Consideratio & observatio cometae aetherei astronomica qui anno MDLXXX mensibus octobri, novembri et decembri in alto aethere apparvit

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as witnesses ἀυτώπται eyewitnesses reported to me had happened in a village not far from Backnang, the place of my previous residence. Likewise, on the 25th of July, which is sacred to St. James the Apostle, Rainbows around the Sun. at Göppingen in my homeland, with a clear sky, three (by some, five) rainbows preceding the rising Sun were seen almost until midday, as I learned from a writing given to me by my uncle, and then from my parents. One of these, which was larger, was above the Sun; the remaining two smaller ones surrounded the base of the larger one. A public document testifies that something not very dissimilar appeared elsewhere on the 12th of January, except that all the rainbows and arcs were above the Sun. It is reported that on the preceding day, the 24th of July, rainbows were seen by many in a similar form.

Those which were seen on the 10th and 21st of September, bloody, and Chasmata chasms ignited with fire, were far more terrible than could be explained and described in any words. For on the 10th of the said month, toward the evening twilight, a horrible redness was seen in a small area; I doubted at first whether the sky was flashing with the flames of some conflagration, or whether they were the remains of solar rays putting on that kind of color through purple vapors. But that doubt is soon solved, for immediately there arises an ejaculation of rays, partly white, partly saffron, partly ignited, the beginning of a future prodigy. A little later, from that redness, many spicula and clouds stained with blood and fire are rolled toward the zenith; alas, what a rolling of clouds, confusion, fighting, and then toward the East followed? The whole sky seemed to be on fire. A dire vapor was boiling up from everywhere. Those bloody and ignited spicula began to lift themselves up not only from the West, but from every place, together with huge globes of flames flying here and there, a manifold variety of colors.