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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▪ 1556. A Comet in Libra was seen from the beginning of March to April 23. The Colour varied. mThe body of it shining like a• half Moon, the stream near its head more compact, but in the end more rare. Its motion from Virgo through Boots to the North Pole of the Ecliptic; from thence through Andromeda to Piscis sep•entrionalis, where it vanished. In the midst of its appearance the motion was most swift, for it dispatched 15 Degrees every day. At the first it was retrograde, but afterwards direct. In the space of four days it was removed about 70 Degrees Westward, and 30 Degrees Northward It moved towards the Planet Saturn, the nearer it came to him, the slower was its motion. nIts magnitude at its disappearing in a manner equal to what it was at first. This Comet was attended with the death of many Learned and Worthy Men; and with the fiery part of Queen Mary's Persecution. This year also, the Emperor Charles V. did to the amazement of the World, resign his Crown, and betook himself to a ⟨p. 101⟩Monastery. Such an Inundation happened at Rome […] River Tybers overflowing, as that a great part of the City was thereby destroyed.
A.D▪ 1556. A Comet in Libra was seen from the beginning of March to April 23. The Colour varied. mThe body of it shining like a• half Moon, the stream near its head more compact, but in the end more rare. Its motion from Virgo through Bootes to the North Pole of the Ecliptick; from thence through Andromeda to Piscis sep•entrionalis, where it vanished. In the midst of its appearance the motion was most swift, for it dispatched 15 Degrees every day. At the first it was retrograde, but afterwards direct. In the space of four dayes it was removed about 70 Degrees Westward, and 30 Degrees Northward It moved towards the Planet Saturn, the nearer it came to him, the slower was its motion.