these Let it be remembred that we find melting Weather Anno 1658. 1667. Scalding Air Anno 1660. and excessive Heat Anno 1656. 1665. 1671. 1678. and where not Except once or so when the Wet hath palliated the Heat as 1679. or 1682. § 12. The Objection of what Cold occurs we have said ought not to move a Wise man for where is variety but in the Work of Nature Study it in what Topique you please and you shall find it This we say not as if we were hindred by the Objection for the rarity of the contrary is Argument enough for us as in the ☌ ☉ ♂ hath bin observed March 1654 June 1663. October 1679. What is Three to XXVIII Beside that 't is not for nothing that the Two last of those Months have foggy Air joyned with Frosts which shews an abatement of the Cold and a Similar Effect of a reserved Cause For when we say Heat we do not mean every Day should melt or scald us but some sensible degrees of the Quality more or less and rather for the more Therefore you hear that the Character of this Aspect speaks of Snow and Hail at the Seasons as well as Rain or Coruscations hence Rain and Snow which is next is not omitted by the Common Character § 13. This little Table I so term it because it stands upon a little Basis bears a competent Testimony to Rain For even here He who shall hunt for a dry Season as March 1654. August 1656. c. must wade through many a wet day to get thither As in our First and Second Instance of Feb. Anno 1652. Jan. Anno 1654. is visible March it self subornes two days Witness for us with Snow and Hail in one day and Rain in the other To make short we find 139. wet days Snow and Hail included of our 280. which being an absolute Moiety speaks its mind For the Flouds or Inundations the Effects of profuser Rains we shall speak in our Larger Account For though we find even here an Inundation or Two as that of Amsterdam Hague c. Anno 1675. Yet they are found more commonly unconfin'd to such a Scantling of a degree or Two of which alone this Home-Diary consists Hence that in Febr. 1661. about Tonbridge cannot be imputed to a Single day but to sveral precedent Days at a greater distance by two or three degrees more Of Flouds therefore in their proper place Eichstad I say refers Inundations to ♂ and ☿ which we shall find to be true but so that ♂ and ♀ put in too yea many times at the very Nick when ♂ and ♀ may seem to be the only Sluce-Openers § 14. This brings us to the Third considerable which I find is Fog observable for 18 days which though it come near a 20th part almost of the whole yet you know I reckon it not so much to the Influence of our Aspect as to the Half-Influence A Fog being nothing but a wet or dropping Constitution spoiled in the making The First Draught and Lineaments of a Showr drawn as it were in Cole not by a dropping but a more dry Pencil And hitherto do we reduce the Fila the Ropes on the Ground and the Floting Gossamere which I have observed to be the Product of Fog or Mist when that the moisture being exhaled the clammy part is left behind § 15. Winds I would take to be accidental to our Partil Aspect at least or not so suitable to the Influence as is found in others Though I acknowledge 90 Insâ—â—ces of which 42 are heard as High and Lofty In like manner as in ☉ aspected with ♀ we found not so much Wind as with ☿ But the Winds changing which I find Twenty times and upon a more attentive Watch believe it might have been trebled I am not going about to perswade notwithstanding that it belongs to this Aspect alone remembrieg what I have said already of the ☽ to some such purpose yet it may concern some certain Aspects more than others For the Solar Aspect with any Planet the ☽ excepted as we have said I reckon here to be excluded since they help to Fix the Wind antecedently to the Change For if they do not what else can be assigned The Sun and those which conspire with with him settle the Constitution if any other adventitious cause can alter it it may The Sun I say in Aspect or out of Aspect gives being to the Constitution the other which are concerned not with him but with one another exert their peculiar Strength in Weather and Winds provided that the Aspects of these different Planets lye at some distance from the ☉ for otherwise their Influence like Flames unite But if it so happen that the Sun being up These Aspects are not in hast to follow him because of their distance their Influence may be separated so far as to suffer a cooler Wind to blow which upon their Rising shall vere to a warmer point For observe it when you will if the Wind turns to a chiller part of the Compass There is some retreat of the Heavenly Bodies They either part One from the Other or leave the Horizon On the contrary when the Winds turn from a cold Quarter to a Warmer West or South c There is some new appearance above the Horizon or new Application of one to another And this it may be made Eichstad observe to us that the Wind changed often to the West under this Aspect which so far is true that it never changes from the Warm Quarter by virtue of this Aspect toward the warm Quarter it doth unless in State of Dereliction § 16. Verily 't is a pleasant piece of Art to be able to say as on some certain days we may while a Northerly Wind blows to assign I was going to say the Minute when the Wind shall turn I remember One Instance of that Nature I cannot say 't was this Aspect precisely that once according to observation expecting the Wind to turn I went up to the Battlements of the House and Lo Within half a quarter of an Hour the Vane of a Neighbour Church at a very little distance turned to the Point which I was aware of 'T is well I was alone for if any less curious Person had been with me to have attested the Event which is sober Truth I should have been suspected for a What d' ye call him This can the Observation of the Planets attain to as may be seen in the Chapter of the Rise and Setting of the Stars a part of this Treatise § 17. There is another appearance for which this Aspect hath a Fame and that is Iris Halo Parelia Of the former we have one great Instance from Leicestershire of the Later I fear I have met with more than are noted down Something I am sure we shall find though not proper to the Aspect perhaps nor again improper Kepler hath one remark under the name of Phasmata by which he means some
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
Hail you shall seldom hear of two though little Distances of place that will agree in its Admission § 3. We acknowledg this Variety is admirable when God Himself hath pleas'd to give it as a remarque of his Power that He causes it to rain on one City and not on another that which our Eyes in a beautiful prospect are sometimes witness of But sober Philosophy is not confounded at the Contemplation of this wonder as the Astrologer Himself was who observing once at Tubing some Heat and a little Rain onely but elsewhere lower in the Countrey Tonitrua horrida breaks out into this self-killing Conclusion frustrà istas Meteororum formationes à positu Astrorum exigas Kepler Ephem Anni 1625 ad mens Jun. Philosophy is rather excited to give some account of the Divine Power and Wisdom which though invisible in themselves are and in all Ages of the world have been discoverable by such contemplation and scrutiny § 4. Wiser therefore was the Conclusion of the same good man who upon the like collation of the various Constitution of the Heaven at Lusatia first observing only black Clouds and at Glogaw scarce a days journey from thence having had intelligence of terrible Thunder spake like Himself in Wonderment but not Confusion Ecce quid Coelum quid Terra quid Loca possunt Kepl. ad mens Sept. Anni 1629. § 5. For without all peradventure this variety of the Airs Constitutions whether permanent or transient must be referr'd to the Heavens above and their Difference hereafter to be consider'd joyn'd with the Situation of the Place together with the Parts adjacent and the manifold Differences there also to be alledged By reason of which Thebes differs from Athens Rome from Tibur Athenis tenue Coelum crassum Thebis Thus the Mountains Acroceraunii in Epire famous of old for frequent Thunders as the Sierra Leona in Africk witnessed to this day by the Portuguez Mariners who hear as much at 50 Miles distance Thus in Rome and Campania Winter-Thunders are heard sometimes in other parts of Italy never as Pliny hath noted II. 50. The instance from Peru is notable though far fetch'd where Acosta tells us that in the Plains ten Leagues bredth from the Sea coast it never Rains nor Thunders upon the Sierra's and Andes two ridges of Hills at 50 Leagues distance running parallel to each other it rains sufficiently on the first from September to April on the latter almost continually But nearer home the Cities of Heidelberg in the Palatinate and the Ancient Triers in Germany from the Heavens disposition to Rain have it seems a like slabby character so the German City is by some call'd saith D r Heylin the common Sewer of the Planets Cloaca Planetarum § 6. This Diversity say I must be referr'd to the Quality and Site of the Place whether it be neer the River Lake Sea whether it be Hill or Dale Sands Clay Mine and some say Forrest which All contribute to the Individual Constitution of Hot Cold Fresh Pure Dry Gross Moist Foggy by way of Cause Material or reduced to the Efficient § 7. First for the Sea 't is a granted case the Maritim places are more subject to Fog Rain and Winds witness the East part of Lincolnshire by reason of the Fens and certainly all the prodigious Tempests of this our Island noted by our Ancestors are found to lay their Scene in our Maritim Countreys as Lancaster Somerset Dorset Hampton in the West Lincoln York to the North-east but especially the Counties of Essex Kent Suffolk Norfolk Cambridge § 8. So gloriously true is That which God Himself taught us long ago by the mouth of his Holy Prophet that He gathers the Waters from the Sea and poureth them on the face of the Earth § 9. The Sea ministers Matter not only for Rain and Wind but for Thunder also if Nitre and Sulphur be ingredients thereto As for Hail we know that it falls at its season in most places but note it for certain that all Prodigious Hailstones whose ambit reaches five six seven Inches is found to have faln on places at no great distance from the Sea the Cause is obvious § 10. Rivers then must bear their proportion as Fogs so Dashes of Rain are the sorer by how much the nearer to them The Showre the Seamen say observes the River and flows along with it as in its own alveus The Greater Rivers make the moister Air as the Air of Austria because of the Danow Kepler ad Sept. Anno 1627. Upon which account London I observe hath her share in Chronicle for Tempest because of her Thames and the Southern-side of the City hath complain'd most as the Tower Bow-Church poor S. Pauls now Tempest-free I wis Westminster because of their vicinity to the River when what I have seen my self tall Spires of Churches have rock'd to and fro as if they were at liberty and strong Iron Bars have hung the head like a broken Stalk by meer stress of weather § 11. Next the Nature of the Soil Kepler hath admonished us of a certain place neer Vlm in Suâ—via often struck with Thunder the Reason he rightly guesses from the Slate-Quarrâ—es and other Minerals there about which are discerned by the Mineral-waters there in use ad mens Maii Anno 1627. Those about Bath should inform us of this matter which if I misremember not is perform'd in the Transactions Philosophical For my part I always suspected that Horrible Thunderbolt which came into the Church of Wells Anno 1596 to have ow'd somewhat of its Extraction to the Place This we shall find that All places more subject to Lightning are also subject to Earthquakes but Earthquakes we know proceed from Mineral Sulphur c. incensed Rome and Campania which were noted but now for â—inter-thunders I am sure are Tracts not exempted from Earthquake § 12. This is so certain that in those uncouth showres of Milk and Bloud it becomes probable that the Mines of Chalk and Vermilion contribute also at least to the distinction of their borrowed Tincture § 13. The difference of the Hill and Vale is as conspicuous the Hill contributing more Cold than the Vale yeilding therefore for the most part a later Herbage In the Mountains of Bohemia the Corn at S. James tide was blowing when in the Plains of Lusatia it was ready for Harvest saith our constant Kepler Here note that in respect of the Heaven Lusatia lies the more Northward of the two therefore the Difference arises from the difformity of the parts of the Earth amongst themselves of Hault or Bate How cold the Tops of the Alps are is not unknown of whom 't is noted that the Snow melts first at the foot of the Hill § 14. In observation of Weather the Hill many times puts bounds and limits to the moisture of the Vale. Instance of This I have had the hap to observe what I have also heard from the Chiltern Hills in the County of
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
Striped Cloud which is remarkable as sometime to reach from one end of the Heaven to the other somewhat difficult to explain as yet having advanced not much in our Theory but feisible it is being certain to the Glory of Providence be it spoken that there is no appearance in Heaven without its Cause § 20. The next is clouds riding contrary contrary I say to the Wind or contrary to one another Who sends them trow you of such different Errands It is not the same Wind drives the Clouds howbeit the Seaman has advanced so far to make his way to contrary points by the same gale I used to compare it to the turn of the Young Flood at the side of the River when the main Stream runs to Ebb. This contrariety happens in several Apartments of the Air Secundum sub supra and 't is caused by a new Aspect superinduced to the Prior Senior standing Aspect Upon the same account as 't is usual for the Wind to veer about against a Storm and when the storm is done to return to its old Corner And upon this account it may be what some say that Clouds coming against Wind are a sign of a Storm or Thunder and the like The Cause is different as in the Waters 't is Young Floud by the redundant Ocean The River ebbs by the Proneness of its Streams this is more seen in our Aspect perhaps than another because of its duration the longer the day Term is the more frequent are its Vicissitudes § 21. As to Blushing Clouds observable Even and Morn All such Tinctare is known to proceed from a ☌ of some fair Planet ☿ ♃ ☿ c. with the Sun The Sun illustrates the Vapor the Reflex tinges it deeper so in Sounds we may distinguish a Musket in the open Field makes but an half report compared with that rousing Bounce it gives in a Publick Street where every Wall reflects and doubles the noise Say much the same of Icides Halo's c. § 22. But ♀ s inclination to Mist should not have been passed by It seems to be more than a Curiosity when we shall number Fifty Fogs and some Roping Fila besides thinner mistiness Mist and Fogwe willingly refer to ♃ Venus and ♃ are somewhat alike in hue if that will argue any thing but if their properties be different as we shall see in ♃ so there may be difference in the Fog for all as I know 'T is a Curiosity for the Hygrometer to explore A blew smoaky Mist is clearly of a deeper Complexion than of a pale whence those few that occur here are imputable to some mixture ♃ beside other contribute also which when they are peached will answer And so much for our Partile Aspect but alass We have notdone § 23. We have said that the Latitude or Amplitude of the Aspects are not commentitious and nothing is more reasonable For if two Agents united in a Central Union can get a Name why should they not be thought to be operative at a convenient distance whether anteceding that Union or Consequent Great is the Sphear of the Planetary Activity downwards towards the Sublunary World Have they no Activity East or Westward They must have for we speak of a Sphear not of a Line of Activity Light and Heat throws it self round to all parts of the Circumference whereof the Luminous Body is the Centre The greatest Patrons of a Partile Aspect will not make themselves so ridiculous as to disown our Effect if notable and awaking though it happens 40. Hours before and after But this cannot be but by an antedated Union Their Spheres of Activity are co-incident before the perfect Union Suppose then Sol and Venus for example shed their Influence at gr 12 10 8. distance 'T is but making the Sphere of each to reach half way to gr 6 5 or 4. Now I will appeal to Experience which every Man may try who is Master of any Diary whether ☉ and ♀ do not operate at 6 8 10 12 gr distance I go not further as often as Not As often I had almost said as at gr 2. gr 1. or the Central ☌ I am sure as Powerfully For not all stupendious Effects hap at a Central ☌ There are distributions in Nature more remote which will equal those nearer Configurations Wherefore to gr 12. distance do we bring a Parcel of Keplers Observation and the distances noted that the Reader may see what we offer 'T is true he will find there perhaps Three Months swallowed up in the width of this overstretch't Observation But why must Astrology be confined to a Megre Aspect of One or Two in lieu of Thirty Days While all the rest of the following Month lies Fallow Is it worth the while Who will study such Astrology 'T is like searching in Tin-Mines for Silver some may be found there but not so much as answers the Pains No No the Vein of true Science is richer and can pronounce for most days as well as for One or Two when All is rightly observed I confess 't is a great All and part of that is Observation of the Distances of ☉ ♀ and ☿ The Benefit of this will be confessed when we shall offer from the Premises some Light toward not only the Production of an Effect but also the Duration As of a wet Time a stormy Season suppose a Comet or Earthquake which sometimes last a Month a Fortnight sometimes two shall I give an example Mr. Cavendish tells us that there fell many furious Storms from March 6. to April 8. Now in the year 1591. ☉ ♀ lasted the whole Month and at April ♀ lay but at gr 10. distance Hackluit Vol. 3. what out-strips the said terms must be accounted for otherwise Let not therefore in our following Table the degrees only but the days also be noted For what if some little Hyatus appears In 1621 when the Numbers run on this close Order May 23 24 25 27 29. June 4 8 9 80 12 13 14 c. Least any should say we have mentioned only those days which serve our turn when those which are not mentioned are far inferiour in Number Well what kind of Weather have we in the Diary Rain Thunder and that gr 6 7 8 9 10 c. as well us about the Central ☌ Rain some store gr 12. An. 1617. R. Thunder and Rain gr 12. An. 1621. Dir. Chasmes Lightning gr 12. An. 1623. Dec. 24. 27. Thunder Rain R. An. 1622. Again gr 12. April 2. Dir. An. 1633. Winds Rain gr 12. Nov. 21. An. 1622. Snow for 3 or 4 days gr 11 12. Dec. 6. An. 1623. R. H. Winds Rain gr 11 12. An. 1634. Dir. Showres June 16. An. 1625. R. March 11. Rain gr 12. Thunder Rain Jun. 7. An. 1626. Dir § 25. The account from Kepler under both Characters of the Retrograde and Direct An. 1617. R. June 28. Rain some store gr 12. 29. Thunder and R. at N. gr 11. July 1. Thunder
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
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
Heavens Mist also must be so dealt out for to make up our Sorites if no Mist no Dew if no Dew no Showr hath an Aethereal Relation and so we fall back to Mechanisms and the misty Speculations of the Cartesian where we may blunder all dayes of our Lives and envy Owls and Moles who can discern something in the Dark § 14. Of this Nature it may be is the slender Offer of Moisture here also observable Offer to misle saith one day July 18. 1655. Three drops Another July 19. 1654. Rain scarce sensible saith a Third July 15. 1655. It agrees with ☿ and with what we have observed before that he is a dry Officer and therefore not always fruitful in Wet but inclined to Winds § 15. Winds variable which are here remembred may next to the ☽ be imputed to ☿ the next in swiftness of Motion 'T is true if they vary when he is found Stationary then we lay no claim to that Effect but we shall scarce find it so I speak at adventure § 16. Sometimes I have met with the Weather under this Aspect applauded A Curious day a Day commended c. 'T is no Fallacy in it its turn to impute it to this Aspect which is fair and seasonable as others when by its self and at time of the year and under such Circumstances and must needs be commended since Health it self is nothing but Temper c. This hinders not that Character of his which speaks Distemperature For the difference of Circumstance reconciles all seeing they are apt enough to take occasion to shew themselves more Intemperate which appears by this If the present day under ♄ and ☿ be commended it argues the precedent were not so commendable when the precedent Distemperature was on the Cold Side Then 't is easie to say the approach of the ☌ did allay it agreeable to that common Nature of ☌ and the proper Character of our Aspect under Consideration § 17. As to Albumazar I find him talking of Flouds and Plenty of Rain in some certain Signs as ♈ ♠♑ ♒ and ♓ and sometimes as little Rain yea much Dryth as in ♌ and ♎ Vicissitudes of Wet and Dry may agree well enough Howbeit but one Floud appears in our Table and that upon a Singular Concourse of Causes not imputable therefore to ♄ and ☿ with any Eminence or special Note ☉ and ☿ 't is true may challenge that which is a more frequent and therefore to all seeming a more Potent Cause more apt to fall in with stronger Congresses by its very frequency What the Arabs add of paucitas pluviarum and yet Inundatio multa more than once viz. in ♉ and ♠as I may hope 't is no Contradiction real in divers Signs as to their Clime so such Exotick Consideration is not worth my while ☌ ♄ ☿ Diary A o 1652. Jul. 23. ♌ 3. Ab Jul. 18. ad 28. 18. Cloudy dropping more wind misty vesp 19. Mist m. cloudy wd variable mist vesp 20. Close m. p. mist at n. 21. Mist m. close m. p. 22. Thunder showrs showring at n. 23. Overcasting dropping at n. wd variable 24. Showrs clouds contrary wds 25. Windy m. s clouds dropping 26. Windy dropping some rain at n. 27. Some cl 28. Thunder showrs windy showrs so at n. wd variable A o 1653. July 21. ♌ 5. A Jul. 15. ad 26. 15. Rain insensible m. 16. Red wd s clouds 17. Hot s sprinkle vesp 18. Cloudy offer at misle a showr 19. Cold wd cloudy m. red wd 20. s rain Too little 21. Windy hot 22. Hot dry season winds high 23. High winds at night cold and close 24. Fair hot 25. Misty m. hot rain and Thunder coasting 26. s rain showr at n. cold wd muddy blew mist A o 1654. July 9. ♌ 27. A July 13. ad 26. 13. Cool wd unconstant showrs spoiling Hay-making 14. Heat 15. Overcasting wd s insensible drops 16. Wet thunder very hot 17. Wet and wind p. m. 18. Blustering n. hot somet suspic 19. Rain a. l. 3 drops warm 20. Hot high wds s moisture 21. s wd clouds contrary hot some showrs at n. 22. Clouds contrary some drop 23. Hail rain a. l. cool wind very variable hail 24. Very cool wd s showring 25. Cls. gather set to rain at n. 26. Misling noct tot cold wd and inconstant showring A o 1655. July 25. ♠9. Aug. 11. ♠10. A July 15. ad Aug. 21. ☿ Ret. 15. Very hot cloudy Westward 16. Thunder 4 m. showring and grumbling die tot 17. Wet morn m. p. 18. Mist s coasting moisture 19. Mist wdy s showrs 20. *** 21. Mist white cl lowring clouds 22. Winds offer to misle hot 23. H. winds s misle 24. Misle much rain p. m. 25. Fair m. showring p. m. 26. Wind much rain m. showring cold 27. H. wd cool white cl 28. Cloudy windy 29. Warm moist p. m. n. Ignis fatuus 30. Misling storm o. wind 31. Wind and misle o. Aug. ejusd 1. s lowring cl Cobwebs overc h. wd vesp 2. Rain a. l. high wd misle m. p. 3. H. wd thick whitish cl stormy one Thunder-clap 4. High wd cool some drops 5. Sometimes lowring wind drop at n. 6. Some wet m. clear overc night 7. Close darkish offer at R. 10 m. ☉ ort 8. Close m. wd 9. Wind clouds drops vesp ground-Mist at n. 10. Hot yellow m. offer at R n. o. 11. Hot dark stormy o. n. much Thunder 12. H. blustering and sharp wd m. 13. Mist m. lowring and misle m. coast 14. Showrs inconstant and by coasts 15. Mist n. inconstant fits of showring 16. Rain a. l. Sun occ wet die tot 17. Dark Thunder and some showrs 18. Showring m. p. hot 19. Very wet s wd hot 20. Wet m. so at n. Th. in s places 21. Wd and wet clearing A o 1656. Sept. 10. ♠26. A Sept. 4. ad 16. 4 Wind showrs circ merid 5. Thick mist m. hempen cl little wd yet variable 6. Wind rises overcast warm blackish cl 7. Close wd faint blackish cl 8. Some little showring o. store of rain towards London 9. Close m. flying clouds lowr flash of Lightning 10. Close m. red clouds Eastward ad Sun occ 11. Close lowring s wind 12. Red m. fr. mist flying cl 13. Fr. mist falls 8 m. winds sometimes high blackish clouds 14. Fine rain ante l. à Sun ort high wind Clouds at a great distance Rain 4 p. 15. Rain ante l. cold cloudy dropping 16. Drisle Sun occ A o 1657. Sept. 8. ♎ 7. A Sept. 2. ad 15. 2. Wet m. coasting showrs warm clouds S W. s misle drives N E. 3. Rain hard midnight ante l. warm coasting showrs clouds S W. smoke N E. 4. Overcast about Sun occ wd and gentle rain 5. Some moisture m. flying cl wind and wet 1 p. showrs coasting p. m. 6. Warm wd fresh at Graves end 7. Cold wind some drisle 9 p. 8. Showr 8 m. winds variable 9. Wet ab
in the Carabrian Earthquakes A o 1626. and 1638. July XI in both which years ♃ and ♀ were so near the same Position that a Candid Reader will startle at the Observation For how saith he a 2d Earthquake at the end of 12 years which is known to be ♃ 's Period Then 't is likely that ♃ is one of the Instruments of that Motion And withal doth it happen saith he to be in the same place in both years Then 't is probable again that ♀ in such a degree of the Zodiack conspiring with certain others is endued with the same motive faculty § 39. To see how Truth will justifie it self not only as to the General that these Tremors of the Earth are imputable to the Heavens but that these Aspects wherein we are at present engaged are their Causes Efficient for the News from Naples in the Gazet. Octob. 1685. the Instant on which I write tells us that Sept. 23. Oct. 3. their Mountain Vesuvius within these few days began to burn again casting out Flames and Ashes with a Terrible noise and the last moiety of the Month What are the Aspects but a ☌ of ♃ ♀ and ☿ Shall I gratifie our Friends Les Scavans in Paris and so close this tedious discourse 'T is not much out of the way they tell us that the City of Paris owns but two Earthquakes the First April 6. 1580. and the other May 12. St. N. 1682. In the first Earthquake ☉ and ☿ are at the end of ♈ and ♀ is upon the Pleiades In the Second ☿ is at the end of ♈ and ☉ and ♀ very near the Pleiades I could make an absolute Rule of it but this place don't allow me to run upon the rest of the Parallel In 102 years somewhat of the same Revolution may come about § 40. Concerning the Parelia though we shall see them happen under other Aspects yet the Revolution of this Aspect co-incident with the Variety of the Appearance doth bespeak the curious to make further enquiry we cannot here digress about the matter which reflects the Light whether the Vapor be Dry or Icy as Des-cartes justly imagines only we say the Lustre reflected is not meerly Solar but borrow from some other Astral Radiations for though the Secondary Suns must by course of Nature be less brave and bright than the chief Luminary yet it doth not always prove so they say Upon no other account sure but upon that of other Luminous Bodies which help to advance the weaker Reflexion § 41. And such was that at Venice of which Cardan gives an account A o 1532. And who knows but Mathematicians may find considering the Situation of the Suns in the Vertical Circle that the brighter of the Parelia belongeth to ♀ the other to ☿ Certainly ♀ and ☿ were much about the same distance from the Sun One to the West the Other to the East § 42. That of Jan. 2. 1586. I have no reason to believe but that our Opposition was Influential He who shall read Rothman's Description in Fromundus how close the Parelia lay on each side of the Sun may probably suspect the near Conjunction also of ♂ and ☿ to help to such Impressions § 43. That of 1550. seen in the Dutchy of Brunswick finds ♃ and ♀ within 6 degrees one of the other and if there be any thing in that ♃ in the same place now where we found ♀ A o 1532. vice versa and ♀ in the same place now where we found ♃ 1586. interchangeably Something there must be for consulting my Notes I found Clouds strangely colour'd with Rain-bow Tincture May 15. in Gem. A o 1556. where ♂ is in the very same degree c. but that belongs to the succeeding Aspect it is true yet we see how the Heavens will answer if they be spoke to § 44. I confess I seem to talk at random as Men are wont to do that are arm'd with a strange Fancy and lull themselves in a Security that one will undertake the trouble of their Confutation Yet I must needs own the further I go I like my self the better For the Instance of Sep. 25. A o 1560. where you meet with a Parelium and a reverst Iris what can I say different from what is said when we shall contemplate with or without Gemma's Figure ♀ and ☉ newly risen together to say nothing of ☿ 's readiness to peep and ♃ setting in the West Can this Arcus and Parelium arise from any other Concourse of Causes It arises from the ☉ alone the Ante-blanetary will say but will he nil he ♀ is within 2 degrees of this all-doing ☉ Science must not speak vulgarly the Shadow that my Body casts under a ☌ of ☉ and ♀ vulgarly would be called the ☉ 's Shadow only but exactly to speak it is not so for 't is known ♀ can cast a Shadow by her self But then why an inverst Shadow I could speak to that but I wonnt grasp too much For the Irides our Forein Diary speaks sufficient § 45. I shall not please my self in speaking to the Currents under this Aspect but shall refer it to a Further place Only my Idle Head asks the question about the White Milky-Waters what may be the Reason and because I confess I have a Months mind to impute its appearance to the Heavens For First it is but an appearance though lasting for a Night or so at Day Light it vanisheth If it were any mixture of any Whitish Ferment it would be sensless to think of an Aetherial Procurement But the Field is too large for any such Mixture the Ship being under Sail all the time of its Observation hence there is no thinking of any such Salvo We shall therefore consider next whether this appearance is observed at any times more remarkable than others as to the Heavenly Positions and if that proves we may next consider whether it be Nonsense to say That the Heaven may own such Effects on the Water as it hath in the Air The Sun can Guild the Clouds and the ☽ can paint them with a Pale hue The others we see can make their Irides and Halo's yea help to the Colouring of a Solar and Lunar One Why may not this Wheyish hue of the Water be an Impression from ♃ and ♀ and others analogically to the appearance of the Halo As for the Position ♃ and ♀ are extraordinarily circumstantiated by relation one to the other and by the Station of Venus each of the 3 days specified A o 1617. Yea A o 1616. I have met with the same appearance before ♃ and ♀ not in ☠'t is true but in a □ Aspect which is a chance that calls for our Attention ♃ and ♀ have Brightness enough to make a Nectiluca of the Sea and all agreeable to those Principles which the Notable Author of that Discourse advanceth We shall see further it may be and if I speed here I shall begin to suspect that our Aspect