A Discourse Concerning Comets

1683. This discourse discusses comets, wherein the nature of blazing stars is inquired into, with a historical account of all the comets which have appeared from the beginning of the world until this present year, 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. Also found are two sermons occasioned by the late blazing stars. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. Old English text.