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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.
Anno Mundi. 1744▪ There appeared a Comet in the sign of Capricorn, cwhich in the space of sixty five days passed through three of the Celestial Signs. The building of Babel, confusion of Languages, and consequent dispersing of Mankind throughout the World, ⟨p. 26⟩have been noted as Events attending that Comet. Nimrod, (the first Tyrant in the world) was dcarried away after an unknown manner, some think that God permitted the Devil to carry that most wicked man alive body and soul to Hell.
Anno Mundi. 1744▪ There appeared a Comet in the sign of Capricorn, cwhich in the space of sixty five dayes passed through three of the Caelestial Signs. The building of Babel, confusion of Languages, and consequent disparsing of Mankind throughout the World, ⟨p. 26⟩have been noted as Events attending that Comet. Nimrod, (the first Tyrant in the world) was dcarried away after an unknown manner, some think that God permitted the Devil to carry that most wicked man alive body and soul to Hell.
- cTestante Rockenbachio de cometis
- dSubito non comparuit trans latus a diis. Berosus […] a malis daemoniis ob•taximam impietatem. FuncciusSubito non comparuit trans latus a diis. Berosus 〈…〉 a malis daemoniis ob•taximam impietatem. Funccius