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
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
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
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
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
many a fair Experiment making up Her History to which I know the more Curious can add more that I may not say 't is apparent if watch'd at some opportunity even to sense A Perspective of IV 1 2. Foot taking the Rise of the Moon after the Full in August a warm day preceding that the Air may not be Counter-disposed shall sensibly present the Planet's warmth to the Eye The like have I found in a Summer-Even sitting in a Southern Chamber that the Moon being eight or nine dayes old when approaching the Meridian hath infused a sensible warmth into the Chamber though the Sun were set § 37. ♂ is found to be endued with a Heat if the Effect may judge equal nay to all seeming superiour to the Sun yet seeing he acts by dependance on Him as all the Rest do we must compare None of them to their Maintainer § 38. ☿ hath a warmth more remiss than ♂ or ☉ more intense than ♀ § 39. ♀ her Warmth is so remiss and slack that she seemeth to befriend a Cold Influence § 40. There is only left ♄ and ♃ and it is very convenient that the cold Planet assigned should be One of these Two It may be somewhat for Ptolemies reason as also because None of the Planetary Bodies which pretend to Cold except these Two can raign I mean shine all Night the most fit opportunity for Cold ♀ shines but part of the Night and the ☽ is too warm for the purpose § 41. This supposeth I confess that the Nocturnal Cold is ordered and managed by the Celestial Bodies which is most certain and will be evidenc'd hereafter § 42. ♄ indeed who can outface so Ancient and Loud Tradition goes for the Coldest Planet He is indeed of a Tepor so low and indiscernible that he may and must be reckon'd as a Favourer of Cold and so far Experience justifies the Tradition § 42. But ♃ 't is well he hath obtained the Character of Temperate as well as ♀ is oh let the Paradox be pardoned the Principal Cold and crude Planet All the Rest are warm and moist though in different measure only ♃ cold and dry or a Resister of Moisture I know 't is a great Paradox and therefore to some will be offensive but it is such as wanteth neither Apology nor Proof § 44. Not Apology for what must we in earnest submit to every Tradition in Natural Science There 's nought I hope in Philosophy but what appeals to Posterity as to Sense and Reason and will abide the Test of Natural Scrutiny Philosophy is too ingenuous to impose upon us to offer to deceive us by Authority I grant the Authority of our Ancestors is Greater than is allowed by the Junior Inceptors of these dayes Many are despised by Us whose Wisdom we shall never attain to But yet our Ancestors themselves have fixed Bounds to their Authority They swear us indeed not to corrupt their Books they do not swear us to believe All they deliver We must tast before we swallow especially in that part of Philosophy which lies beyond the Moon abstruse Theorems at a vast prospect and distance In these I ought not to follow them hood-winkt to take All for granted as if They were First Principles or from Infallible Dictates They teach us concerning Heaven but they came not from thence I cannot give them their Due Praise unless I examine their Theses I shall be a lazy unwise person if I do not I shall be loath to betray the Generations of the World to Security and Error What Liberty the Antients have taken in a modest dissent from their Predecessors is left to us for a Legacy Ptolemy himself differs from His Seniors the Egyptians § 45. Not Proof no not from the Antients themselves For first though They declare him to be Moist yet they teach us also that He is a Raiser of Winds Ptol. I. 20. which by nature are a Dry Exhalation and Cold too 2. ♃ is the only Aeolus that blows up the North-wind say both Antients and Moderns and they say truly a second Argument that ♃ is the Coldest 3. With one mouth also They truly and consequently affirm that He is the Parent of Serenity but if the Cause of Clouds and Vapor be Heat the Cause of Serenity is Cold the Cleansing Spirit of Cold. Add that we shall see hereafter how No Aspect Planetary causes Dryth but every one of them more or less incline to Moisture except ♃ be one therefore if Cold be the Author of Dryth Dryth I mean in the Constitution of the Air ♃ is that Colder Planet Yea so manifestly is He the favorer of Dryth that he shews this Influence not only in Serene and open Air but in Cloudy and dark Air where many times he suspends the Moisture and as the Vulgar speak when in Cloudy Air a Dry Wind blows It keeps up the Rain Nor is it to be conceal'd that in All Fogs and Mists ♃ hath Influence which argues a dry fuliginous Exhalation mixt with Moisture That Moisture which is found and maintained at the Cost of the Rest of the Planets § 46. Colder and Dryer is ♃ than ♄ it self as much as the North-wind is colder than the East for though the East be cold and dry compared to the West it obtaineth no such character compared with the North. But ♃ is confessed Parens Aquilonis Raiser of the North-wind while ♄ contents himself with the East § 47. And for Dryth Aspects of ♄ are not found to resist Moisture to cause Serenity to raise dry Winds to cast a Fog a Cool Constitution it may profess but with inclination to Moisture for admit it causeth Snow I desire it be consider'd that 't is one thing to cause Snow and another to cause it to fall and the Distinction will be admitted by them that consider that how bitter soever the Weather is when Snow hangs in the Air as they call it yet the Weather relents in a sensible degree at the fall of Snow ♄ then may concur to the Solution of that Cold Mass which ♃ or some other hath created but none contests so much for Cold as ♄ ♃ therefore is the Coldest And let thus much at present serve for the 〈◊〉 § 48. Toward the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how ♃ or any other Celestial Body can be the Parent of Cold we are willing to declare First what is the Nature of Cold whether positive or meet Privation 2. If Positive what is the Primum Frigidum Earth or any other Body 3. What relation a Body Celestial can have to Cold if Cold prove to be a terrestrial Emanation § 49. Though some Philosophers have said that Cold is a Privation and it seems to agree to what Ptolemy would say concerning the Quality attributed to ♄ the remotest of all from the Sun yea though I think it manifest that some things called Positive Qualities are no better than Privations as Siccity Diaphaneity Softness c. yet I
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
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
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
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
might be the Cause of the Whitness the extraordinary Whiteness for ordinary is not to our purpose it may be as some have observed long ago in Hail whiter than ordinary which proves to fall under our Aspect Howbeit to the Whiteness of the Sea pray look back to what is noted in the Diary A o 1541. § 46. What we have to say of Phasmes and Apparitions in the Air which we do meet with in unquestionable Records whatsoever may be expected we shall say but little Des-Cartes we see ascibes all such Stories to the Fancies of Superstitious People and so some other Learned of our Men who have followed him But we who heartily believe Spiritual Substances Good and Bad believe said I Nay we say in the Name of Mankind we account the Evidence such that whosoever resists it while he denies Truth confirms it Why so Will you say Even because Humane Nature cannot I think acquire such a proud Antipathy to a confess'd beside Divine Truth without some black Veil cast over their Eyes We I say who admit these Substances considering the report of Heathen Jewish and Christian History can easily admit such appearances as Armies Camps Ships Noses Trumpets so far forth that the Truth is They come not under our Cognizance no more than other Pranks of Daemons do unless as is confessed in Lunacies the Spirits of the Air who no disgrace to natural Science are better Philosophers than our selves know the times and Seasons fitted to their use by the admirable variety of the Course of Nature And this I avow to be highly probable as shall be made good in the Close of this Discourse Here under ♃ and ♀ we meet with that of July 19. 1550. seen at Trebinium in Saxony not far from Wittemberg Armies and Noises heard with Bloud spilt Lycosth Fincelius Our Aspect beside that of ☉ and ♄ is paramount here ☌ ♃ ♀ Partile about ♊ 20. or 21. Another such Spectacle in Saxony again I would He had named the proper place he gives us of a Hearfe seen and Mourners and Trumpets heard Oct. 1. 1541. here to say nothing of III. in ♎ before as observable in rare Effects our Planet ♃ from ♓ 3. oppose ♀ in ♠27. There 's a Third 1554. Aug. 5. 9. P. M. near Stolpen Armies with shooting and Lightning between whiles which though I put no stress upon because the Adversary may be apt to say the Military Noise was nothing but disguised Thunder I answer if History spoke only of Noise c. They said something But when they add Instances of Fighting Bloud Shouting Trumpets which are not so easily represented by Thunder When they add Horses Naval Forces c. as in that before the Spanish Invasion mentioned by Fromond seen by thousands we must not allow that Truth in part shall pass for the whole Truth The whole Truth implys both Physical and Hyphysical Agents in the Affair But of this hitherto only for the Truth of the Phaenomenon if you desire the Jewish History you have the Maccabees Story If the Heathen you have besides the Poets Pliny Appian Valerius Maximus and others And for Christian you have among the Antients S. Gregory if the Moderns Melanchtan Fincelius and Snellius Where we don't introduce Hyperphysical Causes to defeat Natural but only unite them and make them agree thereby confirming us in the Rational belief of that good Record which tells Stories of Spirits making use of Nature for natural Eftects such as Whirlwinds c. What Angel was that what Visible Angel which Jerusalem's King saw slaying his Subjects And what Motto was that which Constantine saw written in or near the Solar Body Are they not hitherto to be reduced A Supenatural Power cloathed in Nature may be Legible as Visible § 47. Let us shut up this Aspect with Frost 't is not enough it may be to say that an Aspect of ♃ and ♀ is found in all obstinate Frosts as in that severe Winter which they say kill'd up the Birds and Beasts A o 1502. though ♄ and ♂ were in Play before yet in February came in ♃ and ♀ So A o 1581. a Winter which in Poland Gangreen'd the Bodies of Military Men Calvis ☌ ♂ ♄ ☌ ♃ ♀ A o 1520. in the Month of May which was so cold that all the hopes of Vintage was nipt in the Bud notoriously upon the account not of ♂ and and ♀ conjoined but of ♃ being opposed to both A o 1572. in Octob. early long and untimely Frost Eichstad p. 39. upon ♄ ☿ long Conjunction for a Month together with ♃ and ♀ in ♈ and ♎ opposed Which Frost by the way introducing the new Star in Cassiopeia Evidences that It also was of the Nature of Comets which not seldom are produced in Frosty Seasons A o 1587. So in the Months out of Winter quarter do we meet with a Hyemal Constitution June 19. A o 1557. and ♃ opp ☉ ♀ ☿ Sept. 4. 1587. When it Freez'd Bluster'd Hail'd Snow'd saith our English Annals upon the account chiefly I confess of ♄ and ♂ in ♉ and ♠but also on the account of our ☌ ♃ ♀ even in ♌ A o 1597. May again Cold and Dry Stow and Hakl Part. 3. p. 195. tells us of extream Cold Weather manifest on ♃ in ☌ with ☉ ♀ ☿ Yet for all this on the other side the same Planets strongly assisted may contribute to Heat So the Seamen complain they were half rosted the 10th of June A o 1660. Lat. North 65. while ♃ and ♀ were in ♊ And June is not July also A o 1645. on near the same accident is recorded for a Hot Season The First being in ♊ the Second in ♋ but within Bounds The Reason of Frost and Cold we have declared to be either the Restraint of the Planets to few Signs 3 or 4. Or 2ly an Hiatus in their order or which is equivalent a width or distance above the Signal Term viz. grad 30. Note that the opposite Sign coming in place instead of the co-opposite is next door to an Hiatus One or more of these Conditions are found in every one of these Chill Years unless there be some Mystery in the Positure of ♄ and ♃ to be mentioned in due place § 48. ♃ ☿ are not so notable because of shorter Comprehension Yet they also minister some occasion to speak a Word of this Constitution We have both kinds here Cold and Hot. For he is no Astrologer who cannot swallow such seeming Contradiction that establisheth both upon the same Cause in several Circumstances viz. When Solitary and When in Consort If Snow and Storms Nov. 18. 1644. If Snow for 4 days in March be any Argument If Snow a. Foot deep found at London at the end of April can move us If extreme Snow at Chery Isle on May 16. A o 1607. Purch 5. 526. or if Snow with Internal Cold as the Mariner calls it Purch 3. 504. if an extreme Cold March and April and May to boot
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.
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
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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