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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 3518. (Or as others compute the age of the World An. 3537.) There was seen a fearful Comet for 75. days together qPliny rPlutarch, sAristotle, and other ancient Writers, speak of this Comet. Anaxagoras took upon him to predict, that an horrible Tempest would follow. He happened to conjecture right. There was ta strange Whirlwind, that took a little Rock off from a great Rock, and lifted it up on high, and carried it away through the air, until it fell down at Aegos, a River in Thrace, to the amazement ⟨p. 30⟩of the people there, who supposed that mighty Stone to have come down out o• Heaven. But the great commotion attending this Comet, was that civil war among the Graecians, called the Peloponnesian War, which continued for 27 years, until Greece was almost emptied of Inhabitants. Also, a upestilential and mortal Catarrh so prevailed in Athens, as greatly to depopulate that place. A prodigious Earthquake happened about a year after this, so that a Mountain was broken in pieces, and a City turned into an Island.
A.M 3518. (Or as others compute the age of the World An. 3537.) There was seen a fearful Comet for 75. dayes together qPliny rPlutarch, sAristotle, and other antient Writers, speak of this Comet. Anaxagoras took upon him to predict, that an horrible Tempest would follow. He hapned to conjecture right. There was t