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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01744	The new starre of the north, shining vpon the victorious King of Suueden	Gill, Alexander, 1597-1642.	1631 (1631)	STC 11879.2; ESTC S122602	16,026	54

GUSTAVUS ADOLPHVS KING OF THE SWEDS GOTHS VANDALS GREAT PRINCE OF FINLAND etc. Behold the beames of this bright Northen starr Enflam'd by Mars but sweetned more by Ioue He hands and Lands subdues by dint of warr But farr more hearts by goodnes win̄ing love By both before he came he overcame Owing of Victory as swift as Fame Etiam juriusquam venj vicj MD sculpsit Sold by R Mylbourne at the Greyhound in Paules Church yard THE NEVV STARRE OF THE NORTH SHINING VPON the Victorious King of SVVEDEN LONDON Printed by AVGVSTINE MATHEVVES for ROBERT MILBOVRNE and are to be sold at the Signe of the Greyhound in Pauls Church-yard 1631. THE NEW STARRE OF THE NORTH Shining vpon the Victorious King of Sweden IN the yeere one thousand fiue hundred seuentie two there appeared in the heauens a new strange Light exceeding in the apparant bignesse thereof all the fixed Starres and shewing forth a bright and Maiesticall lustre which was beheld not onely in the night time but also by some at Noone day and became at that time the gaze of the world and taske of all the Astronomers of Europe many of them in divers Countreyes publishing their Observations and Opinions concerning the nature of this Star and future events fore-signified thereby but none comparably with the most famous Astronomer of our time called Tycho Brahe a Nobleman of Denmarke who by the advantage of his large and curious Instruments and vncessant paines in Astronomicall Observations more exactly then any other setteth downe the true Place Forme Motion and Height of this wondrous heauenly Lampe Whereunto hee addeth also his Iudgement what euents it portendeth like to befall in the yeeres neere following the said Apparition Accordingly hee treateth of the sayd Starre in aboue 500 pages of his Booke called by the name of Astronomica Progymnasmata which Booke in the yeere 1593 was honoured by the Attestation of King Iames our late Soueraigne of blessed memory in manner following James by the grace of God King of Scots to the Noble Tycho Brahe Lord of Knudstrup the chiefe Astronomer of this age WHereas Wee haue vnderstood as wel by your letters written to Vs as also by Our seruant Young that you intend to publish those Workes of yours which with invincible paines and manifold watchings haue been composed by you namely those your excellent Astronomicall Exercises stiled by you Astronomica Progymnasmata Towards the publishing whereof you haue made suite vnto Vs that Wee would vouchsafe thereunto our Commendation to be written by vs in Verse as also our Royall Priuiledge to the Impression of them We haue thought fit to affoard both those fauours to your singular good Deserts and admirable Learning whereof wee are not now to take notice by other mens report or by the only view of your Writings hauing in presence with our owne eyes and eares been made spectator and hearer in that very House or Tower erected and dedicated by you vnto Vrania the Heauenly Muse where We receiued such content by that goodly spectacle by the learned conference which you had with vs that it is hard to determine whether be greater the delight or the admiration wherewith we now call the same to remembrance c. Then followeth the Tenour of the Kings Priuiledge that none for the space of thirtie yeeres within the Dominions of Scotland presume to Print the said Workes without the consent of the said Tycho or his heyres This Letter of Priuiledge is dated from his Maiesties Court in Halyroodhouse that last of Iuly 1593 in the sixe and twentieth yeere of his Raigne Then the Latine Verses with this Title The commendation of Tycho Brahe his Astronomicall Treatises by Iames the 6. King of Scots In which verses after the description of the artificiall modell of the motion of the Planets fixed Starres represented in those incomparable engines erected in that house by Tycho Brahe followeth also the intent of Astrologicall prediction in these words Vt miti aut torvo aspectu longe ante futura Praemonstrant Regnisque Tonans quae fata volutet Tychonis pandunt operae Lege disce videbis Mira domi Mundum invenies Caelumque libello c. Iacobus Rex F. manuque propria scripsit Great Tycho's labours also doe foreshow Events which shall befall on earth below And by disasterous or faire aspects What destinyes on Kingdomes God directs Reade heere and learne If you for wonders looke Loe heere the world at hand the heavens by booke Made by King Iames and written with his owne hand Tycho in this his booke after generall observations of the motions of the heavens treateth at large of this much admired newe Starr whereupon that whole Treatise is intitled De nova Stella anni 1572. giving the description of the forme place motion and durance thereof and demonstrating out of his owne and other Astronomers experimentall observations that it was not seated in the aire but aboue in the throne of the highest Heavens being fixed in the very chaire of Cassiopeia a figure of Starres so called he very certainly concludeth that it could not possibly be any Comet supposed to arise out of the vapours of the Earth elevated into the vpper Region of the ayre according to the vulgar errour of some Philosophers but that it was a true and proper Starr made of heavenly matter being none of the originall first borne lights made by the hand of God in the Creation which possesse an indefeisible freehold of their station to the worlds end but a kinde of adopted childe of the heavens admitted onely for a Termer in that habitation which he possessed about sixteene Moneths This Starre as it was scituated in that part of the heavens which is called via lactea the milke white way so it is not vnprobably supposed by Tycho to haue beene composed of the matter of that part of the heavens Wherein Tycho avoweth that he beholdeth since the vanishing of that Starre a kind of vacuity or diversity of colour in that very place where the Starre stood as shewing the consumption and absence of so much white ethereall matter as was vsed to the composure of that Star By some it was deemed to be the very same Starre which appeared vnto the Sages of the East at the birth of our Saviour and thereupon coniectured to be the neerefore-runner of the second comming of Christ as that was the attendant of his first comming Accordingly as Tycho in this booke recordeth Vir admodum celebris de literis tam sacris quam philosophicis praeclare meritus de hac stella eleganti Epigrammate sic lusit Theodore Beza a man famous in this age for his great abilities in learning both of Humanity and Divinity made an elegant Epigram which thus endeth Et qui nascenti praeluxit nunciat idem Ecce redux reducem rursus adesse Deum Hinc igitur felix ô turba applaude piorum Tu vero Herodes sanguinolente time That lampe which