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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. 1585. A strange Star appeared qfrom the 8th of October, to the 5th of November, in the Sign of Pisces, having its motion direct through Aries, Taurus, &c. The magnitude equal to Jupiter but affording an obscure cloudy kind of light without any Coma. It was observed to be as high as Saturn.
- qTyco Braheus, Christoph Rothmannus.
The next year rthe Plague raged in the lesser Asia, Austria and Hungaria. Italy and the low Countries were afflicted with a Famine. In the Country near Constantinople, Armies of Locusts devoured the fruits of the Earth. The Queen of Scotland being in England was tried for her life, condemned and beheaded.
The next year rthe Plague raged in the lesser Asia, Austria and Hungaria. Italy and the low Countries were afflicted with a Famine. In the Countrey near Constantinople, Armies of Locusts devoured the fruits of the Earth. The Queen of Scotland being in England was tried for her life, condemned and beheaded.
- rRicciolus.
A.D. 1590, A Comet appeared from February 23. to March 6. near. Pisces Borealis. The blaze very thin and small, and about ten degrees in length. It was by Tycko observed to be as high as the Sun.