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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.
As for Events; many places were this year sorely afflicted with Earth quakes. In Asia, there was an horrendous Earth-quake which continued for 80 days together. The Cities of ⟨p. 120⟩Begbara, Angora, and several other Towns suffered much thereby. The City of Tocall was wholly levelled to the ground. Polio (a considerable City) was destroyed, a thousand and eight hundred persons being killed by their Houses falling upon them. Torqueto (another considerable City) was overthrown in a moment, and above six thousand persons lost their lives, being buried in the ruins, of the City. Also several places in Europe were affrighted with Earth-quakes this year: particularly Constantinople, and Adrianople, but especially Raguse which was in a great part destroyed. Also the Plague broke out, in the chief City of the European Tartary; and in great Poland, and in Paccardy, it raged in Donay, Ghent and other places. A fire in Moscow destroyed thirty thousand Houses, and five hundred Churches and Chapels; a great part of the Cities of Gottenbourg, and Stetin, were this year also consumed by fire. In the Country about Cadiz there was a great Drought, so as that the Death of many of their Cattle was occasioned thereby. The Turks made very furious Assaults upon Candia, which was the next year surrendered to them. The King of Poland resigned his Crown into the hands of the States, by which means that Kingdom was involved in troubles and confusions. A prodigious Tempest happened there, Hail-stones of an incredible bigness fell upon the Trees▪ breaking them so as was strange to behold. The people ⟨p. 121⟩there concluded that this Hail-storm was a presage of their future sufferings. Don Juan caused great Troubles and Commotions in the Kingdom of Spain. There happened a Popular Tumult in Sardinia wherein the multitude enraged at the Taxes imposed on them killed the Vice-Roy. In Africa Taffiletto made great stirs subduing the Kingdoms of Fez and Morocco to his obedience▪ so that by his Conquests, he at last styled himself not only the King but the Emperor of Barbary.
As for Events; many places were this year sorely afflicted with Earth quakes. In Asia, there was an horrendous Earth-quake which continued for 80 dayes together. The Cities of ⟨p. 120⟩