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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. 1538. A Comet appeared in January, kcontinuing three weeks. It was seen in the evening (in the sign Pisces) the Blaze 30 degrees in Longitude. The lnext year a great Comet appeared in Leo, from May 6, to 17. Many things worthy of Remark happened in this year. Amongst the Napolitans, the Sea was dried up eight miles; and out of that place there was a most horrendous irruption of fiery flames, and ashes, which falling upon the People living thereabouts, they were miserably destroyed. A terrible Conflagration happened in Constantinople continuing ⟨p. 99⟩several days. A fiery Summer and a scorching Drought in many places. The King of France came with an Army into Italy. The King of Spain's Navy was overcome by Barbarossa. The Duke of Saxony died with grief, and his death occasioned great mutations and miseries in that part of Germany. The Antinomians headed by an obscure and illiterate person (one John Isl•b) did now first begin to Blaze in Germany. A principal City in the Country of Mexico was almost overwhelmed by a Deluge of boiling water which descended from a Vulcano near unto it.
A.D. 1538. A Comet appeared in January, kcontinuing three weeks. It was seen in the evening (in the sign Pisces) the Blaze 30 degrees in Longitude. The lnext year a great Comet appeared in Leo, from May 6, to 17. Many things worthy of Remark hapned in this year. Amongst the Napolitans, the Sea was dried up eight miles; and out of that place there was a most horrendous irruption of fiery flames, and ashes, which falling upon the People living thereabouts, they were miserably destroyed. A terrible Conflagration hapned in Constantinople continuing ⟨p. 99⟩several dayes. A fiery Summer and a scorching Drought in many places. The King of France came with an Army into Italy. The King of Spains Navy was overcome by Barbarossa. The Duke of Saxony died with grief, and his death occasioned great mutations and miseries in that part of Germany. The Antinomians headed by an obscure and illiterate person (one John Islb) did now first begin to Blaze in Germany. A principal City in the Countrey of Mexico was almost overwhelmed by a Deluge of boyling water which descended from a Vulcano near unto it.