the two yet once I found it made me chill in my Bed well fenced and guarded against the injuries of the Air though in the Month of March An. 1671. ten days after the Equinox 〈◊〉 March XX. And the year following on the very day of the Equinox we had Ice even Bearing brought to that consistence in 3 days which we say belong or border on the Trine Just as in Octob. Anno 1677. we had Three Winter days absolute Winter within the same confine § 13. Consonant to this we may have occasion to speak of a notable indisposition of which in our seven years we met with Two Instances we call them Tusses Epidemicae of which the first is noted in our Fugitive Table Jan. 16. 1673. the other was noted all Europe over Octob. 27. An. 1675. Concerning which being interrogated by a GREAT Person what might be the Cause I answered Him with all Respect but with all Assurance also that it depended on the Heavens an Universal Cause in this sense but little thought I then I confess that this Lunar Radiation might have any Finger in it which now appears probable from a redoubled instance yea and from the Mysterious Change of a Pungent Heat to a Stupefactive Cold observable here in this Radiation and others also which our Bodies or rather our Spirits may be sensible of when our unwary attendance on our selves can give no Minute Account of it Some Physitians did impute it I remember to the Change of the Wind over night toward the North which was very true but they will give me leave to advert that there may be more in it so several more hidden Celestial Causes for every Change of the Wind to a cold part brings not an Universal indisposition over all Europe of which we can assign no more as proper to this place but the Lunar △ Radiation among the Rest § 14. We have a double instance which may be glanced upon we shall speak of the store of Rain presently but this is the Singularity expressed by a Great Drop more than ordinary more than once Great Hailstones which in Tables of observation of a wider Latitude do occur a 3d. a 4th a 5th time c. arguing in my judgement a different degree of Heat struck up at that time as in the generation of Hail commonly is seen though encountred 't is true with a contrary Activity § 15. Of the same stamp is the next considerable in the Water-Floods of our River the Thames where a High Tide is noted not only in the ☌ or ☠but sometimes under our Trine also August 1676. and Decemb. 1672. That of the First this of the Later Trine That of Dec. being as High a Tide as ever was known in the Memory of Man being ready to run into Westminster Hall as I my self can attest It had bin a time of Frost and Snow and therefore we shall allow the consideration but withall shall sue out our Title for the Aspect seeing upon review of Tide-Observations for some years I find to my surprize the Tides start as frequently in each Trine to a new degree of Height sometime to equal the Change and Full. But I will not press this too much because it may occasion a Brangle upon consideration of the Tides great variety upon Droughts Rains sudden Thaws and stiff Winds intervening so that even the Sextile and Quadrate the Neaptide Aspect is found at times to usher in exuberant Flouds always provided that we may renew our Plea when time serves and that I may not think it fortuitous I found an extraordinary low Ebb with us at London noted on the same Aspect where so great a shelf appeared at so many places that the River look't not like it self when some curious Persons were invited thereupon to waft thither and to pace the Dimensions of the Terra Firma August 25. 1672. Now the use that I make of this is this the moderate low Ebb in one part doth argue a proportionable height in another Rye suppose or Winchestea 'T is true the Ferrimen imputed this low Ebb to the Western Wind which I reckoned was a careless Answer from such as are not inquisitive Persons because I could not observe any such briskness at that time from the Western Quarter Nor do many Winds from that Quarter leave the River so naked § 16. Come we now to the Wind the Singularity here in my Judgement is very entertaining the Wind not only changing for so it may under all Aspects and less here than elsewhere but want only playing so that as I have often with Pleasure observed the Index hath whiffed round all the points of the Compass from whence I observed by virtue of a Sic parvis the Tornados and Whirlwinds may well depend on the Heavens when an ordinary Linar Aspect shall shew us that variety So May XXIV and Oct. XXVIII 1675. April VIII 1672. Septem VII Octob. VI. 1677. June XII An. 1674. This take along with you that when the Wind so shifts and plays about 't is a sign of Weather approaching in the Horizon or actually existent at the same time somewhere else § 17. Now if the Reader please to like our former Representation of the frequency of the Effect Rain I mean in the Quartile Aspect as it is plain and not unprofitable the like we are ready to present him here  ☉ ☽ Revol Success Jan. ♒ ♊ VIII 7. Feb. ♓ ♋ VII 5. March ♈ ♌ VII 7. April ♉ ♠VIII 4. May. ♊ ♎ VII 5. June ♋ ♠VIII 6. July ♌ ♠VII 5. Aug. ♑ ♑ VIII 7. Sept. ♎ ♒ VII 7. Oct. ♠♓ VII 4. Novemb. ♠♈ VII 6. Decemb. ♑ ♉ VII 7. Jan. ♒ ♎ VII 6. Febr. ♓ ♠VII 7. March ♈ ♠VII 7. April ♉ ♑ VII 4. May. ♊ ♒ VIII 8. June ♋ ♓ VII 4. July ♌ ♈ VII 5. Aug. ♠♉ VIII 6. Sept. ♎ ♊ VIII 8. Oct. ♠♋ VII 7. Novemb. ♠♌ VII 6. Decemb. ♑ ♠VI. 6. § 18. Not unprofitable whereas before you see all Aspects are not alike responsible in every Month no nor in the same Month. Some speed but 4 or 5 times some 6. the Happyest compleat their Number be it VII or VIII Hence it follows that there are different properties of the Zodiacal Signs A Lunar Trine in ♈ ♌ and ♈ ♠you see keeps touch so far I can speak for the Fiery Triplicity and pray overlook not the other A Trine in ♉ ♑ will deceive a blunt Astrologer which speeds but four Times in VII so the rest yet this is somewhat out of place § 19. Yea but the main Singularity to come to that at last is concerning Stress of Weather hinted at already if that be true which we have asserted or rather commended to observation that the shifting of Winds argues Commotions somewhere We have said that the Phasis of the Trine looks with some deformity and the Character △ seems to be Mysterious and Magical if there be such Power
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
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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It may Portend for all that They deny Apparitions of Armies Wherefore because they can give no account of them They may deny as well a Showr of Rain for any account they can give why it falls with the Circumstances of hic nunc Our Philosophy reaches those very Circumstances because we study God and His Motions the Accesses Recesses Stations Respects of those Moveables which He hath Cloathed with Light least we should say He hid such Knowledge from us Therefore tell me good Friend why it Rains now why every quarter of an Hour for so it haps sometimes Why it Snows in Summer and Thunders in Winter Prognosticate by your Mechanisms what shall be Seven Year hence Nay if there be a Natural Divination then there is a Providence then there is a God then there is a Law of Nature setled which he who is Skill'd in obtains the Gift of a kind of Prescience So does Hippocrates foretel the Fate of his Patient an Arab a Comet and Thales an Eclipse This Knowledge I have endeavour'd to settle and to render it perspicuous which must require some Prolixity where the Mountain of a Common Prejudice is to be removed Yet I will not justifie my self I might have been more contract perhaps I may add that I was never inclined to study the Arabs I fetched not this Knowledge from them When I saw I was engaged to consult them I knew here was a Meum Tuum even among them so I gave them their due I have often apolâ—gized in the following Papers for the Length of the Diaries inserted I labour'd to find the utmost of the Planetary Communication which I have shewn to be large That is the chief thing I pretend to and I hope if it brings its Conviction it will be kindly accepted To conclude I wish the Reader a discerning Spirit in all Truth he pursues not only in this but in a more Celestial Philosophy So far am I on all accounts his unfeigned and absolute Well-Wisher J. GOAD The Characters which are made use of in the following Papers are thus explained Planets Saturn ♄ Jove ♃ Sol ☉ Mars ♂ Venus ♀ Mercury ☿ The Moon ☽ Aspects Conjunction ☌ Sextile âš¹ Quartile â–¡ Trine â–³ Opposition ☠The XII Signs of the Zodiack Aries ♈ Taurus ♉ Gemini ♊ Cancer ♋ Leo ♌ Virgo â™ Libra ♎ Scorpio â™ Sagittary â™ Capricorn ♑ Aquary â™’ Pisces ♓ A. l. ante lucem A. m. ante merid m. p. most part d. t. die toto T. M. Terrae Motus or Earthquake R. Retrograde Dir. Direct ASTRO-METEOROLOGICA APHORISMS and Discourses concerning the Natures of the Bodies Celestial c. BOOK I. CHAP. I. God the First His Second Cause the Heavens Their admirable Power on the Sublunary World on the Air especially The Causes of Meteors ordinary or prodigious Angelick Powers § 1. GOD Almighty the Great and Wise Creator Blessed for ever for no legitimate Astrology can exclude Him is not only in Himself but even in his Works Incomprehensible § 2. Amongst His other infinitely various Operations He is admirably discovered in the constitution of the Air and its strange Vicissitudes which the Divine Word unquestionably produceth by a Second inferior Cause or Generant § 3. The Theatre on which these Alterations are hourly acted being the open Air Mankind hath more easily arrived at some little Apprehension of this Second Cause the Region in which they are presented being so neer and pervious § 4. As reasonable as it is to believe that the Sea comprehendeth all the Seminal Causes of Her Productions and the Earth of what is bred in Her Bowels also so natural is it to imagine that the Heavens are not Idle but rather give Spirit and Influence to all things under their Convexity viz. the Air and its Regions with the Globe of Water and Earth These being but minor Orbs all inclosed within the vast Embraces of the major even as the Foetus is embraced by the Womb and the Membranes that are agnate to it § 5. The World therefore in all Ages hath been convinced that the Heavens have no small Power on the premises and every Body within their respective Inclosures § 6. On the Air especially and its Phaenomena the Meteors as they are distinguished vulgarly into Real or Apparent § 7. Of these latter none go about to deny that the Heavens are the due Efficient whether Halo's Rainbows Parelia Paraselenae Chasms Clarities Nocturnal the Morning and Evening-Blushes of the Heavens to which may be added the rarer appearance of its seeming Conflagration unless That prove gather to be Real § 8. But no less are they the due Effective of the former the Real ones though some Well-meaners would fain deny it whether Clouds Rain Mist Dews Fiery Trajections Ignes fatui Lightning Thunder Blasting Frost Snow Hail Winds § 9. And of All these whensoever they happen whether in Measure or Excess Ordinary or Prodigious and they again whether Homogeneous such as those Dire Tempests called of old Ecnephiae Exhydriae Fistulae Plin. hist nat II. 48 49. known amongst us by the names of Sponts Huracans Tornados Travados c. or Heterogeneous as the Rains of Dusts Ashes Milk Blood c. § 10. No other is the Cause after all that can be disputed of that great phaenomenon the Comet and That not only Sublunar but Celestial § 11. The same also is most justly acknowledged the Cause of the motion of the Sea its Ebbs and Flowes which some great Artists would pin on the motion of the Earth others on the inward Principle of the Element § 12. Yea the Heavens though it may seem to be no less than a Contradiction are to be admitted Causes of Earthquakes Meteors as they are rightly called of the Subterranean Region § 13. Powers Angelical Good or Evil are no Causes solitary or such as do evacuate the proper Causality of the Heavens § 14. Stormy Winds therefore which are harmful to Countrey or Province are no Arguments whatsoever the vulgar are perswaded of Sorcery or Conjuration § 15. Hereby it is not intended to deny that Spirits can raise or bestow Winds or Tempests and that it may be by Arbitrary means though I see some are willing to excuse Lapland from such Inditement § 16. Showers of Stone Dust Ashes Blood Corn c. which I call Prodigious out of kind § 9. are generated first in the Air not elevated thither by any violent natural Spirit as some think so that if they may be fairly imputed to an Angelick Administration yet neither can the Heavens be wholly excluded § 17. Concerning prodigious Showres of Creatures Animate as Frogs c. although the more probable Opinion saith they are generated in the Region from whence they fall yet here I am not ingaged to undertake § 18. Noises and Apparitions of Armies with Military Equipage and Tumult can at no hand exclude an Angelic and that a Principal Cause CHAP. II. Meteors their Material Cause and that there is
an Earthy Exhalation The Air considered All Meteors reducible to Heat and Cold as their Efficient the Nicety of their Degrees An account of the Natural Prognosticks of Weather they all prove that Heat is the cause of Rain and the Heavens Dominion over Moisture Concerning Hail Snow Mist Lightning Comet Blasting No phaenomena casual Wind its cause is not rarefaction or condensation but celestial Impulse The Body of the Heaven as distinguished from the Stars signifies nothing § 1. MEteors Real whether Aerial or Subterrranean as to their Cause Material consist of Water Earth Simple or Compound Fire and their Expirations these in the depth of the Earth those in the heights of the Air as far as the reach of the Atmosphere § 2. For that the Earth also is resolved into Exhalation is evinced from the Thunderbolt yea from the Nitrous and Sulphureous Ingredients into the wild-fires Celestial Lightnings Add the forementioned Rains of Stones Ashes Corn c. nay every Fog is so fuliginous as to bear witness a Fog which sometimes casts it self into Threds or Ropes and by the warmth of the Sun furls up into Gossamere § 3. The Body of the Air seems not to be the Resolution of Terrestrial or Watry Exhalations but is rather distinguished from Both as their Subject or medium even as the Water is distinguishable from its Impurities or from the saline Spirit that inhabits the Ocean § 4. For the whole Expansion Aerial and Aethereal is one homogeneous Body differing only in Warmth or Cold Purity or Impurity according as it is nearer or remoter from the Earth and Water § 5. Of it self as it seems neither hot nor moist nor cold c. but capable of all § 6. So distinguished is the Air from the Water that Neither can be converted into the Other the four Elements vulgarly called being as I deem Incorruptible in as much as although God the Creator was pleased as Moses seems to say to make the Air out of Water yet it may be true notwithstanding that no Natural Agent can turn it back into the same § 7. Meteors Real as to their Efficient Cause are naturally reducible to Heat or Cold and their Activities Frost Snow Hail to the later Lightning Rain Clouds to the former § 8. Winds also have no other Aeolus § 9. Here it is to be remembred that degrees of Heat and Cold are of a minute and nice disquisition our grosser Sensories being not always competent Judges for we see Rivers in depth of hardest Winters reserve some Heat where Fish subsist and scalding Liquors admit some degree of Cold as when their Aestuation is calmed by a little cold Infusion and yet remain scalding still § 10. As nice also may be the consideration of Dryth and Moisture for as the Coals of dry Fewel taken from the Furnace burn quick and bright so from moist Fewel they glow obscurely as if they were not as yet rid of their pristine though adventitious Moisture § 11. Warmth is the instrumental Productive of Cloud and Rain This is witnessed by the Southern Winds which bring Both by Thaws in Winter which are always cloudy seldom dry by the ingrateful Savors most hot against moist Seasons beside the convincing testimony of the Thermoscope § 12. The Survey of the usual Prognosticks of Rain from Fire Water Animates Inanimates do all argue the same Original of Rain viz. Heat Celestial and its Consequent Moisture with the secret Impressions of Both on the Creature § 13. In Animals the usual Noises observed against weather as in the Raven the Crow Cock Goose Owl Peacock the Pimlico in the Hist of Virginia a Bird so called from her note too sure a Prophet saith Captain Smith of Wind and Weather Swine Frog c. their crowing screaming croaking c. argue not any miraculous Divination in the Creature but only protest the sensible disquiet and alterations that are felt by them at such times Haud equidem credo quia sit Divinitùs illis Ingenium aut rerum fato Prudentia major Verùm ubi Tempestas c. Vertuntur speciès animorum the Poet himself was so cunning Georgic 1. § 14. Further arguments of such Alterations are the Water-fowls leaving the Element flocking together or betaking themselves farther into the Country the poor Earth-worm creeping from his bed the flying or springing of the Loligo the Cuttle-fish they speak of the playing of the Dolphins in the waters all not brooking their own Element That and their Bodies being alike disturbed § 15. To say little of their Stomachs or Appetites extraordinary Birds coming late from Feed yea the contemptible Fleas or Flies more notably stinging i. e. biting or sucking are hence reckon'd for Presages § 16. The forced motions and postures of Creatures argue the same as when Cattel are seen skipping odly up and down indecorâ lasciviâ as Pliny calls it as if twitch'd or pricked by some shooting or ach in their Limbs as vexed by some pain tearing their Litter § 17. Which pains some Creatures endeavour to help the Beast licking the Hoof or against the Hair the Bird picking and pruning its Feathers some perfusing themselves with water or flying so neer the Swallow and Sea-mew 'till they dew their Wings point the House-cat washing her Head with her moistned Foot the Oxe snuffing aloft into the Air all as it were for refrigeration-sake of their Bloud or Spirits cooling the little Feavers perceived therein § 18. The poor Ant hiding himself or removing his Eggs the Shelfish sticking close to the Rocks or ballasting it self with Sand shew a kind of natural Prudence but no Prophetick Divination in as much as first they find the Alteration of their bodies before their Instinct teacheth them to provide for the consequent § 19. And as to Presages from the Water whatsoever the Ancients speak of the murmuring of the Sea at hand or the noise on the Shore side the bubbling or swelling of the Sea without noise witnessed by all Sea-faring men the appearance of the Froth broken or divided these all betray the Dominion of the Heavens on the Water and a disturbance rais'd by the Celestial Warmth § 20. Verily the Dominion on the Water is as large as that seen in the Air the Prognosticks from Animals being grounded principally on the Alterations of their Natural Moisture And if any Presages are drawn from Plants as the Bristling of the Trefoil c. hither it may be reduced § 21. I do not mention the Sweating of Wals or Glass which may arise from the continual Appulse of the moist Atome floating neer the chill superficies but Plinie's Instance from the Larder when a Dish which hath been used at Table leaves a Sweat on the place whereon it was reposited argues some consent of the Ambient's moisture with the moisture of the Esculent on which account also Wood swels Wainscot cracks Viol-strings snap asunder and we also as other Animals no better nor worse are disquieted with the Excrescencies of our
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
Clients of the Skie flock after him and retreat dishonourably at his retirement The life of Animals subsists by his Energy of our very Immortal Spirits he is the Union § 3. Notwithstanding This and a less Hymn I could not make on Him whose Lustre dazles us I say that the Sun alone this Glorious Creature cannot be the Cause the entire Cause of the Changes of the Air and its Vicissitudes § 4. Because the Sun consider'd alone All things rightly weighed requires those of his Fellow-Celestials to constitute even the Seasons of the Year The Seasons differ one from the other in length of Day or proportion of Light and the proportion of the Warmth the Sun alone is the Author of the First not of the Latter He is confess'd a Light All-sufficient but that it must therefore be a Heat All-sufficient is no warrant A Taper lights the Room which will not warm it for that the Sun carris the Name of Warmth That argues that he is indeed the Principal most Eminent not the sole Dispenser So the General carries the Glory of the Battel who is far from being the Sole though he be the Principal Souldier According to the tenor of which words must our piece of a Hymn on His or rather his Creator's praise be expounded § 5. The truth of this will be clear when we have considered that the Sun's approach and Exaltation encourageth the warmth of the Spring and keeps up the height of Heat in Summer being the Eminent Cause of Both. But yet neither Dayes nor Months do always increase in or stand or remit their warmth in proportion to the Solar access or recess from the Solstice This hath been urged by others and may be instanced fourty wayes It is notorious that the Aestival heat even increaseth as the Sun declines for the Month of July and part of August are usually more soultry than the Solstitial month of June § 6. Here it is answer'd with one accord that the Heats of July receives their intenser degree from the measure of the prae-existent warmth but this we have precluded before and add that the Heats of July have been found as intense when the precedent June hath been contrary affected every man's memory being able to prompt an Instance of an April May or June beyond expectation cold upon which the common comfort hath been from hopes that July and August would make amends Besides that this holds not in July alone the end of March may have more warmth than April and April than May November warmer than October as again January colder than December March than February we may here after name some Times when it proves generally so therefore the Sun is not the sole Administrator of Celestial warmth § 7. It may be said again as it is by some great men in things of this Nature that they are Casual But the word Chance in Causes Natural and determinate speaks our Ignorance and it may be something of Injury to the Creator But 2. a hot July is never casual being intended so by God's ordinary Providence for Harvest sake That great Providence which workes by the Great Machine of Second Causes 3. Nothing that is Prognosticable can be Casual § 8. Again if the Sun alone were the cause every fourth year would bring about the same Revolution of Winds and Weather the Sun being then exactly restored to the same place by the Intercalary day interposed but no such Revolution appears I find Eudoxus of old gave out indeed to this purpose Plin. II. 47. but no Experience confirm'd it from his time to Pliny's age he was only fond of his own Surmise If it had been so we had been weather-wise by this time without out consulting Star or Kalendar § 9. Considering what is behind it will not be very needful to say more here only to take away all Scruple I would answer a possible Objection The Returns of the Weather being fixed and determined 't is reasonable as you say that the Fixed cause be assigned the Author of That determination but the Sun and nothing else is the Determinate Cause for what else consines the Return to the same Day therefore it must be the Entire and Adaequate Cause The Answer is ready if all the Stars in the Firmament should conspire with the Sun into one Tempest they could choose no time but what the Sun the Lord of Time should determine It followeth not therefore that if the Sun be the Determinative Cause he is the Adaequate the Sun bearing two places Physical and Chronological in the first he helps to produce in the second he circumstantiates the Production But if the Identity of the Day 's constitution be press'd we answer that the Sun determineth That not absolutely and entirely for then the Return would be infallible but on supposition of the other Causes meeting these Concauses met do determine the Effect as it were Materially the Sun closing with them specisies the time Thus Disputers say the last Vnity is the form of Number a principal Cause but not an Adaequate CHAP. VI. The Lunar Influence and its History Hippocrates doctrine of the Tides Dissent from the Learned Vossius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aristotle agrees with Hippocrates § 1. PRoceed we then and let us say that the Changes of the Air cannot be referr'd to the Sun taking in the Moon along with it though to give the Moon her due also she is of great Efficacy as Ptolemy tells us in that excellent II d Chapter of his first Book All things saith he animate and inanimate receive her impression the Rivers swell or abate according to Her light the Tides and Ebbes of the Ocean 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sway'd by his Rising and Setting Plants and Animals are in poor or better case as she waxes and wanes Upon which words I would we could comment we endeavour thus What the proper quality of the Moon is we find disputed Ptolemy and the Ancients define her to be Moist they mean or ought to mean that she is of a remiss warmth to such a degree as is no Enemy but rather friend to Moisture by Resolving it Calling it forth or otherwise Actuating it by her spirituous Ray according as that fluid and withall salt Element is capable of impregnation § 2. And to this one principle of Warmth will all the various Effects usually ascribed to the Moon be justly reducible For on this account the Sea it self ebbs and flows in all Rivers Creeks and Shores making a Full Sea precisely at what time the Moon comes to such a Point of the Compass falling back every day as many minutes about 48 as the Moon comes later to the same Point luxuriating in her Spring-tides about the Full and Change when she is direct with the Sun and flagging all the Quarters when she is at an oblique distance On this account it is that Flesh exposed to the Lunar Rayes sooner putrifies those which walk along by Moon-shine feel a Dose in their
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
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
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
because we are in a Northern Island The Weather is more Regular and of far more easie Prediction in the Torrid Zone as all Mariners will inform you then in the Temperature where the Anomaly is greatest according as the Elevation of the Pole is more or less But this difficulty Astrology mastereth § 68. These things rightly understood our Natural definitions will prove to be no longer of a precarious Credit or denyed their acceptation because hitherto labouring under the ill Aspect of a notion Astrological while Prejudice for a while puts us out of conceit with Truth § 69. Let the Adversaries of this Principle in the mean while bespeak the next 25 or 30 years to bring in a contrary indication as if the Heavens under this Aspect or its Equivalent for we are sure of all as of one were indifferent to Cold or Tepid Moist or Dry. Alas when they have carefully watched the Heavenly Motions they will be brought by their own experience to the Old Saw the Good Wives Tradition unless they bespeak the ☉ and ☽ once again miraculously to stand Stand I say for if they move either forward or backward though in this latter I confess some confusion of Seasons will happen yet as to this Propension or Influence the case will be the same Let the Reader therefore raise his attentions towards Aspects in general comprehending not the Lunar only but the rest all of which stand indictable for hundreds of grand commotions in the universe recorded in Chronicles or History Marine since even this our Novi-lunar Aspect affords us such excesses not Tempests only but other more prodigious accidents whether above as Comets which we take to be of Kin to enflamed Meteors or below as Earthquakes and Inundations also wich follow either Tempests or Earthquakes Let those Learned Men who shall write of either Comet or Earthquake look back into History and he shall find Truth in the remark And so although more may be said we are willing to conclude the Chapter § 70. Only there is another way to work to clear up the Reputation of the New ☽ for a perpetual and in some Station an Infallible Influence we tried once by the vulgar Months and they would not comply 'T is true in September October and December you shall find it fails there but once of VII times Revolution What then said we if we should try in some certain Signs which make up three Months be sure as far as 30 and 31 days will go though they enter not till 10 days after the appearance of the Kalender-Month If we can bring certain days in the year thirty in number where the ♂ ☉ ☽ never fails as to Rain then the ☽ as inconstant as she appears in her Visor is not alway inconstant in her Influence Then the beloved Infallibility of the Conclusion is come up or at least is worth observing when the Effect is not short but exactly commensurate to the number of her Revolutions But so it is as may appear by the survey of this Table some Lunations in such and such Signs are so saithful to their pretences  ☌ ☉ ☽  Sign Revolution Event ♒ VII 4. ♓ VII 6. ♈ VII 7. ♉ VII 6. ♊ VII 6. ♋ VIII 4. ♌ VIII 7. ♠VII 7. ♎ VII 6. ♠VII 5. ♠VII 6. ♑ VIII 7. The Signs we point at are ♈ i. e. part of March and April and part of July and August ♌ part of December and January but above all commend me to ♠most sure and most abounding A New ☽ between XII of August and 12 of September brings Showres 7 times in 7 Revolutions Toties quoties Now this I hope doth not cassate what we have said but corroborate CHAP. XIII § 1. Full Moon gave first hint to Astrology 2. No naked appearance 4. Her Septennial Diary 5. LXXV in 87. Dripping Full Moons 6. What as to Winds 10. Effect at the precise time 11. Her warmth confessed by Aristotle 13. Sensible Warmth from the ☽ discernable in some cases with us The Thermometer not subtil enough to discern it the Eye may 14. The New ☽ warmer then the Full by day and the Full warmer by Night 16. Plenilunar nights warmer than Novilunar 17. Illustrated 19. Comparison of the Change and Full in their Diaries 20. Full ☽ brings more Rainy days than the New 21. And more Storms 22. The New ☽ produces more Fog than the Full. 23. Nocturnal Gusts and Rains more frequent at the Full. She or some other Planet must be up in the Night when there is any Bustle 24. Physical and Optical reason for the Full ☽ 's turbulency more frequent than the New 26 29. Some Full Moons upon Courtesie Infallible as to Moisture 28. Full Moon 's Definition Astrological inclines to W. and Southern Winds least of all to North. § 1. THe next Aspect is the ☠a Configuration as notorious as the Conjunction God having pleased to bestow on it an Influence so manifest that his power in the rest of the Celestials might be the more early regarded This Aspect facing us with a Full and Serious look that all who have Eyes and opportunity may discern the effect of its presence The New ☽ hides her self from us Envies us that Sight and Calculation of her punctual Congress but this offers her self without a Veil even to the Eyes of Wayfarers Shepherds Sea-Men and so first contributes to Astrology For since it is apparent that she hath power over our Bodies We Mortals without the benefit of this plain Aspect should have snored in darkness and ignorance smarting as the wild Beasts under the Pole by Celestial Influence yet not knowing who hurts us § 2. Let the Philosophers after Plutarch discourse of the Face in the Lunar Discus whether they be Vales or Waters or whatsoever the Faith of the Hevelian Telescope will perswade Sure there is some final Cause of that as to the Vulgar it seems Humane appearance and That not any Intent to stumble the poor Heathens into their pitiable Idolatry but rather a Design of raising our attention to that Luminary which shining in its brightness shews no naked Form or Beauty but such as is invested with Power not Illuminative I say but Irritative also which we come now to evidence if after the New ☽ 's demonstration there be necessity of so doing § 3. We have assigned in our Table the space of 3 days for this ☠as well as we have already for ☌ And more perhaps we might for what should hinder Unless we have a kindness for the Quincunx and if so then we should have some regard for the Semisextile also bordering upon the Change which can never be allow'd at least in the Lunar observation as hath been said ☠☉ ☽ The Diary January 1671. ♒ 5. XIV Frost mist m. close p. m. Rain 4 p. 8 p. W XV. Ho. 1. m. close mist m. R. 2 p. Sun occ S W. XVI Wd and thin overc 10 p.
kind of Tepor when qualities though contrary live in quiet possession upon this account Fogs are seen for the most part of a warmish sluggish calm consistency 'T is easie without Violence to speak to the several accounts of Snow and Hail which happen at the Full twice as many times as at the New there is a manifest composition of two repugnant qualities in both these Meteors As for the cold part which is seen in both the Full which is the cooler Aspect is proper for them § 23. I have bin further curious to compare the Nocturnal Rains or Gusts which have happened under the Change and the Full respectively not at the Rising and Setting for that calls for a peculiar remark but either before Day or at Night or Midnight yea or the whole Night and on which side do you think will lye the advantage The Nocturnal Luminary is up to justifie it nor will she deny her self though behind the Curtain to have bin then and there at the time and place We find it Rain'd or Raged in the Night 52 times while the New ☽ affords us but 30. which is some notable difference though again for Raining blustering the whole Night the New ☽ is not so for out of reach but she can bring up her Tale equal with the Full. It may be there is some necessity that the Moon or some other Planet should be in the Nocturnal Hemisphere when it blows or Rains late at Night or very early If none of the three Superiours be there the ☽ alone will suffice whereby you see the Nature of the opposite Aspect in genere for to tell you before hand the Planets must be strongly posited when ever it Rains by Day or Night without an Opposition at large 'T is extraordinary § 24. But we must by no means dissemble that there is another reason why the Full ☽ is a more violent Aspect than the New which may arise from hence that she comprehendeth by her radiation reflex though it be a greater Arch of the Sphere Celestial than the New ☽ can and so by consequence is apt to affect more Celestial Bodies being and Situate in that grâ—â—ter Portion As the Eye doth not comprehensively Ken a Mountain suppose when it is near it but must remove it self to a distance for the view of so great an Object The Pyramid of Illumination whose basis lies upon the body that terminates the Ray enlarges her basis so much the more as the Illuminor is remote Now if the influence be in some part as most certain it is commensurate to the Illumination This we conceive maâ— be the reason of its Effect enquired into provided we at no hand exclude the other § 25. For when Astronomy tells us to excellent purpose that the ☽ is in her Apogee of the Eccentric or utmost distance from the Earth both in ☌ and ☠it sweetly closes with what we have hitherto pretended to help toward the Warmth of the New ☽ being so much nearer to the Sun as she is more distant from the Earth as on the contrary for the cooler Beam of the Full ☽ being so far the more remote Let the point A. be the Globe of the Earth B. the New ☽ in ☌ with the Sun C. the Full ☽ in ☠to the Sun D E F G. an Arch of the Planetary Heaven as if the Planets moved all in one Circle for 't is all a case 'T is manifest that the Triangle D C G. comprehends the greater Arch of Heaven and E B F. the Less This is the New ☽ Pyramid the other is the Full ☽ ' s. § 27. Have we never another Observation before we part New and Full incline to Rain That will be confessed now 't is proved yea but What will you say if we produce a Full ☽ that is a sure Card that always raineth That is the Full ☽ in April when for 7 years together it fails not so it may be called upon Courtesie infallible Yea the Full ☽ in August doth the like 7 times it rains in 7 years and more than 7. or 14 either if you reckon days as hitherto we have done and that no otherwise than we should If the Reader will observe more such Full ☽ s he will lose nothing by it Verily the New ☽ s also in the Month of Aug. bear up equal with the Full ☽ s. But the cause of this difference Oh! When shall we come to that Text § 28. It remains now that we speak to the Winds and then raise the definition of the Aspect In the Full ☽ we find from the East 53 West 44. North 35. South 38. N. East 29. N. West 26. S. East 15. S. West 80. Reducing these to their Cardinals thus East 53. West 44. North. 35. South 38. N. E. 29. N. W. 26. N. E. 29. S. E. 15. S. E. 15. S. W. 80. N. W. 26. S. W. 80.   97.   150.   88.   133. § 29. So that the inclination lies more to the South and West as the New did with some Seeming Favour for the West Hence we may raise our Character viz. The Full ☽ is apt to bring Wind and Rain almost as oft as the New Yea stormy Winds and dashing Rain more often pretty apt to favour Snow and Hail more than the New Fog less to Thunder less though here it happens to bear no inequality To Westerly Winds first or Southerly to East many times but least of all to the North. § 30. Now whereas we have hinted that the Full ☽ 's influence takes place oftner than is there expressed 't will not be amiss to present the intire Table as was done in the New ☽ where it shall without dissimulation appear how oft the Aspect misses of making good her Character how often she succeeds In ♎ she misses not in ♈ she misseth not in ♌ she misseth not in ♉ and â™ she misseth not as far as our Table reaches In â™’ and ♈ she brings eight Successes for eight Revolutions call it certain then or highly probable if you hate the Word Infallible The Table stands thus Sign Revol Event ☠☉ ☽ Sign Revol Event â™’ VIII 8. ♌ VII 7. ♓ VI. 4. â™ VIII 7. ♈ VIII 8. ♎ VII 7. ♉ VIII 7. â™ VII 7. ♊ VII 7. â™ VII 5. ♋ VII 7. ♑ VI. 5. So doth the Full ☽ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 give some Light to contemplations of Celestial Influence ☌ ☉ ☽ CHAP. XIV ☠☉ ☽ The Lunar Warmth further deduced as to the Change and Full in the Dissolutions of Frosts A competent Catalogue of Frosts so dissolved the vulgar notion justified yet it is not perpetual sometimes other Causes step in specially ☌ ♂ ☽ If the Full ☽ dissolves more Frosts than the New 't is agreeable to our principles Why the Frosts are not dissolved precisely on the day of the Aspect but 2 or 3 days before or after § 1. WE are indebted farther to shew the Lunar warmth
April 21. Dir. 65. May 15. Retr 66. July 14,15,17 Dir. 68. June 11. Dir. 16  Octob. 1. Retr 1670. May 12. Dir. Aug. 27. Retr 71. April 30. Dir. Aug. 9. Dir. 72. July 7. Retr 76. May 24. Dir. July 25. Retr  27.  Sept. 6. Dir. 77. July 7. Retr  8.  78. May 21. Retr July 18. Retr Aug. 3. Dir. 79. July 17. Retr 80. May 6. Retr July 3. Dir. 81. Aug. 13. Retr 82. Aug. 6. Retr The Norimberg Diary makes braver sport but we need it not § 50. Even Keplers Ephemerides brings us An. 1622. April XXV ventus pluit Fulgura An. 1623. Jan. V. Aestus tonuit VII Calor Fulgura venti Aug X. Tonitrua ventus magn Pluv. XI Tonitru Grando multa XII Tonitrua continua An. 1625. Fulgura Matutina Detonuit cum Imbre July V. Nebula Pluit Fulgura Aug. XXI Aestus tempestas XXII Tonuit Pluit An. 1626. Jun. XV. Imber Tonuit Pluit XVI Aestus procella Pluvia Larg XVII Nebula Tonitrua Pluvia Aug. 11. Aestus Procella Tonitrua An. 1627. Aug. XVIII XIX XX. Imbres Tonitrua Aestus vapidus Noctu Tonitrua An. 1628. May I. III. IV. Aestuosum tonitrua XXV Iris. July IV. Nebula Aestus tonuit pluviae continuae An. 1629. Jun. XV. Grando Tonitrua § 51. This may serve for a Tast and when I was so far entered I remembred withal the Limits of his distance from the Sun and this use I made of it that whatsoever Effect the Sun is guilty of our Planet must have a special hand in it for he is always found in the Sun's Company and therefore must be suspected when any mischief is done The Instrument that we most frequently use is most Ministerial Verily in 5. or 6 years Scrutiny I saw that of all the 28 gr which meet out the distance of ☿ from ☉ there is not one of them but is found to raise this Tumult though with some difference and if there should be any Secret in that in time I hope it will be made out The difference then is thus After the exact Conjunction the distance of gr 2 6 8 12 14 15 17 18 20 21 23 25 26. And this whether ☿ be before or behind the Sun of the two the rather before it § 52. The next Instance must be Earthquakes for I shall never forget Ptolemy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he some instances we have met with too many to be baffled in perusal of Weekly Papers from the Empire beside what in the late turbulent Hurrys flew up and down our Metropolis And we are in a fair way having laid this for a certain Rule That whatever causes the Thunder yea or Storms is apt to cause an Earthquake more or less Not for that the noise of the Thunder shaketh the Earth and maketh the House to Tremble as what every hurrying Coach can do but because the Subterranean Vulcans are imitated in their supposed Shops at the same time as the very Cyclops are that while in hast of their Work Hence Kepler fancyed the Earth to be an Animal sometimes sweating sometimes shaking by the Impressions and Commotions of the Ambient Aether as may be seen in his accounts of May and August 1621. and 1629. § 53. But is it likely any whit probable such a squirting Planet as ☿ a Lacquey of the Sun who seldom shews his Head in these parts as if he was in Debt not responsible for any such great Production We may cease to wonder being to be ordered by our Sence and Reason rather than by our Conjectural Presumption Besides let ☿ be a small Lucid Globe his Conjunction with the Sun I hope is not of small Consideration Make up the defect of the one by the sufficiency of the other § 54. Is it certain then that our Aspect is able to raise a storm or Peal us with a Showr Then 't is certain that he can blow up the Subterranean Fires An Aetna Vesuvius Hecla in Sicily Italy Friezeland 'T is now above an 100 years that our Mariners had experience of this Truth Hecla flaming was always a Sign of foul Weather Purch p. 817. ad Annum 1610. Well then for Earthquakes do we not always or for most part find Foul Weather Storms Lightning either upon the Spot the place which Heaves and Trembles or in remoter parts we shall shew some Instances from whence we learn the Great Power of the Heavens over the Earth confessed by the Soberest men who do not despise these Instances Let what Thuanus hath left upon record be read in Court ad Annum 1557 where after the mention of Tybers prodigious inundation Sept. 14. another at Florence another in France he adds these Words Eadem rerum facies plerisque Nos per Europam eodem anno quasi occulta quâdam Caelestis ordinis confessione lege consensione etiam in remotissimis Orientis partibus fuit nam apud Sinas in Sanuari à regione tanta diluvies ex proximis montibus defluxat ut Lacum ingentem effecerit quo VII Urbes absorptae sunt Pecudum Mortalium ingens numerus periit puero unico tantum in trunco arboris raro fortunae beneficio servato Thuan. p. 278. 379. § 55. Now the most indubitable Original Fund and cause of Earthquakes are those vast Fires Subterranean which work and wamble in the Bowels of the Earth and break out many times where there is no vent always without fail where there is or near the time of the Earth's Tremor The want of this consideration made the Worthy Kepler and those which follow him to run to an Occult Cause Subterranean for his Meteors when he was at a loss for his Caelestial Causes when as nothing is more plain and less lyable to exception then that the Subterranean causes Fires or other Evaporations are subject to and naturally do observe and obey the Causes Caelestial § 56. Howbeit let the Reader expect with all his prejudices so he will be pleased to examine what comes now to be proposed in that business of this Mercurio-Solar Meeting I don't know but I find such an Accident as an Earthquake in Basil December Anno 1533. three times it was shook in that Month. Once if I may guess and the reason of my guessing I will shortly tell you must be December 11. when there was a ☌ of ☉ and ☿ and what if ♂ opposed we are not about the Denyal of our Kindred Other Aspects must be taken in too but that ☌ ☉ ☿ is one Again Anno 1538. Jan. 20. the same Swiss-Town shook with an Earthquake ☌ ☉ ☿ ☿ being if I mistake not scarce 9 degrees distant In September again Anni ejusdem a Famous Terrae-motus mentioned by Fromondus die 27 28 29. the distance of our Planet is 7 degrees Yea since Italy shook as Fallopius notes for 15 days together a ☌ ☉ ☿ must happen amongst 4 or 5 of those days Come we to England in the year 1551. we find our
An. 1672. July 15 16 17. among others 3 days hot together Whence comes the Heat The answer is made Oh it is usual for the time of the year But this answer is not Scientifical it renders not the Cause If a Philosopher enquire after the Nature of Sleep the cause is not assigned by saying It is usual or 't is the time of Night the gentle Unctuous cooling vapours to bemist and charm the Sensory is the Cause Feaverish and Famish'd Men sleep not for all the time of Night So be it never so much the time of the year place the Sun where you please there 's no necessity this day must be hot with Express or Excessive Heat Those 3 days of July though inclined to Heat as much almost as any are not always found under that Character If the Enquiry were whether a hot day in Summer were a Prodigy Such answer indeed were punctual No by no means 'T is usual and according to the time of the year But when the Question proceeds of Cause wherefore at that time of the year Nay wherefore on the very day which might have proved cold notwithstanding the time of the year We must look into a more secret and abstruse cause I must find a Reason from the very Constitution of the Primrose or Violet If I mean to answer the Question of its early Blossom The time of the year allows only an aptitude or Inclination The Argument doth not follow from the Power or Inclination to the Act This day is hot because it was probable it would What then Sir is the Cause The Astrologer reasonably urges Chance can not be it for what determines the Effect since all Events though never so casual are such not because they have no determinant but because 't is unknown § 71. Gassendus press'd with this Objection denies Chance Ore tenus while he tells us that the Sun Moon and Stars are the general Causes of many Phaenomena but beside these for he knew generals were indetermined He mentions other Inferiour Sublunar Causes Causes per se as he calls them Singular Special which determine them to Hic nunc Meteor Epicur p. 944. by which Cause if he means the nature of the place situation c. Subterraneous Fires and Eruptions of vapours we admit them heartily as well as he But certainly Place and Situation are Circumstances rather than Causes without which the Heavens can do nothing That we confess yet we deny that they may be called therefore Efficients Principal and Singular Causes The Fires Subterraneous seem to put on for Efficiency but we profess to believe that these Fires are not so Universal as I see is imagined by himself and others Agricola c. who have not kindness enough for the Aethereal § 72. Neither secondly is this Cause but general still and indeterminate as they say of our Heavens the Determinate is yet to seek For suppose the Fire sends forth the Vapours and the Vapours condense into Rain Stay May not the Cloud be barren The Vapour Dry Foggy yea Pellucid As in Serenity and Drought is seen seeing by the Testimony of the Baroscope the Serene and dryest Air makes the greatest pressure What then makes it a Cloud say I rather than Serenity The Sun shines and the Fires are at work and yet Serenity and Drought continues many times for the greater part of the year The answer is the Vapour is condens'd to Rain it gathers into a Cloud The◠for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For if Cold be mentioned to the generation of Clouds or Rain we ask further What encourageth the Cold at that time Is it a Mid-Region We admit the Notion But then why doth it not always Rain or Cloud according to the Temper of the Region As long as Vapours ascend continually why don't they as continually descend What we say in an Alembic The Subterranean Fires work Day and Night Winter and Summer and the Mid-Region is never Free because the Superiour the more remote Region is never Free also Neither may it be said That there is variety in the Mid-Region as not always of the same Temper sometimes extream sometimes more remiss For so 't is true it may Rain when 't is remiss and Snow or Hail when 't is extream But in Frosty days I hope the Middle Region is extream Why don't it Snow then How comes so many Serene and pure Frosts as all natural and wholsom Frosts are Want of Supply cannot be pretended the Fires do their Duty and at all times alike for any thing they know whence is it that the Middle Region is Idle For that sometimes this Region is guilty of no Cold I suppose all that travel the Alps the Mountain Rhodope Taurus Libanus or our own Penmaur All who have heard of a perpetual Snow lying thereon will not consent Surely then the difference of the Temper of the Region defin'd to be sometimes moderate sometimese of an extream Cold lies not in any confus'd disorder or chance but in Vicissitudes Regular with Anomaly such as the Seasons themselves are capable of and no more a sign that they are governed by Ordinances of Nature excluding Casualties For if some Heat beside Solar and Subterranean governs the Tepor of the year as Cold is a privation at least it must be govern'd by the same Caelestial Cause nor can we rest till we have found that Cause in the Heavens § 73. To this the learned Man Objects thus If it rains to day it doth not rain again the same day 12 Month but sooner or later according as the matter is prepar'd To which I answer If I should have said that it rains not at a New or Full ☽ but sooner or later according as the matter is ripe I should have Fibb'd seeing 't is confessed that it usually raineth then whosoever ripens the matter And so I hope I may retort in our Aspect of ☉ ☿ that however matter is prepared at other times 't is usually disposed for Wind and Rain then But this objection concerns not Aspects of which in general enough hath bin said but is rather levell'd at the Annual Revolutions of Stated days No Question but the matter is prepared for Rain when it Rains but who prepared it so variously so uncertainly under such Difformity and Dissonance to comply with the Objection is the Question The Sun and Moon alone we have made good cannot be the Causes preparatory or determinant of a Showre c. nor can any matter possibly prepare it self as Ice cannot thaw it self the very Notion of matter being passive He must have excluded Other Requisites which he knew Gelestial Philosophy pretends to before he could justly infer so Universal a Negative It doth not rain again the same day 12 Month Ergo the Sun is not the Cause I allow it I will help the Argument and say it doth not rain again the same day 19 Year when as the Golden Number tea cheth us the Sun and Moon are
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
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
sometimes are at a Platique distance and thereupon seem to have less Interest seeing we know not but nay it begins to appear now I imagine that a 10 12. gr distance or thereabouts are requisite to a more potent Influence than on the Partile Howbeit let it be divided amongst them and let the Platique be Equal in great Motions at least of Air and Earth Here I should say something to the paleness of the Solar Body those Changes which are counted prodigious and prove the Heavens Subject to Generation and Corruption but we are only upon a hot Sent of this Arcanum it may be we shall come to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Have we not said something before also § 39. A Word or two about Currents as before in the preceding Aspects some Experience we have met with in this Quarter and are willing to present the Reader Anno 1605. June 1. Mighty Current violently brought us among the Mountains of Ice Hall's Voyage Purch p. 816. June 11. Fresh gale made the Seas high by reason of a Mighty Current which sets through the Straits Ib. ☌ ♂ with ☉ ♀ c. Anno 1609. June 3. Currents held us strong out of S W. North Lat. 58. Hudsons 3d Voyage to Nova Zembla Purch 582. gr 12. June 11 Current from the Northward deceived us 10 Leagues of our account N. Lat. 51. gr 10. cum ☌ ☉ ☿ Anno 1611. Oct. 10 11 12. a Current Downton's Voyage neer Zacotora cum ☉ ♂ gr 8. Purch p. 278. Oct. 22. Current Westward Ib. gr 2. Nov. 1. Afternoon we met with a Current C. Guarda de Fuy gr 3. cum ☉ ☿ 5. Current put us short 60 Leagues Purch 280. gr 5. cum ☉ ♀ and ☿ An. 1662. Dec. 29. Great Current to the Southward C. Limbery's Diary N. Lat ' 36. gr 7. cum ☉ ♂ Anno 1663. Jan. 9. Hindrance by a Current N. Lat ' 28. gr ' 1. cum ♂ ☉ die 14. Hindrance by a Current N. Lat ' 21. Id. ☉ being near the Zenith 18. Hindrance by a Current gr 3. cum ♂ ☿ Anno 1665. July 18 19. Help of a Strong Current Lat ' S. 22. near the Tropique gr 1. ♀ Stationary Aug ' 11. Great Current to the Southward Lat ' 37. Southward 12. 13 15 Currents 17. A Current deceived us by 73 Miles Lat ' 37. Southward 23. A Current deceived us 109. Miles since Aug. 18. ♂ ♀ gr 2. 24. A Current 25. Current of 18 Miles 26. Current of 34 Miles 27. Current set West by North South Lat ' 34. Sept. 1 2 3 4 5 Currents These are Currrents with a Witness § 40. Mr. Fournier in a particular Chapter concerning those Currents enquiring into the Cause tells us it is a very hard thing to assign it And as others before him refers it to the ☽ This we get by discarding Astrolology and the Influence of the other V. and yet stand dayly in need of them I do not commend these Disputants who when they could not find out an Aetherial Cause for some wondrous Effects in our visible Heaven refer'd them to the Empyreum But I confess I wonder that the Learned thought it bootless to overlook the Visible part of Heaven the Planets and their Configurations Men shall never give an account of these Great Questions if they deny our Influences no more than they can of the Magnet denying it efflux the Question is so gravelling And I hope Copernican's will not undertake it suposing the Motion of the Earth could give account of the Flux and Reflux Which Mr. Fournier hath shewn is not done yet by Galileo There is no medling wtth the Solution of this Phaenomenon by such a Principle The Currents are not Uniform nor perpetual as I am informed by my knowing Friends and I am glad on 't Glad of any occasion to make men enquire into a True though disgraced Principle The Motion of a Trough cannot make the Water boyl and swell in the Free Ocean The ☽ answers to all the variety of the Tide and the Planets to all the Variety of the Current How comes there a great Current Dec. 21. 1662. I will point you First to ♂ ♀ but 7 gr distance to ☉ and ♂ but 1 gr distant I will point to ☽ entring upon its Change her meeting with the Sun yea and ♂ also The ☽ will be allowed us especially if a New ☽ But why then a Strong Current Aug. 23. 1665. Will a Square of ☽ do it alone No ☌ ♂ ♀ within 2 degrees We have noted the Causes in the Diary all along ☉ ♂ ♀ ☿ ☉ in the Zenith ♀ Stationary § 41. And Let me note here some Diversity of the Platique and Partile Aspect here it may be the Later conduces most forcible to this Effect when as the former may contribute to the Change of the Air I mean those which are accompanyed with Turbulency because such State of Air is more universal and unconfin'd then a Current seems to be The one is ty'd to a certain Elevation the other may reach from one Pole unto the other But I define nothing § 42. We are to treat next of Flouds whose Praediction if it may be reached is a matter of moment to the Publique He that makes inquest into the Cause may consider that they do not all arise on the same Spring some are Subitaneous the Product of 24 Hours or a less matter others rise by degrees and Steal upon the Land they invade by additional Portions And some I may call mixed such whose appearance is sudden and yet were gradual in their production I mean those which upon a sudden Thaw of much Snow successively fallen on the Days precedent render a large quantity at once in Water In this case the Enquirer is not to consider the precise day of the Overflow but to look back some Weeks more or less that he may if he can determine or at least take in the Time in which it fell Beside that some Flouds are caused they say in maritime Countryes by the Swelling of the Sea and by tempestuous Winds driving the rarified Brine over its Banks Such were those of Oct. 14. 1579. c. Surely in that of 1608. there are no gluts of Rain mentioned by Cambden And our Wonder may be confirmed when as we shall meet with Flouds which are said to have happened without any apparent Cause as if Overflows were to be distinguished some whereof had some again had no Cause apparent But the distinction must on no hand pass for having made some Diligent search into all that I could raed of 100. in number I found that they all admirably agree with the same Celestial Cause with very little variety of the Species from whence I am ascertain'd there is seldom an apparent Floud without an apparent Rain somewhere though not a drop falls perhaps in our Division for who knows not there are Topical Rains as well as Winds which will descend Secundo Flumine and betray the Injury
Conjunction 'T is not to be denyed though that ♂ ☿ are Shakers as in that at Rome A o 1624. noted by Kepler ☉ and ♂ are gr 10 distant while ♂ and ☿ are upon the very Spot of ♌ 6. Yea before he tells us of the like observed at Lima he names not the day of the Month But happen when it will it falls within the tedder of ♂ and ☿ being stretched but 10 degrees Just now we remember a Second Comet happened at the return of ♂ and ☿ Here we meet with a Second Earthquake happened at the same time and within a Months space in both That of A o 1643. lasting for 5 days we were willing to make much of though ☉ and ☿ be 7 degrees distant so ☿ from ♂ is but twice 7 degrees distant those 5 days in which he abates that Distance Thrt at Thuringen A o 1645. Sept. 12. has appeared under the ☌ ♂ ♀ Yet ♂ and ☿ are but 4 degrees distant That of A o 1667. shews ♃ and ☉ indeed at 7 degrees distance and ♂ and ☿ at 6 gr distance A o 1676. follows with that in Worcestershire ♂ and ☿ are within 6 degrees while ♃ and ☿ 't is true are nearer Next A o 1680. Vesuvius Flames which are tokens and Earnest of T. M. thereabouts is noted within the First 20 days of March that year and within the Mid-way viz. die 11 is noted ☌ ♂ ☿ Lastly that at Doncaster A o 1682. adds to a ☌ ☉ ♂ gr 7. ☌ ♂ ☿ gr 11. distant § 30. I do not add the Legend of Two Grampisces stranded or taken at Greenwich though I have own'd that there is some reason to believe that such Novel Appearances do give notice of some disturbance of the Earth and its Concomitant Waters which the Fish would avoid but I impute it rather to the Dreadful Thunders which are noted thereabouts which is known to disturb all Brutes by Sea or Land into which piece of Philosophy the Psalmist hath long ago entred us For who hath excepted the Fishes of the Sea from Celestial Distempers § 31. This I observe that Fishes do sometimes appear in Sholes when Celestial Causes are visible moving thereto So say the Journals for 10 days together ab Octob. 25. Nov. 5. 1662 returning from Java Nov. 22. All under this Aspect § 32. Here again we see the convenience of enlarging the Sheets of our Aspect the Account may be given at least abroad for let it be thankfully acknowledged Earthq continue not long with us They say 't is ordinary to continue 40 days yea and Aristotle himself agrees to it then the enlarging of an Earth-shaking Aspect as before so here to 30. or 40 Days hath its use and ground in Nature especially where Two Conjunctions meet So that when One ceases the Second begins thereby continuing yea and as it happens encreasing the Puissance of the Aspect § 33. The Next trouble is with Currents I have somewhat more perhaps to produce then they came to Yet because they are also of some Consequence I note First after a violent Storm of Wind in Lat. N. 42. March 31. April 1. A o 1665. A Current April 2 or 3. ♂ ☿ in ☌ on the Equinox with the ☽ on the Tropique But again April 11. A Current while the ☽ comes to the Equinox and opposes ♂ ☿ in ☌ on the other side In like manner April 4. 1665. the Ship London in her return from Surat Lat. N. 7. was found to be 22. miles more Northerly than by account and 22 more Westerly Days 5 and 6. 17. and 18 miles more to the Southward Die 7. Eleven more ♂ ☿ gr 9. distant in ♈ are united by the ☽ intervening Die 4. The same Planets with the ☽ applying to the Sun are found in the 3 days following The next that comes homeward A o 1680. March 11. in the Ship Sampson Lat. N. 30. A Stream Southward of 10 Miles Our Aspect is found on the precise day And another greater Die 16. of 27 miles alteration ♂ is as far from ☿ as ☿ is from the ☉ Note that I find a like Current in the Golden Fleece at far different Latitude near the Line about the time of the Aspect which I mention to perswade that this is no Error or Fault as may be pretended In the mean while we omitted Currents and those extream A o 1611. Sept. 12. mentioned by Purchas where the ☽ opposes ♂ ☿ and ☉ also as happened before § 34. Now that which I have look'd upon as a greater Arcanum is the shifting of the Tydes When the Thames for example shall Ebb and Flow twice or thrice in the space of a few Hours so we find it remarked to us by our Annals for Prodigious Such was that of A o 1550. Dec. 18. A o 1564. Jan. 26. 27 28. A o 1574. Nov. 6. A o 1609. Febr. 19. A o 1693. Jan. 3. A o 1654. Febr. 2. A o 1656. Oct. 3. and Two or Three in our Diary since § 35. 'T is no small enquiry since it is taken for a Prodigy concerning which point I am not engaged at present to say the Ingenious Author of Britannia Baconica pag. 93. makes it nothing but the Tyde at Ebb Leisurely preceding toward the Sea onward and beaten back again by a North-west-wind To this purpose he observes that these Tydes most part happened when the waters were at Lowest about the Quarters of the ☽ Yea and when so curious is he she was in Apogaeo a Circumstance which he saith with Reason helps to abate the highest Water And I would all hard Questions could be so easily solved For the Truth is the Wind blew from the North-West A o 1654. Febr. 2. and A o 1656. say I Octob. 3. a North-East at least which shall break no squares and the Wind blew hard also The like again March 22. 1682. Add May 31. News came from Lime the Sea-Coast There 't is said how a Storm of Wind with Rain and Thunder caused several Ebbings and Flowings in the Water in half an Hours time So that it must be granted that the Winds and the Northerly Winds are Instrumental in the case § 36. But to deal ingeniously I believe there is somewhat more in it which this Good Man would have hearkned to viz. some less obvious Cause than a Stiff North-Wind falling in with those Circumstances First because neither is the Neap-tide nor the North-Wind perpetual That of A o 1564. Jan. 26 27 28. was within a day or two of the Full and that 's no single Instance and besides that by his Confession the Apogaeum fails twice I add and a 3d. or 4th time March 12. May 31. 1682. but chiefly because we are by this Hypothesis engaged to find One every year since there is scarce a year passes but will find us one North-Wind brisk and blowing at Neap-tide Next that we seldom find any such Tyde but a Notable Aspect of ☉ ♂ ☉ ☿ ♄ ♃ ♂ ♃ is
hath recorded in Tycho's Progymnasm Yet what great harm that could do I do not so readily imagine But in the year 1520. Werner assures us that there happened such a Frost in the Month of May that spoiled the Hopes of the Rhenish Vintage the Buds were so sorely nip't that they never recover'd for that Year Eichstad p. 37. § 7. Whether Maginus had this or any more Instances to bottom upon I skill not but I see he hath ventur'd to put it into its Character Ut plurimum efficit hujusmodi congressus frigiditatem non parum fructibus nocituram Though others since have advisedly left it out I say First that this ought not to be put in to the Character Astrologers at best are counted noisy Men and I would not have them make a noise where they betray themselves and their Art Neither do I find any Aspect but a △ ☉ ♄ a △ ♄ ☿ that are intended for that rare Effect so was I blank well knowing that the △ alone cannot do such mischief He knows little how Cold is dispensed by the Superiour Bodies who thinks there is no Cold but what proceeds from ♄ Is there not ♃ Not ♀ Have we not seen ♂ himself mock us with a Torrid Frost Do not all Interruptions and Gaps make a Chill Air Are not all Conjunctions apt thereto Especially ☉ and ♀ yea ♂ and ♀ also with such limitations as here viz. in a Crude Lonely Sign of ♈ when there was never Planet to the Right or Left § 8. The other Instance I admit A o 1572. for I find ☌ ♄ ☿ about the end of October not a △ but a ☌ for Consonant to this I may observe that ♄ and ☿ in Winter times put in for hard Frosts without the Verge of the Conjunction In Dec. A o 1662. for 16 days In Jan. 1663. twice 7 Days with an Hiatus of 4 days between A o 1667. Jan. XI days What do I speak of Winter When we have a Midsummer Month A o 1682. with Eleven Morning Frosts noted from the Chelsey Garden ♄ I say is not hear enough to warm us which is said according to the Mind of Nature and no fancy because 't is well known ♄ beside his distance is in his remotest Apogee in ☌ with ☿ c. when in the Opposition he is drawn nearer in his Perigee § 9. ♄ then is an Icy Cold Planet I answer no otherwise then as hath been declared for these Cold Winters are but few and where ♄ is found in a state of Desertion which may come to pass when some of his Fellow Celestials are too far off and others too near and this is the very Case of October 1572. when ☉ ☿ ♄ were crouded together while others stood aloof off ☉ ☿ ♄ in ♠♂ in ♑ no Planet in ♠the intermediate Sign to ♠and ♑ There 's the Hiatus there 's the State of Desertion And this Eichstad takes notice of expressly imputing the Cold not to ♄ and ☿ but to ☉ ♄ ☿ united which too strait Union is the Cause Effective or Defective I say both the one and the other of Cold and thus shall we see below § 10. Now if we may be nice in distinction we may perhaps observe that though ♄ and ☿ may cause Cold as ♄ ♀ before it yet there may be some difference in the Energy not seldom observed for Frost and Cold are not all of a sort there are some calm Frosts some accompanyed with chilling Blasts the Aspect with ☿ the more Windy Planet brings One the Aspect with ♀ c. brings the Other So much mistaken was Mr. Hobbs when he imputed all Frost to a Wind of which he is excellently admonished by the Noble Mr. Boyle And thus may we Philosophize if we be put to it concerning the Winters under this Aspect for as for the Frosty Winter Anno 1682. we may defer that till we come to ♄ and ♃ that we may not do wrong to the Aspect § 11. And this will better be done if we should constitute a Comparison between ☌ ♄ ♀ and ♄ ☿ as to these certain Heads of Heat High Winds and Smart Rains Snow Hail Frosty Weather c. we should confirm our Pretences against the ambiguous Nature and settle ☿ so that we may know his Character almost before we ken his Motion But I must hasten 12. Some pretty Fancies further present themselves upon a straiter perusal of the Table For why should I meet here also with Clouds flying Low Clouds at a great Distance in height Perpendicular for that is meant Clouds in Scenes Two or Three Stories high and under this Aspect so oft as to invite us to a remark and specially if we may suspect that sundry of the like Instances may have scaped our Notice May not this Distance of the Clouds Inferiour and Superiour favour of the Distance of their proper Causes Yet I shall not say that ♄ the Higher Planet raised the Higher Story and ☿ the Inferiour the Lower That would be too palpable But what if on the other side ☿ should attract the Higher apartment and ♄ raise the Lower For the Sun we suppose without which neither is effectual ♄ 's cooler Ray may let the Inferiour Cloudy Pavement descend ☿ 's brisker Ray may elevate it nearer to its self I assert nothing but if I may prompt the Curious to further Enquiry This I can say that Experienced Observers may discern and distinguish the Dispositions of the Planets by several Circumstances and Adjuncts proper and peculiar to each A man shall be able to say This is ♄ 's Showrn this is ♂ ' s. This is from ☉ ♀ this From ☉ ☿ or ♃ with greater Evidence than we can say of Comets which yet Hevelius you have heard thinks is far from Ridiculous A Showr with a Pale Fog may be ♄ with a deeper Blew may be ♂ with Wind ☿ without ♂ sometimes or ♀ And many other appearances there are in the Air Fleec'd Clouds Curdled Clouds Clouds like Hemp strip'd Fog Hazy Air Ground Mists which are not to be found at all times nor under every Aspect Ground Mists I say which I find even here in the years of my Rural Observation and might perhaps have bin before heeded since I remember some objection I made to my self against their Observance ♄ and ☿ in Morning and Evening not being able to suspend them but that they fall upon the Land Arable or Meadow As in Winter time we may observe often a deeper Fog with us below yet upwards may see it clear though otherwise it appears cloudy upon the recess of a Mist so different are the Effects and Footsteps of the Celestial Causes But of this before I remember Lib. II. Cap. 2. § 9. § 13. The Objection that I made was that Ground-Mists are the Issues of the Earth only and so could not claim any Aethereal Relation But the Contrary is apparent for if Dews are notwithstanding their Original dispensed by the
to draw the Sun's Picture because they are at it again Two days after 1526. Sept. Mens Thunder at Basil fired their Magazin Lycost ♄ ☿ ♈ ♎ circa medium Octobris on Atlas Mount Snow burying Men and Cattel Leo Afer apud Purch 574. 1530. Octob. 8. Floud at Rome Mizald 244. ♄ ♀ opposed intra gr 15. sed vide ♃ ♂ Intra Comitia Augustana mense Junii apparuit Cometa Ecstorm è Chron. Sax. ♄ ☉ ☿ all in ♊ in mens princ at the end ☉ ♂ ♀ ☿ all in ♋ so the Heavens are ripe for 4. But the Truth is the Comet is only attested by one Saxon Record It may be 't was a Sublunar Comet not of General Appearance This we see is the memorable year for Wasting Flouds wherefore Aug. finds us another Comet for that matter If that in June be rightly set then the Flouds were pointed at by a double Monitor and what we have said is right That Flouds and Comets depend on a Common Celestial Cause conceiving them though not always bringing forth at the same time For behold the great Inundation in Noremberg so dire so lamentable happened when as ☉ and ♂ were in ♎ so withal upon ♄ ♀ ☿ being in ♊ ♠Saturn in ♊ the other Two in the Opposite 1538. Sept. 27 28 29. Puteoli in Campania a place of an ill Name from the beginning miserably harassed with T. M. Fallopius in Fromond speaks of 15 days together others for the greatest part of Two years For this of Sept. is not ♄ on the Equinox ☉ and ☿ not far off More minutely is not □ ♄ ♃ in Cardinal Points but this is out of its place I was loath to lose the Observation And before we part with this year what shook Basil Jan. 20. in Lycost Is not ♄ there also Yes For as soon as the ☽ got of the one side of ♎ and ♄ stayed on the other the City trembled But come again to Sept. in the midst of which happened Solyman's Tempest of Wind and Snow ♄ and ☿ upon the very Equator Purchas 1539. Inter Aug. 23 Sept. 7. Francis Ulloa toss'd with Tempest bound for California de Laet. Cap. 6. ♄ ☿ in fine ♠but see ♃ ♂ also 1540. Oct. die 29. New ☽ Cruel Tempest IV. Vessels broke 686. Persons drowned at the Isle Ladrones Purch 3. 256. Though a Capital Evidence ♄ ♀ ☿ all in ♎ but there is more Evidence if the Ephemerides be consulted to prove these III. guilty 1544. Sept. 5. Guatimala in the West Indies Vessels overthrown and distroyed by continual Storms and Rain 120 Spaniards slain Lanschoten 229. Benzo Hist No. Orbis Lib. 2. p. 67. ♄ ☉ near the Equator ♄ ♀ ☿ all in ♎ See 1509. of this Table and 1538. 1551. Jan. 13. Germany with sundry places Tempest of Rain Lightning Thunder frightful ♄ ☉ in ♒ but see ♃ ♂ Jan. 28. Lisbon Fiery Meteors an Earthquake demolished 200 Houses ♃ ♂ then accused but ♄ ☉ ♀ ☿ all in ♒ He is Potent you see in more Signs than one 1556. Aug. 2 Ill Weather so die 7. Hakl Ed. 1. 418. ♄ ♀ in ♈ ♎ Die 9. Oldenburgh in Misnia Tempest frighted all the Town Lyc. our ♄ ♀ had a hand there appears from ☽ joyning with ♀ to salute ♄ Again Die 19. A monstrous Storm never saw the like ♄ ♀ us supra So Sept. 2. apud Locarnenses Hurricanes Thunder Lightning Inundation of which the Inhabitants wrote a Narrative Cap. 8. 'T is our ♄ ♀ for ♀ is Stationary again at the time and Sept. 5. in a little Town of March Chasms or Many Fiery Meteors Lyc. He mentions a voice from Heaven but that must be a Story when the Appearance was None ♄ ♀ ut supra Octob. 6. Acies Caelestes Lyc. ♄ wonderfully opposes ☉ ♀ ☿ with an Opposition so rare that it confirms the report Nov. 10. Storms extream on the Sea Coast Stow. ♄ ♀ in ♈ ♎ still 1557. Octob. 5. Lat. 41. Very foul Hakl ♄ in ♉ oppos ♀ ☿ 1558. June 2. Tempest Hakl Ed. 1. ♄ ♀ in ♉ and ♀ Stationary Octob. 5. Very foul Hakl 129. ♂ ♀ in ♠but ♄ in ♉ opposes ☿ May 13. A dangerous Tempest for 44 hours at the Caspian Sea Purchas 198. supra in ♂ ♀ but ♄ ☉ ☿ ♀ are within gr 15. in ♉ fine 1559. May 12. Caspian Sea a sore Storm Hakl 327. die 15. Another we had much ado to live 358. ♄ ☉ ♀ ☿ cum ☠♂ opposite 1567. Febr. 16 17 18. Great Storm on the Coast of England Hakl 130. ♄ ☠☉ ☿ 27. at Flores Isle great Rain fell suddenly Hakl Fenner's Voyage July 14. Leuconotus vehemens Frumenta Sternens Gemma 2. 357. ☉ ☿ in ♉ ☌ ♄ ♀ in princ ♠1568. March 28. Tempest of wind drowning Boats Stow. ☉ ☿ ♈ ♄ ♀ ♠♓ Sept. 23. Rocanat A Chasm flaming at night Gem. 2. 63. ☿ ♄ ☉ ♀ all about the Equator October 9. Storm Hakl 556. ♄ ☿ ☉ ♀ in ♎ 1569. March 12. Iris nocturn a Gem. 2. 64. Gelu prodigiosum Ib. ☠☉ ♄ ☿ cum □ ♄ ♃ 14. T. M. Lovain circa hor. 12. Colores in Coelo valde terribiles Ib. Sept. 1. Coelum Sanguineum hor. 11. noct but so bright as any thing might be read Id. 2. 65. Stellae discurrentes ☉ ♄ about the Equator with ♃ ♂ in laxa oppositione Novemb. 8. Horrible Comet Gem. ♄ ♀ 1570. Octob. 8. Wind Rain and much Harm with Flouds Hollingsh Stow. ♄ ☉ ☿ at the end of ♎ 1571. Sept. 11. Chasma flammeum Gemma 2. ♄ ☿ circa Aequator 1572. Nov. 18. Star in Cassiopeia We shall meet with ♃ ♀ opposed but also we find ♄ ☿ in ♠Scorpio say I hath great Influence on such Phaenomena 1574. Nov. 14 15. London Heavens burning Stow. ♄ ☉ ☿ in ♠Even so these 3 Planets in ♠fired all on the one side ♃ in ♋ over their Heads and Jove Fires all on the other side an Ocular Demonstration 1577. July 4 5 6. The Fatal Damp at the Sessions at Oxford You may remember mentioned before in our discourse of ☉ ☿ there were other Aspects upon that place but ♄ ☉ were great Movers who can deny it when a Month after ☠♄ ♀ comes and destroys 20 Persons by Lightning How 's 682. ♄ I say for ♀ is Stationary No danger but when the Thief stands 1578. June 28. Freezland is cover'd all over with Snow Frobishera 3 d. Voyage 630. Hideous Fog Ice infinite 631. ♄ ☠☉ ♀ 1581. Jan. 5. Tripoli Ten Ships wracked by Storm Newberg Purch 1. 411. Febr. 21. Aleppo Comet ascending South-West in ♈ and descending North-East Purch I. 121. ♄ ♀ ☿ in ♒ Note this Comet appeared not in Hevelius's Catalogue Note also this Year there is News of a Vulcano Flaming at the West-Indies Guatimala Angoango Iseland From Acosta and others But they envy us the day of the Month. So ♄ or some other Good Planet loses by it 1585. A
that these Conjunctional Comets generated by meer Conjunctions I say for the most part are but short liv'd This lasted but its Week Now if any not exercised in the Doctrine of the Sphear should ask me how this Meteor should be seen being in the same Sign with ☉ the Globe will inform him that though the parts of the Sign near the Ecliptick or the ☉ s place set with the ☉ yet in the Horizon of Europe the more Northern parts nearer the Ecliptical Pole never descend under the Horizon A great Notandum for those who take Pleasure to observe the Dependants of these Meteors upon their Sources the Planets which very often are found to appear in the same Sign as they do often in the Opposite § 21. The next A o 1512. of which we have no distinct account only that it appeared in March and April mark if a ☌ ♃ ♀ doth not happen and that in the Sign ♓ yea was not the last in ♠Which every body knows is opposite to ♓ and therefore is in part the same the two extreams being united in the Radiation Now if it lasted longer my observation takes place here also viz. that it is not a meerly Conjunctional Comet since we find an Opposition of ☉ and ♄ ♀ ☿ as by the way you may note there was before ☌ of the same ☉ ♄ but ☌ s do not give so long date we have said § 22. That of 1516. brings not any particular account with it and therefore cannot expect any from us The general Truth is most plain for 't is not only a Single ☠of ☉ ♃ but a Triple ☠♃ to ☉ ☿ and ♀ in ♋ and ♑ And so let our Table be corrected § 23. That of 1521. in the Month of April has an Opposition of ♃ and ♀ in ♊ and ♠and so it got into our Table But the Place of the Comet consider'd is said to be the end of ♋ And is not the Planet ♂ at the entrance of the Month at the end of ♋ and the beginning of ♌ opposed by ♄ By the greater right therefore it seems to belong to that ☠§ 24. For that of 1527. Dec. 11. noted by Creusser in Gemma The Reader may guess what Faith we give to the report when he shall find with us that the same Celestial Causes are on Foot as were found busie 11 years ago viz. ♃ ☠☉ ☿ in ♋ and ♑ But the Truth is upon better Inspection they allow this Meteor to be but of short continuance And that Terrible Appearance to date it self in Aug. as perhaps we may see in ♃ and ♂ § 25. For that which the Table takes notice of Jan. 18. 1528. we have assigned it the same Original with that in the close of the last year and truly the Illustrious ☠♃ and ♀ ♀ stat does highly perswade But the Comet appeared in ♓ Well and good for on the 18th day ♂ is an near the Fishes in ♒ as he was near the other Comet in ♌ A o 1521. Beside Comets as I take it use to lodge between their Planetary Sires as here between ♀ and ♄ § 26. The next is that of 1532. Sept. 23. which lasted to Nov. 20. That 's well and particular yea to Dec. 8. says Fracastorius which according to Appian who has described part of it it began in ♠and by Oct. 14. got into ♎ by the beginning of Nov. into ♠a Star thrice as big as ♃ How many Proofs have we here of its Original common to other Fiery Meteors Which ought to be argued First from the Concomitants of such Appearances as Inundations c. if we may believe the report of Rochenback Next from the ☌ ☉ ♂ in ♎ at that time observed not by us but by the Age then in being happening on the very Birth-day of the Meteor and the Observation proves to be good only to accomplish it they should have said a ☌ of ☉ and ♂ Partile and ☿ Platique though he be for Three Planets in ♎ as well as other Signs always conduce Then comes our Planets ♀ in the beginning of ♠Stationary and ♃ toward the end viz. ♠24. Who hath so good a Memory to remember that part of the Eclyptique which it respects and what 't is joyned with And doth not Appian's Observation tell us that beginning in ♠it pass'd through ♎ and as far as the 3. of ♠This was Nov. 8. within gr 8. Longit of ♂ Where would you have Comets to be In the Mouths of the Planets Is there not sufficient Neighbourhood betwixt the Generant and Generatum Trust me our Planet ♀ runs back to a ☌ with ♂ in ♎ and holds there till the 25 of Nov. the same are the Causes of Existence and Conservation But why should it begin in ♠I answer 't is well if I can guess why it should make hast into ♎ then to ♠I don't pretend to be a Revealer of all Mysteries I have said that Comets us'd to be generated in the mid place between the Planets I consider'd that Two hours before the ☉ rise the ☽ was the same Sign with ♄ as well as ♂ in the same Sign with ☉ The beginning of ♠where the Comet first started is aequidistant from ♋ 21. the place of the ☽ at that time in the morn and ♂ with ☉ on the other hand For the expiration of the Comet Dec. 8. consider that in the end of Nov. ♂ and ☿ were scarce past that degree of ♠where ♃ kindled it but about Dec. 8. when ♃ and ☿ were past the Opposal of the Hyades and ♂ knocking off there the Fewel fail'd Yea but this seems a Conjunctional Comet and so by our Principle it should not last I answer I am not over-fond of that Notion of mine and then I say it may be reckoned Oppositional in respect of the Fixed Stars Pleiades and Hyades which carry a great stroke in the Nativity and Life of this Meteor as any man who observes the Erratick Motions may confess § 27. The Comets of 1533. 1539. we pass by because they may challenge some other place the first an ☠of ♄ and ♃ the latter a □ For Appian puts this last Comet Five days sooner viz. May 6. If it be the latter There are III. in ♉ § 28. Then A o 1541. Aug. 21. A Comet tayled like a Dragon as our Author Phrases it It seems to be of short continuance we 'll be as short with it ♃ ☉ ♀ in ♠a Conjunctional Comet the more Conspicuous is it because the III. Conjunctions are all noted in the same Month. § 29. The Comet 1560. happening in Dec. not in April points out a different cause from what is assigned in the Table viz. ☠♄ and ☉ in Trop Signs but the more material I reckon to be the Interposition between ♃ in ♈ on one side and ♄ in ♊ on the other This I say I take to be the most material although 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
the year we will find sureties to make it good for Planets opposing ♓ and â™ see A o 1571. before But if it happened about July and Aug. we have a Cardinal â–¡ between ♃ and ♂ which helps us beyond expectation 1606. At Bantam Octob. 13. About Midnight an Earthquake very terrible for the time Purch I. 385. ♄ ♂ in ♑ ♃ ♂ entring on ☌ I must not say Well met 1606. Dec. 13. At Bantam about Midnight T. M. Purch 1. 385. ☌ in fin â™’ 1609. April 2. St. N. Near Teraltas in the East-Indies a Rock burning in the Sea always smoaking Verhuef apud Purch I. 717. ♉ 17. ♃ ♊ 1. ♂ May 3. St. N. Great T. M. at Nera not unusual in those parts the day before the Dutch built their Castle there Purch I. 717. ♉ 24. ♃ ♊ 21. ♂ 1610. June 1 11. Hecla casting out Fire Purch 817. All the Planets engaged ♃ and ♂ not in ☌ or ☠but in Cardinal â–¡ 1616. July 29. St. N. Under the Line we had an Earthquake which made our men run out of their Cabins our Ship seeming as to strike against the ground when casting out our Lead we found none Schouten's Voyage about the World Purch 1 105. the ☠is almost Partile in the Tropical Height Die 7. St. N. A high hill casting Fire and Flame from the top thereof not far from Guinea Purch 1. 103. â™ 21. ♃ ♊ 6. ♂ which Aspect is complicated with ♀ also Mark whether this is the third or fourth time of this Aspect in its Rampant Height 1618. March 12. If it be St. N. ♂ and ♃ are engaged 1619. January 29. Near Franckford ad Moenum It belongs to ♃ and ♀ their Congress in ♓ but ♃ and ♂ are engaged to charge one the other in the Entry of their Opposal Again at Ratisbone T. M. sub obscurè animadversus â™ 6. ♂ ♉ 12. ♃ May 13 21. In the upper Burgundia and Alsatia Kepler agrees with us here imputing it to a repeated ☠of ♃ and ♂ Annot. ad Mensem He is in the right although his Printer mistakes ♄ for ♃ In the right I say for if I find one Aspect lasting a Twelve month upon the Matter as this doth I will find it with monstrous Effects For behold a Third T. M. Aug. 20 30. near the Mein and the Rhine but the next Aspect enters a Caveat 1625. Dec. the 18. at Norimberg ♈ 10. ♂ ♎ 25 ♃ 1626. At Worms Kyr Feb. 1. see here the same Aspect produces two Earthquakes in Dec. at one place in Jan. at another Febr. 6 16. Una Rupium lacui Gamundiensi iminentium findi in contraria discedere visa est Kepler It was believed he says to portend the Seditions of the Boors which followed that Omen we speak not to that now but we hope that the Reader will suspect with us that the ☠of ♃ and ♂ portended the Earthquake 1627. July 20 30. After Thunder and Lightning in Germany at least for 8 days after an Eclipse of the ☽ to make them remember An horrible Earthquake destroyed several Towns in poor Apulia where Kepler discovers no Celelestial Cause and I fancy no Causes but Celestial for the Subterranean Fires are but the matter on which our Causes operate Let any one that cares for an Ephemeris mark whether ♄ is not posited at the end of â™ I hope that Celestial cause may be proved from the foregoing Chapter of the Saturnine Earthquakes Mark secondly whether the ☽ dont oppose him at the entrance of ♓ that little Cause is not ridiculous but to say no more let him mark whether ♃ be not Stationary in â™ 21. and ♂ opposed in ♉ 9. Now â™ 21. is not far from â™ 24. Say no more Nov. 14. St. Vet. Norimberg T. M. Kyr ♉ 28. ♂ â™ 9. ♃ The truth is ♂ opp ♃ ☉ ♀ ☿ he penetrates not into the Aspect that thinks it only brought a little fair Weather at the beginning of the Month. Here is a double Earthquake again this year before this Aspect has taken its leave 1628. A Fame of an Earthquake Jan. 9. Kepl. ♂ and ♃ lye at this distance ♂ 24. ♉ â™ 22. ♃ I can scarce forbear giving my Judgement why I think the report was true there need no great studying the point for â™ 22. and ♉ 24. 't is but looking wishly on their Faces and when you meet them you 'l know them again 1632. October 8. at Naples ♃ ♉ 24. ♂ â™ 27. quere in ♄ ♃ 1640. April 14. Mechlin Terrae motus ☌ ♃ ♂ Helmont 1645. Jan. 19. Norimberg T. M. with Thunder Snow Kyr ♉ 21. ♃ ♊ 17. ♂ so at Poictiers in France T. M. with a horrid Tempest Memoires Ludovici XII 1650. Vesuv burns Transact 968. if happens in March April or May our Aspect will answer it 1665. Near Oxford Jan. 19. Transact p. 166. ♃ ♂ in â™’ see ☌ ♄ ♃ 1668. Sept. 3. Garibee Isles 29. in France 8 ♃ ♂ ♊ â™ 1669. May 12. Vesuvius cast out Smoke Saunderson ☌ ♃ ♂ in ♊ 1676. Febr. 3. Colepit Fires Transact ♃ and ♂ in ♑ 1670. At Kenebunch in the Province of Main a piece of Clay Ground thrown up by a mineral Vapour over the Tops of high Oaks into the River stopping its passage the hole 40 yards Square wherein were thousands of Clay Bullets as big as Musket Ball and pieces of Clay like Musket Barrel So at Gosco one and twenty miles off and Fish in some ponds thrown up dead upon the banks A wonderful number of Herrings cast up at high Water on black point harbour for a mile together Josselin ♃ ♂ in Tropical signs ♂ retrograde till Autumn then comes an ☠of ♄ ♃ ♂ besides a ☌ of ♄ ♂ in ♓ § 66. We have not been all the way Sollicitous of the Circumstances of T. M. we cannot brook a Frightful Story that is over long Our Spirits droop and our Bloud runs into Serum with no vivid Colour in it Frights we know dispossess some of their Wits They disturb the most obdurate Heart Who can hearken with Pleasure to the Doleful Note of the Screech Owl Yet I could not pass over some dire Circumstances which usually appear upon the Stage when the Gacodemon enters 'T is enough we have noted it before to shew their conjunct dependance on the Heavens § 67. The Cognation also between the Subterranâ—â—n Fires breaking forth from Hecla or Vesuvius being confess'd we see no reason but the Colepit which the Transactions tells us fired on such a day should be reduced under this Head and that with probability not only from the likeness of the Phaenomena but the likeness or Identity of the Aspect Even the Back-Friends to Astrology we have seen confess the Heavens have Power on the Mines of Germany c. I would fain know where they have not I will not stretch a Text to the Center which only meant perhaps the Surface There 's nothing hid from the Solar Heat but when
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