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Learned: Tico Brahæ his astronomicall coniectur of the new and much admired [star] which appered in the year 1572; Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata. Conclusio. English
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Brahe, Tycho, 1546-1601.; V. V. S.
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hee at last with his whole army shall be overthrowne and so the Earth shall be disburthened of her wicked inhabitants For it is probable that there must be a great clensing and extirpation of all Earthly impurities before that peaceable and happie age whereof the Prophets have spoken shall come but to shew the particular manner thereof is above humaine knowledge wee purpose onely to make some coniectures in generall for the event will shew it selfe Moreover because a certaine ancient Prophesie of Sibylla Tiburtina which was found in the yeare 1520. in Switzerland engraven in a Marble stone in old latine Characters which was discovered by the force of the water washing away the earth may be fitly applyed to this Starre I will heere insert it and ioyne it to our coniectures for it is worthy of observation beeing recited by Cornelius Gemma in his Treatise of Supernaturall Apparitions in these words The Sybils Prophesie A Starre shall arise in Europe over the Iberians at the great house of the North whose beames shall vnexpectly inlighten the whole World And this shall bee in a most desired time when all Nations shall lay by their weapons and imbrace Peace but they shall contend during the Interregnum and strive to obtaine the reynes of Government yet the ancient House shall prevaile and shall be prosperous in Warre vntill contrary fates shall encounter one with another For in the same time after this Starre is gone another great Light shall shine foorth with Martiall sparkling beames and shall inlarge his Empire even to the bounds of the Antipodes After this there shall bee bloudy Comets and flashings of fire seene in the Heavens so that there shall be no safety any where The firmament of Heaven shall bee dissolved the Planets shall forget their courses and the Spheares shall iustle one another the fixed Starres shall out-goe the Planets The Heavens shall bee leveld with the Seas and after these thinges come to passe there shall be continuall Night destruction ruine condemnation and eternall darknesse G. S. G. There were divers expositions of this Prophesie at that time when it was first found out some interpreting it of CHARLES the Fift others drew the meaning of it to PHILIP King of Spaine and some thought that the King of France was meant thereby but I thinke that it doth rather point out those Iberi which inhabite Northward toward Moschovia So that this Oracle of Sibilla Tiburtina did not denote the Spaniards but those Iberians which are neare unto the Moschovites especially when she useth these words Supra Iberos ad magnam Septentrionis domum Over the Iberi at the great house of the North. And truly Moschovia Scythia and Tartaria doe make a great part of Europe so that it may well be called the great house of the North. And therefore seeing we have formerly shewed that this unusuall Starre did cast his perpendicular beames and influence on the Country of Moschovia it is not to be doubted but that this Starre together with that tract of Land doth agree with the Sybilline Oracle But concerning the other matters which are mentioned I will not touch upon them in particular but leave them to other mens judgments Moreover some of the other Sybils have prophesied concerning Gog and Magog who should come in the latter times and have expresly foretold of the rising of this Starre and among the rest Sybilla Babilonica thus saith Then a great Signe shall from above be given And a bright Starre shall then arise in Heaven Which shall like to a glistring Crowne appeare And many dayes it shall stand fixed there What can be more evident concerning this cleere Starre which was beheld in our time for that was more bright and shining than any of the rest and was round in forme like unto a Crowne having no beames right shooting from it as Comets have besides it continued for a whole yeare and kept his Station in the Firmament with the other Starres And therefore this Sybilline prediction doth fitly describe the forme light scituation duration and consumption of this Starre as if it had beene then seene Besides shee speaketh of that great Commet which immediatly followed after this Starre in these word Within the West a Blazing-Starre Shall rise which named Comets are And in another place thus After this Starre within the fourth yeare A flaming Comet shall appeare Which on the deepest Seas below His gloring beames abroad shall throw Behold how iustly we doth limit out the time betweene the apparition of this new Starre and the Comet following for there were almost foure yeares betweene the vanishing of this new Starre and the rising of the Comet which followed And by the Sea shore meaneth the Westerne Ocean for in this part of the world presently after the setting of the Sunne this Comet was seene those who would know more concerning these predictions let them reade the bookes of the Sybils in which it doth appeare that there shall bea Catastrophe and change of things before the vniversall consummation of the world Yet in what order things shall come to passe it is hard to guesse either by the signification of this Starre or by the Sybilline Oracles or by Divine Prophesies But yet is likely that those happy times shall not preceed but follow after a more troublesome time even as this Starre at the first did shine with a bright and cleare lustre and with a Ioviall light but afterward did assume a Martiall sparkling colour as may bee gathered out of the words of the same Sybilla And God who dwelleth in the Heavens shall then Save the remainder of the Sonnes of men Then Peace and knowledge of the truth shall flourish The Earth her plentious fruits shall likewise cherish It shall not bee devided as before Nor to the plough be subiect any more Which also the holy Prophets doe seeme to intimate who foretell that the happy peaceable estate of the Church shall be after the destruction of this Gogus But I thinke it not fit to proceed any further in unfolding these mysteries having promised to handle them sparingly as also in regard that these Prophesies are not to be declared by humaine coniecture neither can be Geometricially demonstrated as those matters which belong to the knowledge of Astronomie And so leaving these my coniectures to the consideration of the Reader I will heere leave of to entreat any further concerning this Starre FINIS LONDON Printed by B. A. and T. F. for Michael Sparke at the blue Bible in Greene-Arbor 1632. Deus Rex This King of Swed Gustavus is by Name And both words doe include an Anagram For SVVED is DEVS GVSTAVVS it doth make Augustus shewing that hee doth pertake Of Gods great power and of Augustus Fame Which both this Starre and Titles doe proclaime Besides God-acre-field which hee did winne Where God did give the Victorie to the King Deus Rex Tempore posterior Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus Interpres Astrologie is a word compounded of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying The speech of the Starres Or Time
Learned Tico Brahae his Astronomicall Coniectur of the new and much Admired ⋆ Which Appered in the year 1572 Non Haberi Sed Esse EFFIGIES TYCHONIS BRAHE OTTONIDIS DANâ—… DNÌ„IDE KNVDSTRVP ET ARCIS VRANIENBVRG IN INSVLA HELLISPONTI DANICI HVENNA Aetatis suae 40 Annâ— DNÌ„I 1580 Printed at London by BA and T F for Michaell and Samuell Nealand 1632 TO The High and Mighty Emperour RVDOLPHVS the II. The Preface of the Heyres to TYCHO BRAHE AN Orphant Worke most mighty Emperour we doe now present unto the view of your Sacred Maiesty and doe dedicate it to your renowned name being the Astronomicall exercises of our Parent of late approved memory which by the leysurable studies of the Author are increased to so large a volume that so they may be more commodious to Posterity than the bare title of Exercises doth promise For if ever HORACES Law were observed it is in this Booke which commeth forth after Three times nine yeares are expired For when our Parent at the first had onely purposed to treat in this Booke of that wonderfull new Starre which was seene in the yeare of seventy two and diligently to examine the opinions of others concerning the same and had begun to print it at Vraniburg all things going forward according to his owne desire it happened in the mean time that he began to make a new and exact description of the course of the Sunne and to assigne and point out the severall places of the fixed Starres even to halfe a minute according to their Latitude and Longitude and lastly to search out the intricate motions of the Moone all which at length be performed and hate heere added to this Volume so that we may truly affirme that this Booke in respect of the worthinesse of the matter deserveth a more famous title than to be called Astronomicall exercises How difficult it was to performe in respect that things lay deeply hidden and therefore required the more labour to find out having beene before in paine attempted by others in former ages I leave to their consideration that have any the least knowledge in Astronomy Now this incomparable labour which is above the envy of malevolent persons seeing that our Parent in the last yeares of his life together with his other studies hath devoted to your sacred Maiestie we therefore his surviving heyres having Printed it after his decease doe now most humbly offer it to your Highnesse Which wee have done to the end that we might give an account of his studies to the chiefe Monarch of the Christian world and might take away all occasion of detraction from the envious whom eyther their owne malitious natures have stirred up against him or their evill dispositions and ignorance have so corrupted and blinded their iudgments that they should thinke it all lost which was bestowed on these royall Sciences which was very little in respect of that which was necessary and in regard of the honour and glory which redoundeth from thence But in this Complaint the most learned and excellent men of all ages may beare us coÌ„pany who were envyed while they lived Since no age hath wanted some who with ARISTIPPVS and EPICVRVS have disdained Mathematicall learning as vaine and idle and have hated the Professors thereof with more than barbarous malice Neverthelesse most mighty Emperor we being held up and sustained by the authority of your Imperiall Maiesty who are placed on the highest Pinacle of honour have no reason to regard the envy of others But have cause not to dispise such idle censures and call to minde the examples of your Maiesties Ancestors namely ALPHONSVS King of Aragon and Castell ALBERTVS of Austria FREDERICK CHARLES the fifth and the like who were all favourers of this noble study and did extend their munificence and bounty to the professors thereof For that I may instance one of many who could be more magnificent than ALPHONSVS who out of his owne praise-worthy and memorable bounty did bestow upon the Tables of the Coelestiall motions above fodre hundred thousand Ducats Notwithstanding the Aristippusses of our time doe thinke it might better have beene bestowed on sports and idle pleasures But yet these men doe not consider that ALPHONSVS by this meanes hath gotten to himselfe everlasting glory while the fame of other Kings is buried in obscurity But yet how lame and defective are these costly Tables And not to be compared with the labours of our Parent Because they never made any observation from the Heavens but by comparing the observations of the ancients and noting the Progresse of the Starres they have pacthed up this bundle of Tables This defect divers learned men have endeavoured to supply and especially the most famous COPERNICVS who yet was much hindred by wanting fit Instruments so that hee could not attaine to his desire although he hath more perfectly rectified the motions than any of his Predecessors Wherefore with consident modesty we dare affirme that our Parene hath excelled all the Astronomers of former ages in the accurate restoring of the motions and that neyther any King or Prince except ALPHONSVS hath bestowed so much upon Astronomy so that he did not onely employ his whole Revenewes arising from his Lands and offices which he held under the King of Denmarke but also of his owne proper stocke he layd out aboue a hundred thousand Thaleri But when after the death of this praise-worthy King the charges grew so great that he was almost tyred therwith being sent for out of his Country by your Maiesties command he endeavored to make the Tables of the Coelestiall motions dedicated to RVDOLPHVS to exceed the Tables of ALPHONSVS and COPERNICVS that so your Maiesty having promised to helpe him in the charges thereof Astronomy might live by your Maiesties liberality and your Maiesties name might live eternally by Astronomy When having thus intended to doe God tooke him away both in the middle of his age and Worke to the great hinderance of Learning and the losse of us his heyres Now therefore that we may benefit Posterity whereof we ought to have especiall regard we beseech your Maiesty by the holy rites of Vrania the heavenly Muse that you would not in these trouble some times of Warre neglect the opportunity of gaining eternall praise by finishing those I ables which albeit they require some charge yet it is a worke that may well beseeme your Imperiall Maiesty For as the Poet said Sint Maejenates non dierunt Flacce Marones So we may say that if we could have such Patrons as ALBERTVS FREDERICK and CHARLES the Great there will not be wanting such who will cheerefully undertake this labour and finish that which remaineth Whereby we dare promise that your Maiestie by rectifying the study of Astronomy shall gaine perpetuall fame and glory which shall continue as long as the Starres endure And so to conclude this our Dedication wee commend your most sacred Maiesty to the Protection of Almighty God