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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. 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 ⟨p. 96⟩Charles V. The Duke of Saxony died. In England, after a great Rain, there followed such an extreme •rost, as that many lost their nails, and some died with cold.
A D. 1523. And in the next year also, a Comet appeared. eA fearful Inundation followed, & Earth-quakes. The Sedition of the Rusticks in Germany, in which sixty thousand lives were lost. The King of France was taken Prisoner by ⟨p. 96⟩Charles V. The Duke of Saxony died. In England, after a great Rain, there followed such an extream •rost, as that many lost their nails, and some died with cold.
- ePraetorius, Rockenbachius, Junctinus, Eckstormius.
A.D. 1527. On the eleventh day of August, a most terrifying fComet was seen, of an immense longitude, and bloody colour. The form of it, was like a mans arm holding an huge Sword in his hand with which he was ready to strike. Such terror and horror surprised the Spectators of this Prodigy, as that some died away with dread & amazement. gThe next year another Comet was seen in Pisces, Jan. 18. There followed a great Dearth in England by reason of extremity of Rain in Seed time; also a Famine in Venice, and in several other places, whereby many perished. And that woeful Disease known by the name of the English Sweat, infected all places of the Realm, whereby whole myriads were sent to the Grave. The Duke of Barbon took Rome, and sacked it. The Turks wasted Hungaria. In some places, Armies of Locusts devoured the fruits of the Earth.