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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.
2. The truth of what we assert, is ⟨p. 3⟩manifest to those that understand any▪ thing in the Doctrine […]. It is an indubitable Maxim, that these i• the Parallax the remoter the Phenomenon. But Comets have a less Parallax than the Moon, which shows that they are Supra-Lunary Bodies, sometimes they admit of no sensible Parallax at all, as might by many instances be confirmed, Let us for Arguments sake, imagine the supreme Region of the Air to extend as far as 20 Semidiameters of the Earth, h. e. 17000 German Miles (which it is most certain it doth not, nor the half of one thousand, as anon will be made to appear) if the Comet bis no higher then that, there will be a considerable Parallax. Inasmuch then, as to many Comets there hath been no Parallax, that demonstrates their being elevated above 17000 Mill. Germ. and consequently as far as the Ethereal Heaven. Therefore,
2. The truth of what we assert, is ⟨p. 3⟩manifest to those that understand any▪ thing in the Doctrine 〈…〉. It is an indubitable Maxim, that these i• the Parallax the remoter the Phaenomenon. But Comets have a less Parallax than the Moon, which shews that they are Supra-Lunary Bodies, sometimes they admit of no sensible Parallax at all, as might by many instances be confirmed, Let us for Arguments sake, imagine the supream Region of the Air to extend as far as 20 Semidiameters of the Earth, h. e. 17000 German Miles (which it is most certain it doth not, nor the half of one thousand, as anon will be made to appear) if the Comet bis no higher then that, there will be a considerable Parallax. Inasmuch then, as to many Comets there hath been no Parallax, that demonstrates their being elevated above 17000 Mill. Germ. and consequently as far as the Aetherial Heaven. Therefore,