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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. 76. (or 77.) A Comet called wAcontias, because of its appearing in the form of a Dart, was observed. The Emperor Titus (in the fifth year of his Consulship) described this Comet in verse. The next year another Comet was seen (or rather the same Comet appeared the second time) there followed an horrible Earth-quake in Cyprus and other places, whereby many Towns perished. xThe next year a Comet was seen again eighty days. Earth-quakes followed, and a terrible Plague in Rome, and a remarkable Drought. When Vespasian the Emperor saw this Blazing Star, he joked at it, saying, it concerned the Parthians who had long hair, not him who was Bald. But soon after Vespasian ⟨p. 41⟩himself died. This Comet was attended with the Heresy of Corinthus and the Ebionites.
A.D. 76. (or 77.) A Comet called wAcontias, because of its appearing in the form of a Dart, was observed. The Emperour Titus (in the fifth year of his Consulship) d•scribed this Comet in verse. The next year another Comet was seen (or rather the same Comet appeared the second time) there followed an horrible Earth-quake in Cyp•us and other places, whereby many Towns perished. xThe next year a Comet was seen again eighty dayes. Earth-quakes followed, and a terrible Plague in Rome, and a remarkable Drought. When Vespasian the Emperour saw this Blazing Star, he joked at it, saying, it concerned the Parthians who had long hair, not him who was Bald. But soon after Vespasian ⟨p. 41⟩himself died. This Comet was attended with the Heresie of Corinthus and the Ebionites.
- wPlin. L 2. C 25. Sueronius. Lycost•enes, &c.