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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. 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 eand after him many others have written. This Prodigy was attended with the Achaick War. The City of Carthage was taken and destroyed by Scipio. The City of Corinth was burnt by Mummius.
- eNat. Quest. L. 7. C. 15.
About ten years after that, another Comet appeared for the space of eighty three days, of which Seneca writes. At the first appearance it was very small but within a few days it grew to a stupendous magnitude, fextending it self over the Via Lactea, so as was wonderful to behold.
About ten years after that, another Comet appeared for the space of eighty three dayes, of which Seneca writes. At the first appearance it was very small but within a few dayes it grew to a stupendious magnitude, fextending it self over the Via Lactea, so as was wonderful to behold.
- fSeneca ibid
gJustin speaketh of a Comet whose fulgor was like that of the Sun▪