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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. 1580. A wonderful Comet appeared this year. It was observed first October 2 having no Coma for several days, sc. not till October 9. When on a sudden it appeared with a formidable blaze. The reason of which Maestl•n judgeth to be this. The Sun and the Comet were in opposite signs in the Zodiac, so that at first the Coma ⟨p. 104⟩ascending directly upwards could not be perceived by men here below, but as the Star receded from the Suns Diameter, the rays issuing from thence were seen, which were adverse to the Sun, though not in exact […] opposition thereto. Its appearance continued above three Months. At first in the […] at 7 h. but November 14. it was seen […] •n the Morning and in the Evening, until December 6. when it appeared in the Morning only. It was bigger then a Star of the first magnitude, only of a darker colour, and not moving as the fixed Stars but as the Planets do. At first retrograde and slow in […] progress, afterwards swiftly passing through Aries, Pisces, Capricorn, Sagittarius, but towards the end of its appearance, the motion was more remiss, until it became almost stationary, it was as high as the Planet Mercury, or Venus, viz▪ 157. S.T. There followed an epidemi••• Disease, which strangely run through all Europe. Also great Wars between the Emperor of Muscovia, and the Suevians and Polanders. The States of Poland united in renouncing obedience and subjection to the King of Spain, and from thence they bear the name of the United Provinces. The Christians in Cyprus this year rebelling against the Turks, were miserably destroyed: tSo that ⟨p. 105⟩of fourteen thousand Villages of Christians which then were in that populous Island, there now remain but seven hundred.
A. D. 1580. A wonderful Comet appeared this year. It was observed first October 2 having no Coma for several dayes, sc. not till October 9. VVhen on a sudden it appeared with a formidable blaze. The reason of which Maestl•n judgeth to be this. The Sun and the Comet were in opposite signs in the Zodiack, so that at first the Coma