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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. 1667. Feb. 15. A Comet was seen only the Coma and not the Star could be by us discerned by reason of its being in the sign Pisces, where the Sun then was. Its Longitude above thirty Degrees. †March 1. Its extreme point reached to that Star in Eridanus which is called the fourteenth by Bayerus. March 2. it passed through the 15 Star in Eridanus, and left to the Southward the 14th. tending to the Southern Star which precedes the Ear of Lepus, so that it was more Northerly, and more Easterly then at first. Both in Italy and in Portugal it was observed at the same time, as with us in New-England. Also at Lions and several other places in France; and yet (which is very strange) it was not observed at Paris, nor at London or in any part of England. The London Gazette saith, that March 17. at Venice they observed a Comet to the North-East, the tail of it much longer then that which appeared three years since, but of less brightness, and that it was seen late in the night.
A.D. 1667. Feb. 15. A Comet was seen only the Coma and not the Star could be by us discerned by reason of its being in the sign Pisces, where the Sun then was. Its Longitude above thirty Degrees. †March 1. Its extream point reached to that Star in Eridanus which is called the fourteenth by Bayerus. March 2. it passed through the 15 Star in Eridanus, and left to the Southward the 14th. tending to the Southern Star which precedes the Ear of Lepus, so that it was more Northerly, and more Easterly then at first. Both in Italy and in Portugal it was observed at the same time, as with us in New-England. Also at Lions and several other places in France; and yet (which is very strange) it was not observed at Paris, nor at London or in any part of England. The London Gazette saith, that March 17. at Venice they observed a Comet to the North-East, the tail of it much longer then that which appeared three years since, but of less brightness, and that it was seen late in the night.
- †See the Philosophical Transactions for An. 1668. Vol. 3. P. 683, 684.