True Discourse of the Admirable Appearances, Movements, and Meanings of the Prodigious Comet of the Year 1618. With Demonstrations of its Celestial Location, Grandeur, and Distance from the Earth. Image 5.

Kometographia, or, A discourse concerning comets wherein the nature of blazing stars is enquired into : with an historical account of all comets which have appeared from the beginning of the world unto this present year, MDCLXXXIII : expressing ... where they were seen, their motion, forms, duration, and the remarkable events which followed ... : as also two sermons occasioned by the late blazing stars / by Increase Mather.

Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. Heaven's alarm to the world.
Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. Latter sign discoursed in a sermon preached at the lecture of Boston in New-England, August 31, 1682.

January 1683

237 p. in various pagings.The sermons, "Heaven's alarm to the world, or, A sermon wherein is shewed ...

Christoph Rothmann's discourse on the comet of 1585: an edition and translation with accompanying essays

Granada, Miguel A
Mosley, Adam
Jardine, Nicholas

January 2014

Christoph Rothmann's Discourse on the Comet of 1585 offers the first edition of the Latin treatise a...

Cometography: a catalog of comets

Kronk, Gary W
Meyer, Maik
Seargent, David A J

January 2017

Cometography is a multi-volume catalog of every comet observed from ancient times up to the 1990s, w...

True Discourse of the Admirable Appearances, Movements, and Meanings of the Prodigious Comet of the Year 1618. With Demonstrations of its Celestial Location, Grandeur, and Distance from the Earth. Image 2.

Macé, Gilles

January 1619

Title page/frontispiece.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/visionsofscience/1001/thumbnail.jp

True Discourse of the Admirable Appearances, Movements, and Meanings of the Prodigious Comet of the Year 1618. With Demonstrations of its Celestial Location, Grandeur, and Distance from the Earth. Image 7.

Macé, Gilles

January 1619

Exterior of book.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/visionsofscience/1006/thumbnail.jp

True Discourse of the Admirable Appearances, Movements, and Meanings of the Prodigious Comet of the Year 1618. With Demonstrations of its Celestial Location, Grandeur, and Distance from the Earth. Image 8.

Macé, Gilles

January 1619

Exterior of book.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/visionsofscience/1007/thumbnail.jp

True Discourse of the Admirable Appearances, Movements, and Meanings of the Prodigious Comet of the Year 1618. With Demonstrations of its Celestial Location, Grandeur, and Distance from the Earth. Image 1.

Macé, Gilles

January 1619

Illustration of the constellations as they relate to the path of the three comets seen over Europe i...

True Discourse of the Admirable Appearances, Movements, and Meanings of the Prodigious Comet of the Year 1618. With Demonstrations of its Celestial Location, Grandeur, and Distance from the Earth. Image 4.

Macé, Gilles

January 1619

Diagram showing angles from the Earth to the comets at different positions. Stars indicate the comet...

True Discourse of the Admirable Appearances, Movements, and Meanings of the Prodigious Comet of the Year 1618. With Demonstrations of its Celestial Location, Grandeur, and Distance from the Earth. Image 3.

Macé, Gilles

January 1619

Dedicatory inscription where Macé dedicates this book to one Alexandre de Faulcon.https://digitalcom...

An astronomicall description of the late comet from the 18. of Nouemb. 1618. to the 16. of December following. With certaine morall progosticks or applications drawne from the comets motion and irradiation amongst the celestiall hierglyphicks. By vigilant and diligent obseruations of Iohn Bainbridge Doctor of Physicke, and louer of the mathematicks.

Bainbridge, John, 1582-1643.

January 1618

[8], 42, [2] p., folded plateThe last leaf is blank.A variant of the edition with imprint: London, p...

Hello Comet, shall we dance?, by Robert Barsa, Slovakia

Barsa, Robert
IAU, OAE

August 2021

Third place in the 2021 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest, category Comets. This beautiful and poeti...

Cometomantia, A discourse of comets shewing their original, substance, place, time, magnitude, motion, number, colour, figure, kinds, names, and more especially, their prognosticks, significations and presages ... : where also is inserted an essay of judiciary astrology, giving satisfaction to this grand question, whether any certain judgments and predictions concerning future events, can be made from the observation of the heavenly bodies : both occasioned by the appearance of the late comets in England and other places.

Edwards, John, 1637-1716.

January 1684

[14], 296 p.Attributed to J. Edwards. Cf Wing.Errata: p. [13].Reproduction of original in Harvard Un...

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]

Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
Sherman, John, 1613-1685.

January 1683

[12], 143, [11], 38, [2], 32 p. ; 15 cm. (8vo)First word of title transliterated from the Greek.Pre...

THE GREAT COMET OF 1858: A ROAD SIGN TO THE STARS

Sterken, Christiaan

June 2018

During an expedition to the Texas–Mexican border area in September–October 1858, the Belgian astrono...

Scientific need for a cometary mission

Whipple, F. L.

January 1979

Known facts about comets are reviewed including their organic and inorganic content. Photographs are...

Kometographia, or, A discourse concerning comets wherein the nature of blazing stars is enquired into : with an historical account of all comets which have appeared from the beginning of the world unto this present year, MDCLXXXIII : expressing ... where they were seen, their motion, forms, duration, and the remarkable events which followed ... : as also two sermons occasioned by the late blazing stars / by Increase Mather.

Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. Heaven's alarm to the world.
Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. Latter sign discoursed in a sermon preached at the lecture of Boston in New-England, August 31, 1682.

January 1683

237 p. in various pagings.The sermons, "Heaven's alarm to the world, or, A sermon wherein is shewed ...

Christoph Rothmann's discourse on the comet of 1585: an edition and translation with accompanying essays

Granada, Miguel A
Mosley, Adam
Jardine, Nicholas

January 2014

Christoph Rothmann's Discourse on the Comet of 1585 offers the first edition of the Latin treatise a...

Cometography: a catalog of comets

Kronk, Gary W
Meyer, Maik
Seargent, David A J

January 2017

Cometography is a multi-volume catalog of every comet observed from ancient times up to the 1990s, w...

True Discourse of the Admirable Appearances, Movements, and Meanings of the Prodigious Comet of the Year 1618. With Demonstrations of its Celestial Location, Grandeur, and Distance from the Earth. Image 2.

Macé, Gilles

January 1619

Title page/frontispiece.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/visionsofscience/1001/thumbnail.jp

True Discourse of the Admirable Appearances, Movements, and Meanings of the Prodigious Comet of the Year 1618. With Demonstrations of its Celestial Location, Grandeur, and Distance from the Earth. Image 7.

Macé, Gilles

January 1619

Exterior of book.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/visionsofscience/1006/thumbnail.jp

True Discourse of the Admirable Appearances, Movements, and Meanings of the Prodigious Comet of the Year 1618. With Demonstrations of its Celestial Location, Grandeur, and Distance from the Earth. Image 8.

Macé, Gilles

January 1619

Exterior of book.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/visionsofscience/1007/thumbnail.jp

True Discourse of the Admirable Appearances, Movements, and Meanings of the Prodigious Comet of the Year 1618. With Demonstrations of its Celestial Location, Grandeur, and Distance from the Earth. Image 1.

Macé, Gilles

January 1619

Illustration of the constellations as they relate to the path of the three comets seen over Europe i...

True Discourse of the Admirable Appearances, Movements, and Meanings of the Prodigious Comet of the Year 1618. With Demonstrations of its Celestial Location, Grandeur, and Distance from the Earth. Image 4.

Macé, Gilles

January 1619

Diagram showing angles from the Earth to the comets at different positions. Stars indicate the comet...

True Discourse of the Admirable Appearances, Movements, and Meanings of the Prodigious Comet of the Year 1618. With Demonstrations of its Celestial Location, Grandeur, and Distance from the Earth. Image 3.

Macé, Gilles

January 1619

Dedicatory inscription where Macé dedicates this book to one Alexandre de Faulcon.https://digitalcom...

An astronomicall description of the late comet from the 18. of Nouemb. 1618. to the 16. of December following. With certaine morall progosticks or applications drawne from the comets motion and irradiation amongst the celestiall hierglyphicks. By vigilant and diligent obseruations of Iohn Bainbridge Doctor of Physicke, and louer of the mathematicks.

Bainbridge, John, 1582-1643.

January 1618

[8], 42, [2] p., folded plateThe last leaf is blank.A variant of the edition with imprint: London, p...

Hello Comet, shall we dance?, by Robert Barsa, Slovakia

Barsa, Robert
IAU, OAE

August 2021

Third place in the 2021 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest, category Comets. This beautiful and poeti...

Cometomantia, A discourse of comets shewing their original, substance, place, time, magnitude, motion, number, colour, figure, kinds, names, and more especially, their prognosticks, significations and presages ... : where also is inserted an essay of judiciary astrology, giving satisfaction to this grand question, whether any certain judgments and predictions concerning future events, can be made from the observation of the heavenly bodies : both occasioned by the appearance of the late comets in England and other places.

Edwards, John, 1637-1716.

January 1684

[14], 296 p.Attributed to J. Edwards. Cf Wing.Errata: p. [13].Reproduction of original in Harvard Un...

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]

Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
Sherman, John, 1613-1685.

January 1683

[12], 143, [11], 38, [2], 32 p. ; 15 cm. (8vo)First word of title transliterated from the Greek.Pre...

THE GREAT COMET OF 1858: A ROAD SIGN TO THE STARS

Sterken, Christiaan

June 2018

During an expedition to the Texas–Mexican border area in September–October 1858, the Belgian astrono...

Scientific need for a cometary mission

Whipple, F. L.

January 1979

Known facts about comets are reviewed including their organic and inorganic content. Photographs are...

Kometographia, or, A discourse concerning comets wherein the nature of blazing stars is enquired into : with an historical account of all comets which have appeared from the beginning of the world unto this present year, MDCLXXXIII : expressing ... where they were seen, their motion, forms, duration, and the remarkable events which followed ... : as also two sermons occasioned by the late blazing stars / by Increase Mather.

Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. Heaven's alarm to the world.
Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. Latter sign discoursed in a sermon preached at the lecture of Boston in New-England, August 31, 1682.

January 1683

237 p. in various pagings.The sermons, "Heaven's alarm to the world, or, A sermon wherein is shewed ...

Christoph Rothmann's discourse on the comet of 1585: an edition and translation with accompanying essays

Granada, Miguel A
Mosley, Adam
Jardine, Nicholas

January 2014

Christoph Rothmann's Discourse on the Comet of 1585 offers the first edition of the Latin treatise a...

Cometography: a catalog of comets

Kronk, Gary W
Meyer, Maik
Seargent, David A J

January 2017

Cometography is a multi-volume catalog of every comet observed from ancient times up to the 1990s, w...

True Discourse of the Admirable Appearances, Movements, and Meanings of the Prodigious Comet of the Year 1618. With Demonstrations of its Celestial Location, Grandeur, and Distance from the Earth. Image 5.

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