Prophetical observations occasion'd by the new comet: and by other signs in the heavens, as well lately past, as now approaching, viz. The late great conjunction of Jupiter, Saturn and Mars. The transit of Mercury in the disk of the sun. The northern phenomena. The total eclipse of the sun.

Date:
1723
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Credit: Prophetical observations occasion'd by the new comet: and by other signs in the heavens, as well lately past, as now approaching, viz. The late great conjunction of Jupiter, Saturn and Mars. The transit of Mercury in the disk of the sun. The northern phenomena. The total eclipse of the sun. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Without-entring into the Aftrological Calculaf tions, with whiih we might amule the World oi^ that Subjed, and the malignant Alpeds of the leveral Planets upon that great Occalion, let us a little obferve what has already been feen in the World, y^hich may reafonably be hippos’d to be either the natural Confequences of thole great Conjundions, or portended and predided by them. That Ecllpfe of the Sun^ as it is hippos’d by the Sons of Art, \yas greater, and more vilible, in thQ Eafiern Parts of tjie World, than it vyas here, and as it feem’d to poite;nd great Changes and Confulions in that Part of the World.; has it not . f ^ \ I been follow’d by two* evident and remarkable Convulfions in thole Eaflern Countries ? « ., I. The great and fatal Revolution in Ferfa^ which ha^ not only overturn’d the whole Go¬ vernment and Conllitution of that ancient and vaftly extended Empire but^ as we hear, has been fatal to the Royal Family, and to the poor People ^ and even belides a Sea of Blood already Ipilt in that Country, threatens the utter Overthrow of the Monarchy, and the Diltolution of Ferfia as a Kingdom ^ that vail Country being like to be divided be¬ tween two powerful Keighbours, the Turks and the Mufcovites \ aijd the F erf an Name to be loll in the World. n. The Death of the Emperor of China^ which, as we already hear, has been follow’d with great Confiilions and Diftradions in that vah: Empire, which they tell us, is like to be broken in Pieces, by the Pretenders, (Sons to the late deceas’d Emperor,) who all claim a Right to the SuccelTion *, who are in the Field with great