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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. III. The History of Comets from the beginning of the World to the first coming of Christ; together with some remarkable Events attending them.
There are sundry Learned men, who affirm that in the Year after the Creation 1656. which wa• (according to the computation of those great Chronologers, Calvisius and Helvicus) two thousand two hundred and ninety two years before our Saviours nativity, ⟨p. 25⟩there was seen a formidable Blazing Star, which all the old World beheld for the space of nine and twenty days. It appeared first in the sign of Pisces, and in a months time passed through all the twelve Signs of the Zodiac, as is affirmed by aHerlicius. bEck stormius, and Rockenbachius. This is the first Comet, that any Writers (so far as in my small reading I have observed) make mention of. Immediately upon its appearing Methuselah died, and according unto the signification of the name, which his Father Enoch (being a Prophet) imposed upon him: The next Year, the Flood came wherein all the Men, Women and Children throughout the Earth (excepting eight persons) perished. And it is the judgement of some, †that more persons were drowned by Noah's flood then are now living upon the face of the whole Earth, or ever have been at one time since that.
THere are sundry Learned men, who affirm that in the Year after the Creation 1656. which wa• (according to the computation of those great Chronologers, Calvisius and Helvicus) two thousand two hundred and ninety two years before our Saviours nativity, ⟨p. 25⟩