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
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
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
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
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
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
and where they should cease to appear after he had seen them but four or five times The same Person entertains hopes that a Motion of Comets exactly observed may in time clear that grand Question whether the Earth moves or not He also hath taken Notice by making Reflections upon former Comets that more of them enter into our System by the Sign of Libra and about the Spica Virginis than by all the other Parts of the Heavens See the Phil. Transact N o. 1. p. 3. N o. 2. p. 18 19. N o. 3. p. 36 39. And being very well versed in Opticks and Dioptricks he hath given us the Proportions of the Apertures of Telescopes and reduced them to Tables ibid. N o. 4. p. 55. as he hath also delivered a Means to illuminate an Object in what Proportion one pleaseth ibid. N o. 4. p. 68. And we doubt not but he will upon his Return out of Italy where he hath spent some years of late impart to the World as well the Astronomical as other the learned Observations he-hath there made SIGNOR GIOVANNI DOMINICO CASSINI a deservedly Famous Astronomer of Italy now entertained by His most Christian Majesty in the Royal Observatory at Paris and withall a Member of the Royal Society of London doth continually oblige the learned World by his excellent and most important Astronomical Observations of which there are recorded in the Phil. Transact First that of the permanent Spot in Iupiter arguing the Rotation of that Planet about it's Axis Secondly those of the Shadows cast by the Satellites of Iupiter upon his Disque and Ephemerides of their Motions Thirdly those of the Spots in Mars arguing the Conversion of that Planet also about it's Axis Fourthly those of the Spots in Venus evincing the Revolution of that Body likewise about it's Axis as well as that of Iupiter and Mars Fifthly those of the Spots in the Sun Sixthly those of the change of Saturns Figure Seventhly those of some new Stars discovered by him and especially of the two new Planets about Saturn Of all which see the Phil. Transact N o. 4. p. 75. N o. 8. p. 143. N o. 10. p. 171. N o. 12. p. 209. N o. 14. p. 242. N o. 32. p. 615. N o. 78. p. 2201. N o. 78. p. 2250. N o. 78. p. 3020 3024. N o. 102. p. 4039. N o. 92. p. 5175. To which add his Calculations for the Eclipses of the Satellites of Iupiter for Anno 1671. in N o. 74. p. 2238. Neither ought we to pass by his three excellent Letters concerning the Hypothesis of the Sun's Motions and his Doctrine of Refraction of which an Account is given in N o. 84. p. 5001. What other Observations and Discoveries he hath made concerning the Heavens we hope he will in due time likewise publish SIGNOR GEMINIANO MONTANARI the learned Professor of Mathematicks at Bologna hath taken particular Care and Pains in acquainting us with the Total Disappearance of divers Stars that appeared formerly and intends to write upon this Argument a Book to be entituled Firmamentum Instabile See Philosoph Transact N o 73. p. 2202. and N o. 89. p. 5125. Where 't is intimated that this Author doubts not but to make it out to the Assertors of the Incorruptibility of the Visible Heavens that even in the Stars anciently described there are observed such Changes as would be sufficient to make Aristotle himself if alive change his Opinion in this Point Mr. JO. FLAMSTED of Derby an Industrious and accurate Astronomer and Observer of the Heavens hath of late endeavoured to advance Astronomy by publishing yearly his Calculations of the more notable Celestial Appearances conspicuous in these Parts of which see the Phil. Transactions N o. 55. p. 1099. N o. 66. p. 2029. N o. 77. p. 2297. N o. 79. p. 3061. N o. 89. p. 5118. To which may be added his Observations of the Transits of Iupiter and Mars near certain fixed Stars N o. 82. p. 4036. N o. 86. p. 5034. As also those for determining the Inclination of Iupiter to the Ecliptick N o. 94. p. 6033. together with those lately described in a Letter of his to Signor Cassini that were made by Him after a New and exquisite Way about the farthest Elongations of the Medicean Stars from the Centre of Iupiter and others concerning the Diameters of the Planets and their Distances from the fixed Stars as also the Parallax of Mars N o. 96. p. 6094. which Communications were with much Applause received by the said Signor Cassini Witness his Answer which we hope will also be published e're long together with the sequel of more Letters lately exchanged between these two eminent Astronomers Mr. EDWARD BERNARD Successor to Sir Christopher Wrenn in the Savilian Professor's Place of Astronomy in the University of Oxford merits here a due Remembrance from whom besides those future Improvements Astronomy is like to receive by his learned Lectures and Observations we are incouraged to expect the Publication of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or as Pappus terms it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Alexandrian School restored to it's Pristine Splendor being a Book so called by way of Distinction from Ptolemy's Almagest commonly by the Alexandrians call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which two Books were the only or at least the chief Astronomical Pieces usually read in that University The first whereof consists of nine Books containing Theodosii Sphaerica with Euclids Opticks and Phaenomena in three Books Theodosius de Habitationibus de Diebus Noctibus in two Books Autolycus de Sphaera Mota de Ortu Occasu siderum inerrantium in two Books Aristarchus Samius de Magnitudinibus Distantiis Solis Lunae Hypsicles his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive de Ascensionibus Which nine Books collected into one Volume and remaining in several Libraries in Italy and France were by Sir Henry Savile partly in Print partly in MS. given to the University of Oxford and now hope for New Life from this learned Persons Hand who intends as I am informed further to oblige the learned World by publishing the three remaining Books of Apollonius Pergaeus from the MS. Copies of Beni Musa and Aldelmelech with the Annotations of Eutocius upon one of them whereas the Copy used in the Version of Abraham Ecchellensis and illustrated with the learned Annotations of Alphonsus Borellius seems to be a Stream from a more impure Fountain and this Supplement is to be subjoyned to the first four Books put forth or ready to be put forth by the most Learned and Reverend Doctor Isaac Barrow Mr. ISAAC NEWTON Lucasian Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Colledge hath lately published his reflecting Telescope New Theories of Light and Colours hath â—…ready for the Press a Treatise of Dioptricks and divers Astronomical Exercises which are to be subjoyned to Mr. Nicholas Mercator's Epitome of Astronomy and to be Printed at
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
the Motion thereof and of Projects We thought the same worthy to be mentioned in this Catalogue the said Treatise was Printed at Glasco 1670. JOHN GADBURY of London Student in Physick and Astronomy put forth Ephemerides of the Celestial Motions for ten years beginning Anno 1672. and ending Anno 1681. compared with the most correct Observations of Tycho Kepler Mr. Wright and other approved Astronomers with an Introduction to the Use thereof Printed 1673. in 4 o. By late Letters from Paris Information is given that the SIEURS AVOCATE and DE ROYER intend to write fully of Astronomy and of the Theories of the Planets And here for a Close we cannot but acquaint the learned World with the most praise-worthy Design of the BISHOPS NOBLEMEN and GENTRY of Scotland who have nobly and liberally contributed toward the erecting an Astronomical Observatory in the University of St. Andrews and furnishing the same with Books and Instruments for Observation to the value of above 500 l. Sterling which Heroick Example we hope may animate those of like Condition and Abilities in this Nation to incourage the promoting of the same Laudable Design amongst us And thus much of the Original and Progress of Astronomy and of Astronomers OF THE COSMICAL SYSTEM THe next thing according to the Method of our Author to be considered is the Cosmical or Mundane System which is nothing else but the Coordination of the Parts of the World whose Matter is the Number of the Elements and Heavenly Orbs its Form the Order and Disposition of them among themselves and relatively as to the Centre of the Universe Of this Manilius gives but a short hint For having told how humane Reason had scaled Heaven and contemplated the various Phoenomena within the Elementary Region and Those to their proper Causes having brought He adds next That on the whole Worlds Mass she cast her thought Of which the System in her self she fram'd But not giving any particular Description thereof either as to its Matter or Form we conceive it requisite for the Reader 's greater satisfaction to explain and illustrate this Subject by representing the several Opinions as well of the Ancients as Moderns touching the same And seeing the Matter of this System which is the Number of the Heavens is variously and with much confusion discoursed of by the Learned some diminishing others increasing them it will not be amiss in the first place to exhibit this short following Synopsis of the Number and Distribution of the Heavens with the several Authors or Assertors thereof as the same is represented by Ricciolus Almagest Nov. Lib. 9. Sect. 3. A SYNOPSIS of the Number of the HEAVENS according to several AUTHORS I. One Heaven that is one World according to Aristotle One Heaven and that Sydereal and Fluid according to S. Chrysostom Tertullian S. Bonaventure Tycho Brahe Longomontanus Kepler Bulialdus and Tellez One Heaven and that Sydereal but Solid according to Aegidius Hurtadus Cisalpinus and Aversa II. Two Heavens that is the Empyraeum created the first Day and the Firmament created the second Day according to Clemens Acacius Theodoret Anastasius Synaita Procopius Suidas S. Bruno and Claudianus Mamertus Two Heavens that is the Sydereal and Aereal according to Iustin Martyr Two Heavens that is one of the Fixed Stars the other of the Planets according to S. Gregory Nyssene Two Heavens that is the Primum Mobile and the Sydereal according to Mastrius and Bellutus III. Three Heavens to wit the Empyraeum Sydereal and Aereal according to S. Basil S. Ambrose Damascene Cassiodorus Genebrardus Suarez Tannerus Hurtadus Oviedus Tellez Borrus Three Heavens that is one of the Fixed Stars one of the Planets and the other Aereal according to S. Gregory Nyssene Three Heavens the Empyraeum Watery and Sydereal according to Thomas Aquinas Three Heavens that is the Watery Sydereal and Aereal according to Cajetan IV. Four Heavens that is the Empyraeum that of the Fixed Stars that of the Planets and the Aereal according to S. Athanasis V. Five Heavens and all Sydereal and Solid viz. of the Fixed Stars of Saturn Iupiter and the Sun with Mars Venus and Mercury included and of the Moon according to Oviedus Five Heavens that is the Empyraeum the Watery that of the Fixed Stars that of the Planets and the Aereal according to Ricciolus VII Seven Heavens but confusedly reckoned by Philastrius Seven Heavens that is the Aer the Aether Olympus the fiery Heaven the Firmament the Angelical Heaven and the Heaven of the Trinity are reckoned by Beda Seven Heavens that is the lower Region of the Air the upper Region thereof the lower Region of the Fire the upper Region thereof the Sydereal Heaven the Chrystalline and Empyraeum according to Rabanus VIII Eight Heavens and all Sydereal that is the Heaven or Sphere of the Fixed Stars and the several Spheres of the Seven Planets according to the Babylonians Egyptians Eudoxus Plato Calippus Aristotle Cicero Philo S. Basil S. Ambrose Damascene Bonaventure Remigius Thomas Aquinas Aben-Ezra Carthusianus Lyranus Tostatus Brugensis Riccius Crontius Cremoninus Philalthaeus Amicus Ruvius IX Nine Heavens that is the Empyraeum and eight Sydereal solid Heavens according to Arriaga Nine Heavens that is the Primum Mobile the eight Sydereal Heavens according to Macrobius Haly Alpetragius Rabbi Iosue Rabbi Moyses Scotus Abraham Zagutus Sacroboscus Claromontius and as some but falsely conjecture Hipparchus and Ptolemy X. Ten Heavens that is the Primum Mobile the Sphere for the Motion of the Fixed Stars the Eighth Sphere for the Motion of Trepidation in Longitude and that of the Seven Planets according to Alphonsus and his followers Fernelius Purbachius Regiomontanus Amicus Appianus Maurolycus and Langius Ten Heavens that is the Primum Mobile the Sphere of the Motion of Trepidation in Longitude that of the Fixed Stars and the Spheres of the Seven Planets according to Arzahel Thebit and Isaac Israelita Ten Heavens that is the Empyraeum the Primum Mobile and Eight Sydereal Heavens according to Gulielmus Parisiensis and Iohannes Antonius Delphiuus XI Eleven Heavens that is the Empyraeum and the ten moveable Spheres of Alphonsus and his Followers before mentioned according to Petrus Alliacensis the Colledge of Conimbra Martinengus and sometime Clavius Eleven Heavens to wit the Primum Mobile the Sphere of the first Libration in Latitude the Sphere of the second Libration in Longitude the Sphere of the Fixed Stars and those of the Seven Planets according to Iohannes Vernerus Leopoldus de Austria Iohannes Antonius Maginus and in his latter dayes Clavius XII To these foregoing if you add the Empyraeum there will be XII Heavens XIV Iohannes Baptista Turrianus and Fracastorius make XIV Heavens that is Seven Spheres or Orbs counting from the Primum Mobile to the Aplané or Sphere of the Fixed Stars and Seven of the Planets Having by the foregoing Synopsis sufficiently explained the Number of the Heavens which is the Matter of the Mundane System we are
our Authour excellently described d Homer and most of the Antient Poets seem to attribute to the Sphere of the World a kind of Gravity or tendency downward and for this Reason they describe it to be supported by Aâ—…las But this Fancy Aristotle eludes in his Book De Communi Animalium Moâ—…u by applying not unappositely the Fable of Aâ—…las to the Axis of the World upon which it is imagined to be supported and turned about The Constellations of the Northern Hemisphere e So named by the Greeks quòd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. volvitur Circa Polum Aâ—…ticum It is likewise called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Ursa Major Plaustrum Majus In Arabick according to Ulugh Beigh Dub Ackber i. e. Ursus Major in the Masculine Gender as likewise Agala i. e. Plaustrum seu vâ—…hiculum from whence by the change of one only Letter is that corrupt Name of Aganna mentioned by Scaliger from Hesychius It is likewise by the Arabs call'd Benât Al Nash Al Cubra i. e. Filiae feretri Majoris in regard the four Stars that make the Body of the Bear resemble a Bier and the three in the Tayl the Virgins or Maids that attend the Corps And for this reason saies Kircher the Christian Arabs call the four Stars in this Constellation Nash Lâ—…ázar i. e. Feretrum Lazari and the three in the Tayl Mary Magdalen Martha and their Maid By the Persians it is call'd Haphtûrengh Mihîn i. e. Septentrio Major and by the Turks Yidigher Yilduz i. e. Septenae stelâ—…ae and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Yidigher i. e. Septenae as by the Latines Septem Triones quasi Teriones à terendo semitam circa Polum The whole Constellation consists according to Ptolomy of thirty five Stars whereof eight inform according to Bayerus of thirty two Kepler yet reckons fifty six among which the twelfth and thirteenth Stars are in Arabick call'd Al Nekra Al Thâ—…litha i. e. Cotyle Scrobs seu Cavitas ossis Tali The sixteenth Dâ—…br Al Dub Al Ackber i. e. Dorsum ursi Majoris The seventeenth Merák Al Dub Al Ackber i. e. Epigastrium ursi Majoris The eighteenth Meg'res Al Dub Al Ackber i. e. Uropygium ursi Majoris The nineteenth is call'd Phaid Al Dub Al Ackber i. e. Fâ—…mur ursi Majoris and these four last named make up Al Na'sh Al Cubrá Feretrum Majus The twentieth and twenty first Stars are called Al Phikra or rather Al Nekra Al Thanija i. e. Vertebra seu Cotyle secunda The twenty third and twenty fourth Al Phikra or rather Al Nekra Al Ula i. e. Vertebra seu Cotyle prima as the Commentator upon Ulugh Beigh his Tables would rather have it read in both Places The three Stars that make the Tayl are call'd Al Benát i. e. Filiae Whereof the first is called by some Al Haun or Al Gjaun signifying albam Nubeculam by others Al Hâ—…er or Al Haur commonly but corruptly Alcor i. e. Albedo oculi or Populuâ—… Alba. The second is called Al Inâ—…k or Al Anâ—…k i. e. Capella The third Alkaid i. e. Gubernator This Constellation was first found out by Nâ—…uplius as Theon the Scholiast of Aratus affirms and was antiently the Greek Sea-mans Guide as the lesser the Phoeâ—…icians The Reason because to the Greeks who sayl'd the Mediterranean Pontick and Euxine Seas this Constellation was still apparent but to the Sidonians Phoenicians and Carthaginians who were more Southerly part of the greater Bear was either by the Position of Sphere or some other Accident sometimes deprest and obscur'd but Cynosura always apparent to them whence that of Valerius Flaccus in Argonaut Certior in Tyrias Cynosura Carinas And therefore these last chose the lesser as the Greeks the Greater Bear for their Directress Vide Ricciol in Almagest Nov. f La Cerda explicating this Verse of Virgil's in Georg. 1. Maximus hic flexu sinuoso elabitur Anguis Cites these Verses and conceives by the greater Bend and lesser Orb our Poet means the greater and the lesser flexure of the Serpent that is to say that of the Tayl being the larger about Helice that of the head being the more contracted about Cynosure But this is far from the meaning of Manilius whose sence is this that Helice being more removed from the Pole makes by its Circumgyration a larger Circle than Cynosura which being nearer to it must consequently make breviorem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Grotius in Arat. Phaenom terms it This Interpretation is confirm'd by these Verses of Aratus to which doubtless ouâ—… Authour had respect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Multa lucens Helice primâ à Nocte Altera vero parva sâ—…d Nâ—…utis Melior Minori enim Tota convertitur Orbâ—… To which purpose see likewise Theon the Scholiast of Aratus Helice g So called by the Greeks quasi Canis Cauda or as Vâ—…ssius l. de Scient Mathemat c. 32. derives it from the Hebrew Ura i. e. Lumen flamma Ignis and Nghus i. e. coligere ut sit Cynosura quasi Collectio luminis seu Ignis or from the Chaldaeâ—…n Kinush i. e. Umbilicus for by its Conversion is made a small Circle as it were Umbilicus Igneus The Hebrews call it Genash i. e. Gallinam cum filiis suis as Kircher expounds it By the Arabs it is called Dub Asgher i. e. Uâ—…sus Minor and Benat al Mash al Sughra i. e. Filiae Feretri Minoris by some of them it is called Agiala i. e. Plaustrum and by Scaliger and Schickardus Al Rueba vel Arrucba which yet Mr. Hyde says is not to be sound in any Arabick writer unless happily they derive it from the Chaldaick Recubà or Recuvà which signifies Currum vel Vâ—…hiculum By the Persians it is call'd Haphturengh 〈◊〉 i. e. Sâ—…entrio Minor The Star in the Extremity of the Tayl is by the 〈◊〉 call'd Caucab Shemâ—…i i. e. Stella Borealis by the Turks Yilduz Shemali and absolutely Yilduz i. e. Stella and by a peculiar Name in Arabick it is called Gjedi i. e. Hoedus The Italians call it Tramontana and we the Pole or North Star The two last and brightest in the Feretrum or square are by the Arabs call'd Al Phercadân or Al Phercadein i. e. Duo vituli The whole Constellation consisting according to Pâ—…olomy and Bayerus of eight Stars whereof one inform as Kepler reckons of twenty Of the Fabulous Anastrâ—…sis of this and the former Constellation Diodorus Siculus Biblioâ—…b Histor. l. 4. reports that these were the Nurses of Jupiter and privately kept him from the search of Saturn for which they were by him in Gratitude plac'd in the Heavens and call'd by the Name of the two Bears being worshipped with Divine Rites by the Cretans and Sicilians by whom they were styl'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Deae Matres Others refer it to the Fable of Callisto and her Son Arcas of which see