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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. 1661. A Comet appeared in the morning from Febr. 3. to March 28. S.T. N. It was below the Dolphin, between the heads of Aquila and Equuleus in the 10. Grad. […] distance from the Earth was at first 2000, and at last 9000 S.T. so that it was higher then the Sun. Its motion direct from the East to the West. The Telescope discovered a Star to be in the body of the Comet, about which a more thin and dilute matter might be discerned. Feb. 5. that Star was divided into several parts. Febr. 6. it was dissipated into many little Stars, one of which was more dense and shining then the rest. The blaze was obscure and about seven degrees in Longitude, according ⟨p. 113⟩to Hevelius ybut Franciscus Milleit zwriteth that it was sometimes extended unto 20 Degrees in Longitude, of a conical form. As for Events, the Turks fell upon Germany (where especially this aComet was observed) making woeful havoc there. That black Bartholomews day, which the Nonconformists in England, so much complain of, happened but half a year after this Comet. The Fanatics say, that the like is not to be paralleled in any History, that five and twenty hundred▪ Ministers should be silenced in one day. It is also said, that these Stars which were thus cast down, were some of them of the first magnitude. And therefore a Comet might well precede an event so remarkable. But this must pass for a Fanatic notion, Not long after this Comet, the cruel Tartars made incursions into Hungaria, Moravia, Silesia sacking and burning many Towers, and making no less then an hundred and threescore thousand Souls Captives, awhom they sold to their barbarous Brethren the Turks.
A.D. 1661. A Comet appeared in the morning from Febr. 3. to March 28. S.T. N. It was below the Dolphin, between the heads of Aquil• and Equuleus in the 10. Grad. 〈…〉 distance from the Earth was at first 2000, and at last 9000 S.T. so that it was higher then the Sun. Its motion direct from the East to the West. The Telescope discovered a Star to be in the body of the Comet, about which a more thin and dilute matter might be discerned. Feb. 5. that Star was divided into several parts. Febr. 6. it was dissipated into many little Stars, one of which was more dense and shining then the rest. The blaze was obscure and about seven degrees in Longitude, according