An astronomical description of the late comet or blazing-star as it appeared in New England in November, December, January, and in the beginning of February 1664. Being the first and greatest of the three comets which was seen at London and elsewhere in Europe. Together with a brief theological application thereof.
A 1666 astronomical treatise by Samuel Danforth, first printed at Cambridge in New England and reprinted in London for Peter Parker, describing the comet seen over New England from November 1664 to early February 1665 with a theological commentary for a Puritan readership. The single picture is an engraved heraldic achievement, a coat of arms with a chevron, a crested helmet, a griffin-like crest and scrolling mantling, which a designer could use for ornamental crests, stamp borders or emblem frames.
