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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.
Fifteen years after, there was another Comet, near the Equinoctial circle, zin Sagittarius, continuing nineteen days. What strange and amazing changes happened in the World after that by means of Alexander the Great, is known to all men. Of him the Prophet Daniel speaks, Chap. 8.5. when h• saith, He saw an H• goat come from the West, on the face of the whole Earth, and he touched not the ground. For Alexander made speedy work in conquering the Nations. In the space of six years, the face of things all the Earth over was ⟨p. 32⟩changed. The Persian empire brought to its period, and the third of Daniels Monarchies then began.
Fifteen years after, there was a nother Comet, near the Equinoctial circle, zin Sagittarius, continuing nineteen dayes. What strange and amazing changes hapned in the World after that by means of Alexander the Great, is known to all men. Of him the Prophet Daniel speaks, Chap. 8.5. when h• saith, He saw an H• goat come from the West, on the face of the whole Earth, and he touched not the ground. For Alexander made speedy work in conquering the Nations. In the space of six years, the face of things all the Earth over was ⟨p. 32⟩changed. The Pe•sian empire brought to its period, and the third of Daniels Monarchies then began.
- zAristoteles L. 1. C. 7. Rockenbachius.