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Author: Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.
Title: A philosophical and divine discourse blazoning upon this blazing star divided into three parts; the I. Treating on the product, form, colour, motion, scituation [sic], and signification of comets. II. Contains the prognosticks of comets in general, and of this in particular; together with a chronology of all the comets for the last 400 years. III. Consists of (1.) the explication of the grand concerns of this comet by astrological precepts and presidents. (2.) The application of its probable prognosticks astrologically and theologically. By Christopher Nesse, minister of the gospel, in London, 1681.
Print source: A philosophical and divine discourse blazoning upon this blazing star divided into three parts; the I. Treating on the product, form, colour, motion, scituation [sic], and signification of comets. II. Contains the prognosticks of comets in general, and of this in particular; together with a chronology of all the comets for the last 400 years. III. Consists of (1.) the explication of the grand concerns of this comet by astrological precepts and presidents. (2.) The application of its probable prognosticks astrologically and theologically. By Christopher Nesse, minister of the gospel, in London, 1681.
Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.

[London: printed for J. Wilkins, and J. Sampson [and L. Curtiss on Ludgate-hill], 1681]
Alternate titles: A full and true account of the late blazing-star. Parts 1-3. Second sheet, further blazoning upon the blazing-star. Third sheet, shewing a further and fuller blazoning upon this particular blazing-star.
Notes:
Title printed on verso of pi1; title page is illustrated (woodcuts).
Imprint from colophon of part 1; additional name from colophons of parts 2-3.
A reissue of "A full and true account of the late blazing-star" with the additions of "A second sheet, further blazoning upon the blazing-star" and "A third sheet, shewing a further and fuller blazoning upon this particular blazing-star"; each part has a caption title; pagination and register are continuous.
Copy has print show-through, slightly affecting text.
Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
Subject terms:
Comets -- Early works to 1800.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A52815.0001.001
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