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.

Title: 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.

Author: Edwards, John, 1637-1716.

Collection: Early English Books Online

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the East, sometimes directly, at other times with some Deviation more or less, either Northward or Southward?I having invalidated that Tenet of the Suns Beams passing through the Head of the Comet, and being reflected to us from I know not whence, there can no solid Reason be given of their direct Opposition to the Sun. And then as for those who say the Comets propagate and transmit such a glaring Light to us by Reflection (as all the Planets do) from the Sun, (for according to Hevelius, and some others, the Head and Tail of Comets are dark Bodies,) it is certain that if they borrow all their Light and Blaze from the Sun, there is yet a more desparate and forlorn account given both of the Tail of a Comet, and of its Opposition to the Sun, and then also the Moon, and Saturn and all the other Planets would be Bearded or Tailed.0