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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.
CHAP. II. The several sorts of Comets considered. The natural reason of the ⟨p. 13⟩Blaze, the time of their appearance cannot certainly be predicted. Notwithstanding their proceeding from natural causes, they may be portentous signs of evil Events.
CHAP. II. THe several sorts of Comets considered. The natural reason of the ⟨p. 13⟩Blaze, the time of their appearance cannot certainly be praedicted. Notwithstanding their proceeding from natural causes, they may be portentous signs of evil Events.
Having briefly Discoursed of the place where, and the matter out of which Comets have their existence; we now proceed to consider the usual distributions of those admirable and amazing works of the glorious Creator, whose works are great, and sought out by those that have pleasure therein. As for the parts o• which a Comet doth consist there is the Star & the Blaze proceeding therefrom, whence we call them Blazing Stars. Or, the Body of the Star, and the stream that follows or goeth before it, which the Greeks call Coma, whence such Phenomena have the names of Comets given to them. In respect of the Blaze, Comets have been distinguished into several sorts. The Assyrians, Arabians, and others in old times, were wont from the colour of the blaze to denominate the Comet e. g. pwhen it was of a dark and leadish kind of colour, they called it a Saturnine; if of a bright Silver Shining colour, a Jovial; if red and fiery, a Martial ▪ if of a Golden aspect a Solar; if a bright ⟨p. 14⟩yellow a Venereal; if cerulean and various▪ a Mercurial Comet. But the Latins and Greeks have distinguished Comets from the form of the Blaze, which they appear with. Pliny