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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.
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▪ ⟨p. 35⟩the tail of it being 90 Degrees in length, shining so as that all the heaven seemed to be of a light fire, which is supposed to be the same with that mentioned by Seneca. As for Events, bloody Battles were fought between the Romans and the Gauls, wherein a […] infinite number of men were slain: Also wars between the King of Syria and the King of Egypt. The King of Syria was deserted by his Soldiers, taken and slain.
gJustin speaketh of a Comet whose fulgor was like that of the Sun▪ ⟨p. 35⟩the tail of it being 90 Degrees in length, shining so as that all the heaven seemed to be of a light fire, which is supposed to be the same with that mentioned by Seneca. As for Events, bloody Battles were fought between the Romans and the Gauls, wherein a infinite number of men were slain: Also wars between the King of Syria and the King of Egypt. The King of Syria was deserted by his Souldiers, taken and slain.