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
♄ ♉ 11 ♂ Norwich 1630. Octob. Great Shipwracks by Storms ☌ in princ ♠1631. May 18 19. Thunder Plashing Rain Kyr ☠♉ ♠gr 12. June 14. Thunder and Plashing Rain Kyr ☠gr 11. Hamburgh 1632. Oct. 11. Inundation Norimberg Ephem 1634. Octob. 11. Inundation Kyr ☌ ♠gr 10. where 6133 men were lost Calv. Append. Oct. 11 12 13 14. were nothing but rainy Kyr 1635. May 19. Plashing Rain and Thunder ☠♊ ♠gr 5. dist June 27. Great Tempest of Hail c. Kyr July 26. Thunder Lightning Rain August 10 m. Lightning ab Oriente ☠sive QV. 1636. Octob. 22. Tempest lasted 5 days at Astrachan Olear ☌ in ♑ 9. ♃ and ♀ ☌ in ♠26. Kov 11. Tempest Olear 188. 13. Tempest continues 14. Tempest abated a little it grew again we lost our Anchor Rudder and Mast Ib. 1637. June 15. Thunder then a Showr Kyr 1638. Octob. 21. Dry Tempest of Thunder and Lightning 1639. Aug. 29. We had those Storms call'd Travado's which are quickly over Olear Mandeslo's Voyage ♄ ♂ in ♒ ♌ 1640. May 17. Harmful Thunder and Lightning Sept. 23. Storm of Wind and great Water-Gust ☌ ♄ ☌ ♒ Octob. 18. Chasmata 1641. Aug. 25. Audib Thunder ☠♠♓ gr 5. 1643. Sept. 2. ad 6. Much Rain Kyr ☠gr 5. 1644. April 23. 24. ad 30. Frost and Snow ☌ ♄ ♂ gr 25. in ♓ May 3. Chasma Kyr 16 17 18. Thunder Harmful ☌ in ♈ gr 10. 23. Men slain with Thunder ☌ in ♈ gr 6. 1645. Sept. 4. Extreme Wet Fairfax's Soldiers and Horses dyed Sprig 9 ☠gr 19. in ♎ ♉ Oct. Extreme Wet the Ways unpassable for Military Carriages Sprigg ☠♠8. gr 18. 1646. May 4. Thunder Harmful Kyr 26. Thunder and Hail Kyr June 23. Terrible Thunder July 11 19. Thunders 1647. Nov. 11. Dark and Tempestuous Night when his Majesty Charles the I. escaped from Hampton Court ☠in ♉ gr 18. 1648. Nov. 9 19. Near Andros Isle a Spout near a quarter of an hour ☠♄ ♂ 1660. Oct. 30. In Hertfordshire Caelum ardens ☌ ☠♂ supra in ♃ ♀ 1668. Dec. 17. R. Hail Th. Lightn ♒ 11. ♄ 27. vide sapra in ♃ ♀ § 26. Great is our Subject and great must be the Care and Pains to Master it We travers'd the World the Reader sees to display our Aspects Greatness We could wish we had Circumnavigated the Globe and taken Observation all the way Great use in the mean while may be made of the Mariners Journal to teach us to look up to the Stars and Bright Asterisms to learn not so much their Number as their Power Note in the mean time the Table presents the Opposition mostly for Brevities sake § 27. We have already labour'd to preclude all Objections that we suspect may be brought against these Tables their Imperfection or their Prolixity 'T is in vain to struggle with the Libyan Hercules we lift our Adversary up into the Air and he must expire § 28. As to our large extent of the ☌ even to a Semisextile Let it take its Fate let the Censurer of these Papers as in some Tradesmen's Bills abate what seemeth unreasonable so he allows us something for our Pains 'T is not the first time we have done so yea we are required to allow so much in some grand Effects Eichstad upon his own Observation I see hath abetted the Quincunx whose Influence when he found he was in hast to attest it and thereupon inserted though out of place a Notandum at the end of his Calculation A o 1644. We have not given you our Word here but some Evidence also though not so often as we might both for the one and the other We might do as much for the Semisextiles § 29. And now what shall I say What New Thing comes under Observance Storms are no News nor Thunders nor Rains The Effects are common spread over the Face of the Earth But the Man of Experience with the Man of Science the Mariner and the Student knows not that ♄ and ♂ are many times the Signal Causes of such Effects yea and have some Causality more or less according to their Stage so that wheresoever they be in Aspect or out of Aspect within 30 degrees or without they know they are engaged as sure as the Sun knows his going down § 30. And this is visible in our Table to those who will please to ponder the frequency of the Fits of the Weather that return within a Months time As in 1540. 1550. c. in Febr. 1556. In Jan. June 1557 or shall weigh the Obstinate Constancy of a Churlish yea sometimes of a Savage Constitution as in June 1549. In June and July 1557. Add 1585. where July August and September are troubled with Cold or May and June 1588. which year the English and the Spaniard will never forget where in we would not be thought to derogate from the First Cause but only as we are now engaged do assert his Wisdom by not abrogating the Second created and assumed by himself § 31. Nor do we stay here For March and April 1589. April and May 1591. August and September 1596. April and May again 1597. Sept. and Octob. 1598. May and August 1606. June 1607. are extant in the Table And what need I wade further § 32. 'T is Want of this made Kepler at a stand when he professes he understood not the Cause of Wind Rain Storm and Thunder in the beginning of Aug. 1626. Initium saith he cui ascribam non habeo When as there are sundry Causes some nearer some remote Amongst the remote the distance of ♄ and ♂ 18 degrees at furthest and is it not reasonable to think so When he finds ☿ near upon as distant from ♂ on one side as ♄ is on the other Such Curiosity there is in the Planetary distances as we have before admonish'd The like loss he is at for his Pluit tota nocte July 3. Anni ejusdem For though ♄ and ♂ be 27. degrees distant they are not excluded from their Share in the Effect for they find several ways of Union as in our Natural Body it happens not so obvious to be remarked Little thought he of the ☠of ♂ and ♀ but at 6 degrees distance Little thought he of the Moon 's application to the Opposite of ♄ in process of the whole Night In fine Little thought he of the numerous Fixed then and there posited which connects ♂ and ♄ between ♌ 14. and ♠11. § 33. Shall I give you one Instance more in A o 1627. We find Lightning and Rain and Cataracts for 40 dayes in the Months of May and June in which while Thunder and Lightning 14 times Amongst other Aspects we find our ☠of ♄ and ♂ Kepler whom I never mention without an Interiour Honour flies to the Nature of the Soil to the exudations of Oily Plants and Minerals and Fossiles which he saith are full of Vitriol c.
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
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
that the Days are always or most part Character'd in their Constitution according to her accesses or recesses to the Sun or Tropicks Secondly the Mystery would have been kenn'd through the Observation of 2000 years at least seeing the Motions of the Sun and Moon are conspicuous but No body hath pretended to find any Specialties herein excepting three or four days in the month and those too of very remote and uncertain signification for the Moon is a Reflexion and Reflexions are tied to Laws According to the Angle of Incidence so is the Reflexion and the strength thereof but no Constitution of Air is tied and bound to these several Reflexions the Weather returns in such a Month when there is neither the same phasis nor an equivalent § 2. Nay Sun and Moon jointly are not the complete Causes of the Airs Alteration upon several grounds for if so every XIX years Revolution would bring with it the same state of the Year and we should be able to say what would be the Face of Heaven to morrow if we had observed 19 years ago without any great Conjuring § 3. Secondly we argue from the Duration the Same Constitution of Air sometimes lasts a whole week a month yea predominates the best part of a year while the Moon alass every 24 hours changes her phases in two days runs a twelfth part of the Heaven in a Month shifteth all her Schemes and Postures in relation to the Sun § 4. On the contrary we may consider the fickleness of the Weather In two hours yea in half an hours time the face of Heaven shall be Masked clear calm turbulent but in half an hours time the Sun and Moon vary not any considerable difference Sometime it shall rain and shine by Fits with such variety of surprize that if the Moon and Sun had run the Zodiaque in that 12 hours the variety could not have been greater § 5. Next may we take in the violence and extremity of Weather for Heat soultry melting fainting Air for Wind the Fury of Tempestuous blustering rocking the lofty Towers and shaking the best and lowest Architecture Of the extremity of the Heat the Moon supposing the Sun never so much cannot be the Cause the Moon being a Reflexion as was said and a single Reflexion but the Air is heated beyond the power of a single Reflexion as if there were some Anthelii one or two invisible Suns as some have imagined Antiselenae The vulgar impute all to the Sun and on a soultry day say the Sun is very hot but sure the Sun hath some Satellites some invisible Company or Guard that lie behind the Hyacinth-Hangings of the Heavens In the fury of Tempest the vulgar speak more feelingly when they say it Rains as if Heaven and Earth would meet and blows as if it would rend up all before it the Sun and Moon alone give them little supicion of such prodigious strength they rather believe a Devil raging in a Storm than impute such horrid Violences to so sober and civil a Pair as the Sun and Moon are accounted § 6. Add the contrariety of the state of the Air the Sun and Moon may be assigned some Cause of Warmth but who assigns a Cause of Cold the Sun by his oblique annual Accesses and Recesses in the Zodiac dispenses Summer and Winter as by his Diurnal motion he distributes Day and Night The Night and the Winter are acknowledged Both cold by reason of the Sun's Absence or Distance but whence comes the Day to be Cold an Aestival day to be chill Is the Sun the Cause the Cause of Contrarieties and that while Present The Sun cannot be the cause of Darkness when the Sun is present neither can it be the cause of Cold when it affords its presence When therefore a chill Hail-storm follows Lightning and Thunder I ask which of these Two congeles the Hail which kindles the Flash Doth the Moon congele the Storm It may be That 's a tepid Planet Is it the middle Region and the Antiperistasis then it would always Hail not Rain when it Thunders especially for the Hottest days the Fittest for the Antiperistasis but when the lower Region we find is chill'd also when it Thunders with Hail and that at Mid-summer who incourages this Cold what enlarges its Confines 't is too late to talk of Reliquiae Hremis at Mid-summer or in July nor to turn us off with the blind motion of the Matter For what is Uncertain and Confused is Casual and Casualty is inconsistent with Science so inconsistent that it is not to be pleaded by any Lovers of Learning § 7. Lastly the contrariety of the Accident to the Time when e. g. after a Set of close and muddy Days the Air takes its qu and clears up at Mid-night what removes that Curtain 'T is scarce the nature of any Night to remove Clouds her chill Constitution doth rather settle and fix if not seem to gather them the Moon hath not such power for supposing she be up the Sun sometime is hard put to it to take a Mist from the Earth much more the Moon The like we say for Winter the Absence or Depression of the Sun makes cold Weather but How come Winters to be warm warm ordinarily for a Month or more when the Daisie Anemone the Strawberry shall blow and proclaim a favourable Season The Moon for half the time is in Winter-signs as low and humble as the Sun Add when it happens thus that the Day and Night are ordinarily alike as to the Constitution yea the Winter-Nights have commonly most to do being tempestuous at least in the latter end of October and November nay sometimes soultry Nights are found in November as sometimes Thunder and Lightning at Christmas Many a Summer passes and it Thunders not can a Winter-Night be warmer than many a Summer can the Sun in its lowest Degree and Absence withall be more Potent than in Presence and Verticity 'T is more possible for the Sun to raise Thunder in the Frozen Zones if appearing above the Horizon than to play such Pranks in his Winter Nadir As for the Moon how can she by Night or Day operate when she is under the Horizon a Tempestuous Night continues and takes no notice of her Setting and it may Thunder and Lighten in the Winter-night before she rises the Moon as we said doth not so much as look as if she liked such Roister-company CHAP. VIII The other five call'd into the Militia Planets not made for Illumination only Light and Heat the same spirit All the Planets have their Influence Not all of the same Nature or Operation § 1. THere are therefore some Satellites which we spake of to be taken into consideration those five Lights which have been call'd of old by those Heathen Names of Saturn Jupiter Mars Venus Mercury notwithstanding which even by Scripture-precedent may be innocently used § 2. To our purpose 't is enough that they are Lights for no Star no
many a fair Experiment making up Her History to which I know the more Curious can add more that I may not say 't is apparent if watch'd at some opportunity even to sense A Perspective of IV 1 2. Foot taking the Rise of the Moon after the Full in August a warm day preceding that the Air may not be Counter-disposed shall sensibly present the Planet's warmth to the Eye The like have I found in a Summer-Even sitting in a Southern Chamber that the Moon being eight or nine dayes old when approaching the Meridian hath infused a sensible warmth into the Chamber though the Sun were set § 37. ♂ is found to be endued with a Heat if the Effect may judge equal nay to all seeming superiour to the Sun yet seeing he acts by dependance on Him as all the Rest do we must compare None of them to their Maintainer § 38. ☿ hath a warmth more remiss than ♂ or ☉ more intense than ♀ § 39. ♀ her Warmth is so remiss and slack that she seemeth to befriend a Cold Influence § 40. There is only left ♄ and ♃ and it is very convenient that the cold Planet assigned should be One of these Two It may be somewhat for Ptolemies reason as also because None of the Planetary Bodies which pretend to Cold except these Two can raign I mean shine all Night the most fit opportunity for Cold ♀ shines but part of the Night and the ☽ is too warm for the purpose § 41. This supposeth I confess that the Nocturnal Cold is ordered and managed by the Celestial Bodies which is most certain and will be evidenc'd hereafter § 42. ♄ indeed who can outface so Ancient and Loud Tradition goes for the Coldest Planet He is indeed of a Tepor so low and indiscernible that he may and must be reckon'd as a Favourer of Cold and so far Experience justifies the Tradition § 42. But ♃ 't is well he hath obtained the Character of Temperate as well as ♀ is oh let the Paradox be pardoned the Principal Cold and crude Planet All the Rest are warm and moist though in different measure only ♃ cold and dry or a Resister of Moisture I know 't is a great Paradox and therefore to some will be offensive but it is such as wanteth neither Apology nor Proof § 44. Not Apology for what must we in earnest submit to every Tradition in Natural Science There 's nought I hope in Philosophy but what appeals to Posterity as to Sense and Reason and will abide the Test of Natural Scrutiny Philosophy is too ingenuous to impose upon us to offer to deceive us by Authority I grant the Authority of our Ancestors is Greater than is allowed by the Junior Inceptors of these dayes Many are despised by Us whose Wisdom we shall never attain to But yet our Ancestors themselves have fixed Bounds to their Authority They swear us indeed not to corrupt their Books they do not swear us to believe All they deliver We must tast before we swallow especially in that part of Philosophy which lies beyond the Moon abstruse Theorems at a vast prospect and distance In these I ought not to follow them hood-winkt to take All for granted as if They were First Principles or from Infallible Dictates They teach us concerning Heaven but they came not from thence I cannot give them their Due Praise unless I examine their Theses I shall be a lazy unwise person if I do not I shall be loath to betray the Generations of the World to Security and Error What Liberty the Antients have taken in a modest dissent from their Predecessors is left to us for a Legacy Ptolemy himself differs from His Seniors the Egyptians § 45. Not Proof no not from the Antients themselves For first though They declare him to be Moist yet they teach us also that He is a Raiser of Winds Ptol. I. 20. which by nature are a Dry Exhalation and Cold too 2. ♃ is the only Aeolus that blows up the North-wind say both Antients and Moderns and they say truly a second Argument that ♃ is the Coldest 3. With one mouth also They truly and consequently affirm that He is the Parent of Serenity but if the Cause of Clouds and Vapor be Heat the Cause of Serenity is Cold the Cleansing Spirit of Cold. Add that we shall see hereafter how No Aspect Planetary causes Dryth but every one of them more or less incline to Moisture except ♃ be one therefore if Cold be the Author of Dryth Dryth I mean in the Constitution of the Air ♃ is that Colder Planet Yea so manifestly is He the favorer of Dryth that he shews this Influence not only in Serene and open Air but in Cloudy and dark Air where many times he suspends the Moisture and as the Vulgar speak when in Cloudy Air a Dry Wind blows It keeps up the Rain Nor is it to be conceal'd that in All Fogs and Mists ♃ hath Influence which argues a dry fuliginous Exhalation mixt with Moisture That Moisture which is found and maintained at the Cost of the Rest of the Planets § 46. Colder and Dryer is ♃ than ♄ it self as much as the North-wind is colder than the East for though the East be cold and dry compared to the West it obtaineth no such character compared with the North. But ♃ is confessed Parens Aquilonis Raiser of the North-wind while ♄ contents himself with the East § 47. And for Dryth Aspects of ♄ are not found to resist Moisture to cause Serenity to raise dry Winds to cast a Fog a Cool Constitution it may profess but with inclination to Moisture for admit it causeth Snow I desire it be consider'd that 't is one thing to cause Snow and another to cause it to fall and the Distinction will be admitted by them that consider that how bitter soever the Weather is when Snow hangs in the Air as they call it yet the Weather relents in a sensible degree at the fall of Snow ♄ then may concur to the Solution of that Cold Mass which ♃ or some other hath created but none contests so much for Cold as ♄ ♃ therefore is the Coldest And let thus much at present serve for the 〈◊〉 § 48. Toward the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how ♃ or any other Celestial Body can be the Parent of Cold we are willing to declare First what is the Nature of Cold whether positive or meet Privation 2. If Positive what is the Primum Frigidum Earth or any other Body 3. What relation a Body Celestial can have to Cold if Cold prove to be a terrestrial Emanation § 49. Though some Philosophers have said that Cold is a Privation and it seems to agree to what Ptolemy would say concerning the Quality attributed to ♄ the remotest of all from the Sun yea though I think it manifest that some things called Positive Qualities are no better than Privations as Siccity Diaphaneity Softness c. yet I
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
and Thunder And on the 29th of the same Month many Meteors marked Anno 1676. and Heat expressed not till the Day after § 36. But the answer I take to is as follows We must distinguish of warm Days Days of Expressed Notation for Warmth or Heat and so they are but a few scarce enough to baffle the Cold Chill Days But I pray remember how many and sundry times may an Observer not find himself engaged to write Warm and Temperate in Spring or Summer time when 't is a Natural Constitution When 't is an Ordinary and Durable though Preter-seasonable Constitution Cold will be sure to be remembred even in Winter it pinches us to make us remember and we wish it over But Warmth we observe not unless it be News and note some alteration The Taedium of Tautology is odious to every Pen and Ear. Once then for all Every Day where there is no mention of Cold is ascribed to the Warm Side Certainly all Days of Rain and some of Snow being often found with a Tepor And may I not say that Fog Experience being Judge doth betray a Cause remissive of Cold and the Extremity thereof Nebulas neque in aestate nec in maximo frigore exitene saith the Naturalist So that upon the upshot we exclude not a Day but those which are absolutely Cold and Freezing without the least Sign of Relent or Yielding for why should we give away our Right seeing That Relent or Yielding bespeaks a contrary Agent prevailing in part at least however sometimes not getting the Victory § 37. Because the Right of the Heavenly Bodies is not ours to give away what shall we say to those Novilunar Days when no Remission of Frost seems to appear and yet sometimes a Southerly Wind is known to blow Must not the new ☽ answer for that Wind Yea and this use we make of this Secret in Nature that as the South-Wind is of a warm Character though it may breath under a Frosty Constitution even so though under such cool Circumstances now and then our Aspect may challenge the same Character also § 38. And all this conduces toward the Prognostick part unless you would have the Pretender like the Crow always bespeak Rain or think nothing is done with the Vulgar unless they see a Showre Alass There is no place on the Earth where it rains always We besure have our vicissitudes of Temperate and quiet Air a Fog a Cloud the more silent complications according to Natures ambling pace so that it behoves an Astrologer to trade in dry Weather sometimes and be content to foresee a gentle remission of a stubborn Frost and think he hath done well if it falls consonant to Nature who must not always be upon the Gallop § 39. Thus for the Prime Product But now for the Rain and Wind. Hoc opus hic labor How shall we justifie that We have more ways than one to this Wood. What if we should acquaint the World that seeing the Days in the Table exhibited are treble to the Aspects that we are not bound it may be to the number of the Days It is enough if we have regard to the Aspect and then our advantage is this that whatsoever shorter proportion the Effect beareth to the Days we are safe enough if that Aspect affords us its Influence in any one Day of the Ternary by that means giving Testimony sufficient to it self Thus the Seaman justly imputes the Flaw of Wind and the Husbandman his expected Showre to the change of the ☽ If it happen at all he thanks I say the said Configuration hap it at what time it will within that Triduum § 40. This may surprize our Adversary so far that he may censure us as no fair Dealers But there is no avoiding it for the Aspect must be considered from the beginning to the end from the Minimum quod sic to the Maximum quod non throughout the whole Territory and Dominion and therefore we see the Shepherd and the Mariner do not fix the day but expect it once or twice it may be within the Three and prize their Experience counting themselves no small Men for understanding more than some who are greater Conjurers § 41. For Aspects then the Table witnesseth thus LXXXVII Aspects are brought on the Stage no less then LXXI bring Rain with them No less then LXI bring Winds § 42. Concerning which by the way we acknowledge that we have made use of every Brise for we who do believe there is no Casualty in the least Puff directly issuing could do no less Every Gale at least which may be Serviceable to the Navigator ought to be considered But here we are conscious of some defect unavoidable seeing our Observations could not be made on the Top Sail at Sea a constant Watch kept above Deck Day and Night by Succession must needs tell a different Tale from him who hath slept out a Watch or two in the Hold or confin'd to his Sedentary Cabin Not but the Seaman is sometimes becalm'd at the very new ☽ as I have observed from Hackluit nor can Linschoten or Sir Francis deny it notwithstanding they would say that in such Cases the Causality of the Aspect must not be impaired because of the rarity and disproportion of the Instance And who doubts it Howbeit as to our deficient Observation of the Wind now acknowledged we may be believed a little and the defect supplyed from the observation of the Change of the Wind and its quota which may fairly be reduced under the stile of Winds since there cannot be a Change of Wind where there is no Wind stirring That I say nothing of the Specification of Winds which could not be specifyed where there is a Dead Calm § 43. But to return to our Rain I do acknowledge that Rainy Changes of ☽ are not always of so high a Sum they Rise or Flag according to the general Temperature to which a single Aspect must pay respect yet still the Change makes her part good at the long Run So though in Keplers Diary from the beginning of 1621. to the end of 1629. CXI Lunations bring but LXXXII wet ones yet in the Diary of 24 years from Norimberg ab 1623. to 1646. Lunations CCCXI. bring CCCVI of Rainy or Snow of Winds CLXXII And of our own Observation from 1652. inclusive to 1677. of CCXXIII. Changes or because two are missing CCCXXI. We have of Moisture CCLIV and of Wind CCXXXIII § 44. Now back Friends to Astrology have a long time exclaimed that there is no certainty in Aspects for say they they as often miss as hit they reckon the single day on which it happens by Calculation and then they think they may Triumph But they are short in this that they reckon no other Notion of a Day but the Feria the day of the Week For what if the Feria be dry when the Moon changes Sunday suppose on June 15. 1675. hor. 4 Morn If Saturday night before
surveying the Sum of Cold Nights in the New ☽ I find amounts to 55. but viewing the Nights at the Full I find but 48. which difference if it seem not wide enough it may be made wider by considering that even the Frosts of the Full are less absolute than those of the New with abatement and limitation of some Frost which occurs more frequently in the Full. To say nothing of the Snow which appearing also most frequently at the Full argues some Lenity in the Beams Take one observation more the Cold Nights at the Change run higher in the Year than the Cold Nights at the Full. For Anno 1676. at the New ☽ in April I find a Frosty Night crusting the Water with Ice But it will be hard I believe to find Ice in an April Night at a Full ☽ The like I may say of Frosty Mornings in the Month of May I find One in the New but None in the Full. § 17. 'T is strange you 'l say that the Inter-Lunium should bring more Warm Days than the Full because every body sees that it is the Dark Side of the Half-Luminary which is turned towards our Earth all Shade is cool now the ☽ by her Shady-side Skreens the Light and Heat from us and reverberates it upward To this we say 't is true that the ☽ turns her Illustrious Side from us and therefore must be Cool But how Not absolute There is a considerable Warmth flies round on all sides like Sparkles from an Anvil and the repercussed Heat is sufficient for all Operations Natural to quicken and encourage them as in the Lunar History appears Yet we are not driven to say or believe that the ☽ is pervious especially as to sensible Heat but we can solve all Operations of Nature depending on her even while under the Inter-Lunium by this that the Ray repercussed or reflected in the perpendiculum is redoubled and so requital is made for the aversion Observe 2ly that the ☽ is much nearer to the Sun in the ☌ then at the Diametral Opposition the Full ☽ is brighter than the New ☽ but she plays at a greater distance from the Sun In the New ☽ she lies between the Sun and the Earth In the Full she lies on the other side of the Earth twice as far from the Sun so hath the Wisdom of the Creator moderated the Universe and the parts thereof that what they want in Length shall be supplyed in Breadth as I may say If the Luminous side of the ☽ had look'd toward us as in the Full the Heat would hâ—ve bin too near Nature would have bin scorched with too great Annoyances instead of Luminaries Therefore in the New God hath pleased to reverse the ☽ making her as a Skreen or Fan to it self In the Night therefore when he hath removed it at such distance that it will not burn we can afford to see the Luminous side towards us and partake of its moderate Warmth and Influence But we have answered fully to the quaere why Novilunar Days are more and more often Hot than Plenilunar not only because in the Day time when the ☽ is at Full she acts in her farthest possible distance in the Hemisphere of the Antipodes but because in the New ☽ she acts in consort with the Rest She is not only nearer to our Vertex but she acts with and among all the other Planets that are abroad in the Diurnal Hemisphere The Full ☽ being solitary for the most part without such Company which company is not bound to observe her Motion the Sun is the Prince whose Motions they mostly attend § 18. What is sometime a Problem in natural Philosophy How the Breath of our Mouth seems warm to our Hand when it lies near the Mouth and cold when removed at further distance Is usually resolved thus That the Hand lying near the Mouth receives the Breath warm from the Larynx and the Cavitys of the Mouth but at further distance the Breath in mixed with the cooler Ambient Air and so refrigerated therewith which by Agitation seems the Cooler The same solution applyed to our Lunar Aspects is not improper The Full ☽ is at greater distâ—â—ce from the Sun than the New and therefore her Rays are more engaged in the Cold Vapours of the Atmosphere and upon that Account must give place to the New ☽ as to the Day But if we compare them in point of Warmth in the Night though she be at the same distance from the Sun yet she is nearer us and upon that account the Plenilunar Nights may be warmer § 19. Shall we pursue this comparison in other Instances and see whether it be worth our while if any observation can be raised which brings Light or Use with it The two Tables lye thus  ☠☉ ☽ ☌ ☉ ☽ Cold Frosty Days or Nights 56. 65. Clâ—se or Lowring 56. 67. Pregnant Clouds   Fog 23. 38. Mist or Hazie 36. 48. Hot Days 11. 28. Hot Nights 5. 5. Rain Moisture 103. 89. Lasting or Violent 47. 35. Rain at N. 52. 30. Wind at N. 13. 9. Snow 14. 8. Trajections 4. 20. Warm 32. 38. Winds 44. 56. Storms Gusts 68. 43. Wind Change 0 29. Thunder 4. 4. Lightning 0. 0. Hail 9. 4. Halo 5. 0. Iris 1. 0. Fila or Gossamere 1. 0 Cold Winds 0 6. Dark gloomy 0 15. Strip't Clouds 0 2. § 20. Here pray view the difference between Wind Rain Fog And if I mistake not we have laid the Foundation to clear up the difference For Rain Snow excluded the new ☽ brings 125. the Full ☽ brings you 150. Quere here how comes it to pass if the New ☽ as we pretend be warmer and Warmth is the cause of Moisture that the Full sheweth fairest for Moisture Shall we answer on the grounds that we have laid that Warmth is but One Parent of Moisture there must be another Parent for the Birth viz. A competent measure of Cold which Competence being found in the Full rather than in the New the Full ☽ must exceed in moisture Quaere the 2d time how comes it to pass if the New ☽ as we pretend be warmer and Warmth is the Cause of Wind that the Full ☽ blustereth more than the New Answer as above The Wind hath two Parents Active and Passive A competent degree of Cold the passive Parent the Full ☽ before its warmth being furnished with that Compotency is Cruder and Windyer then the New § 21. And this is confirmed stiffly from the excesses of Violent Rains Storms Winds which abound under the Full rather than the New because where the Contraries chuse to meet there will appear the greater Hurry § 22. Once more then how comes it to pass that the New ☽ produceth Fog more frequent than the Full Say that the very Nature of a Fog proclaims the absence of the contrary I mean the Cold. There is both Warmth and Cold in the Constitution but they are in remiss degrees they make a
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
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
might be the Cause of the Whitness the extraordinary Whiteness for ordinary is not to our purpose it may be as some have observed long ago in Hail whiter than ordinary which proves to fall under our Aspect Howbeit to the Whiteness of the Sea pray look back to what is noted in the Diary A o 1541. § 46. What we have to say of Phasmes and Apparitions in the Air which we do meet with in unquestionable Records whatsoever may be expected we shall say but little Des-Cartes we see ascibes all such Stories to the Fancies of Superstitious People and so some other Learned of our Men who have followed him But we who heartily believe Spiritual Substances Good and Bad believe said I Nay we say in the Name of Mankind we account the Evidence such that whosoever resists it while he denies Truth confirms it Why so Will you say Even because Humane Nature cannot I think acquire such a proud Antipathy to a confess'd beside Divine Truth without some black Veil cast over their Eyes We I say who admit these Substances considering the report of Heathen Jewish and Christian History can easily admit such appearances as Armies Camps Ships Noses Trumpets so far forth that the Truth is They come not under our Cognizance no more than other Pranks of Daemons do unless as is confessed in Lunacies the Spirits of the Air who no disgrace to natural Science are better Philosophers than our selves know the times and Seasons fitted to their use by the admirable variety of the Course of Nature And this I avow to be highly probable as shall be made good in the Close of this Discourse Here under ♃ and ♀ we meet with that of July 19. 1550. seen at Trebinium in Saxony not far from Wittemberg Armies and Noises heard with Bloud spilt Lycosth Fincelius Our Aspect beside that of ☉ and ♄ is paramount here ☌ ♃ ♀ Partile about ♊ 20. or 21. Another such Spectacle in Saxony again I would He had named the proper place he gives us of a Hearfe seen and Mourners and Trumpets heard Oct. 1. 1541. here to say nothing of III. in ♎ before as observable in rare Effects our Planet ♃ from ♓ 3. oppose ♀ in ♠27. There 's a Third 1554. Aug. 5. 9. P. M. near Stolpen Armies with shooting and Lightning between whiles which though I put no stress upon because the Adversary may be apt to say the Military Noise was nothing but disguised Thunder I answer if History spoke only of Noise c. They said something But when they add Instances of Fighting Bloud Shouting Trumpets which are not so easily represented by Thunder When they add Horses Naval Forces c. as in that before the Spanish Invasion mentioned by Fromond seen by thousands we must not allow that Truth in part shall pass for the whole Truth The whole Truth implys both Physical and Hyphysical Agents in the Affair But of this hitherto only for the Truth of the Phaenomenon if you desire the Jewish History you have the Maccabees Story If the Heathen you have besides the Poets Pliny Appian Valerius Maximus and others And for Christian you have among the Antients S. Gregory if the Moderns Melanchtan Fincelius and Snellius Where we don't introduce Hyperphysical Causes to defeat Natural but only unite them and make them agree thereby confirming us in the Rational belief of that good Record which tells Stories of Spirits making use of Nature for natural Eftects such as Whirlwinds c. What Angel was that what Visible Angel which Jerusalem's King saw slaying his Subjects And what Motto was that which Constantine saw written in or near the Solar Body Are they not hitherto to be reduced A Supenatural Power cloathed in Nature may be Legible as Visible § 47. Let us shut up this Aspect with Frost 't is not enough it may be to say that an Aspect of ♃ and ♀ is found in all obstinate Frosts as in that severe Winter which they say kill'd up the Birds and Beasts A o 1502. though ♄ and ♂ were in Play before yet in February came in ♃ and ♀ So A o 1581. a Winter which in Poland Gangreen'd the Bodies of Military Men Calvis ☌ ♂ ♄ ☌ ♃ ♀ A o 1520. in the Month of May which was so cold that all the hopes of Vintage was nipt in the Bud notoriously upon the account not of ♂ and and ♀ conjoined but of ♃ being opposed to both A o 1572. in Octob. early long and untimely Frost Eichstad p. 39. upon ♄ ☿ long Conjunction for a Month together with ♃ and ♀ in ♈ and ♎ opposed Which Frost by the way introducing the new Star in Cassiopeia Evidences that It also was of the Nature of Comets which not seldom are produced in Frosty Seasons A o 1587. So in the Months out of Winter quarter do we meet with a Hyemal Constitution June 19. A o 1557. and ♃ opp ☉ ♀ ☿ Sept. 4. 1587. When it Freez'd Bluster'd Hail'd Snow'd saith our English Annals upon the account chiefly I confess of ♄ and ♂ in ♉ and ♠but also on the account of our ☌ ♃ ♀ even in ♌ A o 1597. May again Cold and Dry Stow and Hakl Part. 3. p. 195. tells us of extream Cold Weather manifest on ♃ in ☌ with ☉ ♀ ☿ Yet for all this on the other side the same Planets strongly assisted may contribute to Heat So the Seamen complain they were half rosted the 10th of June A o 1660. Lat. North 65. while ♃ and ♀ were in ♊ And June is not July also A o 1645. on near the same accident is recorded for a Hot Season The First being in ♊ the Second in ♋ but within Bounds The Reason of Frost and Cold we have declared to be either the Restraint of the Planets to few Signs 3 or 4. Or 2ly an Hiatus in their order or which is equivalent a width or distance above the Signal Term viz. grad 30. Note that the opposite Sign coming in place instead of the co-opposite is next door to an Hiatus One or more of these Conditions are found in every one of these Chill Years unless there be some Mystery in the Positure of ♄ and ♃ to be mentioned in due place § 48. ♃ ☿ are not so notable because of shorter Comprehension Yet they also minister some occasion to speak a Word of this Constitution We have both kinds here Cold and Hot. For he is no Astrologer who cannot swallow such seeming Contradiction that establisheth both upon the same Cause in several Circumstances viz. When Solitary and When in Consort If Snow and Storms Nov. 18. 1644. If Snow for 4 days in March be any Argument If Snow a. Foot deep found at London at the end of April can move us If extreme Snow at Chery Isle on May 16. A o 1607. Purch 5. 526. or if Snow with Internal Cold as the Mariner calls it Purch 3. 504. if an extreme Cold March and April and May to boot
to do with the Picture for that the ☽ in ♒ is not yet ascended § 73. Add to these a few from our own Observation A o 1656. Sept. 22. Yarnton near Oxford Semicircle with Rainbow Colours 9 m. ☌ in fine ♠as before A o 1555. So near was I to have seen a Parelium but it was not my Lot A o 1662. Nov. 10. Lond. Iris ☌ in print ♠A o 1678. July 22. Two Rainbows ☌ in ♊ gr 5. distant besides Halo's Lunar Sept. 20. 25. A o 1556. Sept. 29. 1658. and Nov. 2. 1656. § 74. Admit also these from Kepler A o 1621. Aug. 16. Halo ☽ ♋ 17. ♄ ♑ 1. ♂ A o 1623. May 14. Parelia cum Halone Solis die 15. Irides A o 1621. Jan. 7. ♋ 1. ♄ ♑ 25. ☿ ☠May 15. ♋ 5. ♄ 26. ☉ ☌ July 13. ♋ 13. ♄ ♌ o. ☉ ☌ A o 1623. May 30. ♑ 16. ♂ ♌ 2. ♄ ☠A o 1625. Sept. 20. ♓ 27. ♂ ♠9. ♄ ☠A o 1626. July 8. ♌ 17. ♂ ♠12. ♄ ☌ Sept. 4. Iris ante ortum Solis ♠19. ♄ 24. ♂ ☌ A o 1627. June 16. ♠22. ♄ ♈ 17. ♂ ☠A o 1628. Aug. 14. ♠23. ♂ ♎ 9. ♄ ☌ A o 1629. Aug. 26. ♎ 1. ♂ ♎ 10. ♄ ☌ Parelia May 14. 1623. cum halone Solis die prox ♒ 9. ♂ ♌ 25. ♄ ☠§ 75. It will be said these distances are too unreasonable we may comprehend what not at so great a Liberty The answer may be that 't is not perpetual There are some Neighbourly distances 2. For all as I see the greatness of the Distance conduceth to the Effect provided 30 degrees be not exceeded For to paint a Sun or a Lucid Globe in the Water as the Parelium may seem to be requires many a Ray issuing from Arches of a Circumference some less some greater which Suspicion of mine will be found true if we go no further then attending to and comparing those very Instances Jan. 17. and May 15. 1621. Sept. 20. 1625. But we hast This is not a place for it Only this by the way if we were to treat of the Parelia purposely we see we should here also find the Tropiques and Equinoxes § 76. Sol Pallidus noted in Kepler's Diary whatsoever it signifies is not much different from the Halo c. the Causes and Distances of those Operants are near alike First Nov. 20. A o 1621. ♋ 20. ♄ ♒ 8. ♂ April 1. A o 1629. ♑ 3. ♂ ♋ 28. ♄ May 15. A o 1627. ♠21. ♄ ♓ 24. ♂ June 11. A o 1627. ♠23. ♄ ♈ 13. ♂ April 29. A o 1625. ♒ 19. ♂ ♌ 25. ♄ ♄ and ♂ in some Signs I find conduce to a Mystiness as may be observed by our Domestique Diary if ☉ Pallidus be no more nor the Coelum Sanguineum twice met under Territories of ♄ and ♂ the matter is not much though not unworthy of a Remark Octob. 13. 1625. Caelum Sanguin and before that Sol Sanguin April 24. 1623. ♑ 4. ♂ 28. ♄ § 77. This it may be runs higher than we imagine for of Old in the former Century we meet with in April 1547. Universal News of Sol darkned for 3 or 4 Days die 22. c. That it was a prodigious Spectacle throughout all France and Germany some say Britain though our Chronicles are silent noted by Calvisius and Fromond from Lycost and Fritschius when Writers do believe that the ☉ was close Mourner for the Prince Elector Fredrick being taken Whatsoever the matter was that which we regard at present is the place of ♄ ♑ 5. contributing to the Phaenomenon and ♂ in ♊ fine not much above 5. grad dist from a compleat Opposition ♂ I say near ♋ and the ☽ also opposing ♄ in the beginning of ♑ I thought it once had been a Flaw in Calvisius's Chronology that he could not give an account of a Vernal Eclipse of the Sun in the 7th year of Xerxes Anno Christi Nat. 478. for I reckoned there could be no Solar Obscuration otherwise except miraculous but I see there may be some rarer Phaenomenon of this kind from Natural Causes besides a proper Eclipse such are produced by Kepler Epit. Astron § 78. For the Maculae Solis whether they be distinguished from the former Obscurations or not I have a few stragling Instances I don't mention that of March 25. April 5. because the distance is of gr 20. Nor that of May 19. 29. because the distance is of gr 17. Yet a fond Man would mark the Identity of those distances especially when there haps a third and who knows how many more § 79. But I produce May 1. 1625. and June 8. a noted space for the Month wherein our Aspects sweetly reign in ♌ and ♒ I produce 2dly the Month of June 1642. where some Learned Men have ventur'd to teach that the Months was Cold because of the multitude of the Maculae which rebated the Solar Heat Then which there cannot be a greater Demonstration of our Principle for we have here ☌ ♄ ♂ under the Equinox which will give a shrewd Essay to tinge the Sun with their Impressions but there is a Triple Conjunction Flush of Three in ♓ They the Three Superiours which say we can aid the Multitudinem Macularum yea and the Cold too For what Communication of direct Rayes is there between the place of the 3 Superiours and the Place of the ☉ ♀ or ☿ That is the True Cause of the Cold and He may set his Heart at rest who thinks to find any new Principle from the aculae or any thing that concerns the Sun in its solitary Capacity These Instances from Ricciolus I produce 3dly Sept. 1643. S. N. the most of that Month is taken up by ☠♄ ♂ alike tripled though as before in the Conjunction I shall only point at a Spot which came into Play die 14. S. N. the place of ♂ in ♎ 1 of ♄ in ♈ 5. you see how near the Opposition This Macula afterward saith Hevelius was divided into many and on day 19. they met again in ours only in Unam iterum co aluêre and whether this day appears not to be the day of the precise Aspect The 4th of June A o 1614. a New Macula appear'd and held out 6 or 7 days within 3 days of the precise ☌ in ♈ 18. when the soul Weather screen'd it from the diligent Observator when that 3 days after the Weather was fair the same Macula was seen again and not without a Partner Hevelius Appendix to his Selenography § 80. For a Farewel to ♄ and ♂ It would not be convenient we should take leave of our Forein Diary till we have noted the extremity of some Constitutions and the singular accidents therein mentioned To find Hurricanes yea Tuffons Storms which are termed unparallel'd incredible beyond the reach of Nature The Truth is Hurricanes and Tuffons especially come with such Violence that ordinary Nature stands amazed at
for Sickly Seasons Accute Diseases c. which Maginus adds Let the Learned World pardon me if I do again averr it and strike the Nail homer yet than I have done already with all safety to our most Holy Religion and the blessed Author of it § 16. For is it not a Childish Argument to say God made all things Good i. e. conformed to his own Idea therefore there is no Malefique Creature Not to enquire curiously what should have been the natural Course in the Innocent State we suppose our Apostacy and Rebellion towards God and so we believe with Siracides that Fire and Teeth of Wild Beasts and Stings of Serpents were made for Vengeance that the Sun may now burn us by Day and the ☽ annoy us by Night that the Stars of Heaven may be Worm-wood and have a bitter and unkind Influence The ☉ conduces to Feavers and the ☽ to Frenzies and Epilepsies § 17. And verily This Observation found me when I thought it not came dress'd to me in its own Light while I was attending to the various Shapes and Changes of the Air no suggestion to my remembrance of any Astrologers Antient or Modern taught me to suspect what I afterwards found that the Distempers of the Season depend upon what the Season it self depends the Aspects and Positions of the Celestials Galen also so long ago saying the same Feavers Catarrhs Small Pox Fluxes Pestilence c. according to the difference of the Clime and the Patient do annoy us when the Heavenly Bodies Transit or take up Station in such Parts of the Zodiack There is no denyal of it § 18. Kepler in his Diary hath observed it seems amongst his Germans Catarrhs and Coughs At Lintz A o 1621. April 20. Coughs at Saganum in Silesia Febr. V. A o 1629. Catarrhs Who would suspect such a Malady had any relation to the Planets above Cold Air and a Moist Brain c. These are Physical Causes internal of Catarrhs But of late strange Experience taught us in London yea all Europe that saving all such internal and proximate Efficiency some strange Aspect Single or Complicate disturbs the Humour For the Case was of one Night even of One wherein a manifest barking Cough had seiz'd the generality of Young and Old Octob. 26. 1675. Verily there was an Aspect of ♀ and ♂ with an ☠of ♄ which occurring as rarely as its pretended Effect may be suspected for some Cause of it However this was ♄ then but the Catarrhs of Germany no body is so fit to acquaint us herein as Kepler belong to our Jove-Martial-Aspect In both these several years and Months we shall find a ☌ ♃ ♂ the First Jan. 22. the Second Febr. 10th and that you may suspect here also they were a Cause you shall find no other Coughs or Catarrhs elsewhere specified § 19. To proceed these Catarrhs are noted to have happened within a day or Two if not the very day of the Configuration where I desire the good Readers favour while He observeth that we labour after a Determinate Punctual Prognosis even of Maladies as well as Constitutions of the Air we do not pronounce indeterminately and leave the Determination of the Event to its proper unknown Cause and Father it when it happens upon its pretended Assignation That is the Vulgar imperfect way but we match the Effect to the Cause acknowledging no Postuâ—â—ous Brood in our Midwifry Then and there appeared the Effect not sooner nor later Aestival Part. A o 1652. June 37. ♑ ♋ 6. A June 23. ad July 2. 23. Cloudy clear s wd 24. Cloudy store of Thund showrs at n. 25. Cloudy rain s Thund 26. Windy and cloudy at n. 27. Clouds s rain wdy 28. s rain wdy cloudy at n. 29. Showrs high wds 30. Showrs and wdy July 1. Clear wdy A o 1654. Sept. 19. ad 28. ♓ ♑ 16. 19. Winds b. d. dark cloudy 20. Cloudy m. clouds overc 21. Cloudy s fits of wet weather 22 Flying clouds heat wind at n. 23. Winds dark cloudy Th. at midn 24. Rain 25. Rain m. s store of R. 26. Cloudy m. clear d. audible wds r. suspicious 27. Misty m. warm A o 1661. April 28. ♎ ♈ 5. 24. Cloudy sometimes showry clear even 25. Cloudy wdy 9 m. showry wet day even cloudy 26. Cloudy wdy a sad rainy day 37. Cloudy misty m. p. even cloudy s rain 28. Cloudy a showr at night bright m. p. even cloudy s rain m. n. 29. Cloudy rain threatning o. s drops 30. Cloudy somewhat misty p. m. s Sun A Starry even May 1. Cloudy dry p. m. somewhat clear and Sun-shine 2. Frost l. fog clear m. Hot May weather A o 1663. June 29. ♠♊ 5. 26. Close wet m. coasting showrs 3 p. 6 p. Hail 27. Rain 7 m. storm thunder hail p. m. rain at 7 p. m. 28. Fog m. clear up cloudy p. m. clear might 29. Bright m. cloudy toward o. violent storms of Hail dropping 6 p. 30. Fair dry some flashing clouds overc 10 p. July 1. Rain Sun rise s dashing o. fair and heat p. m. 2. Dry warm blushing quarters H. p. m. 3. Close m. p. A o 1663. Sept. 18. â™’ ♌ 12. 13. Frost fair cool wd warm Sun shine overcast n. 14. Frost close m. p. dry 4 p. gentle rain m. p. 15. 16. Notable frost fair cool cloudy 17. Storms of Rain and wd 18. Very cool h. wd suspicious about Noon coasting showrs vesp and Sun set 19. Hail frost m. doubtful cloudy close winterly s rain 2 3 4 p. 20. Calm close s showrs at Sun rise weeting mist all day 21. Close m. p. s dropping rain 5 n. 22. Some dewing morn hottish close 23. Moon shine b. d. overcast rain A o 1675. March 13. ♠♊ 19. 7. Frost overcast stiff wds 8. Fair a. m. storm of hail 4 p. and drisling cold n. 9. Rain much a 2 m. dark 7 m. a storm of snow misle 1 p. h. wd 10. H. wind fair a. m. and cold warm n. 11. Frost mist fair a. m. offer p. m. 12. Frost ice fair mist windy 13. Frost ice yielding p. m. and close wds 14. Frost ice white clouds as for snow o. close at Sun rise 15. Frost ice snow hail a. m. cloudy dark close yielding p. m. 16. Offer close m. p. s snow 8 p. 17. Close mist wetting 5 p. coldest about o. 18. s drisle 7 m. fog m. p. misling at n. 19. Close misling 2 p. 9 p. 20. Close m. p. misty drisle 6 p. A o 1677. June 15. â™’ ♌ 27. 10. Close fog m. ad o. open and no mist Meteor 10 p. in the earth and Air. 11. Showrs a. m. 9 m. n. m. 12. Windy n. floating clds 9 m. s dropping and offering 1 p. 4 p. showr 6 p. 13. Warm open overcast 1 p. open overcast 9 p. 14. Fair m. cloudy 10 m. pregnant clouds warm 15. Fair a. m. much lowring 2 p. offering 4 p. drops 6 p. soultry even thick c. 16. Floating white clouds 9
validi tardi non contrabunt suos effectus ad momenta minuta conjunctionis Plenariae speaking of this very Conjunction ut de quibus adhuc ipsa Astronomia incerta est propter subtilitatem Calculators will differ above a Week in the Point What say you if VII days shall not make above one degree distance If VII days before differ but one degree from the precise Conjunction then VII days after differ no more from the Conjunction So there is a fortnight comprehended within a degree's space and a Month within two degree's space reckoning on each side to and from the Conjunction How far this ought to be extended even in meaner Aspects we have before spoke our Mind we make nothing even of ten degrees Distance we have seen ♂ and ♀ Rain excessively even to Flouds at Five yea VII or VIII degrees distance Nay if we have proceeded further which must not be denyed 't is certain if we enlarge upon any Configuration we may safely upon ♄ and ♃ § 13. This we shall prove even from Kepler himself though he be no Friend to Platick Efficacies while he allows an Influence of ♄ and ♃ at such Distance He where he reckons they have took leave one of another yet upon the intervening of a Third Planet finds no such matter For Lo in his account of May 1623. having told us Faithfully that for the space of 12. Days the Weather was in Norico uniform i. e. Cold and Rainy all the while He tells us withall that the Intervention of ☉ with ♄ and ♃ a Sextile he means was the Cause which is the rather to be marked because the Instance is at the Cold Influence Frigus Pluviosum there yea and at Lintz too for there we find Venti frigidi Gelu Pluviosum Yea Nives on May. 11 21. which is somewhat of the Premises And where is ♄ and ♃ then About 5 or 6 degrees distant § 14. In another place being over-loaded with Evidence from the Exalted Influence of the Aspect on Octob. 7 8 9. He cries out till I hear him Non sufficiunt Aspectus in hunc diem What shall we do then Will not a mighty Sextile of ♄ ♀ ♃ ☿ ♄ ☉ falling thereabouts on several Days do the Feat No Non sufficiunt But we must even send for a ☌ ♄ ♃ to make these Sextiles so Potent Now ♄ and ♃ on these days are grad 7. distant at least 'T is true This belongs not to the Cold Influence 'T is all one for that ♄ and ♃ 's Aspect is fetch'd from the Dead to answer for Pranks committed as if they were Living § 15. It will be time now to produce some of our Tables The First then may be as follows A Table of ♄ ♃ intra Grad 8. ♋ 23. ♃ ♌ 1. ♄ A o 1622. Intra grad 8. Sept. Styl Nov. 14. Nebulae 17 18. Neb. Aestus 20 21 22 23. seren 24. Nebula 28 29 30. Nebulae Octob. Styl N. 2. Pruina 5 6. Frigus 7. Nebulae 8 9 10. Caliginosum 11 12. Frigidum 17 18 19. Nebulae Frigidum 20 21 22. Frigid Nix in Collibus 26 27 28. Frigidum 30. Frigus Nov. 2. Styl N. Frigus 3 4. Pruina 5 6 7. Caliginosum 9. Foetida aura 10 11. Nebulae 13 14. Frigidum 15. Neb. Nix 19 20. Nivos 21 22. Frigidum 28. Nebulae 29 30. Frigidum Dec. 2. Pl. N. 2. Gelavit Nix 4. Frigus 5. Nebulae Nix 7. Nebulae Densissimae 8. Nebulae Nix 11. Nix 12. Ninxit 13. Ninxit per tot diem 14. Gelu 15 16 19. Frigus 19. Gelu duravit 21. Frigus 22 24 25. Nix 27. Ninxit 28. Nives 29. Frigus ♋ 26. ♃ ♌ 3. ♃ 1623. Jan. 1 2. Styl Nov. Frigus 3. Neb. densissima tot die 6. Frigus intensum Nebulae 8 9. Frigus mediocre 14 15. Frigus Restauratum 1624. ab April 7. St. N. ad Octob. 4. 10. Ventus Frigidus 11. Gelu Sol Pallidus 12. Gelu Tonitru 14. Sol Sanguineus 16. 17. Gelidum 20. Sol Pallidus May St. N. 1623. 3. Nebulae 14. Nebulae 17 19. Venti frigidi 19. Gelidum 21. Pluvios Nives 22 23. Frigidi Udi dies 26. Grandinos N. B. ab 11. ad 21. totum tempus in Norico pluvios Frigid Nebulae in Oceano Brittannico Kepler ad May 1623. Note that in Summer the Scene changes not for Drought though for Heat it may June 14. S. N. Nebulae 15 16 17. Squalores 25 26. Frigida Aura July 4. St. N. Equalor 5 6 7 8. Calores 9. Squalor 11 12 13. Calores 14. Squalor 17. Grando 19. Squalor 26 30. Squalor 31. Siccitus Aug. 1 2. Aestus magni 2 3 4. Siccitas 5. Squalor 11. Grando 18 19. Squalores intol erandi usque ad 26. Octob. 3 4 5. Frigid Ningid 3 4. Ningidum 6. Gelu 7. Pruina Nivis instar 1624. March 30. Here now the Spring is cool 31. Nix April 1. St. N. Ningidum 2. Frigus 3 4. Gelu Ninxit 5. Ninxit 7. Ningidum 8. Ventus Frigidus 10. Frigidum 11. Pruina 13. Frigus 14 15 16 17. Euri Frigidi 18 19. Aura Frigida 30. Sol in occasum rubens May 1 2 3. St. N. Squalores § 16. From which Diary take Notice how every Month which is more capable hath a cold mark and those which are scarce capable feel the impress of the Aspect by Drought for the overflowings of the Danow in June A o 1623. toward Midsummer I hope is a Rarity and in July we scarce find a Drop of Rain whence Kepler with Reason concludes the Diary of the Month with Siccitas which is no ordinary Style in that Book Surely in New-England we find a Drought noted from June's beginning to the end of July Purch 4. p. 1866. Yea in Germany all July long Even the very Thunders brought no Rain with them according to what is before noted Dry Thunders are an effect of Joves Dominion and yet according to the Diary it Thunder'd five or six times To proceed Winds instead of Rain says Kepler not upon the account of an Exhausted Earth as he imagines but on the account of those Planets that being met resist Moisture and separate it There are a matter of 330 days that we are concerned in for the investigation of this Aspect the Fair Days and the Dry being reckoned which are omitted in the Table 74. in the first Division 121. in the 2d and 20. in the 3d. make even up 200. of that Total 330. And 75. for so many Cold Days occur expresly in the Table then the Influence is manifest 275. of 330. bear Witness to a Dry Cold Aspect § 17. Our next Conjunction falls by Course in the year 1643. on Febr. 16. here we shall seem to be at a loss not where the Aspect falls in a Winter Month for there we are not to seek for Cold Mist Frost Snow c. each Month having its proportion Dec. A o 1642. gives 26. and A o 1643. Jan. gives 21.
Febr. 22. March 15. April 17. but before that from May 22. to Aug. 2. when They come within 8 degrees in Summer Months where the Aspect doth not seem so much for our turn the Critical Position as it uses altering the Case Well it will yield us the more Instances under the Style of Heat Moisture Storms c. Yet even here we meet with the German Diary Frost at the end of May Hart Reif Cool Weather yea Cold on June 21 25 27. with Snow or Clouds ready for Snow if I read the Dutch right Kait Wind Schnee Wolken so hard is it an for Aspect in the Various Changes of the Celestial Motions not to shew its Teeth See Kyrianders Diary § 18. But the next ☌ of 1662. is quite for our turn and the next 20 years after too much for our turn when first that of 1662. brought Cakes of Ice in the Thames at the end of November December's beginning about a Fortnights time and Renew'd then a 2d time at December's end at what time the River was scarce passable At it again A o 1663. where extreme Frost and hard Winterly Weather in the Close of January brought much Ice a third time upon the River when besides Frosts in the mean space appear'd Cold and Chill Winds pinching the Spring at the end of March April too was much upon an Easterly Wind by the same token that my Memorial tells me on May 2. I saw ♄ and ♃ within two degrees I suspected something even then that they were some Cause of that Constitution following whatsoever I thought of the Cold preceding The Truth is the Aspect lasts all the year within 8 degrees Compass and Tokens thereof may be discerned in its Cold Influence I mean in the Frost of Aug. die 11 13 20 21 22 28 29 30. in September October December § 19. But That of 1682. according to my terms of grad 8. begins about July 10. and ends not till a year after Aug. 24. 1683. By my Notes I find a Cold Night in the midst of July 1682. yea and Frosty Cold Pinching Mornings besides the Day time August 3. and 4. and so Signal was it two Months before Christmass that I remember according to my Notes Gentlemen got on their Upper Coats and Cloaks in spight of the Cuerpo mode to defend their Shoulders from the Cold. But in November of the year 1683. There There began the Winter which told us a heavy tale and lasted with a small Interruption of 4 or 5 days till the New ☽ after Candlemass 1684. That is the Winter under which we groan'd a Twelve-month after whose farewell had a Sting for bringing a dry Summer after it a Badge of ♄ and ♃ when they are not master'd the Markets forgot their Plenty of Flesh and Fish the later being kill'd by the Frost and the former by the Drought Cattle being pinch'd in their Pasture the poor Vegetable perish'd scarce a Sallard to be seen the Grape intercepted and the Artichoke destroyed Rosemary and Bays became new Exolick Plants This was the Winter that clos'd up the Thames and made it Terra Firma when his Majesty of Happy Memory being Sollicitous for Ice at the end of November before was told His Swans would have Ice enough before that Winter was over the Wizard intimating That Frost which upon the Position of ♄ and ♃ he saw would be so severe The Truth of it is the Planets are not within the compass of 8 degrees Alass we stated that number for Rudiment and Introduction sake we confin'd our selves to it at first only to introduce not to exclude the greater Distance Know therefore that at this ☌ They were both in ♠above twice 8 degrees distance and the better Artist must consider them both nearer and further the one sometimes at other times the other taking place And it is no News for thus we find in Keplers Diary Forty years ago when the two Planets met in ♌ Honest Kepler is at a loss for the reason of a Cold Winter especially of the Hyemal Cold in March 1621. Alass Good Man how doth he turn every Stone How doth he conjure for it out of the Earth but it answers not The Superiour Aspects have been in Play for two year before as we could prove from his own Annotations the short is March proved so Cold that it minded the Goodman of his Country Proverb which counsels the Old Men to put on their Swords to defend them from the sharp Assaults of the Air. ♄ and ♃ are but 10 degrees distant but he not dreaming of such Martialists hath recourse to the Nature of the Month. But what is the Nature of the Month 'T is he himself who asks the Question and 't is a worthy Question Quae potest esse natura partis anni aut quae est substantia temporis what Body hath time which is indued with such Working Faculties 'T is the Sun Characters a Month in specie and the rest with the ☉ characters it in individuo He imputes it to the melting of the Snow on the Alps which causeth he saith those Cold Winds which bring the Winter Frost But why is it constantly so every March There 's Snow on the Alps every Winter We find not A o 1621. A o 1622. 1623. 1624. we find ♄ and ♃ A o 1626. we find no such thing again As for the rest we must remember there are other Cool Aspects of ♃ besides ♄ and ♃ Nay 2ly I could never disgest the pretence of Cold Winds from melting of Snow Flouds and Waters I understand and a Crude Air but that melting of Snow on the Mountains should cause Frost and Snow in the Valleys I pretend not to understand For Wind formally consider'd rises not from the moistned Earth nor falls by its own Weight the Cold is its own Property which it lendeth and borroweth not Again in Snow its self Air relents how much less does it Freez when the Snow Thaws Motion is the Formality of Wind but Motion requires an Application of a new Cause There is Master I grant in the Atmosphere Plenty when Snow melts as there is in the Bellows deducted but there wants an impulse an Aspect a Constellation as we have defin'd it at the beginning to make a Wind. § 20. Now why may not I look back into the former Century I do amiss in sparing the Labour in the year 1563. 1564. you shall find a Frost parallel to that of ours 120 years after about Christmas as with us it was unsupportable the Ears of the Poor their Hands and other parts gangreen'd the Nut the Pear the Peach the Rose-Tree the Vines all but Root utterly extinguish'd Death of Man and Beast Dearth of all things folfowed Gemma Cosmoc 2 44. And would you know now where our Planets were You will find them upon the matter in the same places One in ♌ the other in ♠then and Both in ♠now ♄ being but newly entred § 21. Pass we now from
even beyond a Quincunx profess their inclinations but the distance is too wide nor is it our interest to prove our Planets to have a Natural tendency to such Excesses yet because the Reports are so large p. 613 614. we refer them to the ☠♄ ♂ in ♌ and ♒ and to the Planets in ♋ in ♋ I say of which ♃ is the chief § 52. I need not force in any Instances the Rhine will bear Witness A o 1553 June 19. to such Excesses endamaging all the Cities I think for they say They were infinite that are situate near its noble Stream Take Notice if you please of ♃ and ☿ 's Congress but withal note that ♃ and ♄ are in Oppositional Quincunx ♌ 4. ♓ 4. Lycosth 616. Yea in Aug. A o 1552. Die 13. Budissina Peucer's Native Country felt the smart of a Cataract they call it a piece of a Cloud a Spout they would say that drown'd all for the space of 2 miles with 30 men lost Peucer p. 340. A strong ☠of ♄ and ♃ with other Planets to back him or seeing we have heard of the Phrase before now to make a Conspiracy Sooner or later doth not vary the Species a Spout there is a Floud which the Seamen describe to be a Cloud with a Tail like a Serpent drawing the Waters in a Smoak or Mist and wherever it falls Wo to the Sea-farer Hakl Vol. 2. p. 106. One of these in Aug. XXVII Another Octob. XX. p. 110. In the First a Partil ☠of ♄ and ♃ in the second X. degrees distance § 53. A o 1564. Sept. 20. Our Thames overflowed and drowned much Cattle Let any man look into the Ephemeris and take notice how many of the VII are in ♎ IV. of VII yea or the 20. day V. reckoning ♈ to its opposite Sign A notable Instance of what we have asserted about Equinoctial Tides and the Raising of Water by Rarefaction which our late ingenuous Theorist of the Earth considered not when concerning the Floud he affirmed there was no Water in Nature sufficient for it § 54. A o 1565. in January and February at Lovain the River Dilia overflowed in that Prodigious Winter which scarce ended before April The later of these Febr. 11. did much harm Gem. 2. 42 43. ♂ and ♀ are in ☌ we have said before but so is ♃ and ♄ which hath Influence not only on that over-long Winter but also in the excess of Snow or Rain according as they were provok'd § 55. The next ☠lands us on 1573. in ♉ and ♠upon which account the years concerned are famous upon Record Comets Flouds Pests Why I tell you the New Star in Cassiopeia as sure as you are there is the Offspring of ♄ and ♃ Let me dispatch the Flouds and I will prove it But Oh the Flouds If it be but that at Lovain Jan. 8. 1573. where the Waters rose upon the Thaw above 17. Cubits high so described by Gemma by ruining of Houses Trees Bridges Mills Pillars Floating of Beds Trunks and all manner of House-hold Goods Consternation and Shrieking of all Sorts and Sexes that it brings a cold Steam upon the Heart of the Reader so prodigious that an Astrologer though he be allowing the Snows and the Thaw and all that still wonders at the Cause and offers at some Fermentation which he imagines to arise from the mixture of Snow-Water c. A Point which ought to be consider'd but neither so was he yet satisfied He might have been satisfied had he consider'd the pure fermenting Power of our Aspect opened by the Appulse of ♂ and ☽ for there was neither Change nor Quarter in respect of the Sun if he had consider'd the Reach of our Aspect which is confess'd in in its Partile Estate to cause Flouds and Inundations which it concerns us to know for the Relator himself was almost drowned in common danger though the Floud coming by day God be thanked not above 8 or 9 were lost § 56. But there is more Wo yet In the same year and in Summer time in the beginning of July it self a Deluge happened not in one City or so but the Country it self Holland with Frieseland were plagued Inaudita Clade Gem. 2. 167. where the Learned Man tells us that the New Star in Cassiopeia was at that time abated of its Greatness and Splendour yea but ♄ and ♃ were under no abatement They were in a ☌ Partile not above a Month before we must not dare to mention the Pleiades engaged between them But so it was whether our Planets signifie any thing or no that we in England heard of a harmful Floud at Tocester by a Storm of Hail and Rain June 7. which gives us a little tast what was the Constitution of the most part of June which raised such Flouds there and elsewhere Let the Reader be pleased to consider and he will allow something to our Alms-Basket especially when there comes a 3d. or 4th Inundation in West-Frieseland as rueful and as masterless In the mean time let me tell him my Opinion that these and other such like Attentendants of the New Star are manifest Indications of its Nature Homogeneal to that of the Bearded Comet which will we nil we are too oft attended only with such Retinue § 57. We hear of no Flouds till about the next ☠which makes me remember that the ☠is better at such Tragical Sport than the ☌ and first with our selves A o 1594. we meet with Rain very sore for 14 hours April 11. which is an unlucky Prologue to what we hear of May 2. great Water-Flouds in Sussex and Surrey June also being as much a Trespasser as May Nor does it cease in July though it please God to send a fine August Both one and the other were the effect of our Aspect even the Rain from ♒ and ♌ as well as the fine Weather to see what Providence can do though it return to its wet again the Month following where we reckon a double Influx of ♄ and ♃ yea and of the rest too in their proportion a generative Faculty of Wet when all Requisites are supposed and a Spirit communicated to that Wet whereby the Moisture is Proud and Swelling apt to clime and outrun its bounds As the Bubble in a smart and warm Showr is a Sign of a Spirit which starts up and carries with it a Film of Water Fatter than ordinary Least any should say that seeing we like Gemma's Philosophy of some Ferment in the Waters we should therefore deny that our Planets were not contributers to the Moisture as well as the Tumor which we must assert they do But our Tres-Grand-Aspects are not so easily got off for A o 1595 the Scene lies in Germany the Rhine the Maes the Maene the Neccar the Danow all with one consent obey their Superiours and make such Work about Colen Mentz Francfort worse than they did A o 1573. of which before at Lovain c.