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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. 3752. A Comet was seen some few days in Capricorn, and two Months after again in Cancer, for the space of 19 days. bTwo years after this▪ another Comet of a stupendous magnitude appeared for eighty days together, this I take to be the same which some Authors place about ten years after; viz. a Comet appearing in the sign of Pisces, extending it self over (near upon) a fourth part of the Heavens, cand its fulgor was such as did overcome the brightness of the Sun, so as that it was seen not only in the night, but also in the light day.
A.M. 3752. A Comet was seen some few dayes in Capricorn, and two Moneths after again in Cancer, for the space of 19 dayes. bTwo years after this▪ another Comet of a stupendous magnitude appeared for eighty dayes together, this I take to be the same which some Authors place about ten years after; viz. a Comet appearing in the sign of Pisces, extending it self over (near upon) a fourth part of the Heavens, cand its fulgor was such as did overcome the brightness of the Sun, so as that it was seen not only in the night, but also in the light day.
- bRockenbachius Lycosthenes. v. Joseph Antiq. I•d. L. 12. C. 3
- cCornelius Gemma in Cosmo. •. 1 C. 8
Mithridates his wars, and those between Antiochus and Achaeus, and the bloody Battle fought between the Roman and the Caraginians, wherein Hannibal wa overcome by Marcellus