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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.
CHAP. IV. An Historical Account of what Blazing Stars were seen within the first five hundred Years after Christ's Incarnation, and the Notable Events which still followed them.
WE proceed to consider what Blazing Stars have appeared since our Saviours Nativity. Some mention that, which directed the Magi to the Town and House where Christ was born. The superstition of former ages hath pictured that Star with a Blaze pointing towards Bethlehem. But Tycho and mothers, have by invincible ⟨p. 37⟩Arguments, proved that that admirable Star was not a Comet properly.
WE proceed to consider what Blazing Stars have appeared since our Saviours Nativity. Some mention that, which directed the Magi to the Town and House where Christ was born. The superstition of former ages hath p•ctured that Star with a Blaze pointing towards Bethlehem. But Tycho and mothers, have by invin•ible ⟨p. 37⟩Arguments, proved that that admirable Star was not a Comet properly.
- mv. Ricciolum de novis stellis C. 19. P. 179. &c.
The first then which we shall take notice of, is, that which was seen, A.D 13. appearing in the sign of Aries