them more lifted up above the superficies of the Earth then 236. perches Wherefore admitting G F which is the part of the Perpendicular line that penetrateth the gross Air to be three miles and F C the semidiamiter of the Earth to be 3436 miles and the Summer and Winter heights as before it will be manifest by supputation that whereas K F shall pierce but four miles or thereabouts M F shall pass twelve and somewhat more So that the opposition and impediment which the Sun-beams do suffer in Winter is triple to that which they feel in their Summer passage and doth therefore weaken the Suns force in that preparation And being added to the rest of the causes before specified doth demonstratively prove all together considered that the heat in Summer excelleth that which we receive in Winter in proportion as 144. is to 1. In explaining whereof I have been the more curious because that which is here demonstrated concerning the Suns apparition is likewise to be applyed to the rest of the Planets which moving under the same Circle that the Sun doth shall receive the like addition or abatement of force and therefore of singular moment to be observed in all Judgments CHAP. VI Why the ending of July and beginning of August is the hottest time of Summer and so likewise the ending of January and beginning of February the coldest time of Winter BUt we must further consider that although these four causes are most evident upon the very Solstitial days yet it is not always of necessity that upon them we always feel the greatest heat or cold But there is yet another general cause to be added which in respect of it self doth commonly aggravate the bitterness of Winter about the beginning of February The Reason whereof Kepler doth resolutely ascribe to Privation onely with Cardan further denying Cold to be a positive quality and with him Picus that any specifical vertue doth descend unto us from Heaven besides Light and Heat and therefore saith that the Air Water and Earth being naturally destitute of Heat as they are material and thick Bodies are neither â—uddenly warmed nor suddenly cold but conceiving Heat in June when the â—un is at the highest do accumulate it â—nto the Heat of July and August after the same manner and for the same Reaâ—on that the heat of the day in the afterâ—oon is greater then at high noon until the Sun after his declining by degrees â—rom us doth also by little little withdraw his heat from these Elements which â—hen return to their former Nature and â—o necessarily admit Cold in the absence â—f Heat which still prevaileth more and more by the Suns long discontinuance â—rom us until after February be past â—e begin to recover some part of his â—orce again CHAP. VII The method set down which is observed in refelling Kepler WHereunto because it concerneth the very Foundation of Astrologie I must crave leave to answer not doubting but if I can demonstrate that both Cold and all the rest of the first qualities do proceed essentially from Heaven and are onely to be found by accident in the Elements that this will give the Reader who before stood in doubt good satisfaction And the better to clear this point I will first shew that Heat is neither essential to the Light nor so inseparably united unto it but that they are and may be severed as diverse in Nature whereby it will likewise follow that the rest of the qualities may concur with Light as well as Heat This done I will secondly make it plain that Cold is no privation but a positive quality and that neither it nor the rest of the qualities can originally be referred to the Elements but of consequence to Heaven yea and that without any incongruity in Philosophy whatsoever the Peripateticks and their followers have heretofore thought Which thus premised the Reader shall be the better prepared to believe both that this common Intension in February is to be ascribed as Astrologie teacheth partly to those parts of Heaven which the Sun doth then pass by partly to such Constellations as do then rise and set and also the better to conceive how the Intensions Remissions of every season may grow by the particular passions of the Planets and the rest of the Stars and not from naked Privation as Kepler would have it CHAP. VIII Other qualities concomitate Light as well as Heat ANd now to prosecute these things in order First I affirm That although we see Heat and Light to descend joyntly with the Beams of the Sun yet it doth not concomitate the light of all the Stars for that heat is neither the substance of the light for assertion whereof Scaliger justly reprehendeth Cardane nor more to be confounded with light then sight then sight is to be confounded with touch whereof Light and Heat are proper Objects For as we cannot feel the Light nor see the Heat so those Senses which are not always joyntly exercised together as we see and not feel and feel and not see do teach us that Light and Heat are divers qualities and both in reason and nature may be conceived to subsist the one without the other This will best appear by the diffinition of both which evermore expresseth the nature of the thing in question Forasmuch therefore as Heat is that quality which doth congregate homogeneal things and separate those that are heterogeneal which agreeeth not to the property of the Light which is brought unto us by the Beams of the Stars the same being defined according to Alhazen and Vitellio to be only The Species or Image of the inherent Light of the Sun or Star from whence it is sent There is nothing more evident then that that Heat which is conveyed unto us with the beams of the Sun is of a divers nature from the light thereof For both Sence and Experience do prove That Heat is no Image or similitude but a real and active quality which how it should subsist in an Image as in the subject or how Light should subsist in Heat being likewise an accidental quality are difficulties which in my judgment will not easily be answered except we can prove that one accident may be the subject of another which is against all Philosophy This then alone although it doth sufficiently prove that Light and Heat are two divers qualities yet to make it more apparent dayly observation doth shew That one may be and remain in the absence of the other as we see in Attrition where Heat is excited without Light and so we may exclude the Light when nevertheless the heat of the Sun shall remain And though the Earth and the rest of the Elements retein the impression of the former day yet doth neither the Earth Air or Water shine after the Sun is set Wherefore if Heat may thus exist and be separated from the light and it be also true as before hath been shewed
Analogie as of the received use it may not be secluded out of the Number of Aspects specially knowing that the Beams of the Stars are as well extended upward and downward as obliquely and collaterally But if any man desire further to be satisfied of the Reason which first moved the ancient Astronomers to observe those distances and Arks assigned unto the Aspects as of more virtue then any other Surely the Answer is easie seeing Nature it self every where both in the motions and effects of the heavenly Bodies as also in other Arithmetical and Geometrical respects chiefly celebrateth these very proportions with a singular Prerogative Picus speaking hereof thinketh they were first induced hereunto by observing the several illuminations or ages of the Moon for that when she is new horned in her quarters gibbossity and fulness her forms are still changed at these proportioned spaces from the Sun Besides which it is not to be passed in silence which others have more particularly noted that in her annual Revolution she is still found about the â–³ of her own place in the beginning of the former year Neither have other Astronomers failed to note how Nature pointeth as it were with a finger particularly unto every Configuration while we consider the motions of the other Planets For thus Abohazer wittily affirmeth the two inferiour Planets in their Stations to observe the Ark proper to a â–¡ aspect Pliny likewise with him as skilfully commendeth unto us the observation of the â–³ by the stations of the three superior Planets But above all it cannot be considered without deep admiration how Nature hath singularly nobilitated all the Aspects in the Motions of Saturn and Jupiter For as their Conjunctions are rare and but once in 20 years so hath Nature evermore disposed these Conjunctions in the most memorable places of the Zodiack That is only in such Signs as behold one another in an aequilater triangle inscribed For between any two great Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter there are 19 Aegyptian years 318 days and 13 hours in which time those Planets are moved from the place of their former Conjunctions 8 signs and almost 3 degrees which excess of 3 degrees is the cause why after 10 Conjunctions they pass from one Triplicity to another and one Triplicity continueth 198 equal years 2â—5 days the intercalary day of every fourth year omitted and 10 hours But the Revolution of all the Triplicities is finished but only once in 794 equal years 331 days and 16 hours Or otherwise in 794 Julian years 133 days 16 hours the double whereof cometh to 1588 which number of years they are thought to have respected that imagined the year 1588. from the birth of Christ would have been so fatal From hence therefore it is that not without cause they are called great Conjunctions both hapning rarely and abiding thus in one Triplicity almost 200 years together and not finishing all the Triplicities of the Zodiack in much lesser then 800 years not having therefore reiterated all the Triplicities 8 times since the beginning of the World Neither are the other Positions of these Planets to be neglected for if any man will take the pains to observe when Saturn and Jupiter do behold one another with a â–¡ or ☠aspect they shall evidently perceive that they still carry such a regard unto the signs or places of their precedent and next Conjunctions as evermore they irradiate the one and the other with a âš¹ â–¡ â–³ or ☠aspects And so this shall suffice if it be not more then enough to shew how Nature hath alured us to the Consideration of these Arks by these Aspects in the particular Motion of the Planets And now in a word to confirm the same by their virtue and effects First The Physicians are taught by experience That the Crisis of all sharp diseases have a notorious and most memorable Sympathy with all these five Configurations of the ☽ to the place of her Being in the beginning of the sickness Thus also we see the Seas themselves in their Tydes to dance as it were after the motion of the ☽ while their Spring and highest Floods always concur with her ☌ and ☠to the Sun as their Neaps and lowest Tydes do likewise respect her Quarters And as memorable a thing it is that the Seas in their dayly flowing and ebbing upon every Coast have still a constant respect only to such Azimuthal Circles as are in a quartile positure when the ☽ passeth by them To conclude it is more manifest then that I need to insist upon it that the Sun it self seemeth greatly to respect the â–¡ in that he moderateth the vicissitudes or four quarters of the year by his ingress into the four Aequinoctial and Tropical Points But now to descend to other Speculations of the learned more mystical then these it is not amiss to begin with the Arithmetical Observation which Julius Firmicus maketh of the number of Signs agreeable to the Aspects 1 2 3 4 6 answering in order to the ☌ âš¹ â–¡ â–³ ☠for these numbers only and none other will divide the Zodiack consisting of twelve Signs for which reason he maketh them the only aliquate parts of a Circle Thus also the famous Ptolomy addeth not a little to the dignity of these Irradiations when he first observed the Geometrical proportion which the Subtenses of every of these Arks do retain in power to the Diameter of a Circle as every man may read in the Quadripartite Others again with no less subtilty have observed that amongst all regular or ordinate figures that may be inscribed in a Circle though the same be infinite there are none whose sides and angles carry away the Prerogative both at the Circumference and Center but those whose sides and angles are answerable to the Subtenses and Arks of their Aspects For thus amongst all ordinate plains that may be inscribed there are no two whose sides joyned together have preheminence to take up a semicircle but only the Hexagon Quadrate and equilateral triangle answering to the âš¹ â–¡ and â–³ irradiated The subtence therefore of a âš¹ aspect consisteth of two Signs joyned to the subtence of a â–³ composed of four being regular and aequilater take up six Signs which is a compleat semicircle In like manner the sides of a Quadrate inscribed subtending three Signs twice reckoned do ocupy likewise the mediety of a Circle And what those Figures are before said to perform either doubled or joyned together may also be truly ascribed unto the opposite aspect by it self for that the Diametral Line which passeth from the place of Conjunction to the opposite Point divideth a Circle into two equal parts the like whereof cannot be found in any other inscripts For example the side of a regular Pentagon subtendeth 72. degr. of an Octagon but 45. the remainders of which Arks viz. 108. and 135. gr. are not subtended by the sides of any ordinate figure And thus as
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The glorious Estate of Gods children after death By George Stronde ERRATA REad Page 4. li. 2. is above a. p. 13. li. 15. proportion l. 24. operation p. 22. l. 26. this p. 23. l. 6. with the quality p. 24. l. 8. so far p. 27. l. 5. operation l. 7. ardor p. 48. l. 7. the general p. 50. l. 6. Historiarum Commentarios l. 23. sine p. 54. l. 8. this p. 55. l. 9. make like p. 58. l. 25. also in p. 60. l. 12. of these l. 28. to the true p. 63. l. 23. the same l. 25. Cauda Cygni p. 66. l. 17. are so p. 67. l. 14. Passion p. 70. l. 26. by r. of p. 72. l. 26. their r. these p. 74. l. 22. Ark p. 75. l. 1. me r. we p. 78. l. 4. of r. as l. 6. constituted p. 79. l. 22. of the Circum p. 80. l. 5. that either p. 99. l. 19. your r. their p. 102. l. 22. hapned CHAP. I. Of Winter NOt without great Judgment doth Pliny affirm those that first understood the obliquity of the Zodiack Rerum fores aperuisse For besides that the finding out hereof prepared the way first to find out the periodical motions of the Planets The Philosopher himself teacheth us that the variety generation and corruption of all things dependeth chiefly hereupon And common experience driveth us to confess the access and recess of the Sun unto the four Cardinal Points of this Circle to be the most general and assured cause of the years successive alteration Upon this ground I affirm the Winter quarter to take his true beginning at what time the Sun making his entrance into the Tropick of ♑ hath attain'd his greatest declination Southward from our Zenith or Vertical Point From whence divers Impediments evident in Nature do follow which bereave our Septentrional parts of that heat and vigor wherewith at other times the Sun being nearer and more elevated doth preserve and cherish the Elements and all things composed of them whether vegetable or sensative CHAP. II. The first Reason of the difference between the Heat and Light in Summer and Winter drawn from the diversity of Stay above the Horizon FOr whereas first of all continuance of action doth necessarily add force of operation to all natural Agents it cometh to pass in Winter by reason of the Suns remote Position that his continuance above the Horizon is shortest and his absence under the same longest thereby now causing the shortest days and longest nights For example the Elevation of the Pole at the honorable City of London is observed to be 51. g 32′ and the greatest declination of the Sun in this our Age is 23. g 31′ 30″ Therfore in the Winter Solstice the Sun finisheth his Diurnal Ark to them of this City in 7 hours 34 minutes and for this consideration can heat the Air here but a little while seeing the same is not one third of a natural day at which time nevertheless he remaineth hidden under the Earth more then twice so long and so ceaseth from calefaction imparting no benefit of his light and heat to us at all Whereas in Summer the Sun persisteth 16 whole hours and 26 minutes in operation not ceasing above seven hours and a half from action by reason of his absence under the Horizon Wherefore look what proportion 7 hours 34 minutes have to 16 hou 26 min the like difference there shall be betwixt the Suns operation in Summer and Winter in respect of his diverse stay above the Horizon which not to be too scrupulous is a double proportion the one to the other CHAP. III. The second Reason of the foresaid Difference drawn from the difference of Vnion in the Beams SEcondly In the work of the Stars Union of Beams is a thing regarded as of special consequence But it is clear to them that have any insight in the Opticks that in Winter the Union of the Beam incident with the Beam reflected is not comparable with that which the greater Altitude of the Sun causeth in Summer and therefore the effects depending upon this Union must accordly be increased or diminished in proportion That this is true Diagram Suppose A B in the first Figure and C D in the
censure if they know not their Error before But forasmuch as those that are supputated to one particular place will not agree the same day to every Horizon let none from hence take occasion to calumniate Astrologie if the effects do likewise differ in divers Horizons but rather let them learn for this Cause the more to admire the Art for that from hence chiefly the true Reason doth grow why in several Elevations the Weather is oft times differing upon the same day seeing that in a small difference of latitude both the Emersions and Occultations may vary divers days Wherefore the Effect must accordingly follow the Cause The Reason why the apparent Risings and Settings are prefered by Antiquity before the true is not expressed by them but leaning simply upon observation and experience they commend the same in their Monuments to Posterity neither in truth was it necessary seeing the Reason was evident in it self For who doubteth that the substraction or addition of Light may beget such a new degree of temperature in the Air as is sufficient to Mutation As we see it often to happen in Distillations where the alteration though of a very small heat doth either perfect or give impediment to the work But whereas for the most part this Mutation turneth unto moisture this is purposely to be imputed to the great quantity of borrowed light wherewith they shine For as it is held in the Perspectives there is no doubt but that the Stars do as well reflect unto us the light of the Sun as shine with their own proper light Wherefore the Suns light being debilitated by reflection doth heat imperfectly being for that cause fitter to resolve and cause moisture to flow then to consume the same being stirred And here is further to be noted That Ptolomy doth not require the apparent rising and setting of all the fixed Stars for it is clear in that Tractate of their significations that he neglected all but those of the first and second Magnitude whereof he giveth two Reasons one because the exact Emersion and Occultation of the lesser Stars cannot be observed by reason that their weak light is not able to overcome the twi-light whereby the Arks of their Apparition being uncertain the Apparition it self cannot be calculated The other Reason is because these more notable Stars are for the most part so conveniently scituated as the Appearances of the lesser hapning much about the same time are not so to be regarded as these that are more illustrious And thus for example he thinketh it enough to observe the apparent Risings and Settings of Arcturus and Spica though we pass Vindimiatricks in silence neither careth he much for the Haedi or the Vergiliae or Hyades so he observe Hircus and the brightest of the Hyades Wherefore Ptolomy hath not supputated these Apparitions for above 30. my self coming short of him by 6. For more of the first and second Magnitude do not rise and set to us because the declinations of divers do exceed the complement of our Pole and therefore if the Sun be septenâ—rional they never set as Lyra Lucida Persei Dexter humerus Aurigae Conâ—a Cygni and the like Or if this excess be Austral then they do never â—ise of which kind Canobus and Pes Dexter Centauri be which are never seen above our Horizon CHAP. XVII Intensions and Remissions by Configuration of the Stars THe Causes hitherto mentioned although they be very divine and contain much excellency in them yet they come all neerer the nature of Matter then this which followeth For the manner of their operation did consist chiefly in a certain flux and emission of light continued down to these sublunary bodies which although it be commonly thought without matter or time yet it is not without the demensions of Quantity For it is made by a right line it is attenuated by the distance thereof from the Star it increaseth or decreaseth with the face of the Planet it self it is hindered by opposition of a shady body and lastly the visible presence of the Star admitted it is necessarily presupposed also Neither is this found in one and the same single star considered by it self but in comparison also with others As because the Sun and Moon excel all other Stars in their visible magnitude therefore their action is most evident but in the rest whose visible Diameters are not comparable to the Suns or Moons their efficacy is hardly sensible and not to be attained without long experience This cause therefore which followeth and belongeth equally to the Planets and fixed Stars is more noble and to be admired then the other For this savoreth nothing of Matter but hath only consideration of Form not so much respecting the streight beams of light which flow from every Star as valuing and esteeming how their Beams meet at the Earth between us and their Light but both when they are hidden under the Horizon and seem above the same it maketh the efficacy of the Stars more notable over all the World then at other times Which kind of operation if the Stars be swift in Motion is in a manner but momentany for that the Geometrical Angle being changed into another Angle that is improportionable and improper immediately or not long after this efficacy also ceaseth though the light of the Star at that time chance to increase For which Cause I give not so much regard to the Aspects of the Moon with other Planets in the alteration of the Weather as unto the Configurations of the Planets among themselves or with the fixed Stars whose motion being but slow in respect of the Moons doth not so suddenly vary the Angle of their Configuration at the Earth From hence it is therefore that those Arks or Portions of the Heaven allotted unto the Aspects are not so much esteemed above all other Causes in Astrological Judgments For although it be true that in all Scituations the Stars send forth their Beams unto all the parts of Heaven and Earth which they behold as may be argued out of Vitellio his Demonstration by means whereof the Beams and Lines of true motion in every two Stars do retain a mutual respect one to another and so do evermore intercept some Ark of Heaven and concur at some Angle of the Earth which may seem to make an Aspect among themselves Yet nevertheless all the ancient and modern Astronomers following Nature for their Guide have heretofore regarded these few Configurations only being but five in all namely the ☌ âš¹ â–¡ â–³ and ☠amongst which although the first do not commonly go for an Aspect because every Aspect is reputed a proportioned distance between two or more Stars yet nevertheless seeing a certain Position of the Stars in the Zodiack is rather considered in this Position then any diversity of place and that the enumeration of the Aspects ever beginneth from the Conjunction Therefore as well in respect of this
dryed up quite But as the year increaseth and the Sun approacheth near the Tropick of Capricorn then begins it to Rain and to Snow and their Rivers swell from October to December Then after that the Sun retyring from Capricorn when as his Beams reflect directly upon the heads of them at Peru then is the violence of their Waters great then is the time of Rain Snow and great over-flowings of their Rivers when as their heat is greatest that is from January to mid March this is so true and certain as no man may contradict it Hitherto Acosta By which it appeareth that the Sun in the same Signs causeth like effects to them beyond the Aequinoctial that at the same time he produceth here to us the fairest or foulest weather hapning to both at the same instant which may satisfie the most obstinate in this point seeing throughout the whole world the same parts of Heaven keep still the same quality Thus much therefore shall suffice concerning the general constitutions of the Seasons as the same chiefly depend upon the Sun and the parts of Heaven which he passeth CHAP. XIII Of the particular Intensions or Remissions which happen by Position of the Planets BUt as for the Intension hapning by the fixed Stars it shall hereafter be handled by it self as I come to the same in order forasmuch as the greatest disposition of weather may and doth admit Intension and Remission in the particular parts thereof for divers other causes we must likewise have respect unto them Amongst which the first that offereth it self unto our Consideration is the place or Position of the Planets who moving under the Zodiack shall for the same Reasons receive the same increase and abatement of force in their Operations which before I have proved the Sun to receive For considering the power of Saturn consisteth chiefly in cold and congealed Meteors it followeth for an infallible Maxim That we are then pinched with the sharpest and longest Winters when Saturn having surmounted the Aequinoctial shineth in the Septentrional Signs nearest our heads by means whereof as the Suns force beginneth to grow weak during his scituation in those Signs his cold influence shall prevail still more more as well because of his slow motion and long continuance in one place as also by reason of the more direct projection of his Beams and great described Ark above the Horizon In all which respects his impression must then be more forcible and the rather that he then consisteth above the Perigaeon of his Orbs and so becometh the nearest the Earth that he can approach which still addeth much to his efficacy And that experience doth confirm thus much I refer the Reader to Pontanus and Valentinus Nabod in his Comentary upon Alcabitius and also to Reisuerus his Opticks where illustrating this Proposition That All light the nearer it is the more strongly it doth illuminate the Object he hath these words Hac ratione saith he Anno 1441. sub Imperatore Friderico Proavo Imp Caroli V. paulo aute cladem Varnensem Saturnus currens per postremos partes Geminorum Soli oppositas factusque terrae quam propinquissimus tam ratione eccentrici quam epicycli luminis sui propinquitate in usitatum illud frigus effecit quod adeo saevum fuit diuturum ut in Historium Commentarias referri meruerit Here therefore they that will be satisfied may behold Demonstration as well as Experience for which cause I hold it needless to commemorate any further examples hereof especially seeing it is not so long since the year 1591 at what time being likewise placed in II as well as the years immediately before and after the effects of his cold influence were so lasting and hurtful specially to sheep that perished in the deep of Snows as I know they cannot be yet forgotten Notwithstanding it shall not be immaterial to add this out of Functius his Chronology that in Anno 1427. he noteth the Winter to pass away without cold For saith he it was Hyems sive frigore Whereupon calculating Saturns place for that time I find it in the midst of ♠the sign of his greatest distance from the Earth where he suffereth all the debilities which before I have shewed the Sun to do in Winter and therefore material to be considered for our purpose For though he be not in ♑ yet seeing both those Signs have equal declination I hold it all one The like observation therefore I desire them that impugn this Art most and are not obstinate to make for their own satisfaction and I know that when they find Saturn to have been and to continue still in his greatest remotion and weakness they cannot but subscribe unto his virtue in cold effects seeing it is so manifestly confirmed that generally our Winters are the coldest when he is strongest in operation and so milde and temperate when his Beams are not able to express their qualities CHAP. XIV Intension and Remission by the Motion of the Planets NExt the scituation and place of the Planets that Intension and Remission which hapneth by these Passions that result from their motion through the Anamaly of their Eccentricks and Epicycles are not unfit to be considered Not that the diversity of Motions altereth the nature of the Planets which is ever the same but because in regard hereof they work not after one manner in every place nor yet alike in the same place at the same position but diversly in all places as the force of their operation is increased or diminished through this diversity of their particular motions and then diversly applyed by the diurnal Revolution of the Heavens unto the matter of sublunary things For as is well known to those that are acquainted with the Theoricks the Center of their Orbs differing from the Center of the World causeth them in respect of us to move irregularly as sometimes Directly according to the succession of the Signs sometimes Retrograde and against their order their Motion also for the same Reason being sometimes swift sometimes slow and sometimes nothing at all but stationary Which great diversity must of necessity cause variety in the manner of their operation For as the motion of a Planet that is direct doth greatly avail to his long stay and continuance above the Horizon in that it comprehendeth more then one intire period of the Aequinoctial in his diurnal Revolution So that Planet which is Retrograde seemeth not only to forsake his own natural course because the proper motion of every Planet is performed towards the East but besides he is also esteemed purposely to refuse that opportunity of strengthening his operation by long continuance above the Horizon which by holding on a direct course he doth obtain Yet notwithstanding my opinion is and both Reason and Experience do confirm it That God hath not vainly ordained this Law in their Motions but that it doth rather evidently admonish us that this Planet