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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.
5. Some Comets (as Galtruchius de ⟨p. 7⟩Sphaera Mundi, Cap. 6. P. 125. confesseth) have been absconded, by the interposition of a Planet between the Earth and them, which could not be if they did not move in an higher Sphere then the Planet whereby they were Eclipsed: But notwithstanding these Arguments are so convictive and demonstrative▪ its marvellous to see how some Popish Authors (Jesuits especially) strain their wits to defend their Pagan Master▪ Aristotle his Principles. Bullialdus speaks of a Florentine Physician, that all the Friends he had could never persuade him once to view the Heavens through a Telescope, and he gave that reason for his refusal, because he was afraid that then his Eyes would make him stagger concerning the truth of Aristotle's Principles, which he was resolved he would not call into question. It were well, if these Men had as great veneration for the Scripture as they have, for Aristotle's (if indeed they be his) absurd Books de coelo Sed de •is fatis.
5. Some Comets (as Galtruchius de ⟨p. 7⟩Sphaera Mundi, Cap. 6. P. 125. confesseth) have been absconded, by the interposition of a Planet between the Earth and them, which could not be if they did not move in an higher Sphere then the Planet whereby they were Eclipsed: But notwithstanding these Arguments are so convictive and demonstrative▪ its marvellous to see how some Popish Authors (Jesuites especially) strain their wits to defend their Pagan Master▪ Aristotle his Principles. Bullialdus speaks of a Florentine Physitian, that all the Friends he had could never perswade him once to view the Heavens through a Telescope, and he gave that reason for his refusal, because he was afraid that then his Eyes would make him stagger concerning the truth of Aristotles Principles, which he was resolved he would not call into question. It were well, if these Men had as great veneration for the Scripture as they have, for Aristotles (if indeed they be his) absurd Books de coelo Sed de •is fatis.