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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.
A. M. 2128. gNot many years after the death of Abraham, another Comet appeared in the sign of Leo for the space of nine days. Great mutations and miseries quickly followed in the World, as Serapis and Osiris (Egyptian Demons) had prognosticated. Also, that Famin• in Isaac's days of which we read Gen. 26.1. About this time Phaeton (who is thought to be that Son of Chaus who is by Moses called Phut) hcaused a fearful conflagration in Italy. Whence it was called then Palesana, i. e. the burnt Country.
A. M. 2128. gNot many years after the death of Abraham, another Comet appeared in the sign of Leo for the space of nine dayes. Great mutations and miseries quickly followed in the World, as Serapis and Osiris (Aegyptian Demons) had prognosticated. Also, that Famin• in Isaac's dayes of which we read Gen. 26.1. About this time Phaeton (who is thought to be that Son of Chaus who is by Moses called Phut) hcaused a fearful conflagration in Italy. Whence it was called then Palesana, i. e. the burnt Countrey.
- gIdem ubi supra
- hFunccius.
A.M. 2230. A fiery and terrible Comet was seen, appearing in Sagittarius, coiling after a strange manner, representing the form of an imperfect circle