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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.
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.
- gLib. 37.