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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.
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.
As for Events, the Pope Sixtus V. died, and his Successor Urbanus VII. lived but ten days after he came to the Popedom, Gregory XIV. succeeded him, but lived not a whole year, the next Pope, viz. Innocentius IX. lived but two Months; so that four Popes successively died in little more ⟨p. 106⟩then a years time. There was a terrible Earth-quake this year in Moravia and Austria, whereby many Houses (especially in Vienna) were destroyed. The […] Summer there was a sore Drought. A Shepherd in a place in Holland carelessly throwing some fire upon the ground, by reason of the dry season, the ground took fire, and burnt so that the Heavens seemed to flame nor could the fire e extinguished, until the Sea water was let in upon it. In Paris thirteen thousand Persons were famished to death this year.