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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.
4. We may argue from the magnitude of Comets, that they are as high as the starry Heaven. S•ellius eendeavours ⟨p. 6⟩by Mathematical demonstration to evince that if the whole airy Heaven should be contracted into one Globe it would not be so big as the head of that Comet, which appeared, A. D. 1577. how then is it possible for the air to contain so vast a body? Majus non potest con•ineri a minori. And Gotfridu• Wendelinus observed that the magnitude of the Comet which appeared A.D. 1652. did equal or exceed the Moon. And Hevelius fwriting of the same Comet, saith, that it was greater then the Moon, and that he was astonished, when with exact Mathematical Instruments he examined it; and though other Learned Men were with him at the same time, and helpful in his Observations, he professeth he could not have believed what they said, if his own eyes had not beheld it. Nay▪ he saith, that that Comet did almost equal the Sun a little before its disappearing, gyet the Sun is (according to his judgment) 3462 times as big as the Earth. Is it likely that a body of so stupendous a magnitude should be contained in this low & little Heaven, wherein Mortal Creatures have their Breath and Being?
4. We may argue from the magnitude of Comets, that they are as high as the starry Heaven. S•ellius eendeavours ⟨p. 6⟩by Mathematical demonstration to evince that if the whole airy Heaven should be contracted into one Globe it would not be so big as the head of that Comet, which appeared, A. D. 1577. how then is it possible for the air to contain so vast a body? Majus non potest conineri a minori. And Gotfridu Wendelinus observed that the magnitude of the Comet which appeared A.D. 1652. did equal or exceed the Moon. And Hevelius