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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66810	A survey of the heavens being a plain description of the admirable fabrick and motions of the heavenly bodies, as they are discovered to the eye by the telescope, and several eminent consequences illustrated thereby. I. The infinite wisdom, power, glory, and incomprehensibility of God in the creation. II. The verifying of the Copernican hypothesis. III. The probability of more inhabited worlds. IV. The clearing of some difficult places of scripture from doubtful interpretations. V. The higher exaltation of Gods attributes in the business of our redemption. VI. An essay to prove the Sun to be the seat of the blessed, with several other useful notions. To which is added the gout raptures. Augmented and improved in English, Latin, and Greek lyrick verse. By Robert Witty Dr in physick in both universities, and fellow of the Colledge of Physicians in London.; Ouranoskopia, or, A survey of the heavens	Wittie, Robert, 1613?-1684.	1685 (1685)	Wing W3234; ESTC R221136	68,864	172

was wisely forbidden by the Ancient Church and is most justly exploded by all wise Politicians and Law-makers in Europe The Holy Patriarchs There are some so daring as to averr That the Holy Patriarchs Abraham Isaac and Jacob were well skilled in Astronomy and particularly Josephus reports that Abraham communicated much herein to the Egyptians while he sojourn'd there but that is gratis dictum since he lived so many Centuries after Abraham that he can neither well prove it nor give us grounds to believe it if we should be sceptical I take the Family of Terah who was Abrahams Father to have been one of the best that was in all the East living in an eminent place viz. Vr of the Chaldees and that Abraham might be presum'd to be Educated in what ever was the breeding or Learning of that Age and so probably in the Study of the Stars But that he and his Sons should be said to have been so eminent therein and in Astrology too especially Judicial as some would pretend to prove I think it 's a great presumption grounded on a mistake in respect of their frequent postures of Devotion looking up to Heaven without any Image before them according to the Custom of the Nations among whom they lived they thought they were observing the Heavenly Bodies when they were in their most serious Devotions and Communion with God As also That their removal of their Families and Herds wherein consisted the Wealth of that Age was from the presages of the Stars of some evil to come not understanding that it came from the immediate Command and Appointment of God as the Text most plainly makes out I know R. Abarbanel pretends to prove That they were knowing even in Astrology and perhaps too Ceremonious therein yea more than was owned by any in that Age in his Exposition on that Text in the 30th of Gen. 11. Where Leah having a Child born to Jacob by her Maid Zilpah she called his Name Gad which is the Name among them of the Planet Jupiter as saith Aben-Ezra and signifies a Fortune as now that Planet is call'd Fortuna major which Interpretation the Learned Gaffarellus the French Critick seems to close with But what though it signifies a Fortune and the word be an Epithete of Jupiter does it not also signifie a Troop And may not the sense more properly be such that finding the Woman fruitful she thought her self Fortunate in it and might expect a great Number or a Company or a Troop of Children as our Translation renders the word Yea and Jacob himself who seems to be the best Interpreter plainly takes it in this sense Gen. 49.19 Gad a Troop shall overcome him but he shall overcome at last And besides there 's another reason why methink it should be taken in this sense and not with respect to Jupiter because none of the other Children are Named with any respect to the Predominant Planet And further if it be meant a good Fortune then would it enterfere with the next Child that Zilphah bare wherein she said she was happy and called his Name Asher Besides if that had been the matter aim'd at and a good Fortune had been predicted it was plainly an Errour in Prognostication like others of that kind for he had no better fortune did betide him than others of his Brethren nor yet so good as some of them especially Judah from whom came the Scepter Nor yet was that which Jacob foretold of Gad any other than according to the Spirit of Prophecy as of all the rest and not a Prognostication from Jupiters Dominion in the Horoscope of his Nativity Moreover this was said by Leah a Woman whom we cannot suppose to have had any knowledge in Astrology Nor can it be supposed that she had learnt it from Jacob who seems not to have been present at the Births of his Children but to have left the Naming of them all to the Women Besides of all the rest of the Patriarchs there was the least reason to think that Jacob understood that Art of the Heathen which doubtless his Grandfather and Father knew to be unlawful which we see was afterwards expresly forbidden to the whole Nation After this I find this Knowledge of the Stars was followed by the Greeks These either through Pride or affectation of Repute that they might seem to be Inventers of new things changed the Hebrew Characters into the Names of Animals as Beasts Birds and Fishes and some Inanimates also as they thought fit of which no good reason can be given And some they call'd by their Heroes or Women that were famous in Story To these afterwards did the Hebrews and Chaldeans conform that there might be a right understanding among them in those matters therein yielding to the Learning Wisdom and Authority of the Greeks who were now of highest Repute in the World and besides were become Masters of the Empire and so might perhaps challenge a Compliance whom the Romans also followed and all the Western Monarchy retain to this day without any considerable alteration And this may be observed in the Septuagints Translation of the Old Testament in all the places where any of the Constellations are mentioned that those Interpreters hold not to the Hebrew as in all other proper Names they use to do but give other Names even the same that are used in all prophane Authors to which all the Learned of the World to conform thus Job 9.9 as also Job 38. That which the Hebrew calls Ash they call Arcturus Chesil they call Orion and Cimah they call Pleiades Neither is the Study of the Stars eligible for it self alone affording the greatest variety of pleasure above all natural Studies in the world but it 's also useful to other ends and serviceable to other Arts and Faculties while several of them cannot be rightly managed without a due knowledge of them their Motions and Influences I shall content my self with two viz. Physick and Navigation Astronomy useful in Physick All men know the Stars have a great power upon the Humours of our Bodies as Second Causes and do cause great Mutations in order to Health and Sickness and therefore we find it requisite for us in the Exercise of our Faculty of Physick to observe the risings and settings of great Constellations and the Positions of the most ponderous Planets in them whereby we are enabled to Predict what Diseases are like to ensue and prepare accordingly even before they invade us And hence it is that our great Master Hippocrates De Aere Aq. Loc. says That Astronomy does very much conduce to the Art of Physick as without which a Physician cannot manage it to his Reputations as he ought Especially it 's useful to us in our Prognosticks whereby we are the better enabled to foretel either the Symptoms or the event of a Disease in order to Life or Death There are indeed a great many things to be observed in order to the making of