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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 D. 70. (or as others 71) A blazing Star like a flaming Sword appeared tfor a year together. It was first observed at the time of the Jews Passover (viz. on the eighth of April) in the sign of Virgo. This was attended with a new Emperor, viz. Vespasian, with the destruction of Jerusalem, and the most miserable ruin of the Jewish nation, by the Sword of the Romans. uMany other Prodigies were taken ⟨p. 40⟩notice of at the same time. Armies fighting in the Air, &c. Xephilinus writeth that there were two prodigious Eclipses of the Moon, viz. that the Moon was obscured on the fourth, and on the seventh day▪ And from him Lycosthenes speaks to the same purpose. But Calvisius did by calculation find, that there were two Eclipses of the Moon this year, which were not supernatural.
A D. 70. (or as others 71) A blazing Star like a flaming Sword appeared tfor a year together. It was first observed at the time of the Jews Passeover (viz. on the eighth of April) in the sign of Virgo. This was attended with a new Emperour, viz. Vespasian, with the destruction of Jerusalem, and the most miserable ruine of the Jewish nation, by the Sword of the Romans. uMany other Prodigies were taken ⟨p. 40⟩notice of at the same time. Armies fighting in the Air, &c. Xephilinus writeth that there were two prodigious Eclipses of the Moon, viz. that the Moon was obscured on the fourth, and on the seventh day▪ And from him Lycosthenes speaks to the same purpose. But Calvisius did by calculation find, that there were two Eclipses of the Moon this year, which were not supernatural.
- tJosephus de bello Judaeorum. L. 7.