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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. 1618. This year is famous for Blazing Stars, inasmuch as therein no less then four Comets were observed. The first appeared from August 25. to September 25. about three hours after midnight, casting its blaze from the East towards the West. September 1. Kepler observed it to be a little below the left foot of Ursa major, and declining towards the head of Leo, its motion was retrograde. Sept. 6. with the naked eye no blaze could be perceived, but with the Telescope one might perceive it like a thin Cloud: Sept. 23. it was come to 29. of Cancer. Lat. Boreal. 23. about 10 days, deflecting from the Ecliptic Southward, almost 15. Degrees, having a retrograde motion. The Star was hardly perceivable in Europe by reason of its vicinity to the Sun, but in Persia, and in the East-Indies (though not in Europe) continuing from November 22▪ to December 13. The fourth and last Comet appearing this year, was that which all the Earth looked upon with astonishment. It was first taken notice of November 24. and continued to January 24. h.e. for the space of 60 days. There are some now living who remember this blazing Star. But I find a far other kind of Description given of it, in the Books of those learned Mathematicians, ⟨p. 109⟩who were accurate and diligent observers of this Prodigy, then that which is related by those still alive, that in their youth might see it. There had not the like Comet to this appeared for the space of 150 years.
A.D. 1618. This year is famous for Blazing Stars, inasmuch as therein no less then four Comets were observed. The first appeared from August 25. to September 25. about three hours after midnight, casting its blaze from the East towards the West. September 1. Kepler observed it to be a little below the left foot of Vrsa major, and declining towards the head of Leo, its motion was retrograde. Sept. 6. with the naked eye no blaze could be perceived, but with the Telescope one might perceive it like a thin Cloud: Sept. 23. it was come to 29. of Cancer. Lat. Boreal. 23. about 10 dayes, deflecting from the Ecliptick Southward, almost 15. Degrees, having a retrograde motion. The Star was hardly perceivable in Europe by reason of its vicinity to the Sun, but in Persia, and in the East-Indies (though not in Europe) continuing from November 22▪ to December 13. The fourth and last Comet appearing this year, was that which all the Earth looked upon with astonishment. It was first taken notice of November 24. and continued to January 24. h.e. for the space of 60 dayes. There are some now living who remember this blazing Star. But I find a far other kind of Description given of it, in the Books of those learned Mathematicians,