed throughout all Antichristendome. †Now did the merciless Spaniards fall upon the Indians inhabiting the Terrae firma, where they murdered above four Millions of Souls. The Sulden of Egypt was miserably Murdered, and the Mamalucks power (that had kept Egypt under three hundred years) swallowed up by the Turks.
A D. 1516. A Comet dof a Lunar nature, was seen for some dayes. The King of Spain died. The next year Luther began to declare against indulgences. Soon after which great Commotions and mutations followed throughout all Antichristendome. †Now did the merciless Spaniards fall upon the Indians inhabiting the Terrae firma, where they murdered above four Millions of Souls. The Sulden of Aegypt was miserably Murdered, and the Mamalucks power (that had kept Aegypt under three hundred years) swallowed up by the Turks.
- dMizaldus, P. Jovius.
- †v. Purchase Pilgrim, Part, 4. L •. P. 1577.
A D. 1523. And in the next year also, a Comet appeared. eA fearful Inundation followed, & Earth-quakes. The Sedition of the Rustics in Germany, in which sixty thousand lives were lost. The King of France was taken Prisoner by