De prodigiosa specie, naturaq[ue] cometae, qui nobis effulsit altior lunae sedibus, insolita prorsus figura, ac magnitudine, anno 1577 plus septimanis 10. apodeixis tum physica tum mathematica

Since they want to clarify the muddier pots for others, they squint at the cucurbits; and we observe even in Jupiter and Venus the tail or hair being produced more often.

A horrid description of the Chasm of the month of February 1575.

...observed it, and their conspiring opinion without doubt earns perpetual faith for posterity.

The same most august sign was followed by the greatest portents, especially two Chasmata chasm-like phenomena in the sky, or aurorae, or abysses, truly more memorable than the rest. The first, indeed, in February of the year 1575, around the ninth hour of the evening. The second, around the seventh hour after the setting of the Sun, in the same year on the feast of Saint Michael. The former, in the same order of figures in which it presented itself, demonstrated to our eyes all the appearance of the subsequent succession and the vicissitude of fortunes for the Belgian states, as if from a watchtower; so much so that the parts of the hours agreed most exactly with the intervals of years and months, according to astronomical reason.

For what was the meaning of that admirable species of two arcs? One of which, leaning toward the North, opened into many arcs and most ample light as if from an obscure abyss. The other, however, multi-colored, representing an exact rainbow and sloping toward the South, proceeded from the sunrise toward the sunset through the belt of Orion. The extremities of both were fittingly joined at the cardinal point of the sunset, and above the Moon, at that time new, like...