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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.
Rockenbachius writeth of a Comet appearing A.M. 3795 for the space of a Year and three weeks together. But there must needs be some mistake in that Relation, and therefore I praetermit it, and proceed unto,
A.M. 3798. (or as others 3782) when there appeared a Comet in September ▪ ⟨p. 34⟩presently upon an Eclipse o• the Moon. After which Perseus the last King of Macedonia was overcome by Aemilius. Within 10 years another Comet appeared, which was attended with a woeful Dearth and Plague and a long war between the Carthaginians and the Romans. An Army of the Bastans going over the Ice, it broke under them, that very few escaped with their lives.
A.M. 3798. (or as others 3782) when there appeared a Comet in September ▪ ⟨p. 34⟩presently upon an Eclipse o• the Moon. After which Perseus the last King of Macedonia was overcome by Aemilius. Within 10 years another Comet appeared, which was attended with a woful Dearth and Plague and a long war between the Carthaginians and the Romans. An Army of the Bastans going over the Ice, it broke under them, that very few escaped with their lives.
A.M. 381•. There appeared a Comet in the sign of Capricorn, in magnitude equalling the Sun, and with its light overcoming the darkness of the night. Of this Seneca e