Many Carcases here Floating which we heard not in the former the Maes in one Night swelling thirty Foot and the Rhine thirty nine § 58. And did I not say deservedly that these are GREAT Aspects For I hope the Reader is almost convinced by this time Are they not GREAT Bodies and as Great CAUSES that move over our Heads The effects of them are such that we should not believe them though we saw them as the Poet said of Troy Victamque quamvis videat haud credit sibi potuisse vinci So Dire so Amazing that our Infidel-Will begins to question the Maker of All as if he could not find in his Heart to be so extremely severe with his Sinful Creatures It preaches to me a Religious sence of him that makes the Seven Stars and Orion yea ♄ and ♃ also and calleth for the Waters of the Sea and poureth them out upon the Face of the Earth as the Prophet seasonably preacheth if Flouds be meant I am concerned for my Neighbours of the Low-Countreys I have offered some Items before to take heed to the Heavens over their Head For 't is Childish to call a Noble Science Superstition if it leads you to the Knowledge of the Creator The Saints and Prophets of Old were not so peevish We may safely go as far as they Suppose they knew not the Niceties of the Microscope and therein come short of us They knew the Glories of the Fixed and the Erratique and therein they went beyond us § 59. The next we meet in princ ♠A o 1603. Here we gladly see that we find some respite Except we shall go far toward East-Indies as the Bay of Antongil where Sir J. Laurence and his Fleet Wintering found A o 1601. c. much Rain and great Flouds overflowing the Country Purch Tom. 1. p. 101. To the drinking of which Waters he imputes the Flux that troubled his men being not wholsom as in most places saith he in those hot Countries ♄ and ♃ are entred for Jan. and Febr. 1602. though ♃ falls back afterward It makes no noise to meet a high Tide one or two about this Winter with us But will not a Spout be considerable Aug. 17. a Whirlwind taking up the Sea Purch 2. p. 813. A Great Spout powring out of the Heavens in the Island of Malaca Or a Tide higher than in 40 years before Childrey in the Transactions pag. 2065. These are some Symptoms of our Dead-doing Influence and we are glad we have no more to produce This was the Conjunction § 60. But the ☠in ♓ and ♠A o 1613. cannot wipe her Mouth she is guilty on Record of what she cannot wash away since in Thuringia chiefly yea and Bohemia Saxony Austria and France the Corn was lost by Hail and Lightning and many Inhabitants together with their Houses were lost Calvis This happened on May 29. while ♄ and ♃ were 15. grad distant § 61. This is for Europe and A o 1613. But the East-Indies A o 1614. in the Month of Aug. a greater Floud than has been seen in 29 years which drave away Salt Hills and Towns saith Purchas and many 1000 of men and Cattle The place is call'd Narsa par Peta while a Neighbouring Town had about 4000 Houses wash'd away the Stone-Bridges as finely built as Rochester-Bridge which were three Fathome high above Water proved three Foot under Tom. 1. p. 326. Hath ♄ and ♃ nothing to do in Flouds when 29 years ago which must be 1585. there was a Floud and a Congress of our great Celestials and this years August she ☠lay but at XII grad distance § 62. I have not been so punctual in describing Earthquakes because I love not whatsoever the Reader may miscollect I delight not in the Raven-Notes that do befal Recitements at large of those Subjects which I am engaged to treat of for Who desires to be reckoned a oaleful inauspicious Bird Only here in Flouds I am the more particular if by any means can I procure an awful Esteem and not a slight contempt of the Divine Hand yea and if I might consult the Interest of Mankind so far as these Papers will reach to give them some little Glimpse or Insight into eminent Dangers for though every Patient cannot be his own Physician yet nothing hinders but that a Nurse by some Notes attentively hearkned to may get some Skill in Medicine § 63. I am weary of multiplying of Instances and yet my Journeys end being in prospect I cannot sit down We have not heard much of the Diaries of our Century Let us bring the Floud home to our Doors Threescore years ago then Kepler tells us of two Inundations of Danow within one Week of 1622. with the Bridge broke and the same force 〈◊〉 in June anni ejusd where Kepler recurs to his Subterranean Cause thereby forsaking his better Principle In June he refers it mostly 〈◊〉 the Appultes of the ☽ Five Lunar Oppositions happening within 24 hours How manifestly doth he own the Planets Situate in a Posture easie to be irritated Five of them within 20 degrees All in ♋ amongst them as Supream ♄ and ♃ gr 15. Lo what a shift the poor man is put into by his dis-favour to our Solid Principle He found the whole year violent and for the Solution of that Grand Problem he is forced to bespeak his Subterranean Cause without which and that must last as long as he hath need of it viz. the whole year point blank he tells us the Constellations of Heaven could not effect so much What a great Man had he bin too great if he had not stumbled at this in his way Oh! that I understood the Constellations as well as he did the Motions c. But he proceeds Nihil hinc situm in Natura Signi There 's nothing in the Sign no not in the Sign ♋ Let any man Judge who hath attended to the mention of the Sign If it comes in our way we will again remember the Reader In the mean time will not our Cause assigned which persevereth the whole year throughout in the Sight of all Men an swer better than a Cause in Hugger-Mugger of which no man shall ever hope to give an account I hope it will But I must not dwell here for 64. The ☠A o 1633. in ♠and ♊ scapes not Kyriander helps us here April 24. 1633. Grosse Gewasser saith the Dutch But higher than that in the beginning of October Gewaltige Spring-flutên Ergiessungen in Holland and Zealand In the former year is grad 6. distant In the next grad 24. distant and withal ♃ in ♋ There we have met with Kepler already who made us believe there was nothing in the Sign toward a Found when the the very next Instance tells us that there is Gevaltige Spring fluten We have but 3. or 4 more and we have done 65. What does 1642. the ☌ in ♓ A man would wish ♄ and ♃ far enough and they are of the farthest
excepted I have wondred often at Winter-time to see Relenting Air in the Sun-shine and freezing in the Shade I concluded two things both that Cold had its Activity and that the very Solar-light was no Enemy to it not the secundary Light whatsoever it does if in its primary or more perpendicular § 76. Here it will be argued how comes ♃ Light to be the chief favourer of Cold since All Light at such a distance from the Centre doth the same What shall we say If ♃ were the remotest from the Earth we had some pretence but ♄ hath that plea for his Title If we shall say from the difference of his Fabrick and Spirit therein lodged and this argued from its whitish Light then ♀ will put in an equal claim Resp ♄ is most remote but the Consistence and the Spirit is different ♃ is brisker to all appearance ♄ glows darkly and sullenly ♃ and ♀ are bright and flaming Comet-like neer to sparkling and Scintillation this argues a quick Spirit while ♄ glows within the Profundity of his Globe Unless you will extort from us a confession that we do believe that the Reason of the crude Light that appears in ♃ to lie in the crude Spirit placed there by Nature which we are not forced to avow in the mean time sufficiently salving the instance from ♀ which we make not equally crude by her vicinity to our Globe of the Earth as also to the Sun The best of it is that Both these ways of Explication are hugely reconcileable seeing a Spirit will secretly pass along with a Beam yea with a Flame too So the Sublunar Cold shall be martial'd upon a double account the Agile nature of Light and the Homogeneity of the Spirit convey'd by it as if it should be thus with the ☽ she should be the Lady of Moisture upon the same twofold respect viz. the Tepor of her Beam and the Sympathy of the Sublunar Moisture with the Lunar Surely this doth not substitute violence instead of Nature when we say that the Cold Spirit may be acted ab extrinseco by the Celestial Light because All Light so for want of words we call that Innominate Spirit is of the same nature the Light Celestial with the Light or Spirit inbabiting the Sublunar Body and by reason of this Homogeneity One is naturally governable by the other the Inferior by the Superior so is Iron naturally not violently though ab extrinseco attracted by the Magnet CHAP. X. The five Planets added to the Luminaries salve the Phaenomena Winds blowing where they list hinder not their Prognostick Turbulency of Air from contrary Causes Jupiter again a resister of Moisture The Planets not Signs only but Causes Dominion ascrib'd to them in Scripture SO have we indeavour'd toward the settling of a Characteristic of All the Planetary Bodies constituting some of a hot Spirit and They either in a more Intense degree as ☉ ♂ ☿ or Remiss as ☽ ♀ ♄ all Procurers of Sublunar Moisture one and but one how Lucid soever yet either indued with a Cold and Dry Spirit or at least befriending it no Procurer but a Resister of Moisture § 1. And now All Variations of Air reduc'd to the Laboratories of Cold and Heat may be safely imputed to the Bodies Celestial since they appear of so distinct so contrary Energies e. g. not only Rains and Thunders to Moist and Warm but the Frosts and Winds to Cold Productives the Winds I say to Cold Causes mixt with warmer if with an equal Mixture then the Winds are Dry if with an unequal portion of the warm Spirit then Rain commonly is join'd with them § 2. And whereas our Principles profess to give Reason concerning the very Determination of the Winds what hinders for when our Lord saith that the Wind blows where it listeth He is far from making them Animate He means that the Winds were indued only with an Interpretative Freedom thereby excellently declaring the Freedom of Divine Grace which often chooseth its Province where to blow He doth not deny its Emblem a Natural Cause either of Existence or Determination He only tels us the Origin of the Wind is Invisible and the Range of it uncertain not fix'd or bound to any one Point from whence or any Coast on which it blows we know not whence it comes nor whither it goes we see not the first Head-Spring of the Invisible Cataract nor how far it runs on drift He doth not intend to deny that the Heavens are the Cause of it as in the Trade-winds and Monsons are manifest which God bringeth in their Seasons out of his Treasures as the Psalmist speaks Psal C V. nay he maketh use of the very Prognostick of foul Weather 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Greek which in its Definition includeth Wind as well as Rain from the Angry face of the Heavens S. Matth. XVI § 3. These things thus established former Arguments that lay against the Assignment of the Sun and Moon alone find their Solution when we asked if the Account of the Constitution lay only on them Two whence came the Storm the Violence it was scarce rationally imputable to two Stars only but to Five more as Potent every whit as They well it may § 4. We ask'd again whence came the Duration of the Constitution for the space of a Week Month c not from the two Luminaries alone but from the Other Auxiliaries seeing ♂ sometimes is found to keep his Posture for a week unchanged the like may ♀ and ☿ a Week said I yea a Month almost as ♃ ordinarily doth yea ♄ may hover about one and the same part of the Zodiac almost for the space of 8 Months in his Stations Retrograde Courses c. § 5. Next as to the Vnsuitableness of the Constitution to the Season or the Time of the day If nor Sun nor Moon alone can produce Warmth in the Night the Rest conspiring with Him or Them may easily If the Sun cannot raise Thunder in the Winter-Solstice or at Christmas ♄ ♃ ♂ may be so posited as to play such Gambols § 6. Lastly whereas we justly demanded of Those that make the Luminaries the sole Arbitrators of the Changes of the Air Vnde frigus a Question that exercises the Naturalist as much as Vnde malum did the Christians of old we have indeavoured to find it a Terrestrial Spirit call it what you please Nitrous Salt c. Shis Terrestrial Spirit regulated according to its vicissitudes from the Modification of the Light Celestial chiefly among the Planets by the Radiance of ♃ by ♃ I say who for the most part is found by Experience to incourage Cold by his Presence the others rather by their Absence § 7. And this cold Cause I have confess'd Astrology is bound to find since there are Constitutions of the Air existent which manifestly argue Contrariant causes even at the same time for what else are Nocturnal Lightnings about Autumn often in Cold Air What else
in these two Aspects of Change and Full by the periodical resolution of tedious Frosts which sometimes lock up the Elements with our Blood and Spirits in Icy Chains till a comfortable Relent of milder air sends out a warrant for their release § 2. This gentler Spirit blows as at the ☌ so at the ☠Let the vulgar notion and public monuments attest it of this sort is to run back no further the Frost VII o Elizabethae An. 1564. It began saith Stow Dec. 21. and lasted till our City-River was frozen so that New Years Festival was celebrated in warming Sports and Exercises on the River the new Thames Street now as Stow tells us it thaw'd Jan. 3. An. 1564. the day after the Change § 3. The 2d of that noted year 1572. famous for the Star in Cassiepeia a Tedious Frost from Alhallontide to Twelftide This Frost is remembred for congealing rains as they fell till the arms of Trees overcharged with Ice brake from the Trunk after Twelftide it took its leave in good time for reckoning the hour of the ☌ being Ho. 10. noct Jan. 3. the dissolution falls within less than three days after the Change A cold Spring follow'd it but that belongs to another consideration § 4. A 3d. An. 1579. short but by the fall of Snow perilous to Wayfarers and poor Cattel still mentioned by some of our yearly remembrancers it began Feb. 4 and held till Feb. 10. the day preceding the ☌ § 5. A 4th An. 1598. from Jan. 1. to 10. the Thames almost frozen the Frost remitted Jan. XI two days preceding the Change Further in Decemb. of the same year the Thames almost froze again which the Week before Christmas was dissolv'd Now Seven days before Christmas happened the day of the Change Again after that remission Dec. XXVII it freezes a 3d. time when lo On New years day it relented the very day of the Full. § 6. Another An. 1615. Jacobi I. 13. held a months space from Jan. XVII to Feb. XIV yea with little remission till March VII That 7th of March is the day following the Full. § 7. An. 1621. a Frost from Nov. 24. ad Dec 7. when after a milder season it returned again § 8. An. 1627. * Jan. XX. for three weeks till Feb. XII Divers Booths not for sale of Drink only but other Merchandize upon the place But All remove on Feb. 12. within three days of the Full ☽ In Germany in the beginning of the year we find Frigus intensissimum Frigus sonticum immane Danubius Concretus but behold a gentle Aspect of a full ☽ brings a Relent Jan. 27. St. Vet. * Note that in the Frost An. 1622. the Relent was in Germany not so long for with them the Danow was frozen by Jan. 8. 18. but the remission came at the approach of the New ☽ Jan. 31. St. N. Febr. 10. Such difference there is in nice cases between Regions By Nicer cases I intend Frosts not universal § 9. An. 1623. The Danow frozen the 3d. time the Frost began Dec. XIV ceased Jan 11. 1624. within three days before the Full. § 10. An. 1626. Nov. XXI Danow floted with Ice it terminates Dec. 4. the day next after the Full. Thus Keplers Diary affords us plenty of instances in a few years for more may be observed from those Diaries who yet good Man in his account of the natural cause as is noted before gives not half the due to the Aspect § 11. An. 1635. A great and sore Frost within memory the same which is celebrated by Poets of the time began as I remember about the midst of Dec. ceased as a Manu-script tells me Feb. 11. three days after the New ☽ § 12. An. 1645. Frost from Dec. 8. complained of by the Parliament-Forces so called as an impeder of their winter-marches the ☽ perigee might help to hasten it away Jan. 17. for die 18. as the Story says the Frost was newly gone and that comes within compass of three days before the Full. § 13. An. 1659 Decimo Caroli IIdi at the end of the year a Frost begun Dec. XXIX and although it remitted a little Jan. XI in 60. and again on Jan. XIII yet it receeded not till day XVIII the day after the Full. § 14. An. 1662. Nov. XV. Frost brought Ice on the River day XXIX but Dec. 1. the day after the New ☽ it thaw'd It returns again and keeps its own till day XII which preceeds the Full not above two days And the third time Decemb. XXIV in four Nights the Thames floated with Ice it took its leave on New-years-day the day after the Change § 15. An. 1663. Jan. XXVIII the day preceeding the new ☽ a Frost began we confess and could have own'd the like before but if it begins at the new ☽ it ends at the full with some little warning the day preceeding § 16. The Winter of that fatal year 1665. is not yet quite forgot the Thames was sick of dead palsie for three weeks it seized her first Dec. XXVIII An. praeced now what the Comet of that year could not do the Plenilunar ☠performed for III. days before the Frost vanished It froze again Jan. XXIX by the fourth of the next month Ice appeared on the Thames Feb. 7. All dissolveth two days after the Change § 17. An. 1667. A strange Frost from Feb. XV. at which time we comfort our selves against the Menaces of Cold by the Topick of the Suns altitude which will not say we suffer such Hyemal Enchroachments at that time of year when mal-gre what the Sun could do though in the Vernal Equinox there was much Ice in the River Mart. IX I will not ask the Anti-Astrologer an account of this accident only acquaint the Reader that March XIV was new ☽ and the XV. day the bold Face of the Winter changed § 18. An. 1669. Dec. VII A Frost of XX. days the bitter Christmas day and the Holy-Day attending were universally noted as intolerable as those two days where the 27 was sensibly milder ☠☉ ☽ and three days after the wind turning to the South it wore away by Inches § 19. The same winter in the year following viz. An. 1670. Jan. XXV Frost began with the Full ☽ we see when it begun note also when it dissolved Feb. XI the Second day after the Change § 20. An. 1674. Jan. XXIV Frost began the Full ☽ on Feb. I. Had a good mind to the dissolution the wind turned so the dissolution succeeded Feb. II. § 21. An. 1672. Feb. XXIV as late as it is in the Winter This Frost like that in 67. held us uncivilly till March XII on whose morn ☠☉ ☽ made its mittimus § 22. An. 1677. from Nov. 19. Frost of X. days brought Ice on the River die 29. It vanisht two days after which fell within a day of the Full. § 23. An. 1678. Dec. IX ad 18. Nine days it held and the last day was exactly the day
servant upon occasion went down into a Well belonging to the Family stifled with a Damp groan'd his last And a second descending to the relief of the First underwent the same Fate the Third not daring to be so charitable as to descend to either Now that the Heavens were set at both these times so to provoke Nature appears by this that in both these we shall find Aspects of ♄ yea and at both times ♄ posited in the Tropic The First in the Winter Tropic and the Later in the Summers This is the second Story § 77. There is a Third Story of a Damp at the Fatal Sessions in the City of Oxford not arising so much from the Prisoners Frouzy Bodies which might be imagined as from the Earth at such a critical time No less than 300. are recorded in Stow to have perished some on the Spot others in a short time after An. 1557. who will reveal to us the cause of such a Fatal Damp then and there arising Let others search into the Nature of the Soyl As to the Circumstance of time why then Oh! if ♄ could be found again at or near the Tropic then we might draw some conclusion Verily no otherwise ♄ was then then also on the Winter Tropic opposing ☿ at or near the other See the Ephemerides so apparent is it that an Aspect can trouble the Universe Pardon good Reader the Digression 't is only out of place a little we should have troubled you elsewhere with it § 78. Now after all premising but one Postulate I shall ask a Question the Postulate is that the same day 12 Month vulgarly so called is not the same day in Astrological Notion which is defined by the same degree and its Revolution This degree answers not to that day next year This Supernumerary Bissextile Day introding dispossesses the degree of its Room in the Bed and thrusts it so far that it lies half out and half in dividing it self between two that I may not say three days Gassendus then should have obviated this and have said I know that by reason of the Intercalary Day while it is in Fidai the same vulgar day answers not adequately to the same degree and different Days may be concern'd in considerable parts of the same degree but neither at One or the Other doth it rain again the next Twelvemonth Ergò the Heavens are not the Cause But he was not so provided I confess it doth not always rain the same day 12 Month if it had Gassendus had bin an Astrologer and reconciled to good Learning Now for my Question What If we produce some days wherein it doth often Rain next Revolution of Twelve Months and by much the most part if we consider the Identity of the degree So that I wonder what day Gassendus doth pitch upon And whether he consulted his own observation or some other Diary It may be he observed a year or two and when it did not prove the 2d yea and a 3d. time he concluded But how hard that is hath bin shewn already especially when after a 2d or 3d. failer it holds as in the New ☽ hath bin observed for 7 continued years after Had he followed his blow and said that All days are indifferent and alike inclin'd and for this appeal'd to the Diaries then he had routed us But we Challenge all the World to shew that or any thing near it For beside the Antient Diaries which by the equal Judicious are not to be questioned Gassendus might have seen to the contrary in Keplers and every Modern Diary will confirm § 79. It must be time now to name some days if we can for a Tast thus I do it An. 1621. Ephemerid Kepler I find Wind and Rain Jan. XII An. 1622. die eod Wind and Snow What would Gassendus have said if he had pitched upon this day The 3d. year An. 1623. Snow An. 24. High Winds on one of the Days for here are two concerned in the same degree and Snow on the other An. 1625. Much Rain Lo For Five years together Rain or Snow An. 1626. I find neither but warm weather But An. 1625. Some Snow An. 1628. Stiff Winds for one of the Days And the Ninth year An. 1629. It snow'd Rain or Snow VII years in IX So have we one Day I have a second Feb. 26. the degree is ♓ 18. where it Rain or Snows believe me VIII times in IX years It may be worth the Describing in his own Words February XXVI 1621. Pluit Noctu 1622. Pluvia Nix Frigus Nix 1623. Neb. Nix 1624. Gelu venti Nimbi Niv 1625. Obscur Nix 1626. Venti Ning Pluviose 1627. Ningebat Continenter 1628. Turbid Vernat 1629. Ning Venti Tonuit § 80. We need no more when Thunder gives his voice for us when the Heavens themselves speak out for Astrology And the Reader may think this pretty feasible if what is true every degree in it self as it speaks but it self it s own 60 integral Minutes so it respects two more one on each side as the Liberties of the Mid-Degree to which the Terms of the said Degree do not reach but the Influence does So within Temple-Bar I am within the City of London within the Jurisdiction of it though without the Walls Our Aspect we grant doth not so much as we see the Sun and some of the Fixed can the reason is evident viz. that Mercury is but one and some Fixed may be many a notable part of an Asterism but it is effectual enough to evince a strong inclination and thereby by Gassendus's leave declare the Nature of a Planet For excepting the Luminaries saith he they cannot know the Nature of any Planet nor ascertain any Prediction thereby for which he appeals to experience which teacheth us that be the Prediction what it will the Event brings as many yea more Experiments to the contrary and therefore good Night Astrology Scientia Futilis vana nulla There 's nothing in it § 81. This we know is the grand popular objection which Cries not reasons us down For those Gentlemen who please to make use of this Objection I desire them to consider again for we are forc'd to repeat that while they go to overthrow a most useful Speculation Will they Nill they They establish it For the Words of the Objection are these The contrary to the Prediction happens as often or more often than the Prediction If the contrary happens but as often and sometimes though but rarely more often Is not there a great inclination of the Planet And doth not the prediction come near and hover about the Truth Verily he hath a great Aim that draws the Bow so dextrously that it hits the White as often as he misses it A Prediction of Art is far from nothing though it comes but to even terms Probable it must be when it succeeds as often as Fails as it must do if it fails but as often as it succeeds § 82. We have
his Configurations with the ensuing Planets yet even here 't is conspicuous in his share of Heat Storms Lightning c. and the Flames of Vesuvius Comets of extraordinary Shape and if any other Novelty steps in § 42. Here we may be excusable if we bring one and the same Instance under several Aspects thereby admonishing that the grand Productions of Nature are owing not to our single Cause but to many who are hired out and employed for the Service as may be seen in all Works of Nature So my very Pen moves not now but by the Assent and Consent of all those numerous Muscles Veins Arteries Nerves which make up the Fingers We have mentioned nothing in our Table but what we would willingly speak to in its turn And First Comets stare in our Faces as Anno 1511. 39. 54. 50. But the Truth is they do not presevere for we heard of no more till Anno 1633. We shall see what they will do in the next in the Two Superiours For the reason I perswade my self why a Comet shews it self one year rather than another and why so thick and frequent in some years as 1618. 1665. Why Hecla Mountain flamed not from Anno 1558. to Anno 1593. Why Vesuvius sometimes two years together Why every Twelve years the Indians look for their Tuffon their All-destroying Whirlwinds Arduous Questions which the Worthy Democritus Junior proposes to us The Reason in general can be no other but this though there be eminent Strokes in these Productions of some peculiar Caelestial yet there happens or happens not a Concurrence of all Requisites in such and such determinate postures and Habitudes and distance Quibus positis the Result follows For if one or other be wanting the Effect gives no appearance Where a Comet begins with ☌ ♂ ☉ whether alone or in Company with ☌ ♀ ☿ I take this to be an eminent Stroke of our Planet or Aspect § 43. What should I reckon up the Lightnings Storms and Tempests for they are next which occurr Oh Had our Intelligence been uninterrupted and uniform but the very Times did not bear that 't is not yet 200 years since the Indies were known by European Navigators nor did Navigation flourish with us till Q. Elizabeth Howbeit more might have been amassed together but that we judged some loss of time as Hevelius also complains when he sought out the History of Comets This let us observe that as deficient as our Table may appear there is scarce a ☌ within these last 100 years but contributes some remark favouring our Fiery Meteor § 44. Among which there occur once or twice Burning and scorching Winds at the Famous Port of Sues at the hither end of the Red Sea which put me strait in mind of Ptolemy's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hot and Melting Blasts and shews to what Climes Ptolemics Character may be properly reckoned and withal that the Character it-self is no Figment but grounded upon Experience and Observation as all good Learning is § 45. Halo's Rainbows and Parelia are noted but they belong as hath been said to a Conflux of Planets For the Sun alone makes not any Rainbow that is vivid or Illustrious nor doth the ☽ solitarily cause an Halo but the ☉ and ☽ are assisted sometimes by ♀ ☿ ♂ as in less matters when the Evening is red at ☉ set and then overspreads the Hemisphere There is beside the ☉ ☿ near the Horizon or ♂ or ☽ be either Eastor or West or perhaps in Medio Coeli § 46. I may add further as to Comets that although they appear not within the Verge of what may be called a ☌ ☉ ♂ yet they appear often when our Planet is associated with the rest I mean in the same Hemisphere for we are willing to believe that more Comets are kindled in that space than when he wanders alone in the other the ☌ being more potent than the ☠§ 47. This though we have not mentioned it is certain that the Aspects of ☉ and ♂ especially our ☌ are of Mal-Influence to Mens Bodies and in token whereof we shall find those years complain of Epidemic Distempers c. with their ☌ of ♂ ☉ Yea even all the very time of the Conjunction I could have inserted a large Table to this purpose from all parts of Europe and undeniable it is Put these Two Observations together and the Corollary will be that upon this account Comets may signifie unhealthy times New Diseases Plagues c. even as they do Earthquakes and Inundations being the Com-Productions of those Superiour Causes which are the Authors of the aforesaid Evils For if it be once granted that the Celestial Bodies are the Causes of the one with the other the Earthquake with the Comet then the Comet may be a Sign of the Earthquake and whatsoever comes in Prospect with it Hence upon this account many times may the Earthquake antecede the Comet not always follow it because 't is not the Comets but 't is a joynt Effect of a Third Cause according to Natures Method Productive of both Now Nature's Method is not always the same as in Smoke and Fire The Smoke commonly precedes true in Green Combustibles but not in dry and unctuous There the Flame precedes and the Smoke follows Now how comes Smoke to be a Sign of Flame but because one common Incentive produceth both A Comet therefore following an Earthquake though it looseth the Praemonitory part yet it looseth not the Nature of a Sign because though for the most part it doth by its precedency premonith Yet it is subsequent too and so a Sign not of what 's future but what is past As the Footstep is a Sign of an Inhabitant So much for that § 44. But we have a greater Task in hand and that is the Currents of the Ocean Now a Current you must know is such a Tide or Stream peculiar to a place that it shall frustrate the Mariners reckoning and set him back 20. or 30. Leagues when he the Wind being not able to Stem the Force of the Stream shall think he is so many Leagues advanced The Philosophic Royal Society to excellent purpose have desired that all Navigators should take notice of the Current in all parts of the Sea for the improving Navigation Which the Seafarers moved by their own Judgement and Interest do daily practice 'T is not many days since that I strongly suspected any such Novelty for they are not always Constant and Unchanged to relate to the Heavens How many Noble Problems will a good Astrology solve May I without Envy endeavour the Invention Perhaps it is made out in our Table What saith Sir Henry Middleton in his East-India Voyage in Purch Lib. 3. § 5. From August 12. to 27. this is ☌ ☉ ♂ time A great Current setling South-West 4 Miles an Hour so that what we got by a favourable Wind we lost that and more when it fell Calm being carryed back by the Current Here 's
to draw the Sun's Picture because they are at it again Two days after 1526. Sept. Mens Thunder at Basil fired their Magazin Lycost ♄ ☿ ♈ ♎ circa medium Octobris on Atlas Mount Snow burying Men and Cattel Leo Afer apud Purch 574. 1530. Octob. 8. Floud at Rome Mizald 244. ♄ ♀ opposed intra gr 15. sed vide ♃ ♂ Intra Comitia Augustana mense Junii apparuit Cometa Ecstorm è Chron. Sax. ♄ ☉ ☿ all in ♊ in mens princ at the end ☉ ♂ ♀ ☿ all in ♋ so the Heavens are ripe for 4. But the Truth is the Comet is only attested by one Saxon Record It may be 't was a Sublunar Comet not of General Appearance This we see is the memorable year for Wasting Flouds wherefore Aug. finds us another Comet for that matter If that in June be rightly set then the Flouds were pointed at by a double Monitor and what we have said is right That Flouds and Comets depend on a Common Celestial Cause conceiving them though not always bringing forth at the same time For behold the great Inundation in Noremberg so dire so lamentable happened when as ☉ and ♂ were in ♎ so withal upon ♄ ♀ ☿ being in ♊ ♠Saturn in ♊ the other Two in the Opposite 1538. Sept. 27 28 29. Puteoli in Campania a place of an ill Name from the beginning miserably harassed with T. M. Fallopius in Fromond speaks of 15 days together others for the greatest part of Two years For this of Sept. is not ♄ on the Equinox ☉ and ☿ not far off More minutely is not □ ♄ ♃ in Cardinal Points but this is out of its place I was loath to lose the Observation And before we part with this year what shook Basil Jan. 20. in Lycost Is not ♄ there also Yes For as soon as the ☽ got of the one side of ♎ and ♄ stayed on the other the City trembled But come again to Sept. in the midst of which happened Solyman's Tempest of Wind and Snow ♄ and ☿ upon the very Equator Purchas 1539. Inter Aug. 23 Sept. 7. Francis Ulloa toss'd with Tempest bound for California de Laet. Cap. 6. ♄ ☿ in fine ♠but see ♃ ♂ also 1540. Oct. die 29. New ☽ Cruel Tempest IV. Vessels broke 686. Persons drowned at the Isle Ladrones Purch 3. 256. Though a Capital Evidence ♄ ♀ ☿ all in ♎ but there is more Evidence if the Ephemerides be consulted to prove these III. guilty 1544. Sept. 5. Guatimala in the West Indies Vessels overthrown and distroyed by continual Storms and Rain 120 Spaniards slain Lanschoten 229. Benzo Hist No. Orbis Lib. 2. p. 67. ♄ ☉ near the Equator ♄ ♀ ☿ all in ♎ See 1509. of this Table and 1538. 1551. Jan. 13. Germany with sundry places Tempest of Rain Lightning Thunder frightful ♄ ☉ in ♒ but see ♃ ♂ Jan. 28. Lisbon Fiery Meteors an Earthquake demolished 200 Houses ♃ ♂ then accused but ♄ ☉ ♀ ☿ all in ♒ He is Potent you see in more Signs than one 1556. Aug. 2 Ill Weather so die 7. Hakl Ed. 1. 418. ♄ ♀ in ♈ ♎ Die 9. Oldenburgh in Misnia Tempest frighted all the Town Lyc. our ♄ ♀ had a hand there appears from ☽ joyning with ♀ to salute ♄ Again Die 19. A monstrous Storm never saw the like ♄ ♀ us supra So Sept. 2. apud Locarnenses Hurricanes Thunder Lightning Inundation of which the Inhabitants wrote a Narrative Cap. 8. 'T is our ♄ ♀ for ♀ is Stationary again at the time and Sept. 5. in a little Town of March Chasms or Many Fiery Meteors Lyc. He mentions a voice from Heaven but that must be a Story when the Appearance was None ♄ ♀ ut supra Octob. 6. Acies Caelestes Lyc. ♄ wonderfully opposes ☉ ♀ ☿ with an Opposition so rare that it confirms the report Nov. 10. Storms extream on the Sea Coast Stow. ♄ ♀ in ♈ ♎ still 1557. Octob. 5. Lat. 41. Very foul Hakl ♄ in ♉ oppos ♀ ☿ 1558. June 2. Tempest Hakl Ed. 1. ♄ ♀ in ♉ and ♀ Stationary Octob. 5. Very foul Hakl 129. ♂ ♀ in ♠but ♄ in ♉ opposes ☿ May 13. A dangerous Tempest for 44 hours at the Caspian Sea Purchas 198. supra in ♂ ♀ but ♄ ☉ ☿ ♀ are within gr 15. in ♉ fine 1559. May 12. Caspian Sea a sore Storm Hakl 327. die 15. Another we had much ado to live 358. ♄ ☉ ♀ ☿ cum ☠♂ opposite 1567. Febr. 16 17 18. Great Storm on the Coast of England Hakl 130. ♄ ☠☉ ☿ 27. at Flores Isle great Rain fell suddenly Hakl Fenner's Voyage July 14. Leuconotus vehemens Frumenta Sternens Gemma 2. 357. ☉ ☿ in ♉ ☌ ♄ ♀ in princ ♠1568. March 28. Tempest of wind drowning Boats Stow. ☉ ☿ ♈ ♄ ♀ ♠♓ Sept. 23. Rocanat A Chasm flaming at night Gem. 2. 63. ☿ ♄ ☉ ♀ all about the Equator October 9. Storm Hakl 556. ♄ ☿ ☉ ♀ in ♎ 1569. March 12. Iris nocturn a Gem. 2. 64. Gelu prodigiosum Ib. ☠☉ ♄ ☿ cum □ ♄ ♃ 14. T. M. Lovain circa hor. 12. Colores in Coelo valde terribiles Ib. Sept. 1. Coelum Sanguineum hor. 11. noct but so bright as any thing might be read Id. 2. 65. Stellae discurrentes ☉ ♄ about the Equator with ♃ ♂ in laxa oppositione Novemb. 8. Horrible Comet Gem. ♄ ♀ 1570. Octob. 8. Wind Rain and much Harm with Flouds Hollingsh Stow. ♄ ☉ ☿ at the end of ♎ 1571. Sept. 11. Chasma flammeum Gemma 2. ♄ ☿ circa Aequator 1572. Nov. 18. Star in Cassiopeia We shall meet with ♃ ♀ opposed but also we find ♄ ☿ in ♠Scorpio say I hath great Influence on such Phaenomena 1574. Nov. 14 15. London Heavens burning Stow. ♄ ☉ ☿ in ♠Even so these 3 Planets in ♠fired all on the one side ♃ in ♋ over their Heads and Jove Fires all on the other side an Ocular Demonstration 1577. July 4 5 6. The Fatal Damp at the Sessions at Oxford You may remember mentioned before in our discourse of ☉ ☿ there were other Aspects upon that place but ♄ ☉ were great Movers who can deny it when a Month after ☠♄ ♀ comes and destroys 20 Persons by Lightning How 's 682. ♄ I say for ♀ is Stationary No danger but when the Thief stands 1578. June 28. Freezland is cover'd all over with Snow Frobishera 3 d. Voyage 630. Hideous Fog Ice infinite 631. ♄ ☠☉ ♀ 1581. Jan. 5. Tripoli Ten Ships wracked by Storm Newberg Purch 1. 411. Febr. 21. Aleppo Comet ascending South-West in ♈ and descending North-East Purch I. 121. ♄ ♀ ☿ in ♒ Note this Comet appeared not in Hevelius's Catalogue Note also this Year there is News of a Vulcano Flaming at the West-Indies Guatimala Angoango Iseland From Acosta and others But they envy us the day of the Month. So ♄ or some other Good Planet loses by it 1585. A
pointed at in the Precedent shall see all things Consonant and Consequent He shall see the History of Comets and Earthquakes They both lye in a Belly He shall see that the same Signs for the most part Fashion One and produce the Other They must necessarily do so where they come upon the Stage at the same time i. e. within a Month or Two more or less as the Parturient Pangs are more or less tedious He shall see that the ☌ s and ☠s Platique are to be regarded though in some determinate Places even the Partile ☌ gives a great Lift. He shall see this that if I mistake not Nature is at more cost to make a Comet than to move the Earth Seeing the Earth is moved but in part an Island or a Province but your Stupendious Comets are universally visible all the Earth over § 51. Scarce any difficulty remains about them at least which I can hope to master but this Why Comets universally appearing should be visible to Asia before they are observed in Europe Why in some parts of Europe before others So I find it happens and Hevelius I remember takes notice of it If all Comets were sublunar as Ricciolus thinks it possible then something might be hammer'd out for a kind of Answer But seeing that great Artists will not have it so let me propose that Doubt which I cannot solve The Reader I hope doth see some reason why we admire though in Prospect the approaching Superiour Planets I look'd on them with Veneration as I do a Mountain seeing plainly a Footstep of That Immensity whose Consideration swallows up the Considerer § 52. In regard of which I come the more unwilling to the Introduction of Pestilences least I should be thought such a Patron for 2d Causes as in the least to presume upon the prime Being As he who acknowledgeth a Creation confesses the prime Cause so he who acknowledgeth Providence must confess a Second And what are the the Planets They are no Idols nor the Work of any Strange God to us Jannes and Jambres did not make them No Miraculous Magique placed the least of them in the Firmament nor can any Charm whatever the befooled Heathen Imagine pull them down They are the Creatures of the pure Virgin Creation before ever it was besmear'd with the unwholsom Mists of Heathen Idolatry But what then May not God use his good Creatures sometimes to scourge us We cannot say but we have deserved and that the Divine Wisdom hath good ends in it most Commonly to the Sufferer always to the Surviver that the Generality may see the Fairness of God's Creation leave him no Arms Defensive or Offensive against a Daring Presumptuous Rebel § 53. If God hath ordained Sideration of Plants or blasting of Fruits must we accuse the Creation For if God please upon just Provocation to strike a Sinner dead with Lightning or Petrifie him as a Monument of a Salt Stone 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Who shall charge Him or the Work of his Hands Foolishly 'T is the same Case of an Aspect They are Malignant What hinders more then that a Viper or a Scorpion should be Malefique Yea but a Malignant Aspect comes of necessity and so seemeth to evacuate Religion and the Great Duty of Prayer since come it must and will stay its time whether we regard Religion or no. Come it must grant it And it is Fatal It may in a Sense be so But here is Room for Religion For God can Deliver even in Fatal Dangers A Danger that is unavoidable Quoad adventum Quoad Eventum aut exitum may be safely passed A Storm is Fatal and the Mariners know that such a time of year in such a Reach it must be Tempestuous But then by grace done to Religion God may carry them through If I go to Sea let me live Religiously not in hopes it may be that God will never send a Storm but that in case of such danger I may Weather it There 's Fruit enough of Religion yea in case of Shipwrack If I come safe to Land the saving of my self Demonstrates that I do not serve God for Nought § 54. If this Rubb be cleared for I dare not be so much an Astrologer as to be an Enemy to Religion then I say we pretend to nothing but what is clear and confessed even by the Vulgar themselves but that they are not used to spinning of new Conclusions from a Plain Thread viz. that the times of the year unseasonable are unhealthy That an excess of Heat even in Season much more out of Season is dangerous to all Bodies This Distemper proceeding from the Planet which the Vulgar themselves that can spell the Word will not deny Nothing hinders but that an Aspect of the Superiour Planets may be reckoned more or less dangerous at certain times Foggy Air is unwholsom Harvest time is obnoxious to Feavers and a Hot May makes a fat Church-yard Put this into terms of Philosophy and it signifies an Aspect of ♄ and ♂ are somewhat Equivalent to Malignant about ♠and ♎ brings Feavers and an Aspect of ♄ and ♂ in ♊ ♋ ♒ ♌ in May time kills us up ☌ ♄ ♃ brings foggy choking Weather Morborum Epidem Catalogus a Centuriae Proximè Elapsae principio usque ad Annum 1683. quotquot ad ♄ ♂ Asp reduci posse videantur 1500. Great Pestilence Stow. The King Henry VII went for France May 8. The Sickness then threatning Note that the increase occasion'd the Kings departure May 8. while ♄ and ♂ were at that present with in gr 30. the ☌ happening Febr. 10. ♉ 17. 1506. Sudor Anglicus noted secunda vice Stow. Febr. V. ♌ 27. The ☌ as in the Margin but from that Febr. to July whereabouts the Sickness likely was rife ♄ ♂ continued within gr 30. dist as before 1510. In France Dimerbrock p. 159. Dec. 7. ♎ 8. The Aspect fell in the Close of the year preceding but ♂ by Retrograde Course returned into the same Sign with ♄ or at least within gr 20. and there held till August which is remarkable 1518. 1519. Winter Sickness throughout the Land Stow. Nov. 8. ♑ ♋ Nothing more manifest ☠♄ ♂ in Tropical Signs all Nov. Dec. and January c. following Let any man consult the Ephemerides and mark the Motion of ♂ the Saturnine Motion of ♂ A Cause that comes as rare in such a critical place as a Winter-Pestilence 1521. Great Death in England Howes Jan. 10. ♌ ♒ The Opposition falls in January but ♂ as is usually by Retrograde course recovers the Aspect in Spring time and hath scarce foregot it in July but before that time ♀ plays the part of ♄ in the ☠♄ look upon her motion and speak 1522. At Rome and Genoa Pestis atrox Gem. 2. 249. ☠♃ ♂ begins in July In ♑ ♋ ☠♂ ♄ comes not in till Sep. ♒ ♋ 1525. Was Pestilential by Fallopius's reckoning who hath noted the Duration of a
the Aspect in ♉ ♠at the end of Sept. the highest Week Aug. 28. Let any Man consult the Ephemeris 1648. Valencia in Spain at Constantinople in July In Africk also Kirch Sect. 1. Cap. 9. June 28. ☌ ♊ 11. The ☌ is tim'd for a Summer Month and in a Tropical Sign It lasts all July and not quite ceased in Aug. 1652. At Cracow Grant Sickly in England Id. The ☌ in August in principio ♌ Yea other Aspects have their shares opposed in Tropical Signs See ♄ ♃ Table Aug. ☌ in ♌ 1654. At Copenhagen Grant Sickly in London Id. Sept. 3. ☌ ♠2. ♄ ♂ draw toward ☌ in July celebrated in the Sign ♌ in Sept. princip vide ☠♄ ♃ as above 1656. At Naples a great Plague at at Rome at Genoa Kyrcher Sickin England Grant Sept. 24. ♠28. ♄ ♂ appear where but in Sept. The precise ☌ within 2 degrees of the Equator 1657. At Genoua the Height at August in principio Grant June 22. ♈ ♎ o. ♄ ♂ precise ☠in the Equinoctial Point ad Jun. fin calls for our remembrance 1661. Sickly London Id. June 26. ♠♉ Our Planets are oppos'd about Midsummer which we see by sundry Examples premised bodes ill Yea the very Aspect held till August the midst 1665. That I hope never to be parallel'd Pestilence of 100000 Funerals ♄ ♂ in Tropical Signs in July there is one String of the Scourge But our killing ☠of ♃ ♂ holds on § 56. Have I not said too much is it not too plain 'T is not too much for a sober Melancholly Consideration It were Wisdom in us if we could secure our selves against those Fears which Annually fall upon us almost every Summer or Harvest by seeking a more healthful Air and a better Countrey above this Elementary World I did not know but some may make this use of it and then I have not said too much The new Atlantis no question as some have happily mistaken concerning the Situation of Paradise is above the Moon be above ♄ and ♂ and all malefique Influences real or seeming But this by the way I am aware of a just exception against such Discourses as these which seem to make every year almost Pestilential for so the curious Reader will quickly find that what with one Aspect and what with another we make very few years to pass free since not a year goes over our Heads but we shall meet with a ☌ ♄ ♂ or at least an ☠and if so by chance it haps that these Aspects prove inoffensive their Malignity being quenched by the the Season of the time or by their State of Desertion then another Malignant Combination of ♃ with ♂ suppose exercises the same Malignity as before To this the Physitians will answer for us that there is difference between Pestilences as in Motions of Water all are not raging or furious wherefore although at the inauspicious found of the Word we fear yet God be thanked we do not often feel its Fury There is a difference I say when the yearly Bill shall scarce arise to 10000. from that higher year which raises it to 5 times yea ten times as much When a year brings 5000. or 6000. in the whole and the other brings as many in the Week And the Physicians tell us again that there is difference between absolute Pests and Diseases that may have some Spice of Malignity and therefore call'd Pestilential because of their Cognation and too near Vicinity Nay further we take it in a more large Signification where if you please Forgoe the Name and consider the years that are Sickly and found to be such when as yet the Citizen notwithstanding finds it not his Interest to remove from his employ whereby he subsists Here I say Not only the Croking Astrologer but the Phystian and the Eminent Virtuoso himself takes notice frequently of the year and arrests them upon suspition of Malignity § 57. Now if every sickly year which yet I do not believe had some manifest Criterium of Malignity in it you need not be afraid to look into a List even of such years at least if they were only of Forein concern We can easily believe that Coonstantinople or Grand Cairo is never free yet we are not troubled at the report But if we are concerned as I think we ought for those that are abroad also and if we keep Correspondence in most parts of the World whether we like it or no we shall find that somewhere or other some Sickness not unworthy the Note of the Curious is brisk upon our Mortal Bodies That these Configurations are disposing or if you will indisposing Causes of our Humours and Spirits will be plain if it is not already and the very frequency of their return either by ☌ or ☠does confirm the Thesis which imputes those Maladies to those Configurations For what can we say when we find those Configurations in being when the Distemper reigns What will you say when you find the Distemper to start out within a Fortnight or Week of the precise Aspect What will you say if when the Aspect seems to expire it shall not absolutely cease Supposing the Sickness to continue till it hath introduced another in its Room to maintain the Indisposition begun by the First What will you say when the Malady shall hold though with some abatement the Season consider'd in the Winter Months in October November December This not always as Dying Reliques of the Summer distemper but as continued Impressions of a durable Cause which may be will not expire no not in the year following and so unite two Pestilential Summers together by a never dying because always cherished Relique So that Jan. and Febr. of the succeding year shall write as Pestilential as the closing Months of the former They were but moderate years 't is true but yet within this Century from A o 1606. to 1610. 5 continued years are reckoned Pestilential And in the Former Century Fallopius you find hath noted as much So that I quote no Astrologer and yet you see what I offer is too true It is not Vanity nor Noise but the weighty Truth that Pestilential or Unhealthy years are as frequent as the Superstitious Planetary Contendeth For that they are the Causes is as certain in Nature as that they alter the Air in in those very times Nay the former is demonstratively proved by the later Since Pestilential Disposition of Air depends upon unkind Excesses and Exorbitances of Weather to Heat and Drought sometimes to Cold and Wet which can be ascribed to nothing but the Heavens over us § 58. What therefore should I quote Authors of our side when the Physicians themselves appear for it Who yet are not commonly Well-willers to the Mathematiques Erroniously thinking that there is no other Science conducing to their Practice but what they are Masters of Time may come if God shall give leave that we shall point out not only Aspects but
It may Portend for all that They deny Apparitions of Armies Wherefore because they can give no account of them They may deny as well a Showr of Rain for any account they can give why it falls with the Circumstances of hic nunc Our Philosophy reaches those very Circumstances because we study God and His Motions the Accesses Recesses Stations Respects of those Moveables which He hath Cloathed with Light least we should say He hid such Knowledge from us Therefore tell me good Friend why it Rains now why every quarter of an Hour for so it haps sometimes Why it Snows in Summer and Thunders in Winter Prognosticate by your Mechanisms what shall be Seven Year hence Nay if there be a Natural Divination then there is a Providence then there is a God then there is a Law of Nature setled which he who is Skill'd in obtains the Gift of a kind of Prescience So does Hippocrates foretel the Fate of his Patient an Arab a Comet and Thales an Eclipse This Knowledge I have endeavour'd to settle and to render it perspicuous which must require some Prolixity where the Mountain of a Common Prejudice is to be removed Yet I will not justifie my self I might have been more contract perhaps I may add that I was never inclined to study the Arabs I fetched not this Knowledge from them When I saw I was engaged to consult them I knew here was a Meum Tuum even among them so I gave them their due I have often apolâ—gized in the following Papers for the Length of the Diaries inserted I labour'd to find the utmost of the Planetary Communication which I have shewn to be large That is the chief thing I pretend to and I hope if it brings its Conviction it will be kindly accepted To conclude I wish the Reader a discerning Spirit in all Truth he pursues not only in this but in a more Celestial Philosophy So far am I on all accounts his unfeigned and absolute Well-Wisher J. GOAD The Characters which are made use of in the following Papers are thus explained Planets Saturn ♄ Jove ♃ Sol ☉ Mars ♂ Venus ♀ Mercury ☿ The Moon ☽ Aspects Conjunction ☌ Sextile âš¹ Quartile â–¡ Trine â–³ Opposition ☠The XII Signs of the Zodiack Aries ♈ Taurus ♉ Gemini ♊ Cancer ♋ Leo ♌ Virgo â™ Libra ♎ Scorpio â™ Sagittary â™ Capricorn ♑ Aquary â™’ Pisces ♓ A. l. ante lucem A. m. ante merid m. p. most part d. t. die toto T. M. Terrae Motus or Earthquake R. Retrograde Dir. Direct ASTRO-METEOROLOGICA APHORISMS and Discourses concerning the Natures of the Bodies Celestial c. BOOK I. CHAP. I. God the First His Second Cause the Heavens Their admirable Power on the Sublunary World on the Air especially The Causes of Meteors ordinary or prodigious Angelick Powers § 1. GOD Almighty the Great and Wise Creator Blessed for ever for no legitimate Astrology can exclude Him is not only in Himself but even in his Works Incomprehensible § 2. Amongst His other infinitely various Operations He is admirably discovered in the constitution of the Air and its strange Vicissitudes which the Divine Word unquestionably produceth by a Second inferior Cause or Generant § 3. The Theatre on which these Alterations are hourly acted being the open Air Mankind hath more easily arrived at some little Apprehension of this Second Cause the Region in which they are presented being so neer and pervious § 4. As reasonable as it is to believe that the Sea comprehendeth all the Seminal Causes of Her Productions and the Earth of what is bred in Her Bowels also so natural is it to imagine that the Heavens are not Idle but rather give Spirit and Influence to all things under their Convexity viz. the Air and its Regions with the Globe of Water and Earth These being but minor Orbs all inclosed within the vast Embraces of the major even as the Foetus is embraced by the Womb and the Membranes that are agnate to it § 5. The World therefore in all Ages hath been convinced that the Heavens have no small Power on the premises and every Body within their respective Inclosures § 6. On the Air especially and its Phaenomena the Meteors as they are distinguished vulgarly into Real or Apparent § 7. Of these latter none go about to deny that the Heavens are the due Efficient whether Halo's Rainbows Parelia Paraselenae Chasms Clarities Nocturnal the Morning and Evening-Blushes of the Heavens to which may be added the rarer appearance of its seeming Conflagration unless That prove gather to be Real § 8. But no less are they the due Effective of the former the Real ones though some Well-meaners would fain deny it whether Clouds Rain Mist Dews Fiery Trajections Ignes fatui Lightning Thunder Blasting Frost Snow Hail Winds § 9. And of All these whensoever they happen whether in Measure or Excess Ordinary or Prodigious and they again whether Homogeneous such as those Dire Tempests called of old Ecnephiae Exhydriae Fistulae Plin. hist nat II. 48 49. known amongst us by the names of Sponts Huracans Tornados Travados c. or Heterogeneous as the Rains of Dusts Ashes Milk Blood c. § 10. No other is the Cause after all that can be disputed of that great phaenomenon the Comet and That not only Sublunar but Celestial § 11. The same also is most justly acknowledged the Cause of the motion of the Sea its Ebbs and Flowes which some great Artists would pin on the motion of the Earth others on the inward Principle of the Element § 12. Yea the Heavens though it may seem to be no less than a Contradiction are to be admitted Causes of Earthquakes Meteors as they are rightly called of the Subterranean Region § 13. Powers Angelical Good or Evil are no Causes solitary or such as do evacuate the proper Causality of the Heavens § 14. Stormy Winds therefore which are harmful to Countrey or Province are no Arguments whatsoever the vulgar are perswaded of Sorcery or Conjuration § 15. Hereby it is not intended to deny that Spirits can raise or bestow Winds or Tempests and that it may be by Arbitrary means though I see some are willing to excuse Lapland from such Inditement § 16. Showers of Stone Dust Ashes Blood Corn c. which I call Prodigious out of kind § 9. are generated first in the Air not elevated thither by any violent natural Spirit as some think so that if they may be fairly imputed to an Angelick Administration yet neither can the Heavens be wholly excluded § 17. Concerning prodigious Showres of Creatures Animate as Frogs c. although the more probable Opinion saith they are generated in the Region from whence they fall yet here I am not ingaged to undertake § 18. Noises and Apparitions of Armies with Military Equipage and Tumult can at no hand exclude an Angelic and that a Principal Cause CHAP. II. Meteors their Material Cause and that there is
an Earthy Exhalation The Air considered All Meteors reducible to Heat and Cold as their Efficient the Nicety of their Degrees An account of the Natural Prognosticks of Weather they all prove that Heat is the cause of Rain and the Heavens Dominion over Moisture Concerning Hail Snow Mist Lightning Comet Blasting No phaenomena casual Wind its cause is not rarefaction or condensation but celestial Impulse The Body of the Heaven as distinguished from the Stars signifies nothing § 1. MEteors Real whether Aerial or Subterrranean as to their Cause Material consist of Water Earth Simple or Compound Fire and their Expirations these in the depth of the Earth those in the heights of the Air as far as the reach of the Atmosphere § 2. For that the Earth also is resolved into Exhalation is evinced from the Thunderbolt yea from the Nitrous and Sulphureous Ingredients into the wild-fires Celestial Lightnings Add the forementioned Rains of Stones Ashes Corn c. nay every Fog is so fuliginous as to bear witness a Fog which sometimes casts it self into Threds or Ropes and by the warmth of the Sun furls up into Gossamere § 3. The Body of the Air seems not to be the Resolution of Terrestrial or Watry Exhalations but is rather distinguished from Both as their Subject or medium even as the Water is distinguishable from its Impurities or from the saline Spirit that inhabits the Ocean § 4. For the whole Expansion Aerial and Aethereal is one homogeneous Body differing only in Warmth or Cold Purity or Impurity according as it is nearer or remoter from the Earth and Water § 5. Of it self as it seems neither hot nor moist nor cold c. but capable of all § 6. So distinguished is the Air from the Water that Neither can be converted into the Other the four Elements vulgarly called being as I deem Incorruptible in as much as although God the Creator was pleased as Moses seems to say to make the Air out of Water yet it may be true notwithstanding that no Natural Agent can turn it back into the same § 7. Meteors Real as to their Efficient Cause are naturally reducible to Heat or Cold and their Activities Frost Snow Hail to the later Lightning Rain Clouds to the former § 8. Winds also have no other Aeolus § 9. Here it is to be remembred that degrees of Heat and Cold are of a minute and nice disquisition our grosser Sensories being not always competent Judges for we see Rivers in depth of hardest Winters reserve some Heat where Fish subsist and scalding Liquors admit some degree of Cold as when their Aestuation is calmed by a little cold Infusion and yet remain scalding still § 10. As nice also may be the consideration of Dryth and Moisture for as the Coals of dry Fewel taken from the Furnace burn quick and bright so from moist Fewel they glow obscurely as if they were not as yet rid of their pristine though adventitious Moisture § 11. Warmth is the instrumental Productive of Cloud and Rain This is witnessed by the Southern Winds which bring Both by Thaws in Winter which are always cloudy seldom dry by the ingrateful Savors most hot against moist Seasons beside the convincing testimony of the Thermoscope § 12. The Survey of the usual Prognosticks of Rain from Fire Water Animates Inanimates do all argue the same Original of Rain viz. Heat Celestial and its Consequent Moisture with the secret Impressions of Both on the Creature § 13. In Animals the usual Noises observed against weather as in the Raven the Crow Cock Goose Owl Peacock the Pimlico in the Hist of Virginia a Bird so called from her note too sure a Prophet saith Captain Smith of Wind and Weather Swine Frog c. their crowing screaming croaking c. argue not any miraculous Divination in the Creature but only protest the sensible disquiet and alterations that are felt by them at such times Haud equidem credo quia sit Divinitùs illis Ingenium aut rerum fato Prudentia major Verùm ubi Tempestas c. Vertuntur speciès animorum the Poet himself was so cunning Georgic 1. § 14. Further arguments of such Alterations are the Water-fowls leaving the Element flocking together or betaking themselves farther into the Country the poor Earth-worm creeping from his bed the flying or springing of the Loligo the Cuttle-fish they speak of the playing of the Dolphins in the waters all not brooking their own Element That and their Bodies being alike disturbed § 15. To say little of their Stomachs or Appetites extraordinary Birds coming late from Feed yea the contemptible Fleas or Flies more notably stinging i. e. biting or sucking are hence reckon'd for Presages § 16. The forced motions and postures of Creatures argue the same as when Cattel are seen skipping odly up and down indecorâ lasciviâ as Pliny calls it as if twitch'd or pricked by some shooting or ach in their Limbs as vexed by some pain tearing their Litter § 17. Which pains some Creatures endeavour to help the Beast licking the Hoof or against the Hair the Bird picking and pruning its Feathers some perfusing themselves with water or flying so neer the Swallow and Sea-mew 'till they dew their Wings point the House-cat washing her Head with her moistned Foot the Oxe snuffing aloft into the Air all as it were for refrigeration-sake of their Bloud or Spirits cooling the little Feavers perceived therein § 18. The poor Ant hiding himself or removing his Eggs the Shelfish sticking close to the Rocks or ballasting it self with Sand shew a kind of natural Prudence but no Prophetick Divination in as much as first they find the Alteration of their bodies before their Instinct teacheth them to provide for the consequent § 19. And as to Presages from the Water whatsoever the Ancients speak of the murmuring of the Sea at hand or the noise on the Shore side the bubbling or swelling of the Sea without noise witnessed by all Sea-faring men the appearance of the Froth broken or divided these all betray the Dominion of the Heavens on the Water and a disturbance rais'd by the Celestial Warmth § 20. Verily the Dominion on the Water is as large as that seen in the Air the Prognosticks from Animals being grounded principally on the Alterations of their Natural Moisture And if any Presages are drawn from Plants as the Bristling of the Trefoil c. hither it may be reduced § 21. I do not mention the Sweating of Wals or Glass which may arise from the continual Appulse of the moist Atome floating neer the chill superficies but Plinie's Instance from the Larder when a Dish which hath been used at Table leaves a Sweat on the place whereon it was reposited argues some consent of the Ambient's moisture with the moisture of the Esculent on which account also Wood swels Wainscot cracks Viol-strings snap asunder and we also as other Animals no better nor worse are disquieted with the Excrescencies of our
Feet swelling and shooting against Weather yea the Paroxysmes of the Gout and sundry other Ailments observed in the Hospital of our Bodies remember us thus of superior Alterations § 22. Yea farther all the Prognosticks taken from the Fire it self do note which may be strange some Dominion over Moisture the â—elestial Action terminating not on the Flame so much as the Fewel or the Body inflam'd hence comes the little diminutive sparkling of the Candle the spitting of the Fire from under the Embers the puffing and murmuring of the flaming Coal the concretion of Sparks and Knots in the Snuff Lucernarum fungi the Adhesion of Embers to the Hearth of the Live coal to the Pot-side all betokening some Alteration of the Moisture which betrays it self by concretion of things contiguous or by that little sparkling at the approach of the Flame which at other times burns quiet and cals for no Observation He that pleases may consult Aratus Virgil Pliny Plutarch of the Neotericks Fromond Vossius de Idololatr § 23. Rain and Wind therefore for they are not often severed or their existence to Warmth § 24. And 't is manifest whether Hail reduceth it self being the congelation of Rain As for Snow 't is of a nice crasis strangely consisting of a congeal'd vapour and some little degree of a warm Spirit which helpeth to resolve the continued congelation and make it fall into wafers § 25. Hence what is commonly observed whensoever it snows the Air remits of his rigor and again the greater is the Fleece the warmer is the Air and more bordering on a Thaw § 26. Next the Mist also belongeth to Cold seeing it is a vapor part moist part fuliginous congel'd just as the breath of our mouth by the Cold of Winter is a visible Mist Mists therefore do not arise from the Rivers brink as is commonly reckon'd but the Vapour which before rose invisibly being congel'd descends and by continual aggregation or conflux puts on a visible consistence § 27. Lightning and Thunder need no Herald to derive their Pedegree from Heat Celestial § 28. Comets Celestial have their consistence also from Expirations Celestial taking it for granted that the Sublunar consist of Expirations Terrestrial mingled with Celestial and inflamed thereby § 29. Blite and Blasting in some cases proceed from Heat as when Fruits are prejudiced by Lightning or burning Winds such as the East-winds are reckon'd in Holy Writ § 30. Again it oftentimes proceeds from Cold and Hoar-frosts as Pliny rightly with our Husbandmen define happening with us about May June yea in April March whensoever the Spring is obnoxious to the injury by its unhappy forwardness § 31. Of all these there is not the least piece of a Phaenomenon that is casual in respect of the Heavens though the Learned Kepler can allow it but the Heavens are conscious of its Original § 32. Nay as we shall see there is not the least puff of Wind though a Reflexion of a Blast indeed may be termed Casual but is Heaven-bred if we speak of the direct issue § 33. Howbeit so great and various is the inconstancy of the Winds especially with us on Shore that the Knowledge is abstruse and difficult though neither so pure a Contingent but that it may be lur'd to the Rules of Art § 34. Seeing Wind that we may come to its Definition is nothing else but the motion of an Earthy dry Exhalation and that moved not by Condensation or its own Gravity but by Impulse from Celestial Heat § 35. Some great Authors philosophize otherwise That Wind is made by Rarefaction and a Condensation succeeding the Air condensed tending downwards and acquiring its violence by the heights of its descent But 1. wheresoever it hapneth that there is such Condensation as in Clouds Dews Mists hazie Air Frosts there would be always some sense of Winds stirring but many Clouds and hazie days are calm yea nothing is more husht oft times than a Frost or Mist or more still and silent than the Dew 2. Winds are indifferent to all Seasons Winter Summer to all Weathers to all hours of the Natural Day none have their Quietus'es from it not Sun-rise nor Sun-set Mid-day nor Mid-night it owes not therefore its Existence to Rarefaction and Condensation seeing all Hours Seasons are not indifferent thereto for in a Cloudy day what place is there for Rarefaction In a bright hot Summers day what condenseth 3. Here let the Etesian speak hath not benign Nature provided that refreshing Air for the Aestival Heat and doth not it rise at 9 in the morning when the Heat increaseth and cease again at 4 in the Even 4. Whatsoever may be said in Spring and Autumn for the vicissitudes of Rarefaction and Condensation how comes Winter which even hath its denomination from Wind to be so unquiet when there are no such sensible vicissitudes Nay how doth Wind rise in Winter nights It cannot be said that the Night condenseth what the Day hath rarefied Alas the Day was all benummed in Frost and the windy Nights often introduc'd a Thaw How doth the colder Season rarifie how doth the warmer Season condense 5. Upon this Hypothesis the Wind would blow to not from the Points of the Compass and to many Points at once viz. coming from the Sun as from the Centre for the Air even as Water rising up in a Conical tumor when rarefied upon the recess of the Sun while it condenseth and recovereth its Gravity must needs fall indifferently from the vertex to all parts of the Circumference where it is not hindred i.e. to the East North and South at least if not to the West but the Wind blows not several ways at once nor is confined in the least but tends indifferently from the Sun aud to the Sun and on each side of the Sun through all the Points of the Compass § 36. Again Condensation can give no account of the Winds violence no not the thousandth part of its rage and fury as when it is known to rift up Trees demólish Buildings for admit the descent of Air to be as forcible as the descent of Water though there is some difference sure especially if Air be rarer than the Water by a 1000 degrees yet this will not prevail for in Noah's Floud it self the Cataracts of Heaven did not beat down the Trees as appears by the Story § 37. 'T is said that all Heavy Bodies the further they descend the more violence they acquire this is true in Bodies that have their fixed Dose of complete Gravity disproportioned to the medium as in Stones Metals c. and this by virtue of their Generation but in Condensation 't is otherwise the Body is not condensed at an instant all at once but at leisure and by gradual alteration Proportional thereto must the Gravitation be and as the body condenseth so must it subside in the same measure according as the Applications of the Causes condensing are gradual for as for instantaneous
Applications of such Causes it will be hard to assign any Again from whence should the condensed Air descend from the lower Region then we should be to seek for the Violence the Term à Quo being so neer If from the upper the condensed Air would find its Aequilibrium as the Clouds do § 38. Nor doth the Wind make Overture that it observes the Laws of Gravity for then the latter end of the Blast would be most vehement as falling from the greatest height whilst its prodromi the antegredient part of the Exhalation would give notice of the vehemency to be expected by its proportional degree of force and men whose interest it is to observe would be able to pronounce the minute of its Approach But we find it not so a Fret of Wind is often quick and sudden and gives no notice of any such Fear Truly neither is the Hurry of the Wind accountable by Gravity or Density the motion whereof is so arbitrary so voluntary so indefinite Here there every where right forward round upward with such stops and pauses and interruptions of the Spirit starting again of a sudden into fresh tumults and riot unless we can find such infinite variety of Rarefiers and Condensers and that as the hypothesis defines it from the Sun alone What if sometimes Wind however it may gravitate descendeth not but ascends rather from the Horizon toward the Meridian and of this even the Boyes Paper-Kite is some evidence which feels great impulses of wind upward when in the height while the Attendants below being becalmed almost wonder at the difference § 39. Wind therefore is caused by Impulse and the Impulse of an Exhalation distinguished from the Air as the common Opinion rightly sets it the Contents of the Air being distinguish'd from the Continent and 't is a noble Argument of Fromond's that is drawn from the Affinity with the venti procellosi those impetuous All-washing Whirlwinds and Hurracans which have the invincible force of Lightning in them and the impetus is the same instantaneous not bearing down things before it as Flouds do Bridges by perpetual pressure but all at once Now Lightning is an Exhalation to be distinguish'd from the Air even as Light or Heat or Odour or Moisture nor can the Air be defin'd a Colluvies or Miscellany of all but must be defin'd prescinding from all Admistions that are extraneous to it And me thinks our Ear tells us as much for so like a Showre doth this Exhalation drive on the leaves of Trees that we often suspect it rains when it blows only Wind being no quantity of continued Air no more than a Showre is of continued Water § 40. This Exhalation is most part Terrestrial for not to urge the Height of such Mountains as reach beyond all Territory of Wind by being so remote from the Vale Fromond from Acosta asks whence Winds are more vehement on or neer Shore unless because of the plenty of such Earthy Exhalations and the stronger Reflexions of the Heat Celestial agitating the direct Ray being at no hand excluded those dry Effâ—uvia But secondly we argue thus Wind is a Dryer even as Frost a Cooler Dryer a Whitener to this the Laundress will bear witness As sure then as Frost is a Terrestrial Exhalation so sure is Wind. Hence the more the Wind blows in the Night the less is the Dew § 41. And Wind is generated in the Macrocosm as in the Microcosm what causeth Wind in the Stomach or Intestines but a crude Spirit raised from the resolution of the Aliment driven up and down by the vital Heat what Meats are generative of Wind but such in which a Crude Spirit is predominant I reckon therefore the Hot Wines Seeds Spices c. do expel and banish Winds out of our bodies § 41. For why we should deny with Fromond to one contrary the Faculty expulsive of the other I see not I find Fire to spit at the infection of Salt or Water A drop of water falling into a Cruse of melted Metal disperses it about the Room and the Apple on the Hearth is a plain and safe Experiment which having received the contrary igneous Spirit ejects its Pulp and oft times with such a wind as is seen to puff away the adjacent Embers There can be no strife of Contraries no Antipathy explicated without such Expulsive faculty or which is all one fuga contrarii § 43. Hence Winds which accompany the Reverse of the Sea blowing from the West such as we are taught are found in Latitude 43 if they have no dependance on the Heavens on which all other Blasts are confessed to depend but on the Stream are legitimate no more than the wind of a Cannon-ball or the Lapland Gale or the Reverse of the Water is a legitimate Tide § 44. The four Cardinal Winds are thus defined the East and West blow from certain opposite Points or Arches of the Equinox the North and South not from their Poles but from the opposite points of the Meridian § 45. The properties of the four Cardinal Winds cannot be universally stated yet on this side of the World in all habitable Climes where the Division obtaineth and whereabouts they were first denominated the South and West are warm the North chills the East cools then the South or West warmer than the North and this on the Heavens part § 46. Wind therefore as all its Fellow-Meteors dependeth on the Heavens and that in the manner aforesaid By the Heavens we mean the Glorious Contents not one or two but all the Celestial Bodies yea all the Host of the Fixed Stars that shine in the Firmament § 47. For the Heavens as distinguished from the Stars have no Operation occult or manifest CHAP. III. The State of the Air not usually uniform The Difformity is admirable The Cause § 1. THE State of the Air is not uniform in all places no not of the same Kingdom Province County but is strangely different as to all manner of Weather Kepler gives notable Instances in the useful Book of his Ephemerides Anno Christi 1621 c. they of Germany seeming most pleased with these Contemplations § 2. Storm prodigious with Rain at Vienna at Ratisbon onely is a Fog Fearful Tempest in Bavaria in Suevia June 4 5. and Hail on the other side of the Rhine where Spiers is situate June 6. but at the Rhine it self a perfect Drought the whole three dayes This was Anno 1621. In like manner Anno 1629 in May dieb 13 and 14. the Corn was lost by Flood in Silesia contrary in Poland and Liefland all perished by Drought More of this nature may be had from Kepler abovesaid from Fromond's Etesian Table compar'd with Kepler's Ephemeris from Eichstad and others But what need when common Attestation of wayfaring men daily witnesseth this Difformity When upon conferring Notes at time of year we had no Snow here saith one no Fog saith another at our Town no Rain no Thunder and as for
hath been noted already § 31. The precedent Constitution of the Air helpeth nothing to the Continuation of the same unless the Heavens conspire for the Air being of a thin Body as it is of an easie receptivity for all sorts of Impressions so it easily parts with them unless continued or renewed by a Cause permanent or suppletory § 32. In the defect of which we perceive oft-times to admiration the Constitution vary from one Excess to the other the Wind bloweth where it listeth CHAP. IV. A certain Prescience attainable Prognosticks vulgar The Husbandman's Prognosticks § 1. AS it is the Goodness of God to vouchsafe us Natural Prognosticks of Constitutions ordinary and violent so hath he pleased not to deny a more Noble Artificial Prognostick of the same § 2. For though no finite Knowledge can be comprehensive of an Effect great or small in every minute Intrigue of Nature or Providence yet so certainly hath God suspended the Constitutions of the Air upon the Heavens that we must assert there is more than a Conjectural fore-knowledge of the changes of the Air by Day or Night attainable upon Contemplation of Causes Celestial and that without Vanity and Superstition or the least shadow of either rather attended with a plerophory of cogent Demonstration § 3. This Kowledge may be exercised in fore-pronouncing the vicissitudes of the Constitution yea and of the Winds also I had almost said to an Hour § 4. The same Knowledge may reach to the Perception of Comets Earth-quakes and Pestilences as having all unquestionable dependance on the Heavenly Bodies though these three last deserve Treatises by themselves § 5. Prognosticks of Husbandmen and others from Birds and Beasts before mentioned as they are useful and delightful so they do not supersede our Inquisition seeing they pronounce from Arguments extrinsecal Effects or Signs and not from Causes § 6. Prognosticks from Apparences in the Air from the Halo Iris colours of the Sun-rising c. Clouds and their differences prognosticks from the Moon at three dayes old from fiery Trajections as they are not to be neglected because of some accidental Connexion so they ought not to be trusted upon their single report yet some are more special as fiery Trajections when frequent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shooting of the Stars Ptol. II. 14. do usually speak some Tempest at hand or if not excess of Heat § 7. The Comet also signifieth infallibly some Excess and that lasting but whether that prove as to Wind or Drought or Wet they do not determine that Determination belongeth to no one Apparence § 8. Nay Comets many times have nothing to do with Prognosticks being a sign of Wet or Drought or Wind and that a consequent sign teaching us to look backward only on the antecedent past Excess § 9. Vulgar Prognosticks and those Other of a genuine Astrology i. e. Art and Experience stand not on even Ground for they reach only Constitutions immediately subsequent pronounce for to morrow or next day the Other pronounces at distance at a large prospect and that if need be concerning a whole Season The most sagacious Birds can give no certain aim at a whole Winters Constitution come they or go they sooner or later They come upon a natural Presumption of the Regularity of the Season in which the Poor things are sometimes deceived as Pliny quotes the year where an After-winter destroy'd many but the Theory of Art foretells both the irregular Interruptions of a Season with the Restitutions and that many Cycles of Years before the Arrival § 10. Prognosis Astrological that is genuine floteth not on uncertain Principles but knoweth whereupon it ought to fix § 11. Tempestatam rerúmque quasdam statas esse causas manifestum est Plin. II. 39. This is the Principle on which it fixeth for certainly the Annual Revolution or recurrence of the same Constitution or Inclination thereto doth uncontrollably evince some Fixed Cause which maketh the same Revolution to meet with the Effect § 12. Wherefore to all Noble Prognostick Experience must be premised Observation being laid up in store for some years before hand of the daily and sometimes hourly Alterations CHAP. IV. Some Determinate Dayes which have a peculiar Character and Disposition produc'd from the Antient Kalender Some Critical Dayes The Observation upon S. S within no Superstition § 1. THE Ancient Diary of the Egyptians Chaldees yea the Ancient Philosophers and Mathematicians of the Greeks and Latines Democritus Meton Euctemon Eudoxus Calippus Conon Hipparchus Caesar Columel Pliny and Ptolemy for the Africanes do incourage us in our Principle For as we see some Months Regularly and therefore Naturally incline to Cold Warm Dry Moist in like manner some Dayes of the Month even of the same Month have their proper individual Inclination to Cold Drought Moisture Heat of which the Kalendars inform us not yet out of Date to our purpose § 2. We will consider the Excesses of Weather throughly noted therein e. g. Much Rain Dec. XVII Much Wind Jan. XXII Great Heat Aug. XV. Horrid Tempest from the South Oct. ult From the North Dec. XI 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. windy Weather stormy Constitution 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. None of which could pass into observation upon a single Accident § 3. But least a single Accident should be pleaded as unreasonable as it is the frequency of the Constitution with its Contrary is happily expressed as in Febr. X. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 West-wind sometimes but otherwise Jan. IX for the most part South-winds and Dec. I. for the most part Turbulent See Ptolem. opusc de stell sign In the Vranologion of Petavius pag. 71. where you also meet with Geminus his Diary for the whole year according to the Degrees of the Zodiac That Geminus we care not who knows it who disputes against our Pretensions even in Him notwithstanding occur these Memorands 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad ♠19 fair for the most part 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cold Winds and ruffling for the most part ad ♠4. So at ♈ 23 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hail often and ♠16 it uses to thunder 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as ♠4 also it uses to blow 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Agreeable to this is That in Columel X Cal. Sept. Tempestas plerumque oritur pluvia and all these Kalendar-men whenever they speak absolutely without terms of Diminution there they are to be understood as to the most part otherwise the Observation were ridiculous § 4. Shall we take Observation nearer Home and that from an Enemy within less than 200 years Mirandula himself hath given us some account of Dayes confessed Hazardous at Sea contr Astrol III. c. 13. p. 482. such as Feb. VI. XII XV. XVII XIX XX. Mart. I. VII XV. XVII XIX XXV April II. for so it should be read V. VI. XII XX. § 5. Yea not Italians or Seamen only but all Nations and Functions have so much Interest in seasonable Weather that they
Clients of the Skie flock after him and retreat dishonourably at his retirement The life of Animals subsists by his Energy of our very Immortal Spirits he is the Union § 3. Notwithstanding This and a less Hymn I could not make on Him whose Lustre dazles us I say that the Sun alone this Glorious Creature cannot be the Cause the entire Cause of the Changes of the Air and its Vicissitudes § 4. Because the Sun consider'd alone All things rightly weighed requires those of his Fellow-Celestials to constitute even the Seasons of the Year The Seasons differ one from the other in length of Day or proportion of Light and the proportion of the Warmth the Sun alone is the Author of the First not of the Latter He is confess'd a Light All-sufficient but that it must therefore be a Heat All-sufficient is no warrant A Taper lights the Room which will not warm it for that the Sun carris the Name of Warmth That argues that he is indeed the Principal most Eminent not the sole Dispenser So the General carries the Glory of the Battel who is far from being the Sole though he be the Principal Souldier According to the tenor of which words must our piece of a Hymn on His or rather his Creator's praise be expounded § 5. The truth of this will be clear when we have considered that the Sun's approach and Exaltation encourageth the warmth of the Spring and keeps up the height of Heat in Summer being the Eminent Cause of Both. But yet neither Dayes nor Months do always increase in or stand or remit their warmth in proportion to the Solar access or recess from the Solstice This hath been urged by others and may be instanced fourty wayes It is notorious that the Aestival heat even increaseth as the Sun declines for the Month of July and part of August are usually more soultry than the Solstitial month of June § 6. Here it is answer'd with one accord that the Heats of July receives their intenser degree from the measure of the prae-existent warmth but this we have precluded before and add that the Heats of July have been found as intense when the precedent June hath been contrary affected every man's memory being able to prompt an Instance of an April May or June beyond expectation cold upon which the common comfort hath been from hopes that July and August would make amends Besides that this holds not in July alone the end of March may have more warmth than April and April than May November warmer than October as again January colder than December March than February we may here after name some Times when it proves generally so therefore the Sun is not the sole Administrator of Celestial warmth § 7. It may be said again as it is by some great men in things of this Nature that they are Casual But the word Chance in Causes Natural and determinate speaks our Ignorance and it may be something of Injury to the Creator But 2. a hot July is never casual being intended so by God's ordinary Providence for Harvest sake That great Providence which workes by the Great Machine of Second Causes 3. Nothing that is Prognosticable can be Casual § 8. Again if the Sun alone were the cause every fourth year would bring about the same Revolution of Winds and Weather the Sun being then exactly restored to the same place by the Intercalary day interposed but no such Revolution appears I find Eudoxus of old gave out indeed to this purpose Plin. II. 47. but no Experience confirm'd it from his time to Pliny's age he was only fond of his own Surmise If it had been so we had been weather-wise by this time without out consulting Star or Kalendar § 9. Considering what is behind it will not be very needful to say more here only to take away all Scruple I would answer a possible Objection The Returns of the Weather being fixed and determined 't is reasonable as you say that the Fixed cause be assigned the Author of That determination but the Sun and nothing else is the Determinate Cause for what else consines the Return to the same Day therefore it must be the Entire and Adaequate Cause The Answer is ready if all the Stars in the Firmament should conspire with the Sun into one Tempest they could choose no time but what the Sun the Lord of Time should determine It followeth not therefore that if the Sun be the Determinative Cause he is the Adaequate the Sun bearing two places Physical and Chronological in the first he helps to produce in the second he circumstantiates the Production But if the Identity of the Day 's constitution be press'd we answer that the Sun determineth That not absolutely and entirely for then the Return would be infallible but on supposition of the other Causes meeting these Concauses met do determine the Effect as it were Materially the Sun closing with them specisies the time Thus Disputers say the last Vnity is the form of Number a principal Cause but not an Adaequate CHAP. VI. The Lunar Influence and its History Hippocrates doctrine of the Tides Dissent from the Learned Vossius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aristotle agrees with Hippocrates § 1. PRoceed we then and let us say that the Changes of the Air cannot be referr'd to the Sun taking in the Moon along with it though to give the Moon her due also she is of great Efficacy as Ptolemy tells us in that excellent II d Chapter of his first Book All things saith he animate and inanimate receive her impression the Rivers swell or abate according to Her light the Tides and Ebbes of the Ocean 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sway'd by his Rising and Setting Plants and Animals are in poor or better case as she waxes and wanes Upon which words I would we could comment we endeavour thus What the proper quality of the Moon is we find disputed Ptolemy and the Ancients define her to be Moist they mean or ought to mean that she is of a remiss warmth to such a degree as is no Enemy but rather friend to Moisture by Resolving it Calling it forth or otherwise Actuating it by her spirituous Ray according as that fluid and withall salt Element is capable of impregnation § 2. And to this one principle of Warmth will all the various Effects usually ascribed to the Moon be justly reducible For on this account the Sea it self ebbs and flows in all Rivers Creeks and Shores making a Full Sea precisely at what time the Moon comes to such a Point of the Compass falling back every day as many minutes about 48 as the Moon comes later to the same Point luxuriating in her Spring-tides about the Full and Change when she is direct with the Sun and flagging all the Quarters when she is at an oblique distance On this account it is that Flesh exposed to the Lunar Rayes sooner putrifies those which walk along by Moon-shine feel a Dose in their
Semisextile as we have hinted being therefore to be discarded yea the Quincunce it may be hath no Activity but what is founded on a Fallacy of the Cause § 9. Multiplying of Aspects is to be taken heed of proceeding from a false perswasin viz that all Effects Sublunar are to be imputed to the meer Planetary Habitudes even Kepler himself was offended at some better Principles when he first brought in this Abortive of which hereafter § 10. The Old Aspects according to Ptolemy are five 1. Conjunction whose Character is ☌ 2. Sextile marked thus Sextile 3. Quadrate □ 4. Trine △ 5. Opposition ☠§ 11. Conjunction when two Celestial Bodies are situate at or toward one end of the same Line perpendicular in the same Sign and degree which Line being protended reacheth the Centre of the Earth § 12. Opposition when they are found at the Extremes of the same Diameter viz. at VI Signs distance § 13. 'T is hard to say whether of These have the greatest Efficacy for the Conjunction may be more potent in one Respect and the Opposition in another the ☌ is more for Warmth and Moisture the ☠for cool Air and Winds seeing the further the Ray is protended the more it befriends the Cold Spirit Note this must be understood per se and of its own nature howbeit by accident it may prove otherwise § 14. Trine and Quadrate where the Celestials are distant a 3 d or 4 th part of the Sphere i. e. four or three Signs of XII have a notable proportion of Activity in the one the Rays make a right Angle in the other an obtuse not much wide from a Right Angle at the Centre of the Earth yea a Trine makes just a Right Angle sometimes according to the difference of the Obliquity of the Zodiac § 15. The Sexile whereby the Celestials at two Signs distance and no more make a very acute Angle on the Surface of the Earth whose Lines being protended cut one the other much on this side of the Centre the most imbecil therefore of All the Aspects § 16. So the Aspects it may be have not their Foundation so much on Harmonical Proportion as on Physical and Optical Principles § 17. Aspects of Planets are in Number XCIII being distributed among the several Complications of the Planets § 18. Complications are XX thus exhibited ♄ ☽ ♃ ☽ ♂ ☽ ☉ ☽ ♀ ☽ ☿ ☽ ♄ ☿ ♃ ☿ ♂ ☿ ☉ ☿ ♀ ☿ ♄ ♀ ♃ ♀ ♂ ♀ ☉ ♀ ♄ ☉ ♃ ☉ ♀ ☉ ♄ ♂ ♃ ♂ ♄ ♃ § 19. These Complications let out by their several Aspects ☌ ☠△ c. if every Planet were alike free would amount to CV but when ☉ with ♀ and ☿ and These among themselves admit no Aspect but ☌ the Summe is abated to XCIII § 20. Unless the utmost Distances of ♀ and ☿ from the Sun may be reckon'd in being tantamount to ☠with him § 21. Some one or more of these Aspects are extant every Month to qualifie or vary the Season according as the Decree Eternal hath laid out their Motions For if there be no ☌ there may be ☠if neither a □ or △ c. § 22. Yet the Periods of Conjunctions are rarer ♄ and ♃ meet ☉ but once in the Twelvemonth ♂ once in two years ♀ about a Year and half only ☿ in two Months and the ☽ runs through every Aspect with every Planet once in the Month so that if an Aspect be any thing or Celestial Influence any thing the Moon is a Great Dispenser of it § 23. ♀ and ☿ meet in 8 or 9 Months ♄ with ♂ about 2 years ♃ with ♂ somewhat more ♄ ♃ ♂ with ♀ and ☿ according to their different meeting with ☉ ♄ and ♃ in no less than 20 years called therefore the Great Conjunction § 24. The shifting of these Aspects every Revolution is observable how they fall in the subsequent year later than in the precedent as ☌ ☉ ♄ later by a Fort-night ☌ ☉ ♃ about a Month ☌ ☉ ♂ above a Month ☌ ☉ ♀ about half a year ☌ ♄ ♃ though at 20 years distance shoulders out half a year also § 25. Sometime ♀ and ☿ falling Retrograde are willing to salute and be saluted by one another and as it happens by the Superiors also so that an Aspect may be reiterated within less than its ordinary or direct Period And wherefore All this but for the various dispensation of Nature and the most of it within the memory of Man though it be not necessary the Divine Providence should confine its Transcendent Actions to the short Observation of the Small Epoche of one Man's Life Howbeit the Moon 's Revolutions are of a short Term whose constant Visits as we have heard of every Planet cannot be idle unless we make All a dumb Shew nay it were well we did for then there would be oft-times Mystery couch'd Sure if there be so much of Art or Wisdom there must be somewhat of Natural concern in her various Phases § 26. One thing we have not consider'd yet of no small concern in this Theory and That is their Duration for though exact Calculation pretends to scruples First Second yet Natural Causes are not so straight-lac'd a Convex-Glass will burn at several distances § 27. Confining therefore the ☌ and with That the rest of the Configurations to the same Sign and Degree and allowing the Acme of the Aspect to take place at the precise Astronomical Time with proportional allowance of Vigor or Abatement according to the Scruples of Access and Recess yet true it is that the Physical Influence of an Aspect exerts it self before and after i. e. as long as the Heavenly Moveables keep within the Terms of the Definition Such may be the Motion of the Planets that they may keep even to the same Degree though not Minute for a considerable Space On this account we see an Eclipse Solar or Lunar lasts several Hours whose exact Central Calculation is tied to a Minute § 28. Lo then another Suspicion of no Idle Conceit since Nature hath made nothing in vain that ☌ ☉ ☽ should last about 4 or 5 hours ☌ ☉ ☿ ☌ ☉ ♄ ☌ ☉ ♃ 3 dayes ☌ ☉ ♂ 8 dayes ☌ ☉ ♀ 9. Again ☌ ♀ ☿ lasts 9 dayes ☌ ♄ ♂ ☌ ♃ ♂ the like But ☌ ♄ ♃ continues 24 dayes These are the chief and for Brevities sake we content our selves with them § 29. Now as concerning their Influence and the Specification thereof be pleas'd to take notice that there is a Table goes about pretending to acquaint us with their significations with some little Modifications indeed according to the four Seasons of Spring Summer c. but as to the main agreeing with it Self and Truth Let the quainter Reader be pleased not to nauseate it lest the Knowledge of Celestials suffer thereby I do not say 't is exact and beyond Amendment I shall offer toward some Amends my Self but for the General I say
adventure to declare our Experience let is be remembred thus much is granted us that at ☌ ☉ ☽ oft times happens Winds or Rain if not both as Mirandula's Sea men you see have witnessed What do I speak of one Century past Even in S. Ambroses Age much above a 1000 years ago in time of Drought it could be said Ecce Neomenia pluviam dabit Oh we shall have Rain at the Change of the ☽ the Father 't is true gently reprehends it with Nollem dictum Not that he rejected the Philosophy by which he greatly illustrates the Creators Glory in that very Discourse but abating rather the Confidence which we are too apt to place in second Causes though imperfectly apprehended § 9. When it is remembred then that our Ambition reaches but to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 speaking of a single Aspect as hath been often said and said not out of a politick Restriction but with reason from the nature of a single Cause whose efficacy many times reaches not either for want of Coordinates or is broken by the Counterpoise of contrary Agents We avow that ☌ ☉ ☽ produceth a warmer Air attended for the most part with Rain or Winds but whether of these takes place exclusive to the other must be determined by the whole conjuncture of the seven not by any one single Aspect § 10. So that Warmth is the Prime product the other are Consequents that Cardan may no longer say of this Aspect Non unum significat discouraging Inquirers by so loose a Character since it produceth a Determinate effect as much as any other Aspect and as often § 11. 'T is true we who deal in prognostique must treat of such warmth only as is sensible but yet of a truth there is very often warmth in Nature which is not directly distinguished by our Sensories No man can say that he alone hath the Standard-sensory to which all the Sensations of other must Conform Sometimes we infer rather then discern the presence of Warmth viz. from some visible effect to which the Sense would not otherwise assent as by Snow melting in a Cold Thaw or an early Shrub the Gooseberry suppose sometimes sprouting in January whose Mornings may be Frosty in this case when Warmth is so observed by Logical inference rather then Sensation the Aspect thinks she hath right in the Effect § 12. They who are not studious of Nature impatient to attend her leisurely methods will scarce be content with any thing less then the Effect in its highest Complement Unless we can warrant Wind or Rain at every Change the Art professeth nothing whereas if a Cloud or a Mist be produced it may perhaps be not unworthy the Observation of those who inquire into Causes since the Air in its pure Naturals is serene and supposing no Sun ☽ nor Star must needs be such becase not any vapour can be raised or suspended by Heat but when that Heat is extinct must necessarily return by its innate gravity or which is all one sympathy with its Original to its First Bed What harm is there in exactness if Account may be given of those places effects at least in the more Acreamatic part of Philosophy since these Effects make room for the Greater yea perhaps are distinguished only by a gradual distance Some portions of Clouds being observed to drops when the Zenith is absolutely dry and a Mist in some 〈◊〉 shall we an English man to the Skin § 13. The Congress therefore of ☉ ☽ produceth Warmth and thereby Rain as its Consequent produceth I say or continueth it already produced Now what if I go further and say that it inclines at times also to Snow and Hail for they also have a certain dependance on Warmth as a Comproductive at least since 't is easie to distinguish between the Drop and its Congelation ascribing those distinct products to the contrary generants some pieces of Nature like those of Art passing through many hands before they are finished § 14. However to Rain it conduceth and to Wind also since in all Wind the Warm Atomic is found impelling the Cold aut contra whence warmth must be a constitutive ingredient in the exhalatiâ—â— driving or driven § 15. Wind and Rain although they differ formally as can be agree in their Original as the great Veralam also observes Resuscitatan Hist vent p. 42. Hence as we have seen they promise a common prognostique as Harbinger before them to prepare for their entertainment the same Disturbances of Animal Bodies witnessed by the Notes and Postures of Animals the Aches and Malodies of Man and Beast do fore-speak yet disjunctively and undeterminately Winds or Rain This argues say I the Unity of the Origin and on no other account even Windy Nights as I am informed from the Kilne make the boyling Liquor apt to overflow To say nothing of the Testimony of the Baroscope where the Mercury falls alike to windy Weather as it doth to Rainy Now for Wind and Gusty Weather and their Cognation to the new ☽ we reduce further if need be the Testimony of Moderns who in the Voyages to the East Indies complain'd of bad Rodes by reason of a small ☽ Linschoten lib. 3. cap. 2. Yea for the West also our own Drake tells us again that a small Moon makes foul Weather all the main along Last Voyage apud Purchas § 16. It might be time now to produce our evidence that the Dubious may be disposed to a further enquiry if not assent In our Diary you shall see we have allowed no less than three Dayes to the Aspect that we might more securely hedge in Observation § 17. 'T is a perpetual account of VII years for if the kind Reader will admit the like for the Opposition Square c. to the Sun we shall not burden our paper with the same Aspects repeated between ♄ ♃ ♂ and the ☽ although a private Observer may perhaps find them not unworthy his consideration they carrying their price in their Foreheads especially those from ♂ ♃ ☿ § 18. In the Tables observe that the Dayes are reckoned after the Civil account viz. from Midnight to Midnight because Art must apply it self to the Publick so that the Observer must not content himself with the Day Artificial only but look through the interval of the natural Day entire since Nature when we poor Mortals are compos'd to Rest like its Great Master neither Slumbers nor Sleeps Since if at any time soever be it the Dead of the Night a violent Tempest hap to awaken the Neighbourhood unforeseen the Science is sure to be indited of I know not what uncertainties it behoveth therefore that Art on the other side should be relieved by all the true Affidavits of Showre or Wind c. which may steal in at that Interval wherein the Major part of the World buryed in their Beds will be concerned in censuring the Method when it fails though unconcerned in its Justification when it hits § 19. Here it
as Fog or Clouds though dispositions to Rain help to bring forth absolute and compleat Moisture § 50. To a Moyety therefore we are arrived in the days and that is enough to prove the Aspect not to be indifferent They are as Powers of Fifty to the Motion of an 100. So 't is an even Wager it Rains on One of the 3 days concerned And if any should be so toy some as to engage against such an Event in his Favour let me ask Who shall decide the controversie in case a Showre in Prospect be discerned when possibly it Rains not upon the Spot nor as the Wind may sit is like to do Or suppose that the Air looks suspiciously when we have reason to believe it rains or dews within the Verge of our Horizon and in this case in my Judgement the Wager is not absolutely and necessarily lost seeing no Astrologers or Others will profess always to engage that it shall Rain upon his Rivals Head No he he takes his measures from the publique the Country round about if it reigns on the Neighbourhood the Heavens have done their Do and so hath the Aspect § 51. Now the Fatal Paralogism of the Adversary is this He when he sees not such frequency of Activity as he requires concludes that there is None As if because there is not the excessive proportions of 60 70 80. c. towards the Motion of a 100 Therefore there is no Activity or Force at all in the Agents Whereas a Motive Power even at 40 30 20. hath a considerable Force or Strength towards the Effect although it be not commensurate to 50 60 c. Aspects have no Force because they miss as nay more often than they hit Gassendus himself so reasoneth But 't is hard to conclude that an Aspect hath no Force when the objection confesseth that there is some and that brings its Effect almost nay every whit as often as the contrary For what else I pray should make the Success aequiponderate with the Failance Is it not abominable to conclude there is nothing of Weight in one fill'd Scale where it aequiponderates with the other If an Aspect should contribute beyond the Moyety to 70 or 80 times and fail only 30 or 20 times would not the inclination be confess'd Well then if it contributes but 50. is the inclination abolished Put case it contributes on this side the Moyety but 30 or 40 times it is a great way distant from nothing Five Pound is Weight though it be not Fifty and Ten Pound is Weight though it be not an 100. Five Pound is not Weight of it self to crack a Nut shall I therefore infer it hath no Pressure or Ponderosity toward such Effect Common Experience refutes it Some outward Force or Impulse may be indeed necessary but the less is requisite as the Weight is the greater The Learned should have discerned the Inclination though but Partial and not absolutely denyed but considered once and again since nothing is more reasonable in their own Opinions than the dependencies of the Inferiours on the Superiours and never left searching of these Truths of which themselves upon Examination had found some Glimps § 52. More we could say but it seems creeping to desire what is not down right Rain to be accepted A close Day suppose or a Lowring Heaven and yet the jolly Wagerer let me tell him many times seeing the Air to Overcast and Lowre and put on her Mourning Vail doth not know well what to think of it and could Wish he might draw Stakes so near doth a Prognostick approach the Truth even when it comes many times short Only this I think may be proposed that regard may be had not only to the Sums of Rain Wind singly or jointly computed the commonly assign'd Effect of this Aspect but also to the Disjunctive whether Rain or Wind seeing they oft times take their turns and are not found always accompanying each other So a careful Observer may enhanse the Sum of the Influence by accession considerable No less XLI Winds without Rain being noted in this our Table and so the Sum will lash beyond the Moyety to the undeniable rates and proportions the Adversary being Judge § 53. Now as we are not fond of this Disjunctive neither so have we no reason to forego it since I will tell you Gassendus discoursing against our Pretences degrades our Professors below the Beasts of the Herd seeing the Prognostick from the Notes of Birds and Beasts are more infallible saith he than that of our Pretenders Now these Natural propensions so invidiously commended which are natural Complaints rather than Praedictions of a Symptom present not of an Effect Future let the Reader mark as infallible as they are hold only in this our Disjunctive They do not determinately say Rain but indeterminately Rain or Winds as we have from Captain Smith learned before § 54. However for the determination of this Disjunctive to Wind or Rain or both seeing it is justly expected we should speak Categorically in this matter we say that there may be found Rules in Art for that or for Nothing In the mean time we gain some little Credit to an Aspect because it is confessed that a single Aspect would then not be unworthy of regard § 55. Nor yet have we drained our Table It bears as if it would give some Light further viz. to the determination of the Wind. Let us see the Sums being collated we shall find that this Aspect apt to cause Winds is apt also to determinate them to the West and to the South rather than to the North and East which thus I make out I take the Cardinal Winds and their Complications making VIII points of the Compass to serve our turn and adding the Sums the account lies before you thus East 38. N. E. 25. S. E. 12. West 36. N. W. 27. S. W. 56. North. 46. N. E. 25. N. W. 27. South 56. S. E. 12. S. W. 56 75. 119. 98. 124. So that the inclination is least to the East more to the North more than that to the West and to the South most of all § 56. Here I lament I had not the accomodation of the Pyxis or any Horizontal Plate divided into more points of the Compass though I see not that Natural Knowledge requires so exact a Pyx as Navigation useth because I boggle at this that I find the North Cardinal point gives more instances than the West To me 't is a great Secret the cause of the North-Wind how no Planetary Aspect except the Jovial was ever dreamt of for that Cause But the North appears when many times ♃ is ingaged in no Aspect therefore of that hereafter § 57. Let no observer ask me why of all the Winds the South-East least frequents our Horison Scaliger I remember tells us for France that 't is a rare and nice Wind so here with us in England Hereafter not here we shall tell whether we are able to answer
by its nearer distance to the Earth 47. Prospect of the Quadrates failing or infallible § 1 IN the next place the Quadrate calls for our consideration made much of by the Astrologers next to ☌ and ☠Conjunction Opposition and Quadrate go for Tant-amount in the Meteorological part We do not deny the Rule to have its truth and the virtue of the Aspect we have founded Architect-like on a Right Angle formed by the Rays of the two Luminaries so related 'T was a pretry Pythagoric fancy to compare the Aspects of the Celestial Bodys to the divisions of the Musical Chord So a Square to be a Diatessaron as the ☌ is an Unison and the ☠a Diapason But this made way for such a crowd of incroching Aspects see Kepler Sect. de novis Aspect in Ephemerid Anno 1617. that every Pretender would yearly strive to put in a new One till Kepler ingeniously confessed that Tempestates observando vidi tandem deserendam esse Musicam and we always suspected it for a forced Hypothesis which Mathematicians sometimes may be guilty of § 2. This Quadrate or Quartile in its Dichotomy as the Greeks call it is preceptible to sense as the Full ☽ is That by the Plenary This by the Half-Face illuminated vulgarly the Half ☽ and this Aspect returns twice in the Month First in the increase or tendency to the Plenilunium the Second in the decrease tending to the Interlunium as the half-way-House upon the Rode Backward and Forward § 3. Now since the ☌ and ☠and their Influence is undeniable confessed and granted us even by the Scruplers who have no great kindness for the Ptolemaick Astrology it remains that the Quadrate also may produce its Credentials Her Letters Patentssigned by Experience the Mistris of Faculties whose Name and Seal will not be questioned within the Territories of Sound Phylosophy § 4. Therefore for a double Aspect we present more than a single Table that we might evince to the World that we are of a guiltless profession not afraid of any Witnesses in Court against us so that the Jury be honestly empanel'd The Diary is the verdict of the Countrey For brevities sake I could have contented my self with the account of One only but that the Reader I hope may hereafter find some reason to the contrary § 5. It may be said that we have already produced our Tables for ☌ and ☠in vain for what need we trouble our selves with the proof of any conclusion which is granted to which we answer we fear they are granted us out of Charity not as of Debt or for our importunity as an Alms is thrown to a clamorous Beggar to stop the Mans Mouth who deserves not the pittance although more he expects Not granted I say as our due by Virtue of our Evidence because our Evidence may be excepted against as not Full and Home by the Fastidious Dissenter we claim therefore that the Reader Serenely and Calmly will be pleased upon due consideration to accept or favour our Evidence without which for all as we know since there is no other imaginable Proof he may recall his grant and plead Non-Conviction even about the Influence of the Change and Full. On the contrary if he allows our proceedings and gives sentence for the ☌ and ◠upon the strength of what hath bin alledged we hope the same Right will prevail for this third Aspect Since the evidence being produced to publique view if it be alike for one as for the other All or None must be admitted § 6. To the ensuing Tables we have allowed the same Number of Days as in the precedent Aspects viz. three Days to each It must be confessed in so doing we may seem to interfere with the Neighbour Aspects on one hand or the other which appears to be some inconvenience to which we say First we found it necessary for the comparing of the Aspects among themselves which is intended at the close of this Lunar Treatise that they should be allowed all of them an equal Number I thought it fit once I confess to avoid this Coincidence to produce but one or two days at most omitting sometimes the First otherwhiles the Third according as those Days were found to be of a wider distance from the Hour of the Aspect Nay sometimes I omitted both the extream Days namely when the Aspect happened about Mid-day reckoning 24 Hours to be a Competent Measure of its duration or Influence But I found at last one 24 Hours could not possibly involve the total of the Influence and another day being added obliged me to add the third also upon the account that 't is better to allow with the most than with the least § 7. This I take to be certain that the Influence of the Quartile lasts twice 24 Hours And if so that space of time unless the Aspect happens precisely at Midnight is found to exist more or less under the Denomination of 3 days So that with the Readers patience if the Aspect happen on Friday-Noon we reckon the compleat boundary of that Aspect to begin on Monday Noon and end at Mid-day on Wednesday § 8. This being allow'd 't was convenient to produce 3 almost entire days in regard that First though the Day may yet the Constitution when Uniform cannot be divided Next that the different quality of the present Aspect may be stated notwithstanding sometimes we reckon one and the same Constitution to the two Competitors viz. the Sextile or the Trine the Dignity of the Aspect I say will be found notwithstanding that common Accession by its proper Instances their Number and Moment So have I seen the same Weight successively thrown into both Scales to evidence the difference of the Body which preponderates Howbeit when an Instance falls out let it be reckoned by all means to that Aspect to which it is nearest situate § 9. But how a Right Angle should admit such a Latitude as we pretend may be another Scruple but we know there may be some Latitude in a Natural Angle where there is none allowed in pure Mathematiques A Right Angle made by Luminous Bodies may have a virtual reach to half a Sign Fifteen degrees breaks no Squares at least are not discerned to make such sensible variation in a croud of other Causes which pretend to co-operate to the same Effect Besides there may be something considerable from the Vicinity of the Moon for in other Syzygies except the Lunar I cannot say the Quadrate reaches so far A Quadrate of Saturn or Mars with Sol loses it self in five Degrees perhaps § 10. Furthermore observe that the two Columns of the approaching Table serve the first for the former Quadrate the 2d for the later which differ a matter of 14 or 15 days one from the other □ ☉ ☽ The Quartile Table □ ☉ ☽ January 1671. ♑ ♈ 28. VI. Frost ice wet much p. m. S. VII 11 p. rain ante luc fair windy NW VIII H. wd ante luc
bear us Witness who brings more hot days than all of them only on this account that she keeps near as within call to the Sun and â—ets not till the Sun himself declines in his strength even in the cool of the day This Sextile shews us 36 warm days for her Brother Sextiles 20. I see other doubts perhaps desire admittance as why the First Sextile should not be parile to the Later c. But besides that this may be answered by what hath bin formerly noted concerning the East and West Angles I think it not prudence having so far to go to wait on every puny Scruple § 9. The Hot Nights we meddle not with they are but Rarities and have their dependances more material than on the Two Luminaries The Trajections we speak not to because we cannot Imagine they should be duly and constantly observed No one man can do it It requires the attendance of a Society and an Observatory maintain'd for that and the like Notices Only 't is strange the Second âš¹ should be so brisk to equal the ☌ and the â–¡ 's Trajections being 19. under the ☌ 20 under the Later â–¡ and 21 under the âš¹ This we gain by it It proves the Aspects are not wholly devested of Influence when under the Horizon as the second âš¹ must needs be with both its terms when nocturnal Trajections are conspicuous Only we may note that the Number 4. under the Full ☽ speaks but low because the Plenilunar Lustre envies us their more frequent notice In the mean time those few must be look'd upon as Eruptions of Flame greater than ordinary who discover themselves even while the Air is possessed of so bright a presence and in the aestival season besure speak a glowing constitution § 20. Immediate to this we may view the Coruscations and Thunders under several Titles because many times they are found separate These may be rather consider'd in that their Tale must be just and certain And Lo the New Moon brings but two The Full Four The Quadrates 4. with one or two Mute Coruscations The Later â–³ brings 7. The Later Sextile 6. So the Later â–³ is considerable and we have seen 't is a busling Aspect in Thunders as well as Storms of Wind. Howbeit the Sextiles have a great kindness for Flashing without noise so that it may be we did well to consider Lightnings or Coruscations with Thunder and without apart by themselves Verily the Later Sextile which brought 6 Thunders which Sum is as high as any bating one unite is observed to have brought over and above 5 Lightnings And the first Sextile how Low soever in its Thunders has brought notwitstanding 7 Instances of Flashes Shall we supersede the Enquiry into the Reasons for hasts sake Only take notice of a semblable Parallel between Lightnings here and Trajections before under the Sextile the Later Sextile exceding all the rest here as there if we can make out a probable reason of the One it may hold in the Other And we would venture but that the First Sextile comes in with VII Lightnings and so makes a shift to equal the Later Some inclination no question it bears to it and let the Curious mark whether or no Lightning hath not its several Arks and Segments of a Circle according to the Diversities of the Aspects 'T is more than probable a Sextile may flash through two Signs A â–¡ to the Midheaven a â–³ beyond it an Opposition it may be but one Sign a Semisextile Aspect being reduc'd thereto This is commended to future Observation remembring that I speak of the Signs as they run oblique in the Zodiaque not of the Equinoctial Dodecatemories The Planets indeed in the Sextile Aspect lie so near one to the other that if any cause shall set it self upon making Celestial Fire-Works the Two Planets will be very apt to catch and to keep them alive throughout its allotted interval of spaâ— or time § 11. Let it be noted also that this may agree to the Sextiles in Genere not Lunar only though we must assert the ☽ also to have an Aetna in her according to the New Selenography or a force for Lightning provided that no man construes this to obscure the Powers of the greater Celestial Bodies § 12. Stormy Winds we have spoke to before the Full ☽ here bears away the Bell When the other Hover about the Number of 40. the ♂ ☉ ☽ alarmes two Elements of the Air and Sea about 60 times and possibly more Every gust we have not reckon'd nor every brisk gale nor every Windy Constitution when as if we could have hearkned out many of those days in the Seamans Journal I speak of our Brittish Seas only might have bin noted for Rough and Rugged the Cause is not intricate and hath bin touch'd already remembring that the Full ☽ bears precedence as to frequency of Storms For as to Fury the Trine we have said seems to go beyond it 13. Now for Winds variously Shifting and Frisking we have cryed up the Later â–³ But the Table tells us the Full ☽ holds its own there also so be it then if the â–³ equal it she is content § 14. To the more setled Change of the Wind we have brought in our Quota under every Aspect the Wind may Change we know every Hour but with a Specialty upon the Hour of the Suns leaving us Ventus cum Sole reliquit saith the Poet and accordingly in our Diaries the Evening-Hour most usually presents you with such an alteration 'T is to be imputed to the Aspect according as it appears in the Hemisphere or Disappears and that again as it is whole and entire or as intercepted by the Horizon about its Ascent or Descent And this is worthily remarkable therefore in the First Square which changes the Wind about 70 times when the Rest shew such Feats not much above 50 40 or 30. For that Winds come from the Stars Oh 't is a plain case in all their Periodical Revolutions as the Royal Philosopher tells us Eccles Cap. 1. Yea and in all its variations It deserves the attention of the young Philosopher how apt the Wind is to change Morning Noon Even Midnight under our Quadrate which measures out the Heaven into those equal parts whereby the One Planet follows the Other with a punctual Uniformity as to the Transits by the Horizontal Line and the Meridian And this rather in the First than the Later Quadrate for some such like Reason in proportion as we have rendred before of some difference in the Later â–³ from the Former To clear this you shall find as the Table informs that the ☌ ☉ ☽ admits the fewest Changes of the Winds because there is no difference of the Luminaries concern'd who rise together set together culminate together so that if she can hold her own after the Hour of their joynt descent or disappearing she keeps the Wind at her point for that entire Natural day whereas in the
April 21. Dir. 65. May 15. Retr 66. July 14,15,17 Dir. 68. June 11. Dir. 16  Octob. 1. Retr 1670. May 12. Dir. Aug. 27. Retr 71. April 30. Dir. Aug. 9. Dir. 72. July 7. Retr 76. May 24. Dir. July 25. Retr  27.  Sept. 6. Dir. 77. July 7. Retr  8.  78. May 21. Retr July 18. Retr Aug. 3. Dir. 79. July 17. Retr 80. May 6. Retr July 3. Dir. 81. Aug. 13. Retr 82. Aug. 6. Retr The Norimberg Diary makes braver sport but we need it not § 50. Even Keplers Ephemerides brings us An. 1622. April XXV ventus pluit Fulgura An. 1623. Jan. V. Aestus tonuit VII Calor Fulgura venti Aug X. Tonitrua ventus magn Pluv. XI Tonitru Grando multa XII Tonitrua continua An. 1625. Fulgura Matutina Detonuit cum Imbre July V. Nebula Pluit Fulgura Aug. XXI Aestus tempestas XXII Tonuit Pluit An. 1626. Jun. XV. Imber Tonuit Pluit XVI Aestus procella Pluvia Larg XVII Nebula Tonitrua Pluvia Aug. 11. Aestus Procella Tonitrua An. 1627. Aug. XVIII XIX XX. Imbres Tonitrua Aestus vapidus Noctu Tonitrua An. 1628. May I. III. IV. Aestuosum tonitrua XXV Iris. July IV. Nebula Aestus tonuit pluviae continuae An. 1629. Jun. XV. Grando Tonitrua § 51. This may serve for a Tast and when I was so far entered I remembred withal the Limits of his distance from the Sun and this use I made of it that whatsoever Effect the Sun is guilty of our Planet must have a special hand in it for he is always found in the Sun's Company and therefore must be suspected when any mischief is done The Instrument that we most frequently use is most Ministerial Verily in 5. or 6 years Scrutiny I saw that of all the 28 gr which meet out the distance of ☿ from ☉ there is not one of them but is found to raise this Tumult though with some difference and if there should be any Secret in that in time I hope it will be made out The difference then is thus After the exact Conjunction the distance of gr 2 6 8 12 14 15 17 18 20 21 23 25 26. And this whether ☿ be before or behind the Sun of the two the rather before it § 52. The next Instance must be Earthquakes for I shall never forget Ptolemy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he some instances we have met with too many to be baffled in perusal of Weekly Papers from the Empire beside what in the late turbulent Hurrys flew up and down our Metropolis And we are in a fair way having laid this for a certain Rule That whatever causes the Thunder yea or Storms is apt to cause an Earthquake more or less Not for that the noise of the Thunder shaketh the Earth and maketh the House to Tremble as what every hurrying Coach can do but because the Subterranean Vulcans are imitated in their supposed Shops at the same time as the very Cyclops are that while in hast of their Work Hence Kepler fancyed the Earth to be an Animal sometimes sweating sometimes shaking by the Impressions and Commotions of the Ambient Aether as may be seen in his accounts of May and August 1621. and 1629. § 53. But is it likely any whit probable such a squirting Planet as ☿ a Lacquey of the Sun who seldom shews his Head in these parts as if he was in Debt not responsible for any such great Production We may cease to wonder being to be ordered by our Sence and Reason rather than by our Conjectural Presumption Besides let ☿ be a small Lucid Globe his Conjunction with the Sun I hope is not of small Consideration Make up the defect of the one by the sufficiency of the other § 54. Is it certain then that our Aspect is able to raise a storm or Peal us with a Showr Then 't is certain that he can blow up the Subterranean Fires An Aetna Vesuvius Hecla in Sicily Italy Friezeland 'T is now above an 100 years that our Mariners had experience of this Truth Hecla flaming was always a Sign of foul Weather Purch p. 817. ad Annum 1610. Well then for Earthquakes do we not always or for most part find Foul Weather Storms Lightning either upon the Spot the place which Heaves and Trembles or in remoter parts we shall shew some Instances from whence we learn the Great Power of the Heavens over the Earth confessed by the Soberest men who do not despise these Instances Let what Thuanus hath left upon record be read in Court ad Annum 1557 where after the mention of Tybers prodigious inundation Sept. 14. another at Florence another in France he adds these Words Eadem rerum facies plerisque Nos per Europam eodem anno quasi occulta quâdam Caelestis ordinis confessione lege consensione etiam in remotissimis Orientis partibus fuit nam apud Sinas in Sanuari à regione tanta diluvies ex proximis montibus defluxat ut Lacum ingentem effecerit quo VII Urbes absorptae sunt Pecudum Mortalium ingens numerus periit puero unico tantum in trunco arboris raro fortunae beneficio servato Thuan. p. 278. 379. § 55. Now the most indubitable Original Fund and cause of Earthquakes are those vast Fires Subterranean which work and wamble in the Bowels of the Earth and break out many times where there is no vent always without fail where there is or near the time of the Earth's Tremor The want of this consideration made the Worthy Kepler and those which follow him to run to an Occult Cause Subterranean for his Meteors when he was at a loss for his Caelestial Causes when as nothing is more plain and less lyable to exception then that the Subterranean causes Fires or other Evaporations are subject to and naturally do observe and obey the Causes Caelestial § 56. Howbeit let the Reader expect with all his prejudices so he will be pleased to examine what comes now to be proposed in that business of this Mercurio-Solar Meeting I don't know but I find such an Accident as an Earthquake in Basil December Anno 1533. three times it was shook in that Month. Once if I may guess and the reason of my guessing I will shortly tell you must be December 11. when there was a ☌ of ☉ and ☿ and what if ♂ opposed we are not about the Denyal of our Kindred Other Aspects must be taken in too but that ☌ ☉ ☿ is one Again Anno 1538. Jan. 20. the same Swiss-Town shook with an Earthquake ☌ ☉ ☿ ☿ being if I mistake not scarce 9 degrees distant In September again Anni ejusdem a Famous Terrae-motus mentioned by Fromondus die 27 28 29. the distance of our Planet is 7 degrees Yea since Italy shook as Fallopius notes for 15 days together a ☌ ☉ ☿ must happen amongst 4 or 5 of those days Come we to England in the year 1551. we find our
An. 1672. July 15 16 17. among others 3 days hot together Whence comes the Heat The answer is made Oh it is usual for the time of the year But this answer is not Scientifical it renders not the Cause If a Philosopher enquire after the Nature of Sleep the cause is not assigned by saying It is usual or 't is the time of Night the gentle Unctuous cooling vapours to bemist and charm the Sensory is the Cause Feaverish and Famish'd Men sleep not for all the time of Night So be it never so much the time of the year place the Sun where you please there 's no necessity this day must be hot with Express or Excessive Heat Those 3 days of July though inclined to Heat as much almost as any are not always found under that Character If the Enquiry were whether a hot day in Summer were a Prodigy Such answer indeed were punctual No by no means 'T is usual and according to the time of the year But when the Question proceeds of Cause wherefore at that time of the year Nay wherefore on the very day which might have proved cold notwithstanding the time of the year We must look into a more secret and abstruse cause I must find a Reason from the very Constitution of the Primrose or Violet If I mean to answer the Question of its early Blossom The time of the year allows only an aptitude or Inclination The Argument doth not follow from the Power or Inclination to the Act This day is hot because it was probable it would What then Sir is the Cause The Astrologer reasonably urges Chance can not be it for what determines the Effect since all Events though never so casual are such not because they have no determinant but because 't is unknown § 71. Gassendus press'd with this Objection denies Chance Ore tenus while he tells us that the Sun Moon and Stars are the general Causes of many Phaenomena but beside these for he knew generals were indetermined He mentions other Inferiour Sublunar Causes Causes per se as he calls them Singular Special which determine them to Hic nunc Meteor Epicur p. 944. by which Cause if he means the nature of the place situation c. Subterraneous Fires and Eruptions of vapours we admit them heartily as well as he But certainly Place and Situation are Circumstances rather than Causes without which the Heavens can do nothing That we confess yet we deny that they may be called therefore Efficients Principal and Singular Causes The Fires Subterraneous seem to put on for Efficiency but we profess to believe that these Fires are not so Universal as I see is imagined by himself and others Agricola c. who have not kindness enough for the Aethereal § 72. Neither secondly is this Cause but general still and indeterminate as they say of our Heavens the Determinate is yet to seek For suppose the Fire sends forth the Vapours and the Vapours condense into Rain Stay May not the Cloud be barren The Vapour Dry Foggy yea Pellucid As in Serenity and Drought is seen seeing by the Testimony of the Baroscope the Serene and dryest Air makes the greatest pressure What then makes it a Cloud say I rather than Serenity The Sun shines and the Fires are at work and yet Serenity and Drought continues many times for the greater part of the year The answer is the Vapour is condens'd to Rain it gathers into a Cloud The◠for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For if Cold be mentioned to the generation of Clouds or Rain we ask further What encourageth the Cold at that time Is it a Mid-Region We admit the Notion But then why doth it not always Rain or Cloud according to the Temper of the Region As long as Vapours ascend continually why don't they as continually descend What we say in an Alembic The Subterranean Fires work Day and Night Winter and Summer and the Mid-Region is never Free because the Superiour the more remote Region is never Free also Neither may it be said That there is variety in the Mid-Region as not always of the same Temper sometimes extream sometimes more remiss For so 't is true it may Rain when 't is remiss and Snow or Hail when 't is extream But in Frosty days I hope the Middle Region is extream Why don't it Snow then How comes so many Serene and pure Frosts as all natural and wholsom Frosts are Want of Supply cannot be pretended the Fires do their Duty and at all times alike for any thing they know whence is it that the Middle Region is Idle For that sometimes this Region is guilty of no Cold I suppose all that travel the Alps the Mountain Rhodope Taurus Libanus or our own Penmaur All who have heard of a perpetual Snow lying thereon will not consent Surely then the difference of the Temper of the Region defin'd to be sometimes moderate sometimese of an extream Cold lies not in any confus'd disorder or chance but in Vicissitudes Regular with Anomaly such as the Seasons themselves are capable of and no more a sign that they are governed by Ordinances of Nature excluding Casualties For if some Heat beside Solar and Subterranean governs the Tepor of the year as Cold is a privation at least it must be govern'd by the same Caelestial Cause nor can we rest till we have found that Cause in the Heavens § 73. To this the learned Man Objects thus If it rains to day it doth not rain again the same day 12 Month but sooner or later according as the matter is prepar'd To which I answer If I should have said that it rains not at a New or Full ☽ but sooner or later according as the matter is ripe I should have Fibb'd seeing 't is confessed that it usually raineth then whosoever ripens the matter And so I hope I may retort in our Aspect of ☉ ☿ that however matter is prepared at other times 't is usually disposed for Wind and Rain then But this objection concerns not Aspects of which in general enough hath bin said but is rather levell'd at the Annual Revolutions of Stated days No Question but the matter is prepared for Rain when it Rains but who prepared it so variously so uncertainly under such Difformity and Dissonance to comply with the Objection is the Question The Sun and Moon alone we have made good cannot be the Causes preparatory or determinant of a Showre c. nor can any matter possibly prepare it self as Ice cannot thaw it self the very Notion of matter being passive He must have excluded Other Requisites which he knew Gelestial Philosophy pretends to before he could justly infer so Universal a Negative It doth not rain again the same day 12 Month Ergo the Sun is not the Cause I allow it I will help the Argument and say it doth not rain again the same day 19 Year when as the Golden Number tea cheth us the Sun and Moon are
a Fortnights experience at first Introduction Their Latitude above Gardefeu Again anonother Captain Sept. 21. nearer the time of ☌ ☉ ♂ which happened Sept. 27. ♎ 13. For 6 days together the Wind against our will forced us to the Leeward toward Shore with a Strong Current Lib. 3. Cap. 12. § 1. p. 278. After we had got clear of these dangers we found the Current to carry us to the Northwards Thirty Leagues when we thought we had pass'd but Fifteen Ib. Oct. 10 11 12. we found our selves to lose more and more every day by the Current Ib. Latitude by Judgement 70 Leagues above the Mozambique Third Captain near Madagascar or St. Laurence Isle Sept. 10. Lat. South gr 17. A strong Current setting South-West having a stiff Gale we could not but have run these 24 Hours 24 Leagues but in the Evening we made to the Island about 4 Leagues off Sept. 11. We were carried by the force of a Current to the Southward almost a degree Southward Sept. 13. The Current very strong against us Sept. 19. We steered North-East but by the extremity of the Current we were carryed to the Southward so that we were 10 days and could not get to the Northward notwithstanding we had a reasonable stiff Gale Lib. 4 p. 335. Sept. 21. The Current did set exceeding strongly to the South-West by West c. Sept. 22 23. We laboured to get rid of the Current Octob. 3. We came to an Anchor after much Trouble by Currents p. 336. That the Cause is from over-head the Seamen themselves suspect some have said it is the Full ☽ Purch p. 192. Others have said at times it is the New ☽ And they who expect to get clear of them by Alteration of the Latitude the depression of the Pole-Star and the like I can make it very probable that here at this year in this Latitude considering in what Sign our ☌ is celebrated in an Equinoctial Sign of ♎ and this over an Equinoctial Latitude that our ☌ of ☉ and ♂ doth trouble the Waters Especially when the Tables furnish us with the like Evidence at the same ☌ ☉ and ♂ in a different Month and different Latitude Anno 1612. Add a Third Testimony from a ☌ in January in another difference of Latitude we felt a great Stream saith the Seaman And a 4th Anno 1620. May 9. the ☌ being found May 16. 'T is out of road to pursue it further here If it proves thus it will become our Seamen to be no Strangers to Conjunctions to know a New ♂ as well as ☽ and the ☌ of ♂ and ☉ with them Yet let no man think I appropriate it to a Martial Aspect but I look upon ♂ as one of the Celestials which moves the Sea And if so then by Galilaeos his favour there will be no need of moving the Earth for the Flux of the Waters To the ☉ ☽ and Stars it belongs which seems to be proved from hence For if a part of the Heaven move a part of the Sea a Current then the Whole moves the whole § 49. And let no man object ♂ his unreasonable distance in my first Instance viz. of gr 14. for that Four Nights time terminates nearer to gr 12. 10. which we proclaim aloud to be a Legitimate distance such as doth strengthen rather than invalidate the Influence of the Application as we have said before before ever we dream't of such use to be made of it But then secondly we have nearer applications of ♂ to ☉ in the other 3 years yea in the very same No let us rather see by this how the Celestial Bodies irritate the Waters Beside the additions of moisture which they lend the Waters they put them into a Heat and a Ferment and make them run over as I suppose Both Tide and Current which are aloof from Shore Ordinary and extraordinary come to pass by a Fermentation see something of this Feb. 11. 1680. III. Tides in 5 hours on our Home River § 50. To conclude as the Heavenly Bodies operate on the Elements so do they one upon another to all seeming I mean as the Sun seems to be eclipsed Histories note and Astronomers also take notice that the Sun it self suffers labours and looks pale Nec prosunt Domino saith the Heathen Much ado hath been made from before in Heathen time with the Maculae Solis nay Spots are observed now with a delicate curiosity in the other Planets The Learned Ricciolus bids us be gone with our Astrology as if all the Changes of the Air were to be imputed to the ☉ alone with such Maculae or without Injuriously and Unhappily The First because 't is plain or may be plain that the Sun alone or ☽ cannot be the Causes of the Changes of the Air or Seasons of the year The Second because these Spots are the Products I speak probably again of those very Conjunctions and other Aspects which He with others proscribes This the kind Reader will give me further time if need be to make out § 51. Take we with the Character of the Aspect ☌ ☉ ♂ is apt to Heat and sometimes even in these Northern Climes to Dryth but more frequently to Lowr Bluster Rain gentle or dashing sometimes to Hail which though it be rare is more frequent under the Martial Aspect than in other Aspects In a weaker Condition it admits against its will a Frosty Season 'T is apt to colour the Clouds rising or setting with the Sun It is voic'd and truly for some malignity of Influence upon our Bodies whether which is to be noted it be Summer or Winter Hot or Cold as to Frosty Seasons with a little Help it uses to cause some Relent or to bring Snow CHAP. V. Opposition of Mars Sol. § 1. The Opposition and its Diary 2. The Breviate of the Diary 3. ☠☉ ♂ more cold than ☌ ♂ ☉ 4. Because ☠in general is cooler 5. Because the ☠☉ ♂ is shorter liv'd 6. ♂ in Perigee helps to smart Influence yet he is but solitary and therefore not so brisk 7. His Thunders in Summer do not hold in Winter 8. Ninety one days of 118. either Rain or Wind or Heat In frosty Seasons ♂ sits uneasie 9. Fog and hazy Air. 10. A Tempest given a Philosopher may know the Hour of the day 11. Forreign Table 12. ☌ and ☠of a like Influence for the Main 13. Maculae Solis 14. Thames stows thrice in 9 Hours 15. Suddain motion of the Mercury in the Barometer 16. The Dismal dark Sunday 17. Frosts are not to be ensured under ☉ ♂ 18. Why ♀ in Perigee is sometimes seen § 1. Conjunctions we have consider'd but this is the First Opposition which comes in our way the Lunar excepted We will present its Table because of its use yea because it is short and not clogging ☠♂ ☉ ad intervall hinc inde grad 5. 1653. ♠8. 25. May 6. III. Cloudy windy S W. IV. Showry windy S
1517. ☠circa March 4. ♓ ♠Febr. 23. Foul Weather Hakl Edit 1. Very great Storm Hakl p. 224. Edit 1. Marca 1. Storm at N. continued 3 or 4 days Mr. Cavendish Voyage 1593. ☠circa Aug. 30. ♠♓ Comet July 01. ad August 21. Hevel Quere in ☠♂ ☿ 1595. ☠circa octob 31. ♠♌ Octob. 26. Storm separated the Fleet Sir Francis Drake apud Hakl 1600. ☠Circa June 16. ♒ ♋ Starr in Cygni pectore in ♒ 18. Lat. 55. N. Kepler de N. Stella Jan. 20. The Thames almost froze in Seven-nights Howes Stormy Purch 1. 75. Jan. 2. ad 8. continual Rains Id. pag. 73. 1602. Febr. 13 14. St. Vet. Terrae Motus W. High Winds Transact 2065. ☠cum ☌ ♀ ☿ 1604. ☠circa March 27. ♈ ♎ April 4. 1608. ☠circa July 22. ♌ ♒ July 26. Great Thunder Lightning Rain Calvis cum ☠♄ ♀ 1640. ☠circa October 6. ♎ ♈ Sept. 26. Winds drive us to the shelter of a Rock The Tramontana from the Black Sea brings often with it such Storms Sept. 10 ad Oct. 10. Current Purch ☠♂ ♀ ☿ ☉ which Aspects being spent the Currents were lost 1612. ☠circa Nov. 28. ♠♊ Nov. mens Terrae motus in Westphalia per. integr mens Calv. I. Nov. Dec. Continual Flouds and Rains at Siam Purch 322. cum ☠♄ ♃ 1615. ☠circa Jan. 7. ♑ ♋ fine Jan. 18. Lat. S. 8. degr Violent Current set us an hundred Leagues back Purch p. 1. 525. Jan. 1. In Thuringia when other places were frozen Storms Lightning Thunder Calvis 1617. ☠circa Febr. 7. ♒ ♌ Febr. 6. much Foul Weather in the Downs Purch 631. Jan 29. Tonitu Fulgur Terrae Motus Kepl. A Steeple rent with Thunder at Spelhurst Strasburg Tower at the same time Kepl. 6621. ☠circa April 24. ♉ ♠April 22. Pluit tonuit in Suevia Kepl. where he commends some of his poor Aspects whereas our ♂ lies within 2 days of it Febr. 7. March Very foul Weather Purch 1. 655. 1623. June 23. Formidable Tempest at Strasburg Fired their Magazin of Powder Calvis Kyrian June 24. 1625. ☠circa Sept. 12. ♌ ♑ 1625. Chasma Kyr 1629. ☠circa Nov. ♠♊ Nov. 14. Heimlichen Erdheben Kyriander 1629. ☠circa Dec. 22. ♑ ♋ Jan. 1. 1630. Here began exceeding wet M. S. 1632. ☠circa Jan. 26. ♒ ♌ The American Fleet routed by Tempests 1636. ☠circa April 7. ♈ ♎ April 7. Heat Rain Thunder Lightning Kyr June 11. Thunder and Earthquake in Culabria 1637. May 28. Much Thunder and dashing Kyr 1640. Aug. 11. ♌ ♒ Heat vesp Thunder Kyr 1642. ☠circa Jan 22. ♈ ♉ Octob. 15. Iris Matutina Kyriander 1647. ☠circa Jan. 13. ♌ ♒ 7. St. Vet. Comme toute la nuit it plu tonte la pour avec tourmente gresle esclaiers Moncon Voyage d' Egypte p 151. so die 8 9. 1649. ☠circa Febr. 15. ♓ ♠Febr. 10. Ignes Cadentes at Bristol Hitherto do I conceive the Earthquake at Messina the Flouds at Riga and the Flames of Vesuvius in Calvisias are to be reckoned May 10. Terrible Storm at N E. 1659. ☠circ Nov. 31. ♠♊ Nov. 17. Sad dark rainy day 1674. ☠circa Febr. 3. ♒ ♌ 24. Febr. 11. Lightning Thunder 1666. ☠circa March 8. ⚹ ♠March 3. Maculae in the Body of ♂ by Mr. Hook Trans p. 240. 1670. July 12. Great Thunder and Rain dashing 3 m. 1674. ☠circa Nov. 3. ♠♉ 21. Mercury in the Baroscope fell an inch me inspectante circa hor. 5. 1679. Jan. 20. Terrae Motus according to prediction which happenned in Guelderland throughout cum Fulmine Tonitru Lond. Gazet numb 138. Jan. 12. A dismal dark Sunday morning Jan. 29. Terrae motus at Fort Saint-George C. W. Limbry 1681. ☠circa Febr. 22. ♓ ♠14. Febr. 25. Another Comet seen at London from South-East ab 8. ad p. broader than the last Febr. 7. Terrae motus at Mentz Francfort according to Prediction Lond. Gazet. March 3. Cometa iterum Hagae eodem fere loco § 12. As the Full ☽ and New agree in Influence so do our ☠and ☌ of ☉ ♂ Did the ☌ raise Storms separating Fleets So doth the ☠Doth the ☌ contribute to a Fiery Meteor So doth the ☠Is there a Comet hovering about the ☌ So also an ☠helps to such an Impression Inundations I do not find break in upon us so much but Comets and Earthquakes are frequent enough to gain the Readers Opinion Bate now the New Star in Cygni pectore I am not yet ripe for that One or Two exceptions will not spoil a Rule Yet our Currents also at Sea do correspond in some measure it may be not so often as in the ☌ § 13. Our Maculae do begin to bring in their Witness For that Spot in the Body of ♂ observed by Worthy Mr. Hook falls in under the Verge of our ☌ § 14. As to our Currents see them brought home to our Very Doors when the Thames flowed thrice in 9 Hours Dec. 17. 1550. Will I say you then offer to ascribe that Prodigious appearance to our ☠I think I may safely especially if we met any such like accident under our ☌ before as Feb. I. 1680. For what though it be prodigious as acknowledged by Fromond and others Prodigious Events have natural Causes is as much confessed And I am jealous there is much in the Sign which whether it prove or not must be considered in due place seeing there are no instances abroad of thu same Nature § 15. To draw to a Conclusion I have taken notice of a pretty accident Anno 1674. concerning the quick motion of the ☿ in the Barometer which at such an hour of the day fell while I looked on hor 5. an Inch of the Sudden Fell I say in the Tube but rose in the Curveture the Air being of a sudden levitated to such a measure Let the Learned bear with me in my Folly we have adventured on the Currents Marine I have found a Current in the Air proportionable to that in the Water For the Currents in the Sea as all Tides are made by Levitation of the Humid Body made by way of Tumour which is always Lighter and more puffy than when the Humour subsides unfermented From whence having received the Notion of the Air gravitating I am by this petty appearance confirmed in the opinion Learning withall that it is the Celestial Bodies which according to their various positions do ferment or flatten the Air gaining also into the bargain that the Air is of the same Lineage cognate to Water and though in the day of its Creation it was rarified so far as 1000 times they say as that no natural cause shall reduce it again yet still it hath a common Nature and Affection with it § 16. I would take notice of the Obscurity of the Heavens sometimes appearing more than others and that
it to any probable or almost possible cause although the Square of ♂ and ☉ so near the Cardinal points may be found to act wonderfully § 8. In the Table we meet with some fog we know it gets fotting many times in a Martial Aspect § 9. In all the Sum of days 122 there is not above 30 days but are windy and rainy or of express heat § 10. And whereas by this very Diary it appears that it may be a warm Constitution in one place as Kepler also hath noted when it is moist in another as in August 1654. it happened at Yarnton when it was hot and Dry most part at London it evidences that the Planets are warm in themselves and that Warmth produces Moisture yet not at all times or places alike saving notwithstanding the Credit of our Principle which doth not securely pronounce always but upon Experience given and knoweth to distinguish between Particular and General Constitutions the one confined to its Province the other obtaining all the Kingdom over through which Cloud the Method is able to pierce and pronounce with Limitation § 11. Lightning we meet with here about 5 times but they only in 2 years the rest say little howbeit 't is not casual for Lightning we meet with in Lepler Lightning in Kyriander § 12. If any Hail appears we seize it And the Great Iris Anno 61. Sept. 25. may be found to have somewhat of ♂ 's glare in union with the ☉ We may hear more of it § 13. All that we shall observe concerning our Trine which hath not been said before is that the Second out-does the First without dispute both for Frequenee and Violence § 14. The Cause is not so obvious for ♂ moves slow even stationary almost in both If Artists will allow more slow in the Later than in the Former that will help for upon that account the Later Square of the ☽ may pretend to its Singular Effect I will not venture I may be thought to please my self in my reaches at this and the other Probleme but I have no such satisfaction in so doing All I can do is to recommend them both to Observation to see whether as in the Lunar Aspect it happened the △ doth not exceed the Square For the Comparison of one △ with the other I shall not take occasion here to introduce their Diaries but even let them shift for themselves If the Second Trine doth any whit out-go the First in Fiery Meteors in Halo and Iris let some Celestial minded Man tell us the Reason I hope it may be solved upon the Premises for I am in some hast CHAP. VI. Of the Sextile of Sol and Mars § 1. Some notable Occurrences 2. Sextile compared 3. More Rains in the Former more excesses in the Later 4. First Sextile rains often in the Even the Second not so often Aspects therefore are effectual even under the Horizon 5. In both Sextiles the moisture happens post Merid. why 7. The Second Sextile Hails more than the First the Reason 7. A Note on the Rainbow 8. Clouds furrow'd 9. Blite 10. Hony Dews 11. Some malignity even under the Sextile § 1. OUr Sextile of Sol and Mars cannot well be passed over without wrong done to Nature and its Contemplation though the Diary we dare not shew such notable Occurrences being found here also as in the former Leading Aspects Did I say such occurrences Or are they some peculiar and more rare Effects that hang on this Combination § 2. I compar'd them both in the following Synopsis and they yielded both of them thus ⚹ ☉ ♂ I. quo ♂ ante Solem oritur Rain 75. Excesses 19. Winds 43. Of these High Winds 24. Mists 23. Meteors 8. Thunder 4. Hail 3. Icides 3. Dark Air 5 Summa diem 110. ⚹ ☉ ♂ II. in quo ♂ solem ♂ longinque sequitur Rain 51. Excesses 23. Winds 39. High Winds 23. Mist 14. Meteors 4. Hail 7. Thunder Lightn 5. Icides 2. Dark Air 2. Sum. Dier 105. § 3. Where if the First out-goes the Second in the Prior Instance for Number yet in Weight they seem to be equal There are more Rains in the Former more Excesses in the Later In Mists in Meteors perhaps in Dark Air the First exceeds in Winds in Thunders in Irides the Second is equal § 4. But what shall we say to the disproportion of the Rains 75. to 51. It cannot scarce be casual and therefore the First will claim especially if we observe a Circumstance which stares in the Face of the Reader where the Rains in the First Sextile are observed to show themselves about Even or Sun set or after when our Planet ♂ aspected with the Sun hath taken leave of the Hemisphere yea when sometimes the Sun also hath left it In the Second Sextile more seldom so and yet there we find it 27. times This be sure is gained from it that an Aspect hath a due force or Influence even while one of the Bodies concerned if not Both are hidden under the Earth which hitherto hath been with me a Question in the Square and Trine and Sextile but now begins to be held in the affirmative § 5. In both Sextiles seeing now the Moisture happens most part post meridiem the account seems to be easier Sure the Western side of the Meridian as we have already said is most inclined to Rain and that is the Scene of all Sextiles and of all other Aspects of Northern Declinationr except the ☠and Quincunx § 6. The Difference of Hail seems so considerable that I must hunt after some reason Is it not because that in the later ⚹ the Planet rises after the Sun and in the very Hour of Hail happens to be in the rear alone and Desolate For though the Planet be but 2 Signs distant yet if we observe it Hail seldom happens in the Evening or near ☉ set and therefore ♂ may be well upon or on the other side of the Meridian which if it be the Absence of the Sun makes it the cooler Quarter § 7. Now what I find in common to these Sextiles are first the appearance of Rainbows and in the Second Sextile a Reflexion of a Rainbow an Iris revers'd with the Purple-Facing outward as by Laws of Reflexion must appear I am not engaged to speak to the appearance if it depends on this Aspect I reckon it rarity enough § 8. The Next is another passion of Clouds in Furrows unusual to be noted the rather because of that strange observation of the appearance of Clouds mentioned under the △ whole new Creation seemed as suddain as the Generation of Smoke from the successive accension of matter combustible § 9. The next is a common Blite in the First Sextile Jul. 7. Anno 1661 In the Last April 30. An. 60. there is one Effect hard to be discovered unless by very watchful Countrymen and Gardners at what time we find in the following Month many Caterpillers noted Had we not
II. Warm wet 3 p. N E. III. Warm close mist Field and City N E. IV. Close m. p. some wet 4 p. Nly Iterum ♋ 15. May 21. ♀ R. V. Drisle once or twice cool N E. VI. Drisle 6 p. cool day some wind N V V. VII Very cold m. Nly VIII Rain 10 m. brisk wd N E. IX Coasting showr 8 p. N E. X. Some wet overcast N. XI Clouds clearing some Rain or Hail 2 p. N. XII Gentle rain 1 p. 5 p. 7 p. very cold night XIII Wet p. m. tot S V V. clouds ride Nly XIV Wetting m. offer p. m. Nly XV. Showry 3 p. 5 p. N E. XVI Rain m. brisk wind XVII Brisk wind N E. XIX Temperate blew mist N. XX. Windy offering mist taken up S W. Parelii at Womondham in agro Leicest XXI some showrs 9 m. S W. XXII s showrs at o. and vesp Sly XXIII Showrs coasting and towards midnight XXIV Showr ante 1 m. 4 m. smart at o. dash at 2 p. N W. XXV Windy wetting ante 9 m. Thunder at Warwick Lightning Rain in the S W. at ♃ rise showrs ♀ South S W. XXVI Showring 10 m. offer p. m. windy S W. June 24. 1625. ☠circa Sept. 12. ♌ ♑ 1625. Chasma Kyr 1629. ☠circa Nov. ♠♊ Nov. 14. Heimlichen Erdheben Kyriander 1629. ☠circa Dec. 22. ♑ ♋ Jan. 1. 1630. Here began exceeding wet M. S. 1632. ☠circa Jan. 26. ♒ ♌ The American Fleet routed by Tempests 1636. ☠circa April 7. ♈ ♎ April 7. Heat Rain Thunder Lightning Kyr June 11. Thunder and Earthquake in Culabria 1637. May 28. Much Thunder and dashing Kyr 1640. Aug. 11. ♌ ♒ Heat vesp Thunder Kyr 1642. ☠circa Jan 22. ♈ ♉ Octob. 15. Iris Matutina Kyriander 1647. ☠circa Jan. 13. ♌ ♒ 7. St. Vet. Comme toute la nuit it plu tonte la pour avec tourmente gresle esclaiers Moncon Voyage d' Egypte p 151. so die 8 9. 1649. ☠circa Febr. 15. ♓ ♠Febr. 10. Ignes Cadentes at Bristol Hitherto do I conceive the Earthquake at Messina the Flouds at Riga and the Flames of Vesuvius in Calvisias are to be reckoned May 10. Terrible Storm at N E. 1659. ☠circa Nov. 31. ♠♊ Nov. 17. Sad dark rainy day 1674. ☠circa Febr. 3. ♒ ♌ 24. Febr. 11. Lightning Thunder 1666. ☠circa March 8. ⚹ ♠March 3. Maculae in the Body of ♂ by Mr. Hook Trans p. 240. 1670. July 12. Great Thunder and Rain dashing 3 m. 1674. ☠circa Nov. 3. ♠♉ 21. Mercury in the Baroscope fell an inch me inspectante circa hor. 5. 1679. Jan. 20. Terrae Motus according to prediction which happenned in Guelderland throughout cum Fulmine Tonitru Lond. Gaze numb 138. Jan. 12. A dismal dark Sunday morning Jan. 29. Terrae motus at Fort Saint-George C. W. Limbry 1681. ☠circa Febr. 22. ♓ ♠14. Febr. 25. Another Comet seen at London from South-East ab 8. ad p. broader than the last Febr. 7. Terrae motus at Mentz Francfort according to Prediction Lond. Gazet. March 3. Cometa iterum Hagae eodem fere loco § 12. As the Full ☽ and New agree in Influence so do our ☠and ☌ of ☉ ♂ Did the ☌ raise Storms separating Fleets So doth the ☠Doth the ☌ contribute to a Fiery Meteor So doth the ☠Is there a Comet hovering about the ☠So also an ☠helps to such an Impression Inundations I do not find break in upon us so much but Comets and Earthquakes are frequent enough to gain the Readers Opinion Bate now the New Star in Cygni pectore I am not yet ripe for that One or Two exceptions will not spoil a Rule Yet our Currents also at Sea do correspond in some measure it may be not so often as in the ☌ § 13. Our Maculae do begin to bring in their Witness For that Spot in the Body of ♂ observed by Worthy Mr. Hook falls in under the Verge of our ☌ § 14. As to our Currents see them brought home to our Very Doors when the Thames flowed thrice in 9 Hours Dec. 17. 1550. Will I say you then offer to ascribe that Prodigious appearance to our ☠I think I may safely especially if we met any such like accident under our ☌ before as Feb. I. 1680. For what though it be prodigious as acknowledged by Fromond and others Prodigious Events have natural Causes is as much confessed And I am jealous there is much in the Sign which whether it prove or not must be considered in due place seeing there are no instances abroad of thu same Nature § 15. To draw to a Conclusion I have taken notice of a pretty accident Anno 1674. concerning the quick motion of the ☿ in the Barometer which at such an hour of the day fell while I looked on hor 5. an Inch of the Sudden Fell I say in the Tube but rose in the Curveture the Air being of a sudden levitated to such a measure Let the Learned bear with me in my Folly we have adventured on the Currents Marine I have found a Current in the Air proportionable to that in the Water For the Currents in the Sea as all Tides are made by Levitation of the Humid Body made by way of Tumour which is always Lighter and more puffy than when the Humour subsides unfermented From whence having received the Notion of the Air gravitating I am by this petty appearance confirmed in the opinion Learning withall that it is the Celestial Bodies which according to their various positions do ferment or flatten the Air gaining also into the bargain that the Air is of the same Lineage cognate to Water and though in the day of its Creation it was rarified so far as 1000 times they say as that no natural cause shall reduce it again yet still it hath a common Nature and Affection with it § 16. I would take notice of the Obscurity of the Heavens sometimes appearing more than others and that in Martial Aspects It may be the dark and dismal Sunday in the Morning is not yet forgotten It happen'd not far from an ☠☉ ♂ whatsoever else frown'd at that time upon us § 17. To speak of the Cold upon occasion of the years 76. 13. is not needdful specially if we remember that ♂ as we have said sits uneasie so that the state of the Air stands upon a ticklish point when ♂ and ☉ are with one and the other in a Frosty Season and conclude to bring in a Thaw as Dec. 21. in the year 1676. as is noted in the Diary For though an ☠be chill of Nature as touched before and weaker Signs must be debilitudes yet ♠♑ ♒ ♓ are very mutable from one extream to the other when they are conscious they have a Friend at the other Hemisphere in the opposite Sign For this is mysterious as in the Chess-board An Aspect bare and naked may do little but alass
p. rain S W. XVI Wind and wet 6 m. Hail and snow in the Country and frosty morn this week XVII White fr. s mist bright cold Wly XVIII Cold dry misty misle 4 p. N E XIX Bright dry Nly XX. Cold bright dry N E. XXI Bright dry windy Sun occ N W. XXII Bright day brisk wind Ely An. 74. July 14. ♌ ♉ 1. X. Br. cl warm p. m. showr 7 p. S W. XI Bright s mist cloud floating and lowr N W. XII Fog fair float and lowr S W. XIII H wd showr 1 p. 8 p. S W. XIV Showr 9 m. show and thunder 1 p. very h. wind circa o. S W. XVI Warm dry Ely close n. and hottish XVII Hot m. s rain 5 m. N E. soultry clds in heaps terrible Lightn 9 p. Meteor neer Perseus XVIII Soultry dry much lightning about med noct 3 Meteors 11 p. XIX Lightning and Thunder 2 m rain coasting showr 1 p. H. wind and cooler An. 76. Sept. 11. ♠♊ 29. VII Close very misty wet 9 p. m. 3 p. c. N E. VIII s rain m. wetting 3 p. 6 p. misty N E. IX Rain m. close cool even windy N W. X. Close m. p. open p. m. H. wind vesp Wly XI Frost m. s rain circa Sun or 4 p. cold H. wd Nly XII Fr. cool close m. p. wind brisk 11 p. No dew 11 p. though the Full ☽ shew bright XIII Dew m. sad rain ab 8 m. ad 11 m. XIV Rain noct fere tot close m. p. misty Nly An. 78. Oct. 20. ♠♌ 7. XVII Cold fog rain 1 p. great showre snow in very great flaques 3 p. XVIII Fog cold suspicicious p. m. Wly XIX Cloudy a. m. cold p. m. ☽ ecl totally Halo 11 p. N W. XX. Very cold fog a. m. strip't clouds p. m. Ely XXI H. Fr. ice great fog cold p. m. snow wetting 11 p. Nly Wly XXII Rain m. H. wind flying cl Nly XXIII Fog cloudy a. m. open cool p. m. N E. An. 80. Nov. 22. ♠♠12. XIX R. ante Sun occ close s drisle 9 p. warm Nly XX. s rain 7 m. Fog open m. p. suspicious 11 p. close wind Ely XXI Cold wind fog brisk wind 2 p. cold vesp Ely N E. XXII Frost fair N E. XXIII Frost extreme s fog frosty Nly XXIV Extreme frost close fog p. m. Nly XXV Fr. Comet at Strasburg frost great fog dark warmer vesp S W. An. 84. Dec. 25. ♎ ♑ 14. a 22. ad 27. XXII Foggy coldish Aches 3 p. XXIII Fog wetting a. m. cold W. XXIV Rain m. offer 11 m. close cold dark XXV Fog m. warm circa o. High and lofty winds a o. ad merid Sly Tropic Equin XXVI Fair warm H. wind towards even S W. Aches XXVII R. and wind m. and dropping H. wind and showring p. m. 9 p. S W. An. 85. Jan. 39. ♠♒ 21. a 27. ad Feb. 1. XXVII Open warm d. W. N. some frost n. XXVIII Thick fog a. m. tot p. m. warm E. XXIX s fog close m. p. cold n. Nly XXX s fog wind o. clds low N. XXXI Fog rain 7 m. 8 m. mist 10 m. Wly I. Feb. Frost fog close a. m. Aches continual § 3. Here except a cold April what anti-Martial face of Weather is there Here is heat in July 74. August 59. May 57. nay November 63. and January 53. 85. In these 't is expressed in the rest implyed § 4. As to Rain pray let it be adverted that the days comprised in the Aspect are more than once all of a Suit and that is a winning circumstance with fair Gamesters see Anno 53. 55. 58. 61. 63. 68. c. So one would have thought we had bespoke the two first years wherein in 15 days it rained not 16. I confess but 15. it did And though some other Months may prove dry to ballance the contrary yet with great inequality it still holds Hence in our own Diary we find days 76. in 122. Nor can you find half 15. days dry together This Aspect even in April Anno 72. the Cold and Dry Month brought rain twice and that on the precise day § 5. But he who shall view the Table the Winds the furious Tempest and the sad soking Rains and that before day do plainly shew the Power of ♂ in Square with the Sun for in this Aspect ♂ rises early as we noted before and is sometimes got past the Meridian before the Sun touches the Horizon This makes Rain ante luccm Wind I say or Rain not only at ☉ rise but before a great part of the Night Jan. 24 53. March 6 7 8 10. 55. Aug. 10. 59. Sept. 25 27 61. Octob. 1. Ib. Nov. 1 4 5. 63. Dec. 2. 65. Jan. 4 5. 68. Feb. 12 13 15. 70. July 17 19. 74. Sept. 11 14. 76. Octob. 22. 78. Novemb. 19 20. 80. there is scarce a year scapes The Circumstance of the time first is notable and then the frequency of the result § 6. On such Consideration as this we justly observed our Lunar Puissance treating of her Square with the Sun and here with ♂ the Evidence is more lusty and busling and calls us to take notice of the Edomite who is known by violence furious and sad Rains which make a fair show in the Table the which we do find in the Second Square also Rain there Notable after the Sun set as here ante lucem § 7. Now follows one most notable Phenomenon but our Table has not leave to enter Anno 55. March 9. the place was the good Town of Yarnton where I first professed to observe Part of the Heaven toward the Southwas overcast and towards the North was clear when Lo In the Forenoon the Cloudy part seemed to increase by a successive gradual condensation as fast as a Seeds-man strews his Seed and in the same progressive Order to my great admiration then but more since because I never saw the like nor any other that I know of and therefore it may be in vain to referr it to any probable or almost possible cause although the Square of ♂ and ☉ so near the Cardinal points may be found to act wonderfully § 8. In the Table we meet with some fog we know it gets fotting many times in a Martial Aspect § 9. In all the Sum of days 122 there is not above 30 days but are windy and rainy or of express heat § 10. And whereas by this very Diary it appears that it may be a warm Constitution in one place as Kepler also hath noted when it is moist in another as in August 1654. it happened at Yarnton when it was hot and Dry most part at London it evidences that the Planets are warm in themselves and that Warmth produces Moisture yet not at all times or places alike saving notwithstanding the Credit of our Principle which doth not securely pronounce always but upon Experience given and knoweth to distinguish between Particular and General Constitutions the one confined
our Thames Nov. 23. Anno 1673. and an Higher than that October Anno 1679. in our tedious Observations Nay what indeed to that of Oct. 22. when the Tide ran all upon the Ebb and yet the Water rose What there may be of Flouds in the One or of Currents of the other Let the Reader consider § 50. The Antient Astrologers have talked to this purpose long before Alkindus Alhamazar c. The First if a Third Planet saith he comes into ♂ ♀ Fit quasi diluviam apud Escuid 2 7. The other tells us that in the Mamareth of ♀ above ♂ there happen Excessive Rains be it in what sign soever Which I look upon no sham from the Arab though I cannot sufficiently wonder why he acknowledges so little Wet except in One Sign ♠when vice versa ♂ is elevated above ♀ there is some mystery in it that I reach not for it is contrary to our Northern Experience But the Astrologer goes further and demonstrates this Influence from the Contrariety of their Domicils according to the Doctrine of Ptolemy Tetrab 1. 20. Hence ♂ ♀ and ♃ with ☿ and ♄ with ☉ are peculiar Masters of Apertio Portarum Because ♀ possesses the Signs ♎ and ♉ which are the Signs confronting the Martial Houses of ♈ and ♠In like manner ♃ in his Houses ♠and ♓ oppose ♊ and ♠which are ☿ 's Propriety Lastly ♄ in ♑ and ♒ oppose ☉ whose House 't is plain is ♋ or ♌ § 51. Not out of any Humour of contradicting Antiquity whose defence I endeavour where I may I must needs own some dissatisfaction For I ask any man who is not passionate and why Truth shall not be the Interest of us all I know not Whether a ☌ of ♂ ☉ is not as Efficacious as a ☌ ☉ ♄ I speak of Rain especially if the ☽ applys to them Andwhether a ☌ ☉ ☿ is not as prone to Wind almost as a ☌ ♄ ☿ for they understand the Port-opening to Winds as well as Rain to say nothing of Heat yea of Cold also which last though methinks it sounds not so well hath obtained Yea but I ask again whether a ☌ or ☠♄ ♂ shall be discarded from an Apertio Portarum to Rain or Hail c. or our Neighbour ♂ ☿ which we shall find to be a Tearing Aspect Nay we see always ready to open the Cataracts of Heaven and the Great Deep Lastly what we think of ♀ and ☿ which is oft-time a drenching ☌ and helps to make Flouds if that be Opening as old Japhar I see hath taught quoted by our Country-man Tract ' 2. dist ' 4. Cap. 4. to say no more § 52. I may have leave therefore to offer to consideration whether or no this Singular Promptness and Property of these Configurations to Rain and Wind in ♂ and ♀ c. The proclivity to Clouds and Moisture in ♄ and ☉ Winds and Storms in the Aspects of ♃ ☿ may not be founded on other Bases in Nature rather than the Opposite distances of their Houses Such are the differences of their Globe or their Ponderosity as they call it and the difference of their Qualities and Motions the Disparity of their Height Elevation Distances from the Earth with their several distances from the Sun from the Fixed Stars Whether some or all of these do not contribute Naturally and without subornation to a diverse Effect Seeing 't is certain that First the great disposal of these in such diversity of Site and Order was an Act of the Divine Wisdom which it may be is not yet di scovered throughly and possibly never will be except by such kind of Contemplation I remember the attentive Kepler observed in May An. 1622. That among the VII in that Month there was Ordo idem sub Zodiaco qui altitudinum in Sphaeris and he adds Nec sine auctario effectu Ascribing the notable Effects of a Thundring Month to that rare accident And no question our present Aspect of ♂ ♀ is more potent than ♄ ♀ wherefore But because of their different Natures yea and Situations ♂ is warmer and also nearer than ♄ Nearer to us is ♂ ♀ and nearer to one another So in ♃ ☿ the vicinity of ☿ conduceth to Winds as the Vicinity of the ☽ to Warmth Moisture c. and the Nature of ♃ contributeth to the same Effect Vicinity to us Yea and Vicinity to the Sun On which account the ☌ Lunar or ☠with ☿ is so considerable as hath bin noted before § 53. Yea and ♄ ♂ ♃ ♂ ♄ ♃ the Superiour Aspect what Effects they have may be from the difference of their Globes and Fabricks for so our Tables make us believe the Vicinity to one another and their Vicinity to the Fixed too for all I know to speak doubtingly in a point of which I am sure For what is it else that the Antients above quoted do sollicitously bid us mark the Eccentricity of the Epicycle of ♃ ♄ the ☽ being in Perigaeo c. Except Experience taught them this Truth which I now assert § 54. What then Would I have Apertio Portarum to be routed By no means The Terms are significant and smell of Art worthy to be retained They savour of the Eastern Learning Or if you will the Mosaick Astrology But I desire their Enlargement to other Configurations I would not have the Word denyed where the thing appears 'T is Special in ♂ ♀ It holds in ♃ ☿ and it shall not be denyed to ☉ ♄ which being all of contrary Houses I must needs say is a happy congruity or co-incidence but brings no Demonstration no more than the Congruities which the Copernican System boasts of can unhinge the Earth and set it a running § 55. We close up all with the Contemplation of the Afflictive Influence of this Aspect on the State of our Bodies I am sorry for it we find Feaverish and other Distempers Epidemical heartned on by this Aspect Anno 1667. Aug. 7. A Sickly time noted Anno 1679. August 2. Pestilent time abroad in Germany Anno 1680. August 1679. August 27. Pestilential in Germany as Prague c. And though we acknowledge other more malefique Aspects yet we cannot but observe that even this ☌ hath its malignanty I cannot take delight to empale each Page of this Discourse with a Black mourning Lig Mortal that I am much less delight I to seem to exclude a destroying Angel from the wasting Malady of Pestilence Only I think God hath given us leave saving to himself the Awe that is due to a Revenging God to consider what Second Causes he is pleased to use in the powring out of his Fury on us And this I shall endeavour to do by Linking the Year yea the Month of the Year to the time of the Aspect Influence though in some more in others less acknowledging withal that in some extream Pestilences these Aspects are not found as in those of 1593. 1625. but not those of
please to use my Spectacles what makes the Autumn so Sickly What blows up the Coal for New diseases to sparkle among us It hath bin hitherto said 'T is eating too much Fruit But 't is one thing to say too much Fruit eaten may cause a Quartan Ague c. in this or that Person and another to say when an Epidemic Distemper reigus Too much Fruit is the Cause 'T is the Season not the Fruit of the Season is the cause For how much Fruit doth the Antient Person eat Or the Labourer at Harvest I appeal to the very Practice of the Skilful Physitian whether he find one in Ten of his Masculine aged Patients In a Sickly time that can ascribe his Malady to Fruit immoderately eaten For how haps it that Men eat more Fruit One year than another The more Fruit there is the more is eaten True but are all Fruitful years Sickly We do not find it so nor yet all Sickly Seasons Fruitful Hippoirates teaches no such thing He talks of the Equinoxes and the State of the Air. Learned Men are loath to impute it to the Season because they Ken not the Mystery why the Season it self is Malignant When Hippocrates tells us All unseasonable Weather is such Our Table will shew in some part considerably what are all they which happen August September and October Do not three parts of them fall out in those Months And are not those Months themselves famous for Dangers upon a Celestial account The Physitian is not to Learn what the Aequinoctial means and do not every one of these Harvest Aspects happen in Harvest Signs ♌ â™ or ♎ or beginning of â™ Consult and consider they do and must do so The same Causes make a Sickly Autumn which make a Sickly Spring also as the very Table will inform 'T is not with us as in Jamaica and other places where Fruit hangs on the Tree all the year long Fruit is a Rarity at sometimes of the Year when a Quartan Ague or the Small Poches raigning or a Pestilent Feaver is not CHAP. VIII ☌ ♂ ☿ Conjunction of Mars and Mercury § 1. Parity of Reason 2. Different Aspects may partake of the same Character 4. The Aspect cannot be considerd apart from ☉ ♀ which makes our Diary prolix but is hoped not nauseous 5. The Humour of the Aspect not found but by an enlarged Diary 6. Astrologer without a laxe Contemplation of an Aspect will be put to his shifts as Kepler No such thing as Anticipation the Art betrayed by it 7. Natural Effects are not Orphans 8. Further justification of our prolix Diaries 9 10. Communication of Planets at gr 10. distance to say no more 11. ♂ ☿ Character 12 13. ☿ a sign of Dryth in the Antients Opinion some tokens of that Dryth Locusts a Sign of Dryth 14 15. The Aspect admits of Cold and Frost also 16. Which made the Antients perhaps define ☿ to be of a doubtful Tempur 17 18. In a state of Destitution Light or Heat which conquers not Cold actuates it 19. So our North wind â—s actuated by the Rayes of our Northern Asterisms 10. The Rains and fits of Rain 21. The Winds 22. Harmful and pernicious 23. Thunders reckoned 24. Not all Comets as Cardan will have it belong to ♂ ☿ All the Planets contribute Hevelius as shy as he is his consont thereto 26 27. Account of our Aspect's interest in some Comets 28. Sorer Hail in Germany then in England 26 29. Account of some Earthquakes where our Aspect is concerned 30. Great Fishes stranded note some disturbance of Nature 31. Sholes of Fish argue the like 32. Duration of Earthquakes may be accounted for 33. Currents here also under this Aspect 34. Some shifting of Tydes 35. The late Dr. Childreys opinion curious 36. Some Reasons for our own and our Aspects concern 37 38. Conclusion with our Maculae and Malignancy of our Aspect 39. The Diary 40. The reason of sudden and surprising Showrs by fits 41. The Gentle Dissenter posed § 1. WE have raised the Readers expectations of this Aspect by shewing beforehand what it can do in no mean instance The Truth is the Powr of this Aspect follows the Premises For if ☉ with ☿ have acted and suâ—â—ably ♂ ♀ have imitated them in case 〈◊〉 ☿ have acted ♂ and ☿ may imitate § 2. From different Aspects a different Character must not always be expeced Nature hath several Causes which produced the same Effect and Nature hath divers Causes which produce the same Effects The Fields were green the Flowers blow the Lark and the Trush sung their Voluntaries saith Keplers A o 1621 When even in January So that as Nature can make a Spring when the Sun is an ♉ 〈…〉 make a Spring when the Sun is in ♑ I mean Celestial Nature not Occur Causes where our Mathematicician above thinks fit to shelters 〈…〉 c. § 3. Now though ♂ ☿ may have somewhat peculiar as well as Common yet it would be improper for us to search that out when as yet the Common Influence is not granted us We must shew this first and then if ought appears of Curiosity it will be perhaps welcom § 4. I had a devise once of considering our Aspect of ♂ ☿ separate forsooth from ☌ ♂ ☉ ♂ ♀ but I was forced to abandon it because they rarely happen so as also because a Potent Aspect's Influence may for certain be distinguished even when mixed with Aspects of no small Energy Here the equal Reader will not be offended if he meet with the same Instance a new repeated no more then where a Miner shall take up a piece of the same Ore to search out several Veins of Metal So that if our Diaries be Prolix upon a repeated Aspect they may I hope not easily be censured where even upon a Second Scrutiny which we profess to have made nothing can be spared Add that it is neither ignoble nor unpleasant to be able to ascribe a durable Constitution or State of Air to an Equi-durable mover § 5. Aspects of ♂ ♀ as we have seen in the precedent of ♂ ♀ are either Single or redoubled Single may be in vogue according as I am taught to reckon about 14 days or sometimes more as they are loath to depart But when by the Retrograde Course of ☿ it happens to be re-inforced it redoubles the Term of Time and reaches to a Month or more So I find in Keplers Ephemeris 〈◊〉 1624. where our Planets being met June 2. separate to the distance of 10 gr and then meet a Second time so the Sum comprised arise to days 39. Yea reckoning 10 degrees before and after to 50 Days A time wherein we may view the complexion of the Planets Whereas therefore I had once a Fancy for brevities sake alass to enlarge our Observation but to gr 5 distance supposing to speak Truth the Humour of the Aspect I was taught to double my Files as I did in ♂ ♀ that I might
visible and they in Partile also Again we shall find some certain Month not so prompt to shew us this Fact Not June July August but chiefly the Winter Months and especially those which are capable of the Variation of the Equinoctial Tides February March October and November and so we cannot speak fully to it till we come to treat of the Signs of the Zodiack In the mean time the First suspition we had of this hidden Cause arose from observing our Aspect caught twice or thrice in the Company ♂ ☿ are more than the occasion they are the Authors as they are the Authors not Solitary and Adaequate but Partial and at times of Currents Thunders c. This the Diary witnesseth that when in Sept. 1663. there happened an Equinoctial Tyde March 31. 'T is not the Sun but Two Friends of his be point blank upon the Equinox our ♂ and ☿ § 37. And if the Maculae which have bin so carefully observed those later years shall come to be imputable to our fantastick Causes then the said Causes may come in some repute or that Effect to be vilified But neither is the Effect to be vilified nor the Causes to be disputed We have said before for ♂ ♀ we may venture in the same bottom for this Aspect also 'T is no small matter to give an account of the paleness yea of the darkness which is a disposition of the Sun without an Eclipse Such was that Famous Phaenomenon in Herodotus when Xerxes and his Army march'd from Sardis as Calvisius will have it I began to question his Excellent Chronology on that account for setting Sacred Story aside I could not imagine how Day should be turn'd into Night Which Herodotus asserts without some eclipse or Lunar Interposition But Astronomers have collected some Instances which come home or very near ☉ Pallidus is pretty frequent in Kepler's Diary which denotes more than a mist since that is every where expressed by by its proper term The ☉ labours an dis disturbed at such times as the Learned Writers of the Macular Obscurations conclude Scheiner and Hevelius All that I have to say is this Inquietation comes from the Heavens In the Body of Celestial Sphere one part affects another A ☌ or an ☠of ♂ and ☉ nay with ♀ or ☿ will help to bring in a Macula into the Body of the Luminary Nay the ☌ or ☠of the Superiors aspected together will do the like And if the Sun be the Center of the Planetary Heaven which I am willing to believe from the Reasons of the Copernicans there can be no scruple how it shall come to pass since every part of the Circumference glances upon the Center Thus in October 18 28. A o 1642. where Hevelius acknowledges a Macula and a Halo there is an ☠of ♂ ☿ at 7 degrees distance contributes with an ☠of ♂ ☉ at gr 5. distance July 4. Stylo Veteri ♂ ☿ at 6 degrees distance July 16. at 7 degrees distance A o 1644. June 3. ♄ and ♂ 3 degrees distance July 16. ♃ and ♂ 5 degrees distance And any one may think it probable when they shall find the Phenomenon of ☉ Pallidus May 1. 1627. and again 5 12 13 15. and 28 29. and all within ♄ and ♂ opposition at gr 12 8 5 3 1 0. distance May 12. being a Partile Opposition § 38. Here also comes at last or a little Table of the Male-Influence noted as it haps by its self Which if I may serve the Student in Physique thereby I will present I shall not need make a Cross upon the Door of this Aspect seeing what Pestilential Influence it hath for the most part is not easily distinguished from the precedent Aspect of ♂ ♀ I shall only present a few Notes of the Years 1673. 1675. Some of more some of less concern of Aches Indispositions c. In 1671. there were noted but 3. June 18 21 22. In 1673. July 22. what more ought here to be noted I cannot say But in September I read thus 13. Aches 21. Spasmes 4 m. Aches 10 at Night 25. Pains in the Feet 26. in the Shoulder 29. Scorbutical Sweats Oct. 2. Podagra 6 15. Pains in the Shoulder 21 22 23. Aches 24. Pains Fits A o 1675. July 4. Indispositions 5. Soultry afflicting Weather 9. Sickness Feavers September 20 22. Indispositions 26 27. Pangs October 3 4 5. Indispositions 6 7. Aches in the Shoulder Hysterical Fits Sickness and within 7 days Death 9. Aches So the 12 hor 3 p. the 13. Indispositions But the following one in December is frightful Dec. 2. Fits of Distraction 4. Hysterical Fits terrible 5 6 7 8. Aches in both Shoulders 9. Convulsion 10. Child Sickned 2 m. 11. Podagra 13. Children Sicken 15 16. Aches 17. Hysterical Fits 22. Indispositions ad 24. Aches 25. Indispositions and 31. Aches And so much for ♂ ☿ Mars aud Metcury Home-Diary 1652. Ab Apr. 16. ad Mai 2. 18. High wind showrs S. 19. Very H. wind showring 20. High wind showry so 22. S E. 24. H. wind 27. H. wind 28. Showring m. â—â— 29. Showry very Windy May 2. s Storms at night Iterum June 6. ad 29. 8. s rain windy 9. Dash Thunder 10. Thunder and Showrs 14 15 16 17 Red wind 18 19 20 21. Thunders 24 25. Thund 26. Windy 27. R. wdy 28. Some Rain wdy 29. Showry high Wind. Tertio July 1. ad 23. 2. Some drops 3. Dropping windy red wd 4. Dropping high wind red wind 5. Rainy at night 6. Showry wdy 7. Showry Thunder 8. Showry more wind 9. Windy some showts 12. More Wind rain at n. 13. Showry 15. Windy 16. Rain d. t. E. N. 17. Cloudy dropping wind W. than S. 18. Dropping more wind 22. Thunder showrs 23. Cldy at n. and dropping 1654. A June 24. a July 8. 25. Winds and suspicious 26. Winds fine Showrs Heat 27. Hot S. Showrs Night S E. 28. Th. Store of rain N E. 29. Hot N. E. 30. H. wind s drops July 1. Cold Rain and Wind. N E. 3. Brisk Winds s Wet 4. High Wind. N E. 5. Misty hot 6. Hot some rain at night 8. Th. showrs Iterum Plat. a Sep. 9. ad 27. 9. Wind showry 10. Dark suspicious n. 11. Misty m. hot 12. Suspicious so me drops 17. s rain 19. Winds a. l. dark 21. Fits of wet Iris more than Semicircular 22. Heat 22. s rain Th. seeming at midnight 24. Rain l. p. m. wind S. 25. s store of rain 10 p. 26. Warm wind suspicion at night 27. Misty m. warm 1636. June 7. ad 27. 7. High wind s misle hot N E. 8. Hot dry Wind s misle N E. 9. Wet 9 m. wind hot p. m N E. 10. Thunder dry N E. 11. Hot and dry â— E. 12. Very hot thunder 13. Red wind 14. Dropping ☉ occ 16. H. cool wind 3 p. 17. H. wind showrs 4 m. H. cool wind till ♂ occ 18 Storms of R. and H. wd 19. Wind dropping coasting p. m. 20.
when warm weather comes I mean no more but this Part is sent up into the Air commonly called the Cool Region and Part sunk into the Earth that Earth which is as cool as Ice and therefore helps to keep it all the year long for the Palates of the Delicate Cold is a Privation of Heat as Sickness is a Privation of Health when One comes 'Tother goes both are positive § 17. Now let us if we dare enquire How ♄ has acquitted himself for a Chill Officer whether he be such a Plumbeous Blew-nosed Planet as Antiquity marks him In our Winter Partition we must not expect that there falls under ♄ 's Dominion more Snow than Rain no not in Winter I say for Winters are most of them Black rather than White and not one in twenty in the Course of Nature is so rigid and the like is to be said in Frosty Constitutions Nature is kinder than so to us in this Corner of the World if it be but for the Travellers sake and the Beast under him For hard would be their Condition if a Horse after 20 Miles rugged way hardly passed might not have his usual Drench out of the River It is enough therefore that ♄ shews his sullen Influence more than ♂ or ☉ c. The Number of the Days we are to account for are 401. videlicet from September 27. to April 23. Now because Snow is found sometimes so early as the end of September and so late in the year as April 23. we cannot look it should Snow every intermediate day upon ♄ 's account nor come up to a moyety as he does most fairly if you put Snow and Rain together for so you shall find under the Style of Rain and store of Rain 149 days add the 56 days for Snow and Hail and you have a liberal half of 401. § 18. To Anotomize this cold Serpent a little further I find the Summer thus Cold days 52. without sensible Frosts Frosty Mornings 80. Frosty Constitutions of the Entire days 54. to which I may add Cold Wind 12. It is true we meet with a matter of 60. under the Style of Warmth expressly such but then for excess of Heat I take notice that we find but 3 hot days under this Aspect in 30 years under that Division where October and March and the greatest part of April is concern'd In the Summer Partition from April 23. to September 27. within which Interval Snow seldom appears in England at least we find hot days 46. and remiss warm 24. which may administer a Quaere as also 10 hot nights a piece of a Quaere still but even here we find cold 21. Frosty Mornings about 16. Cool or Cold remitted 18. yea and 3. Frosty days extraordinary Frosts morn and Hail 4. Frosty Mornings in the Month of May are frequent and sometimes they happen in the Month of August § 19. They that please to consult the Table shall find what Influence he has on Winds Fiery Meteors Lightning Thunder what upon Fogs and Hazy and Dark Air. In the Winter we hear of no Thunder but of Lightning under both Divisions and in the Summer Partition about 80 times Thundering we cannot say that is too much for Saturn if we could confront our Aspect with an Aspect of ☉ and ♂ upon 60 years Evidence for so many years must be introduced to equal this of ♄ and ☉ He shall find a wide difference or if that will not Content then we must begin to learn that notwithstanding the difference of the Planetary Characters in some Signs they may be all alike for Heat Thunder c. only we are bound to take Notice that in the Summer time we meet with Harmful Thunder under this Aspect yea and Harmful Lightnings as many times when the Total Sum of Lightning was but 6. or 7. Whether this mischief arises from some peculiar Cause discoverable in the further Scrutiny of that Effect at such time and place or Whether it arises from the Exasperation of the Heat according to our ordinary Philosophy Which may pass for a reason also till we can get a better perhaps why ♄ and ☉ brought more days of excessive Heat than of remissive Warmth But that our ☉ and ♄ can do brisk Feats we have heard before from Epigenes § 20. Verily I do reckon it a reason why we find thrice mention of Prodigious Hail in the Summer Division and yet ordinary Hail but twice But we have occasion for the like Observation when we come to the Aspect of the ☉ and ♃ In the mean time let me observe as to the appearance of Snow that it may fall 't is true on the Day or upon the Skirts of the Day upon the precise Aspect But again to justifie my enlargement of our Evidence we shall find that Snow as naturally falls 3 4 5 6 7 yea 10 days from the Aspect Saturn's remote distance in the Perpendicular contributes to Cold but it seems that an Obliqu-Angular distance of the Planet does very well but yet under a reasonable confinement within which ♄ may hear and comply And this I make no question holds in the ☠of ☉ and ♄ with some little difference which here we are not suffer'd to enquire For if the ☌ be cool the ☠by our Principle must be cooler § 21. I have little else to trouble the Reader only I cannot dissemble that I have not thought that ♄ at such distance from ☉ could have contributed to red Clouds to Irides or to Halo's â—et some Instances of all three appear in the Table § 22. Yea or as Epigenes whom I have a value for to Wind at such distance when as ☿ bears away the Bell because of its Vicinity and we think it is reasonable But if ♄ by his Bulk will make amends for that his distance or if his Ansulae or Auriculae that the Tube may see we heartily acknowledge our Obligation to their Discoveries we know not here we find the Summer Division above an 150 Instances of Wind and 70 of them High Winds and if ♄ cannot challenge a share in them who can This must be unquestionable the Greater must the Influence be the further the Influence is derived wherefore if ♄ be any thing at at All he is a vast sublime Creature placed aloft in a Sphere so high that we should not believe but that we see Thousands of Creatures higher § 23. For our Aspects Forreign Evidence perhaps we may see somewhat after the Chapter of Saturn and Mars or if we balk it let it not be imputed to us some Forreign Instances we meet in the Diary already delivered whereby we see ♄ ☉ can Thunder c. § 24. There is but one Objection lies in our Way which upbraids us that no sober men are of our Opinion I answer the Objecter if need be will make one sober Man if our Evidence at least be sober but 2ly Have I not quoted my Lord of S. Albans and might I not have
♄ opposes ☿ ad fin ♠Die 23. Strong Tempests of Winds and Rain tot die ☿ ♄ in ♊ ♠Die 27. Hail and much Lightning Die 28. Rain a vesp ad med noct Die 30. Sad showr Hail and Storm of Wind most violent Lightning in the South-East Many Ships lost in the Mediterranean Calvis Append. To all this answers not so much ♃ and ♂ as ♄ 's opposing of ☿ near the Tropique 1650. Warm Winter many Plants Green For December and January the aforesaid Configurations may be noted Vesuvius burns Transact 68. ♄ on the Tropic point or near it the year throughout Dec. 10. T. M. in Northamptonshire ♄ opposed ☉ ☿ All in Tropic 1655. July 29. Ignis fatuus Yarnton ♄ ♀ ☿ in ♠Sept. 2. Tempestuous ♄ ☉ ☿ in ♠☿ R. 1656. March 28. Much Thunder and Rain yet windy day ♄ ♀ ☽ in ♠whereupon came Flouds April 3. Sed Rain mane toto ♄ ♀ ♂ in ♠♓ Die 14. Flouds at Yarnton never so high ♄ ut supra 1657. Feb. 20. Very Cold bitter blustering ♄ opposing ♀ ☿ April 14. Rain die tot ♄ and ☿ near the Equinox 1568. March 29. Powring Rain ☉ ♀ opposed by ♄ in ♊ 1660. May 28. Hot Thundring ♄ ☿ in ♉ ♠☿ R. 1665. Between April the 3. and May 8. VII or VIII Colliers stifled with the Damp. Transact p. 44. Add this to our Relations of this Nature at the end of Chap. 3. Lib. 2. which I brought in to evince the Caelestial Powers of these great Movers in genere but here I claim them for ♄ 's proper Influence which to me they seem to demonstrate and I was willing to fancy here is a confirmation For first is not ♄ in the Tropic the Critical Cardinal Position in all those 35 Days Well! And 2ly Were not some of these Cole-Miners suffocated on the first and last days between which the rest of the Number caught their Death Then say I ♄ is concerned I know there is ☉ and ♂ in ☌ But is not ♄ also Raiser of such Pestilent Damps at such times Because if there be no ☠extant there 's ☿ 's □ and that duple Not ☿ alone but ☽ with him in princ ♈ which is a perfect Square But then for Opposition Doth not ♀ make all the hast she can to the Cardinal ☠of ♄ What think you of May 8. the last day of the Fixed Term Do we not find there a Partile Opposition between ♄ in ♑ and ♀ and ☽ in ♋ the two extream Days concur ♄ ♀ ☽ a Quartile at the First an Opposition at the Later I have more yet to say when ♄ according to our Doctrine enters just upon a 30. gr distance which we may call a Quincunx or Opposition It hits luckily for our pretences and because I reckon it such I will content my self and wade no further in the Complement of this Diary undertaken only to manifest the Power of ♄ the least to view of all the Planets Only this puts me in mind to take into consideration whether ♄ with the Minors may have Influence on the Body of the Earth as well as the Spirit To shake the massie tangible part as well as to disturb the more Spirituous Sulphureous and Arsenical Exhalation And there is an Instance from Constantinople A o 1509. which brings too much Evidence Thirteen Thousand Men slain by the Ruine Preparing the Grave first and then destroying the Person to stop its Mouth There is no visible Cause so conspicuous as ♀ ☉ ☿ near the Autumual Equinox All that time no ♄ ♂ no ♃ and ♂ c. 1669. Febr. 26. The late Famous Eruption at Aetna ☌ ♄ ♀ ♓ 10. gr Partile again March 1. 1680. Dec. 30. Naples Terrae Motus ♄ in ♋ opposing ☉ ☿ Retr Let this suffice I presupposed that ♂ and ♃ were Potent Stars I was not so sure of ♄ Wherefore having some hints before from his ☌ with his Inferiours I was engaged by my Love to the search of Truth to bestow some hours upon so warm a Sent and behold to me he is as great as the Greatest Uranographer can make him and so must we reckon him Let Calculators define his Place and Magnitude at their Peril It satisfies us that he is so big as to cause so great an Influence Cometae Saturnini et Pestes 1505. Sept. 4. About Michaelmas and the New ☽ a great Meteor as big as the Moon hor. 4. Matutina ♄ ♀ in ♌ as well as ♃ ☉ and ♄ in ♠1512. March and April Comet Sanguinei coloris ♄ ☿ ☉ in opposit prope Equat. Add ☌ ♃ ♀ in the precedent Sign ♓ 'T is the Signs conspire and contribute their share 1521. april 8. Spect. abilis Cometa in fine ♋ ☽ Dichotomae fimilis Hevel ♄ opposed ♀ in ♌ ♃ opposed ☿ in ♊ 1526. ab Aug. 23. ad Sept. 23. ♄ ☉ ☿ were opposed about the Equinox long before its Expiration Ergo it was generated by the approach thereto 1529. Four Comets this year ♄ is in ♉ all the year long except the very beginning 1530. In June Comet ♄ ☿ in ♊ ☉ ♂ ♀ ☿ after in ♋ 1533. June princ Comet in ♊ prope Perseum deinde Retrograde ♄ ☿ in ♋ ☉ ♀ not far off 1556. March 15. ♄ ♂ ♀ ☿ ☉ all in ♈ Sat est And where did it begin In sinistra ala ♠Hevelius And how far is that from the precise Opposite Point of the Zodiack to ♄ or ♀ position 1557. Mense Octobris a Comet Is it enough to say ♄ is in ♉ No but there are 3 Planets in ☠to ♄ in ♉ viz. ☉ ☿ ♀ and this is enough 1558. Comet in August I must not say ♄ was in ♉ we shall find it under the Jovial Comets But I may say he was in ♉ seeing he was Lodg'd with the Famed Pleiades 1559. Comet at the end of May ♄ ☉ in ♊ ♂ opposing in ♌ 1560. Comet Decemb. 28. ♄ had a hand here posited in ♊ 18. as sure as ☽ was in the same Sign with ♄ on the day of its first appearance 1569. Comet about the beginning of November there are other considerables to be observed but withall ♄ and ☉ were in ♎ see in ♃ and ♂ A o 1577. when a Comet shewed it self in Peru long before it visited Europe viz. Novemb. 1. as Acosta Witnesses Here least I should forget it let me note a Grea Affinity between the Planetary Position here and 1577. for here we shall find two in ♠two in ♎ and one in ♑ There two in ♠three in ♎ and one in ♑ Nay if we find any other Mould for Comets but the Planetary dispositions in such Signs and Degrees of the Zodiack I am much abused 1585. Octob. 18. A Misty Star observed by Tycho I see ♃ ♂ opposed in ♊ ♠but withal I desire it may be noted that the Star appeared but 5 degrees distant at first from ♄ It was therefore created by ☉ opposing ♄ in that
Ptol. I. 5. So he in Lucan A Jove temperies Lib. X. 2. 207. Before him Cicero de Nat. Deorum Lib. 2. Stellatrum tantus est concentus ex dissimilibus motibus ut cum summum Saturnus refrigeret media Martis accendat His interserta Jovis illustret temperet The same Notion in Pliny Ideoque hujus Martis ardore nimio rigore Saturni intensertum ambobus ex utroque temperari Jovem salutaremque fieri Lib. 2. Cap. 8. Where you have the Temper and the supposed benefique Influence founded thereon § 2. In such agreement all seems to be well and so it may if it can accord with what is deliver'd elsewhere by Pliny concerning the Three Superiors that They of all the rest are the most noted Forgers of Lightning and amongst them especially Jove who is seated in the midst Pliny Lib. 2. Cap. 20. § 3. That Jupiter the Supreme God of the Heathens should Thunder is no great Marvel who in all Ages and Nations out of the Pale hath bin Worshipped for such But that the Planet should assume the same Thundering Title deserves consideration It seems some such thing hath been observed heretofore coming from him as well as from ♂ and ♄ Pliny Lib. 2. Cap. and though we cannot say that the Star of the Heathen God Remphan in the Greek Translation of the Prophet doth signifie Jupiter or the Thunderer as Scaliger will have it since Remphan is the Coptique Name for Saturn as Kircher and Bochart from the Coptique Lexicons do assure us yet this we know that the Character which it hath obtained among Astrologers rightly drawn resembles the Three-fork'd Dart which in Sculpture passeth for Lightning as Scaliger rightly not the First Letter of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Greek name as P. Naunius hath conjectur'd followed by Salmosius in Solinum § 4. And truly there is Lightning in his Face as also in Venus though the Antients take no notice of that for ♄ is called of Old but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but ♃ somewhat more 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Hesychius Bright and Illustrative as Pliny said but now Yet ♃ is defined by no Fury or Excess of Warmth but moderately and temperately Warm which may be some Argument to evince that Astrology is for the sound part not founded on Fabulous Gentilism but upon long and weary Experience § 5. Bright Warm and Temperate must be consequently Moist and so Ptolemy gives it not only in the place quoted before but elsewhere Tetrab Cap. 5. where for ♃ ♀ ☽ he expresseth himself thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Moist then he is but with Moderation In his Dominion he moistens the Fruits of the Ground and Ptolemy makes him encrease the Rivers by his Moisture 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 moderately Tetrab II. Cap. 9. ♃ then is Moist and Warm moderate and temperate in both But we have asserted also to be a Cool Planet where are we now § 6. For can Jove be like the Man in the Fable who to the Amazement of the Poor Satyr from the same Mouth breath'd Hot and Cold No we intend not for any Fancies sake of our own to affront Sence Reason and Experience To deny a Warmth to that Planet whose very Globe proclaims such a Celestial Glow who is found upon the Faith of our own Tables to maintain his Title of Thunderer in some parts of Heaven as also for Warmth and Moisture to bring in a Quota such as may justifie the Antients Denomination § 7. Nay but when Astrology discourses of a Cold Planet she is far it may be from believing any inherent Quality such as shall challenge more property in the Planet then Light or Warmth No Lucid and Warm they are each of them and as such to be esteemed Yet they may have withall a Faculty cohabiting with Light and Warmth which when time serves is a Friend to Cold whether that Faculty be distinguished wholly from Light or is nothing else but the remisser weaker or less assisted Beam as we rather lay it § 8. We shall therefore prove that ♃ unless heightned extreamly is Cold like ♄ upon the account that he is a Favour of Dryth Although our Experience is so full that we disdain Authority in the Case yet it may not be amiss to remember in the mean time what is granted by Cardan Constant saith he quod ♂ ☉ imo ♃ ♀ exsiccant and then 't is a Question worth while adds he how they can Exsiccate cum sint humidi Cardan de VII Stellis errat Cap. 10. de Saturne § 9. And when the very Antients confess He is but moderately moist as we have heard it seems there is some Obstruction in ♃ that hinders the measure that other Planets give Secondly another observable which I attend to is some abatement of Moisture which attends it and the Showr which the Countryman calls a coasting Showr in our Aspect running round the Heaven and serving the Neighbour Villages in the mean time none of his bounteous Dole falls upon his peice of Ground Such a difference there is of Showrs is manifest whereof some more liberally expand their Vail over all the Hemisphere others more enviously confine themselves to such a Border or Skirt of the Horizon The Observer shall find that this Showr or the Confinement rather I had almost said is frequent under this or some other Jovial Aspect which if it be so I beseech the Reader to observe that it may not march for an Objection any longer how shrewd soever it hath hitherto seemed that all Predictions must needs be vain inasmuch as our Eyes themselves are Witnesses how it Rains often-times in one place while not a drop falls in another and this within Sight within the very Ken of the Wizard whereas the Wizard hath got a distinct Principle which he advanceth to give an account of that Excellent Phaenomenon viz. when Rains shall fall General and when Tropical § 10. 'T is Excellent we grant and the Creator we heartily believe is to be admired in it according as Nature and Holy Writ teach us But we ask what absurdity is it in Philosophy to give some part of account of several things justly wonderful In Geometry Optiques Mechanicks Miracles are allowed Are they a Supernatural Philosophy Verily Astrology had been no Diversion or Study of mine but that it treated of Wondrous Causes in order to Wonderful Effects 11. Now this I have called resisting impairing diminishing and from which I argue that Moisture it self and the Restriction thereof must come from several Principles 't is not the same Principle that causes Rain in one part and at the same time Serenity round about the rest of the Hemisphere § 12. You have seen the Proof which we offer'd at before Lib. 1. Cap. as that he is the Fautor of Serenity and so confessed by Astrologers Cardan Ptolemy Kepler Eichstad Men of Experience and not of implicite Faith only 2ly From the Strange Product of the Northerly Winds
In the year 1668 1670. 1672. In the Signs ♒ and ♓ They were the Signs of the Aspect But the Solar Sign was ♠only the Snow falling in November § 17. There are many other pretty things occur in the History of ♄ and ♂ some whereof are common to other Configurations others may seem to be more proper Clouds and Passions of Clouds blushing toward the East Irides Halo's Lowring Suspicious and Threatning with a suspended Effect While no Rain falls Mists Fog Low Ground Mists c. Concerning which I must needs say I have observed the Air under this Aspect to clear and cloud interchangeably for several Days Ye will say so it doth it other times It doth so and not without Cause which Cause if a Man can render then or Now what Harm is it Saturn and Mars is a great and permanent Aspect whereby the Air is for a long while more easily alterable as when a Disease hangs about us our Bodies are more incident to a Fit when there happens a more full and smart Concurrence as we see it not seldom meets with § 18. Note that the sudden Mists under this Aspect put on an extra ordinary Hue noted for their deep Blew as well under the Opposition as under the Conjunction § 19. We have spoke of the Ground Mists before and some Instances we have here so frequent as if they seemed to belong to ♄ even as I ventur'd to conjecture Of these we meet One in the year 1652. 3 in 1658. 4 in 1660. and 2 in 1666. and amongst these one most notable A o 1666. Nov 21. where I observ'd it making a creeping Progression in the Valleys hor. 9. manc I remember elsewhere where a Low Mist by a leisurely Progress hath shifted its ground stole from a Meadow into a Close and with a silent Inundation overflowed the Neighbour Pastures Tell me some good Philosopher the Cause I meditated and thought the Water might attract but the Motion was from the side of the River and that of Nov. 1666. was distant 2 or 3 Miles from the River Thames I consulted and found it was a Sign of a Tempest for the Wind rose to an audible Height the Night and day following and so continued 3 or 4 days very Tempestuous ♄ and ♂ yea ♃ and ♀ rather than fail were all together now the Cause of the Tempest must be the Cause of that Sign and that these Planets were the Cause of the Tempest may appear by the Premises and the further Criterium were it time to shew it at the time of the Planets setting hor. 8. vesp of the next day at which time the Air according to the Diary was very Tempestuous and as it had been before at ☉ set § 20. As for Irides and Halo's we light upon them sometimes and they are not altogether accidental to an Aspect either of ♄ and ♂ as we have seen before Nor to This because they are Notable here for Number or Circumference Add that they contribute to a like Passion of the Clouds viz. that blushing Tincture in the East and that not only when the Aspect is Situate about the West but also when nearer the Zenith Quaere Whether not so when in the Nadir Or the other Hemisphere Yea lastly what if we shall find that Notable Passion of Parelium found under this Aspect § 21. For a Dark Aether I though I might impute it to ♄ and sometimes to ♂ upon different accounts but when I consulted the Diary I found the Effect confin'd to certain Signs Aries Cancer and once Pisces Virgo Leo. So this note must be reserved for the Tropick and Equinox or they seem to be the Critical Places The Home Diary of ☌ ♄ ♂ § 22. A o 1658. Oct. 12. 1. ♠♎ 22. 6. Close muddy air die tot very wet 8 p. c. 7. Store of Wet abund p. m. till 8 p. S E. 8. Overc. o. coasting showr in prospect showr Sun occ N E. 9. Frost bright cold wds Meteors W. 10. Fr. ice ropes warm N E. 11. Fr. mist ice cobwebs thick fog 9 p. W. 12. Fog m. overc moist air n. E. 13. Dark and cool misle p. m. blew mist E. 14. Drisle wet 2 m. o. p. m. E. 15. Rain circ dilucul warm black Summer Clouds and open overc n. S. 16. Wind all n. rain a. l. ad usque 8 m. dark and wet p. m. 5 p. 8 p. S. 17. Mist violent rain at midnight at 5 m. drisle p. m. H. wd rain 8 p. S W. A o 1660. Oct. 25. ♠14. 20. Fr. N W. fog clear mist below N E. 21. Fog m. cloudy windy warm E. 22. Fr. fair s wet N E. 23. Cloudy windy fair 9 m. windy clear vesp N. 24. Frost fair s wet wdy N. 25. Cold cloudy windy clds frequent in S. and S W. clear even yet wd moist N E. 26. Fr. fair high clouds curdled close day W. 27. Cold windy hail r. 1 p. showr 3 p. N E. 28. Rain a med noct cloudy E. N E. 29. N E. Fr. clear 30. Fr. W. curdled clouds hot A o 1662. Nov. 5. ♠6. 31. Oct. Fog bright day warm wd E. 1 Nov. Fr. m. fair clouding p. m. rain 7 p. E. 2. Overc. rain 1 p. c. S E. 3. Blew clouds m. Rain a 9 m. ad o. S. 4. Rain hard a 5 m. ad 1 p. S. 5. Fog cloudy somet open N. 6. Close m p. wd S E. 7. Close p. m. drisle rain overcast vesp c. S W. 8. Open warm clouds low s coasting drops wind Meteor a Pleiad ad Capell 9. Fair m. clouds 1 p. s rain S. 10. Iris 8 m. storm of wind and R. 8 p. Sly A o 1664. Nov. 12. ♠27. 8. Fr. cool fair wind S W. 9. Fr. overcast wd and wet per tot S. 10. Fr ice mist fair S W. 11. Fr. ice very foggy Sol rutilus freez n. S W. 12. Rain m. fair cool R. 10 p. S W. 13. Dreadful Tempest wind Rain and hail 2 m. windy open S W. but after the storm N W Harmful Lightning in a Ship at Lundy 14. Open fair wind S W. 15. Overc. close p. m. s rain 4 7 p. S W. 16. Fair m. rain o. open p. m. R. 10 p. S W. 17. Rain a. l. 2 m. fair windy freez nocte S W. A o 1666. Nov. 19 ♑ 18. 15. Frosty fair 16. Frosty sharp day E. 17. Frosty fair fog ♄ ♂ ♀ rise yield wind 11 p. overc S W. 18. Close some mist die tot S W. 19. Warm open somet lowring H. wind a. l. Sly 20. Drisle a. l. misty wetting so 1 p. warm open wds S W. 21. Mist creeps in the Valleys 9 m. close m. p. wd close n. S W. 22. Wind at n. close misty wetting high wind very tempestuous Sun occ 8 p. III Plan occid clear 23. Close m. p. Tempestuous Sun occ c. s drops S W. A o 1668. Nov. 23. ♒ 9. 19. Windy and wet 6 m.
20. ☿ 21. ♃ ♑ 7. ☉ ♌ 17. ☽ December is a Tropical Month as March is an Equinoctial accordingly we have ☉ ☿ ♃ Tropical ♀ in the Equivalent about ♠21. If 3 △ s of of the ☽ conduce any thing let others Enquire Howbeit ♄ ♂ are but 6 degrees distant from an Opposition § 66. But hath not the Learned Author of the Treatise de motu Mar. Ventorum opened our Eyes in the Doctrine of Currents and solved them all without recourse had to Aspects or Influences the Sun excepted Resp To do that Author right I must acknowledge it is a Great Piece shewing the Diligence the Sagacity the Judgement of an excellent Pen. A Work that will make him great to all Posterity who shall have any thing to do with Philosophy or Commerce He who shall find the so much desired Longitude shall not oblige the World more than he hath done And what Returns his Countrymen have made him I know not I do envy them the use that They make of his Work the manifold Advantages in Navigation that thereby accrue to those who will learn what he hath pleased to Dictate not only to them but to the World Though I do believe therefore that the Ocean under the Torrid Zone in its Diurnal Motion moves from East to West round the World with some Inclination Northward or Southward according to the Suns Declination Though I do believe a 3d. Motion contrary to those viz. from North to East to make restitution at the same time for the Stream which hath forsaken his Shore by his Western Progress and thank Him for it I do believe further that this Back sliding Motion is that which gives Life and Being to though he scorn to take notice of it what is vulgarly called the Current But I cannot hear him when he excludes the ☽ or as in his Epistle the Starry Influences The Motion of the Sea would be such as it is Situation of Land consider'd whether there were ☽ Starry Influences or no saith he For how rash is that Hypothesis to make the Sun alone sufficient without the Starry Assistance When the Sun in incircled with so many Stars when the Stars are so many Suns more or at least Reflexions of that Solitary Agent If Reflexions from below the Earth it self contribute to Tempests c. Why not Reflexions from above The Sun may carry the Credit of it as we have said in a Conquest the General is cryed up but if you enquire more minutely into the Affair Many a Brave Officer doth his part And this hath in part appeared not only in Tempests and somewhat else but also in the Motions of Tides Some what hath bin spoken of a Moon of a Mercury c. § 67. 'T is the Sun assisted with the Stars which makes the Sea to move 'T is by their Influence that he spreads the most of its Motive Power on the Equinox and 40 degrees on either side of it And if we speak of Vegetation and Animal Life 40 degrees yet further even to the Frozen Zone What 's a little Glimmering To save Nature's Credit there must be some more abstruse Virtue then what is obvious to the First Sensation more abstruse and of more Moment Shall I say that Nature hath made Wine only to warm the Tongue yea 't is made to little purpose unless it chears the Heart also The very Piss-bed a Star though it be in its kind is made to little Purpose if it only resembles our Heavenly Body Beside This therefore 't is known to have a greater Virtue as the Endive and Succory to be refrigerant But the Number the Vastness the Mystical Order of the Stars I am amazed at a World of Wonder arising thence Why on the Equinoctial Why on each side of it Why on the Tropick Why on the Arctick and Arctarctique Circles Why near the Poles 'T is acknowledged that the Sun can do much posited on the Equinox Cap. 28. Doth the Sun arrive thither alone The Author knows that ♀ and ☿ cannot be far from him Besides that are there no Stars there He acknowledges it to hold rather in the Autumnal Equinox He may please to observe that there are more of the Fixed in the Autumnal Equinox then in the Vernal There is the Asterism in ♌ of one side and ♠on the other When in the other Hemisphere ♓ and ♈ are more naked Signs The Motion of the Winds and Motion of the Sea are Consequent one to the other Let it be so so the Motion of the Heavens be antecedent in Nature and Co-incident in time Which on the Sea's part he seems to grant Cap. 21. Notwithstanding elsewhere He ascribes the Turbulencies of the Air to the turning of the Ocean which Nature then labours with In like manner the Navigators Ascribe those Turbulencies to the shifting of the Monsoons those Winds which with the Waters turn an oblique Course toward the Sun neither of which do I understand Collision of Seas or Winds instigated by different or Contrary Causes I grant may make some Bustle as in the Tornado is evident where the Winds blow from all parts of the Compass But here is no Collision here no contrariety the Sun is not contrary to its self A Conversion there is and a Change of the Stream But a Gradual Change may be performed in Tranquility for all that I know i. e. if the Sun in the Tropic Cause the greatest Inclination of the Stream the nearer he comes to the Equinox the more should he incline to an Indifferency to be determined to one part according to the Solar recess from it § 68. To the Stars therefore in the Plural Those Motions of Seas and Winds will be imputed which he will find himself obliged to believe if we shall produce Reasons from the Asterism of Heaven and shew the very Causes the true primary Causes of all those brave Enquiries which he by his Principle resolves Why Hurricanes are perceived yearly almost near the Coasts of America Why again in that Sea which flows between the Northern part of China and Japan c. I could add why the time of the year is Stormy in any part of the Ocean Why it rains so constantly and excessively as to find the great Nilus and its overflowing Why Magellanus was becalmed 70 days together The Reasons and Causes of which being seen will be the very Light speak the Truth of our Assertion and the Ineffable Glory of the Creator § 69. Currents then may be distinguished into Substance and Circumstance as they are Streams distinct and severed from the General Waters or as they run with such a degree of Swiftness as is more than Ordinary with Noise or without Noise deceiving the Mariner sometimes 20 Leagues in 24 Hours or keeping him back with a Stream insuperable when if they cannot stem the Tide though under a stiff Gale the former is to be imputed to the Heavens in its ordinary Constitution or to speak with the
Learned Vossius to the Sun The later must be ascribed to the Aspects some not ordinary Constitution Celestial For if the Heavens are the Cause of the Original Motion of the Sea and its acceleration which at several times is acknowledged to differ Then it must be the Cause also of that Motion which results from the Original the Sire or Mother of the Currents The like in the Winds For though I see some difficulty there and though I acknowledge the Air to be of an easier Agitation then is imagined yet I cannot think that the Monsoon though in part it is is nothing in the World but a Consent of Motion with the Stream excluding the Heavens So am I sure the Stormy Winds proceed from a new Coition of the Celestial Bodies and thereupon constantly upon its Approach the Monsoon for the while changes § 70. The rest of the Instances abroad let us dispatch and we have done The year 1520. tells a Tale of a Frost which hurt the Vineyards even in September Eichstad imputes it to an ☠♄ ♂ in ♑ and ♋ Platique and the rest of the Aspects mingling with ♄ which we will not dispute A o 1599. Cold and Dry April and May ☠in ♈ and ♎ April 25. impute it to ♄ and ♂ so opposed and withal deserted A o 1607. June 12. A Midsummer Frost on the precise day of the Summer Solstice Fromond reckons it rare and the Truth is ☉ ♂ and ♀ are all three in the towring height of ♋ Yea ♄ from the Opposite Sign irradiates between ♂ and ♀ so posited 'T is the more observable not for any Miracle but to shew ♄ 's chilness viz. his distance If the ☽ which is nearer had been in ♄ 's place it would scarce have been For Heat ♄ and ♂ are noted to cause a great Heat at Lisbon even in Dec. A o 1528. Purch A o 1540. Hot Summer upon the account of our Planets in ♎ when as ♋ ♌ ♠were possessed which Peucer weakly refers to an Eclipse April 5. which in Truth is neither Cause or Sign A o 1558. Great Heat ☉ vertical May 11. ☉ was Vertical but ☉ was strengthned in his Verticity by the Neighbourhoods of other Planets ♂ among the rest platiquely opposing ♄ who also is strengthned by a Friend in the same Sign A o 1589. â Febr. 3. ad March 6. Extream hot Our Aspect helps an ☌ Platique in ♉ and ♠but there is besides other Aspects in extraordinary Circumstance of slowest Motion A o 1585. August very hot ☠in ♈ ♎ 'T is plain to Sence for all the Signs that should be taken up for hot Weather are sped A o 1607. Great Heat ☠♄ ♂ in Trop I was honest when startled even now at the surprizing Difficulty of a Frosty Morning on the Solstice the Planets said I being so posited You see my scruple had some ground for this following Month had Warmth enough A o 1608. Aestas Calidissima noted even when our ☌ is in a Winter Sign viz. ♒ Well that comes accidentally if the Summer Sign ♌ and its Neighbours will shew all the Cards in their Hands and out-face or oppose the Winter-Gentlemen Rare though it be 't is no Miracle A o 1615. Aug. 2. ad 27. Warmer than at any time of the year Impute it to the Approach of the ☠of ♂ to ♄ in ♎ then and there considered with c. § 71. We have some few Fireworks belongs to us some only Shew others mischievous A o 1520. Fax ardens Sept. 4. Lyc. ☠in ♑ and ♋ Platic A o 1546. Chasme Febr. 10. Lyc. ☌ ♄ ♂ in fine ♠A o 1548. Febr. 10. again Fiery Meteors ☌ in ♑ 13. A o 1559. Sept. 1. London Terrible Thunders ☠in ♊ ♠gr 19. dist There are milder Aspects to be observed but even ours also shoots from far and Frights us A o 1595. Pasch April 20 Thunder Lightning yet very cold and so continued to the Months end ☠in ♌ and ♒ the Cold may be reduced to its place A o 1598. Sept. 5. Harmful Thunder at London flew some Men Stow ☌ in ♎ Of Halo's Irides Parelii c. § 72. Halo's are sometimes colour'd like Iris and the Parelia are always striped with Irides which that they depend on our Principle appears as elsewhere we have contended in the like case from the Multiplicity the busie time in Heaven from the frequency of Aspects not of ordinary Concourse I shall instance in one not mentioned in the following of strange Parelia seen at Norimberg March 22. on a Good-Friday I mention that to secure the true day and year where no less than 8 ☌ s or ☠s are found in a Fortnights time A o 1554. First 1514. Jan. 12. in Ducatum Witebeiengensi hor. 3. P. M. 1520. Viennae Jan. 5. ♑ 14. ♂ ♋ 24. ♄ ☌ 1523. May 2. Parelia at Zurich ♄ ♂ within gr 6. of Opposition ♠♓ ♃ is in ☌ with ♄ only gr 9. between them 'T is strange if accidental to the Effect that these should be counter-link't within 9 degrees but the like occurs May 18. 1627. Kepl. Iris die 29. Yea Paraselenae April 9. 1554. 1532. At Venice April 11. Parelia Fromond Lyc. ☌ in ♊ 26. 'T is as strange again that our Planets should meet in Partile Conjunctions and know nothing of the Spectacle 1554. March 6. Ingolstad't circ 8. 9. morn Lyc. ☌ in ♓ 20. 1550. March 30. Palmarum in ♒ 9. ♄ ♓ 7. ♂ 1554. April 9. Paraselenae at Sumerfield ♓ 24. ♄ ♈ 17. ♂ 1555 Febr. 10. Parelia at Vinaria Lyc. ☌ ♄ ♂ ♓ and ♠in fine Nay now 't is probable that our Aspect can make such Counterfeits Heavenly Counterfeits Hypocritical Suns here are three Witnesses 1556. Dec. 6. Parelia ♄ and ♂ in ♈ and ♎ gr 11. dist either the Platique Aspect hath Influence or else neither Partile nor Platique and if neither then we poor Men spend our time finely In the mean while 't is a pleasant Cheat and we are loath to be disabused A o 1569. Die May 21. Paraselenae Bunting ♎ 4. ♄ ♈ 29. ♂ A o 1573. Parelia cum Iridib May 11. Gem. ♄ ♠23. ♂ ♊ 3. A o 1557. July 28. in Suntgoy ♉ 8. ♄ ♠8. ♂ So before die 21. ejusd mens A o 1585. July 19. Rainbows ♄ ♂ ☠in ♈ and ♎ gr 14. dist A o 1552. Febr. 19. ☉ with Halo and Iris Lyc. we mean a dry Iris such as are seen with Parelia ☌ in ♒ gr 3. dist A o 1551. May 21. Paraselenae counterfeit Moons and Irides ♄ and ♂ in ♌ and ♒ gr 11. dist A o 1569. March 12. hor. 12. Iris Nocturna Gem. ♄ ☉ and ☿ are plainly eugaged in the Beginning of ♈ and ♎ yea and our Platic though here at a mannerly distance for all its modesty is guilty of the appearance the hour 12. at Night shews the ☉ hath to do though from the Opposite Hemisphere and ♄ hath
for Sickly Seasons Accute Diseases c. which Maginus adds Let the Learned World pardon me if I do again averr it and strike the Nail homer yet than I have done already with all safety to our most Holy Religion and the blessed Author of it § 16. For is it not a Childish Argument to say God made all things Good i. e. conformed to his own Idea therefore there is no Malefique Creature Not to enquire curiously what should have been the natural Course in the Innocent State we suppose our Apostacy and Rebellion towards God and so we believe with Siracides that Fire and Teeth of Wild Beasts and Stings of Serpents were made for Vengeance that the Sun may now burn us by Day and the ☽ annoy us by Night that the Stars of Heaven may be Worm-wood and have a bitter and unkind Influence The ☉ conduces to Feavers and the ☽ to Frenzies and Epilepsies § 17. And verily This Observation found me when I thought it not came dress'd to me in its own Light while I was attending to the various Shapes and Changes of the Air no suggestion to my remembrance of any Astrologers Antient or Modern taught me to suspect what I afterwards found that the Distempers of the Season depend upon what the Season it self depends the Aspects and Positions of the Celestials Galen also so long ago saying the same Feavers Catarrhs Small Pox Fluxes Pestilence c. according to the difference of the Clime and the Patient do annoy us when the Heavenly Bodies Transit or take up Station in such Parts of the Zodiack There is no denyal of it § 18. Kepler in his Diary hath observed it seems amongst his Germans Catarrhs and Coughs At Lintz A o 1621. April 20. Coughs at Saganum in Silesia Febr. V. A o 1629. Catarrhs Who would suspect such a Malady had any relation to the Planets above Cold Air and a Moist Brain c. These are Physical Causes internal of Catarrhs But of late strange Experience taught us in London yea all Europe that saving all such internal and proximate Efficiency some strange Aspect Single or Complicate disturbs the Humour For the Case was of one Night even of One wherein a manifest barking Cough had seiz'd the generality of Young and Old Octob. 26. 1675. Verily there was an Aspect of ♀ and ♂ with an ☠of ♄ which occurring as rarely as its pretended Effect may be suspected for some Cause of it However this was ♄ then but the Catarrhs of Germany no body is so fit to acquaint us herein as Kepler belong to our Jove-Martial-Aspect In both these several years and Months we shall find a ☌ ♃ ♂ the First Jan. 22. the Second Febr. 10th and that you may suspect here also they were a Cause you shall find no other Coughs or Catarrhs elsewhere specified § 19. To proceed these Catarrhs are noted to have happened within a day or Two if not the very day of the Configuration where I desire the good Readers favour while He observeth that we labour after a Determinate Punctual Prognosis even of Maladies as well as Constitutions of the Air we do not pronounce indeterminately and leave the Determination of the Event to its proper unknown Cause and Father it when it happens upon its pretended Assignation That is the Vulgar imperfect way but we match the Effect to the Cause acknowledging no Postuâ—â—ous Brood in our Midwifry Then and there appeared the Effect not sooner nor later Aestival Part. A o 1652. June 37. ♑ ♋ 6. A June 23. ad July 2. 23. Cloudy clear s wd 24. Cloudy store of Thund showrs at n. 25. Cloudy rain s Thund 26. Windy and cloudy at n. 27. Clouds s rain wdy 28. s rain wdy cloudy at n. 29. Showrs high wds 30. Showrs and wdy July 1. Clear wdy A o 1654. Sept. 19. ad 28. ♓ ♑ 16. 19. Winds b. d. dark cloudy 20. Cloudy m. clouds overc 21. Cloudy s fits of wet weather 22 Flying clouds heat wind at n. 23. Winds dark cloudy Th. at midn 24. Rain 25. Rain m. s store of R. 26. Cloudy m. clear d. audible wds r. suspicious 27. Misty m. warm A o 1661. April 28. ♎ ♈ 5. 24. Cloudy sometimes showry clear even 25. Cloudy wdy 9 m. showry wet day even cloudy 26. Cloudy wdy a sad rainy day 37. Cloudy misty m. p. even cloudy s rain 28. Cloudy a showr at night bright m. p. even cloudy s rain m. n. 29. Cloudy rain threatning o. s drops 30. Cloudy somewhat misty p. m. s Sun A Starry even May 1. Cloudy dry p. m. somewhat clear and Sun-shine 2. Frost l. fog clear m. Hot May weather A o 1663. June 29. ♠♊ 5. 26. Close wet m. coasting showrs 3 p. 6 p. Hail 27. Rain 7 m. storm thunder hail p. m. rain at 7 p. m. 28. Fog m. clear up cloudy p. m. clear might 29. Bright m. cloudy toward o. violent storms of Hail dropping 6 p. 30. Fair dry some flashing clouds overc 10 p. July 1. Rain Sun rise s dashing o. fair and heat p. m. 2. Dry warm blushing quarters H. p. m. 3. Close m. p. A o 1663. Sept. 18. â™’ ♌ 12. 13. Frost fair cool wd warm Sun shine overcast n. 14. Frost close m. p. dry 4 p. gentle rain m. p. 15. 16. Notable frost fair cool cloudy 17. Storms of Rain and wd 18. Very cool h. wd suspicious about Noon coasting showrs vesp and Sun set 19. Hail frost m. doubtful cloudy close winterly s rain 2 3 4 p. 20. Calm close s showrs at Sun rise weeting mist all day 21. Close m. p. s dropping rain 5 n. 22. Some dewing morn hottish close 23. Moon shine b. d. overcast rain A o 1675. March 13. ♠♊ 19. 7. Frost overcast stiff wds 8. Fair a. m. storm of hail 4 p. and drisling cold n. 9. Rain much a 2 m. dark 7 m. a storm of snow misle 1 p. h. wd 10. H. wind fair a. m. and cold warm n. 11. Frost mist fair a. m. offer p. m. 12. Frost ice fair mist windy 13. Frost ice yielding p. m. and close wds 14. Frost ice white clouds as for snow o. close at Sun rise 15. Frost ice snow hail a. m. cloudy dark close yielding p. m. 16. Offer close m. p. s snow 8 p. 17. Close mist wetting 5 p. coldest about o. 18. s drisle 7 m. fog m. p. misling at n. 19. Close misling 2 p. 9 p. 20. Close m. p. misty drisle 6 p. A o 1677. June 15. â™’ ♌ 27. 10. Close fog m. ad o. open and no mist Meteor 10 p. in the earth and Air. 11. Showrs a. m. 9 m. n. m. 12. Windy n. floating clds 9 m. s dropping and offering 1 p. 4 p. showr 6 p. 13. Warm open overcast 1 p. open overcast 9 p. 14. Fair m. cloudy 10 m. pregnant clouds warm 15. Fair a. m. much lowring 2 p. offering 4 p. drops 6 p. soultry even thick c. 16. Floating white clouds 9
in the Air. There is no Subterranean Repository there to keep ice There is a Work-House to make Snow and Hail in Summer Months but no Repository to keep it Jove therefore must be a Gooler sometimes and ♃ and ♂ must contribute as much as ♄ and ♂ to Winter Weather and that in Platique Aspect as well as Partile whose Chill Influence is sometimes discernible in July and August Of which see if it be worth the while July and August 1627. 1630. 1644. Yea June and July 1641. Compare I pray the Memoirs of the late Springs and Cold Summers 1573. 1587. 1595. 1660. § 27. My Caveat therefore now is to my Faculty that they heedfully look about them when they undertake the Prognosis of the Constitution of the Air under this Aspect For it is a very false Configuration not sure to a side as we have admonished before but many times leaves his Expectant in the Lurch but you must observe his Comes and Goes and so you will find him out For according to those Vicissitudes He will pretend to Winter deep Winter Snow and Hail and Cold 3 days together and on the 4th Thunder I have given one example of many viz. April 1. 1621. where Kepler records on the same day Nivosa Grando Tonuit And this agreeable to what hath been observed in ♃ ♀ c. before § 28. Here then take the Character of the Aspect The ☠of ♃ and ♂ in ordinary Circumstances produces as ye have heard Cold frosty Mornings in Winter yea and not seldom in Spring time With a little more encouragement produceth Snow Cold Rain Sharp cutting Winds In Summer time all manner of Weather Dry Mist Clouds Winds Heat Rain Hail Thunder oft-times with Violence a Tast of their Superiority Apt to Turbulency and Tempest also in Winter not Lightning excepted The ☌ is much of the same Strain only perhaps for Cold hath a less kindness § 29. But enter Jove and Mars the second time the 2d of Superiours They make a fine Sight when they come within a Span Breadth in the Firmament but like the Canon in the Camp they are beautiful but terrible They bode mischief more frequently than a Comet yea and Cause it too We consider it prescinded from no Syzygie but that of the Two Highest ♄ and ♃ It swallows up we have said the Aspects of Less Duration as a Serpent doth Worms and Toads and is nourished by them though those Minor Configurations are not destroyed but live and move in the Belly We are not glad nor do we boast in telling the World strange News to aggrandize the Art or the Professors All that we wish is That the World may know the import of what it seeth and when they believe or smart under the Effects may Learn to Fear to come to some at least Natural Theology since he said not amiss who hath taught us that Fear and Terror first created or Refreshed the Idea of a Deity Nor hath God in his Oracles forbid us to be afraid of the Signs of Heaven if the Prophet means the Natural Congresses of the Heavenly Bodies He forbids us not I say to be afraid absolutely though to Vulgar Interpretation it may seem so but only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such a Consternation and Emotion of Mind that is found in Heathens who ordinarily look no higher than the 2d Cause As in sundry places he bids us not to care and Cark for the things of the World nor fear the Persecutor who kills the Body § 30. To those who are not convinced from the Faith of our Testimony nor from our Weak Reflexions thereon we draw in this further Evidence being Zealously affected toward the advance of a Natural Astrology believing or else I should be heartily sorry that it conduceth to the advance of Religion and the Glory of the Creator whose Worms we are whatsoever Philosophy takes up our Brains Old or New § 31. Our former Tables of this Aspect was but the Soft Stop of the Organ This is the Loud one which makes the Lofty Curvature of the Celestial Arch to ring and shout out the Praises of him in whose Temple all these great Things are Transacted He who will know Truth must look back into past time If the World were but of yesterday and made by the Concourse of Atomes it were but Venial to be an Infidel but when so many years are passed over our Ancestors Heads and the same Nature holds now as before I say nothing but this that He who minds Truth must not despise the Light which the past Ages have left us The Scrowle of past Times which remindeth us of Tempests as far as 180 years runs backward part of which we have already presented the Residue now succeding is as follows § 32. A Table of Tempests Rain Hail Snow Winds Anno 1517. June 26. Tempest Hail with T. M. at Nordlingen Lyc. ♌ 17. ♂ 21. ♃ 1520. July 11. K. Henry's Temporary Banquetting House built for the Emperours entertainment with all its Pomp blown down Stow. ♠11 ♃ ♊ 6. ♂ 1521. Octob. 24. Magellane Tempest and 3 Lights on the Shrouds Purch ♠5. ♂ 23. ♃ 1526. Circ May 10 11 12. near Otmar extream Darkness and rage of Weather lasted till May 20. Purch 1. p. 1114. ♉ 29. ♃ 26. ♂ 1527. Ab April 12. ad June 3 Rain Day and Night so that Corn failed How 's p. 527. 530. ☠in ♊ ♠some transpose this to 1528. Lyc. 1528. July 19. Auspurge Great Hail-stones Lyc. 535. ♃ and ♂ in ♌ princ 1538. Hyeme imminente saith Calvis Barbarosa's Shipwrack near the Acroceraunii 2000 Men lost Surius p. 671. In Nov. ♃ and ♂ opposed in Tropical Signs as ♃ and ♀ also 1539. Circ Aug. 23. Extreme Tempest near the Isles of Xulisco on the back-side of America with danger of perishing Frobisher Hakl 398. ♋ 8. ♂ 15. ♃ 1541. Sub Hyemem Caesar faedae Tempestate ad Argieram Africae jactatus in Magno Discrimine versatus est Hell prefat Calvis ad Nov. init ♃ and ♂ in ♠fine June 30. Wind blew hard at E.S.E. Red Sea Mouth ♌ 25. ♃ ♓ 17. ♂ ♃ ☿ in ♌ and ♒ 1547. July 20. Libo Notus vehementiss Dr. Dec. Annot. ad Mensem ♌ 22. ♂ ♓ 12. ♃ Aug. 1. Africus Vehementiss Pluvia continua a 4 hor. ad 10. P. M. Init. ♠♂ ♓ 10. ♃ Aug. 14. Procella cum Africo Vehementiss ut Caelum delapsurum Crederii ♓ o. ♃ ♠10. ♂ cum ☉ ☿ Sept. 11. Sand in the Air like Smoak carryed with the Wind. 1548. May 1 2 3. Exceeding Boisterous Dec. ♓ 14. ♂ ♈ 9. ♃ Die 8 9 10. Stormy Cold Rain ♓ 19. ♂ ♈ 10. ♃ Die 11. Grando cum magna pluvia June 13. Pluviosa tota Die 14. Rain from Midnight to 10. m. Id. ☌ ♈ 16. July 6 7. Mist Rainy Lovain Dec. ♈ 19. ♃ ♉ o. ♂ 1549. Octob. 15. 25. Ventus ♠3. ♂ ♉ 23. ♃ id Nov.
Snowing As before A o 1625. Dec. 14 15 16 17. the same Now for Five Febr. 23 24 25 26 27. Stormy Rainy and Sleet § 36. 'T is easie to parallel this out of the Table of the Storms recorded long before last Century For even A o 1526. we meet with extreme Darkness for 10 days A o 1597. Aug. 17. Our English Fleet were disperst so that they met not till September 5. A o 1598. Jan. 8. lands the Seamen having indured many Storms A o 1615. Octob. the 1. after much Sea Troubles had Sight of Land Nay on Sept. 9. 1598. the Weather was sad and Stormy that in Two Months they had not one Fair day Time was when we thought 50 days too much when it rained so that Corn failed with us in England 1526. and yet our Aspect or Table is yet more unmerciful for in some years with some interruption more or less we often meet with 3 Months Disturbance July August September 1547. and A o 1548. May June July Add Sept. Novemb. Dec. 1557. and 1577. June July Aug Sept. 4 Months A o 1578. So when Gemma tells us that Totius Anni status A o 1562. was infested with Tempests and Storms our Aspect of ♃ and ♂ shall answer for the first 5 Months found twice in the same Sign in that while But may I not mistake non Causa pro Causa I answer not well amids such Testimony I le reach you but one Instance The 50 days Rain when Corn failed we scruple not to assign to our ☠as a Cause Nor will any man else when he sees the Bodies concern'd lodged in ♊ and ♠not excluding the ☠of ♃ and ☿ but we assert our Aspect to make one and a great One and that so confidently that by this we dare convince Lycosthenes of a slip who post-pones that wet Spring to 1528. because there is no such drenching Aspects appear in that after year of which Slips there are too many saving the great usefulness of the Design But I do not pretend to convince all by Astrology Concluding there are more obvious means by comparing other Records c. However this slip I evince by this Method § 37. The Length and the violent Starts of this Aspect being considered we need not wonder if we find prodigious Inundations too often under it where among others that at Home and in Holland A o eod though not the same Month and our Home Inundation in Somersetshire at the beginning of this Century will never be forgotten by the places concerned § 38. Now shall not we who pretend to great things say somewhat to That in our following Table First and miserable deluge in Holland where so many Towns were swallowed up tops of whose Turrets to this Day peep out of the Water I know not on what account omitted by some Annalists where 100000. People were Drown'd I am not such an Atheist as to magnifie second Causes to the prejudice of the First In my Philosophy They illustrate his Glories not Eclipse them I would advise therefore some of our beloved Neighbours of the Low Countries to watch the Caelestial Positions of that time in particular there is a concourse of our two Superiours in ♠Especially if about the beginning of Nov. which they may know is apt to Floods For in this year 1521. ♃ and ♂ are found in ♠the one in the beginning of the Sign the other at the End And is not that First according to our Principle And again is there any other Aspect near that is Considerable And yet again This being not our Only Instance in ♃ and ♂ as we shall see Who knows but a little insight in Astrology may save 100000. Lives § 39. The Next dire Inundation at Rome where the waters were Raised the depth of the Longest Spear They may please to take heed of a Congress of the Planets in ♎ if two of the Superiours be amongst them for so we find a ☌ ♃ ♂ in the beginning of ♎ not without assistance when their Inundation happen'd and Lo about a Month after what with Winds and Rain Nov. 6. such another Floud Ut Telluris obratae Clades pecorum homines interit us non satis describi possit saith Gemma Flouds by ♃ ♂ § 40. Anno 1521. Nov. 1. Dire Inundation in Holland 72 Villages drowned Fromond Met. Lib. 5. Stow ♑ 11. ♂ 24. ♃ 1529. June 14 Basil in Switzerland Rains continual and Flouds remembred by a Monument Lyc. ♌ 22. ♃ ♒ 16. ♂ 1530. Octob. 8. Inundation of Tiber at Rome Mizald hor. noct 11. Nov. 1. Deluge in Holland and Flanders Gem. 1. 183. Grimston ♎ 9. ♃ 7. ♂ supra in ♂ ☿ p. 249. 1532. Nov. mens Inundation in Zealand Mizald. Surius ♠16. ♂ 4. ♃ ♎ 23. ♀ ♂ ☿ p. 249. supra 1551. Marpurg Jan. 10. Great Inundation breaking down the Stone-Bridge of the Country Lyc. ♊ 22. ♃ 29. ♂ Add ♀ and ♃ in ☠Febr. 20. Inundation after the ☽ recover'd from the Eclipse lasted almost two Months Peucer 385. ♊ 21. ♃ ♋ 1. ♂ 1556. April 23. Bruxels Tempest of Hail harmful and Flouding at Lovain in the mean time fair Weather Gemma 2 30. ♉ 12. ♂ ♠2. ♃ add ♊ 12. ♀ 1557. Sept. 10. In Languedoc Thunder Lightning Hail and Floud upon it which was not in Memory of Man Gem. 2 31. ♃ and ♂ in ♠E Paradino Sept. 14. at Rome and Recorded Thuanus And so at the East-Indies 1571. Lovain Febr. 5. Great Indations Gem. 2 68. ♒ 28. ♃ ♓ 6. ♂ 1579. Febr. 10. After a deep Snow continual Rain a long time so that Westminster-Hall was Floated Stow ♠12. ♃ R. ♉ 18. ♂ 1607. Jan. 10. Vast Inundation in Somersetshire after a great Rain and Spring-Tide in some places 20 Miles in Length How 's Calvis ♓ 7. ♃ ♈ 2. ♂ 1627. Sept. 10. Danubius ripas egressus Kepl. ♠26. ♃ ♊ 4. ♂ Die 18. Rock Wasser Kyr 1629. Octob. 2. Westminster Hall floated ♑ 27. ♃ ♋ 11. ♂ Floud in Holsatia High Spring Tide Chilorey Transact 2063. Yea and Mexico 1168. Jan. 23 24 25. Norimberg Much Rain and Wasser Fluth Kyr ♠4. ♃ 19. ♂ 1649. June 17. Rain all Night High Flouds ♠16. ♂ ♎ 9. ♃ 1627. Sept. 9. In Franconia nube rupta tanta aquarum vis decidit ut in aliquot pagis domus eversae homines cum armentis submersi c. Calvis To these we add which have escaped Collection A o 1528. June 14. Floud at Basil in Switzerland Lyc. 538. ♌ 22. ♃ ♒ 16. ♂ A o 1547. Aug. 12. Cataracts and Flouds ♓ 9. ♃ ♠1. ♂ ☿ 1555. Sept. 21. Westminster-Hall floated Stow 22 23. Childrey ♠27. ♃ 29. ♂ 1670. March 10. Inundation Childrey Transact ♒ 9. ♃ ♌ 23. ♂ 1571. Dec. 17. Inundation at the Rhine in Nemetibus at the Rhine in France ♓ 16. ♃ ♠26. ♂ Thuanus 1579. Octob. 14. Sea swell'd How 's ♎ 22. ♂ ♠19. ♃
☉ ♃ and ☽ are 3. 1626. Jan. 16. ☉ ♀ and ☽ are 3. ♀ and ☽ 's Latitude being consider'd not far from one another 1628. Dec. 10. ☉ ♃ ☿ are 3 too never to be question'd and one the 16th the ☽ makes 4. 1629. Octob. 6. ☉ ♄ and ☽ are owned to be in ☌ Nor is the ☽ too far distant on the 10th day Sometimes we meet 4. engag'd in two but more commonly 3. engag'd in one Triple ☌ In all these ♃ and ♂ are concern'd We meet with one exception and that is Febr. 25. S. V. 1645. if 2 gr width can put them out of case 'T is not ♃ 's Brightness only no question but the proportion also that he bears to the rest that are upon the Scene This will be granted I hope that Planets in ♋ ♌ ♠can easily dart up their Light above the Horizon on certain days and hours and you shall find that this Clarity never comes to pass but when 2 or 3. if not more are posited in these Signs or their Opposites Yea and the Months that are above specified do accord Verily as to ♃ ♂ I must own that Kepler has noted a Splendent Air in the day-time a Spurious Serenity as in the Notes of September 8. 1624. January 9. 1626. Jan. 18. 1626. A Brightness of such consistency as bodeth Wet this is certain that the Nocturnal Clarity among the Country People is a sign of Rain and he that pleases to look over the places quoted in Kepler will find it so ☉ Pallidus § 73. When we meet with ☉ Pallidus here 9. or 10 times we may think it is caused by that Influence which ♃ hath upon Mist which according to the difference of its Density does represent the ☉ and the ☽ now red now pale as a more Watrish Cloud makes him shine Watry but They who look nearer into the Diary and observe how Judicious a Person Kepler was may be apt to think there is something more in it than a Mist or Fog when he shall find that Mist is a Stile by it self and ☉ Pallidus for the most part by its self 'T is true if this diversity should arise only from the Medium it were scarce worth the mention but if there should be at the time a perfect Serenity it would imply some other Passion of ☉ co-existent perhaps with that Crassitude of Air expressed only A o 1617. not elsewhere Now if it were through a Mist I say 't is a wonder to me that Kepler should observe so many Mists in 3 years A o 1622. 1623. 1624. and never a ☉ Pallidus all the time 'T is not improbable therefore but it may be some grudgings of the Maculae near the Disk of the ☉ together with some disturbance of the Medium if any such were nearer to us Sure I am that these Maculae Solares are recorded at or near the very times where most of these Solar Palenesses are mention'd and sure I am that ♂ and ♃ in ☌ or ☠are of strong and stubborn Influence The □ of ♃ and ♂ will make a Mist a ☌ or ☠not excluding the Minor Aspects of ☉ with ☿ c. can do more The days above specified are these 1617. March 3 4 5. ☉ Pallidius ♑ 25. ♃ ♌ 21. ♂ 1626. Sept. 18. ♠20. ♄ ♠3. ♃ ♎ 4. ♂ ♎ 7. ☉ 28. ☿ Octob. 13. ♠25. ♄ ♠2. ♂ 12. ♃ 4 ☿ 17. ☉ 1627. July 18. ♠21. ♃ ♉ 8. ♂ Octob. 28. ♠6. ♃ ♊ 4. ♂ 1628. April 6. ♑ 3. ♃ ♋ 5. ♂ May 1 2. ♑ 22. ♋ 19. ☠May 18. ♎ 4. ♄ ♑ 1. ♃ ♋ 29. ♂ ♊ 7. ☉ ♋ 17. ♀ Dec. 8. ♎ 21. ♄ ♑ 10. ♃ ♠13. ♂ 27. ☉ ♑ 10. ☿ ♠10 ♀ Dec. 18. ♑ 13. ♃ ♠20. ♂ 1629. September 20. ♑ 27. ♃ ♋ 6. ♂ I do not go about to deny I say there may be Mists and Fog in the case but I surmise also another more intimate Sullage to contribute tho' perhaps by it Self except by the curious less observable By it self I say less observable yet in Conjunction with another may increase the sickly appearance So use we to see in a Damp Air and a moistned Eye a bright Nocturnal Iris about Light in our Chamber Neither can we let pass the Bloody Hue wherein the ☉ appeared Sept. 29. 1571. throughout a great part of Germany though worth the notice of Thuanus an ☠of ♃ ♀ fell near the day Sept. 20. but besides a ☌ ♄ ☿ in a critical place we have our Aspect of ♃ ♂ has taken fast hold ♌ 22. ♒ 24. and we are sure that these Causes assigned have their realty because other Prodigies also happen about the same time rationally concluding that where Nature breaks out into rare Symptoms there she is diseased § 74 For the Maculae we need not be so punctual to let out their Line or to take them short as in Comets otherwise I would say that beside distance between ♂ ☉ and ♀ we find ♃ and ♂ opposed at the end of ♊ and ♠for those Spots which appeared from Sept. 26. S. N. ad Octob. 6. in the Rosa Ursina and those that succeeded from Octob. 5. to the 15. The reason seems to be because we meet with the Macula when our two Planets were in the critical place of ♊ 25. ♠22. and we hear nothing of all the year before from Jan. to Sept. whilst yet the ☠was in being most of the time Another reason may be because while ♂ receded from the ☠♃ he applyed to ☠♄ the reason why we have another appearance ab Octob. 25. S. N. ad 31. A o 2. à May 15. ad 21. Sheiner and again à 20. ad 26. I have reason to think that beside the appearance of Three Planets by the ingress of ☿ in ♉ the Vicinity of ♂ ♃ did contribute because on the 20. day there 's a new appearance upon the account now of 3 in ♊ our two Planets and the ☉ Another appearance from June 10. ad 14. We do not without reason impute to ♃ and ♂ joined amongst the rest when the Aspect salutes us Jun. 2. S. N. A o 1624. à 13. Sept. ad 26. We have a ☌ ♃ ♂ within the term and they contribute joined one with the other as well as ♀ joined with ☉ of which ☌ ☉ ♀ I wonder if Sheiner have taken notice I fear he hath not but as ☿ hath bin suspected to have been a Macula so ♀ may be suspected to cause one to me 't is obvious Certainly on the 17. day ♃ and ♂ are as near as ♀ can be and what Influence may they have in the next appearance from day 22. ad Octob. 6. at what time our Planets are but at 8 degrees distance Verily They both hold to the next appearance of Sept. 28. ad Octob. 14. The next A o 1625. From Jan. 8. ad 24. S. N. where 't is reason to believe upon
even beyond a Quincunx profess their inclinations but the distance is too wide nor is it our interest to prove our Planets to have a Natural tendency to such Excesses yet because the Reports are so large p. 613 614. we refer them to the ☠♄ ♂ in ♌ and ♒ and to the Planets in ♋ in ♋ I say of which ♃ is the chief § 52. I need not force in any Instances the Rhine will bear Witness A o 1553 June 19. to such Excesses endamaging all the Cities I think for they say They were infinite that are situate near its noble Stream Take Notice if you please of ♃ and ☿ 's Congress but withal note that ♃ and ♄ are in Oppositional Quincunx ♌ 4. ♓ 4. Lycosth 616. Yea in Aug. A o 1552. Die 13. Budissina Peucer's Native Country felt the smart of a Cataract they call it a piece of a Cloud a Spout they would say that drown'd all for the space of 2 miles with 30 men lost Peucer p. 340. A strong ☠of ♄ and ♃ with other Planets to back him or seeing we have heard of the Phrase before now to make a Conspiracy Sooner or later doth not vary the Species a Spout there is a Floud which the Seamen describe to be a Cloud with a Tail like a Serpent drawing the Waters in a Smoak or Mist and wherever it falls Wo to the Sea-farer Hakl Vol. 2. p. 106. One of these in Aug. XXVII Another Octob. XX. p. 110. In the First a Partil ☠of ♄ and ♃ in the second X. degrees distance § 53. A o 1564. Sept. 20. Our Thames overflowed and drowned much Cattle Let any man look into the Ephemeris and take notice how many of the VII are in ♎ IV. of VII yea or the 20. day V. reckoning ♈ to its opposite Sign A notable Instance of what we have asserted about Equinoctial Tides and the Raising of Water by Rarefaction which our late ingenuous Theorist of the Earth considered not when concerning the Floud he affirmed there was no Water in Nature sufficient for it § 54. A o 1565. in January and February at Lovain the River Dilia overflowed in that Prodigious Winter which scarce ended before April The later of these Febr. 11. did much harm Gem. 2. 42 43. ♂ and ♀ are in ☌ we have said before but so is ♃ and ♄ which hath Influence not only on that over-long Winter but also in the excess of Snow or Rain according as they were provok'd § 55. The next ☠lands us on 1573. in ♉ and ♠upon which account the years concerned are famous upon Record Comets Flouds Pests Why I tell you the New Star in Cassiopeia as sure as you are there is the Offspring of ♄ and ♃ Let me dispatch the Flouds and I will prove it But Oh the Flouds If it be but that at Lovain Jan. 8. 1573. where the Waters rose upon the Thaw above 17. Cubits high so described by Gemma by ruining of Houses Trees Bridges Mills Pillars Floating of Beds Trunks and all manner of House-hold Goods Consternation and Shrieking of all Sorts and Sexes that it brings a cold Steam upon the Heart of the Reader so prodigious that an Astrologer though he be allowing the Snows and the Thaw and all that still wonders at the Cause and offers at some Fermentation which he imagines to arise from the mixture of Snow-Water c. A Point which ought to be consider'd but neither so was he yet satisfied He might have been satisfied had he consider'd the pure fermenting Power of our Aspect opened by the Appulse of ♂ and ☽ for there was neither Change nor Quarter in respect of the Sun if he had consider'd the Reach of our Aspect which is confess'd in in its Partile Estate to cause Flouds and Inundations which it concerns us to know for the Relator himself was almost drowned in common danger though the Floud coming by day God be thanked not above 8 or 9 were lost § 56. But there is more Wo yet In the same year and in Summer time in the beginning of July it self a Deluge happened not in one City or so but the Country it self Holland with Frieseland were plagued Inaudita Clade Gem. 2. 167. where the Learned Man tells us that the New Star in Cassiopeia was at that time abated of its Greatness and Splendour yea but ♄ and ♃ were under no abatement They were in a ☌ Partile not above a Month before we must not dare to mention the Pleiades engaged between them But so it was whether our Planets signifie any thing or no that we in England heard of a harmful Floud at Tocester by a Storm of Hail and Rain June 7. which gives us a little tast what was the Constitution of the most part of June which raised such Flouds there and elsewhere Let the Reader be pleased to consider and he will allow something to our Alms-Basket especially when there comes a 3d. or 4th Inundation in West-Frieseland as rueful and as masterless In the mean time let me tell him my Opinion that these and other such like Attentendants of the New Star are manifest Indications of its Nature Homogeneal to that of the Bearded Comet which will we nil we are too oft attended only with such Retinue § 57. We hear of no Flouds till about the next ☠which makes me remember that the ☠is better at such Tragical Sport than the ☌ and first with our selves A o 1594. we meet with Rain very sore for 14 hours April 11. which is an unlucky Prologue to what we hear of May 2. great Water-Flouds in Sussex and Surrey June also being as much a Trespasser as May Nor does it cease in July though it please God to send a fine August Both one and the other were the effect of our Aspect even the Rain from ♒ and ♌ as well as the fine Weather to see what Providence can do though it return to its wet again the Month following where we reckon a double Influx of ♄ and ♃ yea and of the rest too in their proportion a generative Faculty of Wet when all Requisites are supposed and a Spirit communicated to that Wet whereby the Moisture is Proud and Swelling apt to clime and outrun its bounds As the Bubble in a smart and warm Showr is a Sign of a Spirit which starts up and carries with it a Film of Water Fatter than ordinary Least any should say that seeing we like Gemma's Philosophy of some Ferment in the Waters we should therefore deny that our Planets were not contributers to the Moisture as well as the Tumor which we must assert they do But our Tres-Grand-Aspects are not so easily got off for A o 1595 the Scene lies in Germany the Rhine the Maes the Maene the Neccar the Danow all with one consent obey their Superiours and make such Work about Colen Mentz Francfort worse than they did A o 1573. of which before at Lovain c.
Influence of the Planets sed illorum Trium but especially of those Three who are the Procurers of Thunder Lo you they are our Three Superiours Saturn Jove and Mars Lib. 2. cap. 79. What News is it then to tell of Saturn and Jove Jove and Mars Saturn and Mars The Planets which the old Babylonians did mean or they meant nothing For let any be pleased to survey our Tables of Earthquakes under Saturn and Mars Jove and Mars laying Pliny before him he shall forthwith be convinced and how would he be overwhelmed with Evidence if we were Masters of so much Chronology and Calculation Astronomical as to name the first Earthquake from the Floud and assign the Aspect a Task which I have rendred the more easie if it were to be expected by enlarging or rather vindicating the Dominion of the Aspect of its own Nature so enlarged § 75. These Earthquakes says the Naturalist are made by the presence of the Planets aforesaid with the Sun or their Conjunction or if you will Congruency because I suppose the Old Babylonians included the Opposition to which our Tables bear plentiful Testimony Now This chiefly saith he happens Circa quadrata Mundi A great Note and means nothing else but the Cardinal Signs near the Tropick and the Equinox Who would not be proud to redeem such a glorious Truth from the Rubbish under which it hath bin buried so many thousand years in the neglected Fields of Antiquity Hippocrates hath long ago given us the same Note about Sickness and Maladies which the happy Roman Pen hath preserved to us about Earthquakes and yet We love to be in the dark Gemma saith the same of some Comets circa Tropos Equinoctia I. 112. and yet Astrologers forsooth speak not a Word of Sense But to proceed what he tells us from Aristotle Earthquakes appear only in Calms we don't find to be true in our Northern Regions Germany and the like Nearer the Mediterranean it may be true with Regard to the Wind though not with Regard to Lightning it being agreed on as Pliny states the Question neque aliud in terreno Tremor quam in Nube Tonitruum Earthquakes and Thunders are near a Kin. For whereas they take it for certain that Winds are the Cause of Earthquakes they must mean Spirits there is no other way to reconcile the Antients to Truth But Pliny tells us further that Earthquakes may be predicted So they were by Anaximander and Pherecydes He means Predictions Philosophical Conjectures taken from some certain Signs and that it may be is easie in places that are Obnoxious thereto But I don't hear any of his early Chaldeans have foretold it by Astrological Predictions by Arguments taken from the Cause though upon the Truth of their Principle they might He tells us in the next Chapter 80. of the Dire Effects Throwing down Swallowing up Raising Hills Letting out Streams Springing of Hot Baths Retreats of the Ocean Of which our Tables are not silent and might have made more Noise but Then to let pass the admirable account he gives of the several Noises that are heard according to the variety of the Event he tells us that they are felt oftner in the Night time then in the Day yet sometimes at Noon He mentions also Morning and Evenings for Critical Hours all which strongly declare a Celestial cause The Sun I mean and He you must know is never without his Retinue Consequently he tells us that Earthquakes happen many times at Eclipses And have not we prov'd that the Moon New and Full has Influence on Thunders Aethereal Subterranean c. at which Congress if Eclipses and Earthquakes be more noted by so notable consent of Heaven and Earth whence the Creator is more Illustrated I reckon that That Providence hath its End § 76. In the next Chapter 81 he tells us that at Sea also they are sensible of Earthquakes that they feel the Stroke And where is it that in the Collection of this Table I meet with a Passage where a Ship in an Earthquake felt such an impulse that they thought she had struck on ground but when they heaved the Lead to explore the truth of their Suspicion the Author says they found no Bottom Purch p. I. p. 105. How wide yea how deep is the Train laid in recesses of the Earth which shall move a heavy dense Abyss so quick that it shall aemulate the hardness of a Rock What an Eruption would there have been if it had been in Sicco on a dry Surface How strange yea how incomprehensible are the penetrations of the Celestial Influences He tells us further of a certain Sign in the Air when a thin Cloud in a Serene Sky shall be stretch'd to a vast space the very Token by which Gemma predicted an Earthquake as Fromondus also noteth Where though Fromond perhaps justly maketh slight of this Token yet this I can say upon Recollection of my self that I who perhaps have observed that Token as often as Fromond do remember that there was more than ordinary to do among the Planets at such appearances and so they may be reckon'd Signs remote and in-adaequate as the Eclipses are confess'd to be § 77. In the 82. Chapter letting pass several Considerations for we write not a Treatise of this Subject He tells us an Earthquake may last Forty days nay some a year yea two year throughout The three Planets that the Chaldeans spoke of may be twin'd together so long ♄ and ♃ may appears by their slow dis-ingagements and many times by their fresh returns before they are absolutely Dis-engaged § 78. In the 83. Chapter He tells us of Smoke and Fire starting out between two Mountains in Mutina when Martius and Julius were Consuls manifesting the Kindred between the Flaming and the Quaking Mountain See Cap. 88. § 79. To proceed in the next Chapter 84. He informs us of Inundations and Earthquakes that they go together even as it may be noted in Aristotle himself which is no untruth and may be proved from the Premises whether the Inundation be as I may term it wet or dry caused by Rain and Wind or by Spirit and Inflation only As we have consider'd before when we treated of the Rarefaction of the Watry Element which in Flouds join'd with Earthquakes is most certain and in Flouds in distant Countrys must be presumed in some Proportion if not from the Heat below at least by the Heats from above whence the Sea is allowed to tumefie against every Storm by the Influence of the ☽ or other Planet § 80. Now if we may observe here what also we have before asserted that Comets go along with those Earthquakes and Inundations as being united in a common Efficient where matter is disposed though Pliny hath no such Hint we shall conclude Only I am sensible that here it will be said That this is old Stuff Earthquakes Inundations Comets and Pestilences I warrant to make them All hang on a Thread agrees
Physitians every where proclaiming it then there must be something in it because 't is observed some years more than others They 〈◊〉 Rabbi Moses noting the Sicilian Women Quodam annosaetus deformes 〈◊〉 â—â—cipites peperisse Schottus Lib. V. Cap. 2. Such a kind of year was the third of Queen Elizabeth as Sir Richard Baker hath noted and the year 1615. in Germany as Calvisius hath noted And do not we perceive some years to be more Fruitful of these Anomalies than others we have as good as named them twice rather than fail A o 1503. 1514 1536 1537 52 54 56 93. But further the probability of this may appear 〈…〉 these years the same Deordination is found in Animai◠〈◊〉 Hares Calves whose Examples I forbear to multiply I might add some Monstrosity in Vegetables of which here and there Examples will occur But now to come a little nearer that I may explicate my self I consider the Fornaces of Aegypt and the known manner of hatching of Chickens not by incubation of any Female but by hiding them in Dung whose Warmth is supplyed by the Fornaces and which is much to our purpose seeing Warmth applyed by Art can hardly observe the even Hand and the gradual Methods of Nature many of these Chickens proved Monstrous redundant or defective in Leg or Bill c. Now the Heats or Influences of these Years where our Planets are concerned may be nay 't is plain are unkind unsuitable if not intemperate the only second Cause as far as I understand that matter of Pestilent Contagion Where I can Imagine no reason there my Astrologers lead me not as in the case of Fires notwithstanding some unlucky co-incidences of the pretended Effect of the Martial Aspect But where we have some Semblance of Reason we propose our Thoughts and submit them to the Learned § 24. 'T is no question but over the Body it hath Power yea over Inanimals Metals will not run sometimes so freely and Quick-silver will not work Those who are concerned wondring at the Reason We besure tell them 't is an Aspect to get Credit to our Principle As for the Animal Let any observe our Diary of ☉ and ☿ As many as fall into this our Aspect they present us with Aches Distempers Hysterical Fits in some special Signs at least But we have further to go The Mind and its Faculties are liable to be disturbed by a Celestial Meeting All grant it possible I remember by the Intimacy of the Faculty with the Spirit and the Propinquity of that to the Body Now if I mistake not I have observed various Alterations and Emotions of Spirit under ♄ ♃ Visible in Melancholly Griefs Distractions Phrensies Lunacies c. Not that the Stars cause Frensie or Distraction Heaven forbid but because our Minds Sickly and Crazy and Distemper'd by our natural Weakness or willful self-Corruption Antecedent to the Celestial Energy the secret judgment of God not interposing are not able to stand under the harsher temptations of the Planets This being the true solution of crazed Intellects as the Midsummer Moon as they call it our Heart like a sore part cannot endure to find it self touched or treated so rudely by Natural Agents who have no power to check themselves but act according to the utmost of their Strength I have no other proof but what is drawn from Observation of the Weekly Bills which though I know looks as Baleful as the sight of a Spectre in a dark Night walking over the Graves of the Dead yet even the Melancholly Secrets of Nature may be pryed into if perhaps we can reach them Those unhappy Felo's de se that make away themselves by what kind soever I do suspect are the worse in the Sence now explained through the Potency of the configuration as the Physitian knows the Delirium of his Feavourish Patient is heightned by the Intemperance of the Weather And this is a Demonstration to them who easily Infer that if the Celestial Bodies are the Causes of the one Intemperance They have some unhappy share in the other the Intemperance of the Planets But what can be observed from the Bills of Mortality where the Periods of Men are only mention'd You do well not to ask You grant it seems that there are some Fatal Diseases of the Mind there recorded Then say I the Periods of those Persons betoken the height of their Passion under which they labour and struggle and are thrown at last I observe then that many times Distractions and Lunacies from several Quarters meet at the Grave the same Week which mentions a poor Melancholic that hath laid violent hands on himself shall mention the Disease of a Lunatick and another who dyed with Grief and let no man call me cruel I pity them as much as any But I must confess I reckon Immoderate Grief under which Head too many are found in the Bill to be a kind of Distraction That Grief Lunacy and the Melancholly Desperado are carryed forth in the same Weekly Sheet to be buryed And what if we shall meet sometimes not only more than a single Instance in one Week but a sad pompous Succession of such fatal Exits for a Month or more together Thus in the year 1680. in the last Week of March we find one self-murtherer with the Knife the first Week of April by Poyson the second by the Noose the week which is dated from the 20th day the Noose or Fatal Knot from day 27. the like with a Lunatick beside From May 4. Grief and the Halter from 11. the same with a Lunatick yea from the 18th the same again The Succession holds entire for one Month together and if it had not been dis-continued by a single Intermission it had held out Two I cannot deny but that other Aspects may sometimes be unhappy but I chance to observe it first in ♄ ♃ the Potency the Name of that great Congress call'd me to look toward some materiate Cause if Religion and Philosophy will bear the Speculation I took notice of two Lunacies in the Diary of ☉ ☿ in the Month of Febr. 1682. two together struck me I referr'd them with a reserve notwithstanding for a more strict enquiry to the Co-incidence of that Solar Aspect to ♄ ♃ I am sorry I am at a loss for the Mortality-Bills even of that Year but in the year 1681. I have Instances from May 17. of killing Grief from May 24. of self-murther from May 31. of Grief and self-murther from June 21. Lunacy and self-murther Afterward these black Exits came not so thick till October 18. there we meet with all these self-murther Grief and Lunacy in the next week October 25. a Lunatick again the first of Nov. self-murther What Rule can we give when we may fear and prevent I speak to those who have Catholic or Universal Charity such fatal Events Consider to keep to our Aspect when ♄ ♃ are in ☌ when a third Planet joins with either or approaches the Equinox
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noted Dec. 17. An. 1641. but elsewhere upon less occasion for on every one of those days shall you find what we call a ☌ ☉ ☿ within 7 6 5 degrees besure under 10. Blame not the Germans therefore if they fancy Astrology and let us hope that we shall have no such Cogent Fiery Evidences for the Dint of the Heavenly Influences to etch in the Belief of a Scientifique Conclusion A great Conclusion and Cause Natural for Nature is a Prodigy a Miracle so that I do not wonder at the Instance not yet mentioned in the Diary aforesaid of what happened at Zicken in Brandenburg Jan 7. An. 1640. under a ☌ ☉ ☿ which bears a Contradiction in its mention Tearing Hail Fiery Hail-stones The Diary 't is true comes in with his Exception sed haec saith he sunt miraculosa And far be it from me to Extenuate any Stupendious Work of the Creation but I am apt to believe that even this is such I mean Natural and all Circumstances considered hath its Natural Cause yet I grant it heartily in some sense Miraculous At Stetin the ingenious Eichstad tells us of Sulphurous matter rained there But I won't enquire now for fear I should find some conjuring Aspect and that Sulphur containing Fire might be called Hail We that have ventured to ascribe to the ☌ ☉ ☿ a Power of blowing up or shaking the Earth must not boggle at any thing less or equal Nor have we done yet scarce § 66. For Ptolemy as far as I can see made no mention of Comets as if the ☌ of Planets contributed not to the Opening of such Aetherial Monsters although now the Opinion begins to take as we may see by Lubienec his Account that the Planetary Congresses do give them being And surely if they contribute to Earthquakes Lightnings Fiery Meteors c. They may reasonably be thought not to stand out for the Generation of Comets also which are found always hankering under Earthquakes and other Commotions For what reason can be given why a Comet should bode an Inundation at one time an Earthquake at another and a 3d. time a Plague unless they are united in the same Cause which in common at his Seasons and Opportunities produces all Three Beside the Comets Aetherial and Sublunar are all of a Species Mortal and Transitory differing in their Duration according to the difference of their own Dimension as in reason the Aetherial must needs surpass the Sublunar Add that certain it is that the very Trajections and other Fiery Meteors Trabes and Dracones are of the same Species besure with Comets Sublunar at least Ergo. § 67. Now that so it is under Favour of those Great Men who deem otherwise will appear not improbable from some Instances ready to be produced The First is An. 1577. a proper literal Comet first observed by the Seamen saith Tycho Nov. 10. where ☿ is according to Stadius but 10. gr from the Sun hasting to a nearer ☌ This I say helps to Midwife the Comet into the World Its appearance was breeding before An. 1582. The next Comet in the beginning of March. Ricciolus Alm. Tom. 1. p. 13. at what time there is commencing ☌ ☉ ☿ towards the end of ♓ An. 1607. The Third Comet appeared on Sept. 16 Stylo veteri On that day there are visible Three Aspects and one is ☌ ☉ ☿ an accident so remarkable that Longomontanus treating of that Comet as Riccilous informs thinks it reasonable to date that Comet from the Conjunction So then The Fourth is that famous Comet of 1618. where we will stretch nothing because there is not that Consent about its first appearance Besides that they say there were three or four that year two shining at the same time All which I say is if that be true which Lotichicus hath declared who wrote with all Religious Diligence at that time that the Comet appeared first about the VII Calends November Stylo Vet. which is our October XXV it lights punctually upon a ☌ ☉ ☿ The Fifth and there is none intervenes haps An. 1652. Dec. IX seen near Orion's Girdle ☿ was in ♑ 3. So on the matter there was a ☌ ☉ ☿ on the very Solstice Again An. 1661. a Comet seen at Amsterdam Jan. 28. a ☌ ☉ ☿ makes one there An. 1664. Jan. 11. a Comet seen in Stiria ☿ is but 8 degrees distant An. 1664. Dec 17. There are Stories of Fires falling from above Dec. XVIII in Germany and I my self saw with Horror an Angry blazing Meteor as big and round as the ☽ but with no such meek favourable Countenance A ☌ ☉ ☿ within 3 degrees § 68. And what folly is in this Principle When as it is certain that even the ☽ aspected with the Sun and the Rest gives her Symbol toward the kindling of a Comet especially the Conjunction with the Sun And Tycho I remember thinks it a reasonable Conjecture in that of 1603. To conclude this Chapter 't is good to know what we hope to make as plain as Day when some great Men there are beside Fromond who favour us who refer the Original of a Comet to the Planets Postellus Cabaeus Telesius Bullialdus Kircher Schuler Heveltus and Galileo c. And I doubt whatsoever Lubieniec is pleased to say Ricciolus can have no Demonstration to the contray which may be seen in due place Thus far Ptolemy § 69. 'T is time now we advertise of Heat whose account seems so Low being but 12. because we reckon those days without Wind or Rain otherwise the Sum gets up to 56. with days more for Thunder and Lightning And this may be no small Medium for conviction of Dissenters for if a Planet will not be allowed to bring Rain or Winds it may be allowed to bring Heat at least in Conjunction with the Sun for a very Mountain of Ice joyned with the Sun will reflect Heat till it is mastered Let the Industrious Calculator assure me that the Luminous Planets do but meet and he may assure himself without Violence to his Intellect or self-imposture that the Warmth he finds at the Critical time streams upon his Head from the Configuration Doth not our Verulam acknowledge so much in his Inquisition into the Form of Heat Henceforward let no man therefore take up that vulgar and scarce reasonable Expression saying On such an Aestival day the Sun is very Hot and ready to make one faint c. when the difference lyes Elevation considered very often in our Planets side who sculking under the wings of the Sun betrays his undiscerned Presence by his Natural glowing together with the greater Luminary Wherefore let me bespeak the Dissenter Sir you are a Philosopher Some of these days you may please to see are more than ordinary Hot as May the 13. An. 1621. June 7. and 9. An. 1623. May the 24. An. 1624. or three days together in August An. 1625. or in June An. 1626. I would know the Cause as abroad so with us at home