the world yea and extant in the Gospel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S. Matth. IV. whether it signifie Epileptick persons as is certain say Physicians from the Symptoms Matth. XV. or the Raving Melancholy distracted Persons as the Syriac expounds it see the Learned Martinius in Lexic such as we meet S. Matth. VIII and S. Marc. V. they are both sad Instances of the Lunar Dominion on Humour in general and the Humours of our Temperature Of the Epilepsie 't is confess'd of the Other also 't is as true by the testimony of the Syriack And though some of the Antients S. Hier. and Origen are jealous of this Notion ascribing all to Diabolical Ferity and Cunning lest we should raise an Evil Report and bring Infamy on God's good Creature if we should grant the Moon contributed any thing of disposition to the Distemper yet we answer in a conciliatory way with the Generality of the Learned avoiding Both Extremes thus To refer all to the Natural Cause is one Extreme to impute All to the Infernal Fiend is the Other There is more danger of Injury done to Religion in the denial of these Natural Evidences than of Infamy to God's Creature in admitting them It would be wrong to the Creature to say the contrary seeing This also Lunar Warmth is God's Creation Therefore the Arabick Translator owns the Philosophy and construes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be Those who are tormented and vexed in principiis Pleniluniorum whether he means Either or Both of the Distempers abovesaid is to be learned from the Arabian Physicians See Gul. Ader the pious Critick on the Diseases mentioned in the Gospels § 16. The Experience concerning the Shelfish and their fatness at the Interlunium is evaded by saying that the Tide recruits them the Fresh water that comes along with it But doth not the Moon conduce to the freshning i. e. rarifying and quickning of that Stream Doth it not immit a new or call up the native spirit from its recesses to the very surface of the Element The Lunar warmth hat a double Office not only quickning the Aliment but as the Philosopher saith comforting the Cold bloodless Feeder his words are these The Shel-fish thrive most at the Full Moon not because they feed more 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quite contrary to the Answer given but because the Nights are warmer by reason of the Moon de part Animal IV. 5. For bloodless Creatures saith he are easily chill'd and rejoice therefore in warmth Now warmth we know nourisheth as well as Victuals as we see in Sleep not excluding the Food but distributing it Certainly the Lunar History gives Instances of its Power over those Bodies whose Nutrition is not so facile as Theirs seems to be who have a whole Sea to guzle in § 17. But at Cambaja it seems at Bengala Java Islands and elsewhere neither do the Tides appear at the New or Full but at the Quarters when the Shel-fish also make their Markets Answ Some Difficulties there are and who can expect otherwise that studies the Universe rais'd against the Moon 's Soveraignty which yet are found to vanish the nature of the place be it Sea or Shore once consider'd For whatsoever difference here is found no doubt is on the part of the Recipient according to that good Maxim Quicquid recipitur c. and that solves all doubts in this case even the various Fluxes of Euripus it self For let the Ocean flow in some places four hours and ebb eight as with us in others seven and ebb five as long as it flows once in 12 hours and twice a day we are secure Do these Spring-Tides observe the Quarters of the Moon invariably do they keep their times for the whole Periods twice a day with other Ports does the Succession keep to its Measure I mean happen 48 Minutes later every day The Moon is the cause even of those Quarterly Floods yea the Change and Full may be the Cause with Us while the Quadrate may be assigned for the Cause there the Quadrate being less powerful than the Conjunction but not utterly infirm or of no force as will be seen hereafter Who knows then but that the Quadrate the less in an Intemperate Zone may be equivalent to the greater in a Temperate we having defin'd that 't is not Heat in every degree but only a Kind and a Temper'd Warmth that is effectual The Conjunction and Opposition may be excessive in the Torrid Zone and so unfit to raise the Humid Spirits on which account we are taught that the smallest Tides are perceived under the Equator Be the Mystery what it will many Definitions are absolutely True confin'd to their Clime which universally cannot hold The Sun riseth and setteth in 24 hours in Greenland not so the South-wind blows from the Pole not in these Countreys the Absence of the Sun causeth Winter with us but Those under the Line have no Winter but when the Sun is nearest them § 18. I must not conceal that I have seen an Ingenious Manuscript concerning this Subject determin'd by the Hypothesis of a third motion of the Earth with great happiness solving many New Phaenomena but yet I who have not proceeded so far in Mathematicks as to espouse Any Thing of that Principle content my self with these vulgar Presumptions and think I have some reason so to do when I shall have ask'd these few Questions not determinable I fear by such Hypothesis 1. Why even in calm and dry weather the Tides from the Change to the Quartile from the Quartile to the Full yea the Two Tides of the same day keep not their proportional Increase or Abatement 2. Why the Spring-Tide about the Full of the Moon most commonly is less than That about the Change 3. Why the Moon 's Perigee swels the Tide more than the Apogee in as much as what Dr. Childrey my late worthy Friend hath observed All prodigious Floods have happen'd remarkable at that time 4. Why the Moon commonly loses nothing at her appulse to the Equinox at what time of the Month soever it happens 5. Why it gains in her Applications to either Tropick if in her utmost Latitudes Northern or Southern 6. Why the Moon on the day of the Last Quadrate decreasing makes as high a Water sometimes higher than at the First in the Increase 7. Why the Lunar Aspects even with the Rest of the Planets do advance the Tides yea and her Applications also to some of the Notable Stars amongst the Fixed § 19. It may not be amiss here to glance upon Sacred Authority where there is manifest Testimony of the Lunar Energy Per Diem Sol non percutiet te neque Luna per Noctem Psalm XXI That 's the First The other is in Deut. XXXIII where Joseph's Blessing is not compleat without the pretious things of Heaven the Dew c. yea not without the pretious Fruits brought forth by the Sun and the pretious Things put forth by the Moon Whatsoever
are Lightning and Hail Fire and Freezing § 8. Hitherto must we bring All Turbulency since all Trouble in Nature proceeds from Contraries from Antipathies and Impatiencies mutual of Several Natures at the same time ingaged Thus shall we see a vast Cloud pregnant with Thunder bear up against the Wind and a Superior Cloud ride contrary to the Inferior such do I undertake all Constitutions are which are Droughty Soultry and yet serene the Serenity and the Drought being imputed to a cold Original mixt with the Contrary § 9. So that it is no miracle to observe white Frosty Mornings in May or July ushering in a soultry Day yea it is a known Prognostick of such a day to find a Fog proceeding from a cold Cause blinding our early Prospect in the Country That and hazy Air the first Lineaments of Mist or Fog we impute to the Influence of ♃ blended or configur'd with his Fellows § 10. Certainly is he justly defin'd the Resister of Moisture being the Parent of Serenity of such resistance that when he cannot prevail so far as to hinder a cloudy Sky he will and 't is a fine Experiment do his best then to make the Cloud Barren and Unfruitful who if it happen that he is overpowred so far as to admit a moist Constitution obtruded upon him yet he will maintain his power so as to choke up the Moisture with a Mist or niggardly crumble it into a Drisle § 11. And whereas it may be observed by the studious Inquirer into these things that our Principle of Cold may sometimes be deeply ingaged in Great and Violent Rains or dangerous Flashing Lightnings which are Moist and Warm Productions the Answer is legible in the Objection for violence in Nature many times presupposes some great Resistance which for a while staves it off 'till that Resistance like a Dam in a Stream being broken and overpowr'd admits the Danger to shew it self 'T is not often that One Planet is deeply ingaged deeply I said for there is a difference at such times but when such an Hour cometh the Violence may be really ascribed to Causes contrariant their Action Reaction Resistance and Counter-resistance one to the other All Lightnings are not alike Dangerous some play more remote out of harm's way some flash angrily and sudden near the Earth Experience of the Forge teacheth that a cold Infusion addes violence to the Flame This cold Activity is discernible also by Hail-stones at such times intermix'd howbeit suppose there is none because some Situations are no friends to that Meteor the Violence it self is no obscure token of contrary Action as we see commonly in Thunder-showers with extraordinary Copiousness succeeding the Flash or Crack Tantae molis erat so many and so potent are the Celestial Instruments used by Providence in the Alterations over head the Sun the Moon and the Rest as it seems of the Number § 12. When therefore God is pleased to call the Luminaries and in Them the Rest also by the Name of Signs he is far from denying his own Ordinance whereby he hath made them not Signs and Siphres but Authors and Causes of Inferior Mutations giving them Rule Gen. I. a signal Dominion over the Earth Dominion seeming to be a very Aegyptian word from whom Moses in all probability borrow'd it nay there are no less than three words signifying the same literally and properly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Hebr. and Chaldee so that there is no arguing from the signs in Gen. I. unless we can find in our heart to aver that the ☽ is a Sign of the Month and the Sun a Sign of Spring and Summer c. a bare Sign § 13. As weak is the Argument drawn by Learned men Picus Petavius c. the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 used as we have seen by the Ancient Astrologers when they treat nevertheless of the Effects since every Cause not hidden but incurring into Sense is apt to signifie as Rains signifie Flouds and Turbulent Winds a great Sea Nor could the Ancient Observers be imagin'd to watch the Celestial Motions with such care and diligence but with hopes of obtaining the Cause in which they knew they had made no small progress when after a little Observation they concluded the Sign CHAP. XI Aspects the Old justified the New rejected They depend not on Harmonical Proportion Their Revolution Duration and unquestionable Significancy The single Aspects no absolute Cause but only Causa sine qua non A large Soul required to the due Contemplation of the Bodies Celestial The Certainty of the Moon 's Natural Warmth That being admitted the Congresses with Her make way for discovery of the Rest § 1. PLanetary Aspects are no vain Terms of a Bawbling Art but are Mysterious Schematisms of a secret Force and Power toward the Alteration of the Sublunar World especially the Air and those Great Issues that depend thereon according to the Natures of the Influences and the Influenced § 2. Planets therefore without such Habitude must of necessity have their Energy for on what shall the Efficacy of the Combination be founded if the Terms combin'd be utterly insignificant Complication of Ciphres make no tale § 3. Besides 't is unreasonable to deem that Two in Configuration should be Active and twice two without such Combination be ineffective § 4. The new Aspects though the Diligent Kepler after his Tutor Mich. Moestlin ascrib'd much to them are not much to be regarded unless perhaps the Quincunce and Semisextile § 5. The Quincunce Kepler reduces to the Opposition by the same reason one would think may the Semisextile to the Conjunction both differing 30 degrees from their Principals on each side yet the Parity holds not § 6. Sometimes the Quintile makes a shew and if That have ought in it the Biquintile will look for some Respect and if so then the Vigintile and Quindecile and Decile c. will also look to be courted while we hope we go on such Principles that we shall never be forced to own such Driblets of Aspects § 7. These when they happen with notable Concurrence it may seem that their Testimony is not to be refused but they very seldom so happen and when they do meet there may be found a sufficient Activity without them As Aug. XX. A o 1621 in Kepler there is a Record of a grand Effect Dashing Rains and Places struck with Thunder to which there are assigned beside the Old Aspects Lunar and other two Quintiles and a Biquintile here say I this Notable Effect may be accounted for without these Quintiles c. The Concurrence of such New Devises move not because upon supposal of even feigned Causes even those pretended vain Causes may by Accident concur § 8. Yea Astrologers are sick of these New Aspects when referr'd to the ☽ and That not without Reason since the Lunar Sextile one of the Old Aspects is scarce of a discernible Efficacy whatsoever is less sure is Imperceptible The
Learned Vossius to the Sun The later must be ascribed to the Aspects some not ordinary Constitution Celestial For if the Heavens are the Cause of the Original Motion of the Sea and its acceleration which at several times is acknowledged to differ Then it must be the Cause also of that Motion which results from the Original the Sire or Mother of the Currents The like in the Winds For though I see some difficulty there and though I acknowledge the Air to be of an easier Agitation then is imagined yet I cannot think that the Monsoon though in part it is is nothing in the World but a Consent of Motion with the Stream excluding the Heavens So am I sure the Stormy Winds proceed from a new Coition of the Celestial Bodies and thereupon constantly upon its Approach the Monsoon for the while changes § 70. The rest of the Instances abroad let us dispatch and we have done The year 1520. tells a Tale of a Frost which hurt the Vineyards even in September Eichstad imputes it to an ☠♄ ♂ in ♑ and ♋ Platique and the rest of the Aspects mingling with ♄ which we will not dispute A o 1599. Cold and Dry April and May ☠in ♈ and ♎ April 25. impute it to ♄ and ♂ so opposed and withal deserted A o 1607. June 12. A Midsummer Frost on the precise day of the Summer Solstice Fromond reckons it rare and the Truth is ☉ ♂ and ♀ are all three in the towring height of ♋ Yea ♄ from the Opposite Sign irradiates between ♂ and ♀ so posited 'T is the more observable not for any Miracle but to shew ♄ 's chilness viz. his distance If the ☽ which is nearer had been in ♄ 's place it would scarce have been For Heat ♄ and ♂ are noted to cause a great Heat at Lisbon even in Dec. A o 1528. Purch A o 1540. Hot Summer upon the account of our Planets in ♎ when as ♋ ♌ ♠were possessed which Peucer weakly refers to an Eclipse April 5. which in Truth is neither Cause or Sign A o 1558. Great Heat ☉ vertical May 11. ☉ was Vertical but ☉ was strengthned in his Verticity by the Neighbourhoods of other Planets ♂ among the rest platiquely opposing ♄ who also is strengthned by a Friend in the same Sign A o 1589. â Febr. 3. ad March 6. Extream hot Our Aspect helps an ☌ Platique in ♉ and ♠but there is besides other Aspects in extraordinary Circumstance of slowest Motion A o 1585. August very hot ☠in ♈ ♎ 'T is plain to Sence for all the Signs that should be taken up for hot Weather are sped A o 1607. Great Heat ☠♄ ♂ in Trop I was honest when startled even now at the surprizing Difficulty of a Frosty Morning on the Solstice the Planets said I being so posited You see my scruple had some ground for this following Month had Warmth enough A o 1608. Aestas Calidissima noted even when our ☌ is in a Winter Sign viz. ♒ Well that comes accidentally if the Summer Sign ♌ and its Neighbours will shew all the Cards in their Hands and out-face or oppose the Winter-Gentlemen Rare though it be 't is no Miracle A o 1615. Aug. 2. ad 27. Warmer than at any time of the year Impute it to the Approach of the ☠of ♂ to ♄ in ♎ then and there considered with c. § 71. We have some few Fireworks belongs to us some only Shew others mischievous A o 1520. Fax ardens Sept. 4. Lyc. ☠in ♑ and ♋ Platic A o 1546. Chasme Febr. 10. Lyc. ☌ ♄ ♂ in fine ♠A o 1548. Febr. 10. again Fiery Meteors ☌ in ♑ 13. A o 1559. Sept. 1. London Terrible Thunders ☠in ♊ ♠gr 19. dist There are milder Aspects to be observed but even ours also shoots from far and Frights us A o 1595. Pasch April 20 Thunder Lightning yet very cold and so continued to the Months end ☠in ♌ and ♒ the Cold may be reduced to its place A o 1598. Sept. 5. Harmful Thunder at London flew some Men Stow ☌ in ♎ Of Halo's Irides Parelii c. § 72. Halo's are sometimes colour'd like Iris and the Parelia are always striped with Irides which that they depend on our Principle appears as elsewhere we have contended in the like case from the Multiplicity the busie time in Heaven from the frequency of Aspects not of ordinary Concourse I shall instance in one not mentioned in the following of strange Parelia seen at Norimberg March 22. on a Good-Friday I mention that to secure the true day and year where no less than 8 ☌ s or ☠s are found in a Fortnights time A o 1554. First 1514. Jan. 12. in Ducatum Witebeiengensi hor. 3. P. M. 1520. Viennae Jan. 5. ♑ 14. ♂ ♋ 24. ♄ ☌ 1523. May 2. Parelia at Zurich ♄ ♂ within gr 6. of Opposition ♠♓ ♃ is in ☌ with ♄ only gr 9. between them 'T is strange if accidental to the Effect that these should be counter-link't within 9 degrees but the like occurs May 18. 1627. Kepl. Iris die 29. Yea Paraselenae April 9. 1554. 1532. At Venice April 11. Parelia Fromond Lyc. ☌ in ♊ 26. 'T is as strange again that our Planets should meet in Partile Conjunctions and know nothing of the Spectacle 1554. March 6. Ingolstad't circ 8. 9. morn Lyc. ☌ in ♓ 20. 1550. March 30. Palmarum in ♒ 9. ♄ ♓ 7. ♂ 1554. April 9. Paraselenae at Sumerfield ♓ 24. ♄ ♈ 17. ♂ 1555 Febr. 10. Parelia at Vinaria Lyc. ☌ ♄ ♂ ♓ and ♠in fine Nay now 't is probable that our Aspect can make such Counterfeits Heavenly Counterfeits Hypocritical Suns here are three Witnesses 1556. Dec. 6. Parelia ♄ and ♂ in ♈ and ♎ gr 11. dist either the Platique Aspect hath Influence or else neither Partile nor Platique and if neither then we poor Men spend our time finely In the mean while 't is a pleasant Cheat and we are loath to be disabused A o 1569. Die May 21. Paraselenae Bunting ♎ 4. ♄ ♈ 29. ♂ A o 1573. Parelia cum Iridib May 11. Gem. ♄ ♠23. ♂ ♊ 3. A o 1557. July 28. in Suntgoy ♉ 8. ♄ ♠8. ♂ So before die 21. ejusd mens A o 1585. July 19. Rainbows ♄ ♂ ☠in ♈ and ♎ gr 14. dist A o 1552. Febr. 19. ☉ with Halo and Iris Lyc. we mean a dry Iris such as are seen with Parelia ☌ in ♒ gr 3. dist A o 1551. May 21. Paraselenae counterfeit Moons and Irides ♄ and ♂ in ♌ and ♒ gr 11. dist A o 1569. March 12. hor. 12. Iris Nocturna Gem. ♄ ☉ and ☿ are plainly eugaged in the Beginning of ♈ and ♎ yea and our Platic though here at a mannerly distance for all its modesty is guilty of the appearance the hour 12. at Night shews the ☉ hath to do though from the Opposite Hemisphere and ♄ hath
Definitions have excluded and therefore are to be corrected but who understanding himself can exclude it the Ancients did not Pliny discoursing of the Tides puts the Sun in the first place and Ptolemy acknowledgeth the Sun as more absolute in all the productions ascribed whether to the Moon or any other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I. 2. § 9. For the very Nature of the Moon which is a Reflexion supposes the same the Moon being but a Sun reflex'd as they say of others also whose Full and the Change being the observable Phases are nothing else but eminent Relations to the Sun A Relation must include both its Terms the Sun therefore cannot be excluded the Author demonstrates the Sea would have such motion supposing there were no Moon but he may be pleased to enquire and he may find that the Moon cannot be spared spared I say as to that warmth which the Sun it self imparts for by Her the Warmth is modified temper'd increased remitted according to the variety of her Phases by Her this warmth is made so kindly so suitable to the humid Element that without it it cannot be governed Warmth will rarifie Water this Author hath excellently taught us and that the Moon hath a kind of warmth quatenus Lucid he justly defines so there is not much betwixt us every warmth Celestial we shall see hath Influence on the Waters § 10. We have as good Demonstration that the Ebbs and Flows depend on the Moon as that she borrows her Light from the Sun the diversity of the Phases according to her access and recess shew the one the suitable Increase and Decrease of the Tides according to those very Phases shew the other § 11. At the Quarters the Tides are lowest Neap tides at the Change and Full they are higher Spring-tides in the one the Moon is conjoin'd with the Sun in Diameter-line making no Angle in the Other making a Quadrate the utmost distance from the Conjunction and Opposition § 12. The 〈…〉 or supposing viz. that the Tides are lowest at the Quarters endeavours to shew how they come to spring against the Change and much truth without question he delivers but how comes it that Neap-tides happen just at the Quarters if the Moon have no Causality they might happen at the Full as well as at the Quarters and if those Low-Tides might have run through all phases of the Moon and a Fortnight after had boil'd into Spring-tides then I should have hearkned to the Demonstration so far as to exclude the Planet but when the Low-tide is confin'd to the Quadrate That creates Suspicion We that say the Moon communicates a greater yet still kindly warmth to the Air at the Change Full and a less at the Quarters may easily see why God at first ordered the Abatement of the Waters to the One and the Increase to the Other if it be true that the Sea works and purges every full Moon as at other set Times of the Year which accrue to the Sun's account § 13. 'T is an Illustrious Instance that is drawn from the Exuberance of the Tides at or neer the Aequinoctial Lunations taken notice of even by the Inhabitants on the Thames side below the Bridge at least yea of an elder Observation as to the Ocean in Strabo and Tacitus 'T is pretended that in our River they are observed in February and October rather than on the precise Months of March and September This Objection is not confident the very Neighbourhood of the Months February to March and October to September creates a Suspicion of some Truth in the Instance for That Difference is easily accounted for considering that Fall of Wet makes some addition and that This is notorious in February the Close of Winter nor unusual in October the Prologue thereto Let March or September put on the wet Masque of either of these Months and the Effect will be the same Secondly who knows not that the Tides swell not on the precise day of the Lunation but two or three dayes also before and after remembring then the motion of the Moon supposing it hath no Latitude 't is odds but within two dayes after after I say the Lunation in February the Moon will be found in the Equinoctial Sign ♈ as in October two dayes before it is found in ♎ But if Latitude as reason is may be observed the Moon may be found situate on the Aequator in either Month by a Southern Latitude in the One and a Northern in the other For 't is the whole Circle Aequinoctial not the Intersection only that is considerable in this Affair adding withall that the Aequinox Physically considered hath some Latitude as every Centre hath within which bounds the Effect proves even the same As therefore the Spring-Tides in general happening two dayes before and after are justly imputed to the Lunation in general so the aforesaid Equinoctial Exuberancies in February and October are with the same justice ascrib'd to the Equinox for if we calculate rightly the Interval between them is not as it seems a whole Month but only two dayes difference in as much as the Sun in a whole Months time gets no more ground than the Moon acquits in Two dayes where the Moon overtakes her Leader § 14. But the Retardation of the Tide parallel to the Moon 's coming to the South about 48 minutes later the only common motion as is acknowledged to the Planet and the Element is such an Argument For that Two motions from the Creation to This day should just jump together to so nice a Calculation of time and yet the Bodies moved have no dependance one on the other is not easily digested especially when one of the Bodies is fluid easily moved and as easily interrupted disturb'd by Inundations fury of Winds Droughts Frosts Earth-quakes Natural Motion we know once disorder'd will run false like the Index of a Watch 'till some good hand replace it Sometimes the Tides fail sometimes they pay us with superfoetation who restores Nature in this case the Sun keeps its course differing little from it self and its own Elevations a day or two after and yet the Water returns to its wont and forgets its disorder composing its self according to its measure warrantable by the Age of the Moon Here will it not suffice to say the Moon is an Index seeing it may be so and yet a Cause too as Excessive Heat of the Body is a Token of a Feaver or a Southern Sun an Index of Noon An Index of the Tides so may the Tides vice versa be Indices of the Lunar motion and Both be equally causes one of the other if the Moon be a meer Index i. e. not a Cause But the Moon is a warm Mover and That Influence reacheth yea penetrateth the Element insomuch that if the Sun be constituted the Motor of the Seas the Moon her History being attended can scarce without violence be excluded § 15. There is a Notion of Lunacy abroad in
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
some other Cause which we shall evidence in ♃ suppose or by indisposition of the Clime Thus All that Tract of Land or Sea under the Torrid Zone where 't is known Rain cometh but at one or two Months of the year I reckon is generally Indisposed whose reasons are not here to be displayed And thus ♂ comes to be so fam'd abroad for Drought c. as Syrius of old which in our remoter Clime is not so terrible § 17. For ♂ his Heat in Summer Seasons and elsewhere we have beside his Tokens of blue Smoky Mist Lightning Trajections c. an express of above an 100 days and what more might have bin justly noted Yet I must not nor doth our own Diary seem to give leave that I should crow after the Antients and say that ♂ is hotter than ☉ least I should pull the World about my Ears but I say 't is in vulgar way of speaking a more violent Star than the Sun it it self This will be proved not only in this but also in the ensuing Chapters § 18. This raises expectation which we will endeavour to satisfie when we have answered one Objection First that 't is absurd to make a Reflexion a Minor Planet more Potent than the Major 2ly That 't is uncertain whether our Planet hath any such heat or no for if so we should not sure find Hard Sharp Frosty Cold Seasons whensoever our violent Planet is conjoyned to the Sun § 19. To the First 'T is absurd if we consider the Reflexion by its self singly and disjunct from the Direct But if we suppose the Direct Radiation as in Nature it doth then Two is more than one the Direct and the Reflex is greater than the Direct alone So in vulgar speaking as we say sometimes the Son is Finer than the Father whereas all the Finery he wears comes out of the Fathers Purse ♂ is a more violent Star because his Aspects with the ♀ ☿ are more violent than those of the ☉ with the same How comes that to pass unless ♂ may be violent Thus a Conjunction of ♂ and ♀ latently includes ☉ A ☌ ☉ ♀ doth not include ♂ wherefore if Three be more than two a ☌ ♂ ♀ is greater than a ☌ ☉ ♀ This in strict Philosophy may not be said seeing the Minor hath its Energy from the Major but for Doctrines sake we suppose ♂ to be as it were sui juris independent of the Sun § 20. To the 2d we say Let 's see them let 's see the Frosts they are not more than what are found under ☌ ☉ ☿ or ☌ ☉ ♀ and yet they were Spit-Fires Thunderers and Flashers had their Heats and Droughts and Violences too § 21. We see One or Two in our own Diary let 's see the Rest First To run back no further than King Henry the Eighths time Anno 1536. We are told that Ice on the Thames hindred the Kings passage at Greenwich Dec. 24 while ♂ is within gr 2. or 3. of his Syzygie Anno 1598. Dec. 1. ad diem 11. Thames nigh froze at London Bridge the Frost began for all as I see with a ☌ ☉ ♂ in ♠Dec. 1. Anno 1630. From Dec. 21. Three Weeks Frost presently after the Partile ☌ of ♂ and ☉ Kyr Anno 1662. The Thames caked with Ice in 4 Nights die 31. and was scarce passable and this within two days of the Partile ☌ as is seen in the Tables Anno 1665. The end of February and part of March Frosty Weather commensurate to the ☌ ☉ ♂ in ♓ 24. This Frost is memorable from the Dire Pestilence ensuing so that we need not marvail at some stricture of Frost occurring in our Sept. Anno 1658. In Novemb. 1660. In May 1667. In Oct. 1675. in our Tables for the Case is plain ♂ burns sometimes with a Cold Iron § 22. 'T is so but doth this take from the Martial Influence any more than you see it doth prejudice the Solar to admit Frosts sharp and tedious Astrologers do usually speak of Debilities All Planets in Winter Signs are but in a low condition as to Northern site so remote from the Winter Tropick the Setting Sun is weak and cool as a Glow-Worm and Planets in the Winter Tropic are setting even at Noon as it were by their near approach to the Horizon Apply this to ♂ and the rest as in the Winter at Muscovy Anno 1681 when the Polish Souldiers suffered by the Cold Calvis All the Planets were in deep Winter Quarters Howbeit even thus in his Weak Estate our Planet bears some Testimony to himself by Snows amongst the Frost or by Remission of the Cold which may be worth an Observers notice when the Pladding Countryman overlooks such Vicissitudes of Nature if short and temporary For so I hope none can object to us the cruel Winter noted by Gemma Anno 1568. Secuta est saith he Hyems asperrima but he speaks of no great Frost until the middle of March which concerns not a ☌ celebrated ten Weeks before And what was the Asperity Winds and Rains Churches strook with Lightning and Floods Jan. 3. before our ☌ was expired No nor that of September 1590. which was saith Stow a very cold Month with Snow and Sleet but the same Month brought Wind Rain Lightning and Thunder to speak for the ☌ § 23. Add that these cold Examples are very rare and that the ☌ ☉ ♂ commonly brings milder Winter Air so as whensoever Frost appears you may observe that ♂ is at a distance from the Sun about a Sign or two or three c. wherein if Communication be interrupted which keeps it out the Cold breaks in not but that the distant Aspects have their Force the Sextile Quadrate c. but they are not so Potent nay nor so durable as ☌ or ☠§ 24. In this case then the Opposition more than the Conjunction proclaims the Planetary Heat in as much as an opposal of ♂ and the ☉ very seldom fails of its warm thawing Breath Put the ☉ in the Winter Tropique and let ♂ face him in the Summer though the Planet so posited shall be hid under the Earth you shall see what Fire he will save you on a Winters day whereas if ♂ be about the Quincunx of Sol a Sign distant from the Oppositional Line he is in a chill posture and so found in those Frosty days or Seasons which happen at that determinate time some abatement being reckoned for the Northern side of our Clime § 25. The Planet may be violent in his hour for all this and is it not upon that account that the Divine Goodness hath retarded his Motion that ♂ his Configurations with the Sun and other Planets the ☽ excepted being less frequent the World should be less distracted Suppose therefore we should allow which indeed we cannot that Great Britain our dear Country c. felt not the Smart of this Aspect if other Countries do the Divine Superintendency hath its end
please to use my Spectacles what makes the Autumn so Sickly What blows up the Coal for New diseases to sparkle among us It hath bin hitherto said 'T is eating too much Fruit But 't is one thing to say too much Fruit eaten may cause a Quartan Ague c. in this or that Person and another to say when an Epidemic Distemper reigus Too much Fruit is the Cause 'T is the Season not the Fruit of the Season is the cause For how much Fruit doth the Antient Person eat Or the Labourer at Harvest I appeal to the very Practice of the Skilful Physitian whether he find one in Ten of his Masculine aged Patients In a Sickly time that can ascribe his Malady to Fruit immoderately eaten For how haps it that Men eat more Fruit One year than another The more Fruit there is the more is eaten True but are all Fruitful years Sickly We do not find it so nor yet all Sickly Seasons Fruitful Hippoirates teaches no such thing He talks of the Equinoxes and the State of the Air. Learned Men are loath to impute it to the Season because they Ken not the Mystery why the Season it self is Malignant When Hippocrates tells us All unseasonable Weather is such Our Table will shew in some part considerably what are all they which happen August September and October Do not three parts of them fall out in those Months And are not those Months themselves famous for Dangers upon a Celestial account The Physitian is not to Learn what the Aequinoctial means and do not every one of these Harvest Aspects happen in Harvest Signs ♌ â™ or ♎ or beginning of â™ Consult and consider they do and must do so The same Causes make a Sickly Autumn which make a Sickly Spring also as the very Table will inform 'T is not with us as in Jamaica and other places where Fruit hangs on the Tree all the year long Fruit is a Rarity at sometimes of the Year when a Quartan Ague or the Small Poches raigning or a Pestilent Feaver is not CHAP. VIII ☌ ♂ ☿ Conjunction of Mars and Mercury § 1. Parity of Reason 2. Different Aspects may partake of the same Character 4. The Aspect cannot be considerd apart from ☉ ♀ which makes our Diary prolix but is hoped not nauseous 5. The Humour of the Aspect not found but by an enlarged Diary 6. Astrologer without a laxe Contemplation of an Aspect will be put to his shifts as Kepler No such thing as Anticipation the Art betrayed by it 7. Natural Effects are not Orphans 8. Further justification of our prolix Diaries 9 10. Communication of Planets at gr 10. distance to say no more 11. ♂ ☿ Character 12 13. ☿ a sign of Dryth in the Antients Opinion some tokens of that Dryth Locusts a Sign of Dryth 14 15. The Aspect admits of Cold and Frost also 16. Which made the Antients perhaps define ☿ to be of a doubtful Tempur 17 18. In a state of Destitution Light or Heat which conquers not Cold actuates it 19. So our North wind â—s actuated by the Rayes of our Northern Asterisms 10. The Rains and fits of Rain 21. The Winds 22. Harmful and pernicious 23. Thunders reckoned 24. Not all Comets as Cardan will have it belong to ♂ ☿ All the Planets contribute Hevelius as shy as he is his consont thereto 26 27. Account of our Aspect's interest in some Comets 28. Sorer Hail in Germany then in England 26 29. Account of some Earthquakes where our Aspect is concerned 30. Great Fishes stranded note some disturbance of Nature 31. Sholes of Fish argue the like 32. Duration of Earthquakes may be accounted for 33. Currents here also under this Aspect 34. Some shifting of Tydes 35. The late Dr. Childreys opinion curious 36. Some Reasons for our own and our Aspects concern 37 38. Conclusion with our Maculae and Malignancy of our Aspect 39. The Diary 40. The reason of sudden and surprising Showrs by fits 41. The Gentle Dissenter posed § 1. WE have raised the Readers expectations of this Aspect by shewing beforehand what it can do in no mean instance The Truth is the Powr of this Aspect follows the Premises For if ☉ with ☿ have acted and suâ—â—ably ♂ ♀ have imitated them in case 〈◊〉 ☿ have acted ♂ and ☿ may imitate § 2. From different Aspects a different Character must not always be expeced Nature hath several Causes which produced the same Effect and Nature hath divers Causes which produce the same Effects The Fields were green the Flowers blow the Lark and the Trush sung their Voluntaries saith Keplers A o 1621 When even in January So that as Nature can make a Spring when the Sun is an ♉ 〈…〉 make a Spring when the Sun is in ♑ I mean Celestial Nature not Occur Causes where our Mathematicician above thinks fit to shelters 〈…〉 c. § 3. Now though ♂ ☿ may have somewhat peculiar as well as Common yet it would be improper for us to search that out when as yet the Common Influence is not granted us We must shew this first and then if ought appears of Curiosity it will be perhaps welcom § 4. I had a devise once of considering our Aspect of ♂ ☿ separate forsooth from ☌ ♂ ☉ ♂ ♀ but I was forced to abandon it because they rarely happen so as also because a Potent Aspect's Influence may for certain be distinguished even when mixed with Aspects of no small Energy Here the equal Reader will not be offended if he meet with the same Instance a new repeated no more then where a Miner shall take up a piece of the same Ore to search out several Veins of Metal So that if our Diaries be Prolix upon a repeated Aspect they may I hope not easily be censured where even upon a Second Scrutiny which we profess to have made nothing can be spared Add that it is neither ignoble nor unpleasant to be able to ascribe a durable Constitution or State of Air to an Equi-durable mover § 5. Aspects of ♂ ♀ as we have seen in the precedent of ♂ ♀ are either Single or redoubled Single may be in vogue according as I am taught to reckon about 14 days or sometimes more as they are loath to depart But when by the Retrograde Course of ☿ it happens to be re-inforced it redoubles the Term of Time and reaches to a Month or more So I find in Keplers Ephemeris 〈◊〉 1624. where our Planets being met June 2. separate to the distance of 10 gr and then meet a Second time so the Sum comprised arise to days 39. Yea reckoning 10 degrees before and after to 50 Days A time wherein we may view the complexion of the Planets Whereas therefore I had once a Fancy for brevities sake alass to enlarge our Observation but to gr 5 distance supposing to speak Truth the Humour of the Aspect I was taught to double my Files as I did in ♂ ♀ that I might