of the Monastery But thereby chiefly expressing this sence or meaning in English All by One i. e. Omnia per Unum as Balaeus reports He wrote besides his forementioned Canones in Albionem a Book De Iudiciis Astronomicis and another De Rebus Astronomicis JOHANNES DANK a Native of Saxony writ Canones Eclipsales Canones Tabularum De Astrolabio as Gesner testifies GUALTERUS CATTON an English Fryer in the Convent of Cordeliers at Norwich a learned Theologue and Philosopher published a Treatise Adversus Astrologos RABBI LEVI eminent in all kind of Learning and particularly in Astronomy wrote a Book called Milhamot-Hessem i. e. Defensionem Dei JOHANNES BARWICK by some but corruptly called BRENLANTIUS surnamed likewise BRITANNUS a learned English Franciscan Fryer published several Books De Astrologorum Praenotionibus in which he impugnes Judiciary Astrology ROBERTUS HOLCOTH a Dominican Fryer of Northampton of whom Balaeus sayes that he was penè infinitae lectionis Homo atque ingenii solidissimi wrote De Effectibus Stellarum and another Treatise De Motibus Stellarum as G. Vossius affirms out of Possevinus GAUFREDUS DE MELDIS published a Treatise entitled Iudicium Stellae Comatae Anno Dom. 1330. and of two other Comets which appeared in the years 1337. and 1338. preserved yet in Manuscripts in the Library of Pembroke Colledge in Cambridge See Iames Eclog. Oxon. Cant. RABBI DAVID ABUDERKEM writ a Treatise entitled Ordo Intercalationis JOHANNES MANDOVICH sometime Fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford a learned Physician and Astronomer published Astronomical Tables JOANNES ESTWOOD or ESTWED or ESCHUâ—…D of Ashenden sometimes Fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford highly commended by Io. Picus Count of Mirandula wrote a Book which he entitled Iudiciale Astronomicum sive Summa Iudicialis He published likewise Elucidarium Planetarum Tabulae Planetarum and Canons of their Utility and Practice of the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in Cancer 1357. and of the Conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter de Signis Conjunctionum His Iudiciale Astronomicum sive Summa Anglicana or Iudicialis vel de Accidentibus Mundi for those several Titles it bears was Printed at Venice in the year 1442. and is yet extant in MS. in the Publick Library at Oxford and in that of Oriel Colledge It was afterward Printed at Venice in the year 1489. and elegantly for that Age at the Charge of a Patrician for the Honour of whose Name because Noblemen in those Dayes would be at the charge of Printing of good Books I will subscribe what follows as I received it from my very deserving and ingenious Friend Mr. Francis Bernard in whose Possession the said Book among other curious ones with which he is stored now is Summa Anglicana Iohannis Eschuid Opus factum est tum Diligentiâ tum Impensâ Francisci Bolani Patritii Veneti Viri certè bonarum Artium studiosi Clarissimi quondam Oratoris Candiani Nec defuit Impressoris Iohannis Lucilii Santritter Herbronensis Germani maxima Lucubratio maximus Labor Diligentia NICHOLAUS CABASILAS a Grecian Archbishop of Thessalonica wrote a Comment upon Ptolemy's Almagest JOANNES ELIGERUS of Gondersleven a German writ de Compositione Astrolabii de Utilitate Astrolabii de Utilitate Quadrantis Two Books de Magnete and One de Astrogemetro and several other Pieces as Simler in Bibl. Gesner affirms JOHANNES DE SAXONIA and JOHANNES DE LIGNERIIS both Germane Astronomers and Contemporaries The latter put forth Canones Primi Mobilis together with Tables and a Book De Sphaera He is reckoned by Petrus Cirvellus Daiocensis in his Preface in Sphaeram Mundi to have been one of the four most celebrious Astronomers that had flourished between the times of Alphonsus and Purbacchius as cited by Vossius in Addend ad Scient Mathemat GUILELMUS GRIZAUNT an English man Fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford and Dr. of Physick leaving England setled at Marseilles in France where he dyed in much Esteem for his Knowledge and Practice in Physick leaving behind him a Son of his own Name who was first Abbot of the Canons Regular at Marseilles afterward Pope of Rome by the Name of Urban the Fifth Of the Issue of his Brain I find these following mentioned by Balaeus relating to our Purpose Speculum Astrologiae De Magnitudine Solis De Qualitatibus Astrorum De Significationibus Eorundem JOHANNES KILLINGWORTH Fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford wrote De Iudicio Astronomiae Canones Tabulae Astronomicae De Crepusculis De Nubium Ascensionibus NICEPHORUS GREGORAS writ De Astrolabio extant in the King's Library at St. Iames's Gesner mentions another Piece of his De Calumniatoribus Astronomiâ—… De Astronomia Andreas Cellarius in Praeloquio Harmon Macrocosm reports that in the 27 th year of his Age he applied himself to Andronicus Palaeologus Emperour of Constantinople offering to him Reasons for the Emendation of the Roman Calendar LUDOVICUS CAERLION so called from the Town of Caerlion in Wales where he was born a learned Theologue and Physician wrote De Eclipsi Solis Lunae Tabulae Eclipsium Solis Lunae secundum Diametros Richardi Wallingfordi now extant in his Majesty's Library at St. Iames's Canones Eclipsium De Tabulis Umbrarum and Fragmenta Astronomica IB'N SHATER DAMASCENUS stiled by Mr. Graves Sedulus Coeli Siderúmque Inspector by many Observations made at Damascus found the Obliquity of the Zodiack to be 23° 31′ He wrote likewise Canons and universal Precepts of Astronomy and Of Astronomical Instruments and their use as likewise De extruendis Coeli Thematibus as cited by Hottinger Smegm Orient His Tables are extant in the Publick Library at Oxford JOHANNES BOCCACIUS is about this time numbred among Astronomers by Gualterus in Chronico as cited by Ricciolus in Catalog Astron. THEOPHRASTUS PARACELSUS besides his many other Works in Physick and Chymistry hath left some Astronomical and Astrological Fragments published by Gerardus Dornus together with his Book De Meteoris Tribus Principiis He writ De Astronomia Magna Astronomiae Magnae Compendium Printed in the year 1584. RICHARDUS LAVINGHAM of Suffolk Professour of Mathematicks Philosophy and Theology in the University of Oxford composed a Book De Planetarum Distantia Compendium Meteororum in four Books and two Books De Coelo Mundo He was killed in that Popular Tumult wherein Simon Sudbury Archbishop of Canterbury was murthered SIMON BREDON or BRIDON alias BIRIDANIUS born at Winchcomb in Gloucester-shire Fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford Dr. of Physick and Professour of Astronomy wrote according to Balaeus Two Books In Demonstrationes Almagesti One In quaedam Capita Ptolemaei De Rebus Astronomicis Aequationes Planetarum De Latitudine Planetarum Super Introductorio Alcabitii Astronomia Calculatoria and Astronomia Iudiciaria His Book De Aequationibus Planetarum is yet extant in Manuscript in the Library of Peter-House in Cambridge NICHOLAUS
Vincula a most subtile Divine Philosopher and Mathematician wrote besides other his Works not relating to our Subject De emendatione Calendarii and De Stellarum Fixarum Canone GEORGIUS PURBACCHIUS so called from the Town of Peurbach the Place of his birth in the Confines of Bavaria and Austria was publick Professour of Mathematicks both at Ferrara and Vienna and a great Instauratour of Astronomy His first Essayes were several Tractates of Dyalling with Tables fitted for the variety of Climates a Small Piece with a Table thereto of the Sun's Altitude Astrolabial Canons as Gassendus terms them with a Table of Parallels proportioned to every Degree of the Equinoctial The making and use of Solid Spheres or Globes especially the Celestial to which he added a New Table of all the Fixed Stars with their augmentation of Longitude from Ptolemy's time to his own But his chiefest Work after his Theory of the Planets and Tables of Eclipses by which he intended to signalize his Name was the Reducing of Ptolemy's Almagest into a correct Epitome or Compendium being chiefly encouraged thereunto by Cardinal Bessarion which he lived not to complete but left the same by Testament to be fulfilled by his Scholar Iohannes Regiomontanus JOHANNES FUSOR or FUSORIUS contemporary with Purbacchius published Tables of Sines and Chords and by command of Charles VII King of France made Observations for the better composing of new Tables of the Celestial Motions as Gassendus in the Life of Purbacchius testifies extant in MS. in the Library of Nicholaus Trivisanus of Padua as Thomasinus in Bibliothec. Patavin affirms GUILELMUS BOTONER an English Knight noble by Extraction but much more ennobled by his Learning as well in History Physick as Mathematicks Published with other Works upon several Subjects a Book De Astrologiae Valore JOHANNES JOVIANUS PONTANUS a Neapolitane acquired no little honour and esteem by his Astronomical Studies and Writings He translated into Latine Ptolemy's Centiloquium and published it with an Exposition or Comment thereupon and wrote XIV Books De Rebus Coelestibus and Five others in elegant Latine Verse entitled Urania sive De Stellis and One other in Verse De Meteoris MICHAEL SCOTUS a diligent Observer of the Stars at the desire of the Emperour Frederick the Third put forth about this Time Quaestiones in Sphaeram Ioh. de Sacro Bosco as Ricciolus Chronol Astronom affirms which certainly is a great mistake for Frederick the Third came to the Empire much earlier and was deposed in the year 1323. Scotus flourishing according to Balaeus in the year 1290. about which time the Reader will find him already inserted in this Catalogue JOHANNES MULLERUS commonly called JOHANNES REGIOMONTANUS or DE MONTE REGIO from Cunisberg a Town in Franconia where he was born Disciple to Purbacchius finished the Epitome begun by his Master of Ptolemy's Almagest He published likewise Tables of Directions and Eclipses and first of all in that Age set forth Astronomical Ephemerides of many years duration Printed at Augsburg 1488. He wrote likewise De Theoricis Planetarum De Cometis and published a Treatise De Triangulis Printed at Basile in folio by Daniel Santbech and is still a Book of good accompt as containing in it divers extraordinary Cases about plain Triangles He assisted Sixtus IV. by whom he was honourably to that end invited in the emendation of the Iulian Calendar though he lived not to perfect what he had begun He dedicated his Tables of the Primum Mobile to Matthias Corvinus King of Hungary who not only rewarded him with 800. Hungarian Crowns but also made him his dayly Guest for some time at his Table justly deserving to be honoured by Posterity as the great Advancer of all Mathematical Learning especially of Astronomy as well by his own Labours as the publishing in Print at Norimberg the most eminent Authours among the Ancients in that Science particularly our Manilius Ptolemy Theon Proclus Menelaus Theodorus Firmicus Hyginus and others to the number of Thirty at least He observed the Sun's greatest Declination to be 23° 30′ He died as some write at the 33 d. or as others at the 40 th year of his Age not without the suspicion of being poysoned by the Sons of Georgius Trapezuntius the envious opposers of his merits and lies buried at Rome in the Pantheon See more of him in Gassendus who writ his Life JOHANNES BLANCHINUS was as Blancanus affirms of Ferrara but more truly as Ricciolus of Bologna and composed Astronomical Tables which he dedicated to the Emperour Frederick the Third to whom he was both well known and acceptable These Tables with new ones of his own and more correct Canons and several Additions were by Lucas Gauricus published at Venice 1526. EBERHARDUS SCHLUSINGERUS of Gasmanstorfe in Franconia Doctour of Physick at Zurick writ a Treatise of Comets and of their Significations particularly of a Comet which appeared at Zurick in the year 1472. He writ likewise an Introduction to Astrology chiefly relating to Medical Elections BESSARION by birth a Grecian Cardinal of the Roman Church and Patriarck of Constantinople a great Favourer of Astronomical Studies He left among other his various and learned Works a small Tractate whereof the Manuscript is extant in the Emperour's Library at Vienna entitled Methodus cognoscendi quot horis singulis Noctibus Luna fulgeat as the same is cited by Simler in Biblioth Gesner ABRAHAM ZAGUT or ZACUTI was first publick Professour of Astronomy at Carthage afterwards at Salamanca of whom Ricciolus affirms that he was Astronomiae consultissimus Vossius sayes he was Astrologer to Emanuel King of Portugal He wrote Fasti sive Almanach perpetuum omnium coeli Motuum Printed at Venice 1502. In the Preface of which Work he makes mention of Abenverga a Iew his Astronomical Tables but without giving any account of the Time wherein he flourished In the year 1474. he observed the Star called Spica Virginis to be in the 17° 10′ of Libra as Ricciolus from the Authority of Augustinus Riccius affirms His Almanach Perpetuum sive Ephemerides were calculated for Salamanca the Radix they began from was the year 1472. but the Places of the Planets were taken from Regiomontanus his Ephemerides his first part which whether ever Printed is uncertain beginning from that year He writ the Preface to the Bishop of Salamanca who he was doth not appear Ioannes Michael Germanus made the Problems before it Alphonsus de Corduba Hispalensis made a Canon of the Equation of Venus and discourses a little of the Errours of Zacutus In the same Book one Octavius Sfortiades Episcopus Aretinus sayes that Marcus Antonius Grimanus Patricius Venetus Iuntae Calcographiae imprimendam tradidit Novam Tabellam utpote Supplementum Aequationis Veneris in 30 Revolutionibus quam suae Celsitudini Abraham Zacutus ex Damasco destinaverat paululum antequam Diem clauderet Novissimum Gauricus being but a young Man
of which that is the Pillar of Stone he affirms to have been extant in his Time in a Place call'd Syrias or Seirath conceived to be the Land bordering upon Mount Ephraim not far from Iericho Astronomy being thus brought into the World was cultivated and improved by the following Patriarchs who by reason of their long lives had the Opportunity of observing and noting many Astral Revolutions To which end chiefly according to the Opinion of some of the Jewish Doctors the Prolongation of their Lives was by divine Providence in a manner miraculously extended Among whom in this Science the most celebrated is Enoch whose Books upon this Subiect are said to be extant at this Day whence Tertullian and Origen produce several Citations But to what Extent of Improvement this Science was brought before the Flood is uncertain This only from the Testimony of Origen citing the Books of Enoch before mentioned appears That the Stars were then reduced into Asterisms under peculiar and distinct Denominations Touching which Names the said Enoch wrote many secret and mysterious things And Scripture makes it manifest that the Year then as now it is was computed by 〈◊〉 Revolutions of the Moon to one of the Sun 's through the Zodiack For in Genesis it is said that Noah entred into the Ark the 17. Day of the 2. Moneth there is likewise express mention of the 7. and the 10. Moneth and that on the 27. Day of the 2. Moneth of the Year following Noah went out of the Ark. Whence we may infer that the Patriarchs had then the knowledge as well of the Sun's Course as of the Moons with their Periods and in probability of the other Planets And that the Opinion of those who conceive the Year before the Flood to have been only Menstrual deserves to be exploded as most absurd and ridiculous After the Flood and the Dispersion of Mankind over the face of the Earth the Study of Astronomy began to be improved by several Nations who doubtless had derived the Knowledge thereof from Noah and his Posterity So that it may seem no wonder if at one and the same Time divers Persons in divers Regions applied themselves to the Observation and Study of this Astral Science Hence arises among several Nations the Contest for the Glory and Honour of its Invention But seeing it is clear beyond all Controversie that Mankind issued and dispersed themselves out of Asia into Africk Europe and other parts of the World the Glory thereof ought in the first Place to be attributed to the Asiaticks and among them chiefly to the Babylonians Chaldeans and Bactrians Among whom are principally celebrated Evahdnes Belus Zoroaster and his Successor Otanes as likewise Cidenas Naburian Sudinus and Seleucus the Chaldean before whom yet is to be reckoned the Patriarch Abraham and his Father Thare as great Improvers of those Inventions which had been handed down to them from their Forefathers and the Sons of Noah From the Assyrians and Chaldeans it came in the next Place to the Egyptians brought thither by the Patriarch Abraham as Eusebius proves from the Authority of Iosephus Eupolemus Artapanus Melo and others as cited by Alexander Polyhistor though Eupolemus seem to infer that Abraham first taught the same to the Phenicians before his Descent into Egypt There are others yet who attribute the Honour of its Invention to the Egyptians before the Chaldeans conceiving that Tradition of Abraham's instructing the Egyptian Priests to be inconsistent with Reason since Abraham's Stay in Egypt however Artapanus report it to have been 20 years seems not to have been above 3 Moneths most of which time was spent in Fears Jealousies and Dangers which in all Probability would not permit him to communicate at leisure and with freedom the Mysteries of that sublime Science They add further that the Egyptians were so far from receiving the Knowledge of Astronomy from the Chaldeans that on the Contrary they affirm the Chaldeans to have been first instructed therein by the Egyptians To prove which they produce the Testimonies of Diodorus Siculus and Hyginus The former writing that Babylon was a Colony of the Egyptians founded by Belus Son of Libya who therein instituted a College of Priests who were to contemplate the Sâ—…ars in the same manner as those in Egypt The later reporting that one Evahdnes is said to have come from beyond the Seas into Chaldea and there to have taught Astronomy But it seems strange if this Science were known to the Egyptians before the Babylonians and Chaldeans that yet the Egyptian Observations should be so much later than those of the Babylonians for we find scarce any of the Egyptians to precede the Time of Alexander the Great his Death than which even those of the Greeks are earlier whereas the Observations of the Babylonians appear to have been made almost 2000 years before that Time Others there are who would rob both the Chaldeans and Egyptians of this Honour and assign the Invention thereof to the Ethiopians of which Opinion is Lucian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But this Assertion seems to want much of Validity as being opposed by the general Stream of Tradition and that long before Lucian's Time Nor wants Africa besides the Egyptians and Ethiopians other Pretenders to the Invention of Astronomy particularly the Mauritanians who are said to have been instructed therein by Atlas the Son of Libya their King From the several Nations before mentioned Astronomy seems to have been divided anciently into Three Principal Sects that is to say the Assyrian comprehending the Babylonian and Chaldaick the Egyptian and the Atlantick of which last yet the Greeks and Romans made no reckoning for among them were only enumerated these 3 Sects the Chaldaick Egyptian and Grecian the Original and Progress of which last comes next to be described To pass by the fabulous Age touching which there is nothing certain we shall only confine our Discourse to the Historical which began with the Olympiads Nor do any Monuments of this Later inform us that the Greeks had made any considerable Advance in Astronomy before the Death of Alexander the Great For excepting some few Observations of Eclipses made by Thales and Anaxagoras the rest of the Greeks imployed their Studies no further than in nothing the Rising and Setting of the fixed Stars and accommodating the Cycles of the Sun and Moon to the Constitution of the Civil Year to which end they observed the Solstices and Equinoxes Oenopides Cleostratus Harpalus Democritus Meton Euctemon or Eudoxus having not delivered to us any thing of the proper Motion of the fixed Stars or their certain Distances from one another nor yet says Ricciolus of the Revolutions of the Planets or the Periods determining the Apocatastasis of the Moons Anomaly and Latitude And yet such was their Self-conceit and Presumption as confidently to affirm that Astronomy ow'd its Invention to them and particularly to the Rhodians from whom they will have the
commented upon by Paschasius Hammel Rivaltus and Mersennus The Lemmata of Archimedes recovered out of the Rubbidge of Antiquity were published in M r. Forster's Miscellanies as likewise by Borellius at the end of the three latter Books of Apollonius CONON an excellent Geometrician and Astronomer collected divers Observations made by the Chaldeans of the Solar and Lunar Eclipses wrote six Books of Astrology not now extant and invented the Constellation called Coma Berenices Celebrated he is by Pliny and Hyginus C. SULPITIUS GALLUS a Roman Tribune by his skill in Astronomy much encouraged the Roman Army in the War against Perses For when the Souldiers were terrified with the Eclipse of the Moon by his Oration to them he made it appear that what they apprehended as a Prodigy was only the effect of a natural Cause describing to them the Reasons of the Eclipse and so animated the drooping Army with fresh courage to the attaining of a glorious Victory HIPPARCHUS by the Arabs and Eastern Writers called Abrachys whom some make a Native of Nice a City in Bithynia others a Rhodian Prince of Astronomers in his time He wrote a Catalogue of the fixed Stars several Observations of the Aequinoxes mentioned by Ptolemy of the Moon 's monthly motion according to Latitude A Collection of divers Observations of the Chaldeans touching Eclipses by him examined and compared Chalcidius in Timaeum cites a Book of his De Secessibus atque Intervall is Solis 〈◊〉 which Meâ—…rsius Not. in Chalcid conceives to be the same mentioned by Poppus in 5. Syntax Ptolâ—… under the title 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. De Magnitudinibus Distantiis He hath left likewise yet extant three Books by way of Comment upon Aratus in which he shows Aratus to have taken all from Eudoxus and to have followed him even in his Errours first published from a Manuscript in the Medicaean Library by Petrus Victorius and since in Greek and Latine by Dionysius Petavius in Uranolog NIGIDIUS FIGULUS wrote a Comment De Sphaera Graecanica Barbarica mentioned by Servius in Georg. Virgil whence the Commentatour in Germanici Arat. cites divers particulars L. TARUNTIUS FIRMANUS a familiar Friend of Varro's and a great Astronomer He calculated the Nativity of Romulus and the Horoscope of Rome's foundation and wrote in Greek of the Stars He is mentioned by Cicero and Plutarch though with some small variety in the writing of his name MARCUS VARRO the most learned of his time among the Romans wrote of Astronomy of which Cassiodorus makes mention in Mathem Discipl GEMINUS a Native of Rhodes wrote an Isagoge in Meteora and in Arati Phaenomena out of which Proclus's Sphere is for the most part compiled published by Petavius in Uranolog POSIDONIUS APAMENSIS SYRUS a Stoical Philosopher Disciple and Successour to Panaetius observed at Rhodes the Star Canopus He is commended by Cicero for an Artificial Sphere by him made representing the motions of all the Planets Laërtius mentions a Book of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 De Meteoris and another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Labbeé in his Catalogue of Manuscripts mentions another Piece of his Of the Original of Comets and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 extant in the French King's Library M. TULLIUS CICERO translated the Phaenomena of Aratus into Latine Verse THEODOSIUS TRIPOLITA signalized his name by his three Books Sphaericorum and his twelve Propositions De Habitationibus both published by Mersennus in his Synopsis Mathemat He wrote likewise De Diebus Noctibus and Sceptica capita Astrologica as cited by Laertius JULIUS CAESAR first of the Roman Emperours according to the testimony of Pliny wrote of Astronomy in Greek Macrobius affirming likewise that he left several not unlearned Books of the motions of the Stars which he derived from the Doctrine of the Egyptians SOSIGENES a famous Astronomer of Alexandria whose assistance Iulius Caesar made use of in reforming the Roman year and reducing it to the course of the Sun which we yet retain Of this Argument he writ three Discourses as Pliny witnesseth lib. 18. c. 25. DIONYSIUS AFER called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Geographus wrote a Greek Poem De situ Orbis He was sent by Augustus before his adopted son Caius into the East the better to describe to him those Regions and Provinces ALEXANDER EPHESIUS surnamed LYCHNUS wrore besides his Historical Pieces an Astronomical Poem of the Heavens and another of the Description of the Parts of the Earth He is mentioned by Strabo lib. 14. and therefore cannot be less ancient than these times He wrote likewise a Comment in Arati Phaenomena P. OVIDIUS NASO the most Ingenious of the Latine Poets besides that he translated Aratus his Phaenomena into Verse which is lost hath leftfix Books De Fastis Romanorum yet extant being a Calendar describing their Year Moneths Festival Days together with the rising and setting of the several Constellations and the most noted of the fixed Stars dedicated by him first to Augustus afterwards revised in his Exile and addressed to Germanicus Caesar. STRABO the Geographer hath left us the Description of the World in seventeen Books wherein there are divers Astronomical Disquisitions ARTEMIDORUS COSMOGRAPHUS was Contemporaâ—…y 〈◊〉 Strabo and wrote upon the same Subject MARCUS MANILIUS wrote five Books of Astronomicks 〈◊〉 Heroicis non contemnendis sayes Ricciolus in Chron. Astronom which he dedicated to Augustus Caesar wherein he comprehended as well the Astronomy as the Astrology of the Ancients according to the Doctrine of the Chaldaeans and Egyptians the first of which five Books treating of the Sphere is the Subject of our present Undertaking The few following Authours not being reducible to the certain time wherein they flourished either before or after our Saviour's Nativity are for want of authentick Testimony in this place ambiguously inserted BOLUS MENDESIUS a Pythagorean Philosopher wrote among other things de Signis ex Sole Luna Ursa Lucerna Arcu Coelesti as Suidas testifies in voce 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LASBAS BABYLONIUS wrote of Astronomy in a Book entituled Selech cited by Iohannes Camaterus in Opere Astrologico especially in the Chapter De Canonibus Astrorum Sorte Fortunae extant in Manuscript in the hands of my worthy Friend M r. Thomas Gale ZEUCHRUS or TEUCHRUS or TEUCER BABYLONIUS by Scaliger in Manilium and Salmasius De Annis Climactericis stiled an ancient Authour wrote De Decanis Signorum some Fragments of his according to Labbeé being extant in the French King's Library ALBU-BATUR is by Iunctinus placed in the Catalogue of Astronomers about the 500. year before Christ he writ De Nativitatibus Printed at Noremberg by Iohannes Petreius in the Year 1540 but wanting good Authority to confirm the Time wherein he flourished We have rather inserted him in this Place PAPYRIUS FABIANUS is mentioned by Pliny in several places of his Natural History
Dynast under whose Name Simler in Bibl. Gesner affirms there is extant a Piece entitled de Compositione Astrolabii ETHEL WOLDUS WENTANUS of the Race of the West-Saxon Kings sometime Abbot of Abington afterwards Bishop of Winchester wrote among other Works of different Subjects a Treatise de Planetis de Climatibus Mundi as Balaeus affirms MUHAMMED IB'N AHMED ALBIROUNI a Persian Astronomer wrote De modo mensurandi Altitudinem Stellarum as also an Explication of the use of the Astrolabe extant amongst the Manuscripts of Iacobus Golius IB'N JUNES or JOUNIS an Egyptian wrote Astronomical Tables together with a History of Various Observations and the reason of Calculating the Celestial Motions which he dedicated to Hakein perhaps Elhacain King of Egypt who flourished about the year 373. of the Hegira of Christ 996. ABBO FLORIACENSIS so called as being Abbot of the Monastery of Fleury in Burgundy a French man Native of Orleans among other Works wrote De Motibus Stellarum De Planetarum cursu Demonstrationes Astronomicae CAMPANUS NOVARIENSIS an eminent Astrologer and Astronomer He found a peculiar way of erecting a Celestial Scheme by division of the prime vertical Circle which way Gazulus followed He wrote besides Theoricas Planetarum De Sphaera De Computo Another Piece de Compositione Astrolabii and a Calendar Simler mentions another Piece of his entitled Breviloquium duodecim Signorum Zodiaci which he sayes in his Time was extant apud M. Dresserum in MS. ABU-ALI-IBN SINA commonly called AVICENNA a famous Physician whose life is exactly written and prefixed to Plempius's Translation of the second Books of Avicen's Canon Medicinae and of whom an excellent account is given in Abul Pharagius his History of the Dynasties He writ De Astronomia Chronologia mentioned amongst the Manuscripts of Iacobus Golius He was born in the year of the Hegira 370. and died in the year 428. which are the years of Christ 980. and 1036. IB'N HAITEM wrote touching the motion of the Center of the Moon 's Epicycle Of the difference of the Solar and Lunar Year Of the Dimensions of the Earth Sun and Moon And De Motu Circulari As also touching the exact method of taking the Elevation of the Pole He died at Grand-Cairo about the Year of Christ 1038. HERMANNUS CONTRACTUS a Monk but of noble Extraction as being Son of Wolferad Earl of Varinge in Suaben which Surname of Contractus he gained à membrorum contractione as G. Vossius affirms wrote three Books De Compositione Astrolabii and one De Utilitate Astrolabii He wrote likewise another De Eclipsibus and translated the Works of several Arabian Astronomers into Latine ISAACIUS ARGYRUS MONACHUS wrote de Cyclis Solis Lunae and de Computo Ecclesiastico which last Petavius hath published in Greek and Latine in Uranolog His Astronomical Tractates are said to be kept in MS. in the Library at Auspurg and what other Mathematical Pieces he wrote will appear in Simler's Epitome of Gesner's Bibliotheca OLIVERIUS MALMESBURIENSIS by some called ELMERUS wrote Astrologorum Dogmata quaedam and another Book De Signis Planetarum as Balaeus testifies GULIELMUS Abbas Coenobii Hirsaugiensis in the Diocess of Spires composed Three Books Rerum Philosophicarum Astronomicarum Printed at Basile 1431. ARZACHEL HISPANUS an Arabian by extraction 190. years after Albategnius observed the greatest Declination of the Sun to be 23° 34′ Some make him a Native of Toledo being called likewise Abraham Elzara Keel Georgius Ioachimus Rheticus in the Preface to his Ephemerides makes him to be the Authour Toletanarum Tabularum and that he left 402. Observations touching the Sun 's Apogaeum Vid. Ricciol in Chronol Astron. ROBERTUS LORRAINE so called by the English by reason he was Originally a Lorrainer Profest and taught both in the Schools of France and Belgia Philosophy Rhetorick and Mathematicks for which Reason he was well esteemed by William the Conquerour and advanced to the Bishoprick of Hereford He wrote de Stellarum Motibus Tabulae Mathematicae de Lunari Computo See Balaeus ALHAZEN ARABS wrote besides seven Books of Opticks one De Crepusculis in which sayes Blancanus Aeris suprema maltitudinem acutissimè rimatur Fredericus Risner published and illustrated his Works with a Comment and Sculps and makes mention of three other Signal Arabians of the same name as Ricciolus Chronic. Astron. affirms GEBER HISPALENSIS ARABS explained Ptolemy's Almagest in nine Books first Printed at Norimberg by Petreius Anno 1533. together with Petrus Apianus his Scheme or Instrument of the Primum mobile In the beginning of which Work he treats of Spherical Triangles as far as requisite to Astronomical Calculations from whence sayes Mersennus in Synops. Mathemat Purbacchius and Regiomontanus excerpted many things in their Epitome of Ptolemy's Almagest His chief study was to amend what he found defective in Ptolemy However Copernicus stiles him Ptolemaei Calumniatorem ALKINDUS a Philosopher and Astrologer wrote much about this time a Piece entitled De Temporum mutationibus And about the Year 1235. Iacobus Alkindus wrote among other things De Radiis Stellarum yet extant in France See Labbeé's Bibliotheca RABBI ABRAHAM wrote de Sphaera sayes Blancanus from the Authority of Christmannus in Alfraganum ATHELARDUS Bathoniensis Coenobii Monachus Philosophus Astronomus Rhetor ac Poeta non vulgariter eruditus sayes Balaeus Cent. 2. leaving England out of a desire to enrich himself by the Acquisition of Forreign especially the Eastern Learning travelled into the Oriental Parts and having made a Peregrination through Egypt and Arabia and in a great measure satisfied his curious and learned Appetite he returned into his own Country and published among other Works of his a Treatise of Ezychiafarim of the seven Planets by him translated out of Arabick he wrote likewise a Book de septem Artibus Liberalibus and another de Astrolabio RICHARDUS Monachus Eboracensis wrote upon Arzahel's Tables now extant in the Publick Library at Oxford ALMAEON ALMANSORIUS in the year 1140. observed the greatest Declination of the Sun to be 23° 33′ His Aphorisms Propositions or Astrological Sentences Hervagius published in the year 1530. together with Iulius Firmicus This Almaeon Vossius conceives to be different from Almaeon King of the Arabs of whom before JOANNES HISPALENSIS first translated into Latine Alfraganus as Blancanus from Christmannus and from them both Vossius de Scient Mathem c. 35. affirm He likewise translated Alcabicius his Isagoge ad Magisterium Iudiciorum Astron. He writ likewise Epitome totius Astrologiae first Printed at Norimberg 1548. with Ioachimus Hellerus his Preface contra Astrologiae Adversarios as Simler Bibl. Gesner hath noted RODOLPHUS BRUGENSIS a Mathematician of Tholouze translated into Latine and Published Ptolemy's Planisphere which he dedicated to his Master Theodoricus Platonicus as Gesner testifies Printed together with Aratus by Valderus at Bafile
1536. ALPETRAGIUS an Astronomer of Marocco as Ricciolus affirms He wrote Theorica Physica translated out of Latine by Calo Calonymus Parthenopaeus and likewise De Astrologia sayes Vossius who conceives him to be the same with him mentioned in Summa Alberti Magni He observed the Declination of the Sun to be the same with that of Almaeon ABRAHAM ABEN-EZRA or according to others AVEN-HESRE a great Astronomer and Philosopher wrote a Book entitled Mispatho Hamazzaloth i. e. De Iudiciis Signorum and another called Taâ—…min i. e. Rationum Astronomicarum and a third De Luminaribus Diebus Criticis sayes Ricciolus This last was revised and published at Rome by Angelus Blondus as Vossius in Addend ad L. de Scient Mathemat affirms There is likewise extant under his name a Book amongst the Manuscripts of Iacobus Golius entitled De Anni magnitudine and Indorum Astronomia MANUEL COMNENUS Emperour of Constantinople wrote several Astronomical Tractates yet preserved in the Vatican Library as Simler in Bibl. Gesner testifies JOHANNES DE HEXHAM so called from the place of his Nativity a Town in-the Bishoprick of Durham a Benedictine Monk wrote among other things De Signis Cometis RABBI MOSES BEN-MAIMON commonly from the initial Letters of his Name called Rambam among many other Works writ De Astrologia sive Siderum Viribus Effectis first published in Hebrew afterwards translated into Latine by Ioannes Isaac Levita Germanus Professour of the Hebrew Tongue in the University of Colen and there Printed by Maternus Cholinus in the Year 1555. AVERROES an Arabian Physician of Corduba for his diligence in commenting upon all the Works of Aristotle called Commentator Magnus and simply Commentator reduced Ptolemy's Almagest into an Epitome SIMEON Monk of Durham wrote De Cometa Combustione London aliis injuriis as I find it cited by Iames's Eclog. Oxon. Cant. who affirms the same to be extant in Benet Colledge Library in Cambridge Balaeus sayes of him that he was Vir suo saeculo in multis Scientiis eleganter instructus praesertim Mathematicis ALBUMAZAR otherwise called ABU-ASSAR and JAPHAR wrote Eight Books De Magnis Conjunctionibus Annorum Revolutionibus and is reported to have observed a Comet in his time to have been above the Orb of Venus He wrote likewise Introductio in Astronomiam Printed in the Year 1489. ROGERUS HEREFORDIENSIS of whom Balaeus sayes That he was Astrorum Peritus Metallorum Indagator Maximus wrote In Artem Iudiciariam Theoricam Planetarum De Ortu Occasu Signorum and Collectaneum Annorum Planet CLEMENS LANTHONIENSIS so called from the Town of Lanthony near Gloucester an Augustine Fryer wrote among other things De Orbibus Astrologicis and flourished about the same time HUMENIUS AEGYPTIUS about this time wrote Astronomical Tables which Christmannus in Alferganum affirms to be yet extant in the Palatine now the Vaticane Library as also in the Publick Library at Oxford DANIEL MORLEY so named from the place of his birth a Town in Norfolk out of his great inclination to promote and advance Mathematical Learning having sometime studied in the University of Oxon travelled to Toledo in Spain to instruct himself in the Language and Learning of the Arabians which there chiefly flourished and after his return home wrote De Inferiori Mundo One Book Another De Superiori Mundo and a Third entitled Principia Mathematices OMAR ASTROLOGUS or HOAMAR or HOMAR Son of Belnal Fargardian a Native of Tyberias wrote Three Books Of Nativities published by Hervagius together with Firmicus 1532. HALY ABEN RODOHAM an Arabian or according to G. Vossius an Egyptian wrote a Commentary upon Ptolemy's Centiloquium and Quadripartitum Published by Octavianus Scotus at Venice together with other Arabian Astrologers He wrote likewise De Radiorum Projectionibus and Three Nativities whereof one his own annexed to his other Works This very Year he observed a Comet in the fifteenth Degree of Scorpio of which more in the History of Comets LEOPOLDUS DE AUSTRIA Son of the Duke of Austria Episcopus Frisingensis writ Ten Tracts De Astrorum Scientia Printed at Augsbourg 1489. GILBERTUS LEGLEY Philosophus Mathematicus suae Aetatis non vulgaris sayes Balaeus wrote Compendium in Astronomia in Prognostica Hippocratis He was Physician in Ordinary to Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury JOANNES AEGIDIUS vel de SANCTO AEGIDIO born at St. Albans Philosophus Summus Physician to Philip King of France Professour of Physick and Philosophy both in the University of Paris and Montpelier He wrote Prognostica Futurorum and another Book de Materia Coeli Balaeus de Scriptor Brit. ALEXANDER DE VILLLA DEI Dolensis wrote of the Sphere He published likewise a Book of Arithmetick and Computum Ecclesiasticum as G. Vossius De Scient Math. affirms GEORGIUS MEDICUS CHRYSOCOCCA writ De Inventione Feriae and an Exposition Syntaxeos Persarum with several Tables Mediorum Motuum published by Bulialdus at the end of his Astronomia Philolaica RABBI IASAAC HAZAN i. e. Cantor as being Chaunter to the Iewish Synagogue at Toledo was one of the Principal Compilers of the Alphonsine Tables ALBERTUS MAGNUS Bishop of Ratisbon one of the most learned Persons of his Age among other the various Monuments of his Wit and Learning wrote De Sphaera De Astris De Astronomia and Speculum Astronomicum as Simler in Bibl. Gesner ROBERTUS LINCOLNIENSIS Bishop of Lincoln commonly called Grossa Testa in English Grouthead writ a Compendium of the Sphere Published first by Lucas Gauricus 1531. He wrote likewise De Coelo Mundo De Sphaera Coelesti Theoricam Planetarum and In Astrologiam as Balaeus affirms ROGERUS BACON a Franciscan Fryer of Oxford a most acute Philosopher and admirable Mathematician insomuch that he was reputed but falsely a Necromancer Out of whose vast number of Books written upon several subjects by which he hath eternized his name we shall select only what is proper to our purpose as they are enumerated by Balaeus He wrote a particular Treatise De Utilitate Astronomiae Introductio in Astrologiam De Coelo Mundo De Cosmographia De Radiis Solaribus De Locis Stellarum De Aspectibus Lunae Et Prognostica ex Siderum cursu with other Pieces of Opticks very considerable in that Age. ALBUASSIN or ALBOAZEN HALY Son of Aben Ragel wrote De Stellarum Fixarum motu ac locis according to Ricciolus Chron. Astron. as also De Iudiciis Fatis Astrorum translated at the command of Alphonsus King of Castile out of Arabick into Spanish by Iudas Ben Musce and out of Spanish into Latine by Aegidius de Thebaldis of Parma Printed at Basile 1550. He writ likewise another Book Signalium Astronomiae as Simler in Bibl. Gesner affirms JOHANNES DE SACRO BOSCO an English man born at Hallifax anciently called Holy-wood from
RAPHAEL VOLATERRANUS a Chronologer and Cosmographer who in the third Tome of his XXXVIII Books Urbanorum Commentariorum collected as himself affirms out of more than a thousand Greek and Latine Authours hath written De Philologia sive Artium Rudimentis in which those of Astronomy are included LUCIUS BELLANTIUS of Siena wrote Twenty Questions touching the truth of Astrology and Twelve Books in defence of Astrology against Picus Mirandula Printed at Florence and Basile To which are annexed the Dialogues of Gabriel Pirovanus De Veritate Astrologiae CONRADUS COCUS WIMPINAE DE BUCHONIA Professour of Theology at Francfort and Leipsick writ among divers other Tractates six Books De Corporibus Coelestibus as Simler testifies STEPHANUS ROSINUS of Ausbourg Professour of Philosophy Batchelour of Divinity and Canon at Vienna taught Astronomy there and published Tables of the Declinations of the fixed Stars with Prognosticks JOHANNES MANTZ of Plabeim a famous Theologue and Astronomer in his time wrote Prognostica ex Stellis ANDREAS STIBORIUS a Bohemian Canon and Professour of Mathematicks at Vienna a most acute Astronomer He composed an Epitome of Ptolomy's Almagest Albategnius and Geber wrote five Books touching Shadows a Book of Astronomical Instruments of the first and second Mobile with his own Canons and those of the Ancients an Introduction in sensilem Astronomiam a Book of Mathematical Authours and of the Primum Mobile divided into four parts and handled Geometricè Arithmeticè Exemplariter Instrumentaliter See more of him in Vossius de Scient Mathemat MARCUS BENEVENTANUS a Celestine-Monk wrote upon Thebit De Octava Sphaera He likewise corrected Ptolemy's Planisphere and together with Iohannes Cota of Verona Scipio Carteromachus of Pistoia and Cornelius Benigâ—…us of Viterbo sedulam navavit operam in Geographia Ptolemaei corrigenda sayes G. Voss. De Scient Mathemat BARTHOLOMAEUS VESPUCIUS a Florentine publick Professour of Astronomy in the University of Padua where he drew many into admiration of his Learning He commented in Sphaeram Sacrobosci and put forth an Oration in Laudem Quadrivii sive Quatuor Disciplinarum Mathematicarum chiefly of Astrology JOHANNES GANIVETUS of the Order of Minime Fryars at Vienna put forth a small Astronomical Treatise beginning with these words Quod Coeli enarrant c. To which he added an Abbreviation of Aben-Ezra De Luminaribus Diebus Criticis with the Astrology of Hippocrates as Gesner affirms Printed at Lyons in the year 1508. JOHANNES EZLER of Mentz published a Piece entitled Speculum Astronomicum in which he treats of the Causes of the Errours in Astrology proceeding from the neglect of the Equation of Time He put forth likewise the Theory of the Planets and of the Eighth Sphere Printed at Basil by Henricus Petri 1509. Unà cum Theoricis Purbacchii JACOBUS LOCHER PHILOMUSUS GERMANUS wrote among other things a Treatise De Cometa mentioned by Simler in Bibl. Gesner AUGUSTINUS RICCIUS of Casal wrote a learned Treatise Of the Motion of the Eighth Sphere in which he professes to have learnt Astronomy of Abraham Zaguti at Carthage and Salamanca He wrote likewise an Epistle touching the Authours of Astronomy wherein he shews the same to have come originally from the Hebrews In which Work of his sayes Simler in Bibl. Gesner are contained Platonica quaedam antiqua Magiae Dogmata JOHANNES VERNERUS of Norimberg Successour to Ioh. Regiomontanus and Bernardus Walterus commented upon Ptolemy's Geography wrote De motu Octavae Sphaerae and published Astronomical Tables In the year 1514. he observed the Sun's greatest Declination to have been 23° 28′ and the distance of the first Star in Aries from the Equinoctial Point 26° LUDOVICUS VITALIS a Bolognian Astronomer flourished about this time as Ricciolus Chronolog Astronom affirms though without any mention of his Works JOHANNES HEREMITA of Ferrara is by Ricciolus in Chronic. Astronom stiled Geometra Astronomus non vulgaris but he gives no particular account of his Works or Writings PAULUS MIDDLEBURGENSIS Bishop of Fossombrone or Forum Sempronii wrote XIV Books of the Emendation of the Calendar and Observation of Easter in which Work he not only treats of the Romane Account but also of the Iewish Egyptian and Arabian Years having therein designed the exact Doctrine of all Times He wrote likewise XIX Books of the Year and Day of our Saviour's Nativity and Passion and other Pieces of like Argument Voss. de Scient Mathemat He writ Prognosticon ostendens Anno Dom. 1524. Nullum neque Universale neque Particulare Diluvium futurum Forum Sempronii 1523. JOANNES STOEFLERUS JUSTINGENSIS Professour of Mathematicks at Tubingue wrote a Treatise De fabrica usu Astrolabii He likewise composed Ephemerides Calendarium Romanum Magnum dedicated to Maximilian the Emperour and Astronomical Tables and wrote a large Commentary in Sphaeram Procli His Death or the occasion thereof at least was very remarkable if the Story be true Having found by calculation that upon a certain Day his life was like to be endangered by some ruinous accident and the day being come to divert his thoughts from the apprehension of the danger threatning him he invites some Friends of his into his Study where after discourse entring into some dispute he to decide the controversie reaches for a Book but the Shelf on which it stood being loose came down with all the Books upon him and with its fall so bruised him that he died soon after of the hurt Voss. in Addend ad Scient Mathemat But the whole Story of his Death of which some make Calvisius the Authour is false by the Testimony of Io. Rudolphus Camerarius Genitur 69. Centur. 2. who had it from Andreas Ruttellius his Auditour for he died of the Plague at Blabira Febr. 16. 1531. in the 78 th year of his Age happening according to Calculation if you will believe it from the Direction of ☉ to ♂ ALBERTUS PIGHIUS besides his other learned Historical Works wrote of the Observation of the Solstices and Equinoxes Of the Restitution or Emendation of the Calendar and a Defence of Astrology against some Prognosticatours of his Time particularly an Apology against the New Astronomy of Marcus Beneventanus a Celestine-Monk traducing the Opinions of all Modern Astronomers touching the motion of the Eighth Sphere JOHANNES HASFURT VIRDUNGUS a Germane Astronomer set forth Tables by him entitled Tabulae Resolutae for supputation of the Celestial Motions Printed at Norimberg by Iohannes Petreius in the year 1542. He published likewise in the year 1521. Prognosticon upon the stupendious Conjunction of the Planets which was to happen in the year 1524. following with some other Prognosticks of his written in High-Dutch as Gesner affirms He writ likewise Novam Medicinae Methodum quâ ex Mathematica ratione curandi rationem ostendit Printed Helingae Hagenoae 1532. and set out afterwards with a Commentary by Ioannes Paulus Galluccius Venet.
DE PRATO a Carmelite Fryar Doctour in Theology and an eminent Astronomer Tutour to Iunctinus by whom in his Preface to his Tabulae Resolutae he is reported to have observed the Planets for several years viz. from the year 1536. to 1542. PAULUS CRUSIUS published a Treatise wherein he sets forth the Doctrine of the Sun's Revolutions and Tables of the mean Conversions of â—…ime and of the Sun's motion in Annis Tropicis Sideriis ANGELUS FORTIUS Doctour of Physick is by Gesner in Biblioth reckoned as an eminent Astrologer ANTONIUS DE MONTULMO Doctour of Arts and Physick published a Book De judiciis Nativitatum illustrated with the additions of Io. Monteregiâ—…s Printed at Norimberg 1540. JOHANNES MASSAEUS put forth twenty Books of Chronology from the beginning of the World to the year now mentioned to which he prefixed a fourfold Calendar to wit the Egyptian Hebrew Macedonick and Roman Voss. De Scient Mathemat FRANCISCUS MAUROLYCUS Abbot of Messena in Sicily whom Ricciolus calls Siciliae Lumen clarissimum wrote three Books of Cosmography intended as a Comment upon Ptolemy's Almagest To him we are beholding for Theodosius's Sphaerica and those of Menelaus which he first of all published He put forth a Piece De Lineis Horariis Fabricam Astrolabii and divers other Works mentioned in the beginning of his Cosmography He was the first that wrote of Secant Lines as Blancanus affirms He left likewise behind him a Posthume Work entituled De Lumine Umbra and many Treatises unprinted as appears at the End of his Opusâ—…ula and though it be beside our Argument yet in regard it is not well known we think fit to mention that Alphonsus Borellius published in Sicily about 1656. the Comment of Maurolycus on the first four Books of Apollonius his Conicks with two more of the said Authours of which if there were Copies they would be grateful to Students and more acceptable than that of Commandinus in which the Text and Comment lie dispersed which Inconvenience is avoyded in that of Maurolycus the said Borellius is likewise now about publishing Maurolycus his Archimedes at Rome JOHANNES ANTONIUS DELPHINUS of Casal Provincial of the Franciscan Order wrote and dedicated to Camillus Palaeottus a Senator of Bologna a Book De Caelestibus Globis Motibus full of Erudition as Ricciolus affirms PHILIPPUS MELANCTHON among other the numerous Volumes by him published set forth Tabula de Mensibus Graecorum Descriptiones Eclipsium Solis Lunae annis jam aliquot visarum usque ad Annum 1540. and translated out of Greek into Latine Ptolemy's four Books De Syderum effectionibus V. Simler AUGUSTINUS NIPHUS PHILOTHEUS SUESSANUS who by his great Learning gained to himself the Title of Philosophus Magnus among other the various Works by him published writ as to our purpose a particular Treatise De figuris Stellarum Helionoricis in two Books Another De Diebus Criticis seu Decretoriis a third De falsa Diluvii Prognosticatione quae ex conventu omnium Planetarum qui in Piscibus contingeret anno 1524. divulgata est in three Books addressed to the Emperour Charles the Fifth He wrote likewise Eruditiones in Apotelesmata Ptolemaei Annotationes in Librum secundum Ejusdem Quadripartiti mentioned wiâ—…h the rest by Simler in Bibl. Gesner JACOBUS PELETARIUS a French man besides his Geometrical Works wrote De Constitutione Horoscopi He published likewise Astronomical Tables â—…and a Compendium of Astronomical Fractions as also of the Sun's place and that of the Moon in the Zodiack ERASMUS OSWALDUS SKREKENFUSIUS of Austria Disciple according to Ricciolus to Henricus Glareanus according to Vossius to Seâ—…stianus Munsterus Professor at Freiburg in Brisgaw of the Hebrew Tongue and Mathematicks wrote a Comment in Sphaeram Sacrobosci Annotations on 〈◊〉 Almagest put forth a Book De Primo Mobili and of the Theory of the Planâ—… Another De Gentium Calendariis and translated out of Hebrew into Latine the Sphere of Rabbi Abraham Cai. JOACHINUS CAMERARIUS of Bamberg a Town in Franconia put forth at Norimberg in the year 1532. several Greek Astrological Authours by him translated into Latine as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive Rationem Orbis Solaris likewise Excerpta ex Hephaestione Thebano De Duodecim Signis eorum effectis also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Quid Stellae Erraticae sive Quinque Planetae in unoquoque Zodiaci Signo significent These Pieces he set forth in Greek and Latine And in Latine only he published a Fragment of the first Book of Vettius Valens his Florida and in Greek only Mercurius Irismegistus his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Medicationes rationibus Astrologicis convenientes In the year 1535 he set forth at Norimberg in Verse Tùm Phaenomena sive Siderum ac Stellarum Historiolam tùm Prognostica And in the year 1541. he published the two first Books of Ptolemy De Iudiciis Astrologicis by him translated into Latine and illustrated with Annotations We are obliged to him likewise for the first publication of Theon Alexandrinus his eleven Books of Commentaries upon Ptolemy's Almagest which he caused to be Printed at Basil by Walderus from a MS. of Cardinal Bessarion's brought into Germany by Regiomontanus See more of this eminently learned Person in G. Vossius L. de Scient Mathemat RAINERUS GEMMA FRIZIUS Physician and Professor of Mathematicks at Lovaine put forth a Book of the use of the Globe and the Astronomical Ring De Principiis Astronomiae Cosmographiae De Astrolabio Catholico c He left his Son Cornelius Gemma his Successour in the Professor's Place JOANNES GUIDO wrote De Observat. Temporis Astrorum Printed at Paris 1543. CLAUDIUS MARIUS ARETIUS a Patrician of Syracuse and Historiographer to the King of Spain wrote a Comment by way of Dialogue upon this Verse of Virgil's Defectus Lunae varios Solisque labores BUCHARDUS MITHOBIUS wrote a Piece entituled Compositiâ—…â—…li Astronomici Printed together with the Treatise of Iohannes Driander De Annulâ—… Astronomicis as Simler affirms MICHAEL ANGELUS BLONDUS Doctour of Physick wâ—…ote and dedicated to Pope Paul III. a Book De Diebus Criticis and to Rudolphus Cardinal of Carpegna another De Anticipatione Stellarum fixarum cuâ—… 〈◊〉 significationibus COELIUS CALCAGNINUS among the various Works by him published set forth a Paraphrase on the three Books of Aristotle's Meteors A Commentation Quod Coelum stet Terra moveatur De Mensibus De Re Nautica See more of him in Simler Bibl. Gesner GEORGIUS PILANDER published a Book De Annulo Astronomico aut Sphaerico POMPILIUS AZALUS writ De omnibus Rebus naturalibus quae continentur in Mundo viz. De Coelestibus de Terrestribus Mathematicis Printed at Venice in Folio as Simler in Bibl. Gesner testifies JOHANNES STADIUS Professour of the Mathematicks and History first at Paris afterwards at Lovaine put
gave him the Island Huena commonly called Ween between Scania and Zeland in the Baltick Sound as a Place for his Retirement and Studies Where causing to be built a Stately Pallace to which he gave the Name of Uranoburgum procuring most costly and exquisite Instruments for observing and calling to his Assistance the most learned Astronomers of that Age he happily began and made his glorious Progress in the Instauration of Astronomy In which Work he is said to have expended no less than two hundred thousand Crowns And as Copernicus had corrected many things in Ptolemy so did Tycho no less in Copernicus So that from thence the Learned World began to look upon only three chief Sects of Astronomers whereof the Tychonick was the mean and middle between the Pythagorean or Copernican and the Aristolean or Ptolemaick Of his Works there are published Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata in three Parts whereof the first treats of the Restitution of the Sun's Motion as also of the Moon 's and the fixed Stars chiefly of the new Star which appeared in the Constellation of Cassiopaea 1572. The second of several new Phaenomena's of the Aetherial World more particularly of the Comet which appeared in the year 1577. The third and last contains his Astronomical Epistles to divers Persons There is extant likewise a Book of his entituled Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica dedicated by him to the Emperor Rudolphus the Second describing the several stupendious and costly Instruments by him used in his Astronomical Instauration To these is to be added his Historia Coelestis being a Collection of twenty years Observations preserved in MS. by three mighty Emperors Rudolph the Second Ferdinand the Second and Ferdinand the Third and lately by Command of his Imperial Majesty Leopold made publick at Ausburg Which said Observations are ushered by a Liber Prolegomenâ—… compendiously representing the Observations made from the time of the Infancy of Astronomy unto that of it's Restauration by the Illustrous Tycho reduced into 7. Class containing the Babylonian Observations the Grecian the Alexandrian the Syro-Persian the Norimbergian the Borussian and mixt Observations from the year 1529. to the year 1582. After which begin the Tychonick Observations in twenty Books containing as many Annual Observations ending in the year 1601. which was the last of Tycho's life A correct Copy of these Observations transcribed from the Original by Erasmus Bartholinus being now likewise in the Press at Paris See more of him in his life written by the excellent Gassendus in six Books PETRUS BEAUSARDUS Doctor of Physick and Regius Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Lovain wrote of the Astronomical Ring or the Armilla THADDAEUS HAGGECIUS of Haic Disciple to Ioachimus Camerarius and Physician to the Emperour Maximilian the Second put forth a Piece entituled Dialexis touching the New Star in Cassiopaea whose several Arguments see reported and examined by Tycho Progymn Tom. 1. JOHANNES RASEH at Munichen wrote De Cometarum Significationibus about the year 1573. About the same time GEORGIUS BUSCHIUS Pictor Astronomus Erfordiensis as Ricciolus stiles him wrote of the Star which appeared in Cassiopaea And ANTONIUS SANTUTIUS Professor of Mathematicks at Pisa wrote De Cometis in which he treats of the same Star WOLFANGUS SCHULERUS Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Wittemberg wrote upon the same Subject in answer to Caspar Peucerus the Younger his Proposals touching the said New Star FRANCISCUS BORDINUS of Correggio Doctor of Arts and Physick and Publick Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Bologna published Chilias Quaestionum Responsorum Mathematicorum ad cognitionem Universi pertinentium divided into three Parts the first treating of Geometry the second of Geography and the last in a more ample manner of Astronomy Printed at Bologna JACOBUS SCHOL of Strasbourg Doctor of Physick set forth a Book wherein he reduces Theses aliquot rei Medicae simplicioris Integritati Astronomicae He published likewise a Book De brevi applicatione Astrologiae ad Medicinam with Canons of their conveniency and agreement Extant in the King's Library at St. Iames's JOHANNES FRANCISCUS OFFUSIUS wrote De Divina Astrorum Facultate in Larvatam Astrologiam Printed at Paris in the year 1574. HERMANNUS WITTEKINDUS Professor of Mathematicks at Heidelberg published a small Tractate De Sphera Mundi Temporis Ratione apud Christianos Printed at Newstadt in the year 1590. He put forth also a Piece entituled Conformatio Horologiorum in superficiebus planis utcunque sitis with a Horological Quadrant Printed at Heidelberg ADAMUS à BODENSTEIN Son of Andreas Doctor of Physick at Basil writ De Herbis duodecim Zodiaci signis dicatis as Simler affirms in Bibl. Gesner LUDOVICUS LAVATERUS of Zurich besides his Book De Spectris Lemuribus magnis atque insolitis fragoribus variisque Praesagitionibus quae plerunque Hominum magnas clades mutationésque Imperiorum praecedunt wrote a large Catalogue of Comets published at Zurich by Gesner ANDREAS ROSA SINGFURDENSIS MEDICUS in his Prognostick published 1574. made some Observations upon the Star in Cassiopaea JOSIAS SIMLERUS Author of the Epitome of Gesner's Bibliotheca put forth two Books De Principiis Astronomiae FRANCISCUS JUNCTINUS a Florentine Doctor in Theology Professor of Philosophy and Astronomy put forth Speculum Astrologicum Tabulis Astronomicis multiplici eruditione refertum according to the Judgement of Ricciolus and wrote accurate Commentaries in Sphaeram Sacrobosci as Vossius calls them He left likewise two Treatises Ad judicandum De Revolutionibus Astrorum and a large Commentary upon Ptolemy's Quadripartite with a Catalogue of the most famous Persons of his Time and some Ages before him Printed together in folio GODESCALCUS EBERBACHIUS wrote of the Eclipse of the Moon which happened in December 1573. with a brief Prognostick thereupon according to the Doctrine of Ptolemy He published likewise the Reason of another Eclipse of the Moon which happened in the year 1576. demonstrated Geometrically and Printed at Erford as Draudius affirms SIXTUS SENENSIS of the Order of Preaching Fryars put forth by way of Comment upon the Scripture one Book of Geographical another of Astronomical Questions EGNATIUS DANTE 's of Perugio a Dominican and publick Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Bologna wrote of the use of the Astrolabe and the making of Astronomical Instruments and reduced Astronomy with other Mathematical Sciences into a Compendium He erected a Gnomon in the Church of St. Petronio at Bologna for observing the Sun's Declination and Equinoctial Armillae in the Church-wall of St. Maria Novella at Florence for the observation of the Equinox He first published the Optick Fragments of Heliodorus Larissaeus in Italian in which there is something Astronomical of which another Edition hath been published in Greek and Latine at Paris in 1657. by Erasmus Bartholinus in 4 o. and lately at Cambridge another in
8 o. Greek and Latine ad Hetrusâ—…i Codicis fidem ex Bibliotheca Fr. Lindenbrogii Printed at the end of the Opucsula Mythologica Ethica Physica set forth by Mr. Tho. Gale 1670. THOMAS BLEBELIUS wrote of the Sphere and of the first Rudiments of Astronomy Printed at Wittemberg in the year 1576. BARTHOLOMAEUS SCULTETUS GORLICIENSIS wrote of the Comet which appeared in the year 1557. Astronomicè Astrologicè of which see Tycho's censure lib. 2. p. 175. JOHANNES MARIA FIORNOVELLUS of Ferrara upon occasion of the Comet appearing in the year 1577. Published a small but learned Treatise De Cometis GUID ' UBALDUS or GUIDUS UBALDUS a Noble Italian Marquess of the Family DE MONTE besides other Signal Monuments of his great Skill in Mathematicks especially in Mechanicks set forth a Treatise of the Astrolabe and Perspective and left behind him being a Posthume Work divers Astronomical Problems as Ricciolus in Catalog Astron. and Vossius De Scient Mathemat testifie NICHOLAUS WINKLERUS of Hall or Hala in Suabe commonly called Schwabishe Hall to distinguish it from a Town of the same Name in Saxony wrote a small Piece wherein he proposes to demonstrate the Parallax and distance of the former Comet from the Center of the Earth but censured by Tycho to be a work full of enormous absurdities JOHANNES PRAETORIUS JOACHIMICUS wrote likewise upon the Comet appearing 1577. and occasionally upon the New Star in Cassiopaea happening not long before of which Tycho in Progymnas Tom. 1. HELIZAEUS ROESLINUS Published a Treatise entituled Theoria Coelestium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in which sayes Draudius in Bibl. Classica from the Phaenomena of divers Comets 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quaedam afferuntur de Novis cujusdam Miraculi Tertiae Sphaerae Circulis Polis Axi Printed at Strasbourg 1578. He assumed to himself as Raimarus Dithmarsus had done the Invention of the Tychonick System to which he added the exploded Solidity of the Celestial Orbs as Gassendus in vita Tychon testifies PAULUS CRUSIUS COBURGENSIS put forth a Treatise De Doctrina Revolutionum Solis cum Tabulis Mediarum Conversionum Temporis Motuum Solis in Annis Tropicis Sidereis Printed at Iena 1567. and another De Epochis seu Aeris Printed at Basil in 8 o. 1578. GEORGIUS CAESIUS put forth a Catalogue according to the Series of Time of all the Comets which appeared from the Flood until the year 1579. Printed at Norimberg the same year ANDREAS DUDITIUS wrote a small Comment De Cometarum significationibus to which is adjoyned the Opinion of Thomas Erastus Printed at Basil 1579. ALKAS CURIACUS in the year of Hegira 950. and of Christ 1580. writ Tables or Computus Astronomicus now extant in the Publick Library at Oxford VALENTINUS NAIBODA Professor of Mathematicks at Colen and Padua wrote Three Books of Astronomical Institutions and put forth an enarration of the Elements of Astrology collected out of Alchabitius and other Authors He was found dead in his House at Padua transfixed with many wounds having predicted that he should die by the Sword Vide Ricciol in Append. ad Tom. prim Almagest Nov. Campanellae Astrolog MARCUS ALBERTUS LONICERUS wrote of the Theory of the Celestial Motions according to the Hypothesis of Copernicus Printed at Colen 1583. JOHANNES BAPTISTA CARELLUS of Piacenza wrote Ephemerides together with a Treatise or Introduction to Astrology as Ricciol in Astron. Chron. affirms MAURITIUS BRESSIUS put forth Four Books Metrices Astronomicae Printed at Paris 1581. MATTHAEUS RICCIUS Native of Macerata a Town in Italy a Iesuit famous as well for his Travels into the East Indies and China as for his eminent Skill in the Mathematicks To ingratiate himself with the Chineses he is said to have Composed a Cosmographical Map of an Oval Form in which he ordered the Kingdom of China to be placed at large in the midst and the other Kingdoms and Territories about the skirts thereof in little the better to humour that proud conceited Nation He wrote likewise in the Chinese Tongue a Cosmographical Table which he illustrated with a Comment together with Cosmographical and Astrological Rules and divers other things for the benefit of that Nation ALOYSIUS LILIUS of Verona Doctor of Physick by Blancanus stiled Alter nostri aevi Sosigenes whose assistance Gregory XIII made use of in correcting and reforming the Iulian Calendar He invented a perpetual Cycle of the Moon and established the immutable and fixed seats of the Aequinoxes THOMAS ERASTUS an eminent Philosopher and Physician writ some thing upon the Subject of Astrology or rather against the Iudiciary Part Quam validis Argumentis confutavit sayes the excellent Thuanus in Histor. ad Ann. 1583. SIXTUS ab HEMINGA called likewise by Vossius Simon ab Heminga a Native of Friezland of a Noble Family Doctor of Physick and an excellent Astronomer in his Youth much addicted to Judiciary Astrology but afterwards having detected the falsity of that vain Study by his inspection into the Genitures of thirty most eminent Persons he put forth a Book in confutation thereof wherein he chiefly oppugns Cyprianus Leovitius Hieronymus Cardanus and Lucas Gauricus JOHANNES PADUANUS wrote of the various Composition and use of Sun-Dials together with a Method or Tables for supputation of the Hours according to the several Regions of the World and distinguishing the Places of the Stars Printed at Venice and Verona in the years 1582. and 1583. as Draudius affirms ALBERTUS LEONINUS sive LEUWIUS a Groenwood Native of Utrecht of a generous Family Doctor of the Civil Law and eminently learned in the Mathematicks put forth the Theory of the Celestial Motions according to the Doctrine of Copernicus In which he likewise treats of the true Quantity of the Tropical year and of the Reason of the Reformation or Restitution of the Civil year In the same Work likewise he gives an Introduction to Astronomy Geography and Horography He wrote also against Judiciary Astrology REMBERTUS DODONAEUS Published a Cosmographical Institution of the Sphere comprehending the Principles of Astronomy and Geography Printed at Antwerp 1584. JOANNES BAPTISTA BENEDICTUS a Noble Venetian invited from Parma to Turin by the Duke of Savoy in the year 1566. to answer several Questions proposed in Arithmetick Geometry Astronomy Opticks and Musick to which he endeavoured to give satisfaction and solution by his learned Epistles published in the year 1585. He was an Excellent Geometer and Tutor to Clavius NICHODEMUS FRISCHLINUS wrote Five Books De Astronomicae Artis cum Doctrinâ Coelesti Naturali Philosophiâ congruentiâ Printed at Francfori in the year 1586. SALOMON PLEPPIUS wrote a new Explication of the Motion of the utmost Heaven called the Prime Mover Printed in the year 1587. HENRICUS DECIMATOR put forth a small Treatise as well of the Fixed Stars as Planets serving
not only for the use of Astronomers but also Poets Printed at Magdeburg 1587. JOSEPHUS SCALA a Sicilian composed Ephemerides continuing from the year of Christ 1589. to the year 1600. JOSEPHUS AURIA a Neopolitane whom Blancanus commends as if he were another Commandinus for his learned Labours in translating divers of the Ancient Greek Mathematicians in particular and to our purpose Autolycus De Sphaera Mobili Euclidis Phaenomena Theodosius Tripolita De Habitationibus De Diebus Noctibus CHRISTOPHORUS ROTHMANNUS was Mathematician to the Illustrious William Landtgrave of Hesse He made his Celestial Observations at Cassels at the same time as Tycho did his at Uranoburg and besides his accurate Piece upon the Comet which appeared in the year 1585. There are extant in the first Tome of Tycho Brahe's Epistles divers Letters of his to Tycho with Tycho Brahe's Answers to him touching several Controversies in Astronomy SIMON STEVINUS of Bruges Mathematician to Maurice Prince of Aurange put forth among other Works of his Theories of the Planets and Tables of the Celestial Motions in Three Books DAVID WOLKENSTEIN VRATISLAVIENSIS a Silesian writ an accurate Description of the Astronomical Horologe at Strasbourg where he was Professor of Mathematicks extant in Manuscript in the hands of my worthy Friend Mr. Thomas Gale JACOBUS CHRISTMANNUS Publick Professor of Mathematicks and the learned Languages at Heidelberg translated into Latine out of a Manuscript in the Elector Palatine's Library Alfraganus's Chronological and Astronomical Elements which he supplied and illustrated with various Scholia to which he annexed a Comment wherein he explained the Roman Egyptian Arabian Persian Syriac and Hebrew Calendar He put forth likewise divers Solar Observations therein explicating the true Motion of the Sun in the Zodiack accommodating the Doctrine of Triangles to the apparent motion of the Heavens He wrote likewise of the Theory of the Moon grounded upon a new Hypothesis for finding out the Moon 's true place in the Zodiack and several other Pieces as well in Astronomy and Chronology as in Geometry JOHANNES BAPTISTA PORTA a Noble Neapolitane published an Interpretation of the first Book of Ptolemy's Almagest with the Commentary of Theon thereupon not to mention his twenty Books of Natural Magick Printed in most of the Europaean Languages He writ also an Excellent Book of Opticks and of Celestial Physiognomy FRANCISCUS VIETA a French-man Native of Fontenay whom Ricciolus entitles Gallicanae Matheseos insigne decus besides his many other excellent Works in Geometry and other Parts of the Mathematicks He exhibited to Pope Clement VIII a new form of the Gregorian Calendar to which he added perpetual Canons and an Explication thereof against Clavius whom he accused to have Deformed the true Lilian Reformation by not rightly understanding the Reason of it touching which Controversie Thuanus in the 129 th Book of his History writes more particularly But the Work of his chiefly pertinent to our Subject and whose Loss cannot be sufficiently deplored was his Harmonicon Coeleste which being communicated to Mersennus was by some perfidious Acquaintance of that honest-minded Person surreptitiously taken from him and irrecoverably lost or suppressed to the unspeakable detriment of the Letter'd World Vide Buliald Prolegom in Astron. Phil. The learned Golius had it and Sir Alexander Hume from hence imparted another Copy both which 't is feared are lost there being no Impression made thereof and Golius being since dead his Collections whereof he had many in Arabick are said to be dispersed and which is to be pitied carried back by a Iew into Turkey JANUS DOUZA the Learned Son of as Learned a Father sometimâ—… Tutor to Henry Frederick Prince of Orange and the first Keeper of the Publick Library in the University of Leyden Published among other his Writings Rerum Coelestium Libri De Umbra sive Umbrae Encomium Printed at Leiden apud Raphelengium 1590. 8 o. JOHANNES BUSAEUS NOVIOMA GENSIS of the Society of Iesus wrote an Apologetical Disputation in behalf of the Gregorian Calendar against Iacobus Herbrandus a Divine of Tubingue of whom more in Ribadeneira lib. De Scriptor Soc. Iesu. GULIELMUS ADOLPHUS SCRIBONIUS wrote a Spherical Institution published together with Zacharias Parthenius his Notes at Francfort 1591. PETRUS RYFF wrote concerning the Sphere as also touching the Principles of Astronomy and Geography Published in the year 1591. THOMAS DIGGES Son of Leonard Digges before mentioned of whom Tycho Brahe Progymnasm l. 1. gives this Elogy that he was â—…nerosi Stemmatis Vir Eximius Mathematicus wrote a Book entituled Alae Sâ—…alae Mathematicae being a Treatise about calculating Parallaxes Printed 1573. He published likewise his Pantometria and some other Mathematical Tractates in the year 1591. ANTONIUS LUPICINUS an Italian writ in that Language Dâ—…lle Verghe Astronomiche Printed at Florence 1591. GEORGIUS BACHMANNUS put forth an Epitome of the Doctrine of the Primum Mobile comprehending a brief exposition of all the Celestial Circles and Appearances to which is added a small Treatise De Doctrina Sphaerica Printed at Wittemberg 1591. HENRICUS RANTZOVIUS a Noble Dane and Viceroy in the Dutchy of Schleswick Holsatia and Ditmars put forth Calendarium Romanum Oeconomicum Ecclesiasticum Astronomicum fere perpetuum and an Astrological Treatise collected out of the most ancient and best Authors of Judiciary Astrology Printed at Francfort by Wechelius also Locorum Hylegiâ—…lium ad quodvis Tempus datum Directiones He writ also a Catalogue of Emperours Princes and other Illustrious Persons who had either affected promoted or studied Astrology A Treatise De Veritate Astrologica and another De Annis Climactericis c. Printed at Leipsick 1584. JOANNES PAULUS GALLUCIUS Published Theatrum Mundi Temporis Printed at Venice 1589. Likewise Speculum Uranicum there Printed in the year 1593. And Della Fabrica Uso di diversi Stromenti di Astronomia Cosmographia Printed in the year 1597. Also De Figura Coelesti erigenda with some other Tractates of like Nature FEDERICUS BONAVENTURA wrote De Affectionibus Meteorologicis De vero Ortu Occasu Siderum De Stellarum significationibus c. Printed at Venice 1594. He hath written also upon Theophrastus De Ventis and upon Ptolemy De Siderum Ortu Occasu and in his Book De Octomestri Partu shews himself not ill affected to Astrology GULIELMUS HARTGILL an English-man put forth Tabulae Astronomicae Universales Printed at London 1594 and Reprinted 16 with Additions by Iohn Gadbury of London BERNARDINUS BALDUS Disciple to Federicus Commandinus of whom Vossius gives this Charecter that he was Vir non solum Mathesios universae peritissimus sed etiam ut Germanicam Gallicam Slavonicam Linguam omittam Latinè Graecè Hebraicè Chaldaicè Arabicè Doctissimus Not to mention his many curious Works in other Parts of the Mathematicks well
for making of Celestial Observations perhaps the same with Avicenna ALKASRANUS MAHMOUD IB'N MESAUD ASSIJTARI IBRAHIM IB'N ALI ALABASHI ALGJMDE OMMAR ALFARESKOURI ALI IB'N ALHAZEN IB'N IBRAHIM IB'N MAHAMMED IB'N ALHUMAM HAKIM ALMUGJAREITI CHALIN ALFAKI IB'N SARCALI SJAHAB ADDIN ALI ALHAZEN IB'N ALI IB'N MUHAMMED IB'N IBRAHIM ALMERWAZI all Arabian and Persian Authors wrote upon the Subject of Astronomy and are mentioned in Iacobus Golius his Catalogue of Manuscripts to which may be added HELVENOR Astrologus and GERGIRO De Significatione Planetarum mentioned by Simler ABI'L ASSAKER ABDOL AZIZ IB'N KOBERSI wrote an Astronomical Introduction mentioned in the foresaid Catalogue of Golius OMAD EDDIN ALBOCHARI an Arabian wrote a Treatise of the Figure and Motion of the Moon and Mercury ABU'L ALI ALMARASKOSJI wrote a most accurate Treatise of the use of the Astrolabe ALCAJIM put forth very exquisite Astronomical Tables MUHAMMED IB'N ALI CHAR ARMIOUNI put forth an Astronomical Institution touching the supputation of Time and the motion of the Sun There is also among the same Manuscripts of Golius an anonymous Treatise in the Persian Language Of the Figures and Motion of the Stars together with a Latine Version thereof by JUSTUS RAPHELENGIUS ABEN MERGIOUR wrote Virtutes Oppositionum Conjunctionum Saturni Iovis juxta Sententias Antiquorum mentioned in the Catalogue of Golius his Manuscripts NEDAMENIN wrote a Treatise De variis Annorum formis Rebus Coelestibus TEILESANUS published Astronomical Canons SIDIN SHERIFFUS wrote Elementa Astronomica perhaps the same with Ali Escheriff who put forth likewise Tabulae expeditae Motuum Coelestium extant among Golius his MS. JOHANNES LEBDEBENHAZER writ De Iudiciis Astrorum said to be in his Majesties Library at St. Iames's JARDAGIRD ALEXANDRINUS otherwise called CHILVENUZ wrote De Scientia Annorum Arabum the Manuscript whereof is extant in Caius Colledge at Cambridge THOMAS De Iudiciis Astrorum a Manuscript extant in the Library of Merton Colledge at Oxford and in that of Gonvil and Caius Colledge in Cambridge HELIODORUS LARISSAEUS writ Optica De Septem Planetis his Opticks lately Printed at Cambridge HERACLIDES his Apotelesmata are by Labbeé said to be in Bibliotheca Cardinal Carpens and that of the French King AEGIDIUS ROMANUS wrote a Treatise De essentia motu significatione Cometarum extant in MS. in the Publick Library as also in that of Pembroke-Hall at Cambridge PETRUS LEMONIENSIS a Canon of the Cathedral of York wrote a Piece entituled Iudicium De Stella Cometa extant in MS. in the Publick Library at Cambridge CHRISTIANUS ROLIANUS put forth totius Orbis Generalis Descriptio Sphaera extant in the French King's Library BERNARDUS SYLVESTRIS wrote a Treatise entituled Megacosmus seu De Majori Mundo as also of Cosmography a MS. whereof is extant in Benet-Colledge in Cambridge JACOBUS ZALESE wrote De Dierum Aequationibus contra Propositiones Bartholomaei De Valentia extant in MS. in the Library of Nicolaus Trevisanus of Padua and mentioned by Thomasinus in Bibl. Patavin JOHANNES DE INERIIS a Picard of the Dlocese of Amiens wrote a Treatise entituled Canones super magnum Almanach omnium Planetarum calculated for the Meridian of Paris of which a Manuscript is in Caius and Gonvil Coll. ARCANDAM or ARCANDUM and ALCANDRINUS as some name him writa Book De Veritatibus Praedictionibus Astrologiae Printed at Paris in the year 1542. 8 o. Published by Richard Roussat Canon of Lingon HABASH MERWAZENSIS wrote three Books of Astronomical Tables the first composed according to the Rules Send Hend the second called Montahen i. e. approved by experience the last Tabularum minorum entituled Alshah as Abulpharagius in Histor. Dynast ABDALLA EB'N SAHEL EB'N NUBACHT wrote likewise upon the same Subject ALEXANDER an Astronomer wrote De Influentia Planetarum in Herbas extant in MS. in the Library of Io. Rhodius of Padua of which Thomasinus in Bibliothec Patavin MAHOMED AL-BUZIANI besides several Books which he set forth in Arithmetick composed a Treatise which he entituled Almagestum sive Systema Astronomicum as Abulpharagius attests MOSES EB'N MAIMON of Corduba a Iew together with Yuseph Eb'n Yahya corrected the Astronomy of Eb'n Aphla Hispanus as the same Abulpharagius affirms ANDALIUS DE NIGRIS wrote De Sphaera in Theorias Planetarum Planisphaerium Ptolemei and Astrolabium mentioned by Thomasinus in Bibliothec. Patavin yet extant among the MS. of Nicolaus Trivisanus GHAMINAEUS an Arabian Astrologer wrote in Arabick of Astrology with a twofold Prolix Commentary in the Moorish Character a Book commended by Scaliger and remaining in the Library at Leyden among the Manuscripts by him bequeathed to that University as Hottinger affirms in Append. Smegmat Orient ABENHAM writ De Astronomia now extant in MS. in the Cottonian Library JOANNES LAURATIUS or LAURENTIUS DE FUNDIS wrote De Sphaera Theorica Planetarum extant in MS. in the Library of Io. Rhodius of Padua of which Thomasinus in Bibliothec. Patavin AVIENUS or as others ABIENUS wrote a Tract De Cometis as Simler in Bibl. Gesner affirms MICHAEL HAVEMAN put forth a Treatise entituled Astraea in qua de Hypothesibus Astrosophorum disseritur AMBROSIUS LACHER according to the Testimony of Geâ—…ner writ quaedam De Astronomia who makes no mention of the Time wherein he flourished nor of the particular Subject he wrote upon HENRICUS DOPELSTIN or TOPELSTEIN Doctor of Physick wrote a Book De Iudiciis Astrorum mentioned by Simler in Bibl. Gesner JOHANNES ZINERIS is mentioned by Gesner among the Astronomers and he farther affirms that his Astronomical Tables are extant but assigns not the time wherein he flourished ALACENUS a Mathematician an ancient English Author of whom Balaeus writes that he deserved Astrologi Peritissimi nomen wrote Of Perspective and De Ascensione Nubium Of the time wherein he flourished no Author we can meet withal gives any account ARNOLDUS DE VILLA NOVA wrote Compendium Astrologiae ad Utilitatem Medicorum extant in MS. in the Library of the Canons of St. Io. Lateran of Padua See Thomasinus in Bibliothec. Patavin ALDILAZITH ASTROLOGUS writ a Book entituled Archibia as Gesner from the authority of Gulielmus Pastregicus L. De Inventoribus rerum assirms Printed at Venice in the year 1547. by Nicholaus Bascorinus MASLEM an Astronomer translated Ptolemy's Planispaerium out of the Greek into the Arabian Tongue as Rudolphus Brugensis relates in the Preface of his Latine Translation of the same Work MORIENTES a certain Greek Author writ De Zonis Climatibus Mundi extant as the Author Luminis Animae affirms in his Preface adding that it was by him translated out of Greek into Latine See Simler in Bibl. Gesner RAYMYRUS GADITANUS wrote a Treatise which he entituled Divinatio Sideralis mentioned by Gesner STANTONIUS an expert English Mathematician wrote In Canones Tabularum Arzahelis as Leland and Gesner affirm TRECHINDUS an Astronomer and Astrologer is often mentioned by Haly Aben-Ragel as Simler testifies in Bibl. Gesner ZAHEL sive
ZAEL or ZEEL BEBIS an Arabian Astrologer writ De Interrogationibus De Electionibus De Temporum Significationibus in Iudiciis Printed at Venice 1493. together with Ptolemy's Quadripartitum vid. Gesner's Biblioth There is also under his name a Treatise entituled De Revolutionibus Annorum Mundi extant in Manuscript in the Publick Library at Cambridge and in that of Pembroke-Hall MAHUMED BEN MALUD wrote learned Commentaries on the Book of Tap Phatis Scihajah de Astronomia extant in the Vatican Library of which mention is made by Labbeé in Bibliothec. MS. NECTARIUS Bishop of Hydrusa turned the Book called Laxeuterion treating of Astrological Predictions according to the Chaldaick Doctrine into Greek now extant in the Library of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge and in that of the French King Scaliger L. 1. Epist. 67. gives to that Piece likewise the Name of Raboulion and the Publisher of the Florentine Library makes an Author of it citing him by the Name of Laxeuterius Pythagoricus sive Rabolius GULIELMUS READ sometime Fellow of Merton-Colledge in Oxford to the Library whereof he liberally contributed afterwards Bishop of Chichester writ Tables of the mean motions of the Planets and Canons of those Tables extant in the Publick Library at Oxford HALPERICUS wrote a Treatise De Arte calculatoria extant in Manuscript in Caius-Colledge in Cambridge JACOBUS ZALES wrote De Dierum Aequationibus contrà Propositiones Bartholomaei de Valentia as cited by Ia. Phil. Thomasinus inter MS. Nicolai Trivisani biblioth Patav. BERNARDUS DE TRYLLIA a Dominican Fryar and a Spaniard wrote Quaestiones super Totam Astrologiam as cited by Simler in Bibl. Gesner There is a Book entituled NOVEM IUDICUM IN ASTRONOMIA said to be sent by the Soldan of Babylon to Frederick the German Emperor Printed in the year 1509. and extant in his Majesty's Library at St. Iames's and in the Bodleian at Oxford Proceed we now in our former Order and Method to the ASTRONOMERS flourishing in the Seventeenth Century in which the first Author appearing is CHRISTOPHORUS CLAVIUS of Bamberg a Iesuit Scholar to Io. Baptista Benedictus and Master to Blancanus and Griembergerus a most profound Mathematician and Astronomer The Works whereby he hath signalized his Name upon the Subject of Astronomy are these His Commentary in Sphaeram Sacrobosci in Sphaerica Theodosii De Forma Usu Astrolabii His Apology for the Gregorian Calendar against the two Oppugners thereof Michael Maestlinus and Ioseph Scaliger and his Problemata Astronomica Printed at Rome 1599. HUGO GROTIUS the great Ornament of Learning and of his Country put forth Aratus his Phaenomena Diosemeia in Greek with Cicero Germanicus Caesar and Avienus their Translations thereof with Cuts of the several Constellations to which he added his own learned Notes and the names of the Stars in Hebrew Arabick Greek and Latine Printed in the year 1600. THEODOSIUS RUBEUS Published Diarum Universale perpetuum for finding out the Quantity of the Day or Night in any Part of the World together with the Rising and Setting of the Sun according to the Italick Babylonian and Astronomical Hours CHERUBINUS SANDâ—…LINUS is likewise numbred amongst the Astronomers of this Time as having written something upon the same Subject with the former HENRICUS SAMERIUS of Luxemburg a Iesuit stiled by Ricciolus Egregius Temporum Supputator Published a Chronology from the beginning of the World to the time of our Saviour's Nativity and is by Ricciolus inserted in his Catalogue of Astronomers JOHN CHAMBER Prebendary of Windsor and Fellow of Eaton-Colledge put forth a Treatise against Iudicial Astrology together with the Encomium or Praise of Astronomy made by him some years before upon Occasion of his Publick Lectures on Ptolemy's Almagest in the University of Oxford Printed in Latine and English 1601. 4 o. London ABRAHAMUS ROCHENBACKIUS at Wittenberg wrote De Cometis of which he published a Catalogue NATHANIEL TORPORLEY an English man born in Shropshire set forth a Treatise entituled Diclides Coelo-Metricae seu Valvae Astronomicae Universales in two Books Printed at London The first shewing the Composition of Astronomical Tables with their Application as to Directions comprized in a new Universal and most easie Method The second teaching to calculate the Prostaphaereses of the Planets Motions without the Subdititious Aid of Proportional Scruples and setting forth the Doctrine of Spherical Triangles most fully and easily the whole Artifice being reduced to Six Words in a Tractable Order represented in the Form or Figure of a Mitre He was sometime Amanuensis to the famous Vieta and merits commendation for the Legacy he bequeathed of many choice Books toward furnishing the Library at Sion Colledge London ANTONIUS GREVENSTEIN put forth a Supputation of all the Eclipses which happened from the year of Christ 1593. to this year 1601. together with the Tract of Proclus Diadochus touching the signification of Eclipses Printed at Breme by Bernardus Petri. JOHANNES BAYERUS RHEINANUS Doctor of the Civil Law and an eminent Astronomer exhibited elegant Schemes of all the Stars and Celestial Constellations with their several Situations according to the Descriptions of Hipparchus Ptolemy Alphonsus and Copernicus reduced to the Scale of Truth by Tycho Brahe together with their distinct Denominations in Latine Greek Arabick Chaldee Persian Sir CHRISTOPHER HEYDON Knight a Person of great Worth and Learning wrote a Defence of Iudicial Astrology in Answer to the Treatise of Chambers published against it a Work full of no common Reading and carried on with no mean Arguments Printed at Cambridge 1603. 4 o. THOMAS LYDYAT an English man in the year 1605. Published a Book entituled Praelectio Astronomica De Natura Coeli Elementorum and the same year another Piece De variis Annorum formis c. cum refutatione Anni Novitii Gregoriani In the year 1607. he writ Defensio Tractatus de variis Annorum Formis praesertim Antiquissima Optima contra Iosephi Scaligeri Obtrectationem Unà cum Examine Ejus Canonum Chronologiae Isagogicorum Another Book called Solis Lunae Periodus Eruditae Antiquitati Appellatus ANNUS MAGNUS constans Octodesexcentis Annis vertentibus Printed at London 1620. Epistola Astronomica ad D. H. Savilium Equit. Auratum de Anni Solaris Mensura pro Confirmatione Periodi Octodesexcentenariae Solis Lunae 8 o. Lond. 1621. BALTHAZAR CAPRA Published at Padua a Book entituled Tyrocinia Astronomica ADRIANUS ROMANUS Published in the year 1591. a Book entituled Ouranographia sive de Coelorum Numero Ordine Printed at Antwerp He set forth likewise in the year 1595. Theoria Calendariorum in five Parts Printed at Wirteberg 4 o. And in the year 1602. Universae Mathesis Idaea Printed Herbipol In the year 1606. he published Speculum Astronomicum wherein he represented the Motions of the Primum Mobile Printed at Lovaine 4 o. See more of him in Andreas Desselius his Bibliotheca Belgica JOANNES
an Apparatus ad Mathematicas Artes. He wrote likewâ—…e De Echometria and another 〈◊〉 entituled Instrumentum Horologiorum first published by Ricciolus his Scholar GALILAEUS GALILAEI the most excellent Philosopher and Mathematician of his Time was Son of Vincentius Galilaeus a Gentleman of Florence whose Ancestors for many Descents had the Honour to be reckoned among the Patricii of that City to which Name of Galilaeus Authors usually add that of Linceus from a famous Academy of Noble and Ingenuous Persons calling themselves the Lyncei instituted by the Illustrious Prince and Generous Maecenas Angelo Caesi Duke of Aqua Sparta of which he was a Member and singular Ornament The Works and Writings by which he hath eternized his Name are many both in Philosophy and Mathematicks of which such as are Pertinent to our Purpose we shall briefly enumerate He first applied the Belgick Perspective Glass by him meliorated to Celestial Objects by which he discovered that Iupiter was invironed with four smaller Stars or Planets commonly called his Guards or Satellites to whom in Honour of his Prince and Patron the Grand Duke of Thuscany he gave the Names of Sidera Medicaea By that he likewise discovered the different Phases of Saturn appearing now round now in an oblong form with two Handles or Ansae That Venus like the Moon had her waining and increasing and that the Moon 's Supersicies was like that of the Earth rising with Mountains and deprest into Vallies and Seas that the Fountain of Light the Sun had its Spots by which likewise he evinced that the Sun had a Circular Motion about its own Axis That the Via Lactea was a Congeries of numberless Lights or small Stars and that the nebulous Stars as that in the Head of Orion and that in the Praesepe or Manger of the Aselli are composed of such For which admirable Inventions and many more altogether unknown to the Ancients he merits eternal Honour especially for having communicated them to Posterity and so excellently and clearly demonstrated them by his learned Writings particularly by his Nuncius Sidereus and its Continuation by his History and Demonstration of the Solar Spots in three Letters to Marcus Velserus by his Letters to Signore Alfonso Antonini touching La Titubatione Lunare To which is to be added his Systema Cosmicum asserting the Copernican Hypothesis with his Defence thereof in Answer to the Objections brought from Scriptures Fathers and School-men written first in Italian and addressed to Katherine of Lorrain Grand Dutchess of Thuscany and since published in Latin and Italian together Not to mention his many other exquisite Tractates in Philosophy Geometry and other the most abstruse Parts of Mathematicks as not immediately relating to our Subject A farther Account of his Inventions or Discoveries is to be had in his life published by his Scholar Signore Viviani which we have not yet seen RUDOLPHUS GOCLENIUS Doctor of Physick and Professor in the University of Marpurg published in the present year 1615. his Urania with her two Daughters Astronomy and Astrology He likewise put forth a Cosmographical Treatise seu Sphaerae Mundi Descriptionis Rudimenta Printed at Cologne 1605. JOHANNES MICRAELLIUS Published a Manuduction to the use of the Celestial and Terrestrial Globe c. as Vossius affirms DAVID FABRICIUS a Friezlander Professor of Astronomy wrote Prognosticks of the years 1615 1616 and 1617. mentioned by Kepler in his Ephemerides DOMINIQUE JAQUINOT a French-man writ in his own Language of the Use of the Astrolabe together with a small Treatise of the Sphere Printed at Paris FRANCISCUS AGUILONIUS a Iesuit of Brussels was Professor of Philosophy at Doway and of Theology at Antwerp and one of the first that introduced Mathematical Studies into Flanders How far though not directly ex professo he contributed to Astronomy may appear by his six Books of Opticks and his Excellent Treatise of Projections of the Sphere REDEMPTUS BARANZANUS of Serravalle Professor at Annesium in Savoy of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy He wrote a Book entituled Uranoscopia sive Universa Coelorum Doctrina EMANUEL DIAZ a Iesuit at Cochine in India observed the Comet which appeared in the year 1618. and set forth a Treatise against the Opinion of those who conceive Comets to be sublunary and elementary Bodies JOHANNES LEUTECHOMIUS a Lorrainer of the Society of Iesus wrote Hilaria Mathematica De Horologiis De Cometa CAROLUS PISO a French man wrote in his own Language Speculum Cometae Anno 1618. WILLEBRODUS SNELLIUS à Royen Son of Radolphus Snellius published besides divers other Mathematical Treatises Eratosthenes Batavus sive De mensura Terrae and Tiphys Batavus sive Histiodromice He wrote likewise of the Comet which appeared in the year 1618. and published the Hessian and Bohemian Observations with his own Notes thereupon together with the Observations of Regiomontanus and Waltherus HORATIUS GRASSUS a Iesuit Native of Savona sometime Professor of Mathematicks in the Iesuits Colledge at Rome put forth an Astronomical Disputation touching Three Comets in the year 1618. And a Book entituled Libra Astronomica Philosophica wherein he undertakes to weigh and censure the Opinion of Galileo concerning Comets CAMILLUS GLORIOSUS Professor of Mathematicks at Padua wrote learnedly in a Treatise entituled Dissertatio Astronomico-Physica de Cometis and in another Piece entituled Responsio ad Controversias de Cometis Peripateticas and in some other things written against Claramontius and Licetus BENJAMIN URSINUS Mathematician to the Elector of Brandenburg put forth a new Canon of Logarithms and Trigonometry of which Work Crugerus gives this Character that it is Opus aestimationis immensae JOANNES DEKERIUS a Iesuit Native of Haesbruch in Flanders Professor of Philosophy sometime at Doway and of Divinity at Lovaine and Chancellour of Gratz wrote Theorems touching the year of our Saviour's Birth and Passion and Chronological Tables from the taking of Ierusalem by Pompey to its final eversion by Titus and several other Chronological Works not published ALEXANDER DE ANGELIS of Spoleto a Iesuit Professor of Theology and Prefect of the Schools in the Roman Colledge wrote Five Books In Astrologos Conjectores LIBERTUS FROIDMONT sive FROMONDUS vindicated his Name from Oblivion by his Dissertation upon the Comet which appeared in the year 1618. He writ likewise a Book entituled Anti-Aristarchus sive De Orbe Terrae immobili against Philippus Lansbergius as also a Reply entituled Vesta sive Anti-Aristarchi Vindex in answer to Lansbergius DAVID HERLICIUS lately Doctor of Physick at Stetin in Pomerania hath published many things relating to Astronomy and Astrology in the German Tongue In the Latin there is nothing of his come to my Notice more than his Prognosticon Astrologicum for the year 1619. which is done with so much Skill and Pains that it shews â—…e does not write like one of your Common Prognosticators JOHANNES
own Writings give us the clearest and the best Accompt By those that is to say his five remaining Books of Astronomicks for other Writings of his the learned World is not acquainted with he is represented to Us to have been an Excellent Mathematician Astronomer Astrologer a great Humanist Philosopher and which comprehends all the rest an admirable Poet. In Astronomy and Astrology he chiefly followed the Doctrine of the Chaldeans and Aegyptians In Philosophy though he was generally conversant in all the different Opinions of the Antients yet he more particularly adhered to that of the Stoicks with which he seems to have been throughly imbu'd as may appear by several Instances particularly that excellent Proem of his fourth Book a Taste of some Part of which We hold it not amiss to give the Reader It begins thus Quid tam sollicitis Vitam consumimus Annis Torquemurque metu caecaque Cupidine rerum c. Why waste We Life in Years of anxious Pain With fears tormented and blind Love of Gain Worn old with Cares not Age which in th' Acquest We loose and with no End of Wishes blest Act as to live still yet ne're live indeed So much more Poor as our Desires exceed What We have not We covet what We have We count not and though Nature little crave We hoard up Matter for vast Luxury And purchase Spoyl with Superfluity With Gain buy Loss as if the End of all Our Wealth were only to be Prodigal Lay Mortals Lay these Cares these Follies by All govern'd is by changeless Destiny That rules the World and Times long Courses run In a link'd Series not to be undon Ev'n in our Births We die and our last End Does on our Live's Original depend c. Of the Time or Manner of his Death We find Nothing recorded What Stock of Credit and Esteem he hath left behind him will best appear by the Censures which the ablest Criticks of these later Ages have given of him and of his Writings Some of which for the Reader 's Satisfaction we shall here enumerate JUDGEMENTS of the Learned on Manilius We begin with ALDUS MANUTIUS in his Edition of our Author Manilius sayes he was the first of all the Latines who wrote of Astronomy and therefore when in many Places of this Work he not a little glories therein deservedly to be born with for it is an Argument of no mean Wit and Industry to have explained such difficult Matter so aptly and so clearly in Verse as he hath done to have only attempted though not performed such a Design being abundantly Praise-worthy and Noble By ANGELUS POLITIANUS in Nutric He is stiled Bis Vates Doubly a Poet for describing so excellently in Verse the Babylonian and Aegyptian Astrology PETRUS CRINITUS De Poet. Latin thus speaks of Him Marcus Manilius is reputed to have been of Illustrious Extraction and flourished at Rome when Augustus happily swayed the Empire thereof and doubtless was most acceptable to so great a Prince for the Eminency of his Learning and Excellency of his Wit He employed his Study and Industry chiefly in Mathematical Arts with so much Proficiency as he thereby gained from the World no mean Applause of his Ingenuity ALEXANDER ab ALEXANDRO Genial Dierum l. 2. c. 21. speaking of several Authors signalized by Fame for their eminent Skill and Knowledge in Celestial Matters reckons among the Greeks Berosus Eudoxus Aristotle Empedocles and Aratus among the Latines Julius Firmicus and Marcus Manilius REMBERTUS DODONAEUS in Isagog Cosmogr citing the Verses of Manilius proving the Figure of the VVorld to be Spherical adds this Encomium As sings that Divine Poet. ADRIANUS TURNEBUS in Adversar gives him the Title of a Noble Poet adding withall that he was an Honour and Ornament even to Poesie it self LUDOVICUS CARRIO emendat l. 2. stiles him a most Grave and Learned Poet. MONSIEUR de MESMES in his Institutions Astronomiques written long since in French calls him The Gentile Astronomical Poet. The Incomparable JOSEPH SCALIGER to whose Learned Labours our Author ows his Second and better Life thus writes of him in his Preface to his last Edition of him As for MANILIUS I cannot say whether I should rather wish that he had been publickly read in the Schools or lament that he hath lain hitherto so neglected A most ingenious Poet and Polite Author having illustrated so Obscure a Subject in such Luculent Verse and displayed a Matter of it self Morose in such a pleasing Character All his Proemial Inductions His Transitions and Excursions are beyond Censure than those Nothing can be said more divine nothing more copious more weighty or more delightful Then coming more particularly to the Censure of this Part which We now publish Certainly sayes he it is a Piece so useful and advantagious to all Generous Youth as it ought to prepare their Way to the Elements of Spherical Learning And again in his Epistle to the Learned Stadius I exhort all knowing and worthy Professors that when ever they go about to instruct their Pupils in the first Elements of the Sphere they would initiate them therein by this first Book of our Author for whence sayes he can they better derive the Principles of that Science than from this most Disert Poet who hath omitted Nothing which may seem pertinent to that purpose The Learned ISAAC CASAUBON Annot. in Strabon alibi honours him with the Title of a most Elegant Poet. PAULUS MELISSUS in his Encomium upon Scaliger's first Edition of our Author thus sings of Him Iove pitying humane Weakness gave to Us Th'Inspector of the Stars Manilius Who to Rome's Nephews first the Knowledge brought Of Heavens high Orbs and their hid Motions taught JOANNES AURATUS upon the same Occasion describes him thus Manilius like another Atlas bears Or an Alcides on his Head the Spheres FRANCISCUS JUNIUS in the Dedicatory Epistle before his Edition gives him this following Elogy Manilius for Gravity of Stile Propriety of Language and Usefulness of Argument is to be preferred before many And again In my Judgment he expresses all Things briefly gravely sweetly and most commodiously for the Instruction of all that read him CHRISTOPHERUS SCHEINERUS in his Accurate Work entituled Rosa Ursina delivers this Censure of him Marcus Manilius whom some call Caius Manilius wrote most elegantly much above any Others of the fluidity and Liquidness of the Heavens That egregious Authour having with extraordinary Clearness Roundness and Elegancy exprest all things concerning the Heavens and the Celestial Bodies GASPAR BARTHIUS in Adversar gives him the Commendation of a most judicious and ingenious Poet and one of the most elegant of the Augustaean Age and in Animadvers in P. Statium adds that he was a Poet most consultive in Philosophy No less Praise is afforded him by JOANNES GLANDORPIUS in Onomastic Roman who gives him the Character of a Noble Mathematician and Poet and One who first of all the Latines wrote of Astronomy in Verse JULIUS NIGRONIUS de non
of Ephorus according to Gesner writ certain Pieces called Astronomica And his Apotelesmata as Labbeé reports are in the French King's Library CALIPPUS CYZICENUS an eminent Philosopher of whose Systeme of the Celestial Sphere Aristotle makes mention in his Metaphysicks He was Authour of a Luni-Solar Cycle of LXXVI years consisting of four Metonick Cycles reformed ARISTOTLE besides his other learned Works in Philosophy hath left several testimonies of his study in Astronomy particularly in his Book De Coelo He left likewise a Book entitled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Diog. Laertius testifies in his life There is likewise a Treatise under his Name De Astrologia Navali extant in MS. in Bibliothec Sancti Ioannis in Viridario Patav. as Thomasinus in Bibliothec. Patavin attests THEOPHRASTUS of Evessus in Lesbos a great Philosopher Disciple and Successour to Aristotle in the Lycaeum wrote six Books of Astrological History and particularly of Democritus's Astrology EUDEMUS of Rhodes one of Aristotle's Disciples in emulation of Theophrastus wrote likewise some Astrological Histories in which he described the Lives and Inventions of divers Astrologers and Astronomers together with the Original and Progress of Astronomy as Clemens Alexandrinus and Laertius affirm and from them Ionsius lib. 1. cap. 15. De Script Histor. Philosoph ARISTYLLUS was Contemporary with Calippus and together with Timochares observed the Declinations of the Fixed Stars mentioned by Ptolemy in Magn. Construct as also in the Greek Prolegomena to Aratus where we find several others of the name famous for Astronomy AUTOLYCHUS PRYTANAEUS Tutour to Arcesilaus left two Books yet extant the one De Sphaera Mobili the other Of the Rising and Setting of the Fixed Stars some parts whereof are translated by G. Valla. The former published by Mersennus according to the Translation of Maurolycus and the Propositions illustrated in Synops. Mathemat TIMOCHARES the Astronomer as may be collected out of Ptolemy's Almagest lib. 7. c. 2 3. observed the Fixed Stars and particularly one of the eight Stars in the Constellation of Lyra mentioned by Theon upon Aratus MANETHO an Egyptian Priest at Heliopolis and Notarius Sacrorum Penetralium per Aegyptum writ Physiologica Apotelesmatica in Verse and other Astronomical Pieces as Suidas attests and may be proved from this Verse of 〈◊〉 Arati numeros picta Manethonis Astra His Apotelesmaticks are reported to be yet extant in the Florentine Library by Simler in Biblioth Gesner ERACUS ASTRONOMUS is said to have written something in Astronomy about the time of Ptolemaeus Philadelphus as Gesner testifies ARISTARCHUS SAMIUS following the Opinion of Pythagoras and Philolaus maintained the Earth to move about the Sun He wrote a particular Treatise of the Distances and Magnitudes of the Sun and Moon yet extant translated and commented upon by Commandinus with some Explications of Pappus Alexandrinus and animadverted by Mr. Forster in his Miscellanies There is another Piece which goes under his Name of the Mundane Systeme its parts and motions published in Latine by Robervalle and Mersennus in his Mathematical Synopsis But the same by Menagius in Diog. Laert. and Descartes in his Epistles is censured as a supposititious Piece of Robervalle's and not the genuine Work of Aristarchus ARATUS SOLENSIS at the Command of Antigonus Gonatas turned into a Greek Poem the Phaenomena of Eudoxus translated into Latine Verse by Cicero Germanicus Caesar and Avienus and commented upon by the several Commentatours hereafter mentioned as they are cited at the end of the Prolegomena in the Edition of Iunta in folio AGESIANAX ALEXANDER AETOLUS by Strabo likewise reckoned inter Homeri Interpretes ALEXANDER EPHESIUS of whom hereafter more particularly ANTIGONUS GRAMMATICUS APOLLONIUS GRAMMATICUS APOLLONIUS GEOMETRA ARISTARCUS GRAMMATICUS ARISTARCHUS SAMIUS ARISTOPHANES ARISTYLLUS GEOMETRA Major ARISTYLLUS GEOMETRA Minor ATTALUS RHODIUS BOETHUS CALLIMACHUS CYRENAEUS CALLISTRATUS TENEDIUS CRATES DIDYMUS GNIDIUS DIDYMUS PONEROS five Laboriosus DIODOTUS perhaps the same with him mentioned by Alexander Aphrodisaeus in the first Book of his Commentaries in Meteor Aristot. by whom he is stiled a most learned Astrologer EVAENETUS HELIODORUS STOICUS HERMIPPUS NUMENIUS GRAMMATICUS PARMENIDES PARMENISCUS GRAMMATICUS mentioned by Hyginus and Pliny PYRRHUS MAGNESIUS SMINTHES THALES TIMOTHEUS ZENO There are some few others who have likewise commented upon Aratus the Mention of whom the Reader will find elsewhere in this Catalogue ERATOSTHENES a Native of Cyrene succeeded DEMETRIUS PHALEREUS in the charge of the Alexandrian Library He wrote 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being a Comment on the several Asterisms of Aratus lately printed perhaps the same with that Piece which is cited under the Title of Astronomica by Suidas Plutarch de Placit Philosoph Hipparchus Ptolemy and Proclus in Timaeum Of the Zones and of the measure of the Terrestrial Globe He caused likewise several Armillae and other Mathematical Instruments to be placed in a publick Portico at Alexandria for observation of the Celestial Motions He was a most skilful Geometer and writ a Treatise de Medietatibus mentioned by Pappus in his Mathematical Collections not now extant BEROSUS the Chalaean of whom Iosephus l. 1. Antiqu. Iudaic. c. 8. in l. 1. contra Appian writes that he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Most celebrious among those conversant in the study of Astronomy and the Philosophy of the Chaldeans of which he published Books among the Grecians He flourished in the time of Antiochus Soter and hath left it recorded that among the Chaldeans he observed Astronomical Ephemerides of 480. years inscribed on baked Bricks or Tyles He is said likewise to have invented divers kinds of Sun-Dyals and for the certainty of his Predictions to have been rewarded by the Athenians with a Statue having a golden Tongue in its mouth APOLLONIUS MYNDIUS by Seneca Natur. Quaest. lib. 7. stiled peritissimus inspiciendorum naturalium travelled into Chaldea to be instructed in Astronomy and wrote particularly De Cometis EPIGENES BYZANTINUS Contemporary and Partner in Study and Travels with Apollonius by Pliny lib. 7. c. 56. joyned with Berosus and Critodemus and reputed to have been an Authour of equal credit with the best hath left it recorded that among the Babylonians there were found Ephemerides containing the Observation of the Stars for the space of 780. years inscribed in Brick and Tiles He wrote likewise as Seneca affirms Of Comets ARCHIMEDES of Syracuse famous besides his other Mathematical Works for his admirable artificial Sphere of Glass wherein the Motions of the Sun Moon and the other Planets were represented to the astonishment of the Beholders celebrated by Claudian in a particular Epigram In his Book entituled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sen Arenarius he examines divers Astronomical Hypotheses as to the Distances of the fixed Stars of the Diameters of the Earth Sun Moon and other Planets according to the opinions of Aristarchus Samius Eudoxus and others of the Ancient Astronomers being
this time by Iunctinus in his Catalogue CENSORINUS in his Book de Die Natali hath written divers things touching the Harmonical Systeme of the Heavens ANATOLIUS ALEXANDRINUS Bishop of Laodicea in Syria is mentioned by St. Hierome in his Book De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis to have been well skilled in Astronomy RABBI ADDA about the end of Dioclesian's or beginning of Constantius's Reign composed an Hebrew Calendar and Rules for finding out the Tekupha's or revolution of the Equinoxes JULIUS MATERNUS FIRMICUS a Sicilian about this time wrote eight Books Astronomicôn containing Astrological Precepts which like an ungrateful Plagiary he transcribed for the most part out of Manilius without making the least mention of his name VETTIUS VALENS of Antioch by some called Vestius Valens a famous Astronomer or rather Astrologer of the same time who calculated for Constantine the Great the fate of New Rome's Foundation as L. Taruntius had done that of Old Rome by G. Vossius conceived to be the same with him of whose Works some Pieces are published by Ioachimus Camerarius In Astrologicis Veterum opusculis Edit Norimberg Anno 1532. His Anthologia is now intended for the Press at Paris by the care as I am informed of Mons. Huetius PORPHYRIUS a famous Platonist but bitter Enemy to Christianity wrote an Isagoge of Astronomy in three Books as Suidas testifies His Isagoge to Ptolemy's Apotelesmatice is also here to be mentioned Printed at Basil. MARIUS VICTORINUS AFER Master to St. Ierome among many other Works translated Porphyrius his Astronomical Isagoge into Latine yet extant with the Comment of Boetius thereupon as Gesner affirms THEON ALEXANDRINUS Iunior a Philosopher contemporary to Pappus and an excellent Mathematician He observed an Eclipse of the Sun in the year of Nabonassar 1112. and besides other Mathematical Tractates wrote according to Suidas De ortu Caniculae Canonem expeditum in Ptolemaeum a Commentary in parvum Astrolabium and upon Ptolemy's Almagest in eleven Books first published at Basile by Ioachimus Camerarius according to the Greek Manuscript brought into Italy by Cardinal Bessarion and from thence into Germany by Regiomontanus as also upon Aratus's Phaenomena this last lately Printed at the Theater in Oxford but upon no account so famous as that of being Father to the excellent HYPATIA ABYDAS ASTRONOMUS is mentioned by Epiphanius against whom Bardesanes the Syrian in his Book de fato writ who flourished in the time of Antoninus Verus PAULUS ALEXANDRINUS wrote an Astronomical Isagoge or Introduction perhaps the same whom G. Vossius calls Paulus the Philosopher who wrote likewise Apotelesmatica sive de Effectibus Syderum Published by Rantzovius MACROBIUS-AMBROSIUS-AURELIUS-THEODOSIUS Consul of Rome born at Parma contemporary with Symmachus wrote two Books De Somnio Scipionâ—…s wherein he handles divers Astronomical Arguments as he does likewise in his Saturnalia CLEOMEDES a learned Astronomer and Philosopher of the Stoical Sect wrote two Books 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. De Contemplatione Orbium Coelestium first published in Greek by Conradus Neobarius afterwards translated into Latine by 〈◊〉 Valla and commented upon by Robertus Balforeus Printed at Bourdeâ—… â—…05 4 o. SEXTUS AVIENUS RUFUS an elegant Poet by birth a Spaniard 〈◊〉 the Phaenomena of Aratus into Latine Heroick Verse and likewise paraphrased Dionysius Afer De Situ Orbis and wrote in Iambicks De Oris Maritimis FLAVIUS MANLIUS or MANLIUS THEODORUS Consul of Rome is celebrated for his great Erudition having written several Pieces both in Philosophy and Mathematicks particularly in Astronomy as may appear by that elegant Panegyrick Poem written in praise of him by Claudian whence we have taken these following Verses to shew his Indeavours on that Subject Elementa doces sempérque fluentis Materiae causas quae vis animaverit Astra Implêritque choros quo vivit Machina Motu Sidera cur septem retrò nitantur in Ortus Obluctata Polo variisque meatibus idem Arbiter an geminae convertant Aethera Mentes But the Injury of Time hath not left us any Remains of these his curious and learned Labours PAPPUS ALEXANDRINUS besides other his Mathematical Works wrote a Comment upon Ptolemy's Almagest and in his sixth Book of Mathematical Collections hath left some Explications In Aristarchum Samium De Magnitudinibus Distantiis Solis Lunae yet extant and translated by Commandinus published at Pesaro 1572. and likewise to be found in M r. Foster's Miscellanies HYPATIA Daughter to Theon Alexandrinus Iunior and Wife to Isidorus the Philosopher which name she her self more justly merited as being eminently learned in the Mathematicks and Philosophy which she publickly professed and taught till by the barbarous Christians or Monsters rather of Alexandria out of meer envy for her admirable skill in Astronomy and other Mathematical Learning she was most inhumanely murthered and torn to pieces in the very Cathedral Church She wrote besides a Comment upon Diophantus and another upon Apollonius's Conicks an Astronomical Canon as both Hesychius and Suidas affirm About this Time flourished two Aegyptian Monks ANIANUS who after the Example of Eusebius writ a Chronological Work and PANODORUS who to his skill in Chronology added the Knowledge of Astronomy Out of the Fragments of which last Syncellus hath excerpted many things as Scaliger likewise in his Eusebian Animadversions SYNESIUS first a Heathen Philosopher afterwards a Christian and Bishop of Cyrene writ among other his Works De Instrumentis Astronomicis being a Discourse occasioned by his presenting Paeonius with an Astrolabe and is extant in his Majesty's Library at St. Iames's There are also extant divers Epistles of his to the before mentioned Hypatia with this direction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 AETIUS AMIDENUS Comes Medicus sayes Ricciolus wrote Hemerologium De Significationibus Stellarum translated first out of Greek into Latine by Cornarius and since published by Petavius Uranolog pag. 421. S. CYRILLUS Bishop of Alexandria besides other Works of his wrote De Cyclo Paschali mentioned by Sigebertus Gemblacensis in Chron. BACHARIUS MACCAEUS a Britain Disciple of St. Patrick Published a Book De Prognosticis Nativitatum according to Balaeus S. PROSPER AQUITANUS Bishop of Rhegium composed a Paschal Cycle consisting of 532. years VICTORINUS AQUITANUS whom G. Vossius conceives to be more truly called Victorius composed a Paschal Cycle being by Pope Hilarius for his eminent skill in Astronomy invited to Rome to undertake the correction of the Calendar Yet his Paschal Cycle seems to have been not long after reformed by Victor Bishop of Capua who likewise wrote on the same Subject THEODORET Bishop of Cyrus is by Iunctinus in his Catalogue put into the number of Astronomers as also by Ricciolus in Chron. part 2. MAUGANTIUS a Britain by extraction a famous Philosopher and Mathematician in the time of Vortigerne to whom he was principal Physician as Geoffry of
Bede was renouned for his knowledge and study of Astronomy amongst whose Works there is yet extant De Argumentis Lunae De Ephemeride De Embolismis De Circulo Decennovennuali De Cyclo Paschali De Circulis Sphaerae Polis De Planetis Signis Coelestibus De Astrolabio De Aequinoctio Vernali ADELMUS DUROTELLUS seu BLADUNIUS i. e. MALMESBURIENSIS Son of Kenred and Grandchild of Ina King of the West-Saxons Bishop of Sherburne now translated to Salisbury wrote De Cyclo Paschali contra Britannos and De Astrologia as Balaeus affirms FLACCUS ALBINUS sive ALCUINUS an English-man born in York shire Scholar to Venerable Bede and Tutour to Charlemaigne to whom he was sent upon an Embassie by Off a King of the Mercians and for his exquisite Learning invited by Charlemaigne to continue with him in France which he did perswading that Prince to erect the University of Paris He was excellently well skilled in all the Parts of the Mathematicks which he publickly taught and wrote De Septem Artibus Liberalibus and De Astrologia as Vossius De Scient Mathemat testifies CHARLEMAIGNE King of France and Emperour instructed by Alcuinus aforesaid became excellently well skilled in the Mathematicks particularly in Astronomy insomuch that he wrote Ephemerides and was extremely delighted in making observations of the Stars He gave names to the Moneths of the Year and to the Winds in High-Dutch which continue to this Day He was by a King of Persia his Contemporary upon the knowledge he had of his affection to Astronomical Studies presented with a Piece of Clock-work showing the motion of â—…he Planets which the Emperour being then at Paderborne in Westphalia received with no less admiration than pleasure Vid. Voss. De Scient Mathem c. 35. JOHANNES CAMATERUS Chamberlain to the Emperour Porphyrogeneta writ De Genethliis Syderum positione Astrologiam Chaldaicam in Verse now in the Possession of my Learned Friend Mr. Tho. Gale ALMAEON whom some call ALMAMON the deservedly renouned Califfe of Babylon as Mr. Graves stiles him in his Pyramidograph fifty years before the time of Albategnius observed the greatest Declination of the Sun to have been 23° according to Elancanus and Herigone or 23° and 35′ according to Ricciolus from the authority of Alfraganus He first commanded Ptolemy's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be translated into Arabick which Translation gave that Work the corrupt but now common name of Almagest He found by observation and measuring in the Plains of Singar that one Degree of a great Circle on the Earth is equal to 56. miles His Astronomical Designs were so acceptable to the Genius of that Nation that in the Times succeeding no less than Thirty Kings are said to have emulated his Example as is observed by Golius notis in Alfergan EGMUNDUS surnamed ASTROLOGUS is by Ricciolus put also into the Catalogue of Astronomers about this Time MESSHALA ARABS sive MESSAHULACH signalized his Name by his Book De Receptionibus De Conjunctionibus Planetarum De Revolutionibus Annorum Mundi He wrote likewise De Elementis Orbibus Coelestibus a third Book De Ratione Circuli Stellarum Operationibus and another De Compositione Utilitate Astrolabii The first Printed at Venice Anno 1493. with Pâ—…olemy's Quadripartitum The second at Norimberg by Montanus and Neuberus The third at Basil by Hervagius Anno 1533. And the fourth and last by Henricus Petri in Appendice Margaritae Philosophicae LEO PHILOSOPHUS writ something in Astrology yet extant in the French King's Library as Labbeé testifies in Catal. MS. ALBATEGNIUS or trulier ALBATTANIUS ARACENSIS called likewise MAHUMETES TINEU vel MAHUMETES ARACENSIS or but mistakenly ARACTENSIS from the City of Arrac commonly but corruptly called Aracta in Syria Son of Geber Auchan Son of Cruen Prince of Syria made diligent observations of the Stars both at Arrac and Antioch And finding that Ptolemy's Canons in his time dissented much from the course of the Heavens he made new Tables of his own He wrote a Book De Scientia Stellarum first translated out of Arabick into Latine by Plato Tiburtinus and illustrated with Annotations by Io. Regiomontanus He observed the Sun's greatest Declination to be 23° 35′ and the first Star of Aries to be 18° 2′ in Longitude from the Equinoctial Point His Observations were Printed at Norimberg His Book De Numeris Scientia Stellarum according to a Transcript thereof taken by Lucas Valerius Publick Professour of Mathematicks at Rome out of the Vatiâ—…an Library was reprinted more correctly in Latine at Bologna in the year 1645. and dedicated by Bernardinus Ugulottus to Ferdinand the second Grand Duke of Tuscany ACHILLES TATIUS wrote a Book De Sphaera as Suidas affirms part of which G. Vossius conceives to be his Commentary in Aratum Published in Greek and Latine by Petavius in Uranolog MOHAMMED IBN ZACHARIAE AL RAZI wrote many Books in several Sciences and among the rest a Particular Astronomical Treatise as I find it mentioned in the Catalogue of Golius his Manuscripts He died in the year of the Hegira 320. of Christ 932. ABDORRAHMAN AL-SUPHI commonly but corruptly called AZOPHI or ELZUPHI or EBENNOZOPHIM an Arabian Astronomer Authour of the Persian Tables in which sayes ricciolus Stellarum Schemata loca ordinata sunt The Work transcribed by his Son with the Delineation of the Celestial Signs in Miniature by the same hand is extant among the Manuscripts of Iacobus Golius ALFRAGANUS MAHUMEDES or AMETUS or AHEMED or MUHAMED the Son of Amet called Alfraganus or rather Alferganus from the City Fergana in the Province of Sogdiana He wrote Elementa Astronomica compiled chiefly out of Ptolemy which by Rabbi Iacob Antolius were turned into Hebrew and by Iohannes Hispalensis in the year 1142 translated out of Arabick into Latine but lately published in Arabick and Latine by the famous Iacobus Golius with learned Notes which yet he lived not to compleat He writ likewise de Astrolabii Descriptione Usu and a Book of Dialing as Golius in his Notes asserts G. Pastregicus mentions another Treatise of Alfraganus entitled De Aggregationibus Stellarum V. Simler Bibl. Gesner HALI BEN RAGEL is about this time by Ricciolus inserted into the number of Astronomers ARZAHEL ALA BEN writ Tables and Canons of the Motions of the Celestial Bodies preserved in MS. in the Library of Merton Colledge in Oxford and in that of Caius and Gonvil in Cambridge according to Iamesius Eclog. Oxon. Cant. Whether the same with Arzahel Hispanus of whom in the next Century we leave to be considered ALI IBNO'L HOZEIN a Persian wrote of the Theory of the Planets as Abul Pharagius in Hist. Dynast witnesses and De Demonstratione Planisphaerii as Hottinger in Smegm Orient ALFARABIUS Arabs stiled by Blancanus Astronomus celebris called likewise ABUNASR according to Abul Pharagius in Histor.
which he took his name After some time of study at Oxford he became a Doctour of the University of Paris and compiled out of Ptolemy Albategnius Alfraganus and others of the Ancients his Four Books De Sphaera commented upon by Vinetus Iunctinus Clavius Barocius and divers others And though Barocius hath detected and published no less than 84. Errours in that Work of Sacroboscus yet it still keeps up its credit in the Schools as a Classick Piece ALPHONSUS x. King of Castile and Leon having sent for the most learned among the Moors Arabs and Iews began the Instauration of Astronomical Tables which in the Year 1252. he first published having in Books Instruments and other Necessaries relating to that Work expended no less than four hundred thousand Crowns These Tables from his Name called Alphonsine being defective grounded partly upon Cabalistick Figments he afterwards viz. Anno 1256. Published more correct He observed in the Year 1250. the first Star of Aries to have been distant from the Equinoctial Point 23° 40′ as Blancanus reports Ricciolus affirms that Egnatius Dante 's in the fourth Part of his Astrolabe reports that he saw a Book of all the Alphonsine Instruments translated out of Arabick into Spanish and thence into Latine PROFATIUS a Iew about this time applyed his study to the Observation of the Stars He writ Tables of the Motion of the Eighth Sphere as Balaeus affirms and found the Sun 's greatest Declination to be 23° 32′ His Almanack Perpetuum is now extant in several of our Libraries JOHANNES PECKHAM a Franciscan Fryer and Archbishop of Canterbury wrote among other learned Works of his De Sphaera and Theoricam Planetarum VITELLIO THURINGO-POLONUS an excellent Mathematician wrote Ten Books 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. of the nature reason and projection of Visual rayes c. commonly called Perspective Printed first at Norimberg by Petreius Anno 1535. and afterwards reprinted and adorned with Figures by Frederick Risner at Basile 1572. a Work subservient to Astronomy ODINTON a Benedictine Monk in the Abbey of Evesham and an English man Scholar to Profatius the Iew and of Iewish Extraction endeavoured to vindicate his Name from Oblivion by his Book De Motibus Planetarum and De Mutatione Aeris as Balaeus affirms COGIA NASIR EDDIN TUSAEUS wrote Astronomical Tables which he dedicated to Ile-Chan Prince of the Tartars and a Treatise of the Astrolabe in twenty Chapters as I find mentioned in the Catalogue of Golius's Manuscripts He died in the year of the Hegira 675. of Christ 1276. KOTBODDINUS SHIRAZITA wrote a Book entitled Donum Regium seu Universae Astronomiae Syntagma He was contemporary with Nasir Eddin Tusaeus THEBIT BEN CHORA i. e. the Son of Chora by Profession a Iew and according to â—…eland born in England though others make him a Native of Spain first introduced the motion of Trepidation in the Eighth Sphere by some called Motus Accessus Recessus from North to South and observed the Sun's greatest Declination to be 23° 33′ He wrote likewise De significationibus Planetarum De Capite Cauda Draconis Demonstrationes in Almagestum and Additiones in Sphaerica Menelai as they are particularized by Balaeus There are mentioned likewise other Treatises of his Writing as Practica Planetarum Ganones Astronomici and De Prognosticatione Temporum said to be extant in his Majesties Library at St. Iames's GUIDO BONATUS FORO-JULIENSIS wrote Theoricae Planetarum Published at Venice 1506. He wrote likewise De Astrologia Iudiciaria HENRICUS BATEN of Mechlin Dr. in Theology Chancellour of the University of Paris and Chaunter and Canon of Liege Published a Book De Erroribus Tabularum Alphonsinarum as Ricciolus affirms in Catal. Astronom MICHAEL SCOTUS surnamed Mathematicus for his eminent skill in that kind of Learning by Balaeus stiled Eximius Physicorum Motuum Cursúsque Siderei Indagator Published a Comment super Authorem Sphaerae Four Books De Constitutione Mundi Two Books De Coelo Mundo Imagines Astronomicae And Dogmata Astrologorum De Signis Planetarum l. 1. De Natura Solis Lunae l. 1. Printed at Venice 1546. He wrote likewise other Opera Astrologica of which the MS. is extant in the Bodleian Library GULIELMUS DE SANCTO GODIALDO gained about this time the honour and repute of an able Astronomer that is as G. Vossius notes twenty years and more after the Publication of the Alphonsine Tables PETRUS DACIUS or DE DACIA as G. Vossius from the Authority of Trithemius calls him Published Astronomical Tables extant in MS. in the Library of Benet-Colledge in Cambridge He wrote likewise De Calculo sive Computo and set forth a Calendar ISAAC ISRAELITA wrote a Book entitled Iessod Holam i. e. De Fundamento Mundi in which he often takes occasion to treat of the Motion of the Eighth Sphere PETRUS DE APONO called likewise CONCILIATOR Ob Librum quo Veterum Medicorum Scripta conciliat sayes G. Vossius de Scient Mathemat wrote De Astrolabio Plano Published at Venice 1502. NICHOLAUS TRIVET a Dominican Frier Son of Sir Thomas Trivet Knight one of the Judges of the Courts of Common Law in Edward the Third's time among other learned Works wrote De Astronomia JOHANNES BACONTHORP a Carmelâ—…e Fryer in the Monastery of Blackney in Norfolk reputed one of the most learned of his time stiled Doctor Resolutus wrote four Books De Coelo Mundo One De Sphaera Iudiciali and another De Astrorum Scientiis NICHOLAUS OCKHAM a Franciscan Fryer in Coenobia Oxoniensi Praelector Publicus sayes Balaeus wrote De Latitudine Oppositionum and another Book entitled Astrologi Iudicium ISMAEL ABULFEDA Sultan of Syria Assyria and Persia an illustrious Cosmographer and Geographer whose Tables the learned Mr. Graves published in the year 1650. in Arabick and Latine CICHUS ASCULANUS Dr. of Physick Philosopher and Publick Professour of Astronomy at Bologna was accused for a Necromancer and burnt at Florence being LXX years of age Anno 1328. RICHARDUS WALLINGFORD so called from the Town of Wallingford where he was born Son of a Blacksmith after some time of Study in Oxford betook himself to a Monastick life in the Abby of St. Alban whereof he had the Honour to be Abbot He was excellently well skilled in Arithmetick Astronomy and Geometry He caused to be made a famous Clock or Horologe for the use of the Monastery being according to the Words of Leland a miraculous Fabrick sive quis Cursum Solis seu Lunae seu fixa Sidera notet sive iterum Maris Incrementa Decrementa seu Lineas unà cum figuris ac Demonstrationibus ad infinitum penè variis consideret For the better Explanation of which Curious Piece and the orderly regulating thereof he published Canons or Rules in a particular Treatise which he entitled Albion Alluding something to the Name
corrected and put out the Book at Venice Anno 1515. JOANNES ODDI of Padua by Ia. Phil. Thomasinus in Bibl. Patav. stiled Physicus Astronomus upon the Score of which last We give him place in this Catalogue wrote a Book which he dedicated to Frederick Duke of Urbine de Impressionibus Elementorum de Copia rerum Pretio de Bello de Religione de Principibus de Civitatibus which I conceive to be some Astrological Discourse or Prognostick extant in MS. in the Library of Hippolytus Oddi of Padua Knight of St. Mark JOHANNES BAPTISTA CAPUANUS SIPONTINUS De Manfredonia and as Ricciolus affirms Canon Regular of the Church of Lateran while he was a secular Person his name was Franciscus Capuanus and he was publick Professour of Astronomy at Padua at which time he wrote an Exposition In Sphaeram Sacrobosci Being afterwards made a Bishop he revised it and dedicated it to his Fellow-Canons sometime his Auditours He wrote likewise In Theoricas Purbacchii Computus Ecclesiasticus and a Book De Compositione Quadrantis ANDALO of Genua a most excellent Mathematician wrote of the Astrolabe Printed at Ferrara 1475. THEODORUS GAZA wrote in Greek De Mensibus De Anno in which sayes Ricciolus Astronomiae non inscium se ostendit Published by Petavius in Uranolog CHRISTIANUS MOLITOR of Clagenfurt was as Ricciolus affirms Astronomus insignis and wrote at Vienna Opuscula Astrologica which according to the testimony of Vossius apud Doctos in magno pretio habentur NICHOLAUS ORESMIUS wrote a particular Treatise by way of Commentary against the Superstition of Iudiciary Astrology He is cited by Iohannes Picus Mirandula by the name of Nicholaus Orem to have written a Book De Proportionibus Proportionum as Simler in Biblioth Gesner attests ALEXANDER ACHILLINUS of Bologna Professour of Philosophy wrote De Orbibus Coelestibus ALCHABITIUS or ALCABITIUS called likewise ABDILAZUS an Arabian composed an Isagoge or Introduction Ad scrutanda Astrorum judicia and writ De Planetarum Conjunctionibus Ricciolus affirms he wrote four Tractates in which he comprized the Elements of Astrology commented upon by Naiboda Iohannes Hispalensis first translated him into Latine Printed at Venice in the year 1491. and 1521. together with the exposition of Ioannes de Saxonia and the Emendations of Antonius de Fantis Doctour of Physick at Trevigi in Italy He wrote likewise of Opticks of which see Vossius De Scient Mathemat There is a MS. Treatise in the Bodleian Library entitled Introductio ad Iudicia Astronom under the Name of Algabicus I know not whether mistaken for Alchabitius MARCILIUS FICINUS an eminent Florentine Physician Philosopher and Astronomer who both in his Notes In Timaeum Platonis and other his Dialogues discourses learnedly as occasion requires upon several Astronomical Subjects having likewise put forth an Apology De Medicina Astrologiae jungenda a Disputation Contra Iudicia Astrologorum and a Book De Sole Lumine In his Book De vita coelitùs comparanda he shews himself very Learned in Astrology though he writ against the Astrologasters JOHANNES KENT alias KAYLEG Native of Caermarden in South-Wales a Great Philosopher Botanist and Mathematician of which Studies he was Professour in the University of Cambridge put forth Astronomical Tables JOANNES ANGELUS put forth Opus Astrolabii Plani cum Tabulis Printed August Vindel. 1488. JOHANNES ERGHOM of York an Augustine Fryar having at Oxford professed Logick Natural Philosophy and Theology gained to himself the repute of an eminent Scholar and put forth a Book of Astrological Calculations JOHANNES PICUS Count of Mirandula Ingeniorum Phoenix as some have stiled him besides other Works of exquisite and profound Learning wrote Twelve Books Against Iudiciary Astrology NICHOLAUS COMES DE COMITIBUS a Noble Italian wrote a Tractate De Motu Recessu Octavae Sphaerae extant in MS. among those of Nicholaus Trivisanus of Padua recorded by Iac. Phil. Thomasinus in Bibliothec. Patavin PONTICUS VIRMIUS alias VIRUNNIUS Native of Trevigi in Italy Professour of Philosophy writ besides many other Works upon different Subjects a Commentary In Sphaeram Iohannis Sacrobosci JACOBUS SCHONHEINTZ Professour of Mathematicks and Philosophy in Academia Herbipoli writ an Apology in vindication of Astrology against Io. Picus Count of Mirandula DOMINICUS MARIA NOVARAS FERRARIENSIS Professour of Astronomy in Bologna and Master to Copernicus is said to have observed the Sun's greatest Declination to have been 23° 29′ He was a great Promoter of Astronomical Observations both by his teaching and practice BERNARDUS WALTHERUS of Norimberg Disciple to Regiomontanus and a Continuatour of his Observations whâ—…ch with his own were published first at Norimberg afterwards together with the Hassian and Tychonick by Willebrodus Snellius He was a great Observer of the Stars and partly from the Authority of Alhazen and Vitellio partly by his own experience made it appear of how great moment the Doctrine of Refractions is in relation to the Stars when near the Horizon HERMOLAUS BARBARUS a Noble Patrician of Venice and Patriarch of Aquileia besides his other eminent Works both in Historical and Critical Learning writ a Book De convenientia Astronomiae Medicinae CHRISTOPHORUS COLUMBUS a Native of Genua by Blancanus stiled Argonautarum Princeps trusting to his skill in Astronomy and Geography by a high and daring yet a happy and successful undertaking discovered to the Old a New World JOHANNES ABIOSUS of Naples Doctour of Physick and Professour of Mathematicks writ Dialogues in defence of Iudiciary Astrology in which he predicts many Schismes and future Changes to happen in the Church He dedicated his Books to Alphonsus King of Sicily JOANNES LUCILIUS SANTRITTER HEILBRONNENSIS reduced the Alphonsine Tables into a most easie Order and Method to which he added Tables of his own with Rules or Canons thereunto He writ likewise a Book of the Judgements of Nativities Printed at his own Shop in Venice 1494. JOANNES ANGELUS BAVARUS of Aichen put forth a Correction of the Romane Calendar a Plain Astrolabe a Treatise of Nativities and of unequal Hours in each Climate of the World as also Ephemerides and various Prognosticks Printed at Venice in the year 1494. He died in the year 1512. at which time he was about finishing Purbacchius's Table of the Equations of the Planets Motions LAURENTIUS BONINCONTRIUS MINIATENSIS writ Three Books De Rebus Coelestibus in Heroick Verse Printed by Robert Winter at Basile in the year 1540. with the accession of divers Observations of the Eclipses of the Sun and Moon made by Philippus Melancthon Iohannes Stigelius M. Acontius Ioachimus Camerarius and Georgius Aemilius He was the first that wrote a Comment upon Manilius's Astronomica Printed both at Bologna and at Basile JACOBUS FABER besides his Arithmetical Epitome of Boetius and his Comment upon Iordanus Nemorarius wrote also a Commentary In Sphaeram Sacrobosci
1580 GEORGIUS COLLIMITIUS TANNESLETTERUS was Scholar to Andreas Stiborius as Gesner affirms He writ De Applicatione Astrologiae ad Medicinam De Natura Proprietatibus Planetarum out of Haly Firmicus and Alchabitius and some other Tracts upon those Arguments Printed at Basil 1524. MOHAMMED IBNO'L ATTAR published Astronomical Tables of the Motions of the Planets calculated for the Longitude of Damascus written in the year of the Hegira 930. and of Christ 1523. and preserved in Manuscript in the Publick Library at Oxford ALBERTUS BRUDZEVIUS Professour of Mathematicks in the University of Cracovia was the first Master and Instructour of Copernicus in Astronomy as we find it mentioned by Gassendus in the life of Copernicus PETRUS APPIANUS of Leipsick called in the Germane Tongue Binewilt Professour of Mathematicks at Ingolstadt in intimate favour with the Emperour Charles the Fifth who not only invited him to his Court but also honoured him with Knighthood wrote a Book of Cosmography revised and augmented by Gemma Frisius together with Observations of several Eclipses He put forth likewise an Instrument or Table of the Primum Mobile with 100 Problems thereupon and another Piece entituled Opus Caesareum in which to use Ricciolus's Expression Rotulis Automatis ingeniosissimis docet expedire omnia ferè Problemata Astronomica Of his several other Works not proper to this place see Vossius De Scient Mathemat FRANCISCUS SARZOSUS of Xelsa in Arragon wrote two Books in Aequatorâ—…m Planetarum Alphonsinae Hypothesi superstructum as Ricciol affirms Chron. Astronom Part. 2. JOHANNES VOGELLINUS was Disciple to Ioh. Regiomontanus and made Observations on the Comets appearing in the years 1527. and 1532. PETRUS CIRVELLUS besides his Cursus Mathem Artium Published a Treatise De Correctione Calendarii Printed Compl. 1528. HENRICUS BAERSIUS alias VEKENSTYL a Mathematician and Printer to the University of Lovaine put forth but not under his own Name Tabulae perpetuae Longitudinum Latitudinum Planetarum calculated for the Meridian of Lovaine And under his own name he likewise set forth a Book De Compositione Usu Decretorii Planetarum and another De Compositione Usu Quadrantis OTHO BRUNFELSIUS Doctour of Physick at Mentz totius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cultor a great Student likewise in Divinity and the Sacred Scriptures out of which he endeavoured to refute Iudiciary Astrology He prefixed likewise to the Edition of Firmicus Printed by Hervagius and dedicated to him by Nicholaus Prucnerus a small Treatise not unuseful to young Beginners De Definitionibus Terminis Astrologiae JOANNES FERNELIUS of Ambois a famous French Physician and as eminent a Geometrician and Astronomer wrote besides other his Learned Works a particular Treatise entituled Cosmotheoria in which he explains the Motions Site Magnitude and Theory of the Celestial Bodies and another Piece called Monalosphaerium JOHANNES CARIO besides his Chronological Work left as Vossius terms them Practicas Astrologicas nec non Ephemerides beginning with the year 1536 and ending in the year 1550. JACOBUS MILICHIUS Professour of Mathematicks at Wittemberg and Tutour to Erasmus Reinholdus wrote a Commentary upon the Second Book of Plinius Secundus the Subject whereof is chiefly Astronomical ORONTIUS FINAEUS of Dauphiné Regius Professor of Mathematicks at Paris wrote De Sphaera Of Cosmography Of the Theory of the Planets Astronomical Canons or Problems of the Primum Mobile Of the difference of Longitude to be found by the Moon and several other Pieces which as Blancanus advises ought to be read cum Antidoto Petri Nonnii de Erroribus Orontii HIERONYMUS FRACASTORIUS a Native of Verona an excellent Poet Physician Philosopher and Astronomer Published a Book De Orbibus Excentricis Homocentricis which he dedicated to Pope Paul III. SEBASTIANUS MUNSTERUS was famous for two things as Vossius affirms to wit Hebraeis Literis Mathesi As to what concerns our purpose he wrote Notes In Geographiam Ptolemaei Universalem Cosmographiam and of Dyalling as also Organum Uranicum wherein the Theories of the Planets and their Motions were computed for an hundred years and more He was also Authour of the Canones super novo Luminarium Instrumento JOACHIMUS FORTIUS RINGELBERGIUS of Antwerp writ De Horoscopo De Tempore De Cosmographia and Three Books of Astrological Institutions JOHANNES ROBINUS in English Robins was a great Astrologer and put forth a Book De Portentosis Cometis dedicated by him to King Henry VIII which Balaeus calls Opus valde Lucidum now extant in Manuscript in the hands of Mr. Thomas Gale SIMON GRYNAEUS Native of Viring a Town in Suevia or Suaben merited eminently in all kind of Learning particularly by publishing in Greek the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Ptolemy to which he added a Preface of his own touching the use thereof Dedicated to King Henry the Eighth of England Printed at Basil 1538. HENRICUS GLAREANUS a Geographer Chronologer Musician and Physician Native of Glarona commonly called Glarys a Town in Swisserland put forth a Book De Geographia induced chiefly thereunto as he pretends in his Preface because he found the Sphere of Proclus to be too concise and only fitted to the Horizon of Greece and erroneous as to the Description of some Circles and Sacroboscus in his Parallels and Climates mutilous and defective He published likewise other Pieces both in Astrology and Cosmography being according to the testimony of G. Vossius Vir undequaque doctissimus ACHILLES P. GASSARUS of Lindaw by Gesner stiled Medicus Mathematicus praestantissimus put forth a Chronology from the beginning of the World to the year of Christ 1532. He published likewise a Mathematical Table entituled Sciaterion Pedarium Printed at Zurick JODOCUS CLITCHTHOVEUS NEOPORTICENSIS writ a Comment upon Iacobus Faber his Theory of the Planets GEORGIUS PRUCNER of Ruspach left behind him sayes Simler in Bibl. Gesner very fair and exquisite Astronomical Instruments and several Books collected by him in Astrorum Scientia yet preserved at Vienna in Bibliotheca Facultatis Artium JACOBUS CEPORINUS of Zurick eminently learned in the Hebrew Greek and Latine Languages put forth a Commentary upon Dionysius his Periegesis and Aratus his Astronomicon Printed at Basil by Wolphius in the year before mentioned as Gesner testifies LUDOVICUS DE RIGIIS published Astrological Aphorisms addressed to the Patriarch of Constantinople Printed at Norimberg in the year 1535. together with Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos JOHANNES STIGELIUS Native of Gota a City in the Province of Thuringen in Germany an ingenious Poet and Mathematician Professour at Wittemberg and Iena put forth Prognosticks upon the Eclipse of the Moon happening in the year 1536 as likewise others upon one of the Sun in the year following and upon one of the Moon and another of the Sun in the year 1551. JACOBUS KAEBELIUS besides an Arithmetical Treatise Published another of the Astrolabe
present in the possession of my worthy Friend George Wharton Esquire PHILIPPUS FANTONIUS a Florentine Monk afterwards Abbot of Camaldolat published a Book in Italian of the reason of reducing the Year to its true Form and Measure of whom G. Vossius sayes that he was Matheseos Scientia egregius which he publickly professed in the Academy at Pisa. See more of him in Simler Bibl. Gesner CYPRIANUS LEOVITIUS of the Leonitian Family in Bohemia Mathematician to Otho-Henry Prince Palatine of the Rhine put forth Astronomical Observations with Astrological Prognosticks upon the new Star in Cassiopaea He likewise accurately described to render Vossius's words several Eclipses from the year 1556. to the year 1606. and published Ephemerides and several other Works mentioned by Simlerus in his Bibliotheca Gesneriana among the rest Brevis perspicua Ratio judicandi Genituras ex Physicis Causis vera Experientia extracta c. to which is prefixed Admonitio de vero licito Astrologiae usu per Hieronymum Wolphium Printed at London 1558. Of Him Tycho Brahe in Progymnasm l. 1. writes at large adding withall that Pleraque ipsius Manuscripta opera ad supputationes Astronomicas praesertim primi Mobilis Tabulas copiosiores faciliores reddendas facientia Augustae in Fuggeorum Bibliotheca non sine harum Aâ—…ium promovendarum Incommodo detinentur JOHANNES DRIANDER Doctor of Physick and Professor of Mathematicks which he illustrated by his learned Writings particularly by his Book of the various Composition of Sun-Dyals by his Description of a nocturnal Instrument for taking the hour of the Night from the inspection of the Stars Astrolabial Canons and the Explication of the Quadrant with several other Astronomical Inventions as it is testified by the excellent Thuanus and Draudius in Bibl Classica GEORGIUS BUCHANANUS that learned Scotch-man hath written Five Books of the Sphere in a Latine Poem to which Iohannes Pincierus hath added a Supplement of the fourth and fifth Books and Arguments to them all RABBI ORI filius Simeonis a Iew of Palaestine put forth Calendarium Palaestinorum omnium Iudaeorum computed for forty years first Printed at Venice in Hebrew afterwards translated into Latine and illustrated with Annotations by Iacobus Christmannus and published at Francfort 1594. FEDERICUS COMMANDINUS of Urbino optimè meritus si quisquam alius de Mathematicis sayes Blancanus For besides the many other excellent Monuments of Greek Learning which we owe to his happy Traduction we are beholding to him for Aristarchus Samius De Magnitudinibus Distantiis Solis aâ—… Lunae which he illustrated by a Comment of his own He put forth likewise Ptolemy's Analemma and wrote De Lineis Horariis MICHAEL BEUTHERUS Native of Carolostadt in Westphalia not far distant from Wurstburgh Scholar to Erasmus Reinholdus afterwards Professor of Poetry History and Mathematicks in the University of Gripswaldt in the Dukedom of Pomerania read at Paris publick Lectures De Annorum Supputatione He wrote De Globo Astronomico De Circulis Of the Correction of the Gregorian Calendar Of the seventy weeks in Daniel Of the time of the World's Creation and the day of our Saviour's Passion He was Library-Keeper to Otho-Henry Prince Palatine of the Rhine and of his Council in Ecclesiastical Affairs and restored to the same Charges afterwards by Frederick the Third ELIAS VINETUS Professor at Bourdeaux besides his Notes on Pomponius Mela De situ Orbis wrote a Commentary in Sphaeram Sacrobosci for which he justly merits a room in this Astronomical Catalogue JOHANNES HONTERUS CORONENSIS of Cronstadt in Transylvania anciently called Zarmigethusa writ Four Books in Verse De Rudimentis Cosmographiae which he adorned with several Land-Tables or Maps To which he adjoyned in Prose a Treatise of the Principles of Astronomy and Geography PETRUS RAMUS first Disciple to Orontius Finaeus afterwards Regius Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Paris besides his Two Books of Arithmetick and XXVII of Geometry put forth XXXII Scholarum Mathematicarum in the first of which he treats of many things relating to the Rise and Advancement of Astronomy MICHAEL NEANDER è valle Ioachimica put forth Elementa Doctrinae Sphaericae Materiam Computi Astronomici as Ricciolus affirms in Chronolog Astron. DANIEL SANTBECH of Nimmeghen put forth according to Ricciolus Praeclara Problemata Astronomica Geometrica in VII Sectiones distributa In the first whereof he treats of several Observations of the Phaenomena of the Sun Moon and fixed Stars In the second he exhibits Canons of the Primum Mobile extracted from the Tables of Regiomontanus The third is of the Reasons of Gnomons and Shadows The other Four are upon Geometrical Subjects JOSEPHUS MOLETIUS Professor of Mathematicks at Padua besides his Comment upon Ptolemy's Geography composed out of the Prutenick Tables others which he called Tabulae Gregorianae for which by the Senate of Venice he was rewarded with 200. Ducats and promised by Pope Gregory XIII for the continuation of them 300. Crowns more He published likewise Introductio ad Ephemerides Printed together with the Ephemerides of Iosephus Scala of Sicily in the year 1589. LUCILLUS PHILALTHAEUS Doctor of Physick wrote as Ricciolus terms them Luculentos Commentarios upon Aristotle De Coelo LEONARDUS DIGGES of a generous Family in Kent besides his Stratiotices and his Mathematical Discourse of Geometrical Solids wrote an Astronomical Prognostication then Printed ALEXANDER PICOLOMINAEUS of Siena wrote Four Books De Sphaera Mundi as also a Treatise of the Fixed Stars in Italian in which Language he likewise published another of the Theory of the Planets and dedicated the same to Cosmus de Medicis and farther another De Magnitudine Terrae Aquae all rendred into Latine by Nicholaus Stupanus and Printed at Basil 1568. SAMUEL SYDEROCRATES wrote De usu Partium Coeli in Commendationem Astronomiae Printed at Strasbourg as Draudius affirms 1567. TITUS à POPMA a Friezlander wrote Tabellas in Sphaeram Elementa Astronomiae EDO HILDERICUS writ a small Treatise entituled Logistice Astronomica Printed at Wittenberg 1568. mentioned by Simler in Bibl. Gesner CHRISTIANUS VURSTISIUS of Basil Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Zurich wrote learned Questions in Theoricas Purbacchii whereto he prefixed an Introduction of his own Printed at Basil by Henricus Petri 1586. ABRAHAMUS ORTELIUS of Antwerp Geographer to Philip II King of Spain most deservedly challenges a place in this Catalogue especially for that great Work of his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum with it's Parergon and his Thesaurus Geographicus GERARDUS MERCATOR a Native of Rupelmonde in Flanders made several Mathematical Instruments for the Emperour Charles the Fifth particularly a Globe in which was comprized the Constitution of the Planets and the Celestial Signs and Constellations He likewise made for the said Emperour two other Globes the one Celestial of Chrystal the other
known to the Learned We shall only insist on what more nearly relates to our present Subject as his five Books Novae Gnomonices Horologium universale de Firmamento He writ likewise upon the Phaenomena of Aratus and hath composed a History of the Lives of all the famous Mathematicians from Thales Milesius to Commandinus with a Chronology of the Times wherein they flourished and their several Eulogies Of which if we may judge as of Hercules by his Foot by that Life he hath written of Hero already published with his Belopoica We cannot but conclude them worthy of that Honour which they yet want that is a speedy Publication to the view of the Learned World And if the Manuscript now in possession of some of his Family or a Copy thereof may be obtained we may have then hopes that er'e long the Work will be communicated to the Curious of this Nation GERARDUS RUPELMUND ANUS set forth a Book which he entituled Atlas or Cosmographical Meditations De fabrica Mundi fabricati figura Printed at Duisberg in the year 1595. according to Draudius whom I conceive to be the same with Mercator JOSEPHUS ACOSTA in the year 1597. published the use of an Instrument called a Cylinder together with Astronomical Tables Printed at Colen GULIELMUS Landtgrave of Hassia merits an Elogium beyond what can be here given for his assiduous Observations for many years of the Celestial Bodies to which end at Cassells he erected an Observatory with excellent Instruments calling to his assistance two eminent Artists Christophorus Rothmannus and Iustus Byrgius His Observations were published at Leyden in the year 1618. by Willebrodus Snellius and are in part mentioned by Tycho as well in his Epistles as in the second Tome of his Progymnasm A signal example to all Princely and Heroick Minds to undertake the promoting and advancing of this truly Noble and Celestial Science NICHOLAUS RAIMARUS DITHMARSUS URSUS one of Tycho Brahe's Scholars published a Piece under the Title of Astronomical Hypotheses with a Defence thereof Printed at Prague 1597. In which he endeavours to prove himself Author or at least first Reviver of the pretended Brahean Hypothesis which he will have to be ancient ascribing the same to Apollonius Pergaeus as its first Inventor ingratefully seeking to deprive Tycho of the due honour thereof But he is answered by Tycho who hath vindicated and asserted his own right JOSEPHUS SCALIGER the Great Prince or Monarch of Universal Learning As to what concerns our present Subject his elaborate Work De Emendatione Temporum his exquisite Animadversions on Eusebius with his Canon Isagogicus Chronologiae and his accurate Comment upon Manilius's Astronomicks sufficiently evidence his admirable knowledge as well in Astronomy as in other the Mathematical Learning of the Ancients whom if we may trust the Judgment of the incomparable Vieta he alone above all others perfectly understood as the same is reported by the Learned Casaubon Epist. 586. He wrote likewise Cyclometrica Et Diatriba De Aequinoctiorum Anticipatione FEDERICUS SAMINIATUS published Astronomical Tables at Anwerp in the year 1599. 4 o. CHRISTOPHORUS FEMILLUS put forth Synoptical Tables for finding out the true place of the Planets derived from the Prutenick Tables together with the Investigation of the Festival Dayes of either Calendar Printed at Wittemberg 1599. MELCHIOR JOESTELIUS published Observations of an Eclipse of the Moon happening in the year 1599. for his Skill in Astronomy well esteemed by Tycho Brahe with whom he lived sometime a Domestick and to whom he was an Assistant in his Astronomical Observations SIBRANDUS à SICCAMA wrote De Veteri Anno Romano Antitheses and Fasti Calendar Having Successively deduced this Astronomical Catalogue thus far I hold it fit before I proceed to the next Century to insert in this Place the Names of divers Jewish Persian Arabian and some other Astronomers whose Times are Dubious and uncertain at least to me of whom yet Mention is made in Simler Hottinger's Smegm Orient Abul-Pharagius his Dynasties James his Eclog. Oxon-Cant Labbee and the Catalogue of Golius his Manuscripts c. DANIEL surnamed SAPIENS wrote an Astronomical Tractate in Syriack extant in the publick Library at Oxford RABBI JACOB BEN-MACHIR wrote De Quadrante Astrolabii Vestimentum Lucis Iter Stellarum R. JEHUDA BAR BARZILEI wrote a Book teaching the supputation of Times according to the Celestial motions R. ISAAC BEN LATAPH an eminent Philosopher wrote of the Figure of the World R. ABRAZARTH a learned Astrologer mentioned by Gesner from the authority of Pastregicus lib. De rerum Inventoribus R. AB RUSAK a great Astronomer mentioned by Gesner R. ABRAHAM an eminent Astronomer wrote a Treatise entituled Liber Intercalationis as also another called Intercalatio Annorum De Solstitiis Aequinoctiis De Lunae motu Mensibus totius Calendarii ratione Quaere whether the same with R. Abraham who wrote De Sphaera mentioned by Christmannus in Alfraganum of whom already ad annum 1115. R. ISAASCHAR BEN SUSAN writ a Treatise entituled Correctio vel Ordinatio Calendarii R. ISAAC ALCHADEB published a Work entituled Via Strata De Calendario De Festis c. R. SALOMON writ a Treatise entituled Sex Alae as also another under the title of Talmid Ephemerides comprehended in six Tables as Hottinger in Smegâ—… Orient There is likewise a Treatise under his Name called Tabula Lunae extant in MS. in the Library of Marcus Mantua Benavidius of Padua mentioned by Thomasinus in Bibl. Patav. ALGAZEL ABUHAMAD a Iewish Philosopher and Astronomer writ in Hebrew a Book De Luminibus entituled Haoroth as the same is cited by Ricciolus in Catalog Astron. JOSEPHUS CHALDAEUS wrote De Planetis as testifies Habede-Iesu in his Catalogue of Chaldeé Ecclesiastick Writers Printed at Rome R. SIMCHA Disciple to R. Solomon put forth an Astronomical Treatise KUSIANUS or KEUXIAN GILAEUS composed Universal Astronomical Tables with Demonstrations of their Canons He is cited by Golius in Alferganum ABU-SEHEL published a Treatise touching the Demonstration of the Planisphere ABDORRACHMAN of Damascus wrote Tabulae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive Resolutiones ex Tabulis Ulug Beigi brought by the learned Golius from Constantinople He wrote likewise De Astrothesia Imaginum formis variisque Nominibus IBN-JAHIA ABBASIDES AFER published a Treatise of the Doubts and Errors of Astronomers and of the Astrolabe IBN-OMAR SOPHY wrote of Horology or Dialling ABU-SHUKER AFRICANUS wrote of the Theory of the Planets demonstrated and amended according to the newest and latest Observations MAHUMEDES CHARIKAEUS put forth a System of the Doctrine of the Sphere GEORGIANUS wrote a Treatise of the Orbe or Circle called Aequans and of the Obliquity Inclination or Reflection of Epicycles ABI ZELTUS DANITA an Andaluzian put forth an Astrological Treatise ABU MESUD wrote De Corporum Coelestium Contemplatione mentioned in Golius his Catalogue MS. IB'N SINA wrote touching the best Instruments
BAPTISTA CYSATUS a Iesuit of Lucerne in Switzerland and Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Ingolstadt published Mathematica Astronomica upon the occasion of the Comet which appeared in the year 1618. VINCISLAUS PANTALEO a Iesuit of Austria travelled into China and put forth the several Observations made by those of that Society in the East-Indies upon the Comets appearing in the year 1618. SIMON MARIUS wrote a Book of the Satellites of Iupiter to which he gave the title of Mundus Iovialis as Ricciolus affirms in Chronic. Astronom JOHANNES TARDE Canon of the Cathedral Church of Sarlat in Aquitaine wrote a Treatise by him entituled Bourbonia Sidera in which he endeavours to prove that the Solar Spots are Planets moving by a proper and regular Motion about the Sun and not inherent in the Body thereof as the Telescopes represent To which Work are subjoyned Optical Demonstrations teaching the way of making those Instruments fit to discover Objects more distinctly at a great distance He wrote another Treatise of the Use of the Magnetical Quadrant by which he resolves divers Astronomical Problems MICHAEL ZANARDUS put forth a Tractate containing Universum Coeleste wherein he disputes and concludes De omnibus singulis quae ad Naturam Coelestium Sphaerarum ab Empyraeousque ad Sphaeram Elementorum faciunt Printed at Colen CHRISTOPHORUS LONGOMONTANUS Son of Severinus Longomontanus a Dane Assistant to Tycho Brahe in his Celestial Observations for the space of eight years together afterwards Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Copenhagen The Work by which he signalized his Name was his Astrologia Danica the first part whereof treats in Two Books of the Doctrine of the Sphere and the latter in as many of the Theory of the Planets according to the threefold Hypotheses of Ptolemy Copernicus and Tycho Brahe together with an Appendix of Adscititious Phaenomena as New Stars and Comets JOANNES KEPLERUS WITTEMBER GICUS Disciple to Maestlinus and Principal Mathematician to three Emperours Matthias Rudolphus and Ferdinand the Second stiled by Ricciolus Sagacissimi ardentissimi Vir Ingenii Astronomicarum Subtilitatum scrutator acutissimus In the year 1596. he put forth his Prodromus Dissertationum Cosmographicarum seu Mysterium Cosmographicum In the year 1604. Paralipomena ad Vitellionem seu Astronomiae Pars Optica In which he gives Directions for using of Instruments in making of Observations In the year 1605. De Nova Stella Serpentarii In the year 1609. he published Astronomica Nova seu Physica Coelestis cum Commentariis Stellae Martis ex Observationibus Tychonis in which according to the Judgment of the knowing Mr. Flamstead he hath so well considered the Motions of that Star and ordered his Numbers so well that though his method of Calculation be troublesome no Tables answer his Appearances and Transits by Fixed Stars half so well as his In the year 1610. he set forth Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sydereo Galilaei In the year 1616. he published Ephemerides Nova cum Fundamentis earum from the year 1617. to the year 1620. In the year 1618. he set forth the three first Books of his Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae and in the year 1619. Five Books De Harmonia Mundi and three Books De Cometis In the year 1621. he reprinted his Mysterium Cosmographicum illustrated with Annotations and the year following he published the IV. V. and VI. Books of his Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae In the year 1625. he set forth in vindication of Tycho Brahe against Scipio Claramontius a Treatise entituled Hyperaspistes cum Appendice ex Trutinatore Galilaei and in the year 1627. Tabulae Rudolphinae Tychonicis Observationibus superstructae In which Work he had spent no less than 26. years study The Appendix which is added to the first Tome of Tycho's Progymnasmata is likewise his He writ also Eclogae Chronologicae a Book De vero nati Christi Anno Stereometria Trigonometria Logarithmetica The first in somethings censured by Guldinus in Centrobaricis There is extant a Posthume Piece of his called Somnium sive Lunaris Astronomia which whilst he endeavoured to publish at Zeigan in Silesia he died as did also his Son-in-Law Iacobus Bartschius prosecuting at the same place the same Design But it was afterwards happily compassed by his own Son Ludovicus Kepler and we could have wished he had done the like by other the Learned Remains of his incomparable Parent But 't is hoped that Defect will be now supplied and made good by the Care and Industry of the Learned Hevelius into whose Hands all the Remains of that Admirable Person are at last happily fallen And among them all his Epistles written upon the Subject of Astronomy and other Mathematical Arguments to divers Eminent and Learned Persons together with their Answers more Particularly his Book entituled Hipparchus containing according to the Testimony of Hevelius Praefat. Machin Coelest plurimùm Laboris ac Ingenii Acuminis though wanting in many Places the finishing Hand of the Author upon which yet in his other Works he seems to set a very valuable esteem The Publication whereof the studious in Astronomy earnestly expect THOMAS CAMPANELLA a Calabrian of the Order of Preaching Fryars put forth seven Books Astrologicorum in which Astrology separated from Iewish and Arabian Superstitions is Physiologically handled He set forth likewise four Books De sensu Rerum Magia in the third of which he treats of the Heavens and the Celestial Bodies GEORGIUS SCHOMBERGERUS Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Freiburg in Brisgaw a Iesuit put forth a Book entituled Sol illustratus wherein he treats of the several Accidents of the Sun of the Solar Stars and of the liquidity of the Heavens He published likewise a Century of Optical Problems and a new way of Dialling as well by direct refracted as reflected Rayes SIMEON PARTLICIUS put forth Astronomici Apologetici Pars prior Printed in 8 o. 1623. as I find in Iames his Appendix to the Catalogue of the Bodleian Library JOHANNES ADAMUS a German of the Society of the Iesuits travelled into China and in the Language of that Country wrote a Table of all the Stars He put forth likewise a Treatise De Calculo Eclipsis Lunae in the year 1624. HENRICUS BRIGGIUS Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford pursuing what Nepier had invented and begun put forth two Books of Logarithms after a more commodious Method the first entituled Arithmetica Logarithmetica the other Trigonometria Britannica the former shewing the Construction of Logarithmetical Tables the latter the Construction of the Tables of Sines Tangents and Secants and the Doctrine of Triangles to the great advantage of Astronomy and Astronomical Operations Mr. EDWARD WRIGHT Contemporary with Mr. Briggs before mentioned having spent sometime in Cambridge and being naturally addicted to Mathematical Studies was perswaded to accompany and went along with the Right Honourable George
Earle of Cumberland in his Expedition to the Azores in the year 1589. on purpose to add the Practice of Navigation to the Theory and in the year 1599. he published his Book called the Errors in Navigation A most excellent Work for the true describing a Sea-Chart which Invention of his Gerardus Mercator published without owning the Author Before the Publication of this Work in the year 1594 1595 and 1596. He by a large Quadrant of six foot Radius made Observation of the Sun's Meridian Altitude and thereby not only left the best Theory of the Sun's Motion at that Time but new made exquisite Tables for the Sun's Declination He held Intelligence with the most Able Artists abroad and being chosen Tutor in the Mathematicks to Prince Henry he by the help of some German Workmen caused to be made for that hopeful Prince a large Sphere with curious Movements which by the help of Spring-Work not only represented the Motion of the whole Celestial Sphere but shewed likewise the Particular Systems of the Sun and Moon and their Circular Motions together with their Places and possibilities of eclipsing each other There is in it a Work by Wheel and Pinion for a Motion of 17100 years certainly effected if the Sphere should be so long kept in Motion This Sphere though thus made at a great Expence of Mony and ingenious Industry was in the late Times of Devastation cast aside among other Rubbidge and had been utterly lost and destroyed had it not in the year 1646. been found out by Sir Ionas Moore Knight my worthy Friend and at his great cost and charge restored to its Pristine Perfection remaining now at his House in the Tower among other Mathematical Instruments and Curiosities in his Possession Besides the Book of the Errors in Navigation before mentioned the said Mr. Wright writ a Book of the Use of the Sphere a Piece of Dialling and a Book of Navigation called the Haven finding Art in all which he hath shewn himself not only a Sedulous but a Knowing Astronomer MARTINUS HORTENSIUS of Delpht in Holland Professor of Mathematicks at Amsterdam Companion and Adjutor to Philippus Lansbergius in his Astronomical Studies and no mean Observator of the Stars undertook to answer something which Kepler had inserted in the Preface to his Ephemerides and put forth a Dissertation De Mercurio sub Sole viso Venere invisâ which he addressed to Gassendus who had written upon the same Subject ROBERTUS HUGHES Professor of Mathematicks in Gresham-Colledge London set forth a Treatise of the Use of the Celestial and Terrestial Globes illustrated with Figures and Annotations by Iohannes Isaac Pontanus Professor of Philosophy at Harderwick in Gelderland ANDREAS ZERGOL Native of Sancta Cruce in Carniola a Iesuit Professor of Mathematicks and Theology at Gratz in Styria put forth Chronological Theorems of the year of our Saviour's Nativity and Passion CAROLUS ANTONIUS MANZINUS Professor of Philosophy at Bologna a learned Mathematician put forth Tables of the Primum Mobile cum nova Arte dirigendi with a compendious Method of Directions He writ likewise of the Theory of the Planets and was at the time Ricciolus published his Almagest a diligent Observer of the Celestial Motions D. HENRION Professor of Mathematicks at Paris put forth in French the Problems of Regiomontanus touching the Use and Practise of his Tables of Directions to which he added large Annotations and Explications of his own together with Regiomontanus his Tables by him corrected and augmented In the Preface to which Work he hath laid down the Doctrine of Spherical Triangles He set forth in French Theodosius his Sphericks published a Treatise of the Use of the Globes and Compass of Proportion of Cosmography and a Canon Manuel des Sinus c. besides his Mathematical Collections and Euclid's Elements JULIUS SCHILLERIUS of Ausburg Dr. of the Laws put forth Coelum Stellatum Christianum reducing the fabulous Morphoses of the several Constellations and changing their Profane Names into those of Christian Saints and Martyrs Bayerus adding thereto a new and more accurate Uranometria ALBERTUS CURTIUS a Iesuit Native of Munichen in Bavaria proposed in the year 1627. a New System of Heaven to be disputed on at Dining whose ingenuity in the Theory of the Moon his Aemulator Kepler not only admired but commended in his Rudolphine Tables c. 25. ADRIANUS ULACK of Gouda challenges a place in this Catalogue for his Chiliads of Logarithms resolving by an admirable Compendium Astronomical Geometrical and Arithmetical Problems JACOBUS ROSIUS BIBERACENSIS put forth Ephemerides or a General Calendar Astronomical and Astrological in which the rising and setting of the Stars with their several Effects for every Day of the Moneth are set forth A Work collected out of Ancient and Modern Authors with no mean Industry as G. Vossius sayes of it He stiles himself Mathematician and Publick Imperial Notary which Office he executed at Biennae or Biel a Town in Switzerland GULIELMUS JANSONSIUS CAESIUS alias BLAEU of Amsterdam an Excellent Artist as well for his Geographical Tables as his Celestial Globes and Spheres whereof he was the first Composer according to the Copernican System of which G. Vossius affirms the World not to have seen the like since Archimedes's time He likewise put forth a twofold Astronomical Institution according to the Ptolemaick and Copernican Hypothesis which being written in his own Language was translated into Latin by Martinus Hortenâ—…ius JACOBUS BARTSCHIUS of Lauban a City in the upper Lusaâ—…ia oâ—… Lausnitz a Province adjoyning to Bohemia now under the Dominion of the Duke of Saxe Doctor of Physick and Son-in-Law to the famous Kepler set forth Uranâ—…burgum Strasburgicum sive Motuum Coelestium Ephemeris Printed at â—… eipsick in the year 1629. He published likewise Planisphaerium Stellatum seu vice-globus Coelestis in Plano Delineatus He wrote also another Treatise De Indice Astronomico cum seâ—…tem Rotulis Planetarum aliisque figuris imprimis Phases Lunares Eclipses apparentes Planetarum Magnitudâ—…es adumbrantes Printed at Norimberg in 4 o 1661. CAROLUS MALAPERTIUS a Flemming of Montz and a Iesuit Professor of Mathematicks at Doway among other his Mathematical Works put forth a small Piece De Maculis Solaribus which he stiled Sidera Austriaca LE SIEUR BOULENGER a French-man Reader in Ordinary to the late King of France hath written a Treatise in his own Language of the Sphere in four Books to which he hath added a fifth touching the use thereof the third Edition whereof was Printed at Paris 1648. CHRISTOPHORUS SCHEINERUS of the Society of Iesus a Native of Mundeilhen in Swaben Professor sometime of the Hebrew Tongue and Mathematicks at Fribourg and Ingolstadt afterwards Rector of the Colledge of Nisse or Nissa in Silesia observed about the same time with Galilaeo the Spots in the Sun The most Eminent Pieces by which he hath signalized his
Name are these Oculus seu Fundamentum Opticum Sol Ellipticus Disquisitiones Mathematicae De Controversiis Novitatibus Astronomicis Apelles post Tabulam and lastly Rosa Ursina in which he hath so excellently and learnedly written of the Solar Spots that according to the Judgment of Des Cartes and Hevelius nothing can be expected in that kind more satisfactory DIONYSIUS PETAVIUS Native of Orleans in France of the Society of Iesus the Varro of our Age as Ricciolus stiles him hath not only merited much by his Studies in Theology but in Chronology likewise and the Reason of Times and particularly in Astronomy as his two Volumes the one De Doctrina Temporum the other Rationarium Temporum and his Uranologium sufficiently evidence JOANNES BAPTISTA MORINUS Regius Professor of Mathematicks at Paris put forth several Astronomical Tractates as first Nova Mundi Sublunaris Anatomia Another with this Title Famosi Problematis De Telluris Motu vel Quiete hactenus optata Solutio A third was entituled Arae Telluris fractae written in opposition to Gassendus's Book De Motu impresso à Motore Translato Three Books of the Doctrine of the Sphere Tabulae Rudolphinae ad accuratum facile Compendium redactae to which is annexed a Compendium of Trigonometry Plain and Spherical Constructio Figurae Coelestis Nova Dirigendi Methodus Et de Planetarum Revolutionibus tà m Mundanis quà m Genethliacis He published a Book in French called Remarques Astrologiques being a Commentary on Ptolemy's Centiloquium He put forth likewise Nine Books of Longitude under the title of Astronomia à Fundamentis integrè exactè restituta To which is to be added his long-studied Work entituled Astrologia Gallica published after his death HENRICUS PHILIPPI a Iesuit Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Gratz Vienna and Prague of whom Ricciolus reports that Plurimis Operibus Chronologiam Universam praesertim sacram illustravit The Works by him put forth are first Chronological Questions for reconciling the Iulian years of our Lord and those of Nabonassar with the Iewish Aera Likewise Chronological Questions touching the year of our Saviour's Birth and Passion in the first of which is explained the Roman Calendar with the Epacts Calends Ides Nones and Beginnings of the Moneths as well of the Greeks Syro-Chaldeans and Aegyptians as also of the Feriae Cycles of the Sun and Moon and of Indictions c. G. Voss. ADAMUS TANNERUS a Iesuit of Inspruck Professor of Mathematicks at Munichen Ingolstadt and Vienna wrote a most learned dissertation De Caelo as also another Piece entituled Astrologia Sacra PHILIPPUS LANSBERGIUS of Gaunt put forth at Middleburgh Tables of the Celestial Motions fitted to the Meridian of Goese together with a Thesaurus of Observations and the Theory of the Planets He put forth also Progymnasmata Astronomiae restitutae and three Books Uranometriae Whereto may be added his Commentationes in Motum Diurnum Annuum grounded partly on his own partly upon Martinus Hortensius's Observations JACOBUS LANSBERGIUS Doctor of Physick wrote an Apology for Philippus Lansbergius his Commentary In Motum Diurnum Annuum Terrae against Fromondus MELCHIOR INCHOFER a Iesuit sometime Professor of Mathematicks Philosophy and Theology at Messina in Sicily wrote a Treatise entituled Tractatus Syllepticus De Statione Terrae Motu Solis secundum Sacram Scripturam SS Patres And an Examen Thematum Coelestium variorum Astronomorum usque ad Tychonem the Reason of calculating Eclipses and of the Theory of the Planets these three last published not under his own Name but that of Academicus Vertumnius EVERARDUS WELPERUS of Strasbourgh put forth a Compendium of Astronomy as well Spherical as Theorical collected out of various Authors from whom says G. Voss. much more might have been expected had he not been opprest by a low and necessitous Fortune PETRUS CRUGERUS Professor of Mathematicks at Dantzick and Master to Hevelius besides his Logarithmical Tables undertook to write Astronomia Dantiscana which yet he lived not to finish as his Scholar Hevelius testifies He wrote likewise another Piece entituled Uranodromus Cometicus ANDREAS ARZET a Iesuit of Constance put forth a Mathematical Clavis and diligently observed the Stars as Ricciolus affirms as long as either his Occasions or the Gout would permit many of whose Observations especially about Eclipses he freely communicated to Ricciolus BONA VENTURA CAVALLERIUS Iesuatus Mediolanensis Disciple to the Excellent Galilaeo and Primary-Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Bologna put forth Directorium Generale Uranometricum Practica Astrologia and a Century of Mathematical and among them Astronomical Problemâ—… a Person of an acute Wit and Judgment and by Ricciolus acknowledged to have been no mean Assistant and Promotor of his Astronomical Studies He wâ—… Trigonometria wherein are some Astronomical Problems more exquisitly demonstrated than are else where to be met with PAULUS GULDINUS Native of S. Gal of the Society of Iesuâ—… taught Philosophy and Mathematicks at Rome Gratz and Vienna He wrote in defence of the Roman Calendar against Sethus Calvisius in which Work he also opposes Scaliger's Diatriba De Aequinoctiorum Praecessione He also published a Geographical Problem touching the difference in numbring the dayes between those that sail hence to the New World and those that inhabit there Not to mention his Centrobarica and other Geometrical Pieces of which Ricciolus in Chronologâ—… Astronom HUGO SEMPILIUS by Birth a Scotch-man by Profession a Iesuit in the Colledge at Madrid writ twelve Books De Mathematicis Disciplinis In the three last of which he treats distinctly De Astronomia De Astrologia De Calendario Printed at Antwerp in folio in the year 1635. and dedicated to Philip the Fourth King of Spain In the End of which Work he hath annexed several Catalogues of Mathematical Authors and among them of Astronomers and Astrologers but giving no more of them than their bare Names NATHANIEL CARPENTER sometimes Fellow of Exeter-Colledge in Oxford put forth Geography Delineated-in two Books in the first of which containing the Spherical Part among other things he treats of the Magnetical Affections and Motion of the Earth of its Site and Proportion in respect of the Heavens of the Longitudes and Latitudes of Places and their several Wayes of Invention In the second containing the Topical Part he treats likewise among other things of the Adjuncts of Place in relation to the Heavens either Northward Southward Eastward Westward with the Differences of the respective Hemispheres and several other things worthy the Knowledge of a young Student in Astronomy Printed at Oxford 1635.4 o. Upon the same Accompt may be here inserted Varinius his Geography being much after the same Method and a very useful Piece especially since lately reprinted at Cambridge with the Addition of the several Schemes wanting in the former Edition JOHANNES PHOCYLLIDES HOLWARDA wrote an Epitome Astronomiae
duo ad Astronomos the first touching a New Star in the Neck of the Whale appearing at some times at others disappearing the other touching a cloudy Star in the Northern part of Andromeda's Girdle not discovered by any of the Ancients sometimes appearing and sometimes not Which Phaenomena he recommends to the Observation of all curious Astronomers FRANCISCO GENERINI set forth in Italian the Design of a Moving Globe composed by him to demonstrate the diurnal and annual motion of the Moon together with the inequality of dayes to which is annexed a Discourse of Natural and Artificial Houres declaring the meaning of the said Author touching the said Invention and an account of many other Operations to be wrought by the said Globe besides those before mentioned Printed at Florence in 4 o. 1645. JOHANNES BAINBRIDGE sometime Savilian Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford writ a Treatise of the Dog-Star and of the Canicular dayes published by Mr. Graves together with a Demonstration of the Heliacal Rising of Sirius or the Dog-Star for the Parallel of the Lower Egypt Printed at Oxford in the year 1648. He writ likewise of the Comet in 1618. and published Procli Sphaera with Ptolemy's Chronological Canon ATHANASIUS KIRCHERUS a Iesuit Native of Buchon within the Territories of the Abbot of Fulda in Germany sometime Professor of the Oriental Languages in which by Ricciolus he is said to be ad stuporem usque peritus as also of Mathematicks at Wirtsberg and Avignon afterwards Ordinary Professor of Mathematicks in the Iesuits Colledge at Rome hath in most of his Works treated largely upon the Subject of Astronomy as in his Oedipus Aegyptiacus where he displayes Systematica Mundorum sive de Mundo Mundorúmque varietate ex mente Aegyptiorum De Astrologia Aegyptiorum Chaldaeorum Hieroglyphica and more particularly in his Musurgia where he treats De Coelorum Symphonismo De admiranda Mundanorum Corporum ad invicem proportione De particulari Symphonismo Planetarum De Choro Ioviali De Choro Solari Martio De Harmonia Stellarum Fixarum In his Book De Magnete where he fully handles the Subject of Magnetick Astronomy under the several Heads of Sphaera Magnetica Uranographia Sciotherico-Magnetica and Horologiographia Magnetica In his Book entituled Ars magna Lucis Umbrae wherein besides his various Horography he treats De Astrolabiographia Geographia Gnomonica Gnomonica Physico-Astrologica De Arte Anacamptica sive Astronomia Reflexa De Arte Anaclastica sive Astronomia Refracta De Cosmometria Gnomonica hoc est De Mundi Lucumbris Dimensione c. as also in his Itinerarium Ecstaticum Coeleste in which to express him in his own words Mundi Opificium i. e. Caelestis Expansi Siderúmque tà m errantium quà m fixorum natura vires proprietates singulorumque compositio structura ab infimo Telluris Globo usque ad ultima Mundi confinia perfecti Raptus Integumentum explorata novà Hypothesi exponitur ad veritatem Printed at Rome 1656. JOHANNES DE EPIERES Doctor of Divinity and Grand Prior of the Monastery of Aquicintinum put forth an Universal Calendar wherein he proposes an easie Method for finding out the Golden Number Epact Dominical Letter Moveable Feasts and Indictions for any year proposed and promises a larger Work under the Title of Astronomia Aquicinctina which whether ever published does not yet appear to me DIRK REMBRANTZ in his Netherlandish Astronomy treats of Planet-Wisers and gives the Reader an Eclipsigraphia shewing when an Eclipse of the Sun happens what and how great a part of the Earth will be obscured thereby ROBERTUS DUDLEY an English-man known abroad especially in Italy by the pretended Title of Duke of Northumberland published three Volumes in folio entituled Arcano del Mare in which are Sea-Charts Directions for the building of Galleys and a Description of many Planetary Instruments SAMUEL FOSTER a learned Professor of Astronomy in Gresham-Colledge contrived several ingenious Planetary Instruments published afterwards in his Posthumous Miscellanies SILVIO PHILOMANTIO an Italian under that feigned Name and in that Language put forth Ruota Planetaria which Ricciolus ascribes to Bonaventura Cavallerio PHILIPPUS LABBEE a learned French Iesuit Native of Bourges en Berry put forth in his own Language L'Abbregé de la Sphere being a compendious Treatise of the Sphere reduced by an easie and short Method into XII Chapters with some important Advertisements thereupon Printed in the year 1647. JACOBUS USSERIUS the late most learned and Reverend Archbishop of Armagh published a Dissertation of the Macedonian and Asiatick Solar year together with a Parapegma of Greek Astronomers accommodated to the Reasons of the Macedonian and Iulian years Vide Voss. L. De Scient Mathemat GOTHOFREDUS WENDELINUS Canon of the Collegiate Church of Conde in Flanders published Idaea Atlanticarum Tabularum grounded upon the Observations of divers Eclipses He set forth likewise Lampas Arcanorum Coelestium and wrote upon several other Astronomical Subjects as may appear by his Epistles to Gassendus and those of Gassendus to him published in his Works AEGIDIUS MATROPTUS composed something of the Sphere Machinationem conversionibus Secundorum Mobilium repraesentandis commended by Gassendus in his Epistles CLAUDIUS SALMASIUS having signalized his Name by divers learned Works hath also endeavoured to give honour thereto by his Diatribes De Annis Climactericis De Antiqua Astrologia Printed at Leiden 1648. He hath interspersed likewise in his Plinian Exercitations sundry Astronomical Arguments and some Critical Observations upon Manilius but such as are now and then severely met with by Petavius in Uranolog Mr. WILLIAM OUGHTRED a learned Divine and most eminent Mathematician famous for his Clavis Mathematicae at the End whereof is a Treatise of Dialling which is an Astronomical Subject He was likewise the Author of the Circles of Proportion where not to mention the Double Horizontal Dial there is a Treatise of Navigation besides divers Astronomical Propositions He likewise published a Treatise of Trigonometry being the first Author that demonstrated two Proportions for finding both the Angles at the Base of an oblique Spherical Triangle at two Operations when two Sides with the Angle are given PHILIPPUS FINELLA wrote in Italian Planetaria Physionomia Printed at Naples 1649. 4 o. SCIPIO CLARAMONTIUS of Caesena a Knight and formerly Professor of Philosophy in the University of Pisa a most expert Mathematician put forth many learned Pieces among which the chief are these Anti-Tycho in defence of the Sublunary Place of Comets with its Apology and Supplement but answered by Kepler in his Hyperaspistes Of three New Stars against the Opinion of Tycho Brahe which is yet defended by Galilaeo in his Mundane System And XVI Books De Universo Anno published in the year 1644 as also a particular Treatise De Phasibus Lunae Geometrically demonstrated and another entituled Anti-Philolaus He
Dantzick in the year 1661. May 3. stilo novo with the History of a New Star appearing in the Neck of Cetus and another in the Beak of Cycnus and his Illustration of our Countryman Horrox his Tractate upon Venus seen in the Sun in the year 1639. on the 24 th of November old style being the Noblest and since the beginning of the World till then unpractised Observation with a Discourse of some rare Paraselenae and Parhelii by him discovered at Dantzick as likewise two Epistles to Ricciolus De Lunae motu Libratorio in certas Tabulas redacto and other Astronomical Pieces whereof mention is made in the Philosophical Transactions He put forth this present year 1673. The first Part of his Machina Coelestis containing an accurate Delineation and Description of all the Astronomical Instruments by him used in his Celestial Observations fairly cut in Brass the Construction of Telescopes and Direction for the most commodious Way of managing those of Extraordinary Length with the Reason of grinding Glasses of an Hyperbolical Form He promises likewise Prodromus Astronomiae cum Integro fixarum Catalago atque Globis Coelestibus reformatis As likewise the latter Part of his Machina Coelestis of which that published is but the first Book containing the second third and fourth Books the second comprizing all his Celestial Observations as well of Eclipses as of the Occultations of the Planets and fixed Stars from the Year 1630. to this Present the third shewing his Observations of the Meridian Altitudes of the Sun and of the Equinoxes and Solstices from the year 1632. hitherto as likewise special Observations of every Planet the fourth and last exhibiting a Catalogue or Index of the Distances of the fixed Stars taken by his great Brass Sextants and Octants together with those noted by the Landt-Grave of Hesse Tycho Gassendus and Ricciolus All which are now in the Press and will e're long 't is hoped come to Publick View PIETRO MENGOLI an Italian Prior of Sancta Maddalena and Reader of Mechanicks in the Bolognan Academy published among other ingenious Pieces in the Mathematicks a small Quarto Treatise in Italian entituled Refraâ—…tioni Parallasse del Sole In which besides his Observations and Tables of the said Refractions Parallaxes Declinations of the several Points of the Ecliptick and right Ascensions these several following Conclusions are by him undertaken to be demonstrated viz. First The Sun 's Horizontal Refraction to be 1′ 58″ 6‴ Secondly The Estival Horizontal Parallax thereof 38″ 49‴ Thirdly It 's Hibernal Horizontal Parallax 40″ 4‴ Fourthly The Height of the Pole at Santo Petronio in Bologna in the beginning of the year 1656. to have been 44° 28′ 56″ Fifthly The Height of the Pole at Uraniburgh in the beginning of the year 1582 to have been 55° 53′ 27″ Lastly The Obliquity of the Ecliptick or the Sun 's greatest Declination to be 23° 28′ 24″ LE PERE CHERUBIN a Capuchin Fryar in the Convent of that Order in Orleans put forth a large and elegant Volume in French entituled La Dioptrique Oculaire the Ocular Dioptrick concerning the Theory Use and Mechanism of Telescopes divided into three Principal Parts the first contaiâ—… 〈◊〉 Doctrine of Opticks and Dioptricks or of simple Vision Direct and that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made by Rays refracted the second delivering the Theory of the Telescope in 〈◊〉 kinds which is ushered in by a History of the Invention and Antiquity of Telescopes and by a Discourse concerning the Difference of the Antient Glasses from the Modern The third and last Part being doubly divided into the Positive and Mechanical The Positive teaching the actual Construction of Telescopes and their Uses in the Observations of Celestial Objects The Mechanical shewing the way of polishing and forming all sorts of Glasses that serve for Telescopes giving likewise an Account of many excellent Discoveries that by their means have been made by Modern Astronomers The Work adorned with most curious and elegant Cuts and Printed in an answerable Letter in folio at Paris 1671. OTTO DE GUERRICK Councellor to the Elector of Brandenburg and Consul of the City of Magdeburg or Meydburg put forth Experimenta nova Magdeburgica De vacuo spatio in which he occasionally treats of the several Mundane Systems of the Planets and of the Fixed Stars their Magnitudes and Distances Printed at Amsterdam in folio 1672. Doctor JOHN WALLIS Savilian Professor of Geometry in Oxford Fellow of the Royal Society and Chaplain to His Majesty famous for his many learned Mathematical Works as his two Volumes of Arithmetick the latter whereof is entituled Arithmetica Infinitorum his Commercium Epistolicum his Tract De Cycloide his Treatises of Mechanicks De Calculo Centri Gravitatis at the latter end of Arithmetica Infinitorum is a Scheme and a Narrative concerning an Eclipse of the Sun 2. August 1654 by him observed at Oxford to whom likewise we are beholding for his Care in digesting and publishing Mr. Horrox and Crabtrec's Astronomical Remains He hath likewise a learned desirable Treatise of Angular Sections ready for the Press a due Knowledge of which Doctrine cannot but conduce much to the facilitating of difficult Sphaerical Problems and consequently to the Advancement of Astronomy AEGIDIUS DE GOTTIGNIES the Scholar of the eminent Geometer Gregory of St. Vincent is the Author of a Treatise of Dioptricks concerning the Foundation Construction and Use of Telescopes in order to Astronomical Observations as also of Microscopes The Treatise written in Latin is common in MS. in Italy whereof a Copy came over lately into England and here meets with the Applause of the learned which we hope will e're long be translated and published in English Sir CHRISTOPHER WRENN Knight sometime Astronomy Professor in Gresham Colledge afterwards Savilian Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford and now Surveyor General of His Majesty's Works and Buildings is here deservedly to be remembred whose learned Labours and curious Discoveries both in Philosophy and Mathematicks being already recorded by the excellent Pen of the Ingenious Author of the History of the Royal Society I shall from thence collect such Particulars as are pertinent to our present purpose and whose mention may give Honour to this Catologue He hath invented many Wayes to make Astronomical Observations more accurate and easie hath fitted and hung Quadrants Sextants and Radii more commodiously than formerly hath made two Telescopes to open with a joynt like a Sector by which observers may infallibly take Distances to half a Minute hath added many Sorts of Retes skrews and other Devices to Telescopes for taking small Distances and apparent Diameters to Seconds He hath added much to the Theory of Dioptricks much to the Manufacture it self of grinding good Glasses He hath made constant Observations on Saturn and a Theory of that Planet truly answering all Observations and that before the Printed Discourse of Mr. Hugenius on that Subject appeared He hath
Cambridge From him besides is to be expected a New General Analytical Method by infinite Series for the Quadrature of Curvilinear Figures the finding of their Centers of Gravity their Round Solids and the Surfaces thereof the straitning of curved Lines so that giving an Ordinate in any Figure as well such as Des Cartes calls Geometrical as others to find the Length of the Arch Line and the Converse Such an Invention to wit but in one particular Figure the Circle the Learned Snellius thinks transcendent to any thing yet published and how much conducing to the Benefit of Astronomy and the Mathematical Sciences in General such an Universal Method is I leave others together with my self to admire and earnectly expect Mr. JOHN COLLINS Accomptant and a Member of the Royal Society published in the year 1658. his Treatise entituled The Sector on a Quadrant in which there are very curious Prints of two great Quadrants and of two small Quadrants with particular Projections on them serving for the Latitude of London Albeit by Aid of other Lines each of those Quadrants is rendred Universal for Astronomical Use as finding the Hour and Azimuth and all other Spherical Proportions The Author 's chief Design in publishing such Prints was to shew the World that the said Prints might be pasted on Copper or Brass and so varnished as to be rendred preservable from Dirt or sullying and sold at a cheap Rate as now they are In 1659. he published his Treatise of Navigation entituled the Mariners Plain Scale new Plained In which besides Projections of the Sphere there are Constructions for many Astronomical Problems and Spherical Proportions The Book hath found good Acceptance and is now like to become a Common Theme to the Scholars of Christ's Hospital London whereof forty by His Majesty's Bounty and to His Immortal Renown in Establishing a Lecturer to instruct them are constantly to be taught Navigation and e're long 't is to be hoped the Author will reprint the same with considerable Additions The same year he published a Treatise of Geometrical Dyalling of good Esteem both for the Newness and easiness of Method in situating the Requisites and drawing the Hour-Lines In which there being Spherical Proportions and some Astronomical Problems it deserves to be remembred in this Catalogue In the year 1667. he published in the Philosophical Transactions the Solution of a Problem concerning Time to wit about the Iulian Period with divers Perpetual Almanacks in single Verses a Chronological Problem and divers other Things since in the said Transactions which we mention not as being irrelative to the Sphere or Astronomy viz. concerning Merchants Accompts compound Interest and Annuities c. We should be injurious to him if we did not farther inlarge by telling the World how much it is obliged for his Pains in exciting the Learned to publish their Works and in acting the Part of an Ingenious Obstetrix at the Press in correcting and in drawing of Schemes So that he hath been Instrumental in furnishing the World with the many learned Mathematical Books here lately published for which his chief Reward hitherto hath been to obtain from the Learned the Title of Mersennus Anglicanus and many more may be expected if moderate Encouragements towards Printing such Works and Leisure for such an Affair be not impeded through the necessary Avocations for a livelyhood and though it be besides my Design yet I cannot but digress in giving him and others like minded which are very rare to be found their due commendations in promoting the laudable Design of getting Learned Men to impart their Labours to be Printed and exciting others to encourage the same as being of singular Use and advantage to the Republick of Learning through the want whereof many Learned Mens Works of much worth have been lost suppressed or long delayed As those of Maurolycus Abbot of Messina a large Catalogue whereof is to be seen at the End of his Opuscula but by the Care of the learned Mathematician Alphonsus Borellius some of them have been published in this Age ninety years after the Author's Death as his Apollonius at Messina in 1656. containing the substance of the four first Books of the Apollonius of Commandinus and two more Additional Books of Maurolycus and all in less Room and at a much cheaper price And now by the like Diligence the said Borellius is publishing Maurolycus his Archimedes in Latin reputed a Good one after we have been long tired with the Common Latin bad one Through want of such care the many learned Works of Vernalion of Naples Master to Iosephus Auria have not hitherto come to light as his Commentaries upon all Archimedes Apollonius Serenus Euclid Ptolemaeus and divers others of the Ancients which is much to be lamented seeing he was according to the Testimony of the said Auria Vir Divinitate quadam Ingenii Ornatus Nor those of the learned Bernardinus Baldus Abbot of Guastalla mentioned at the End of his Comment on Aristotle's Mechanicks amongst which are two Volums of the Lives of Mathematicians whereof Bartholinus in his Preface to the Edition of the Optick Fragments of Heliodorus Larissaeus Printed at Paris 1657. gives an honourable Elogium Varenius could find no Stationer or Printer in Holland to undertake his Treatise of Conicks and curved Lines See the Preface to his History of Iapan If Sir Charles Cavendish deceased Brother to the present Duke of Newcastle had not as 't is credibly reported given liberally toward the Printing of Mydorgius his four first Books of Conicks they had never come to publick view the four last as likewise those of Paschal the Younger yet remaining unprinted upon the same Accompt of whom Mersennus gives this Censure quòd Unicâ Propositione Universalissimâ quadringentis Corrolariis armatā totum Apollonium complexus est The Manuscript as yet remaining unprinted as I am informed in the Hands or at the Disposal of Monsieur Du Prez a Bookseller in Paris the want whereof is the most considerable in regard the Author besides the ordinary method treats of the Conick Sections as projected from lesser Circles of the Sphere Erasmius Bartholinus well known by his Additions to the second Volume of Des Cartes as it is commonly termed could find none to undertake the Printing of De Beaunes Treatise De Angulo solido and other Treatises both of that Authors and his own Iungius his Phoranomicks and Treatise De locis Planis c. and other Algebraical Tractates have remained at Hamborough above ten years since the Author's Death unprinted for want of due Encouragement Albeit a Iesuit who writes his Life makes him although a Physician equal in Mathematical Knowledge to Des Cartes On the like Reasons we may conceive we want the many learned Algebraical Works of our famous Countryman Mr. Thomas Harriot and of Mr. Warner into whose Hands they fell who is esteemed by some of the most knowing Persons alive to have been much Superiour to all that
Gregoriani ejus facili Usu Printed at Bologna 1633. DAVID GOUBARD put forth Perpetual Tables of the Celestial Motions in French Printed at Middleburgh 1634. NATALIS DURET a French-man published New Ephemerides of the Celestial Motions to which he gave the Title of Tabulae Richelianae Printed at Paris 1637. ERICUS OLAUS TORMIUS Publick Professor of Mathematicks at Copenhagen published a small Treatise with this Specious Title 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sive Disquisitio Mechanica wherein he Disputes of and asserts the Necessity and Possibility of Instruments their Number and Amplitude requisite in Astronomical Observations Printed Hafniae 1643. in 4 o. JACOB RAVENSPERG Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Utretch published about the years 1640. and 1643. divers small Latin Astronomical and Meteorological Disputations of the Spots of the Sun Moon and Planets as likewise several Theses about Light Lightning Thunder and some concerning Optical Problems and Telescopes BENEDICTUS HEDRAEUS a Swede put forth Nova accurata Astrolabii Geometrici Structura ubi Gradus horumque singula Minuta prima nec non Quadrantis Astronomici Azimuthalis quo non solum prima sed singula minuta secunda distinctè observari possunt together with a Treatise of the Use of the same illustrated with clear and perspicuous Examples Printed at Leyden 1643. in 8 o. GEORGIUS FROMMIUS set forth a Dissertation Astronomical De mediis quibusdam ad Astronomiam restituendam necessariis Printed at Copenhagen 1642. in 4 o. He published likewise an Answer to Io. Baptista Morinus his Defence of his Astronomia restituta Printed at the same Place 1645. in 4 o. JOANNES BECHETT Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Paris to his Theory of the Planets before mentioned hath added Tables of the mean Motions and a Parecbasis explaining the Doctrine of Directions according to the Rational Way as also an Appendix for finding out and computing the Lunary Periods JOHANNES JACOBUS HAINLINIUS Superintendant General of the Diocess of Aldeberg in Saxony put forth a Mathematical Synopsis wherein the chief Parts of the whole Mathematicks both abstract and Concrete that is to say Arithmetick Geometry Astronomy Geography Opticks c. are methodically proposed by Definitions Axioms Postulates Theorems Problems c. very useful not only for young beginners but for those also who have already made some Progress in those Sciences In the Astronomical Part he treats particularly and distinctly De Astronomia Sphaerica Theorica Chronologica adding withall the Praxis and Use of those Parts Problematically laid down and briefly and clearly explained Printed at Tubinge 1653. in 8 o. JACOBUS DU BOIS published by Way of Dialogue a Theological-Astronomical Treatise Printed at Leiden 1653. in 4 o. wherein he opposes Copernicus his Hypothesis and Des Cartes his Philosophy Against which AN ANONYMUS Author put forth a Reply under this following Tide Demonstratio Mathematica Ineptiarum Ignorantiae Iacobi du Bois Ecclesiastae Leidensis in Oppugnanda Hypothesi Copernicana Philosophia Cartesiana Printed at Roterdam 1656. in 4 o. JOANNES HERBINIUS a Silesian Master of Arts and Professor of Philosophy at Utrecht undertook the like Controversie as Du Bois and published a Treatise thereupon entituled Famosae de Solis vel Telluris Motu Controversiae Examen Theologico-Philosophicum ad S. Sanctam Normam institutum to which he hath annexed the Grounds of his said undertaking in an Epistle addressed to the Excellently learned Maria Cunitia GEORGIUS HILARIUS besides what we have already mentioned put forth Enchiridion Progymnasmatum Mathematicorum containing first Apospasmation Primi Elementi Euclidaei Gr. Lat. Secondly Praecepta Sphaerica Thirdly Globi Coelestis Terrestris Explicatio Usus Fourthly Geographiae Rudimonta Fifthly Computi Ecclesiastici Epitome Printed at Copenhagen 1656. in 12 o. PETRUS BORELLUS Councellour and Physician to the King of France put forth a Treatise De vero Telescopii Inventore wherein he treats of the History of Telescopes and other Optick Glasses their Matter Fashion Working several Kinds or Species and Uses as also of several Discoveries made by the said Author as well with Telescopes as Microscopes of the later of which he gives a Century of Observations and treats of what may yet be further found out by the means of Telescopes where occasionally he speaks of the finding out of Longitudes Printed at the Hague 1655. and 1656. in 4 o. EUSTACHIO DIVINI an Excellent Worker of Telescopical Glasses at Rome put forth something against Monsieur Hugens his Systema Saturnium Printed at the Hague in Holland in 4 o. The Reverend and Learned Mr. WILLIAM BEVEREGE late of St. Iohn's Colledge in Cambridge is to be added to the number of those whose mention gives Honour to this Catalogue for his excellent Piece of Chronological Institutions in two Books In the first whereof he treats of the Nature of Chronology and its Parts of Time and its various Distributions into Scruples Hours Dayes Weeks Moneths Years in the second of the Syzygies and Eclipses of the Luminaries of the Equinoxes and Solstices Cycles of the Sun and Moon Indictions Epacts and of the several Periods Aera's and Epocha's of the Ancients to which he hath likewise added two Books of Chronological Arithmetick all which are of great Use and Advantage to the Students in Astronomy Printed at London 1669. in 4 o. AN ANONIMOUS French-man about this Time published in his own Language a Treatise entituled Discours sur les Influences des Astres selon les Principes de Monsieur des Cartes Printed at Paris in 12 o. GUARINUS GUARINUS of the Order of Clerks regular commonly called Theatins of Mutina Professor of Philosophy and Divinity and Mathematician to the Duke of Savoy published and Dedicated to the said Prince a large Mathematical Treatise in folio entituled Euclides adauctus Methodicus Mathematicaque Universalis In which with great Perspicuity and exactness of Method he treats of all things falling under the Notion of Quantity as well Discrete continuous as abstracted divided into 35. Tractates In the 23 th whereof he handles the Doctrine of the Sphere in two Parts the first treating De Sphaerae Contactibus Sectionibus in Genere the second De Sectionibus Maximorum Circulorum Invicem which being of great Use in Astronomical Operations we have for that Reason in this Place made mention thereof Mr. PATRICK MATHEWS Arch-Beadle to the Universiry of St. Andrews published a small Treatise in 12 o. lately come up from Scotland under the Title of the Great and New Art of weighing Vanity written against a Book intituled Ars Magna Nova Gravitatis Levitatis To which are annexed some Tentamina de Motu Penduli Projectorum In which there being some Ingenious Debates about Astronomical Affairs and the Theory of Pendulums for the exact measuring of Time and Analytical Series's or Equations of great Ingenuity suited to
wrote also against the truth of Telescopes asserting that the Earth cannot reflect a Light to the Moon but is answered by Zucchius in his Opticks MARIUS BETTINUS a Native of Bologna of the Society of Iesus Professor of Moral Philosophy and Mathematicks at Parma among other his Works published Apiarium seu Paradoxa universae Philosophiae Mathematicae in the Eighth Book whereof he treats chiefly touching matters Astronomical which Subject he also handles in his Aerarium Mathematicum He writ likewise in Vindication of himself being accused by Ricciolus of committing many Errors in Astronomy a thin folio Book published in Latin JOHANNES MARCUS MARCI Counsellor and Physician to the Emperor Ferdinand the Third and primary Professor of Physick in the University of Prague wrote among other Physico-Mathematical Tractates a Particular Treatise De Longitudine seu Differentia inter duos Meridianos unà cum Motu vero Lunae inveniendo ad tempus datae Observationis Printed at Prague in the year 1650. 8 o. JOHANNES GRAVES sometime Savilian Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford A Person who as well by his Forraign Travels as his learned Labours hath gained to himself an unperishing Reputation as his Pyramidegraphia de Pede Denario Romano sufficiently testifie and as to our present Subject his Discourse or Demonstration of the Heliacal rising of Sirius or the Dog-star for the Parallel of the Lower Egypt published together with Doctor Bambridge his Canicularia likewise evinces to which is subjoyned out of Ulugh Beigh the Longitudes and Latitudes of the chiefest of the fixed Stars He published likewise in Arabick and Latin Epochae Celebriores Astronomis Historicis Chronologis Chataiorum Syro-Graecorum Arabum Persarum Chorasmiorum Usitatae ex Traditione Ulugh Beigh together with Abul Feda's Geographical Tables both which Pieces he illustrated with his learned Notes In like manner he set forth Astronomica Shah Cholgii Persae unà cum Hypothesibus Planetarum to which likewise he subjoyned the Geographical Tables of Nassir Eddinus the Persian and of Ulugh Beigh And from whom the learned World might justly have expected yet greater things had not Death by a too hasty End of his Life put a stop to the Course of his Ingenious Studies LEO ALLATIUS a Graecian of the Isle of of Chios lately Keeper of the Vatican Library at Rome a Person most eminently learned hath published among other his various Works of most profound and diffusive Reading an Exercitation proper to our present Subject entituled Mensura Temporum Antiquorum praecipuè Graecorum He likewise designed another Treatise under the Title of Historia Astrologica and Three Books De Magnete as I find in the Catalogue of his Works as well already Printed as to be Published set forth by Bartoldus Nihusius but whether the two last have yet passed the Press is to me uncertain He translated the Paraphrase of Proclus Diadochus upon Ptolemie's Quadripartite and caused it to be elegantly Printed JOHANNES BECHET put forth a new Theory of the Planets Geometrically demonstrated by Concentrick and Excentrick Circles Printed at Paris MARIA CUNITIA Daughter to Henricus Cunitius Doctor of Physick by Birth a Silesian highly meriting for her excellent Skill in Languages and History more especially for her admirable Knowledge like another Hypatia in Mathematical Learning particularly in Astronomy and Astrology of which she hath given Signal Testimony by her Exquisite and curious Work entituled Urania Propitia wherein she hath set forth Astronomical Tables of wonderful facility and exactness grounded upon Kepler's Hypotheses and satisfying the Celestial Phaenomenae by a most easie and Compendious way of Calculation expressing and performing by explicite Numbers what the Rudolphine Tables contain implicitely in Logarithmical Numbers and thence require to be effected Dedicated by her Self and Husband Elias à Leonibus to Ferdinand the Third Emperor of Germany and Printed in fol. Bicini Silesiorum 1650. in Latin and High Dutch JOHANNES GARIBUS writ De Phaenomenis Ostentis from the year 1641. to the year 1650. VINCENTIUS MUTUS of Majorca a most expert Astronomer and sedulous Observer of the Stars hath added honour to his Name by his signal Work De Sole Alphonsino JOHANNES DRIENES of Dieppe a Iesuit and Professor of Mathematicks at Paris wrote Tabulae Canorienses seu Doctrina Luminarium NICOLAUS ZUCCHIUS Native of Parma of the Society of Iesus was an eminent Philosopher and Divine He at Rome assisted Scheinerus in his Observations of the Solar Spots having published his Philosophia Optica in which he treats of Refractions and Celestial appearances by the Telescope JOANNES BAPTISTA RICCIOLUS of Ferrara a Learned Iesuit sometime Professor of Rhetorick and Poetry then of Philosophy and School-Divinity partly at Parma partly at Bologna but being chiefly addicticted to Geographical Chronological and Astronomical Studies hath ennobled his Name by his excellent Work entituled Almagestum Novum divided into three Tomes in the first whereof he treats of the Sphere of the Sun and Moon and their Eclipses of the fixed Stars of the lesser Planets of Comets and New Stars of the several Mundane Systems c. In the second he handles Trigonometry or the Doctrine of Plain and Spherical Triangles promises a Treatise of Astronomical Instruments and the Optical part of Astronomy which yet he never published of Latitude and Longitude and Hydrography the Reason of Times with a Chronological Epitome confirmed by Astronomical Characters In the third he comprehends Observations of the Sun Moon Eclipses of the fixed Stars and lesser Planets with Precepts and Tables Primi Secundorum Mobilium and other Astronomical Tables He put forth likewise another Work entituled Astronomia Reformata the design of which is considering the various Hypotheses of several Astronomers and the difficulty thence arising of concluding any thing certain by comparing together all the best Observations and examining what they have most certain in them to reform upon that measure the Principles of Astronomy Not to mention his Chronology Published likewise by him in folio FRANCISCUS MARIA GRIMALDI of an Illustrious Family a Iesuit of Bologna partly by his joynt Indeavours and Observations with Ricciolus partly by his own Inventions and Discoveries hath greatly illustrated and improved Astronomy The chiefest of his joynt Observations are these De Quantitate Crepusculi De Dimensione Ambitus Terrae De Solis Distantia per Dichotomiam Lunae De Solis Diametro apparenti De Obliquitate Eclipticae seu maxima Solis Declinatione De Altitudine Lunarium Montium De Parallaxibus Lunae De Diametro Apparenti Lunae De Fixarum Distantiis inter se De earum Ascensione recta Declinatione De Venere falcata De Iovis Fasciis ac earum Parallelismo cum Aequatore De Diametris apparentibus Planetarum Minorum Fixarum Those of his proper Invention are these his Problema aemulum Aristarchi pro Distantia Solis Opinio de Lunae Maculis