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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. 2795. A Comet owas seen in Aries, flaming for the space of 43. days. This was in the days of Samson, at (and by) whose death all the Lords of the Philistines, and about 3000 Men and Women were slain by the fall of their Idol's Temple, as they were Sacrificing to Dagon their god. Historians also speak of a Comet which was taken notice of about the Year of the World 3458, and was termed Ceratius, pbecause of its appearing crooked like to an Horn. Writers vary about the precise year, when this Comet appeared. Only it is indubitable, that it was in the days of Anaxagoras and Democritus, who are the most ancient Writers that give us any historical account about Comets. There was a notable Eclipse of the Sun, preceding that Comet; which Calvisius judgeth to be extraordinary and supernatural. Remarkable Providences which happened about that time †were; Haman's bloody Plot to Massacre all the Jews in ⟨p. 29⟩one day, together with the strange discovery and disappointment of that hellish contrivance. Also, Xerxes his motions who put the whole World into an uproar, mustering together an Army of seventeen hundred thousand Foot and fourscore thousand Horse, and a Fleet consisting of above two thousand Galleys. Yea, Herodotus reporteth that his Army did at least consist of above five Millions; designing to subdue Greece. But his Navy was vanquished by Themistocles, his great Army routed. No less then three hundred thousand Soldiers under the Command of Ma• donius were all slain; Athens was burnt.
A M. 2795. A Comet owas seen in Aries, flaming for the space of 43. dayes. This was in the dayes of Samson, at (and by) whose death all the Lords of the Philistines, and about 3000 Men and Women were slain by the fall of their Idol's Temple, as they were Sacrificing to Dagon their god. Historians also speak of a Comet which was taken notice of about the Year of the World 3458, and was termed Ceratius, p