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A69046	A prognostication euerlasting of right good effect fruitfully augmented by the author, containing plaine, briefe, pleasant, chosen rules to iudge the weather by the sunne, moone, starres, comets, rainbow, thunder, clowdes, with other extraordinary tokens, not omitting the aspects of planets, with a briefe iudgement for euer, of plentie, lacke, sicknes, dearth, warres, &c. opening also many naturall causes worthie to be knowne. To these and other now at the last, are ioyned diuers generall, pleasant tables, with many compendious rules, easie to be had in memorie, manifold wayes profitable to all men of vnderstanding. Published by Leonard Digges Gentleman. Lately corrected and augmented by Thomas Digges his sonne.; Prognostication of right good effect	Digges, Leonard, d. 1571?; Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543. De revolutionibus orbium caelestium. Part 1. English. Selections.; Digges, Thomas, d. 1595.	1605 (1605)	STC 435.59; ESTC S115715	61,188	112

nature of the whole No otherwise is it to these things that by fiery force are caried vpward For the earthly fire is chiefly nourished with earthly matter and flame is defined to bee naught els but burning fume or smoke and that the propertie of fire is to extend the subiect whereinto it entereth the which it doth with so great violence as by no meanes or engines it can be constrayned but that with breach of ●ants it will performe his nature This motion extensiue is from the Centre to the circumference so that if any earthly part be fiered it is carried violently vpward Therefore whereas they say that of simple bodies the motion is altogether simple of the circular it is chiefely verified so long as the simple bodie remayneth in his naturall place and perfite vnitie of composition for in the same place there can bee no other motion but circular which remaining wholy in it selfe is most like to rest an immobilitie But right or straight motion onely happen to those things that stray and warder or by any meanes are thrust out of their natural place But nothing can be more repugnant to the forme and ordinance of the world then that things naturally should be out of their naturall place This kind of motion therfore that is by right line is onely accident to those things that are not in their right state or prefection naturall while parts are disioyned from their whole bodie and couet to returne to the vnitie there of againe Neither doe these things which are carried vpward or downeward besides this circular moouing make any simple vniforme or equall motion for which their leuitie or ponderositie of their bodie they cannot be tempered but alwayes as they fall beginning slowly they increase their motion the further the more swiftly whereas contrariwise this our earthly fire for other wee cannot see wee may beholde as it is carried vpwarde to vanish and decay as it were confessing the cause of violence to proceede onely from his matter terrestriall The circular motion alway continueth vniforme and equall by reason of his cause which is indeficient and alway continuing But the other hasteneth to the end and to attaine that place where they leaue longer to be heauie or light and hauing attained that place their motion ceaseth Seeing therfore this circular motion is proper to the whole as straight is onely vnto parts we may say that circular doeth rest with straight as animal cum aegro And whereas Aristotle hath distributed simplicem motum into these three kinds A medio ad medium and circa medium it must bee onely in reason and imagination as wee likewise seuer in consideration Geometricall a poynt a line and a superficies whereas in deede neither can stande without other ne any of them without a bodie Hereto wee may adioyne that the condition of immobilitie is more noble and diuine than that of change alteration or instabilitie and therefore more agréeable to Heauen than to this Earth where all things are subiect to continuall mutabilitie And seeing by euident proofe of Geometricall mensuration wée finde that the Planets are sometimes nigher to vs and somtimes more remote and that therefore euen the maintainers of the Earths stabilitie are enforced to confesse that the earth is not their Orbes Centre this motion circa Medium must in more generall sort bée taken and that it may bée vnderstand that euery Orbe hath his peculiar Medium and Centre in regard whereof this simple and vniforme motion is to be considered Séeing therfore that these Orbs haue seuerall Centres it may bee doubted whether the Centre of this earthly grauitie be also the Centre of the world For grauitie is nothing else but a certaine procliuity or naturall coueting of parts to be coupled with the whole which by diuine prouidence of the Creator of all is giuen and impressed into the parts that they should restore themselues into their vnitie and integritie concurring in Sphericall forme Which kind of proprietie or affection it is likely also that the Moone and other glorious bodies want not to knit and combine their parts together and to maintaine them in their round shape which bodies notwithstanding are by sundrie motions sundrie waies conueied Thus as it is apparant by these naturall reasons that the mobilitie of the Earth is more probable and likely than the stabilitie so if it be Mathematically considered and Geometricall mensurations euery part of euerie Theoricke examined the discréete student shall finde that Copernicus not without great reason did propone this ground of the Earths mobilitie A short discourse touching the variation of the Compasse MArueilous no doubt is that naturall proprietie of the Magnes whereby the néedle touched immediatly turneth to some one certaine point of the Heauens and after sundrie motions hither and thither findeth rest onely in one place and point And albeit this point in seuerall Horizons be different yet in any one Horizon it rem●ineth alway permanent and therfore it plainly appeareth that the same proceedeth of some constant permanent cause naturall and not of any mutable vncertaine cause accidentall But what this cause should bee no man hitherto hath truely discouered To omit apparant absurd opinions the most probable of those that haue been giuen and generally best allowed is the point Attractiue which should bee of such vertue as to draw the needle touched alway toward the same point but whether this point should bee in the heauens or earth is another controuersie Such as will haue it in the earth affirme it to bee a huge mountaine or rocke of Magnes stone distant from the Pole certaine grades which drawing the needle to it selfe alwaies causeth it to make an angle of variation from the Pole of the world saue onely vnder the Meridian that passeth by the same Attractiue point But the error of this opinion will soone be found of them that shall vpon this supposition and two different angles of variation search out the place of that point Attractiue the same being in that Intersection of the two Circles of position by the variations determined and then conferre that with some third angle of variation wherby it shal plainly appeare that in the earth no such one Attractiue point can be imagined as shal by circle of opposition produce such variations as in Nauigation haue been discouered And to place this point Attractiue in any of the heauēs it would appeare more absurd For whether the Heauens moue and the Earth rest immoueable or the Earth moue and the great Orbe of starres be permanent as of necessitie the one or the other must be true considering a motion is apparant it must necessarily follow that his alteration should be in continuall alteration euery houre and moment of the day but by experience we find the contrary and therfore may necessarily be inferred no such Attractiue poynt in that Heauen So that hauing found by these trials this imagination of a poynt Attractiue and such instruments as

haue been vpon that ground deuised but meere vanities I haue somewhat further sought And among sundrie imaginations that I haue Mathematically handled I thinke it is not amisse to propone one to be considered weied and examined by exquisite triall of Geometricall demonstration and Arithmeticall calculation for it is no question for grosse Mariners to meddle with no more then the finding of the Longitude And therfore I cannot a little wonder at the blind boldnes of Sebastian Cabotto and some others that being ignoran● both in Geometricall demonstration and Arithmeticall Symicall calculations haue nathelesse tane vpon them in these most diffi●●le questions to promise resolution being no more able or likely to performe it then an Oxe to flie between two mountaine tops Those sciences being the only win●s to eleuate our grosse senses to matter so high and mysticall let such content themselues with the praise of painfull hard farre trauelled mariners and for their new discoueries let them learne Apolles lesson Ne sutor vtra crepidam Of these two Problemes thus much I promise for the inuention of the Longitude I will God sparing life deliuer meanes as exact certaine and feazible at all times of the yeere in what place soeuer is by Eclipses And for the other if I deliuer not the like at the least s● farre I will wade therein that such blind boldnesse knowing s●m●what more their owne imperfection shall in such mysteries vs● more modestie An Hypothesis or supposed cause of the variation of the Compasse to be Mathematically weied AS the Axis of the Earth notwithstanding all other motions remaineth as it were imm●ueable and yet in respect of the sphericall fourme of the Earth in euery seuerall Horizon maketh a seuerall line Meridionall by reason of the section made in the superficies of the Horizons by Meridians hauing all that Axis as their common diametre so may it also come to passe of the line of the needle and his varation the needle being alway permanent in one plaine superficies according to the seuerall section of the plaine wherein it resteth and the Horyzon there may be continually made in euery plaine new variations More plainely to open this imagination thus I say that as in a payre of ballance of equall waight there is a certaine motion to and fro before they finde their true place of rest the same being only in the leuell of the Horizon which commeth to passe as Copernicus affirmeth by the attractiue Centre of the Earth who drawing vnto him either waight with like force finding the subiects like also compelleth them to rest in the superficies like distant from that Attractiue Centre so in the needle being a body endued with two seuerall properties the one of Grauitie Leuitie which being equally poyzed forceth him to abide in the Horizon the other being Magneticall and receiued by the touch which causeth him to rest alway in that one Meridiā to the Magnes appropriate it thereby commeth to passe that after sundry ballancing this way and that way it onely setleth in the common section of this peculiar Meridian and the Horizon So that euen as in Dyals the line of the stile onely accordeth and concurreth with the Meridian line in such as are voyd of declination but in all such playnes as are declinatorie the line of the stile varieth from the Meridian line and the same angle of variation also altereth as well in respect of inclination as declination so I suppose this variation of the compasse to be nothing els but the angle comprehended betweene the Meridian line and the common section of the magneticall Meridian and the Horizon in the Horizontall plaine and this Angle to bee alwayes exactly equall to the Angle contayned of the Meridian line and line of the stile The Longitude of the place proponed accounted from the Magneticall Meridian b●ing equall to the declination of the Dyals playne superficies making computation from South to East Cyrcularly and the Latitude of the place equall to the complement of the inclination of the same superficies Ho●ologiall Of the veritie of this supposition I could easily determine if there were any trust to the obseruation of Mariners but hauing found by experience their grosse vsage and homely instruments where halfe a poynt commonly breaketh no square and also their repugnant tales that haue trauayled the very selfe same Uoyages I cannot yet resolue VPon due examination of this Hypothesis there may happily fall out a strange Paradox not thought of hitherto that these vulgare maryne Chartes desynate with Parallele Meridians and right lined Rumbie being of themselues apparantly false and err●nious yet vsed without rectification of the compasse may bring foorth true effects and so two errours concurring produce a veritie Errors in the Arte of Nauigation commonly practised FIrst all their Chartes are described with straight Meridian lines running equidistant or Parallele which errour is most manifest to any that haue tasted but the first principles of Cosmographie considering they are all great circles and concurre in the Poles SEcondly they suppose that running vpon any of their poynts of their Compasse they should passe in the Circumference of a great circle and therefore in the plaine Charte describe those winds with straight lines but therein are they greatly abused for the Shippe stenning the North and the South onely maketh her course in a great Circle East or West she describeth a Paralle and being stirred on any other meane poynt the Compasse being tru●ly rectified shee delin●ateth in her course a Curue or Helicall line neither straight nor Circular but mixt of both and therefore to set foorth these windes in the Chartes with straight lines is most erronious THirdly their rule to know Latitude by the Pole starre adding or substracting from his Altitude according to the situation of the grades is all false and that worst i● cannot be amended but be it neuer so wel rectified to one climate yet is it false in all other FOurthly their ta●ing of the Sunne with their Balis●ile as they terme it is most false and whereas some finding the errour thereof haue gone about to remedie the same by cutting off a part at the ende thinking thereby it might approch to the Centre of the eye they encrease thereby the errour and make it more false For visus non fit à puncto as they suppose And this errour is much like the other of the Pole star and situation of the guards for be it neuer so well corrected by section to any one Altitude then shall it bee false for all other as to any skilfull in Perspectiue it is easily demonstrate This errour I h●ue alreadie reformed Demonstrati●è Practicè in my booke lately published entituled Alae seu Scalae Mathematicae Also the rules they haue to know how many leagues they shal runne vpon euery poynt to raise one degree in Latitude are also meere false For they search that Arcke Itinerall as though it were the Hypothenusa to a right angled

sudden death of cattell ON Saturday a meane Winter Summer very hot a late Haruest good cheape garden hearbs much burning plenty of Hempe Flaxe and honey Olde folke shall dye in most places Feuers and Tercians shall grieue many people great muttering of warres murthers shall be suddenly committed in many places for light matters NOw that I haue opened diuers waies both for the learned and vnlearned how weather to come at all times may be well iudged and knowne c. I thought it méete for further knowledge therein not to omit here the naturall causes of such and so many alterations of ayre Lo therefore orderly they follow Naturall causes conducing to all the aforesayd and first of the Rainebow THe Rainbow is the shining and rebounding of beames of light that turne to the contrarie vapour againe in the cloude It declareth sometime raine and many times fayre weather when the one and how the other is before opened Of Raine RAine is a cold vapour an earthly humour or fumosities out of waters or earth drawne vp by the vertue of the Sunne to the neather part of the middle space of the ayre there through cold thicked then dissolued Thus engendred falleth on the earth Here I leaue to speake of miraculous raines as Milke Blood Flesh Yron Wooll c. For more satisfying in these reade Plinius in the second booke 58. chapter Of Frost and Dew A Cold moyst vapour a little way drawne vp in the day thorow faint heate of the Sunne descendeth in the night dissolued on the earth there congelated or resolued into water the one called Frost the other Dew The last is a signe of fayre weather in the Spring or Haruest Of Snow IT is a moist vapour drawne vp to the middle region of the ayre then thicked and frozen into the bodie of a clowde So congelated descendeth Of Hayle A Clowde resolued into water in the fall congelated maketh Hayle The higher it commeth from aboue and the longer it tarieth in the ayre the rounder hayle Of Windes WInde is a multitude of drie exhalations drawne vp from the earth and aboue the earth enforced here and there Of Earthquakes in the most quiet time PLentie of windes entred into holes cones or caues of the earth which absent from aboue the earth causeth quietnesse the violent brusting out of them the earth closed againe is the Earthquake Signum est futurorum bellorum Tokens of Earthquakes to come A Firie clowde appearing in the element like a little pillar is a token of Earthquakes to come The obscurity or darkenes of the Sunne without clowdes and strangely coloured bloodie or otherwise is a token of Earthquakes Also when Well water and others are troubled or salt or infected by sauour c. A great quietnes of ayre by land and sea and chiefly the long absence of winds Also strange noyses heard as clamours of men rushing of harnesse mournings lamentations c. All these haue been obserued to signifie Earthquakes at hand Of thunders and lightnings THunder is the quenching of fire in a clowde Or thunder is an exhalation hote and dry mixt with moysture carried vp to the middle region there thicked and wrapped into a clowde of this hote matter coupled with moystnes closed in the clowde groweth a strife the heate beating and breaking out the sides of the clowde with a thundring noyse the fire then dispersed is the lightning Thus for the learned Tonitruum soni●us est qui ed●●r quando nubem rumpit halitus Fulmen fl●mma vel repentinus est ignis qui ex collisio●● nubium aut ruptura nascitur Aristotle affirmeth the lightning after thunder but the fire doth first appeare in that the sight is before the hearing If this satisfie not reade the second of his Met●oron Here followeth a note of lightnings There be three kinds of Lightnings drie moyst and cleare DRie doe not burne but cleaue part or diuide Moyst burne not but alter colour The cleare are of marueilous natures Full barrels by it are emptied It melteth money in the purse it breaketh the sword the purse and scabberd not perished yea waxe in them vnmolten Of the Comets or flames in the night A Comet is a flame working in a drie hote slimie exhalation drawne vp to the highest part of the ayre His matter or substance after it is burnt and dispersed prouoketh windes The naturall cause of the Sunne cclipsed NOthing else is the Eclipse of the Sunne but the direct putting the body of the Moone between the Sun and the earth or betweene our fight and the Sunne which chaunce onely at the chaunge A Corollarie BY this gather the darkenesse at Christs death no to stande by naturall eclipticall cause but by supernaturall or myracle For it was at the full Moone Scriptures witnesse which enforced Dionisius Arcopagita at the time of his passion to speake thus Aut Deus naturae patitur aut mundi machina dissoluitur The cause of the Moone eclipsed THe Sunne being in the contrarie poynt to the ful Moone enforceth the shadow of the earth then directly put between the Sunnes and the Moone toward the Moone hiding more or lesse of the Moone as she differeth from the Eclipticall Some obserue pestilent plagues sudden battell great dearth to ensue th●se Eclipses which all I desire God to a●ert from his chosen Many other things by these Eclipses are gathered as Longitudes of Countreyes the Quantitie of the Sunne containing the bignesse of the Earth 162. tymes the compasse of the earth 21600. miles whose thicknesse according to Archimedes rule is 6872. miles and eight eleuenths of a mile The quantitie of the Moone is the 43. part of the earth The Sunne contayneth the Globe of the Moone 7000. times Saturnus comprehendeth the bignes of the earth 91. times Iupiter 65. times Mars once and ten sixteenths Venus the 37. part Mercurius one 32000. part of the earth Note here that Alfraganus affirmeth the least fixed Starre perfectly seene is bigge as the whole earth HAec non erunt admirationi si globi capacitatem ex longitudine diametri quaesieris Continet enim solis dimetiens terrae dimetientem quinquies semissem Estque proportio diametri Solis ad terrae dimetientem quae est numeri vndecim ad duo quintupla sesquialtera Cubus solis mille tercentum vnam triginta partes tales continet cuiusmodi terrae cubus octonas complectitur Cubus enim numeri vndecim est mille tercentum vnum triginta Cubus verò binarij qui est terrae octo Subducto quoties id fieri potest minore cubo qui est terrae à maiore qui est solis cognoscitur cubi ad cubum proportio quanto Sol maior terra sit Inuenimus ergo octo centies sexagies sexies in mille tercentum vno triginta Terrae Diametros Lunae dimetiens complectitur ter duas eius

sheweth a luckie day for all matters with the taile contrarie Now ensueth a table shewing what Signe the Moone is in and shall be for euer declaring also the meetest time to let blood to purge and to bathe THe Table hath at the head seuen titles The first moneths the second dayes then the Prime the twelue Signes the times to let blood to purge and to bathe Here is to be noted that those dayes are good for these purposes which be signed with this letter G. and those euill dayes that are no●ed with B. ¶ This Table declareth for euer in what Signe the Moone is or shall be at any daye in the yeare It serueth also very well to let Bloud to Purge and Bathe Monethes Daies Prime The 12. Signes To let Bloude To Purge To Bathe Febr. Nouē 1 3 Aries G B G Marche 2   Aries G B G   3 14 Taurus B B B Decembre 4 6 Taurus B B B   5   Gemini B G   Aprill 6 17 Gemini B G     7 9 Cancer   G G Maie 8 1 Cancer   G G   9   Cancer   G G   10 12 Leo. B B G   11 4 Leo. B B G Iune 12   Virgo B B B   13 15 Virgo B B B Iuly 14 7 Libra         15   Libra         16 18 Scorpius   G G   17 10 Scorpius   G G Auguste 18 2 Scorpius   G G   19   Sagittarius G   G   20 13 Sagittarius G   G   21 5 Capricornus B B B Septembre 22   Capricornus B B B   23 16 Aquarius     G Ianua Octo. 24 8 Aquarius     G   25   Pisces   G G   26 19 Pisces   G G   27 11 Pisces   G G SEeke out vnder the titles of the Moneths the name of the moneth whose day you must looke out right against the moneth vnger the title of daies and there begin to tel downewards 1.2.3 c. to the end if it so require and then from the beginning if neede be vntill ye haue reckoned the number of the day that you seeke Looke what number it falleth vpon in this table vnder the title of daies that number keepe in minde Then seeke vnder the title of the Prime the Golden number for the yeare right against that leftward vnder the title of dayes begin to tell downwards 1.2.3 c. vntill you haue reckoned the number which you did keepe in minde Against that towards your right hand vnder the the title of Signes is the signe wherein the Moone shall bee that day Euen then vnder the other titles ye shall finde in right order for letting Blood for puring and bathing according as they be noted with G. which is good and B. signifying bad Example The sixt day of March in the yeare of our Lord 1555. I desire to know what celestical signe the Moone doth then occupy I find first the name of the moneth that is March and the day as followeth in the next order of this table I begin here to tell right against my moneth at the figure of 2. saying 1.2.3 c. so I haue at the end and count of sixe daies this figure 7. which I keep in mind Now I must seeke out the Golden number for the yere aforesaid vnder the title of the Prime here that is 7. against the which on the left side is 6. There ye must beginne againe to count 1.2.3 c. vntill you come to your number 7. So on your right hand in the row or order you shall see Uirgo the celestical Signe that the Moone is in and after that these three leettrs B. which declare bad or euill to let Blood to Purge or Bathe agreeable to the titles in the head G. there had signified good Forasmuch as letting of Blood Purging and Bathing Inundations Floods Timber sailing Sowing Planting Graffing Cutting c. depend chiefly on the Signe wherein the Moone is which I haue euen before plainly opened I thought it meete to haue them now orderly touched as followeth Profitable Rules A conducible note for letting blood LEt blood at no time without great cause for it bringeth weaknesse and many infirmities If ye doe see it be after good digestion and fasting in a faire temperate day Beware before of all manner exercises bathings watchings and carnal copulation c. After vse fine meates of light digestion abstaining from all the aforesayd vntill the fourth day These Signes are most dangerous for bloodletting the Moone being in them Taurus Gemini Leo Uirgo and Capricornus with the last halfe of Libra and Scorpius The rest are all good so the Moone beare no dominion in that member which ye cut as followeth Behold this figure The Dominion of the Moone in mans body Aries The Head and Face Taurus The Necke Gemini The Armes Hands Shoulders Cancer The Breast Stomacke Ribbes Leo. The Heart Backe Virgo The Bowels Belly Libra The Raynes Nauill Buttockes Scorpius The Secret members Sagittarius The Thighes Capricornus The Knees Aquarius The Shinnes Legges Pisces The Feete FRom the change to the first quarter a meete time to let young men bloud From the first quarter to the full good for middle age From the full to the last quarter apt for aged folke From the last quarter to the change best for old men Signes meete for the Complexions Aries For the Flegmatike the Head and Thighes excepted Sagittarius For the Flegmatike the Head and Thighes excepted Libra For Melancholike Buttockes and Legges excepted Aquarius For Melancholike Buttockes and Legges excepted Cancer For Cholerike Breast Members and Feete excepted Scorpius For Cholerike Breast Members and Feete excepted Pisces For Cholerike Breast Members and Feete excepted For the Sanguine all be apt that tofore are named good In the Spring time let blood at the right side In Haruest time at the left side The learned Phisition will consider beside all that is sayd the Coniunctions Oppositions and Quadrat aspects of the Planets with many other things Astronomicall most necessarie both in blood-letting purging bathing c. For to take purgations and to bathe THe méetest time to take purgations c. is neither in hote nor cold dayes that is from the tenth of March to the twelfth of Iune Further by rules Astronomicall it must bee performed when the Moone is in cold moyst and watrie signes as Cancer Scorpius and Pisces comforted by aspects and radiations of Planets fortifying the vertue of the bodie expulsiue The Moone in Aries Taurus and Capricornus naught One cause of vomiting the purga●ion is if the Moone haue aspect to any Planet retrograde The Moone in these Signes following very good to bathe Aries Leo Sagittarius Cancer Scorpius and Pisces These ensuing are euill to bathe Taurus Uirgo Capricornus Of Inundations or floods of timber selling sowing planting graffing haire clipping shauing and

gelding THe flood is biggest at the full because then dispersing her vertue she filleth all places with moysture By common experience ioyned with learning I knowe at the full the Moone lodeth all bodies with humors and so are emptied growing to the change Of this some gather the fall of timber at the chaunge more to the purpose then other times wanting the superfluous moisture the cause of putrifaction Omnis putredo ab aqueo humido ortum habet Schoner willeth from the 15. day vnto the 22. day of the Moone trées to be felled and that after Midsomer to Ianuary So timber is strong sound and voyd of wormes To sowe Taurus Cancer Uirgo Libra and Capricornus are best in the increase of the Moone To plante or graffe is best when the Moone hath her being in any sixed Signe either in Taurus or Aquarius in the increase Hayre cut groweth well the Moone encreasing being in Taurus Virgo or Libra Cutting Shauing Clipping in the wa●e causeth baldnesse what is then cut groweth litle Caluitium prohibet oleum Tartari The best time of Cutting is in Cancer Scorpio or Pisces in the wane These two rounde Tables that nowe ensue conduce to the rest following A Table for the Sondaies letter and Leape yeare The yere 1554. G. was Dominical The next yere 1555. F shal be Then E vnto S. Mathies day and D. vnder him vnto the end of the yere So orderly rightward in this Circle for euer Where two letters are that is the Leape yeare Or thus for the Leape yeare Deuide the yere of our Lorde by 4. if nothyng be left it is the Leape yeare The remayne noteth the .1 the .2.02.3 yeares after the Leape yeare VVhen yee haue gone rounde about the yeares of these two Tables begin againe A Table for the Golden number or Prime and also for the Epact Seek out the yeare of the Lord vnder it is the prime Thē the Epact VVhich chaungeth euerye yeare at the first daye of Marche the Dominicall letter and Prime the fyrst of Ianuary The prime The sondaies letter The first Lent sondaye Faster daye Rogation whitsontide Betwixt whitsond midso 16   Februarie Marche April Maye wek daies 5 d 8 22 26 10 6 3   e 9 23 27 11 6 2 13 f 10 24 28 12 6 1 2 g 11 25 29 13 6 0   A 12 26 30 14 5 6 10 b 13 27 May. 1. 15 5 5   c 14 28 2 16 5 4 13 d 15 29 3 17 5 3 7 e 16 30 4 18 5 ●   f 17 31 5 19 5 1 15 g 18 April 1 6 20 5 0 4 A 19 2 7 21 4 6   b 20 3 8 22 4 5 12 c 21 4 9 23 4 4 1 d 22 5 10 2● 4 3   e 23 6 11 25 4 2 9 f 24 7 12 26 4 1   g 25 8 13 27 4 0 17 A 26 9 14 28 3 6 6 b 27 10 15 29 3 5   c 28 11 16 30 3 4 14 d Marche 1. 12 17 31 3 3 3 e 2 13 18 Iune 1. 3 2   f 3 14 19 2 3 1 11 g 4 15 20 3 5 0   A 5 16 21 4 2 6 19 b 6 17 22 5 2 5 8 c 7 18 23 6 2 4   a 8 19 24 7 2 3   ● 9 20 25 8 2 2   f 10 21 26 9 2 1   g 11 22 27 10 2 0   A 12 23 28 11 1 6   b 1● 24 29 12 ● 5   c 14 25 30 ●3 ● ● The vse of this Table appoynted for the moueable Feasts THis Table containeth in the first title the Prime in the second the Dominicall letter in the third Lent in the fourth Easter day in the fift Rogation day in the sixt Whitsunday in the seuenth how many weekes and dayes are betweene Whitsunday and Midsommer Which all appeare by their titles Ye shal consider by the little round Table before put forth what number the Prime is that yeare whereof ye require to knowe all these aforesayd and seeke that number vnder the first title of this Table ensuing Then seeke vnder the second the Dominical letter next after the Prime for that yeare which title ensueth the Prime Directly against the same Dominicall letter towards your right hand in the same line ye shall finde vnder the titles what moneth and day euery one of these aforesayd shall happen Example I would know this yeare of our Lorde 1555. These moueable Feasts the first Lent Sunday Easter day Rogation dayes Whitsunday and how many weekes betwixt Whitsunday and Midsommer day First I finde the Prime this yeare 17. which 17. I looke out vnder the title of Prime in the Table before Then I seeke in the next order and after the Prime for the Dominicall letter that yeare Now in right order according to the title I finde the third of March to bee the first Lent Sunday the 14. of Aprill Easter day the 12. of May Rogation the 2. of Iune Whitsunday and 3. weekes and 1. day betwixt Whitsunday and Midsummer day Thus for euer How to know the age of the Moone then the chaunge and quarter for euer FIrst learne the Epact as I haue instructed for that yeare ye seeke to know the age of the Moone then reckon how many dayes are past of the moneth which day ye desire to know the age Put that number to the Epact Then begin at March and reckon for euery moneth from him orderly one vntil your said day including both the moneth of March and also the moneth of your sayd day Adde all these dayes vnto your former number putting away as many thirtie dayes as ye finde The rest is the age of the Moone The age found the chaunge is knowne If ye adde seuen dayes to the change yee haue the first quarter then seauen dayes and somewhat more sheweth the full and so to it adding seuen and more bringeth the last quarter thus by seuen vnto the new Moone Example The tenth day of Ianuary the yeare then being 1555. I desire the age of the Moone I finde the Epact vntill March ensuing to be twentie sixe that added vnto tenne maketh thirtie sixe then eleuen for the moneths from March to Ianuary including both moneths bringing fortie seuen now thirtie pulled away leaueth seuenteene the age of the Moone Now ensue the perfect Tables declaring the true houre and minute of ebbing and flowing in most coasts of England Example The first day of Ianuarie I desire all the aforesaid that is the breake of the day the very minute of the Sunne rising the length of the day and also of the night the Sunne going downe and the twylight I finde on the right hand of Ianuarie these numbers running downe 1.10.20 which declare the first day the 10. day and twentith of that moneth Now to my purpose I require the breake of the day c. The first of Ianuarie in the Table vnder the title on

period The second is ♃ who in twelue yéeres performeth his circuit Mars in two yéeres runneth his circular race Then followeth the great Orbe wherein the Globe of mortalitie inclosed in the Moones Orbe as an Epicicle and holding the earth as a Centre by his owne waight resting alway permanent in the middest of the aire is carried round once in a yéere In the fift place is Venus making her reuolutiō in 9. moneths In the sixt is ☿ who passeth his circuit in 80. daies In the middest of all is the Sunne For in so stately a Temple as this who would desire to set his lampe in any other better or more conuenient place than this from whence vniformely it might distribute light to all for not vnfitly it is of some called the Lampe or light of the world of others the minde of others the Ruler of the world Ad cuius numeros dii moueantur Orbes Accipiant leges praescriptáque foedera seruent Trisinegistus calleth him the visible God Thus doth the Sun like a King sitting in his throne gouerne his Courts of inferiour powers neither is the Earth defrauded of the seruice of the Moone but Aristotle saith of all other the Moone with the Earth hath nighest alliance so heere they are matched accordingly In this forme or frame may we behold such a wonderfull Symmetry of motions and situations as in no other can be proponed The times whereby wee the inhabitants of the Earth are directed are constituted by the reuolutions of the Earth the circulation of her Centre causeth the yéere the conuersion of her circumference maketh the naturall day and the reuolution of the ☽ produceth the moneth By the onely view of this Theorick the cause and reason is apparant why in ♃ the progressions and Retrogradations are greater than in ♄ and lesse than in ♂ why also in Venus they are more than in ☿ and why such changes from direct to retrograde Stationarie c. happeneth notwithstanding more risely in ♄ than in ♃ and yet more rarely in ♂ why in Venus not so commonly as in ☿ Also why ♃ and ♂ are nigher the earth in their Acronicall than in their Cosmicall or Heliacall rising especially ♂ who rising at the Sunne set sheweth in his ruddie fierie colour equall in quantitie with ♃ and contrariwise setting little after the Sunne is scarcely to be discerned from a starre of the second light All which alterations apparantly follow vpon the Earths motion And that none of these doe happen in the fixed starres it plainly argueth this huge distance and immeasurable altitude in respect whereof this great Orbe wherein the Earth is carried is but a point and vtterly without sensib●e proportion being compared to that Heauen For as it is in perspectiue demonstrate euery quantitie hath a certaine proportionable distance whereunto it may be discerned and beyond the same it may not be seene This distance therefore of the immoueable Heauen is so excéeding great that the whole O●bis magnus vanisheth away if it be conferred to that Heauen Herein can wee neuer sufficiently admire this wonderfull and incomprehensible huge frame of Gods worke proponed to our senses seeing first this ball of the Earth wherein wee moue to the common sort seemeth great and that in respect of the Moones Orbe is very small but compared with Orbis magnus wherein it is carried it scarcely retaineth any sensible proportion so marueilously is that Orbe of annuall motion greater than this little darke Starre wherein wée liue But that Orbis magnus being as is be●ore declared but as a poynt in respect of the immensitie of the immoueable Heauen we may easily consider what little portion of Gods frame our Elementare corruptible world is but neuer sufficiently be able to admire the immensitie of the rest especially of that fixed Orbe garnished with lights innumerable and reaching vp in Sphericall Altitude without ende Of which lights Celestiall it is to be thought that we onely behold such as are in the inferiour parts of the same Orbe as they are higher so seeme they of lesse and lesser quantitie euen till our sight being not able f●rther to reach or conceiue the greatest part of the rest by reason of their wonderfull distance inuisible vnto vs. And this may well bee thought of vs to bée the glorious Court of the great God whose vnsearchable works inuisible we may partly by these his visible coniecture to whose infinite power and Maiestie such an infinite place surmounting all other both in quantitie and qualitie only is conuenient But because the world hath so long a time beene carried with an opinion of the Earths stabilitie as the contrarie cannot but be now very imperswasible I haue thought good out of Copernicus also to giue a taste of Reasons Philosophicall alleaged for the Earths stabilitie and their solutions that such as are not able with Geometricall eyes to beholde the secret perfection of Copernicus Theorick may yet by these familiar and natural reasons be induced to search farther and not rashly to condemne for phantasticall so ancient doctrine reuiued and by Copernicus so demonstratiuely approued What reasons moued Aristotle and others that followed him to thinke the earth to rest immoueable as a Centre to the whole world THe most effectuall reasons that they produce to prooue the Earths stabilitie in the middle or lowest part of the world is that of Grauitie and Leuitie For of all other the Element of the earth say they is most heauie and all ponderous things are carried vnto it striuing as it were to sway euen downe to the inmost part thereof For the earth being round into the which all waightie things on euery side fall making right angles on the superficies passe to the Centre seeing euery right line that falleth perpendicularly vpon the Horizon in that place where it toucheth the earth must needes passe by the Centre And those things that are carried toward that Medium it is likely that there also they would rest So much therefore the rather shall the earth rest in the middle and receiuing all things into it selfe that fall by his owne waight shall bee most immoueable Againe they seeke to prooue it by reason of motion and his nature for of one and the same simple bodie the motion must also be simple saith Aristotle Of simple motions there are two kindes Right and Circular Right are either vp or downe so that euery simple motion is either downward toward the Centre or vpward from the Centre or Circular about the Centre Now vnto the earth and water in respect of their waight the motion downward is conuenient to seeke the Centre to Aire and Fire in regard of their lightnesse vpward and from the Centre So is it méete to these Elements to attribute the right or straight motion and to the Heauens onely it is proper circularly about this meane or Centre to be turned round Thus much Aristotle If therefore saith Ptolomie of Alexandria the Earth should