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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. 1558. A Comet was seen in the Evening under Coma Berenices, of a pale colour, continuing about 30 days. oAlso in May the next year, and in December the year after that. These three years did not pass without such things as were very observable. In England there was such a prodigious Tempest as the like (in respect of circumstances) is seldom mentioned in any History. That year also Queen Mary died, and famous Queen Elizabeth seconded, whereby affairs both in Church and State were strangely altered. The Emperor Charles V. said that Comet was sent to give him notice of his approaching Death. And at the sight of it, made this Pentameter, His ergò judiciis me mea fata vocant. So it happened, for he died that year, pThe next year the Pope died, and no less then fifteen Cardinals, also the King of France, the King of Portugal, the King of Denmark, and many other Princes.
A.D. 1558. A Comet was seen in the Evening under Coma Berenices, of a pale colour, continuing about 30 dayes. oAlso in May the next year, and in December the year after that. These three years did not pass without such things as were very observable. In England there was such a prodigious Tempest as the like (in respect of circumstances) is seldome mentioned in any History. That year also Queen Mary died, and famous Queen Elizabeth seconded, whereby affairs both in Church and State were strangely altered. The Emperour Charles V. said that Comet was sent to give him notice of his approaching Death. And at the sight of it, made this Pentameter, His ergò judiciis me mea fata vocant. So it hapned, for he died that year, pThe next year the Pope died, and no less then fifteen Cardinals, also the King of France, the King of Portugal, the King of Denmark, and many other Princes.
- oThuanus, Lib. 21. Page 577. Tycho Epist. P. 144.
- pRicciolus.