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
I may distinguish them into Positive but Insensible then Sensible and Vehement these degrees with the mixture of Cold working on their subject matter emit such variety as we see First we have 1. Excessive stubborn unmixt Frost and cold Thence Dry Constitution Thence Serene Calm 2. Warmth insensible Then Exhalation invisible Thence Wind. Mist Halo Wind from the North. From the North-East Clouds Hail Snow 3. Tepor or Warmth sensible Dew Fog Fila Gossamere Wind from the North-West Trajections Pregnant Clouds Rain moderate Iris. Wind from the West 4. Heat Intense Lightnings Nocturnal Wind from the South-East from the South-West from the South Hot Days Hot Nights Winds Tempestuous Rains Violent Lightning and Thunder § 31. Hereabouts or prety near is Natures Tract Cast these Calculations into Alphabetical Order for convenience sake and we shall see into the very Anatomy of the Novilunar Influence For as for Objections which may be made against this Scheme precedent either they are not very material or at least we cannot stand upon their solution at present The Total of the days in the precedent Table Cold Frosty Days or Nights 63. Clouds Pregnant 72. Close Fog or grosser Mist 2. Fila 2. Frosty Days 34. Hail 4. Halo 0. Hot Days 28. Nights 8. Lightnings Nocturnal 2. Mist 47. North-East 30. North-West 31. Rain Moderate 109. Violent 28. Serene Fair. 31. Trajections 19. Thunders 3. Warm 31. Wind. 101. Wind Change 29. Wind Tempestuous 37. North-Wind 40. East 45. West 44. South 18. South-East 16. South-West 58. North-East 36. North-West 12. § 32. Our Learned Antagonists as if our â—â—etences were of Things impossible often ask us how we come distinctly to know the Natures of any Celestial Body the Sun excepted We answer the Method is here before them let Industry and Experience gather such Tables of the Planetary Congresses the larger the better and they shall see as in a Glass the Effects of the Aspect and from thence define the Natures of the Celestial Bodies so configured as much as serves our turn and we know no more of the Sun it self yea the Nature and Character of every Degree in the Zodiack may be so determined or if they will take the pains to adapt a Table for VII years that 's the least to each degree from the Appulse respectively § 33. Only our Evidence for Warmth by our own Table seems not to be so full and Cogent as our Interest requires for under the Title Warm we find but 31. Of Hot Days but 28. in toto 59. What 's this to 261 especially when the cold days are able to face them whose sum is 63. I answer all the warm Hot and Soultry days which occur in the larger Table even in Summer time must needs be ascribed to the Influence of our Aspect Nor will it prove in the end that the Cold Days are equal to the Warm not in these VII years nay nor in any one of them But if it should happen in 15. or 30. years as it cannot well I think that the cold days should have the greatest Poll I would make the equal Reader judge of this Problem whether in this case the Nature of the ☽ stands indifferent to Heat and Cold whether the Lunar Light I say can be imagined indifferent as to those qualities seeing Light and Heat are acknowledged the same thing so that the Sun it self would not be Hot but on the account of the Light 2ly Whether it may not probably be said that Heat therefore is an Effect Proper per se and that Cold is Alien and per accidens and if so what Violence would it do to any man's Intellect who shall allow the Sun yea the Moon to be endued with warmth If he should thereupon concede a new superinduced warmth upon their Union and Congress the Learned Gassendus doth the one and not the other 3ly I should smilingly ask who knows but that this our Aspect may be taken upon suspicion for the very Cause of Cold happening so critically on the very day since many of those Days so noted are found even in June July against the very Nature of the Season especially since some Phylosophers I can tell you have heretofore ventured to say that the ☽ was a Cold as well as a Moist Luminary § 34. Let us consider again therefore as to the Warmth of the Summer Days here concerned That though the Word Summer smells of the Oven and sounds hot and parching yet notwitstanding he who shall recollect himself from his own Experience and descend into Particulars shall find that every day in the height of Summer it self is not by any inviolable necessity Hot or Warm whose Days often prove cool to a great degree for no small part of the time so that an usual complaint flies about of no Summer many times when Summer is almost expired Therefore whensoever any Day proves warmer than its Neighbours it must admit some Principle of such Heat besides the general Cause as they call the Solar Heat And therefore if a Man should enquire whence the Heat issues for example March 29 30. Anno 1671 and Sept. 9 10. Anno 1677. and also the intermediate Months between those two extreams of the Aestival half year he may see the Aspect stand Candidate to be admitted to answer remembring before we part that if the aestival Day be termed only warm in the Diary that warmth though it sounds temperately by a common though not inelegant Meiosis may signifie intense Heat in a tolerable degree as Soultry in the less tolerable Howbeit we have a share even of Soultry days to be found in the Table § 25. Consequently to this let inquisition be made among the Novilunar Days in the Hyemal moiety of the year and we shall find warm days in every Winter Month within the Verge of our Aspect 'T is our great Interest to secure this prime influence of our Luminary therefore we are willing to point at first October 9 10. Anno 1672. noted for Heat with a great Tide accompanying it Octob. 13. Anno 1674. Nov. 21. Anno. 1671. Nov. 27. Anno 1673. Warm Nov. 15. Anno 1677. a warm Night In Decem. Anno 1673. Summer Weather Decemb. 7. Anno 1675. Warm day January 29. Anno 1671. January 15. Anno 1675. Welcome and Temperate Weather February 22. Anno 1677. the like Add Lightning to help out Decemb 13. Anno 1677. But what should I mention the rarer instance of Lightning and Thunders I might run to a greater Sum of Nightly Fiery Meteors for however I acknowledge they may shoot briskly in their own Region seen in hard Frosty Nights as in November's New ☽ Anno 1676. Yet I hope those which happen in a more open Season may be Tokens of a warmth extending it self however elsewhere hindred to our lower Mortal Region Thus shall you find Trajections noted July 24. Anno 1674. with no more warmth noted on that day though but two days before there is noted Soultry Air
bear us Witness who brings more hot days than all of them only on this account that she keeps near as within call to the Sun and â—ets not till the Sun himself declines in his strength even in the cool of the day This Sextile shews us 36 warm days for her Brother Sextiles 20. I see other doubts perhaps desire admittance as why the First Sextile should not be parile to the Later c. But besides that this may be answered by what hath bin formerly noted concerning the East and West Angles I think it not prudence having so far to go to wait on every puny Scruple § 9. The Hot Nights we meddle not with they are but Rarities and have their dependances more material than on the Two Luminaries The Trajections we speak not to because we cannot Imagine they should be duly and constantly observed No one man can do it It requires the attendance of a Society and an Observatory maintain'd for that and the like Notices Only 't is strange the Second âš¹ should be so brisk to equal the ☌ and the â–¡ 's Trajections being 19. under the ☌ 20 under the Later â–¡ and 21 under the âš¹ This we gain by it It proves the Aspects are not wholly devested of Influence when under the Horizon as the second âš¹ must needs be with both its terms when nocturnal Trajections are conspicuous Only we may note that the Number 4. under the Full ☽ speaks but low because the Plenilunar Lustre envies us their more frequent notice In the mean time those few must be look'd upon as Eruptions of Flame greater than ordinary who discover themselves even while the Air is possessed of so bright a presence and in the aestival season besure speak a glowing constitution § 20. Immediate to this we may view the Coruscations and Thunders under several Titles because many times they are found separate These may be rather consider'd in that their Tale must be just and certain And Lo the New Moon brings but two The Full Four The Quadrates 4. with one or two Mute Coruscations The Later â–³ brings 7. The Later Sextile 6. So the Later â–³ is considerable and we have seen 't is a busling Aspect in Thunders as well as Storms of Wind. Howbeit the Sextiles have a great kindness for Flashing without noise so that it may be we did well to consider Lightnings or Coruscations with Thunder and without apart by themselves Verily the Later Sextile which brought 6 Thunders which Sum is as high as any bating one unite is observed to have brought over and above 5 Lightnings And the first Sextile how Low soever in its Thunders has brought notwitstanding 7 Instances of Flashes Shall we supersede the Enquiry into the Reasons for hasts sake Only take notice of a semblable Parallel between Lightnings here and Trajections before under the Sextile the Later Sextile exceding all the rest here as there if we can make out a probable reason of the One it may hold in the Other And we would venture but that the First Sextile comes in with VII Lightnings and so makes a shift to equal the Later Some inclination no question it bears to it and let the Curious mark whether or no Lightning hath not its several Arks and Segments of a Circle according to the Diversities of the Aspects 'T is more than probable a Sextile may flash through two Signs A â–¡ to the Midheaven a â–³ beyond it an Opposition it may be but one Sign a Semisextile Aspect being reduc'd thereto This is commended to future Observation remembring that I speak of the Signs as they run oblique in the Zodiaque not of the Equinoctial Dodecatemories The Planets indeed in the Sextile Aspect lie so near one to the other that if any cause shall set it self upon making Celestial Fire-Works the Two Planets will be very apt to catch and to keep them alive throughout its allotted interval of spaâ— or time § 11. Let it be noted also that this may agree to the Sextiles in Genere not Lunar only though we must assert the ☽ also to have an Aetna in her according to the New Selenography or a force for Lightning provided that no man construes this to obscure the Powers of the greater Celestial Bodies § 12. Stormy Winds we have spoke to before the Full ☽ here bears away the Bell When the other Hover about the Number of 40. the ♂ ☉ ☽ alarmes two Elements of the Air and Sea about 60 times and possibly more Every gust we have not reckon'd nor every brisk gale nor every Windy Constitution when as if we could have hearkned out many of those days in the Seamans Journal I speak of our Brittish Seas only might have bin noted for Rough and Rugged the Cause is not intricate and hath bin touch'd already remembring that the Full ☽ bears precedence as to frequency of Storms For as to Fury the Trine we have said seems to go beyond it 13. Now for Winds variously Shifting and Frisking we have cryed up the Later â–³ But the Table tells us the Full ☽ holds its own there also so be it then if the â–³ equal it she is content § 14. To the more setled Change of the Wind we have brought in our Quota under every Aspect the Wind may Change we know every Hour but with a Specialty upon the Hour of the Suns leaving us Ventus cum Sole reliquit saith the Poet and accordingly in our Diaries the Evening-Hour most usually presents you with such an alteration 'T is to be imputed to the Aspect according as it appears in the Hemisphere or Disappears and that again as it is whole and entire or as intercepted by the Horizon about its Ascent or Descent And this is worthily remarkable therefore in the First Square which changes the Wind about 70 times when the Rest shew such Feats not much above 50 40 or 30. For that Winds come from the Stars Oh 't is a plain case in all their Periodical Revolutions as the Royal Philosopher tells us Eccles Cap. 1. Yea and in all its variations It deserves the attention of the young Philosopher how apt the Wind is to change Morning Noon Even Midnight under our Quadrate which measures out the Heaven into those equal parts whereby the One Planet follows the Other with a punctual Uniformity as to the Transits by the Horizontal Line and the Meridian And this rather in the First than the Later Quadrate for some such like Reason in proportion as we have rendred before of some difference in the Later â–³ from the Former To clear this you shall find as the Table informs that the ☌ ☉ ☽ admits the fewest Changes of the Winds because there is no difference of the Luminaries concern'd who rise together set together culminate together so that if she can hold her own after the Hour of their joynt descent or disappearing she keeps the Wind at her point for that entire Natural day whereas in the
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
1517. ☠circa March 4. ♓ ♠Febr. 23. Foul Weather Hakl Edit 1. Very great Storm Hakl p. 224. Edit 1. Marca 1. Storm at N. continued 3 or 4 days Mr. Cavendish Voyage 1593. ☠circa Aug. 30. ♠♓ Comet July 01. ad August 21. Hevel Quere in ☠♂ ☿ 1595. ☠circa octob 31. ♠♌ Octob. 26. Storm separated the Fleet Sir Francis Drake apud Hakl 1600. ☠Circa June 16. ♒ ♋ Starr in Cygni pectore in ♒ 18. Lat. 55. N. Kepler de N. Stella Jan. 20. The Thames almost froze in Seven-nights Howes Stormy Purch 1. 75. Jan. 2. ad 8. continual Rains Id. pag. 73. 1602. Febr. 13 14. St. Vet. Terrae Motus W. High Winds Transact 2065. ☠cum ☌ ♀ ☿ 1604. ☠circa March 27. ♈ ♎ April 4. 1608. ☠circa July 22. ♌ ♒ July 26. Great Thunder Lightning Rain Calvis cum ☠♄ ♀ 1640. ☠circa October 6. ♎ ♈ Sept. 26. Winds drive us to the shelter of a Rock The Tramontana from the Black Sea brings often with it such Storms Sept. 10 ad Oct. 10. Current Purch ☠♂ ♀ ☿ ☉ which Aspects being spent the Currents were lost 1612. ☠circa Nov. 28. ♠♊ Nov. mens Terrae motus in Westphalia per. integr mens Calv. I. Nov. Dec. Continual Flouds and Rains at Siam Purch 322. cum ☠♄ ♃ 1615. ☠circa Jan. 7. ♑ ♋ fine Jan. 18. Lat. S. 8. degr Violent Current set us an hundred Leagues back Purch p. 1. 525. Jan. 1. In Thuringia when other places were frozen Storms Lightning Thunder Calvis 1617. ☠circa Febr. 7. ♒ ♌ Febr. 6. much Foul Weather in the Downs Purch 631. Jan 29. Tonitu Fulgur Terrae Motus Kepl. A Steeple rent with Thunder at Spelhurst Strasburg Tower at the same time Kepl. 6621. ☠circa April 24. ♉ ♠April 22. Pluit tonuit in Suevia Kepl. where he commends some of his poor Aspects whereas our ♂ lies within 2 days of it Febr. 7. March Very foul Weather Purch 1. 655. 1623. June 23. Formidable Tempest at Strasburg Fired their Magazin of Powder Calvis Kyrian June 24. 1625. ☠circa Sept. 12. ♌ ♑ 1625. Chasma Kyr 1629. ☠circa Nov. ♠♊ Nov. 14. Heimlichen Erdheben Kyriander 1629. ☠circa Dec. 22. ♑ ♋ Jan. 1. 1630. Here began exceeding wet M. S. 1632. ☠circa Jan. 26. ♒ ♌ The American Fleet routed by Tempests 1636. ☠circa April 7. ♈ ♎ April 7. Heat Rain Thunder Lightning Kyr June 11. Thunder and Earthquake in Culabria 1637. May 28. Much Thunder and dashing Kyr 1640. Aug. 11. ♌ ♒ Heat vesp Thunder Kyr 1642. ☠circa Jan 22. ♈ ♉ Octob. 15. Iris Matutina Kyriander 1647. ☠circa Jan. 13. ♌ ♒ 7. St. Vet. Comme toute la nuit it plu tonte la pour avec tourmente gresle esclaiers Moncon Voyage d' Egypte p 151. so die 8 9. 1649. ☠circa Febr. 15. ♓ ♠Febr. 10. Ignes Cadentes at Bristol Hitherto do I conceive the Earthquake at Messina the Flouds at Riga and the Flames of Vesuvius in Calvisias are to be reckoned May 10. Terrible Storm at N E. 1659. ☠circ Nov. 31. ♠♊ Nov. 17. Sad dark rainy day 1674. ☠circa Febr. 3. ♒ ♌ 24. Febr. 11. Lightning Thunder 1666. ☠circa March 8. ⚹ ♠March 3. Maculae in the Body of ♂ by Mr. Hook Trans p. 240. 1670. July 12. Great Thunder and Rain dashing 3 m. 1674. ☠circa Nov. 3. ♠♉ 21. Mercury in the Baroscope fell an inch me inspectante circa hor. 5. 1679. Jan. 20. Terrae Motus according to prediction which happenned in Guelderland throughout cum Fulmine Tonitru Lond. Gazet numb 138. Jan. 12. A dismal dark Sunday morning Jan. 29. Terrae motus at Fort Saint-George C. W. Limbry 1681. ☠circa Febr. 22. ♓ ♠14. Febr. 25. Another Comet seen at London from South-East ab 8. ad p. broader than the last Febr. 7. Terrae motus at Mentz Francfort according to Prediction Lond. Gazet. March 3. Cometa iterum Hagae eodem fere loco § 12. As the Full ☽ and New agree in Influence so do our ☠and ☌ of ☉ ♂ Did the ☌ raise Storms separating Fleets So doth the ☠Doth the ☌ contribute to a Fiery Meteor So doth the ☠Is there a Comet hovering about the ☌ So also an ☠helps to such an Impression Inundations I do not find break in upon us so much but Comets and Earthquakes are frequent enough to gain the Readers Opinion Bate now the New Star in Cygni pectore I am not yet ripe for that One or Two exceptions will not spoil a Rule Yet our Currents also at Sea do correspond in some measure it may be not so often as in the ☌ § 13. Our Maculae do begin to bring in their Witness For that Spot in the Body of ♂ observed by Worthy Mr. Hook falls in under the Verge of our ☌ § 14. As to our Currents see them brought home to our Very Doors when the Thames flowed thrice in 9 Hours Dec. 17. 1550. Will I say you then offer to ascribe that Prodigious appearance to our ☠I think I may safely especially if we met any such like accident under our ☌ before as Feb. I. 1680. For what though it be prodigious as acknowledged by Fromond and others Prodigious Events have natural Causes is as much confessed And I am jealous there is much in the Sign which whether it prove or not must be considered in due place seeing there are no instances abroad of thu same Nature § 15. To draw to a Conclusion I have taken notice of a pretty accident Anno 1674. concerning the quick motion of the ☿ in the Barometer which at such an hour of the day fell while I looked on hor 5. an Inch of the Sudden Fell I say in the Tube but rose in the Curveture the Air being of a sudden levitated to such a measure Let the Learned bear with me in my Folly we have adventured on the Currents Marine I have found a Current in the Air proportionable to that in the Water For the Currents in the Sea as all Tides are made by Levitation of the Humid Body made by way of Tumour which is always Lighter and more puffy than when the Humour subsides unfermented From whence having received the Notion of the Air gravitating I am by this petty appearance confirmed in the opinion Learning withall that it is the Celestial Bodies which according to their various positions do ferment or flatten the Air gaining also into the bargain that the Air is of the same Lineage cognate to Water and though in the day of its Creation it was rarified so far as 1000 times they say as that no natural cause shall reduce it again yet still it hath a common Nature and Affection with it § 16. I would take notice of the Obscurity of the Heavens sometimes appearing more than others and that
II. Warm wet 3 p. N E. III. Warm close mist Field and City N E. IV. Close m. p. some wet 4 p. Nly Iterum ♋ 15. May 21. ♀ R. V. Drisle once or twice cool N E. VI. Drisle 6 p. cool day some wind N V V. VII Very cold m. Nly VIII Rain 10 m. brisk wd N E. IX Coasting showr 8 p. N E. X. Some wet overcast N. XI Clouds clearing some Rain or Hail 2 p. N. XII Gentle rain 1 p. 5 p. 7 p. very cold night XIII Wet p. m. tot S V V. clouds ride Nly XIV Wetting m. offer p. m. Nly XV. Showry 3 p. 5 p. N E. XVI Rain m. brisk wind XVII Brisk wind N E. XIX Temperate blew mist N. XX. Windy offering mist taken up S W. Parelii at Womondham in agro Leicest XXI some showrs 9 m. S W. XXII s showrs at o. and vesp Sly XXIII Showrs coasting and towards midnight XXIV Showr ante 1 m. 4 m. smart at o. dash at 2 p. N W. XXV Windy wetting ante 9 m. Thunder at Warwick Lightning Rain in the S W. at ♃ rise showrs ♀ South S W. XXVI Showring 10 m. offer p. m. windy S W. June 24. 1625. ☠circa Sept. 12. ♌ ♑ 1625. Chasma Kyr 1629. ☠circa Nov. ♠♊ Nov. 14. Heimlichen Erdheben Kyriander 1629. ☠circa Dec. 22. ♑ ♋ Jan. 1. 1630. Here began exceeding wet M. S. 1632. ☠circa Jan. 26. ♒ ♌ The American Fleet routed by Tempests 1636. ☠circa April 7. ♈ ♎ April 7. Heat Rain Thunder Lightning Kyr June 11. Thunder and Earthquake in Culabria 1637. May 28. Much Thunder and dashing Kyr 1640. Aug. 11. ♌ ♒ Heat vesp Thunder Kyr 1642. ☠circa Jan 22. ♈ ♉ Octob. 15. Iris Matutina Kyriander 1647. ☠circa Jan. 13. ♌ ♒ 7. St. Vet. Comme toute la nuit it plu tonte la pour avec tourmente gresle esclaiers Moncon Voyage d' Egypte p 151. so die 8 9. 1649. ☠circa Febr. 15. ♓ ♠Febr. 10. Ignes Cadentes at Bristol Hitherto do I conceive the Earthquake at Messina the Flouds at Riga and the Flames of Vesuvius in Calvisias are to be reckoned May 10. Terrible Storm at N E. 1659. ☠circa Nov. 31. ♠♊ Nov. 17. Sad dark rainy day 1674. ☠circa Febr. 3. ♒ ♌ 24. Febr. 11. Lightning Thunder 1666. ☠circa March 8. ⚹ ♠March 3. Maculae in the Body of ♂ by Mr. Hook Trans p. 240. 1670. July 12. Great Thunder and Rain dashing 3 m. 1674. ☠circa Nov. 3. ♠♉ 21. Mercury in the Baroscope fell an inch me inspectante circa hor. 5. 1679. Jan. 20. Terrae Motus according to prediction which happenned in Guelderland throughout cum Fulmine Tonitru Lond. Gaze numb 138. Jan. 12. A dismal dark Sunday morning Jan. 29. Terrae motus at Fort Saint-George C. W. Limbry 1681. ☠circa Febr. 22. ♓ ♠14. Febr. 25. Another Comet seen at London from South-East ab 8. ad p. broader than the last Febr. 7. Terrae motus at Mentz Francfort according to Prediction Lond. Gazet. March 3. Cometa iterum Hagae eodem fere loco § 12. As the Full ☽ and New agree in Influence so do our ☠and ☌ of ☉ ♂ Did the ☌ raise Storms separating Fleets So doth the ☠Doth the ☌ contribute to a Fiery Meteor So doth the ☠Is there a Comet hovering about the ☠So also an ☠helps to such an Impression Inundations I do not find break in upon us so much but Comets and Earthquakes are frequent enough to gain the Readers Opinion Bate now the New Star in Cygni pectore I am not yet ripe for that One or Two exceptions will not spoil a Rule Yet our Currents also at Sea do correspond in some measure it may be not so often as in the ☌ § 13. Our Maculae do begin to bring in their Witness For that Spot in the Body of ♂ observed by Worthy Mr. Hook falls in under the Verge of our ☌ § 14. As to our Currents see them brought home to our Very Doors when the Thames flowed thrice in 9 Hours Dec. 17. 1550. Will I say you then offer to ascribe that Prodigious appearance to our ☠I think I may safely especially if we met any such like accident under our ☌ before as Feb. I. 1680. For what though it be prodigious as acknowledged by Fromond and others Prodigious Events have natural Causes is as much confessed And I am jealous there is much in the Sign which whether it prove or not must be considered in due place seeing there are no instances abroad of thu same Nature § 15. To draw to a Conclusion I have taken notice of a pretty accident Anno 1674. concerning the quick motion of the ☿ in the Barometer which at such an hour of the day fell while I looked on hor 5. an Inch of the Sudden Fell I say in the Tube but rose in the Curveture the Air being of a sudden levitated to such a measure Let the Learned bear with me in my Folly we have adventured on the Currents Marine I have found a Current in the Air proportionable to that in the Water For the Currents in the Sea as all Tides are made by Levitation of the Humid Body made by way of Tumour which is always Lighter and more puffy than when the Humour subsides unfermented From whence having received the Notion of the Air gravitating I am by this petty appearance confirmed in the opinion Learning withall that it is the Celestial Bodies which according to their various positions do ferment or flatten the Air gaining also into the bargain that the Air is of the same Lineage cognate to Water and though in the day of its Creation it was rarified so far as 1000 times they say as that no natural cause shall reduce it again yet still it hath a common Nature and Affection with it § 16. I would take notice of the Obscurity of the Heavens sometimes appearing more than others and that in Martial Aspects It may be the dark and dismal Sunday in the Morning is not yet forgotten It happen'd not far from an ☠☉ ♂ whatsoever else frown'd at that time upon us § 17. To speak of the Cold upon occasion of the years 76. 13. is not needdful specially if we remember that ♂ as we have said sits uneasie so that the state of the Air stands upon a ticklish point when ♂ and ☉ are with one and the other in a Frosty Season and conclude to bring in a Thaw as Dec. 21. in the year 1676. as is noted in the Diary For though an ☠be chill of Nature as touched before and weaker Signs must be debilitudes yet ♠♑ ♒ ♓ are very mutable from one extream to the other when they are conscious they have a Friend at the other Hemisphere in the opposite Sign For this is mysterious as in the Chess-board An Aspect bare and naked may do little but alass
In the year 1668 1670. 1672. In the Signs ♒ and ♓ They were the Signs of the Aspect But the Solar Sign was ♠only the Snow falling in November § 17. There are many other pretty things occur in the History of ♄ and ♂ some whereof are common to other Configurations others may seem to be more proper Clouds and Passions of Clouds blushing toward the East Irides Halo's Lowring Suspicious and Threatning with a suspended Effect While no Rain falls Mists Fog Low Ground Mists c. Concerning which I must needs say I have observed the Air under this Aspect to clear and cloud interchangeably for several Days Ye will say so it doth it other times It doth so and not without Cause which Cause if a Man can render then or Now what Harm is it Saturn and Mars is a great and permanent Aspect whereby the Air is for a long while more easily alterable as when a Disease hangs about us our Bodies are more incident to a Fit when there happens a more full and smart Concurrence as we see it not seldom meets with § 18. Note that the sudden Mists under this Aspect put on an extra ordinary Hue noted for their deep Blew as well under the Opposition as under the Conjunction § 19. We have spoke of the Ground Mists before and some Instances we have here so frequent as if they seemed to belong to ♄ even as I ventur'd to conjecture Of these we meet One in the year 1652. 3 in 1658. 4 in 1660. and 2 in 1666. and amongst these one most notable A o 1666. Nov 21. where I observ'd it making a creeping Progression in the Valleys hor. 9. manc I remember elsewhere where a Low Mist by a leisurely Progress hath shifted its ground stole from a Meadow into a Close and with a silent Inundation overflowed the Neighbour Pastures Tell me some good Philosopher the Cause I meditated and thought the Water might attract but the Motion was from the side of the River and that of Nov. 1666. was distant 2 or 3 Miles from the River Thames I consulted and found it was a Sign of a Tempest for the Wind rose to an audible Height the Night and day following and so continued 3 or 4 days very Tempestuous ♄ and ♂ yea ♃ and ♀ rather than fail were all together now the Cause of the Tempest must be the Cause of that Sign and that these Planets were the Cause of the Tempest may appear by the Premises and the further Criterium were it time to shew it at the time of the Planets setting hor. 8. vesp of the next day at which time the Air according to the Diary was very Tempestuous and as it had been before at ☉ set § 20. As for Irides and Halo's we light upon them sometimes and they are not altogether accidental to an Aspect either of ♄ and ♂ as we have seen before Nor to This because they are Notable here for Number or Circumference Add that they contribute to a like Passion of the Clouds viz. that blushing Tincture in the East and that not only when the Aspect is Situate about the West but also when nearer the Zenith Quaere Whether not so when in the Nadir Or the other Hemisphere Yea lastly what if we shall find that Notable Passion of Parelium found under this Aspect § 21. For a Dark Aether I though I might impute it to ♄ and sometimes to ♂ upon different accounts but when I consulted the Diary I found the Effect confin'd to certain Signs Aries Cancer and once Pisces Virgo Leo. So this note must be reserved for the Tropick and Equinox or they seem to be the Critical Places The Home Diary of ☌ ♄ ♂ § 22. A o 1658. Oct. 12. 1. ♠♎ 22. 6. Close muddy air die tot very wet 8 p. c. 7. Store of Wet abund p. m. till 8 p. S E. 8. Overc. o. coasting showr in prospect showr Sun occ N E. 9. Frost bright cold wds Meteors W. 10. Fr. ice ropes warm N E. 11. Fr. mist ice cobwebs thick fog 9 p. W. 12. Fog m. overc moist air n. E. 13. Dark and cool misle p. m. blew mist E. 14. Drisle wet 2 m. o. p. m. E. 15. Rain circ dilucul warm black Summer Clouds and open overc n. S. 16. Wind all n. rain a. l. ad usque 8 m. dark and wet p. m. 5 p. 8 p. S. 17. Mist violent rain at midnight at 5 m. drisle p. m. H. wd rain 8 p. S W. A o 1660. Oct. 25. ♠14. 20. Fr. N W. fog clear mist below N E. 21. Fog m. cloudy windy warm E. 22. Fr. fair s wet N E. 23. Cloudy windy fair 9 m. windy clear vesp N. 24. Frost fair s wet wdy N. 25. Cold cloudy windy clds frequent in S. and S W. clear even yet wd moist N E. 26. Fr. fair high clouds curdled close day W. 27. Cold windy hail r. 1 p. showr 3 p. N E. 28. Rain a med noct cloudy E. N E. 29. N E. Fr. clear 30. Fr. W. curdled clouds hot A o 1662. Nov. 5. ♠6. 31. Oct. Fog bright day warm wd E. 1 Nov. Fr. m. fair clouding p. m. rain 7 p. E. 2. Overc. rain 1 p. c. S E. 3. Blew clouds m. Rain a 9 m. ad o. S. 4. Rain hard a 5 m. ad 1 p. S. 5. Fog cloudy somet open N. 6. Close m p. wd S E. 7. Close p. m. drisle rain overcast vesp c. S W. 8. Open warm clouds low s coasting drops wind Meteor a Pleiad ad Capell 9. Fair m. clouds 1 p. s rain S. 10. Iris 8 m. storm of wind and R. 8 p. Sly A o 1664. Nov. 12. ♠27. 8. Fr. cool fair wind S W. 9. Fr. overcast wd and wet per tot S. 10. Fr ice mist fair S W. 11. Fr. ice very foggy Sol rutilus freez n. S W. 12. Rain m. fair cool R. 10 p. S W. 13. Dreadful Tempest wind Rain and hail 2 m. windy open S W. but after the storm N W Harmful Lightning in a Ship at Lundy 14. Open fair wind S W. 15. Overc. close p. m. s rain 4 7 p. S W. 16. Fair m. rain o. open p. m. R. 10 p. S W. 17. Rain a. l. 2 m. fair windy freez nocte S W. A o 1666. Nov. 19 ♑ 18. 15. Frosty fair 16. Frosty sharp day E. 17. Frosty fair fog ♄ ♂ ♀ rise yield wind 11 p. overc S W. 18. Close some mist die tot S W. 19. Warm open somet lowring H. wind a. l. Sly 20. Drisle a. l. misty wetting so 1 p. warm open wds S W. 21. Mist creeps in the Valleys 9 m. close m. p. wd close n. S W. 22. Wind at n. close misty wetting high wind very tempestuous Sun occ 8 p. III Plan occid clear 23. Close m. p. Tempestuous Sun occ c. s drops S W. A o 1668. Nov. 23. ♒ 9. 19. Windy and wet 6 m.
20. ☿ 21. ♃ ♑ 7. ☉ ♌ 17. ☽ December is a Tropical Month as March is an Equinoctial accordingly we have ☉ ☿ ♃ Tropical ♀ in the Equivalent about ♠21. If 3 △ s of of the ☽ conduce any thing let others Enquire Howbeit ♄ ♂ are but 6 degrees distant from an Opposition § 66. But hath not the Learned Author of the Treatise de motu Mar. Ventorum opened our Eyes in the Doctrine of Currents and solved them all without recourse had to Aspects or Influences the Sun excepted Resp To do that Author right I must acknowledge it is a Great Piece shewing the Diligence the Sagacity the Judgement of an excellent Pen. A Work that will make him great to all Posterity who shall have any thing to do with Philosophy or Commerce He who shall find the so much desired Longitude shall not oblige the World more than he hath done And what Returns his Countrymen have made him I know not I do envy them the use that They make of his Work the manifold Advantages in Navigation that thereby accrue to those who will learn what he hath pleased to Dictate not only to them but to the World Though I do believe therefore that the Ocean under the Torrid Zone in its Diurnal Motion moves from East to West round the World with some Inclination Northward or Southward according to the Suns Declination Though I do believe a 3d. Motion contrary to those viz. from North to East to make restitution at the same time for the Stream which hath forsaken his Shore by his Western Progress and thank Him for it I do believe further that this Back sliding Motion is that which gives Life and Being to though he scorn to take notice of it what is vulgarly called the Current But I cannot hear him when he excludes the ☽ or as in his Epistle the Starry Influences The Motion of the Sea would be such as it is Situation of Land consider'd whether there were ☽ Starry Influences or no saith he For how rash is that Hypothesis to make the Sun alone sufficient without the Starry Assistance When the Sun in incircled with so many Stars when the Stars are so many Suns more or at least Reflexions of that Solitary Agent If Reflexions from below the Earth it self contribute to Tempests c. Why not Reflexions from above The Sun may carry the Credit of it as we have said in a Conquest the General is cryed up but if you enquire more minutely into the Affair Many a Brave Officer doth his part And this hath in part appeared not only in Tempests and somewhat else but also in the Motions of Tides Some what hath bin spoken of a Moon of a Mercury c. § 67. 'T is the Sun assisted with the Stars which makes the Sea to move 'T is by their Influence that he spreads the most of its Motive Power on the Equinox and 40 degrees on either side of it And if we speak of Vegetation and Animal Life 40 degrees yet further even to the Frozen Zone What 's a little Glimmering To save Nature's Credit there must be some more abstruse Virtue then what is obvious to the First Sensation more abstruse and of more Moment Shall I say that Nature hath made Wine only to warm the Tongue yea 't is made to little purpose unless it chears the Heart also The very Piss-bed a Star though it be in its kind is made to little Purpose if it only resembles our Heavenly Body Beside This therefore 't is known to have a greater Virtue as the Endive and Succory to be refrigerant But the Number the Vastness the Mystical Order of the Stars I am amazed at a World of Wonder arising thence Why on the Equinoctial Why on each side of it Why on the Tropick Why on the Arctick and Arctarctique Circles Why near the Poles 'T is acknowledged that the Sun can do much posited on the Equinox Cap. 28. Doth the Sun arrive thither alone The Author knows that ♀ and ☿ cannot be far from him Besides that are there no Stars there He acknowledges it to hold rather in the Autumnal Equinox He may please to observe that there are more of the Fixed in the Autumnal Equinox then in the Vernal There is the Asterism in ♌ of one side and ♠on the other When in the other Hemisphere ♓ and ♈ are more naked Signs The Motion of the Winds and Motion of the Sea are Consequent one to the other Let it be so so the Motion of the Heavens be antecedent in Nature and Co-incident in time Which on the Sea's part he seems to grant Cap. 21. Notwithstanding elsewhere He ascribes the Turbulencies of the Air to the turning of the Ocean which Nature then labours with In like manner the Navigators Ascribe those Turbulencies to the shifting of the Monsoons those Winds which with the Waters turn an oblique Course toward the Sun neither of which do I understand Collision of Seas or Winds instigated by different or Contrary Causes I grant may make some Bustle as in the Tornado is evident where the Winds blow from all parts of the Compass But here is no Collision here no contrariety the Sun is not contrary to its self A Conversion there is and a Change of the Stream But a Gradual Change may be performed in Tranquility for all that I know i. e. if the Sun in the Tropic Cause the greatest Inclination of the Stream the nearer he comes to the Equinox the more should he incline to an Indifferency to be determined to one part according to the Solar recess from it § 68. To the Stars therefore in the Plural Those Motions of Seas and Winds will be imputed which he will find himself obliged to believe if we shall produce Reasons from the Asterism of Heaven and shew the very Causes the true primary Causes of all those brave Enquiries which he by his Principle resolves Why Hurricanes are perceived yearly almost near the Coasts of America Why again in that Sea which flows between the Northern part of China and Japan c. I could add why the time of the year is Stormy in any part of the Ocean Why it rains so constantly and excessively as to find the great Nilus and its overflowing Why Magellanus was becalmed 70 days together The Reasons and Causes of which being seen will be the very Light speak the Truth of our Assertion and the Ineffable Glory of the Creator § 69. Currents then may be distinguished into Substance and Circumstance as they are Streams distinct and severed from the General Waters or as they run with such a degree of Swiftness as is more than Ordinary with Noise or without Noise deceiving the Mariner sometimes 20 Leagues in 24 Hours or keeping him back with a Stream insuperable when if they cannot stem the Tide though under a stiff Gale the former is to be imputed to the Heavens in its ordinary Constitution or to speak with the
Influence of the Planets sed illorum Trium but especially of those Three who are the Procurers of Thunder Lo you they are our Three Superiours Saturn Jove and Mars Lib. 2. cap. 79. What News is it then to tell of Saturn and Jove Jove and Mars Saturn and Mars The Planets which the old Babylonians did mean or they meant nothing For let any be pleased to survey our Tables of Earthquakes under Saturn and Mars Jove and Mars laying Pliny before him he shall forthwith be convinced and how would he be overwhelmed with Evidence if we were Masters of so much Chronology and Calculation Astronomical as to name the first Earthquake from the Floud and assign the Aspect a Task which I have rendred the more easie if it were to be expected by enlarging or rather vindicating the Dominion of the Aspect of its own Nature so enlarged § 75. These Earthquakes says the Naturalist are made by the presence of the Planets aforesaid with the Sun or their Conjunction or if you will Congruency because I suppose the Old Babylonians included the Opposition to which our Tables bear plentiful Testimony Now This chiefly saith he happens Circa quadrata Mundi A great Note and means nothing else but the Cardinal Signs near the Tropick and the Equinox Who would not be proud to redeem such a glorious Truth from the Rubbish under which it hath bin buried so many thousand years in the neglected Fields of Antiquity Hippocrates hath long ago given us the same Note about Sickness and Maladies which the happy Roman Pen hath preserved to us about Earthquakes and yet We love to be in the dark Gemma saith the same of some Comets circa Tropos Equinoctia I. 112. and yet Astrologers forsooth speak not a Word of Sense But to proceed what he tells us from Aristotle Earthquakes appear only in Calms we don't find to be true in our Northern Regions Germany and the like Nearer the Mediterranean it may be true with Regard to the Wind though not with Regard to Lightning it being agreed on as Pliny states the Question neque aliud in terreno Tremor quam in Nube Tonitruum Earthquakes and Thunders are near a Kin. For whereas they take it for certain that Winds are the Cause of Earthquakes they must mean Spirits there is no other way to reconcile the Antients to Truth But Pliny tells us further that Earthquakes may be predicted So they were by Anaximander and Pherecydes He means Predictions Philosophical Conjectures taken from some certain Signs and that it may be is easie in places that are Obnoxious thereto But I don't hear any of his early Chaldeans have foretold it by Astrological Predictions by Arguments taken from the Cause though upon the Truth of their Principle they might He tells us in the next Chapter 80. of the Dire Effects Throwing down Swallowing up Raising Hills Letting out Streams Springing of Hot Baths Retreats of the Ocean Of which our Tables are not silent and might have made more Noise but Then to let pass the admirable account he gives of the several Noises that are heard according to the variety of the Event he tells us that they are felt oftner in the Night time then in the Day yet sometimes at Noon He mentions also Morning and Evenings for Critical Hours all which strongly declare a Celestial cause The Sun I mean and He you must know is never without his Retinue Consequently he tells us that Earthquakes happen many times at Eclipses And have not we prov'd that the Moon New and Full has Influence on Thunders Aethereal Subterranean c. at which Congress if Eclipses and Earthquakes be more noted by so notable consent of Heaven and Earth whence the Creator is more Illustrated I reckon that That Providence hath its End § 76. In the next Chapter 81 he tells us that at Sea also they are sensible of Earthquakes that they feel the Stroke And where is it that in the Collection of this Table I meet with a Passage where a Ship in an Earthquake felt such an impulse that they thought she had struck on ground but when they heaved the Lead to explore the truth of their Suspicion the Author says they found no Bottom Purch p. I. p. 105. How wide yea how deep is the Train laid in recesses of the Earth which shall move a heavy dense Abyss so quick that it shall aemulate the hardness of a Rock What an Eruption would there have been if it had been in Sicco on a dry Surface How strange yea how incomprehensible are the penetrations of the Celestial Influences He tells us further of a certain Sign in the Air when a thin Cloud in a Serene Sky shall be stretch'd to a vast space the very Token by which Gemma predicted an Earthquake as Fromondus also noteth Where though Fromond perhaps justly maketh slight of this Token yet this I can say upon Recollection of my self that I who perhaps have observed that Token as often as Fromond do remember that there was more than ordinary to do among the Planets at such appearances and so they may be reckon'd Signs remote and in-adaequate as the Eclipses are confess'd to be § 77. In the 82. Chapter letting pass several Considerations for we write not a Treatise of this Subject He tells us an Earthquake may last Forty days nay some a year yea two year throughout The three Planets that the Chaldeans spoke of may be twin'd together so long ♄ and ♃ may appears by their slow dis-ingagements and many times by their fresh returns before they are absolutely Dis-engaged § 78. In the 83. Chapter He tells us of Smoke and Fire starting out between two Mountains in Mutina when Martius and Julius were Consuls manifesting the Kindred between the Flaming and the Quaking Mountain See Cap. 88. § 79. To proceed in the next Chapter 84. He informs us of Inundations and Earthquakes that they go together even as it may be noted in Aristotle himself which is no untruth and may be proved from the Premises whether the Inundation be as I may term it wet or dry caused by Rain and Wind or by Spirit and Inflation only As we have consider'd before when we treated of the Rarefaction of the Watry Element which in Flouds join'd with Earthquakes is most certain and in Flouds in distant Countrys must be presumed in some Proportion if not from the Heat below at least by the Heats from above whence the Sea is allowed to tumefie against every Storm by the Influence of the ☽ or other Planet § 80. Now if we may observe here what also we have before asserted that Comets go along with those Earthquakes and Inundations as being united in a common Efficient where matter is disposed though Pliny hath no such Hint we shall conclude Only I am sensible that here it will be said That this is old Stuff Earthquakes Inundations Comets and Pestilences I warrant to make them All hang on a Thread agrees
Hail you shall seldom hear of two though little Distances of place that will agree in its Admission § 3. We acknowledg this Variety is admirable when God Himself hath pleas'd to give it as a remarque of his Power that He causes it to rain on one City and not on another that which our Eyes in a beautiful prospect are sometimes witness of But sober Philosophy is not confounded at the Contemplation of this wonder as the Astrologer Himself was who observing once at Tubing some Heat and a little Rain onely but elsewhere lower in the Countrey Tonitrua horrida breaks out into this self-killing Conclusion frustrà istas Meteororum formationes à positu Astrorum exigas Kepler Ephem Anni 1625 ad mens Jun. Philosophy is rather excited to give some account of the Divine Power and Wisdom which though invisible in themselves are and in all Ages of the world have been discoverable by such contemplation and scrutiny § 4. Wiser therefore was the Conclusion of the same good man who upon the like collation of the various Constitution of the Heaven at Lusatia first observing only black Clouds and at Glogaw scarce a days journey from thence having had intelligence of terrible Thunder spake like Himself in Wonderment but not Confusion Ecce quid Coelum quid Terra quid Loca possunt Kepl. ad mens Sept. Anni 1629. § 5. For without all peradventure this variety of the Airs Constitutions whether permanent or transient must be referr'd to the Heavens above and their Difference hereafter to be consider'd joyn'd with the Situation of the Place together with the Parts adjacent and the manifold Differences there also to be alledged By reason of which Thebes differs from Athens Rome from Tibur Athenis tenue Coelum crassum Thebis Thus the Mountains Acroceraunii in Epire famous of old for frequent Thunders as the Sierra Leona in Africk witnessed to this day by the Portuguez Mariners who hear as much at 50 Miles distance Thus in Rome and Campania Winter-Thunders are heard sometimes in other parts of Italy never as Pliny hath noted II. 50. The instance from Peru is notable though far fetch'd where Acosta tells us that in the Plains ten Leagues bredth from the Sea coast it never Rains nor Thunders upon the Sierra's and Andes two ridges of Hills at 50 Leagues distance running parallel to each other it rains sufficiently on the first from September to April on the latter almost continually But nearer home the Cities of Heidelberg in the Palatinate and the Ancient Triers in Germany from the Heavens disposition to Rain have it seems a like slabby character so the German City is by some call'd saith D r Heylin the common Sewer of the Planets Cloaca Planetarum § 6. This Diversity say I must be referr'd to the Quality and Site of the Place whether it be neer the River Lake Sea whether it be Hill or Dale Sands Clay Mine and some say Forrest which All contribute to the Individual Constitution of Hot Cold Fresh Pure Dry Gross Moist Foggy by way of Cause Material or reduced to the Efficient § 7. First for the Sea 't is a granted case the Maritim places are more subject to Fog Rain and Winds witness the East part of Lincolnshire by reason of the Fens and certainly all the prodigious Tempests of this our Island noted by our Ancestors are found to lay their Scene in our Maritim Countreys as Lancaster Somerset Dorset Hampton in the West Lincoln York to the North-east but especially the Counties of Essex Kent Suffolk Norfolk Cambridge § 8. So gloriously true is That which God Himself taught us long ago by the mouth of his Holy Prophet that He gathers the Waters from the Sea and poureth them on the face of the Earth § 9. The Sea ministers Matter not only for Rain and Wind but for Thunder also if Nitre and Sulphur be ingredients thereto As for Hail we know that it falls at its season in most places but note it for certain that all Prodigious Hailstones whose ambit reaches five six seven Inches is found to have faln on places at no great distance from the Sea the Cause is obvious § 10. Rivers then must bear their proportion as Fogs so Dashes of Rain are the sorer by how much the nearer to them The Showre the Seamen say observes the River and flows along with it as in its own alveus The Greater Rivers make the moister Air as the Air of Austria because of the Danow Kepler ad Sept. Anno 1627. Upon which account London I observe hath her share in Chronicle for Tempest because of her Thames and the Southern-side of the City hath complain'd most as the Tower Bow-Church poor S. Pauls now Tempest-free I wis Westminster because of their vicinity to the River when what I have seen my self tall Spires of Churches have rock'd to and fro as if they were at liberty and strong Iron Bars have hung the head like a broken Stalk by meer stress of weather § 11. Next the Nature of the Soil Kepler hath admonished us of a certain place neer Vlm in Suâ—via often struck with Thunder the Reason he rightly guesses from the Slate-Quarrâ—es and other Minerals there about which are discerned by the Mineral-waters there in use ad mens Maii Anno 1627. Those about Bath should inform us of this matter which if I misremember not is perform'd in the Transactions Philosophical For my part I always suspected that Horrible Thunderbolt which came into the Church of Wells Anno 1596 to have ow'd somewhat of its Extraction to the Place This we shall find that All places more subject to Lightning are also subject to Earthquakes but Earthquakes we know proceed from Mineral Sulphur c. incensed Rome and Campania which were noted but now for â—inter-thunders I am sure are Tracts not exempted from Earthquake § 12. This is so certain that in those uncouth showres of Milk and Bloud it becomes probable that the Mines of Chalk and Vermilion contribute also at least to the distinction of their borrowed Tincture § 13. The difference of the Hill and Vale is as conspicuous the Hill contributing more Cold than the Vale yeilding therefore for the most part a later Herbage In the Mountains of Bohemia the Corn at S. James tide was blowing when in the Plains of Lusatia it was ready for Harvest saith our constant Kepler Here note that in respect of the Heaven Lusatia lies the more Northward of the two therefore the Difference arises from the difformity of the parts of the Earth amongst themselves of Hault or Bate How cold the Tops of the Alps are is not unknown of whom 't is noted that the Snow melts first at the foot of the Hill § 14. In observation of Weather the Hill many times puts bounds and limits to the moisture of the Vale. Instance of This I have had the hap to observe what I have also heard from the Chiltern Hills in the County of
hath been noted already § 31. The precedent Constitution of the Air helpeth nothing to the Continuation of the same unless the Heavens conspire for the Air being of a thin Body as it is of an easie receptivity for all sorts of Impressions so it easily parts with them unless continued or renewed by a Cause permanent or suppletory § 32. In the defect of which we perceive oft-times to admiration the Constitution vary from one Excess to the other the Wind bloweth where it listeth CHAP. IV. A certain Prescience attainable Prognosticks vulgar The Husbandman's Prognosticks § 1. AS it is the Goodness of God to vouchsafe us Natural Prognosticks of Constitutions ordinary and violent so hath he pleased not to deny a more Noble Artificial Prognostick of the same § 2. For though no finite Knowledge can be comprehensive of an Effect great or small in every minute Intrigue of Nature or Providence yet so certainly hath God suspended the Constitutions of the Air upon the Heavens that we must assert there is more than a Conjectural fore-knowledge of the changes of the Air by Day or Night attainable upon Contemplation of Causes Celestial and that without Vanity and Superstition or the least shadow of either rather attended with a plerophory of cogent Demonstration § 3. This Kowledge may be exercised in fore-pronouncing the vicissitudes of the Constitution yea and of the Winds also I had almost said to an Hour § 4. The same Knowledge may reach to the Perception of Comets Earth-quakes and Pestilences as having all unquestionable dependance on the Heavenly Bodies though these three last deserve Treatises by themselves § 5. Prognosticks of Husbandmen and others from Birds and Beasts before mentioned as they are useful and delightful so they do not supersede our Inquisition seeing they pronounce from Arguments extrinsecal Effects or Signs and not from Causes § 6. Prognosticks from Apparences in the Air from the Halo Iris colours of the Sun-rising c. Clouds and their differences prognosticks from the Moon at three dayes old from fiery Trajections as they are not to be neglected because of some accidental Connexion so they ought not to be trusted upon their single report yet some are more special as fiery Trajections when frequent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shooting of the Stars Ptol. II. 14. do usually speak some Tempest at hand or if not excess of Heat § 7. The Comet also signifieth infallibly some Excess and that lasting but whether that prove as to Wind or Drought or Wet they do not determine that Determination belongeth to no one Apparence § 8. Nay Comets many times have nothing to do with Prognosticks being a sign of Wet or Drought or Wind and that a consequent sign teaching us to look backward only on the antecedent past Excess § 9. Vulgar Prognosticks and those Other of a genuine Astrology i. e. Art and Experience stand not on even Ground for they reach only Constitutions immediately subsequent pronounce for to morrow or next day the Other pronounces at distance at a large prospect and that if need be concerning a whole Season The most sagacious Birds can give no certain aim at a whole Winters Constitution come they or go they sooner or later They come upon a natural Presumption of the Regularity of the Season in which the Poor things are sometimes deceived as Pliny quotes the year where an After-winter destroy'd many but the Theory of Art foretells both the irregular Interruptions of a Season with the Restitutions and that many Cycles of Years before the Arrival § 10. Prognosis Astrological that is genuine floteth not on uncertain Principles but knoweth whereupon it ought to fix § 11. Tempestatam rerúmque quasdam statas esse causas manifestum est Plin. II. 39. This is the Principle on which it fixeth for certainly the Annual Revolution or recurrence of the same Constitution or Inclination thereto doth uncontrollably evince some Fixed Cause which maketh the same Revolution to meet with the Effect § 12. Wherefore to all Noble Prognostick Experience must be premised Observation being laid up in store for some years before hand of the daily and sometimes hourly Alterations CHAP. IV. Some Determinate Dayes which have a peculiar Character and Disposition produc'd from the Antient Kalender Some Critical Dayes The Observation upon S. S within no Superstition § 1. THE Ancient Diary of the Egyptians Chaldees yea the Ancient Philosophers and Mathematicians of the Greeks and Latines Democritus Meton Euctemon Eudoxus Calippus Conon Hipparchus Caesar Columel Pliny and Ptolemy for the Africanes do incourage us in our Principle For as we see some Months Regularly and therefore Naturally incline to Cold Warm Dry Moist in like manner some Dayes of the Month even of the same Month have their proper individual Inclination to Cold Drought Moisture Heat of which the Kalendars inform us not yet out of Date to our purpose § 2. We will consider the Excesses of Weather throughly noted therein e. g. Much Rain Dec. XVII Much Wind Jan. XXII Great Heat Aug. XV. Horrid Tempest from the South Oct. ult From the North Dec. XI 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. windy Weather stormy Constitution 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. None of which could pass into observation upon a single Accident § 3. But least a single Accident should be pleaded as unreasonable as it is the frequency of the Constitution with its Contrary is happily expressed as in Febr. X. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 West-wind sometimes but otherwise Jan. IX for the most part South-winds and Dec. I. for the most part Turbulent See Ptolem. opusc de stell sign In the Vranologion of Petavius pag. 71. where you also meet with Geminus his Diary for the whole year according to the Degrees of the Zodiac That Geminus we care not who knows it who disputes against our Pretensions even in Him notwithstanding occur these Memorands 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad ♠19 fair for the most part 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cold Winds and ruffling for the most part ad ♠4. So at ♈ 23 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hail often and ♠16 it uses to thunder 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as ♠4 also it uses to blow 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Agreeable to this is That in Columel X Cal. Sept. Tempestas plerumque oritur pluvia and all these Kalendar-men whenever they speak absolutely without terms of Diminution there they are to be understood as to the most part otherwise the Observation were ridiculous § 4. Shall we take Observation nearer Home and that from an Enemy within less than 200 years Mirandula himself hath given us some account of Dayes confessed Hazardous at Sea contr Astrol III. c. 13. p. 482. such as Feb. VI. XII XV. XVII XIX XX. Mart. I. VII XV. XVII XIX XXV April II. for so it should be read V. VI. XII XX. § 5. Yea not Italians or Seamen only but all Nations and Functions have so much Interest in seasonable Weather that they
take the same notice of Dayes extraordinary Dies quidam apud Belgas our Neighbours of Brabant pluviarum atri infames sunt saith Fromond Meteor lib. 5. and he names us one viz. IV or July which he saith they call S t Martin the Dripper quem S. Martini bullientis aut pluvii appellant This Day I find not in every Kalendar but in our English only and not without the Inclination specified Fromond would have pleasured us therefore if he had named the Rest § 6. But the old Verses help us June VIII S. Medard's day Humida Medardi pluvias lux usque minatur And such dayes amongst us are St. John Baptist June XXIV St. Peter's Eve XXVIII Mary Magdal July XXII who is therefore said in the homely Country Proverb to wash S. James ' s Shift while dripping S. James himself saith the same Dialect Christens the Fruit. Add such are St. Bartholmew August XXIV St. Simon and Jude Oct. XXVIII with the day following XXIX the Powder-Treason Novemb. V. c. § 7. All which Dayes being Festival or notable for the Annex of some Mart Fair or other Solemnity could not chuse but come under notice with their Character § 8. Nor have our Ancestors given us days obnoxious to Moisture only we find other Constitutions also noted St. Mark 's day April XXV with his Neighbour St. Walburg's April XXVII and St. Philip and James are marked with an Obelisk for dangerous times of nipping Winds and Blasting Nunc caret aura fide nunc est obnoxia ventis saith one Verse and again Si friget segetes subeunt plerumque perîclum St. Margaret July the XX noted for Thunder Reboat mugitibus Aether St. Matthias for uncertain Air in this remarkable Distich Matthiae glaciem frangit si invenerit illam Ni frangat glaciem tum mihi crede facit As the Satyr thought it strange that a man should with the same breath blow hot and cold so the character of this Day seems as strange § 9. Yea the returns of Constitutions are not always confin'd to single dayes but to series of Dayes whence it comes to pass that some peculiar Dayes in this affair pass into Critical enabling to pronounce somewhat concerning the future Harvest Vintage or Winter for what have we to do with the frivolous Observation of the XII dayes in Christmass as if they were a compendious representation of the Months in the Year or with the Prognosticks on St. Paul's day sure no one Day can give crisis for a whole Year but for a month or a week a shorter term it may Four dayes then there are whose serenity gives fair hopes of a Vintage Vineent Apr. V. Vrban May XXV Assumption Aug. XV. and what Origanus interposes St. Bartholmew Aug. XXIV For Winter Purification Feb. II. and Cathed Petri Feb XXII are also Critical If it be fair on the former of these Major erit glacies post festum is in every bodies mouth if in the latter it freezeth the same constitution holds a Fortnight Again Rain on Mid-summer day speaks fears of a wet Harvest if on July II. Visit B. Virg. wet must be expected for a Month saith Origanus though the old Verse speaks more cautelous Si pluit haud poter is coelum spectare serenum Transivêre aliquot ni prius antè Dies If on St. Swithun's day the cry of England is it rains 40 dayes after if on St. Martin's day in Novemb. XI a wet winter is portended saith the Verse vid. Alsted Vranom p. 490. yea there is one critical Day recorded in Aetius the Physician 's time and that must be many hundred years ago concerning the then first day of Decemb. on which if it rained for the most part 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it held on for 37 dayes Petav. Vranolog p. 421. § 10. Some that shoot without aim may abandon these Observes for superstitious as that of St. Swithuns in Mr. Parkinson's judgment is but where there is Experience and innocent Reason there is no ground for superstitious conceits § 11. For the Experience we have said the most of these dayes were Festival and so observable for the annex of some Solemnity and thence came in the publick Experience for the reason we shall give it in due place in the mean while asserting the truth of St. Swithun's crisis for some dayes after more or less which the Vulgar made a shift to call fourty to hold good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Greek Kalendars have it and That 's enough CHAP. V. The Sun the great â—ight justly admired Notwithstanding alone He is not the absolute cause of Heat no not of the Seasons of the Year or the Constitution of the Day Chance excluded An Objection solved § 1. THis is enough for Demonstration of the Fixed Returns of the Weather and those Returns father'd on the Heavens by reason and consent universal Now in the Heavens what but the SUN can produce these Effects in their respective Periods the Sun being so regular a Mover that some have scrupled to call him a Planet § 2. And who goes to debar the Sun of his due let not us that contemplate the Heavens be guilty of it Let Theologie it self teach us that the Sun is a great Minister the Light and Life of the World without it no difference of Clime or Season no Spring no Summer no Autumn All Time would be Winter Horrid Winter the Sea a Mountain of Ice the Land a Flint and Darkness would usurp his old Dominion over both But sure God hath amongst thousand of other Stars made the Sun appear and commanded him to run an eternal Race in his great Olympiques This Commission as if conscious of the Infinite God he jollily executes and Nothing in the Universe is hid from His Heat At his Rise the Morning-Cloud vanishes the Fog dissolves and the Dew gently exhales Toward Mid-day he bringhteth the Air into a chearful Saphir and guildeth the Borders of the very Clouds with a costly limbus All the Earth basketh in his Light while the Clay is calcin'd by his Heat When he pleaseth he imprinteth his Face on the Roscid Cloud and decircinates the Iris with his Pencil He draweth the Waters as through an Alembick and gageth the Depth with his Beam The Current of the Seas observe his Tekupha's and flock All to the place of his Residence Where he keepeth Court is the greatest conflux the Stream makes hast to kiss his feet He raiseth Thunders in his vertical strength and gives fire to the Priming of his Clouds He raiseth a gentle Brise in the Aestival Morn and fanneth the Husbandman in the cool of the Evening When he mounteth he banisheth the Frost and confineth it as by the power of his Spell to the Ends of the Earth The Flowers of the field open for his Entertainment and the Birds of the Air observe his Night-watches they give a signal as from their Watch tower and chaunt their Reveille to the Sons of the Night All the
Clients of the Skie flock after him and retreat dishonourably at his retirement The life of Animals subsists by his Energy of our very Immortal Spirits he is the Union § 3. Notwithstanding This and a less Hymn I could not make on Him whose Lustre dazles us I say that the Sun alone this Glorious Creature cannot be the Cause the entire Cause of the Changes of the Air and its Vicissitudes § 4. Because the Sun consider'd alone All things rightly weighed requires those of his Fellow-Celestials to constitute even the Seasons of the Year The Seasons differ one from the other in length of Day or proportion of Light and the proportion of the Warmth the Sun alone is the Author of the First not of the Latter He is confess'd a Light All-sufficient but that it must therefore be a Heat All-sufficient is no warrant A Taper lights the Room which will not warm it for that the Sun carris the Name of Warmth That argues that he is indeed the Principal most Eminent not the sole Dispenser So the General carries the Glory of the Battel who is far from being the Sole though he be the Principal Souldier According to the tenor of which words must our piece of a Hymn on His or rather his Creator's praise be expounded § 5. The truth of this will be clear when we have considered that the Sun's approach and Exaltation encourageth the warmth of the Spring and keeps up the height of Heat in Summer being the Eminent Cause of Both. But yet neither Dayes nor Months do always increase in or stand or remit their warmth in proportion to the Solar access or recess from the Solstice This hath been urged by others and may be instanced fourty wayes It is notorious that the Aestival heat even increaseth as the Sun declines for the Month of July and part of August are usually more soultry than the Solstitial month of June § 6. Here it is answer'd with one accord that the Heats of July receives their intenser degree from the measure of the prae-existent warmth but this we have precluded before and add that the Heats of July have been found as intense when the precedent June hath been contrary affected every man's memory being able to prompt an Instance of an April May or June beyond expectation cold upon which the common comfort hath been from hopes that July and August would make amends Besides that this holds not in July alone the end of March may have more warmth than April and April than May November warmer than October as again January colder than December March than February we may here after name some Times when it proves generally so therefore the Sun is not the sole Administrator of Celestial warmth § 7. It may be said again as it is by some great men in things of this Nature that they are Casual But the word Chance in Causes Natural and determinate speaks our Ignorance and it may be something of Injury to the Creator But 2. a hot July is never casual being intended so by God's ordinary Providence for Harvest sake That great Providence which workes by the Great Machine of Second Causes 3. Nothing that is Prognosticable can be Casual § 8. Again if the Sun alone were the cause every fourth year would bring about the same Revolution of Winds and Weather the Sun being then exactly restored to the same place by the Intercalary day interposed but no such Revolution appears I find Eudoxus of old gave out indeed to this purpose Plin. II. 47. but no Experience confirm'd it from his time to Pliny's age he was only fond of his own Surmise If it had been so we had been weather-wise by this time without out consulting Star or Kalendar § 9. Considering what is behind it will not be very needful to say more here only to take away all Scruple I would answer a possible Objection The Returns of the Weather being fixed and determined 't is reasonable as you say that the Fixed cause be assigned the Author of That determination but the Sun and nothing else is the Determinate Cause for what else consines the Return to the same Day therefore it must be the Entire and Adaequate Cause The Answer is ready if all the Stars in the Firmament should conspire with the Sun into one Tempest they could choose no time but what the Sun the Lord of Time should determine It followeth not therefore that if the Sun be the Determinative Cause he is the Adaequate the Sun bearing two places Physical and Chronological in the first he helps to produce in the second he circumstantiates the Production But if the Identity of the Day 's constitution be press'd we answer that the Sun determineth That not absolutely and entirely for then the Return would be infallible but on supposition of the other Causes meeting these Concauses met do determine the Effect as it were Materially the Sun closing with them specisies the time Thus Disputers say the last Vnity is the form of Number a principal Cause but not an Adaequate CHAP. VI. The Lunar Influence and its History Hippocrates doctrine of the Tides Dissent from the Learned Vossius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aristotle agrees with Hippocrates § 1. PRoceed we then and let us say that the Changes of the Air cannot be referr'd to the Sun taking in the Moon along with it though to give the Moon her due also she is of great Efficacy as Ptolemy tells us in that excellent II d Chapter of his first Book All things saith he animate and inanimate receive her impression the Rivers swell or abate according to Her light the Tides and Ebbes of the Ocean 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sway'd by his Rising and Setting Plants and Animals are in poor or better case as she waxes and wanes Upon which words I would we could comment we endeavour thus What the proper quality of the Moon is we find disputed Ptolemy and the Ancients define her to be Moist they mean or ought to mean that she is of a remiss warmth to such a degree as is no Enemy but rather friend to Moisture by Resolving it Calling it forth or otherwise Actuating it by her spirituous Ray according as that fluid and withall salt Element is capable of impregnation § 2. And to this one principle of Warmth will all the various Effects usually ascribed to the Moon be justly reducible For on this account the Sea it self ebbs and flows in all Rivers Creeks and Shores making a Full Sea precisely at what time the Moon comes to such a Point of the Compass falling back every day as many minutes about 48 as the Moon comes later to the same Point luxuriating in her Spring-tides about the Full and Change when she is direct with the Sun and flagging all the Quarters when she is at an oblique distance On this account it is that Flesh exposed to the Lunar Rayes sooner putrifies those which walk along by Moon-shine feel a Dose in their
Definitions have excluded and therefore are to be corrected but who understanding himself can exclude it the Ancients did not Pliny discoursing of the Tides puts the Sun in the first place and Ptolemy acknowledgeth the Sun as more absolute in all the productions ascribed whether to the Moon or any other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I. 2. § 9. For the very Nature of the Moon which is a Reflexion supposes the same the Moon being but a Sun reflex'd as they say of others also whose Full and the Change being the observable Phases are nothing else but eminent Relations to the Sun A Relation must include both its Terms the Sun therefore cannot be excluded the Author demonstrates the Sea would have such motion supposing there were no Moon but he may be pleased to enquire and he may find that the Moon cannot be spared spared I say as to that warmth which the Sun it self imparts for by Her the Warmth is modified temper'd increased remitted according to the variety of her Phases by Her this warmth is made so kindly so suitable to the humid Element that without it it cannot be governed Warmth will rarifie Water this Author hath excellently taught us and that the Moon hath a kind of warmth quatenus Lucid he justly defines so there is not much betwixt us every warmth Celestial we shall see hath Influence on the Waters § 10. We have as good Demonstration that the Ebbs and Flows depend on the Moon as that she borrows her Light from the Sun the diversity of the Phases according to her access and recess shew the one the suitable Increase and Decrease of the Tides according to those very Phases shew the other § 11. At the Quarters the Tides are lowest Neap tides at the Change and Full they are higher Spring-tides in the one the Moon is conjoin'd with the Sun in Diameter-line making no Angle in the Other making a Quadrate the utmost distance from the Conjunction and Opposition § 12. The 〈…〉 or supposing viz. that the Tides are lowest at the Quarters endeavours to shew how they come to spring against the Change and much truth without question he delivers but how comes it that Neap-tides happen just at the Quarters if the Moon have no Causality they might happen at the Full as well as at the Quarters and if those Low-Tides might have run through all phases of the Moon and a Fortnight after had boil'd into Spring-tides then I should have hearkned to the Demonstration so far as to exclude the Planet but when the Low-tide is confin'd to the Quadrate That creates Suspicion We that say the Moon communicates a greater yet still kindly warmth to the Air at the Change Full and a less at the Quarters may easily see why God at first ordered the Abatement of the Waters to the One and the Increase to the Other if it be true that the Sea works and purges every full Moon as at other set Times of the Year which accrue to the Sun's account § 13. 'T is an Illustrious Instance that is drawn from the Exuberance of the Tides at or neer the Aequinoctial Lunations taken notice of even by the Inhabitants on the Thames side below the Bridge at least yea of an elder Observation as to the Ocean in Strabo and Tacitus 'T is pretended that in our River they are observed in February and October rather than on the precise Months of March and September This Objection is not confident the very Neighbourhood of the Months February to March and October to September creates a Suspicion of some Truth in the Instance for That Difference is easily accounted for considering that Fall of Wet makes some addition and that This is notorious in February the Close of Winter nor unusual in October the Prologue thereto Let March or September put on the wet Masque of either of these Months and the Effect will be the same Secondly who knows not that the Tides swell not on the precise day of the Lunation but two or three dayes also before and after remembring then the motion of the Moon supposing it hath no Latitude 't is odds but within two dayes after after I say the Lunation in February the Moon will be found in the Equinoctial Sign ♈ as in October two dayes before it is found in ♎ But if Latitude as reason is may be observed the Moon may be found situate on the Aequator in either Month by a Southern Latitude in the One and a Northern in the other For 't is the whole Circle Aequinoctial not the Intersection only that is considerable in this Affair adding withall that the Aequinox Physically considered hath some Latitude as every Centre hath within which bounds the Effect proves even the same As therefore the Spring-Tides in general happening two dayes before and after are justly imputed to the Lunation in general so the aforesaid Equinoctial Exuberancies in February and October are with the same justice ascrib'd to the Equinox for if we calculate rightly the Interval between them is not as it seems a whole Month but only two dayes difference in as much as the Sun in a whole Months time gets no more ground than the Moon acquits in Two dayes where the Moon overtakes her Leader § 14. But the Retardation of the Tide parallel to the Moon 's coming to the South about 48 minutes later the only common motion as is acknowledged to the Planet and the Element is such an Argument For that Two motions from the Creation to This day should just jump together to so nice a Calculation of time and yet the Bodies moved have no dependance one on the other is not easily digested especially when one of the Bodies is fluid easily moved and as easily interrupted disturb'd by Inundations fury of Winds Droughts Frosts Earth-quakes Natural Motion we know once disorder'd will run false like the Index of a Watch 'till some good hand replace it Sometimes the Tides fail sometimes they pay us with superfoetation who restores Nature in this case the Sun keeps its course differing little from it self and its own Elevations a day or two after and yet the Water returns to its wont and forgets its disorder composing its self according to its measure warrantable by the Age of the Moon Here will it not suffice to say the Moon is an Index seeing it may be so and yet a Cause too as Excessive Heat of the Body is a Token of a Feaver or a Southern Sun an Index of Noon An Index of the Tides so may the Tides vice versa be Indices of the Lunar motion and Both be equally causes one of the other if the Moon be a meer Index i. e. not a Cause But the Moon is a warm Mover and That Influence reacheth yea penetrateth the Element insomuch that if the Sun be constituted the Motor of the Seas the Moon her History being attended can scarce without violence be excluded § 15. There is a Notion of Lunacy abroad in
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
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
to midnight 18. Three days concerned in every single Evidence 21. Partile and Platick a distinction of Aspects very material 22. The Orbs so called of the Planets 23. Semisextile and Quincunx 24. Vicinity of ☿ helps to the credit of the New ☽ 's influence 25. The Diary 27 and 64. Rains sometimes at the precise hour of the Aspect 30. The Gradual method of Nature from the first privation to Constitutions tempestuous 31. Prospect of the variety of the Lunar Centributions for seven years 32. How we came to know the Nature of the Planets 33. The ☽ not indifferent to Heat or Cold yet may be suspected for a Cold Planet 34. Summer days not Hot on the account of the ☉ only 35. Warmth in Winter days and Trajections in Frosty Nights 37. Warmth at the Congress not always so sensible 39 44. Aspects do not so oft miss as hit 45. Constant Observation defends our Theory and answers Objections 47. Aspects Single Causes though they be bring their Effect above the proportion of the Moyety 48. The inclination of the Aspects Mechanically illustrated 51. The fatal Stumble of the Adversary 52. Change got its name from the Consequents of Wind or Rain in the disjunctive 54. This disjunctive may be determined 55. The Change rather inclines to West and Southernly Winds 56. The Cause of the North Wind is a secret 57. The South East Wind is a rarity 59. The Wind often Changes on the day of the New ☽ 60. Kepler made too little account of the ☌ ☉ ☽ revinced by his own Diaries 62. The ☌ ☉ ☽ hath manifest Influences on all Thunder which happen at the Change 63. Eichstad noted with Kepler 66. Difficulty of Prognostick arises in England not because we are an Island but because we are a Northern Island 69. Adversaries challenged to demonstrate the contrary to our Pretensions 70. Changes in certain Signs rarely or never fail of their effect § 1. THough all Tradition Ancient and Modern tell us that the change of the ☽ hath a signal Influence beside what hath been rehearsed in general on the Mutation of Air so notorious that scarce any the most refractary Sceptic denies it at least hath not maintained the Paradox in Writing yet for all our vaporing when we are urged to speak particulary and distinctly to the Effect we hang off and seem loth to come upon the Stage as if Astrology were a close and cunning Faculty and afraid as being founded upon uncertainties to be revinced by ordinary experience and to expose it self as it hath done in some other Points for Ridiculous § 2. For what saith our Table p. 42. what Constitution doth this Aspect bring Hot or Cold moist or dry calm or windy All the Oracle saith here is that at ☌ ☉ ☽ pro natura Temporis Aer immutatur Say you what 's that Natura Temporis let no Deceit lurk in Generals Is it according to the Season i. e. the Quarter of the Year then the Change in Summer is hot and dry in Winter cold and moist in Spring and Autumn temperate dry or moist But is it always so Not always sure it will appear otherwise when we shall shew a cold Change after Midsummer and a soultry Air in March and all within one Year of our Lord An. 1671. Yet again a cold Change in July and hot in October Anno 1672. Nay nor most part doth it hold The Aestival Lunation in May or June a considerable part of Summer is rarely dry Beside that an Aspect professes to bring some more special Constitution than what is forestall'd in the General Character of the whole Season if the days that antecede and follow the Aspect be by virtue of the Season hot and dry without the Aspect what great Arcanum is it to define the Day of the Change to be alike hot and dry by virtue of the Aspect § 3. Is it according to the Month so that the ☌ ☉ ☽ in March shall bring Wind in April Rain in May fair weather in June Heat and Dripping Pretty well and plausible But what is the Nature of each Month is it Fix'd and unalterable or is there a second and superinduced Nature if the nature of the Water is fluid is it not by nature a Fluid congelable As Water respects the Services of Men I grant 't is fluid and as the Year proves kindly the Nature of the Months are fixed But are all Years kindly are all Months seasonable What if the Month proves unseasonable which Constitution shall this Aspect observe the Prime Constitution or the Secondary superinduc'd if the later there is no light given us by the Celestial Phoenomenon 'till we know how the Month will prove if the former then all Constitutions at the Change prove seasonable and all unseasonable weather breaks at the Change flat contrary to Experience though I confess not according to Expectation § 4. It will be said 't is enough if common Expectation looks for such a State seeing that Expectation it self is founded upon the frequency of the Accidents corresponding Be it so Any thing that makes for our Interest the Interest of the Creation and its Great Founder but Astrological Prognosis pretends further even to discover when the Vulgar Expectation shall be frustrated pretends to admonish the World of unseasonable as well as seasonable Constitutions § 5. Little better are those two Salvo's that are brought by those who are to sensible of the failure of their Principle concerning the Triplicities and the Lordship of the Planet in chief § 6. But these Ancient Fansies have little I fear beside their Antiquities to plead for them That of the Trigon being a fine Knack in Ptolemy but of no Use we are sure in our Theory For how shall we believe Fiery Airrys Watry Earthy Trigons the one Hot and Dry the other Hot and Moist c. according to the Elements who are not perswaded that the Elements themselves are so qualified For Example sake not the Air in particular and 't is a most obvious Objection how can I allow ♠is a Winter Sign or ☿ one of the Earthy Triplicty when 't is so near the Aestival Tropick do 〈…〉 of ☉ and ☽ bring cold and dry weather in ♉ or ♠hot and dry Neither cold nor dry agrees to April nor hot nor dry to November § 7. As to that of the Lordship the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Ptolemy calls it we speak as to our Affair besides the Confession of the Best Practitioners Eichstad Ephem part 1. pag. 32. that there is Nothing in it 'T were well Natural Knowledge could find such a Compendium yet if there were such it would hold only as to the General as to the proper Day there would be a Non liquet but of this perhaps hereafter We are sure we can do our business without any such Notion for our Method takes in sorry Considerations in lieu of that one we omit § 8. Before we
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
Now between 87. and 75. pray count the difference and the next thing you have to do is to deny the Inclination Alas Our very days even the Dripping Days reach to the Moiety being in number 172. which is 40 days over and above § 6. We reckon but 64 Aspects for Wind and 122 Days which if it seems not so round for the Full Moon brings Wind as soon as any Aspect Lunar at least under publique Notice impute it to us who have fairly pleaded that we could not always dwell on the Watch-Tower or note the Gusts and Gales in the Night seeing whatever they make like Rifts or Furrows on the Water they leave no durable Impression but heal up without any breach Only where Wind is not expressed it may sufficiently be understood either by the Change and Variety of the Winds which yet we have not considered in our Muster or by the flying of the Clouds which we thought fit to admit Add the moist Days most of them have their Gale seeing every Showre saith the Seaman hath its Winds and Calm Rains are seldom though Mists and Fogs are often attended with such Still Musique § 7. Nor still are we to forget our Dis-junctive either one or the other Rain or Winds Consulting the Table I find about 28 Winds without Rain add them to 172. the number of our Rain the Sum is 200. which comes within prospect of 261. the Number of every Day in the Table § 8. And let no Man say What day is there without Wind For suppose there were no Day without neither is there any Day almost without some Aspect there is not a Whiff but hath its Aeolus some Aspect or as good a thing so hath Heaven provided for the Air without which it would stagnate and be unwholsom yea Pestilential as the Air of close Prisons and Dungeons without Perspiration We may thank God therefore for every Flaver of Wind. But then neither hath every Day its Gale that we may be engaged to enquire the cause of the Difference why some are brisk and others dead Calms though the Vulgar cannot be concern'd in such enquiry § 9. Not but that we have a Sence of High Lofty more than Brisk Winds in number of days 86. in number of Aspects 55. The former Number exceeds the latter because many a time every Day of the Triduum proves windy One thing I cannot but observe and 't is the Concern of the Table to remember it that in the year of our Lord 1675. December 23. That very day was one of the two when from Mount-Bay we heard that no less than IX Ships cast away and yet the Table notes only a Dry Wind without any Fury § 10. Here again I beg the Reader to observe the Vicinity of the Event to the precise time of the Aspect or the Complement rather of the Aspect as January XV. ho. 1. M. Anno 1671. Four Hours before One you see it rains June 11. 9. M. Four Hours after Both within Compass August X. 8 m. Three Hours after September VIII 6. P. Three Hours before October VIII 4. M. Stormy Wind and Rain but an Hour before November VI. 2 P. Rain 1 Hour after Try another Year Anno 1672. Januaâ—y IV. 11 m. Four Hours after drisly Rain February XI 12. P. Snow from ☉ set all the Night May I. ho. 9 M. Dash at 8 M. June XXX 3 m. close and drisly August XXVIII 6 m. drisle 9 m. Sept. XXVIII 7 P. Showres 5 P. Octob. XXVI 6 m. Rain ante ☉ is ortum ad 5 m. Novemb. XXV 5 p. Drisle 4 P. Decemb. XXIV 6 m. ante lucem The Table is before the Reader if he please to go on he will find the same effect § 11. Now for warmth that the Full ☽ hath a kindness for that Aristotle hath long ago principled us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Plenilunar nights most warm In Greece no question more sensible than in our Northern Situation But to run to experience I find in Hackluit in a discourse of the North-West passage Edit 1. pag. 601. The Flux of the Sea determined to the Rarefaction of the Water by Lunar Heat And elsewhere he tells us in a voyage to Guinea from Men of good Credit that they perceived issuing from the very beams of the ☽ a sensible Heat Garnishes Voyage pag. 95. in the year 1584. § 12. And without going to these hotter Climes I my self have appealed to experience if any shall have patience to expect near his Chamber Window if situate toward the South while the ☽ makes her Transit or if in an Aestival Night with the help of an ordinary Perspective we nicely mark the affection of our Eye upon the Full ☽ 's first Emersion or Rise the Eye I say that living Thermometer of more quick perception than the Inanimate shall perceive a fair gentle warm Impression from its Beams § 13. So little doth that Objection move us which pleads the contrary because forsooth this Warmth is not perceived by the Dead Thermometer It will be said we know that this seeming warmth is perceived by Fancy and not by any real sensation ab extra To which I shall briefly say but this that if our Intention in that Experiment had been to explore the Lunar Warmth at such times Fancy possible might have imposed upon us being corrupted by the Will so far as to say what she would have But when our attempt was made only to discern the quantity of the Discus or Figure of the ☽ in her Perigee at the instant of her Rise and unawares beyond Expectation a perception of Warmth was found the Impression was therefore not Imaginary § 14. Here if the Question be started whether of the two is the warmer Aspect the Change or the full That we do not perplex the State of the Question it only requires thus much whether the Air be warmer at the Change than at the Full And the answer is that the New ☽ hath the preheminency For the Day speaking of the Artificial Day is warmer at the Change than at the Full Generally But the Night again is warmer at the Full than at the Change § 15. Now let us see whether this agrees with our Tables It doth For Lo we find more warm days in the Day of the New ☽ than at the Full 38. in the First but 32. in the Later Yet least the small difference may not move us let us sum the days of excess and then under the Full finding about 11. or 12. Under the New ☽ we find 28. The Reason is not so much on the ☽ 's part be sure as is evident because of the Aversion of its Beams from us while the Full glares us in the Face but because the ☽ in her Change acts in consort with the Rest which are Day-Birds for the most part and are found more frequent and numerous in the Diurnal Horizon than in the Nocturnal § 16. So for the Nights the Table accords for
kind of Tepor when qualities though contrary live in quiet possession upon this account Fogs are seen for the most part of a warmish sluggish calm consistency 'T is easie without Violence to speak to the several accounts of Snow and Hail which happen at the Full twice as many times as at the New there is a manifest composition of two repugnant qualities in both these Meteors As for the cold part which is seen in both the Full which is the cooler Aspect is proper for them § 23. I have bin further curious to compare the Nocturnal Rains or Gusts which have happened under the Change and the Full respectively not at the Rising and Setting for that calls for a peculiar remark but either before Day or at Night or Midnight yea or the whole Night and on which side do you think will lye the advantage The Nocturnal Luminary is up to justifie it nor will she deny her self though behind the Curtain to have bin then and there at the time and place We find it Rain'd or Raged in the Night 52 times while the New ☽ affords us but 30. which is some notable difference though again for Raining blustering the whole Night the New ☽ is not so for out of reach but she can bring up her Tale equal with the Full. It may be there is some necessity that the Moon or some other Planet should be in the Nocturnal Hemisphere when it blows or Rains late at Night or very early If none of the three Superiours be there the ☽ alone will suffice whereby you see the Nature of the opposite Aspect in genere for to tell you before hand the Planets must be strongly posited when ever it Rains by Day or Night without an Opposition at large 'T is extraordinary § 24. But we must by no means dissemble that there is another reason why the Full ☽ is a more violent Aspect than the New which may arise from hence that she comprehendeth by her radiation reflex though it be a greater Arch of the Sphere Celestial than the New ☽ can and so by consequence is apt to affect more Celestial Bodies being and Situate in that grâ—â—ter Portion As the Eye doth not comprehensively Ken a Mountain suppose when it is near it but must remove it self to a distance for the view of so great an Object The Pyramid of Illumination whose basis lies upon the body that terminates the Ray enlarges her basis so much the more as the Illuminor is remote Now if the influence be in some part as most certain it is commensurate to the Illumination This we conceive maâ— be the reason of its Effect enquired into provided we at no hand exclude the other § 25. For when Astronomy tells us to excellent purpose that the ☽ is in her Apogee of the Eccentric or utmost distance from the Earth both in ☌ and ☠it sweetly closes with what we have hitherto pretended to help toward the Warmth of the New ☽ being so much nearer to the Sun as she is more distant from the Earth as on the contrary for the cooler Beam of the Full ☽ being so far the more remote Let the point A. be the Globe of the Earth B. the New ☽ in ☌ with the Sun C. the Full ☽ in ☠to the Sun D E F G. an Arch of the Planetary Heaven as if the Planets moved all in one Circle for 't is all a case 'T is manifest that the Triangle D C G. comprehends the greater Arch of Heaven and E B F. the Less This is the New ☽ Pyramid the other is the Full ☽ ' s. § 27. Have we never another Observation before we part New and Full incline to Rain That will be confessed now 't is proved yea but What will you say if we produce a Full ☽ that is a sure Card that always raineth That is the Full ☽ in April when for 7 years together it fails not so it may be called upon Courtesie infallible Yea the Full ☽ in August doth the like 7 times it rains in 7 years and more than 7. or 14 either if you reckon days as hitherto we have done and that no otherwise than we should If the Reader will observe more such Full ☽ s he will lose nothing by it Verily the New ☽ s also in the Month of Aug. bear up equal with the Full ☽ s. But the cause of this difference Oh! When shall we come to that Text § 28. It remains now that we speak to the Winds and then raise the definition of the Aspect In the Full ☽ we find from the East 53 West 44. North 35. South 38. N. East 29. N. West 26. S. East 15. S. West 80. Reducing these to their Cardinals thus East 53. West 44. North. 35. South 38. N. E. 29. N. W. 26. N. E. 29. S. E. 15. S. E. 15. S. W. 80. N. W. 26. S. W. 80.   97.   150.   88.   133. § 29. So that the inclination lies more to the South and West as the New did with some Seeming Favour for the West Hence we may raise our Character viz. The Full ☽ is apt to bring Wind and Rain almost as oft as the New Yea stormy Winds and dashing Rain more often pretty apt to favour Snow and Hail more than the New Fog less to Thunder less though here it happens to bear no inequality To Westerly Winds first or Southerly to East many times but least of all to the North. § 30. Now whereas we have hinted that the Full ☽ 's influence takes place oftner than is there expressed 't will not be amiss to present the intire Table as was done in the New ☽ where it shall without dissimulation appear how oft the Aspect misses of making good her Character how often she succeeds In ♎ she misses not in ♈ she misseth not in ♌ she misseth not in ♉ and â™ she misseth not as far as our Table reaches In â™’ and ♈ she brings eight Successes for eight Revolutions call it certain then or highly probable if you hate the Word Infallible The Table stands thus Sign Revol Event ☠☉ ☽ Sign Revol Event â™’ VIII 8. ♌ VII 7. ♓ VI. 4. â™ VIII 7. ♈ VIII 8. ♎ VII 7. ♉ VIII 7. â™ VII 7. ♊ VII 7. â™ VII 5. ♋ VII 7. ♑ VI. 5. So doth the Full ☽ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 give some Light to contemplations of Celestial Influence ☌ ☉ ☽ CHAP. XIV ☠☉ ☽ The Lunar Warmth further deduced as to the Change and Full in the Dissolutions of Frosts A competent Catalogue of Frosts so dissolved the vulgar notion justified yet it is not perpetual sometimes other Causes step in specially ☌ ♂ ☽ If the Full ☽ dissolves more Frosts than the New 't is agreeable to our principles Why the Frosts are not dissolved precisely on the day of the Aspect but 2 or 3 days before or after § 1. WE are indebted farther to shew the Lunar warmth
in these two Aspects of Change and Full by the periodical resolution of tedious Frosts which sometimes lock up the Elements with our Blood and Spirits in Icy Chains till a comfortable Relent of milder air sends out a warrant for their release § 2. This gentler Spirit blows as at the ☌ so at the ☠Let the vulgar notion and public monuments attest it of this sort is to run back no further the Frost VII o Elizabethae An. 1564. It began saith Stow Dec. 21. and lasted till our City-River was frozen so that New Years Festival was celebrated in warming Sports and Exercises on the River the new Thames Street now as Stow tells us it thaw'd Jan. 3. An. 1564. the day after the Change § 3. The 2d of that noted year 1572. famous for the Star in Cassiepeia a Tedious Frost from Alhallontide to Twelftide This Frost is remembred for congealing rains as they fell till the arms of Trees overcharged with Ice brake from the Trunk after Twelftide it took its leave in good time for reckoning the hour of the ☌ being Ho. 10. noct Jan. 3. the dissolution falls within less than three days after the Change A cold Spring follow'd it but that belongs to another consideration § 4. A 3d. An. 1579. short but by the fall of Snow perilous to Wayfarers and poor Cattel still mentioned by some of our yearly remembrancers it began Feb. 4 and held till Feb. 10. the day preceding the ☌ § 5. A 4th An. 1598. from Jan. 1. to 10. the Thames almost frozen the Frost remitted Jan. XI two days preceding the Change Further in Decemb. of the same year the Thames almost froze again which the Week before Christmas was dissolv'd Now Seven days before Christmas happened the day of the Change Again after that remission Dec. XXVII it freezes a 3d. time when lo On New years day it relented the very day of the Full. § 6. Another An. 1615. Jacobi I. 13. held a months space from Jan. XVII to Feb. XIV yea with little remission till March VII That 7th of March is the day following the Full. § 7. An. 1621. a Frost from Nov. 24. ad Dec 7. when after a milder season it returned again § 8. An. 1627. * Jan. XX. for three weeks till Feb. XII Divers Booths not for sale of Drink only but other Merchandize upon the place But All remove on Feb. 12. within three days of the Full ☽ In Germany in the beginning of the year we find Frigus intensissimum Frigus sonticum immane Danubius Concretus but behold a gentle Aspect of a full ☽ brings a Relent Jan. 27. St. Vet. * Note that in the Frost An. 1622. the Relent was in Germany not so long for with them the Danow was frozen by Jan. 8. 18. but the remission came at the approach of the New ☽ Jan. 31. St. N. Febr. 10. Such difference there is in nice cases between Regions By Nicer cases I intend Frosts not universal § 9. An. 1623. The Danow frozen the 3d. time the Frost began Dec. XIV ceased Jan 11. 1624. within three days before the Full. § 10. An. 1626. Nov. XXI Danow floted with Ice it terminates Dec. 4. the day next after the Full. Thus Keplers Diary affords us plenty of instances in a few years for more may be observed from those Diaries who yet good Man in his account of the natural cause as is noted before gives not half the due to the Aspect § 11. An. 1635. A great and sore Frost within memory the same which is celebrated by Poets of the time began as I remember about the midst of Dec. ceased as a Manu-script tells me Feb. 11. three days after the New ☽ § 12. An. 1645. Frost from Dec. 8. complained of by the Parliament-Forces so called as an impeder of their winter-marches the ☽ perigee might help to hasten it away Jan. 17. for die 18. as the Story says the Frost was newly gone and that comes within compass of three days before the Full. § 13. An. 1659 Decimo Caroli IIdi at the end of the year a Frost begun Dec. XXIX and although it remitted a little Jan. XI in 60. and again on Jan. XIII yet it receeded not till day XVIII the day after the Full. § 14. An. 1662. Nov. XV. Frost brought Ice on the River day XXIX but Dec. 1. the day after the New ☽ it thaw'd It returns again and keeps its own till day XII which preceeds the Full not above two days And the third time Decemb. XXIV in four Nights the Thames floated with Ice it took its leave on New-years-day the day after the Change § 15. An. 1663. Jan. XXVIII the day preceeding the new ☽ a Frost began we confess and could have own'd the like before but if it begins at the new ☽ it ends at the full with some little warning the day preceeding § 16. The Winter of that fatal year 1665. is not yet quite forgot the Thames was sick of dead palsie for three weeks it seized her first Dec. XXVIII An. praeced now what the Comet of that year could not do the Plenilunar ☠performed for III. days before the Frost vanished It froze again Jan. XXIX by the fourth of the next month Ice appeared on the Thames Feb. 7. All dissolveth two days after the Change § 17. An. 1667. A strange Frost from Feb. XV. at which time we comfort our selves against the Menaces of Cold by the Topick of the Suns altitude which will not say we suffer such Hyemal Enchroachments at that time of year when mal-gre what the Sun could do though in the Vernal Equinox there was much Ice in the River Mart. IX I will not ask the Anti-Astrologer an account of this accident only acquaint the Reader that March XIV was new ☽ and the XV. day the bold Face of the Winter changed § 18. An. 1669. Dec. VII A Frost of XX. days the bitter Christmas day and the Holy-Day attending were universally noted as intolerable as those two days where the 27 was sensibly milder ☠☉ ☽ and three days after the wind turning to the South it wore away by Inches § 19. The same winter in the year following viz. An. 1670. Jan. XXV Frost began with the Full ☽ we see when it begun note also when it dissolved Feb. XI the Second day after the Change § 20. An. 1674. Jan. XXIV Frost began the Full ☽ on Feb. I. Had a good mind to the dissolution the wind turned so the dissolution succeeded Feb. II. § 21. An. 1672. Feb. XXIV as late as it is in the Winter This Frost like that in 67. held us uncivilly till March XII on whose morn ☠☉ ☽ made its mittimus § 22. An. 1677. from Nov. 19. Frost of X. days brought Ice on the River die 29. It vanisht two days after which fell within a day of the Full. § 23. An. 1678. Dec. IX ad 18. Nine days it held and the last day was exactly the day
to its Month but yet that it is so here in ☽ as hath been said I have reason to suspect what the second □ doth in this nature see § 38. § 35. Jofrancus Ofhusius an inquisitive person in his Book de Divina Astrorum facultate hath taken upon him to some good purpose to examine the Principles of the Vulgar Astrology where he foundeth with us the Basis of the Quadrate Aspect on the Right Angle of the mutual radiations conspicuous in that Aspect but then withall he seeth not how it can be efficacious but at those precise times when one of the Luminaries is possessed of the Mid-heaven at the moment of the others Situation in the Horison I am glad for true Astrologys-sake that so much is allowed for unquestionable Our Tables being witness to that nice Truth as in part we have manifested in the Premises But it appears also from the same Evidence that the Aspect brings weather with it at other hours of the Ante-Noon and Post Noon more especially yea not seldom also for half the day if not the entire 12 Hours which doth proclaim a continued Influence though not discovering it self so signally but at some particular times § 36. Yea but how can this be for on the Meridian only the Ray seems perpendicular to which I Ken not what to say unless this that though on the Meridian the Ray is to us Perpendicular yet at other times it is also Perpendicular if not to our Meridian Terrestrial yet to our Terrestrial Hemisphere as long as both of them are seen by us within our Horison keeping a right Angle For the Lines of a right Angle protracted pass the Center of the Earth which I remember to be the the definition of a Line Perpendicular Let us not mistake the Rays of a Quadrate Aspect are not always vertical but yet they are always to the Earth Perpendicular § 37. Howsoever for the 〈◊〉 that the Quadrate brings Rain at Noon Afternoon and most part of that Afternoon yea the greatest part of the Day let this little Table be our Monitor ☽ Noon 18. Afternoon 61. The whole Afternoon 10 Whole Day 5. ☽ Noon 18. Afternoon 47. Whole Afternoon 8. Whole Day 9. Ante Lucem 30. § 38. Here we should have concluded but what I have hitherto passed by in the ☌ and ☠I am enforced not to dissemble in this Aspect though it may seem not directly to belong to Astrologers to treat of Dolors Dolors and Diseases But seeing these Phaenomena of our little world do principally relate to the Stars and their Aspects whose Influence thereby is not only illustrated but also are renewed upon us by a dayly remembrance we present this following Account for 2 or three years consisting of indispositions some more trivial indeed as the Aches of our Feet some more grievous Among which we could have inserted the complaining noises of Birds whch are confessed an Evidence of the Mutation of the Air as we have said before and indeed arising from some disposition of their bodys in Sympathy with ours But they being omitted let us at present observe our own Complaints rather at this time Anno 1671 Dec. 27. Hysterical fits 1672. Jan. 28. Aches of Limbs and Feet 1673. Several Childrem complain of Ailments July 7. Aches in Limbs Nov. 4. 5. Hysterical fits 6. Aches in Limbs Anno 1674. Feb. 3. Distempers March 5. Pains in the feet April 2. May 2. Children complain Aches 13. Aches again June 1. Children Aches 30. July 29. Aches Aug. 28. Indispositions Hysterical Sept. 25. Children sicken Notob 26. Nov. 25. Dec. 25. Aches An. 1675. Feb. 22. Headach Hysterical Fits Aches in Feet April 21. Aches Children sicken May 21. Aches Dec. 13. Children complain An. 1676. March 12. May 10. Pains in the Feet April 10. Headach Sept. 3. Aches and indispositions Oct. 3. Nov. 2. Pains in the Feet Dec. 2. Convulsions An. 1677. Jan. 30. 31. Remembrances of the Gout Feb. 22. March 1. Aches in Limbs April 29. Indispositions May 27. Gout Aug. 24. Indispositions Gout Oct. 23. Sicking of Children Sept. 23. Gripes 24. Indispositions of aged Persons § 39. So have you a little Hospital-Bill of Dolors happening at or within the verge of the Square Aspect Soli-lunar which justifies the old observation and those Good Men who in other places have born such witness to the Influence of this Aspect Honest Piso among the rest whereby the skilful in Medicine may be convinced of the Lunar Power over our frail Bodys the more conspicuous indeed where the greater frailty but as sure and certain even in the most sound and healthful constitutions the best of which have some Flaw or Breach in their Texture § 40. And there is no avoiding this Evidence I find indeed a remarque Jan. XXXI 1677. of a fit of the Gout noted precisely at hor 9. vesp at what time as I suspected I found that Mars over and above what the Aspect Lunar could do was posited in M. C. and Febr. 3. 1674. I made a greater Observable of Distempers happening hor 6 m. at what time ♃ ☌ ☽ were all together and again hor 10 p. the ☽ having got to the Pleiades Distempers returning All which I vow to be no contemptible Observations and say that 't is possible for a Physitian by these Methods to be aware of his Patients Paroxysm But this notice of other testimonies is not intended at any hand to exclude the Lunar Aspect other causes may help to irritate that Passion which the ☽ in Square to the Sun inclineth to § 41. Seeing then this Quartile Aspect hath power on Humane Bodys and is undeniably a VIIth and that a critical day it may be expected what I would say to the Question whether every VIIth day whether it fall in with the Aspect or not as the Physitians will have it may be Critical and if so whence comes so strange a faculty Nay if the Physitians ascribe it to the Heavens we are like to go along with them The Cause is Celestial saith Sennert quoted by the Learned Dr. H. More for at the First assault there is a ☌ as it were of the ☽ with the Disease when the Sick man's Month begins where on the VII day from the first complaint of the Patient the ☽ comes to the Square of that point of Heaven where the Morbifick Conjunction began And is not this reasonable to believe when even in Pestilential Diseases where there is least discretion of Critical days the Influence of the ☽ confessedly appears not only on the Aspects of the ☽ in the Macrocosme ☌ ☠□ but also whensoever as it pleaseth God any Person is taken sick the whole Family is shut up for the space of a Month. The Sick Month the Patients month commencing at the first Indisposition complained of Consequent to which 't is observed oft times that the residue of an Infected Habitation who perhaps have continued in Health do often drop down one after another within a Fortnight
a Piep beyond it the Former Sextile I say Full Quadrate and Trine for smart and frequent dashing cannot do better Now if they be asked what they will subcribe for Dashing Rains they will answer in this order § 17. ☌ ☠□ I. □ II. △ I. △ II. ⚹ I. ⚹ II.  28. 47. 47. 42. 48. 52. 60. 27. Where 60. you see under the first Sextile the Tale of her Dashes out-goes the Full and Quartiles and is scarce approached unto but by one of the Trines § 16. And here Let us a little view the Wonders of the Creator Great and various are the Shapes of the Changes of the Air. And be they never so many God hath adapted Causes as numerous and various to answer those Effects All the strange and free postures of our Bodies such as you see in Sprightly Youth whether at Sport or Exercise we poor Ignaro's think they proceed from the Pliantness of our Frames it may be or the freedom of our Will but the Learned Anatomist who hath dissected Nature knows that there is a proper distinct Muscle fixed in our Fabrick to discharge every such Motion So is it in the Heavens We meet with strange Weather sometimes when the Heaven is as I may call it fitted for Rain when it shall clear up to a pure and bright Sky and of a sudden showrs smartly and in earnest and so continue showring and clear interchangable for a considerable part of the day Of which sort they occur in our Table not here produced several Examples The Celestial Philosopher assigns this Aspect That 's the Muscle as it were which the Creator hath made to exert this Motion For 't is a short Aspect and if there be in the Heavens any advantagious Post above another it arrives sooner thither Now the smartness of the Showre shews an Aspect and the suddenness shews a Sextile § 17. Nay if there be any thing in the Posts of the Horizon and the Meridian a Lunar Sextile by its applictions thereto can give account without any other assistants of Rain VI. times a day so with other help it may come to twenty times in one day And of this we had one most notable Instance § 18. The days when it thus rain'd by such intermitting Fits were these Jan. X. An. 1676. May I. An. 1674. April VIII An. 1676. May VIII and IX An. 1676. c. § 19. Now if on any of these days the Fit came on Noon or Sun-rise or Sun set or about two Hours distant then 't is a clear case we assign the Cause of this admirable Product of Nature But so it is For on Jan. X. An. 1676. the first day noted we meet with wet Morning which may comprehend either ☉ or ☽ rise or the space between and again Rain 6 P. wherein the ☽ in ⚹ of the ☉ is exactly on the Meridian this is to begin The next is May I. An. 1674. which being the last of the Triduum is to be found under April Here we find showres 10 m. and about the time when the ☽ in Sextile rises as is expressly also noted The 3d. is April VIII An. 1676. Rain 4 P. the ☽ then in ♋ 2. was exactly South We will give you a 4th May VIII An. 1676. it rains hor 4. because the ☽ in Sextile 4 m. ♌ O. exactly upon the Meridian at that Hour Thus is God Nature and Art justified by these plain demonstrations not to be avoided And this I proclaim holds not only in the First but Second Sextile though more rarely and that not according to the Southing of the Sun and Moon but also to the rise and setting witness June 20. 77. where at the ☽ s sitting hor 3. exact you meet with a Thunderclap § 22. Nor must we say that a Quadrate and a Trine are apt as often to stir up Nature the Negative being plain from the very constitution of the Aspect which is founded upon the Distance of two Signs and no more the Influence then of the Stars so Aspected if they have any must in a shorter space shew themselves then those who have a larger Tedder Sooner shall the Stars at the distance of two Signs arrive to their Critical places than those who are distant 3 or 4. § 23. Now our Muster according to the difference of Signs as we did before in the Quartiles stand thus ⚹ I. Signs Quotient Success ♒ ♈ VI. 4. ♓ ♉ VII 5. ♈ ♊ VIII 6. ♉ ♋ VII 6. ♊ ♌ VIII 8. ♋ ♠VII 7. ♌ ♎ VII 7. ♠♠VII 5. ♎ ♠VII 6. ♠♑ VIII 5. ♠♒ VII 6. ♑ ♓ VII 6. ⚹ II. Signs Quotient Success ♒ ♠VII 5. ♓ ♑ VII 7. ♈ ♒ VIII 6. ♉ ♓ VII 5. ♊ ♈ VII 4. ♋ ♉ VIII 8. ♌ ♊ VIII 6. ♠♋ VII 6. ♎ ♌ VII 5. ♠♠VII 7. ♠♎ VII 5. ♑ ♠VI. 5. § 23. If the Quota's are not so full as in the Quadrates c. we may probably infer that the Sextile is the weaker Aspect Howbeit there are here again some near infallible Bespeakers of a showre That in ♊ and ♌ brings 8. for 8 under which I would Martial ♠and ♒ in the First and ♌ and ♊ with ♒ and ♠under the Second but they seem not to fadge Take then ♋ and ♉ which bring 8 for 8. and those which find 7 for 7. and let the Reader make his use of them ♓ and ♑ and ♠and ♠are such Howbeit I must not enquire the reason or foundation of the difference which appears in this place § 24. Speak we to the inclination for Winds ⚹ I. ⚹ II. East 50. 46. N. E. 38. 42. S. E. 13. 14. 101. 102. ⚹ I. ⚹ II. West 31. 45. N. W. 20. 18. S. W. 91. 51. 142. 104. ⚹ I. ⚹ II. North. 41. 44. N. E. 38. 42. N. W. 20. 18. 99. 134. ⚹ I. ⚹ II. South 21. 31. S. W. 13. 14. S. W. 91. 51. 125. 106. § 25. 'T is pretty to observe that the second ⚹ brings 134 Northerly Winds of due West little The First 142. Westerly Winds of North but a little that the S. W. Wind abates from the Quota's found under the □ or △ and yet 't is almost double 91 to any other Quota assignable In a word I do not remember that the △ or □ brought so much of Easterly Winds though West and North and South do somewhat outbid the Eastern Thus is the Character of the Sextile § 26. Neither is there wanting foundation in Nature for so much Effect Ofhusius himself allowing it reasonable that Planets at any such distance whether they happen One on the Midheaven while the other is on the Horizon may alter the Air which happens under the Three Posterior Aspects □ △ ⚹ Even in this Later in some parts of the Ecliptique at or about Two Signs distant The Sextile is equal notwithstanding or equivalent to a right Angle viz. to the Equinoctial Angle which is always the same And this
Rain The less Aspects exceed New and Full the prior Sextile almost doubles the number 17. The Change brings the least Snow the Full ☽ most Hail First Square and last Trine bring more Snow than the Change 18. Rainbows made by the Sun not without Assistants 19. Former Square and Trine conduce to a limpid Horizon 20. Fogs rarer at the Full than Change The Trines have the Fewest Instances ☽ more inclining to Fog than the Sun 21. Gloomy days oftsn misty 22. Fila Gossamere defined 23 24. New ☽ favours South-West Winds the Full much more 25. All the Aspects incline to the Western or Southern Winds 26. A Rule for a Mariner who expects an East-Wind § 1. WE could not have been so diligent in declaring the Power of the Lunar Aspects but that we saw some necessity of a new closing Chapter to discover some other considerables belonging to the premises which we presumed would arise from the further comparison of the Aspects subjoyned in an Universal Table or where all the Aspects march in a Rank even and just with their Influence that they may mutually justifie one the other § 2. Influxuum Lunarium quoad Aspectus singulos quotquot integro haud ita pridem Septennio observati fuere Tabella Synoptica  ☌ ☠□ 1. â–¡ 2. â–³ 1. â–³ 2. âš¹ 1. âš¹ 2. Frosty D. 16 26 34 27 26 16 28 19 Frosty M. Ev. 37 27 31 26 29 27 30 26 Hot D. 28 11 13 24 25 16 20 36 Hot N. 8 5 8 5 5 3 5 5 Trajections 19 4 12 20 5 6 17 21 Lightnings 0 0 1 2 1 0 5 5 Thunder and L. 2 4 4 4 5 7 3 6 Stormy Winds 37 69 34 43 44 31 33 35 Winds varying often 3 5 3 3 2 5 1 1 Winds chang 29 55 71 53 43 43 32 41 Rain 109 103 143 132 111 162 149 144 Rain violent 28 47 47 42 48 52 60 27 Snow 5 14 16 12 12 15 13 10 Hail 5 14 16 12 12 15 13 10 Inis 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 Halo 0 3 4 0 5 6 3 6 Grosser Fog 38 23 31 29 17 26 21 38 Winds East 45 53 56 35 42 44 50 41 West 44 44 56 42 31 49 31 45 North. 40 33 36 41 28 27 41 44 South 18 38 22 20 35 21 21 31 N. E. 30 29 42 37 34 34 38 42 N. W. 31 26 24 40 21 27 20 18 S. E. 16 15 7 17 20 26 18 14 S. W. 58 80 73 103 90 69 91 51 § 3. To begin with Frosty days a Title which we cannot well miscount The New ☽ you see gives 16 Votes the Full ☽ 26. And there is an excess The Full ☽ then as we have said is colder than the New by Day viz. and we have ventur'd at the Reason But now in the Later â–¡ â–³ âš¹ there is no such matter no excess of Frosty days but the contrary as the Tale sheweth Then the Later â–¡ â–³ âš¹ I say are warmer then their Mates Wherefore But because the ☽ rises before the Sun in the Later â–¡ â–³ c. Therefore there is apparent Warmth in the ☽ which diminishes the Matutine Frosts while it shines and hath not so much Power before it is risen Which if we have said it before in part deserves now in full to be asserted again because it convinceth those Learned who pass for the more Learned by denying such an evident Truth § 4 But why the Full ☽ is colder than the New we have answered already adding withall that the same Reason holds in part here for â–¡ â–¡ âš¹ the ☽ is late before she rises always remembring we speak of the day time only when the ☽ more or less as at the Full absolutely hides her Head § 5. Here if it be objected that the ☽ at Full shews her self by Night though not by day the Objection is Seasonable for it puts us in mind of what we have determined in the case viz. that shee is warmer to us in Plenilunar Nights than Days And this Decision of ours appears to be no quick or subtile Evasion but a Lightsome manifest Truth In witness hereof the Frosty mornings appear Fewer even although the entire Frosty days have appeared more Consequently on the same ground it holds here also in the other Aspects though the Frosty Mornings be not always of so certain a Cognizance as the entire days that the Later â–¡ â–³ âš¹ bring not more yea Fewer Mornings so qualified than their Chiefs choose to bring I mean the First â–¡ â–³ âš¹ § 6. Thus we go on with the same certainty almost in Natural Demonstration as is found in Lines and Numbers and therefore Astrology is Some Body so far at least as she hath acquaintance with the Sun and ☽ and their Mutual Aspects § 7. Pass we now to consider the Hot Days where as we have said before we are less liable to falter in our Animadversions View I pray the Number The New ☽ brings more such Days than the Plenilunium the Reason is plain the ☽ is up invisible though she be she is in consult with the Sun on the Day of her Change and makes a shift to own and maintain the Heat notwithstanding her dark side as hath bin shewn before § 8. For the Rest then the Second Square brings more hot days than the First the Second Sextile also 36. to 20. We are ashamed so often to repeat the Cause viz. the ☽ preventing the Sun and rising before which in the former â–¡ and âš¹ holds not where the ☽ follows But then here we meet with an unlucky objection for that our Second â–³ brings Fewer hot Days than the First we must look for some Râ—bs in pursuit of Natural Knowledge but by good hap this is none For if we recollect that the Denomination of many a hot day arises chiefly from the time about Noon to the Hour between 3 and 4 and withall consider that the ☽ in her Later â–³ appears not but is descended and gone in large speaking almost two Hours before Noon we will easily grant that the Qualification of the day for Heat must needs be at a loss where the Cause of the Qualification hath been so long withdrawn In the Square 't is otherwise the ☽ is but upon the Horizon and so she gradually sinks lower and lower yet for a considerable space doth she maintain Warmth in the same proportion as we see them maintain some Light after their descent while the Sun is posited about the Meridian so the Critical places agree punctually to that time whence the Denomination begins But in the Later â–³ the Sun hath lost his Mistress the ☽ even at 9 in the Morning so she is disappearing before he himself hath mounted his Meridian wherefore this not obscurely make for us who impute the difference of Heat in the Later Aspects to the difference of the Apparition of the ☽ under one more than the other wherein that we feign nothing let the Later Sextile
Neighbours of Croyden Rygate c. so troubled May 25. Stows Annals 605. in the very day on which the ☌ ☉ ☿ is noted Another famous one in September An. 1563. which shook Northampton and Lincoln noted by Thuanus also who describes it in its frightful Circumstances There is a ☌ ☉ ☿ in Stadius's Ephemerides noted at the end of the Month So are we in England concerned in the pretence Anno ejusd Nov. 29. great Terraemotus in Island at what time Mount Hecla Flamed Purchas tom 3. 648. Stadius gives a ☌ ☉ ☿ the day before An. 1601. Sept. VIII an Earthquake enters with the Century and shook almost all Europe though Calvisius names only Switzerland and the adjacent parts 'T is too much for ☿ only to do so But was not he one of them Yes he is one which can do what Archimedes brag'd of Move the Earth For if it be Old Stile 't is ours if not we have others will own it and in the mean time in the following Earthquake which was at London in Dec. of the same year and in Christmas Stow p. 797. ☌ ☉ ☿ falls in the very Holydays In the year 1617. Kepler assists us with the Fame of an Earthquake on Jan. 26. or Febr. 7. St. Novo he acknowledges Thunder and Lightning and Meteors but alii saith he Terraemotus which Fame was very probable you see by the Circumstances and who was in the wind but a ☌ ☉ ☿ An. 1618. Aug. XV. a sad Earthquake in the Evening among the Grisons in Germany where a vast Mountain buried its Neighbour Inhabitants dicto citius 1500 buried in a trice saith Calvis ☌ ☉ ☿ makes one here also An. 1624. May VIII at Ratisbon where they were in some apprehensions of Dooms-day saith the same Calvisius our ☿ is 6 degr distant Again July IX or XIX ☿ is 9 degr distant from the Sun But before both these March XXI Terraemotus ingens in Argenta a Town in Italy 12 Miles from Ferraria and the Alps. Calvis ☉ ☿ are 12 degr distant An. 1625. Pestilential years as 1625. was with us are accompanyed abroad at least with Earthquakes where at Norimberg the Diary observes One Dec. XVIII when it Thunder'd the day before the ☌ ☉ ☿ well answers both There is one noted before at the beginning of the year Febr. XII at Bamberg There is a △ ♄ ♂ and ☿ is 10 degr distant An. 1626. Febr. 6. A Rock hanging over a certain Lake in Germany cleft in two by an Earthquake saith Kepler ☿ being then 10 gr distance An. 1627. July XXX St. N. Poor Apulia felt a most horrible Earthquake which makes every Man that hath Humanity tremble by consent several Towns being utterly destroyed and a Bill of 17000. Persons that were lost It seems to be a Sin to offer any thing like a natural Cause But what is the Stone Let us look at the Hand which threw it God is not to be excluded from his own work Enter praesenter Deus est ubique potenter is a good School-verse I have warrant beside Reason to look on the Creation with some Fear even the Caelestials And I cannot but observe that our Caelestial ☿ though 12. degr distant is nearest of all to the Sun whether one way or the other Nor can I but observe that it Thundred in Germany I know not what it did in Italy three continued days before when ☿ was within 8 degrees This may lead one to suspect that the Vicinity of ☿ is the cause of both Some may put in for the Eclipse Lunar just before to be a Concause which if a free Astrology may be allowed formally considered cannot stand for how shall a Light obstructed or intercepted be advanced in Influence Whether it be a Sign or no we have elsewhere considered for the Affirmative for God did not time that Eclipse in vain An. 1629. Another dire Terraemotus in the Alps mentioned by Kepler and the Norimberg Diary when it thundred for a week together in most places in Germany as we see by the consent of the Diary the Day is neer upon Aug. 6. or 16. where there are other Aspects 't is true and ☿ is 11. gr from the Sun But before this we meet another Jan. XXV with Storms and thunder while ☿ Retrograde was conjoyned with ☉ the 19. day An. 1632. Vesuvius breaks out with Earthquakes at Naples on the day of the ☌ ☉ ☿ An. 1636. Sept. 16. Terraemotus with Thunder and a Meridian Iris at Norimberg an exact ☌ ☉ ☿ and ♀ within 9 degr of both ☉ and ☿ An. 1638. July 3. Betwixt Tercera Islands Lat. N. E. came Fire out of the sea and an Earthquake before it 8 Days Sandersons Hist James I. ☿ was 2 degr distant and in two days after followed the exact ☌ Again Anno eodem Decemb. XIX at Norimberg Terraemotus when lo there is a ☌ ☉ ☿ the day before with shaking Fit if it holds 3 or 4 days more it may for all that while ☿ is within 4 or 5 degrees An. 1640. Jan. 25. the German Diary informs us of another accompanyed with terrible Stormy winds and much Rain in other places Thunder and he fixes it right on ☌ ☉ ☿ among other configurations the ☌ is noted Day 19. Again March 21. and 24. by the Rhine Terraemotus neer Munster ☌ ☉ ☿ is apparent die 20 Idem The next year An. 1641. Octob. 16. at Lintz a great City near the Danow an Earthquake with Stormy Winds ☌ ☉ ☿ within a day of it to whose Influence with a □ of ♃ the Diary imputes it An. 1646. In Apulia May 29. a great concussion an Iris Rain and at Prague Thunder ☌ ☉ ☿ within a day or two at most An. 1649. Vesuvius is very hot in the Mouth and afflicts Naples an Earthquake swallows up Ships at Messina Calvis Append. This I have reason to believe was on Febr. 10. because of some reports of Prodigies happening at Bristol hereafter to be mentioned on that day An. 1657. July 8. Terraemotus at Bickley in Cheshire a ☌ ☉ ☿ 8 degr distant An. 1668. Sept. 29. A great Earthquake at Poictiers in France Lond. Gazet. N. 302. ☌ ☉ ☿ within 2 degrees An. 1669. The vast Eruptions of the Flaming Mountain Aetna are scarce forgotten A vast Effect but as great is the Cause the Conspiracies of the vast Caelestial Bodies The Second Eruption was on March XXII where ☿ was not above 10 degr distant The remainder is already presented in a Table § 57. And what can be said more Who can bring stronger Testimony then Aetna or Vesuvius Now I did reckon once to look back no further on this account than the year 1617. because the Calculations before Kepler from the Alphonsine or Prutenick Tables are liable to Exception Stofler Stadius Maginus Leovitius c. so that the Reader cannot see what he buyes but we find not that either of these Computations are so wide but that they will come under
noted Dec. 17. An. 1641. but elsewhere upon less occasion for on every one of those days shall you find what we call a ☌ ☉ ☿ within 7 6 5 degrees besure under 10. Blame not the Germans therefore if they fancy Astrology and let us hope that we shall have no such Cogent Fiery Evidences for the Dint of the Heavenly Influences to etch in the Belief of a Scientifique Conclusion A great Conclusion and Cause Natural for Nature is a Prodigy a Miracle so that I do not wonder at the Instance not yet mentioned in the Diary aforesaid of what happened at Zicken in Brandenburg Jan 7. An. 1640. under a ☌ ☉ ☿ which bears a Contradiction in its mention Tearing Hail Fiery Hail-stones The Diary 't is true comes in with his Exception sed haec saith he sunt miraculosa And far be it from me to Extenuate any Stupendious Work of the Creation but I am apt to believe that even this is such I mean Natural and all Circumstances considered hath its Natural Cause yet I grant it heartily in some sense Miraculous At Stetin the ingenious Eichstad tells us of Sulphurous matter rained there But I won't enquire now for fear I should find some conjuring Aspect and that Sulphur containing Fire might be called Hail We that have ventured to ascribe to the ☌ ☉ ☿ a Power of blowing up or shaking the Earth must not boggle at any thing less or equal Nor have we done yet scarce § 66. For Ptolemy as far as I can see made no mention of Comets as if the ☌ of Planets contributed not to the Opening of such Aetherial Monsters although now the Opinion begins to take as we may see by Lubienec his Account that the Planetary Congresses do give them being And surely if they contribute to Earthquakes Lightnings Fiery Meteors c. They may reasonably be thought not to stand out for the Generation of Comets also which are found always hankering under Earthquakes and other Commotions For what reason can be given why a Comet should bode an Inundation at one time an Earthquake at another and a 3d. time a Plague unless they are united in the same Cause which in common at his Seasons and Opportunities produces all Three Beside the Comets Aetherial and Sublunar are all of a Species Mortal and Transitory differing in their Duration according to the difference of their own Dimension as in reason the Aetherial must needs surpass the Sublunar Add that certain it is that the very Trajections and other Fiery Meteors Trabes and Dracones are of the same Species besure with Comets Sublunar at least Ergo. § 67. Now that so it is under Favour of those Great Men who deem otherwise will appear not improbable from some Instances ready to be produced The First is An. 1577. a proper literal Comet first observed by the Seamen saith Tycho Nov. 10. where ☿ is according to Stadius but 10. gr from the Sun hasting to a nearer ☌ This I say helps to Midwife the Comet into the World Its appearance was breeding before An. 1582. The next Comet in the beginning of March. Ricciolus Alm. Tom. 1. p. 13. at what time there is commencing ☌ ☉ ☿ towards the end of ♓ An. 1607. The Third Comet appeared on Sept. 16 Stylo veteri On that day there are visible Three Aspects and one is ☌ ☉ ☿ an accident so remarkable that Longomontanus treating of that Comet as Riccilous informs thinks it reasonable to date that Comet from the Conjunction So then The Fourth is that famous Comet of 1618. where we will stretch nothing because there is not that Consent about its first appearance Besides that they say there were three or four that year two shining at the same time All which I say is if that be true which Lotichicus hath declared who wrote with all Religious Diligence at that time that the Comet appeared first about the VII Calends November Stylo Vet. which is our October XXV it lights punctually upon a ☌ ☉ ☿ The Fifth and there is none intervenes haps An. 1652. Dec. IX seen near Orion's Girdle ☿ was in ♑ 3. So on the matter there was a ☌ ☉ ☿ on the very Solstice Again An. 1661. a Comet seen at Amsterdam Jan. 28. a ☌ ☉ ☿ makes one there An. 1664. Jan. 11. a Comet seen in Stiria ☿ is but 8 degrees distant An. 1664. Dec 17. There are Stories of Fires falling from above Dec. XVIII in Germany and I my self saw with Horror an Angry blazing Meteor as big and round as the ☽ but with no such meek favourable Countenance A ☌ ☉ ☿ within 3 degrees § 68. And what folly is in this Principle When as it is certain that even the ☽ aspected with the Sun and the Rest gives her Symbol toward the kindling of a Comet especially the Conjunction with the Sun And Tycho I remember thinks it a reasonable Conjecture in that of 1603. To conclude this Chapter 't is good to know what we hope to make as plain as Day when some great Men there are beside Fromond who favour us who refer the Original of a Comet to the Planets Postellus Cabaeus Telesius Bullialdus Kircher Schuler Heveltus and Galileo c. And I doubt whatsoever Lubieniec is pleased to say Ricciolus can have no Demonstration to the contray which may be seen in due place Thus far Ptolemy § 69. 'T is time now we advertise of Heat whose account seems so Low being but 12. because we reckon those days without Wind or Rain otherwise the Sum gets up to 56. with days more for Thunder and Lightning And this may be no small Medium for conviction of Dissenters for if a Planet will not be allowed to bring Rain or Winds it may be allowed to bring Heat at least in Conjunction with the Sun for a very Mountain of Ice joyned with the Sun will reflect Heat till it is mastered Let the Industrious Calculator assure me that the Luminous Planets do but meet and he may assure himself without Violence to his Intellect or self-imposture that the Warmth he finds at the Critical time streams upon his Head from the Configuration Doth not our Verulam acknowledge so much in his Inquisition into the Form of Heat Henceforward let no man therefore take up that vulgar and scarce reasonable Expression saying On such an Aestival day the Sun is very Hot and ready to make one faint c. when the difference lyes Elevation considered very often in our Planets side who sculking under the wings of the Sun betrays his undiscerned Presence by his Natural glowing together with the greater Luminary Wherefore let me bespeak the Dissenter Sir you are a Philosopher Some of these days you may please to see are more than ordinary Hot as May the 13. An. 1621. June 7. and 9. An. 1623. May the 24. An. 1624. or three days together in August An. 1625. or in June An. 1626. I would know the Cause as abroad so with us at home
servant upon occasion went down into a Well belonging to the Family stifled with a Damp groan'd his last And a second descending to the relief of the First underwent the same Fate the Third not daring to be so charitable as to descend to either Now that the Heavens were set at both these times so to provoke Nature appears by this that in both these we shall find Aspects of ♄ yea and at both times ♄ posited in the Tropic The First in the Winter Tropic and the Later in the Summers This is the second Story § 77. There is a Third Story of a Damp at the Fatal Sessions in the City of Oxford not arising so much from the Prisoners Frouzy Bodies which might be imagined as from the Earth at such a critical time No less than 300. are recorded in Stow to have perished some on the Spot others in a short time after An. 1557. who will reveal to us the cause of such a Fatal Damp then and there arising Let others search into the Nature of the Soyl As to the Circumstance of time why then Oh! if ♄ could be found again at or near the Tropic then we might draw some conclusion Verily no otherwise ♄ was then then also on the Winter Tropic opposing ☿ at or near the other See the Ephemerides so apparent is it that an Aspect can trouble the Universe Pardon good Reader the Digression 't is only out of place a little we should have troubled you elsewhere with it § 78. Now after all premising but one Postulate I shall ask a Question the Postulate is that the same day 12 Month vulgarly so called is not the same day in Astrological Notion which is defined by the same degree and its Revolution This degree answers not to that day next year This Supernumerary Bissextile Day introding dispossesses the degree of its Room in the Bed and thrusts it so far that it lies half out and half in dividing it self between two that I may not say three days Gassendus then should have obviated this and have said I know that by reason of the Intercalary Day while it is in Fidai the same vulgar day answers not adequately to the same degree and different Days may be concern'd in considerable parts of the same degree but neither at One or the Other doth it rain again the next Twelvemonth Ergò the Heavens are not the Cause But he was not so provided I confess it doth not always rain the same day 12 Month if it had Gassendus had bin an Astrologer and reconciled to good Learning Now for my Question What If we produce some days wherein it doth often Rain next Revolution of Twelve Months and by much the most part if we consider the Identity of the degree So that I wonder what day Gassendus doth pitch upon And whether he consulted his own observation or some other Diary It may be he observed a year or two and when it did not prove the 2d yea and a 3d. time he concluded But how hard that is hath bin shewn already especially when after a 2d or 3d. failer it holds as in the New ☽ hath bin observed for 7 continued years after Had he followed his blow and said that All days are indifferent and alike inclin'd and for this appeal'd to the Diaries then he had routed us But we Challenge all the World to shew that or any thing near it For beside the Antient Diaries which by the equal Judicious are not to be questioned Gassendus might have seen to the contrary in Keplers and every Modern Diary will confirm § 79. It must be time now to name some days if we can for a Tast thus I do it An. 1621. Ephemerid Kepler I find Wind and Rain Jan. XII An. 1622. die eod Wind and Snow What would Gassendus have said if he had pitched upon this day The 3d. year An. 1623. Snow An. 24. High Winds on one of the Days for here are two concerned in the same degree and Snow on the other An. 1625. Much Rain Lo For Five years together Rain or Snow An. 1626. I find neither but warm weather But An. 1625. Some Snow An. 1628. Stiff Winds for one of the Days And the Ninth year An. 1629. It snow'd Rain or Snow VII years in IX So have we one Day I have a second Feb. 26. the degree is ♓ 18. where it Rain or Snows believe me VIII times in IX years It may be worth the Describing in his own Words February XXVI 1621. Pluit Noctu 1622. Pluvia Nix Frigus Nix 1623. Neb. Nix 1624. Gelu venti Nimbi Niv 1625. Obscur Nix 1626. Venti Ning Pluviose 1627. Ningebat Continenter 1628. Turbid Vernat 1629. Ning Venti Tonuit § 80. We need no more when Thunder gives his voice for us when the Heavens themselves speak out for Astrology And the Reader may think this pretty feasible if what is true every degree in it self as it speaks but it self it s own 60 integral Minutes so it respects two more one on each side as the Liberties of the Mid-Degree to which the Terms of the said Degree do not reach but the Influence does So within Temple-Bar I am within the City of London within the Jurisdiction of it though without the Walls Our Aspect we grant doth not so much as we see the Sun and some of the Fixed can the reason is evident viz. that Mercury is but one and some Fixed may be many a notable part of an Asterism but it is effectual enough to evince a strong inclination and thereby by Gassendus's leave declare the Nature of a Planet For excepting the Luminaries saith he they cannot know the Nature of any Planet nor ascertain any Prediction thereby for which he appeals to experience which teacheth us that be the Prediction what it will the Event brings as many yea more Experiments to the contrary and therefore good Night Astrology Scientia Futilis vana nulla There 's nothing in it § 81. This we know is the grand popular objection which Cries not reasons us down For those Gentlemen who please to make use of this Objection I desire them to consider again for we are forc'd to repeat that while they go to overthrow a most useful Speculation Will they Nill they They establish it For the Words of the Objection are these The contrary to the Prediction happens as often or more often than the Prediction If the contrary happens but as often and sometimes though but rarely more often Is not there a great inclination of the Planet And doth not the prediction come near and hover about the Truth Verily he hath a great Aim that draws the Bow so dextrously that it hits the White as often as he misses it A Prediction of Art is far from nothing though it comes but to even terms Probable it must be when it succeeds as often as Fails as it must do if it fails but as often as it succeeds § 82. We have
proved the ☌ ☉ ☿ the event being observed at such continued times produceth Rain as to a Moiety of the Number that Aspect being then a Natural ingredient into a Natural Effect the Total may be made up sure by the Investigation of its Con-Causes otherwise there would be a Scibile a Conclusion under natural Knowledge without any possible Natural Premises which is impossible since the Principia essendi as we have used to speak are the same with Principia Cognoscendi If it have the First it must have the Second Nor must we object the squaring of a Circle or the perpetual Motion not yet found out because if we mark it they are Conclusions in quest and pursuit not yet in being But our conclusion is in actual Existence whose Principle we enquire after But we see it Rain again and again wherefore if we object to purpose we must Assign the Longitude the distance from the first Meridian c. for we are all actually possessed of That but for the Knowledge of that Distance I answer it must be possible either from the variation of the Compass c. as hath bin of late professed or the Hour of the Night being given and the verticity of the Moon c. § 83. In vain then doth the Learned Man Triumph who after a whole Winter observed avows his Astrologers Predictions to hit but 6. or 7. in 130 times For this we are assured of that all those dayes 130. of them were not ☌ ☉ ☽ or ☌ ☉ ☿ If he find but 6. or 7 days hit in so many Conjunctions with the ☽ or ☿ then Astrologers must not shew their Heads again If not they are not quite Bankrupt they have some little Bank left 2ly He must not deny what he hath already granted Astrologers he confesseth or else we should have heard of it succeed neer upon as often as they fail 3ly Nor must he be angry that we have proved in part that he is not a Competent Judge For if Three days must be allowed to a Solar ☌ or ☠with the ☽ and Three yea Four and Five sometimes to ☌ ☉ ☿ beside what more might be said if I had his Diary in my Power he might have consulted better the Astrologers Credit and his own I am sure our English Writers pronounce cautiously with such Limitations not always on a determinate Day but at or about the time which on the Solar Aspects with ♄ ♃ ☿ hold at least a Triduum but with ♂ and ♀ much longer Now if in one or more of these days there happen an Hiatus the Aspect nevertheless is rightly stated though the Effect happens but once in the Triduum For so we have seen the Countryman content himself with his Maxime of the Lunar Influence though several times his expectation fails on the day of the Change and on the other days also That which fails may be scarce considerable if so be at other times he hath amends made him for what fails in the smaller Observations is made up in the larger Otherwise a Puny Philosopher will say the Suns faculty of Warmth is extinguished because it Snow'd at Midsummer and April is not inclined to Rain because some years have not met with three drops in the whole Month. § 84. To conclude therefore there is nothing in Astrology is very hard when as I am perswaded and no Friend to Vanity that there may be something in Cabala Gematry something in the mysterious Force of Numbers in Critical Days Climacteric Years the Doctrine of Magnetisms Sympathies and Natural Magic Transmutations of Metals Doctrine of Moles in the Body Doctrine of Signatures of Plants Dreams Chiromancy Genethliac Skill as to Health and Sickness at least Let not the Reader think in the least we will add Geomancy Steganography occult Philosophy or any thing whose grounds hide from Mortal search or have a Sulphurous flavour of the unclean Spirit But I have seen from one of the Esprits of France a Discourse of Chiromancy a Senseless piece of Learning as ordinarily taught yet made by him pretty and plausible We are Infidels too many desirous of unseasonable and immense Convictions such as cannot be advanced The Good God of Heaven hath provided for us in a temperate Zone Places of Habitation and Rest Such as are too good for us because of its Calmnes Will we not believe a Devil unless we see him Nor consent to an Influence unless we feel its Fury Shall we conceit the Heaven hath no Power over the Earth unless it shakes us out of it Destructive Tempests Hurricanes vast Deluges Lightnings Rain Comets Earthquakes Dismal Darkness Heat and Drought extream and intollerable the greatness of these Effects Foul and vast as they are may excuse the Frequency with our Thanks to the Creator for Natures kindness to us and yet must afford us also a fair Item of such Inclinations which at times brake in upon us I confess 't is no matter for enquiring the Cause why I yawn sometimes or why the Ear tingles I may be weary or talking or restless But if as God defend I sink under a dire Fit of an Apoplexy or Epileptic Distemper though but seldom it happens I shall be jealous I have an aptitude to it CHAP. II. Conjunction of Sol and Venus ☌ ☉ ♀ § 1. and 2. A noble and permanent Aspect 3. Aspects their pretty Vicissitudes 4. The Table of the Direct Aspect 5. The Table of the Retrograde 6. Somewhat prolix but necessary 7. The ☌ contributes to Warmth 8. And yet also to Cold how the Congress of Two Catorifick Bodies may increase yea and abate Heat 9. The Tradition of the Antients 10. Justified as to bright Air. 11. As to Showres 12. Contignations of Clouds whence they proceed 13. Justified as to High Winds 14. Though the prolixity of our Table be disadvantageous to our Method we find notwithstanding a Moyety for Moisture in the Direct The Retrograde Aspect brings moisture once within the Triduum 15 16. Presentment of some days from the Table which brought store of Rain and not a few which rain'd all the day long Divine Providence proved thereby How ♀ contributes to such lasting Rains Astrology demonstrates 17 18. Fleec'd Clouds strip'd Clouds have their determinate Cause 19. Some account of Clouds riding contrary 20. Of the Morn and Evening Tincture of the Clouds 21. Difference of Mist ♀ inclines to Fog 22. Platick Aspects explained as powerful as the Central whereby we give an account of the Effects and its Duration 23. Recourse to Keplers Diary 24. Due and proportionable distance is operative as well as a Central Conjunction 25. Some Light to distinguish the Effects even when the Aspects are co-incident 26. Our Aspect contributes to Waters 27. ♀ in elongation seems to contribute to the same 28. Our Aspect attended with Chasmes and a parcell of fiery Meteors 29. Yea some Comets and Earthquakes occur 30. Shortness of understanding it may be to multiply Prodigies to acknowledge them
both of them are reckoned of less Dimension than the Earth yea and for ☿ part less than the ☽ yet it seems they are so near that they can give us a Sign of what they are and who they be and thence we must fetch the reason the Demonstration as I love to call it because they are neer Because they are inferiours therefore they are so palpable in Effect even when Direct They are still the nearest of the Five § 5. They who look on ♀ only as a fair Morning or bright Evening Star have other Notions of her as if she brought always Fine Weather with her very look and swept away the Angry Clouds with her Train but ♀ it seems can scowl and frown and storm and mask her self in dirty Clouds c. § 5. But this it not all for consulting with the Antients that I might see the Antiquity of Astrological Truths though hitherto not much advanced I learned from the Fam'd Albumazar that ☌ ♀ ☿ to their Rains and Showres added Coruscations and Thunder for eight Signs in twelve I for my part thought the Arab was mad but allowing for the difference of the Climate He is not much out of the way for let even Albumazar have his due All things considered he is not to be blamed § 6. But who would have thought ♀ and ☿ to be such Roysters As soon would we have believed that Two Diamonds could Fulgurate or Two Knick-nacks of the fair Forge thunder on their Wooden Anvil Did the Fables dream of this when they tuaght the World Venus and Vulcan were Familiars § 7. Whether they did or no the Influence of ♀ for Winds or Rain and Heat and Thunder and abundance of all these is not fabulous Whatsoever a ☌ ☉ ♀ or ☉ ♀ hath done in that will a ☌ ♀ ☿ match them for though ☿ be greater than the ☽ yet ♀ surpasseth the ☽ and Earth also § 8. Now follows the Table our Evidence drawn from Keplers Diary Direct High Winds Turbo June 18. ventosum 24. Anno 1621. Feb. 14 15. March 13. Anno 1623. Procella June 24. 1624. Feb. 15 16. March 20. Aug. 31. Sept. 1. Ventus Dec. 5 8 9 1626. March 3 4. October 13 27. 1627. June 9. Ventosum Tempestuosum 10. 1629. Retrograde Dec. 15 19. Anno 1622. July 18. Octob. 22 26 27 28. 1624. Feb. 10 12 13 14 15. 1626. Dec. 28. 628. Direct Excess of Rain June 20. Tempestas perstrepuit 25 26. Pluvia decumana 29. Largissime Pluviae 30. July 1. Tempestuosum 9. 1621. July 4. cum inundat pluit largissime 17 18. 1622. Multa Nix March 12. Ninxit copiose Decemb. 10 12 13. 1623. July 24. August 10 11. cum Inundat 13. Tempestus Hor. 18. Pluit copiose 19. 1624. Temp. atrox July 11. 1625. March 29. April 13 18 19. Aug. 20 23. 1626. Ningit continenter Feb. 27. Plu. Sept. 19 20. Octob. 11. Pluit copiose 26. Aucti amnes Nov. 6. Pl. die noctuque 1627. April 21 22 23. Plu. decumana May 1. Cataractae 3 4 5. Plu. multae 10 11. 1629. Retrograde Pluvia Dec. Aug. 31. 1621. May 24. 1626. Imbres Dec. Aug. 5. 1629. Direct Thunder and Lightning May 21 23 24. June 8 19. July 9. 1621. May 19 20. 1622. Celum ardens Jan. 29. June 19 30. 1623. Aug. 5 6. 1624. July 10. Fulminata 14 16 17 18 21. 1625. March 25 26 28. Ap. 4. Chasmata Aug. 28. 1626. Apr. 21. Here Kepler confesses our Aspect Horr. Fulmina 25 30. May 7 25 31. June 15. 1629. Retrograde Fulminata aliquot loca Aug. 31. 1621. Chasmata Fulgetra Decemb. 23. 1622. July 19 21 23. 1624. May 31. June 1 5. 1626. Sept. 18. 1628. Fulminati homines Aug. 1 2 3 4 5 6. Fulgetra Crebra 7. s Ton. 8 9 1629. Direct Heat May 8 14 15 23 24 25 26 28 29 30 31. 1621. § 9. Where we have expunged the accounts of Simple Wind and Rain and Warmth and for brevities sake have mentioned only Excesses of Heat Wind Rain and we may add Thunder to clear the Arabs from their madness which was suspected Their Experience we must think was grounded upon more than 8 or 9 years and a few Conjunctions therein contained Let any one be pleased to view our account and note as well as number the days and he shall find Mad or at least Notable doings here and there For Fulmina Fulgetra Crebra Loca Fulminata Homines Fulminati appearing more than once or twice does speak for the Arab. Which seeing they happen under the Retrograde as well as the Direct Conjunction pleads for the Aspect it self whether the Arab is Fee'd or not to speak for it Nor can I help it if the ☌ of ☉ to either of them be within a few degrees or days what time we meet with Excesses for 't is not always so Witness that on May 13. Anno 1622. where the ☌ of ☉ and ♀ is 17 days distant and the ☌ of ☉ and ☿ 30 days And yet even there we meet with a Pluit Largissimé May 17. and 18. Heat and Thunder May 19. and 20. to add no more within 4 days of the Aspect and no other neer of any note the Lunar excepted The Truth on 't 't is a sweet Eviction to see Rain and Storm when the ☉ ♀ and ☿ are neer together as the Arab said now of the ☽ with them particularly when in August 1629. it Thundred above 7 days together But reasonable Men have no cause to doubt but that our Aspect by it self considered when the ☉ as it were stands and looks on can act its part in Winds and Rains as you may see in the Abstract premis'd § 10. The reason must be I have said because of their Vicinity to the Earth as well as their moderate distance from the ☉ Otherwise the ☽ could claim no interest upon her Vicinity to us Sublunars which we take to be confessed And is it not consonant and consequent that we should meet with Pluviae decumanae Largissimae minxit multum continenter They say ♀ is thrice as big as ☿ and she yields accordingly But is it not consonant I say to what we have observed before in her ☌ with ☉ when she watred the ground with her fruitful Dews the whole or a great part of the day This seems not so ordinary in the ☌ of ☉ with ☿ except perhaps where ☿ moves very slow which confirms the reason given from the Slow and even Motion of that Planet with the ☉ by which he helps to prolong a Constitution and keep it in Statu quo § 11. Must we give you a like tast from our own Country We cannot say nay because it brings us the fullest and easiest Conviction as far as I see yet of all the Aspects I am sure that have been yet propounded ☌ ♀ ☿ ad gr 10. 1671. Feb. 12. H. Gusts 3 p. c. Sly XX. Showr o. hail 3 p. wetting vesp Sly a.
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
♀ ♓ 2. Jan. 17. Anno 1664. Comet noted by Hevelius Dec. 4. but seen in the East-Indies 9 days before as a Worthy Sea-Captain then at Sea hath noted in his Diary ☌ ♂ ♀ gr 1. even upon the Partile ☌ § 34. As to which Comets I say that they accord to our Doctrine premised the First that of Anno 1511. ☌ ☉ ♀ preceding by its Warmth hatch'd it in April and it was in good time disclosed by our Aspect of ♂ ♀ about May 5. which also helped the Days before to its Production For the 2d of 1590. from Febr. 13. c. I say here that this Comet was conceived by ☌ ☌ ♀ preceding all the way and brought to Light by ☌ ☉ ☿ c. Howbeit our Aspect stood longer by it than ☌ ☉ ☿ To the 3d. I say nothing can be plainer for the Comet appeared in a Square to ♂ ♀ and in the same parallel viz. upon the Tropique Circle the one in ♎ 8 the other in ♑ 8 on the Day of its Birth At least let this be remembred § 35. This for the Production Now for the Continuation of the Comet Anno 1532. a Sept. 23. ad Nov 10. Comet ☌ ♂ ♀ ♎ 24. October 14. so if began by ☉ ♂ you see it is maintained all October long by ♂ ♀ Anno 1556. Comet a Nov. 12. ad Jan. 10. Gemma Now ☌ ♂ ♀ happens ♠o. Nov. 30. so it is plain our ☌ reaches the very First day of the Comets appearing with ☌ ♀ ☿ and as plain it is that it convoys it all along September to its Expiration Anno 1556. A Comet March 4. of which Hevelius at large half as big as the ☽ in ♎ gr 8. ☌ ♂ ♀ preceded about Febr. 19. and this Comet is owned to lye in a direct ☠to ♂ and if to ♂ than to ♀ also to whom in ☌ it own its Original To us Well-Willers nothing can be plainer than that Comets are Flammeous or Lucid Expirations which are produced by the Planets Now as to the continuation of this Comet to April 23. where it expired in a Partile ☌ ♂ ☉ We own that ☉ ☿ disclosed it ♂ ☿ and ☉ ♂ maintained it to the very last but yet we cannot but observe that on the very day of its vanishing ♂ and ♀ were sever'd a whole Signs distance whereupon our Meteor expired I say whereupon though on that very day ☌ ♂ ☉ ☿ were all together by a second ☌ of ☉ ☿ which confirms 't is the Platique Aspect maintains the Celestial Production Such being the Relation of ☉ to ♂ throughout the Month of April to the day of Expiration And Secondly it shews that the Influence of ♀ often takes place if within the confines of 30 degrees as will be found by Experience though hitherto I have been so timerous and modest to point at but 15. or 16. degrees at farthest Furthermore Anno 1661. Jan. 23. Styl Vet. we will not pretend that ♂ and ♀ gave being to this Comet Nay we will allow it to ♂ ☉ being then within 10 degrees But we examine what kept this Phaenomenon alive throughout the Month of February Is not our Aspect here within 10 degrees at the begining of the Month. the Partile ☌ happening die 24 § 36. But now I speak of modesty I fear I shall transgress if I impudently demand not the Tayled Comets only but the New Stars also to be results of our Conjunction The New Star in the Breast of Cygnus supposing that it began in November yea or December 1660. I do now with some security impute to the ☌ of ♂ ♀ which then happened about Nov. 23. This the World perhaps may be ready to believe when they shall consider with me what amazing Effects are produced by the Celestial Bodies in some peculiar parts of the Zodiac Nor does its large duration deterr me from that Fancy supposing it lasted to Anno 1629. as Argol will have it For there is difference of Impression on the Agents part and difference of retentive disposition in the Starry Heaven the Patient Nor must the Great Hevelius tell me That the Light of the ☉ it self cannot reach to the Fixed Stars for the contrary is as certain a Truth as that the ☉ reaches the Stars of the Microcosme the Eyes of our Mortal Bodies Now let us speak to our Earthquakes § 37. Our First Earthquake which may be pinn'd upon our Aspect is that of An. 1538. where in September Month all Italy was troubled for 15. days Fallopius apud Fromond ♂ ♀ about the midst of the Month begins to come into a Platique ☌ at 12 11 10. gr distance acknowledging ☌ ☉ ☿ c. Anno 1552. April 20. T. M. in Germany among the Mountains Sudetes Lycosth ☌ ♂ ♀ about the 17. of May ♉ 1. our Planet about 11 gr distance as ♂ and ☿ about the same distance Anno 1554 at Lovain April 20. Gemma Cosm 2 23. ♂ and ♀ about gr 12. distant ♂ with ☽ for she also we have heard Fromond confess is a Mover of the Earth having got advantage of Archimedes that great Engineer viz. a place where she should stand And before this though Earthquakes are rare and Thunders as the Natives inform us die Mart. 21. 22. hor. 4. post mer. T. M. cum mugitu quasi clangore Gemma Ibid. where ♂ and ♀ were upon a Partile ☌ and ♀ but gr 5. distant from ☿ saving still whatsoever Causes Gemma hath produced which indeed are so manifest that he who looked into the Ephemerides about the middle of March may read it and save the Labour of consulting the Author Anno 1570. at Ferrara on St. Martins day Nov. 11. Fromond ☌ ☉ ☿ about gr 10. distance and ☌ ♂ ♀ nearer Anno 1571. Febr. 17. at Kinaston in Hertfordshira noted by Stow and Thuanus too as I remember ♀ ☿ are set at gr 3. and ♂ ♀ at gr 8. Anno 1586. April 11. In Ireland Trees and Thickets moved by the River Bair Fromond from Ribera He who looks again into the Ephemeris shall read the reason yea though he doth not understand the Character what seems to our purpose there appears ☌ ♂ ♀ amongst them Anno 1632. at Norimberg Nov. 10. On a misty warm day ♂ distant from ♀ gr 7. the entire Cause is assigned by Kyriander above dispute where our Aspect is allowed its share Anno 1637. July die 1. at Tours in France stormy Weather T. M. Kyriander reckons it to the Station of ☿ He might have vouchsafed ☌ ☉ ♀ Nov. 23. happening on the Day and our ☌ ♂ ♀ but Seven days before from which Term there is nothing noted in the Diary but great smart Rain Thunder and Storms of Wind the Harbingers of an Earthquake which take up its Quarters either there or elsewhere as the Train fires § 38. So have you a parcel of Earth-movings imputable to our Aspect nor can any Scruple rise from hence that our Planets Concern
here also comprehend the entire Influence So for example in the following Table the Aspect holds from October 15. ad Nov. 24. A o 1658. § 6. This ministers occasion of justifying our Table and its Dimensions beyond the Partile micety and I may instance from Kepler himself and the hard shifts he was reduced to A o 1628. where ☌ ♂ ☿ happening on his Aug. 10. Styl N. He acknowledges only that the 8th and 9th days partain to it which brought Rain between them Now first take notice that this is the Month wherein he acknowledgeth our Planets to be very neer One the Other all the Month long Martem Mercurius per totum 〈◊〉 antecedit whereupon say I it Rained and Hailed on the â—â— th Day Lightned and Storm'd die 17 18. Kepler imputing the Lightning to Anticipation and the Hail to no Cause at all Die 17 18. Credidissem ☿ in â–¡ Jovis qui sequitur nisi Effectus subinde anticiparent But by the leave of the Antients there is no such thing as â—â—icipation in Nature and therefore not in the true Astrology and Excessus sine causa Caelesti gives too great advantage to the Adversary and betrayes the Art by the Artists confession § 7. But this is not all since the good Man in the precedent Month under the Wings of our present Aspect is driven shamefully to acknowledge the State of the Air for almost a Weeks time to be an Orphan Effect without any Father scarce to answer for it The New Aspects he puts up 't is true for the Continual Rain July 28. 29. his Semisextiles joyned with apoor Sextile But he refers all at length to the Plethory of the Earths moving and a Fancy of his own that his New Aspects wrought forsooth at distance as the fight of a Whip 't is his own Simile makes a pamper'd Jadero mend his pace a Shadow of Reason When Nature is a Slugg and doth nothing at the sight of a Whip she will not stir unless Auriga of some other bodies Lash make her smart § 8. Thus in our Home Diary A o 1669. we find ♂ ☿ in Congress Aug. 20. I desire to know whether ♂ ☿ were not in that Tumult which happened 7. yea 9 days after Aug. 27. and 29. the Diary calls it Terrible Lightning Next remove we backward to day 7 8 9. where Lightning as mentioned before nay on Day 12. Dreadful Lightning Two Dreadful Thunders in one Month Now they are past Fright us not But if we shall consult the Ephemeris and find the same Aspects of the same Planets repeated One on the 14th as well as on the 20th we may probably own ♂ ☿ in the Riots In the later ♂ was gr 7. distant and in the former least he should be excluded but gr 2. Neither then according to vulgar account was any of those great Aspects ♄ ☿ ♄ ♂ thereabouts For ♄ ☿ was at nearest 5 degrees distant in the later in the former the distance was gr 10. § 9. At two degrees some will say it may be but at 7 it cannot I answer Two degrees distance is far from Partile But when this Month shall give us Instance of Two degrees and Four and Five and Six and Seven who can deny but that our Aspect at these distances causes them i. e. Helpeth to make them For that is all we labour after For an Aspect as vulgarly confin'd is Shackled and excludes all consideration of sensible approach or Vicinity so as to make the distance of 2 or 3 degrees as much as 2 or 300. Contrary say I to all reason For though the Gentral Conjunction be the Strongest a Corporeal Conjunction reaches saith Cardan truly as far as the aggregate of their Semidiameters at least in Ptol. Yea and separate also say I they are not presently estranged They have Rays and Proportions of Strength They are linked One to the Other as we see in wrestling when their Bodies keep off § 10. United Strength is more powerful we have answered it already Not every kind of Union for every design whatsoever A File of Soldiers is stronger than a Company of Straglers But a Rank of Military men are stronger to attaque a Fortress Beside the Unity of the Line there must be Unity of Proportion Two Planets in Lineal Conjunction hear no proportion to the Heavens or to the Atmosphere Two Wings will not maintain a Bird in Flight unless proportionate to the Bulk Harmony it self is nothing but Unity of Proportion and that reaches to Octave Who knows then but 10 or 12. or 14. may be proportion for Physical Effects but we have spoke to this already § 11. Well what can ♂ ☿ do more then as Regiomontanus hath said cause Heat Dryth or Winds and Rain in their respective Signs Cardan in the following Age hath little more to say He adds that it causes ventos cum impetui vehement Winds for both the Planets saith he are impetuous In Ptol. 11. § 62. Our present Age hath Furbush'd this with an addiction of Rain Snow Hail and Thunder Maginus and Eichstad To whom Kyriander perfectly accords for Rain Lightning c. And for Winds he saith the Aspect is held the most turbulent and unquietest of them all Vnruhigthen Vngestumesten gehalten Rough Words and in their very pronunciation Tempestuous § 12. All these Specialties if they must be consider'd our Tables will do them right The Antients are willing to mention Dayth which I remember is an Ingredient into the very Definition of ☿ and therefore must be Universal to every Mercurial Aspect Mars and ♀ is made a Moister ☌ and I think 't is vain to contradict They may differ as our Fruit doth our Apple or Grape One Species is more Liberal in her Juicy pressure than the other Verily there are many Signs of Dryth First in the Winds for which ☿ is famous Next in the very moisture it self which is not so profuse as in ♂ ♀ but it many times brings Rains by fits more now than at another time Yea by Stealth as I may say sprinkling only a little after ☉ set or between that and Midnight The Meteors observed in the Night and its share in Comets whence Cardan you heard makes Mars and Mercury aspected or not to be the Sire and For-runner of all Comets Fog seems to be a perpetual Effect or attendent of ♂ ☿ if not rather an attendant in Ordinary to ♂ with whomsoever configurate To this we must add the East-Wind which we know accompanies Fog though this Wind also hath its Fits easily shifting and changing to another point Lastly which must not be dissembled and left for the Adversary to make use of Cold and Frost intense and pungent for so we find it in a special manner in our Tables for sundry Weeks in several Years sometimes on the precise day of the Aspect so that I am a little reconciled to Cornelius-Gemma who I thought once spoke what came next when he imputed a Hard Frost to an
p. m. closing vesp open n. Wly 1683. Aug. 28. ♌ 26. Ab Aug. 13. ad Sept. 6. 13. Close a. m. s drisle open p. 14. Rain m. Rainy o. close hot wetting H. wind S W. 15. Foggy rainy m. p. m. a. m. High wind cold 16. Cool m. s drops a m. showr 5 p. Brisk rain 7 p. N W. 17. Misty m. some rain coasting o. 1 p. 18. Open cold wind m. sho o. Th. 3 or 4 Claps A Ratling Storm Some R. and Hail N W. 19. Cloudy wind audible open Wly 20. Some mist often clouding and close W. 21. Foggy m. close m. p. s drops 3 p. Sly 22. Foggy warm l. wd Wly Sly 23. s mist s clouds m. s wd hot p m. 24. Misty lowring very hot day l. wind Sly 25. s wetting 8 m. p. m. warm s wind S W. 26. Misty m. H. wd wetting 8 m. S W. 27. Mist m. high wind smart showr ante 4 p. s drops 6 p. S W. 28. Cloudy very high wind N W. W. 29. Cloudy very high wind N W. S W. 30. Cloudy windy open at night S W. 31. Mist m. close m. p. hottish Sly Sept. 1. Overcast open calm Wly 2. Fr. m. Fog Clouds Sly Wind Ely S E. 3. Cloudy a. m. with gusts Rain in S E. Foggy p. m. Wly Sly 4. Foggy m. a. m. cloudy vesp hottish then Ely wd Wly clouds 5. Lightning 3 Claps of Th. from the S. 10 p. R. S W. wind Ely die tot 6. Foggy m. soultry wd cool open p. m. closing vesp with Lightning ante 7 p. One Thunder-Clap dash of R. Sly Upon Second Thoughts and advice of Worthy Friends who value Experience upon Consideration that it is long in gathering and that 30 years gained are better than 30 years refused I have added this Table also in which we have Iris Sept. 20. 1654. and 77. T. M. Apr. 4. 1672 Feb. 73. Shipwrack Apr. 74 Great Hail 77 78 82 Hurricane 81. Whale Ib. Meteors with Trains c. July 29 82. and so we proceed to the next Chapter CHAP. XI ☌ ♄ ☿ Conjunction of Saturn and Mercury § 1. ☿ a Planet of great Employment and therefore is swifter 2. Commonly Direct in this Aspect 3. It s Character for Wind and Rain 4. And for Dark Air. 5. The Influence proved for both Wet and Dark Air. 6. And for Cold. Yet a Saturnine △ cannot introduce a cold Season by its self 7. ☌ ♄ ☿ may introduce Frost but no such as may spoil Vintage Our monstrous Winters not only upon ♄ 's account Colds being variously dispersed by the Celestials 9 10. Why Octob. 1572. was tedious and Cold. 11. Notable difference between Frosts under ♄ ☿ and ♄ ♀ All Frost comes not with a Wind Mr. Hobbes there mistaken 12. ♀ and ☿ distinctive Character will be perceived by comparing their Tables 13. Effects of Planets distinguishable Some Showrs Saturnine some Martial c. 14. Contiguations of Clouds whether ascribed to ♄ ☿ Ground Mists 15. Are not the issues of the Earth without their cause from above 16. Slender Moisture 17. Variable Winds 18. Sometimes a Curious day and no Prejudice to the Character 19. Not given to Flouds whatsoever it may do in Arabia 20. The Table § 1. THe League between ♄ and ☿ though allowing some Effect between such Alliances cannot be thought to be of any great Moment because of their Immense Distance for What Influence can there be upon the Ocean on a supposed League between the Thames and the Straits of Magellan Mercury is a little Planet and a Nimble One thereby portending that he cannot be long of a mind supposing he doth confer to some Amity But we have labour'd before to possess the Enquirer that the very Swiftness and Agility of ☿ may not Lessen the Planet in account but rather aggrandise him seeing the Swiftness of his Motion in its Orb is a probable hint to us that he had most business to do which otherwise without such Agility could not be dispatched He must overtake the slower Planets He must return and Re-salute them again for for so it is order'd that his business goes on even while he goes backward Venus hath done so before with ♂ and ♄ and ☿ will not stand out § 2. Now as we said Venus not being bound to observe ♄ ☿ also is at the same Lock He meets with ♄ sometimes before the ☉ sometimes behind and that at farthest Distance with the ☉ his pace commonly is Direct but now and then slow yea sometimes Retrograde as Dec. A o 1662. the ☉ being gr 11. distant § 3. Yet all this signifies nothing except we obtrude a Character upon the World and fabber about an Influence of Wind and and Rain in Spring and Summer-time Wind and Snow in Winter Wind and Clouds in Autumn 'T is Maginus his Description which I see others willing to transcribe Adrian Vlack Ephem A o 1663. and others Nor is it amiss if we say Rain in the First place and then Wind seeing ♄ and ☿ yea and the Rest for the most part answer to Rain more frequently than to Wind. § 4. Maginus added wheresoever he had it some mention of Tenebrosus Aer originally from the Arabs no question and truly the very view of the Diary minded me of that which made me Prize Maginus the rather to whom Eichstad accords Turbulentum sub frigidum aerem saith he our Table oft-times speaks of Close sometimes Dark and Muddy Air and true as Truth is it that some Planets do contribute more than others to mask the Air and darken it at some special times but ♄ and ☿ seem to be more frequent so that I have reason to think that if ♄ were posited in ♂ 's Orb he would make more rainy Weather than ♂ because even at such distance he rouses up the Air and Frowns upon us § 5. And what should we say more when who pleases to account the Wet days with the Sum Total whether we allow 2 or 3 days or Twelve and more according to our Enlargement of the Prospect shall find that it will answer Expectation which must necessarily prove our Influence whether on the nearer account because of the Proxinity of the Effect to the Cause proposed or in a more enlarged account because no reason can be assigned why Communibus Annis in 500 days it shall rain every 2d Day since that Effect is not observed upon Equal Terms every other day secluding our Aspect Verily ♄ in his Station at least is noted by Eichstad to be a Tenebrous Planet Statio ♄ prima vel secunda tenebras aeris affert § 6. But they joyn Cold with dark Air and to that I say yea at time of the Year and under limitations some such as have bin mentioned Here our Predecessors give us a smart Note or two for the use of the Planter or Husbandman they tell us A o 1572. at the end of October there came a tedious Cold season as Appian
in Cold Weather Where are all the Planets in Frost and Icy Constitutions Mars Venus Mercury are they a sleep or a cold as we say Where is Sun it self when the Snow melts not under his Gleam We know that the Planets simply consider'd may come short of such an Effect in this and that Clime but we speak of Aspects Synods and Schematismes for advantage of Influence Caelestial and observe that even they want their Vigour when they want their Friends about them Martial Aspect not excepted Yet still the difference is preserved of Planetary Influence as Astrology teacheth in that a Martial Configuration happens to be more rarely so deserted as to go away without Testimony a manifest Argument of the true settlement of the Planet's Natures as every one who will take the pains to confute Pretenders shall find One Difficulty I have not started and that is this supposing the Truth of the Premises how Jove though more remote than Mars should not be as warm or warmer than he because of his Greater apparent Diameter and if he be either Equal or Superiour in Warmth how he can represent more cold Weather than ♂ The answer I confess I must ponder upon it for it is a new raised Quaere and must be bid to come another time in the mean while 't is apparent that I oblige my self to dissemble no difficulty § 26. Here I take notice of that of the Antients how our Planet is the Parent of North-Winds which in our Diary we find not If I find Fog I find the East-Wind and if I find Wet I find the West or South-Wind The Diary though not exact brings enough to shew where the Presumption lies In a Mist 't is I confess commonly East in a Dry or fair Season For the Quota for S. and S W. is 112. the East gave 36. North 43. West 62. South 35. There the South carries it South 13. S W. 16 S E. 6. North 8. N W. 4. N E. 3. W. 11. East 8. We shall see further but I fear North-Wind seldom appears but where there is an Interruption of Vacant Sign in the order of the Planets The like I say for Serenity and so in truth Serenity belongs not to any Aspect Primarily of a ☌ or ☠I mean but to absence of some Party concerned in the contrary This is a Novel Assertion and no small Paradox to dare to question that Jove is a Parent per se I mean of the North-Wind or fair Weather though ♃ ♀ are better disposed to Serenity than any other Pair yet the Rule which I advance being so general will take place rather when we shall find both Wind and Weather abroad in the Air where neither Jove nor his Aspects can put in § 27. It will be said is it then only so that ♃ is Cold upon the recess of Planets from such and such a Station I answer no otherwise let us prove it by a little Induction from our own Tables precedent on whose Evidence we build Sept. 29. A o 1661. after a sad Rain and South-West Wind. We find a Cold Night a Northerly Wind and next day Sept. 30. a cold Morning with Frost the Sun hath applyed nearer to Jove grad 1. but the Moon hath made a wider Hyatus and approached the Opposition of Saturn There 's our first Singular The next Instance is large A o 1673. where Five or Six days are concerned Oct. 2. ad 5. again Oct. 7 8 9. This Frost we must know began on Sept. 30. and there the Frost seems to owe it self to the Application to Jupiter for that day but the grand Reason which holds for all those days concerned is the crouding of 5 of the Planets into one Sign and the Dis-ingagement of the Moon from their Company the other consideration I say of approach to ♃ held but for its Day and no more Take a Third Instance A o 1662. Nov. 1. There we meet with Frosty Morning the Cause is not only the contracted space between ☉ and ♃ though That helps but the crouding of 3 together in so little a space Take one more in Dec. 6 7 8. A o 1663. where we find Frost and Snow We find also 4 Planets in a Sign ♄ ♃ ♀ ☿ crouding together within two degrees one of the other and the Moon Stragling on her way not only parted from the Company but forgotten them too only when it lights on the Common ☠to all IV. it made the Snow also § 28. But doth the case stand thus with Saturn also Even the same allowing for his distance Recur if you please to the Table of Sol and Saturn and the First frost there mentioned Sept. 19. A o 1657. holds 4 Mornings together I boldly say 't is not the Conjunction of Sol and Saturn alone produceth that Frost but Primarily and Fundamentally the near approach of 4 Planets into one Sign as before 2. The Propinquity of our Conjunction 3. The Dis-ingagement of Jove from the four and the Lunar Application to Jove so dis-inagaged and with some other Considerables c. And though this may be only lucky that the First Instance should fall right take a 2d Octob. 3. 9 10 11. A o 1658. the Frost of the 3d. day happeneth not only from the Indistance of Sol and Saturn but also from the Dis-ingagement of the Moon from the 3 Planets in Libra and possessing less space than it did before We could add the approches of Mars to Sol and Saturn which must be no wonder to any that believes what we have endeavour'd to make out and is consonant to this great Principle that all Conjunctions as Such not nakedly consider'd for their parts favour cool Air. Yea but an ☠☉ ♃ saith the Objection creates a Frost whatever the ☉ doth and this is the difference between an Aspect of Sol and ♂ Sol and ♃ the former is capable of a Frost the other loves it witness Nov. 1656. 1657. 1668. and Dec. 1669. more notably Thus when time was I argued with my self I answer the Jovial Opposition is cooler than the Conjunction and that according to Premises and the same Opposition again is a greater Cooler than that of Sol and ♂ from the different distance of their Orbs and what more but I fear we shall find that this kindness the Aspect may have for a Cold State of Air still supposes some Prior Fundamental Position of Heaven which declares for that cool State but if the Planets run in a huddle into a narrow confine it is manifest there must be Conjunctions in Fieri In like manner as at such time if the other Hemisphere be occupyed by any Planet there must be ☠in either case so it is not one single Aspect thereby creates a Frost but the Alteration of a Major Part some whereof meet others fly off so like unhappy Commanders in an Army they consent not with the whole to keep out the Enemy by maintaining their Posts and Passes at such
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
Snowing As before A o 1625. Dec. 14 15 16 17. the same Now for Five Febr. 23 24 25 26 27. Stormy Rainy and Sleet § 36. 'T is easie to parallel this out of the Table of the Storms recorded long before last Century For even A o 1526. we meet with extreme Darkness for 10 days A o 1597. Aug. 17. Our English Fleet were disperst so that they met not till September 5. A o 1598. Jan. 8. lands the Seamen having indured many Storms A o 1615. Octob. the 1. after much Sea Troubles had Sight of Land Nay on Sept. 9. 1598. the Weather was sad and Stormy that in Two Months they had not one Fair day Time was when we thought 50 days too much when it rained so that Corn failed with us in England 1526. and yet our Aspect or Table is yet more unmerciful for in some years with some interruption more or less we often meet with 3 Months Disturbance July August September 1547. and A o 1548. May June July Add Sept. Novemb. Dec. 1557. and 1577. June July Aug Sept. 4 Months A o 1578. So when Gemma tells us that Totius Anni status A o 1562. was infested with Tempests and Storms our Aspect of ♃ and ♂ shall answer for the first 5 Months found twice in the same Sign in that while But may I not mistake non Causa pro Causa I answer not well amids such Testimony I le reach you but one Instance The 50 days Rain when Corn failed we scruple not to assign to our ☠as a Cause Nor will any man else when he sees the Bodies concern'd lodged in ♊ and ♠not excluding the ☠of ♃ and ☿ but we assert our Aspect to make one and a great One and that so confidently that by this we dare convince Lycosthenes of a slip who post-pones that wet Spring to 1528. because there is no such drenching Aspects appear in that after year of which Slips there are too many saving the great usefulness of the Design But I do not pretend to convince all by Astrology Concluding there are more obvious means by comparing other Records c. However this slip I evince by this Method § 37. The Length and the violent Starts of this Aspect being considered we need not wonder if we find prodigious Inundations too often under it where among others that at Home and in Holland A o eod though not the same Month and our Home Inundation in Somersetshire at the beginning of this Century will never be forgotten by the places concerned § 38. Now shall not we who pretend to great things say somewhat to That in our following Table First and miserable deluge in Holland where so many Towns were swallowed up tops of whose Turrets to this Day peep out of the Water I know not on what account omitted by some Annalists where 100000. People were Drown'd I am not such an Atheist as to magnifie second Causes to the prejudice of the First In my Philosophy They illustrate his Glories not Eclipse them I would advise therefore some of our beloved Neighbours of the Low Countries to watch the Caelestial Positions of that time in particular there is a concourse of our two Superiours in ♠Especially if about the beginning of Nov. which they may know is apt to Floods For in this year 1521. ♃ and ♂ are found in ♠the one in the beginning of the Sign the other at the End And is not that First according to our Principle And again is there any other Aspect near that is Considerable And yet again This being not our Only Instance in ♃ and ♂ as we shall see Who knows but a little insight in Astrology may save 100000. Lives § 39. The Next dire Inundation at Rome where the waters were Raised the depth of the Longest Spear They may please to take heed of a Congress of the Planets in ♎ if two of the Superiours be amongst them for so we find a ☌ ♃ ♂ in the beginning of ♎ not without assistance when their Inundation happen'd and Lo about a Month after what with Winds and Rain Nov. 6. such another Floud Ut Telluris obratae Clades pecorum homines interit us non satis describi possit saith Gemma Flouds by ♃ ♂ § 40. Anno 1521. Nov. 1. Dire Inundation in Holland 72 Villages drowned Fromond Met. Lib. 5. Stow ♑ 11. ♂ 24. ♃ 1529. June 14 Basil in Switzerland Rains continual and Flouds remembred by a Monument Lyc. ♌ 22. ♃ ♒ 16. ♂ 1530. Octob. 8. Inundation of Tiber at Rome Mizald hor. noct 11. Nov. 1. Deluge in Holland and Flanders Gem. 1. 183. Grimston ♎ 9. ♃ 7. ♂ supra in ♂ ☿ p. 249. 1532. Nov. mens Inundation in Zealand Mizald. Surius ♠16. ♂ 4. ♃ ♎ 23. ♀ ♂ ☿ p. 249. supra 1551. Marpurg Jan. 10. Great Inundation breaking down the Stone-Bridge of the Country Lyc. ♊ 22. ♃ 29. ♂ Add ♀ and ♃ in ☠Febr. 20. Inundation after the ☽ recover'd from the Eclipse lasted almost two Months Peucer 385. ♊ 21. ♃ ♋ 1. ♂ 1556. April 23. Bruxels Tempest of Hail harmful and Flouding at Lovain in the mean time fair Weather Gemma 2 30. ♉ 12. ♂ ♠2. ♃ add ♊ 12. ♀ 1557. Sept. 10. In Languedoc Thunder Lightning Hail and Floud upon it which was not in Memory of Man Gem. 2 31. ♃ and ♂ in ♠E Paradino Sept. 14. at Rome and Recorded Thuanus And so at the East-Indies 1571. Lovain Febr. 5. Great Indations Gem. 2 68. ♒ 28. ♃ ♓ 6. ♂ 1579. Febr. 10. After a deep Snow continual Rain a long time so that Westminster-Hall was Floated Stow ♠12. ♃ R. ♉ 18. ♂ 1607. Jan. 10. Vast Inundation in Somersetshire after a great Rain and Spring-Tide in some places 20 Miles in Length How 's Calvis ♓ 7. ♃ ♈ 2. ♂ 1627. Sept. 10. Danubius ripas egressus Kepl. ♠26. ♃ ♊ 4. ♂ Die 18. Rock Wasser Kyr 1629. Octob. 2. Westminster Hall floated ♑ 27. ♃ ♋ 11. ♂ Floud in Holsatia High Spring Tide Chilorey Transact 2063. Yea and Mexico 1168. Jan. 23 24 25. Norimberg Much Rain and Wasser Fluth Kyr ♠4. ♃ 19. ♂ 1649. June 17. Rain all Night High Flouds ♠16. ♂ ♎ 9. ♃ 1627. Sept. 9. In Franconia nube rupta tanta aquarum vis decidit ut in aliquot pagis domus eversae homines cum armentis submersi c. Calvis To these we add which have escaped Collection A o 1528. June 14. Floud at Basil in Switzerland Lyc. 538. ♌ 22. ♃ ♒ 16. ♂ A o 1547. Aug. 12. Cataracts and Flouds ♓ 9. ♃ ♠1. ♂ ☿ 1555. Sept. 21. Westminster-Hall floated Stow 22 23. Childrey ♠27. ♃ 29. ♂ 1670. March 10. Inundation Childrey Transact ♒ 9. ♃ ♌ 23. ♂ 1571. Dec. 17. Inundation at the Rhine in Nemetibus at the Rhine in France ♓ 16. ♃ ♠26. ♂ Thuanus 1579. Octob. 14. Sea swell'd How 's ♎ 22. ♂ ♠19. ♃
the year we will find sureties to make it good for Planets opposing ♓ and â™ see A o 1571. before But if it happened about July and Aug. we have a Cardinal â–¡ between ♃ and ♂ which helps us beyond expectation 1606. At Bantam Octob. 13. About Midnight an Earthquake very terrible for the time Purch I. 385. ♄ ♂ in ♑ ♃ ♂ entring on ☌ I must not say Well met 1606. Dec. 13. At Bantam about Midnight T. M. Purch 1. 385. ☌ in fin â™’ 1609. April 2. St. N. Near Teraltas in the East-Indies a Rock burning in the Sea always smoaking Verhuef apud Purch I. 717. ♉ 17. ♃ ♊ 1. ♂ May 3. St. N. Great T. M. at Nera not unusual in those parts the day before the Dutch built their Castle there Purch I. 717. ♉ 24. ♃ ♊ 21. ♂ 1610. June 1 11. Hecla casting out Fire Purch 817. All the Planets engaged ♃ and ♂ not in ☌ or ☠but in Cardinal â–¡ 1616. July 29. St. N. Under the Line we had an Earthquake which made our men run out of their Cabins our Ship seeming as to strike against the ground when casting out our Lead we found none Schouten's Voyage about the World Purch 1 105. the ☠is almost Partile in the Tropical Height Die 7. St. N. A high hill casting Fire and Flame from the top thereof not far from Guinea Purch 1. 103. â™ 21. ♃ ♊ 6. ♂ which Aspect is complicated with ♀ also Mark whether this is the third or fourth time of this Aspect in its Rampant Height 1618. March 12. If it be St. N. ♂ and ♃ are engaged 1619. January 29. Near Franckford ad Moenum It belongs to ♃ and ♀ their Congress in ♓ but ♃ and ♂ are engaged to charge one the other in the Entry of their Opposal Again at Ratisbone T. M. sub obscurè animadversus â™ 6. ♂ ♉ 12. ♃ May 13 21. In the upper Burgundia and Alsatia Kepler agrees with us here imputing it to a repeated ☠of ♃ and ♂ Annot. ad Mensem He is in the right although his Printer mistakes ♄ for ♃ In the right I say for if I find one Aspect lasting a Twelve month upon the Matter as this doth I will find it with monstrous Effects For behold a Third T. M. Aug. 20 30. near the Mein and the Rhine but the next Aspect enters a Caveat 1625. Dec. the 18. at Norimberg ♈ 10. ♂ ♎ 25 ♃ 1626. At Worms Kyr Feb. 1. see here the same Aspect produces two Earthquakes in Dec. at one place in Jan. at another Febr. 6 16. Una Rupium lacui Gamundiensi iminentium findi in contraria discedere visa est Kepler It was believed he says to portend the Seditions of the Boors which followed that Omen we speak not to that now but we hope that the Reader will suspect with us that the ☠of ♃ and ♂ portended the Earthquake 1627. July 20 30. After Thunder and Lightning in Germany at least for 8 days after an Eclipse of the ☽ to make them remember An horrible Earthquake destroyed several Towns in poor Apulia where Kepler discovers no Celelestial Cause and I fancy no Causes but Celestial for the Subterranean Fires are but the matter on which our Causes operate Let any one that cares for an Ephemeris mark whether ♄ is not posited at the end of â™ I hope that Celestial cause may be proved from the foregoing Chapter of the Saturnine Earthquakes Mark secondly whether the ☽ dont oppose him at the entrance of ♓ that little Cause is not ridiculous but to say no more let him mark whether ♃ be not Stationary in â™ 21. and ♂ opposed in ♉ 9. Now â™ 21. is not far from â™ 24. Say no more Nov. 14. St. Vet. Norimberg T. M. Kyr ♉ 28. ♂ â™ 9. ♃ The truth is ♂ opp ♃ ☉ ♀ ☿ he penetrates not into the Aspect that thinks it only brought a little fair Weather at the beginning of the Month. Here is a double Earthquake again this year before this Aspect has taken its leave 1628. A Fame of an Earthquake Jan. 9. Kepl. ♂ and ♃ lye at this distance ♂ 24. ♉ â™ 22. ♃ I can scarce forbear giving my Judgement why I think the report was true there need no great studying the point for â™ 22. and ♉ 24. 't is but looking wishly on their Faces and when you meet them you 'l know them again 1632. October 8. at Naples ♃ ♉ 24. ♂ â™ 27. quere in ♄ ♃ 1640. April 14. Mechlin Terrae motus ☌ ♃ ♂ Helmont 1645. Jan. 19. Norimberg T. M. with Thunder Snow Kyr ♉ 21. ♃ ♊ 17. ♂ so at Poictiers in France T. M. with a horrid Tempest Memoires Ludovici XII 1650. Vesuv burns Transact 968. if happens in March April or May our Aspect will answer it 1665. Near Oxford Jan. 19. Transact p. 166. ♃ ♂ in â™’ see ☌ ♄ ♃ 1668. Sept. 3. Garibee Isles 29. in France 8 ♃ ♂ ♊ â™ 1669. May 12. Vesuvius cast out Smoke Saunderson ☌ ♃ ♂ in ♊ 1676. Febr. 3. Colepit Fires Transact ♃ and ♂ in ♑ 1670. At Kenebunch in the Province of Main a piece of Clay Ground thrown up by a mineral Vapour over the Tops of high Oaks into the River stopping its passage the hole 40 yards Square wherein were thousands of Clay Bullets as big as Musket Ball and pieces of Clay like Musket Barrel So at Gosco one and twenty miles off and Fish in some ponds thrown up dead upon the banks A wonderful number of Herrings cast up at high Water on black point harbour for a mile together Josselin ♃ ♂ in Tropical signs ♂ retrograde till Autumn then comes an ☠of ♄ ♃ ♂ besides a ☌ of ♄ ♂ in ♓ § 66. We have not been all the way Sollicitous of the Circumstances of T. M. we cannot brook a Frightful Story that is over long Our Spirits droop and our Bloud runs into Serum with no vivid Colour in it Frights we know dispossess some of their Wits They disturb the most obdurate Heart Who can hearken with Pleasure to the Doleful Note of the Screech Owl Yet I could not pass over some dire Circumstances which usually appear upon the Stage when the Gacodemon enters 'T is enough we have noted it before to shew their conjunct dependance on the Heavens § 67. The Cognation also between the Subterranâ—â—n Fires breaking forth from Hecla or Vesuvius being confess'd we see no reason but the Colepit which the Transactions tells us fired on such a day should be reduced under this Head and that with probability not only from the likeness of the Phaenomena but the likeness or Identity of the Aspect Even the Back-Friends to Astrology we have seen confess the Heavens have Power on the Mines of Germany c. I would fain know where they have not I will not stretch a Text to the Center which only meant perhaps the Surface There 's nothing hid from the Solar Heat but when
2. then besure ♃ ♂ are within Terms also note his ☌ with ♀ would be scarce Innocent But this is not all To see that our Aspect will be owned as we have more then once observed the Aspect which entred about the middle of Aug. runs through ♋ ♌ and falls not till almost August enters again conecting the Pestilences of those years and twisting them into one Thrid though the Winter perhaps be a little more Slender and the Aestival more Cable-like in my mind who Plead for co-existence of Causes with Effects This is considerable others may enjoy their Principles where I poor Grosse-Test can find no Footing Alass Who can walk upon the Water 1649. Sickly London Graunt ☌ ♃ ♂ in July c. That is too pat I list not to speak of the Pest at Amsterdam and Harlem because they fall not under any Aspect of the Superiors For as considerable as they are they do not exhaust all the Doctrine of the Causes of Pestilence over-head They are to be produc'd in a Planetary Tract rather Only this agrees and suits with what is before deliver'd that on September the 27th which proved the Highest Week we can point out one that is guilty and scarce flies for the same A □ though not ☌ ♃ ♂ 1658. Sickly City in London Grant I want the Weekly account here and perhaps there is no need of it ♃ ♂ together in ♋ at the beginning of Summer which least they should cool in June and July are renewed by a deputy Congress of ☿ instead of ♂ ☿ Stationary or Retr we have said is as Malefique as any ♂ of them all 1661. In ♄ 's Table it may be objected that the Bill did not start up in to 500. c. till ♄ and ♂ were expired be it so But have we not said even now that ♀ Stationary is equivalent to ♂ and that is entred upon a ☌ with ♃ before the Start and lasts till ☌ ♄ ♂ comes in at October who are met in ♠But that ☌ is innocent in comparison of what we advance ☌ ♃ ☿ Stationary in ♠the highest Week whose Total was 600. Aug. 27. under the said ☌ ♃ ☿ Stationary 1665. There remains A o 1665. A 100000. Persons more it may be than are born in a years time throughout England I am not pleased with Aug. 1690. nor perhaps July 91. nor May c. 92. but I hope London will never tast the like There were Councils of War and Parties and Ambushes and Retreats 't is a wonder to see the Military Discipline There were ♄ ♀ in Tropic ☠in May. There was ♄ and ☿ in the same ☠There we had ♄ opposing ♀ ☿ both Stationary in June Do you hear or understand our Terms There was ♄ ♀ opposing ♀ ☿ still Stationary in July where ♄ got into Opposition with ♂ and now the Thousands are blown up into a Swelling Total ♃ ♂ inflames the Mortality Bill to 7000. when ☠♃ ♂ mingles which begins according to us in the midst of Aug. In September ♃ ♂ with ♀ holds up the Malignity And Oh unhappy but too true observation at the time of the ☠think you the Bill was at highest after it pleas'd God it decreased And How many think you Even 1800. in the next Week because the Aspect after the Congress is Weaker in the Recess than in the Access as in other cases hath bin said but the succeding Week proved not so the measure of abatement was not half the former Sum to shew it is not the Declension of the Sun only or the Time of the year in general for then it would have abated in Proportion but 't is some other more particular disposition of that Woful year 1665. Howbeit in the midst of October it remitted by 1800 again in ☠though still yet upon leaving the Aestival Sign ♌ which Signs Aestival are the Life of the Death the Vigour and Sting next to Sin is the cause of all Here I observed that if it had abated a 1000 per week by Novembers midst there should have been but two hundred or say 3. or 460. Funerals but in the midst of Nov. we find 1300. and the following 900. because in my opinion the Aspect was not disengaged till that time Then it was and lo the Week was content with a pretty reasonable and ordinary Sum of 500 and odd To them be it who make ill use of these Discourses who can believe a Prime Cause and yet admit no second or will not Worship him unless he acts by Miracle No man seems to magnifie the Deity more than an Enthusiast but the Sober Principle resisting no Light Loves and fears God as He is and as he shews himself not ridiculous either to Christians or Heathens Thus doth the Pestilence walk in Darkness the Sickness destroys at the noon day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Not two Evil Angels as the Talmudists yea the Chaldee Paraphrase Septuagint consenting but the Striking Influence Diurnal Nocturnal Those Arrows from Heaven that fly by Day and Those Mortal surprizes that ensnare us by Night whence the Psalm is called a Song of Evil Occurrents for as the Prime Cause makes his Sun to Shine on the Just and the Unjust so he makes his Planets and Fixed Stars to burn us where he pleaseth For no body tells us that in Contagious Diseases Nights are more easily passed than the days the Celestial Influence being equal as in the Chasme Motion of the Seas Tempests and Earthquakes is apparent Where upon I was apt to think that Those Hebrew Doctors for their imperfect Notices of things increased by a glimpse perhaps of the Wasting Spirit in the Word there used might construe it of Spirits which was to be interpreted of Influences So I say that whatsoever Truth there may be in the Jewish Glosses of That and other Places in Holy Writ seeing it owns a Destroying Angel and Evil Angels are more busie not only in Temptations but also Ministerial Executions of Wrath I must whatsoever becomes of Tempests not be engaged to discharge our Influences The year 1665. was generally noted for a Dry Misty year if the Influences caused that Constitution they had a hand in the Malady Currents under ♃ and ♂ § 69. For Currents c. I am aware that I may seem like a Horse used to the Road and cannot get out but when I consider that I do hereby advance a Stock toward the Discovery of the Cause whether Celestial or no I shall find some Mitigation of Censure Here we have but a few to trouble the Reader as 1609. Febr. 19. High Water at London-Bridge when it should have been Dead Low Childrey p. 95. ♉ 10. ♂ 11. ♃ 1616. Aug. 7. Calm and strong Current ♠18. ♃ ♋ 4. ♂ ☌ ♀ ☿ 1618. Dec. 19. Great Current fell the Admiral in danger of Shipwrack ♠4. ♃ ♎ 2. ♂ ☌ ☉ ☿ □ ♄ ♃ 1620. March 5. A Current ♈ 13. ♂ 19. ♃ May the 8. A
☉ ♃ and ☽ are 3. 1626. Jan. 16. ☉ ♀ and ☽ are 3. ♀ and ☽ 's Latitude being consider'd not far from one another 1628. Dec. 10. ☉ ♃ ☿ are 3 too never to be question'd and one the 16th the ☽ makes 4. 1629. Octob. 6. ☉ ♄ and ☽ are owned to be in ☌ Nor is the ☽ too far distant on the 10th day Sometimes we meet 4. engag'd in two but more commonly 3. engag'd in one Triple ☌ In all these ♃ and ♂ are concern'd We meet with one exception and that is Febr. 25. S. V. 1645. if 2 gr width can put them out of case 'T is not ♃ 's Brightness only no question but the proportion also that he bears to the rest that are upon the Scene This will be granted I hope that Planets in ♋ ♌ ♠can easily dart up their Light above the Horizon on certain days and hours and you shall find that this Clarity never comes to pass but when 2 or 3. if not more are posited in these Signs or their Opposites Yea and the Months that are above specified do accord Verily as to ♃ ♂ I must own that Kepler has noted a Splendent Air in the day-time a Spurious Serenity as in the Notes of September 8. 1624. January 9. 1626. Jan. 18. 1626. A Brightness of such consistency as bodeth Wet this is certain that the Nocturnal Clarity among the Country People is a sign of Rain and he that pleases to look over the places quoted in Kepler will find it so ☉ Pallidus § 73. When we meet with ☉ Pallidus here 9. or 10 times we may think it is caused by that Influence which ♃ hath upon Mist which according to the difference of its Density does represent the ☉ and the ☽ now red now pale as a more Watrish Cloud makes him shine Watry but They who look nearer into the Diary and observe how Judicious a Person Kepler was may be apt to think there is something more in it than a Mist or Fog when he shall find that Mist is a Stile by it self and ☉ Pallidus for the most part by its self 'T is true if this diversity should arise only from the Medium it were scarce worth the mention but if there should be at the time a perfect Serenity it would imply some other Passion of ☉ co-existent perhaps with that Crassitude of Air expressed only A o 1617. not elsewhere Now if it were through a Mist I say 't is a wonder to me that Kepler should observe so many Mists in 3 years A o 1622. 1623. 1624. and never a ☉ Pallidus all the time 'T is not improbable therefore but it may be some grudgings of the Maculae near the Disk of the ☉ together with some disturbance of the Medium if any such were nearer to us Sure I am that these Maculae Solares are recorded at or near the very times where most of these Solar Palenesses are mention'd and sure I am that ♂ and ♃ in ☌ or ☠are of strong and stubborn Influence The □ of ♃ and ♂ will make a Mist a ☌ or ☠not excluding the Minor Aspects of ☉ with ☿ c. can do more The days above specified are these 1617. March 3 4 5. ☉ Pallidius ♑ 25. ♃ ♌ 21. ♂ 1626. Sept. 18. ♠20. ♄ ♠3. ♃ ♎ 4. ♂ ♎ 7. ☉ 28. ☿ Octob. 13. ♠25. ♄ ♠2. ♂ 12. ♃ 4 ☿ 17. ☉ 1627. July 18. ♠21. ♃ ♉ 8. ♂ Octob. 28. ♠6. ♃ ♊ 4. ♂ 1628. April 6. ♑ 3. ♃ ♋ 5. ♂ May 1 2. ♑ 22. ♋ 19. ☠May 18. ♎ 4. ♄ ♑ 1. ♃ ♋ 29. ♂ ♊ 7. ☉ ♋ 17. ♀ Dec. 8. ♎ 21. ♄ ♑ 10. ♃ ♠13. ♂ 27. ☉ ♑ 10. ☿ ♠10 ♀ Dec. 18. ♑ 13. ♃ ♠20. ♂ 1629. September 20. ♑ 27. ♃ ♋ 6. ♂ I do not go about to deny I say there may be Mists and Fog in the case but I surmise also another more intimate Sullage to contribute tho' perhaps by it Self except by the curious less observable By it self I say less observable yet in Conjunction with another may increase the sickly appearance So use we to see in a Damp Air and a moistned Eye a bright Nocturnal Iris about Light in our Chamber Neither can we let pass the Bloody Hue wherein the ☉ appeared Sept. 29. 1571. throughout a great part of Germany though worth the notice of Thuanus an ☠of ♃ ♀ fell near the day Sept. 20. but besides a ☌ ♄ ☿ in a critical place we have our Aspect of ♃ ♂ has taken fast hold ♌ 22. ♒ 24. and we are sure that these Causes assigned have their realty because other Prodigies also happen about the same time rationally concluding that where Nature breaks out into rare Symptoms there she is diseased § 74 For the Maculae we need not be so punctual to let out their Line or to take them short as in Comets otherwise I would say that beside distance between ♂ ☉ and ♀ we find ♃ and ♂ opposed at the end of ♊ and ♠for those Spots which appeared from Sept. 26. S. N. ad Octob. 6. in the Rosa Ursina and those that succeeded from Octob. 5. to the 15. The reason seems to be because we meet with the Macula when our two Planets were in the critical place of ♊ 25. ♠22. and we hear nothing of all the year before from Jan. to Sept. whilst yet the ☠was in being most of the time Another reason may be because while ♂ receded from the ☠♃ he applyed to ☠♄ the reason why we have another appearance ab Octob. 25. S. N. ad 31. A o 2. à May 15. ad 21. Sheiner and again à 20. ad 26. I have reason to think that beside the appearance of Three Planets by the ingress of ☿ in ♉ the Vicinity of ♂ ♃ did contribute because on the 20. day there 's a new appearance upon the account now of 3 in ♊ our two Planets and the ☉ Another appearance from June 10. ad 14. We do not without reason impute to ♃ and ♂ joined amongst the rest when the Aspect salutes us Jun. 2. S. N. A o 1624. à 13. Sept. ad 26. We have a ☌ ♃ ♂ within the term and they contribute joined one with the other as well as ♀ joined with ☉ of which ☌ ☉ ♀ I wonder if Sheiner have taken notice I fear he hath not but as ☿ hath bin suspected to have been a Macula so ♀ may be suspected to cause one to me 't is obvious Certainly on the 17. day ♃ and ♂ are as near as ♀ can be and what Influence may they have in the next appearance from day 22. ad Octob. 6. at what time our Planets are but at 8 degrees distance Verily They both hold to the next appearance of Sept. 28. ad Octob. 14. The next A o 1625. From Jan. 8. ad 24. S. N. where 't is reason to believe upon
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.
notable or Eminent Contributors toward the same for who can exclude the Sun Who ♂ ♀ ☿ or ☽ it self In Branching Comets 't is clear the Sun hath to do by the Projection of the Tail therefrom We have heard something of the Rest also having seen Comets appear at the Triple ☌ of ♄ ♃ ♂ in that great year 1524. when the ☽ in 30 hours space made her Transit through them all the like whereof saith Kepler perhaps was never known and we presume the Arabians did not deny such explication of their mind But 2ly we have a greater Reserve To the Erratick we add All the Fixed that are affected by such Erraticks and how many These are within the Zodiack our former Discourses adventure to shew the Fixed are quite other things plainly Immense Globes of Light shining with their own Native Flame and big enough upon irritation of the Planets which is always necessary to make Stars as great as themselves Thousands can make a product equal to any Singular more must not be said in this place but the very Roving of the Comets shew the one and the Fixedness also infers the same The New-Star does not Budge from the Stars in Ophiuchus It argues their intimate connexion Shew me a New Fixed Star in a bare place and we shall demurr but that in 1572. was not nor that in 1603. § 48. There remains no more to be said on this head I take it for to meddle with the ☌ ♄ ♃ which are call'd Maximae and the Distinctions of the Fiery Watry c. Trigons performed in 794 years space with the Great Mutations of the World pretended to be introduced thereby The Foyle of our great Sire The Days of Enoch The Floud The Law of Moses The Foundation of Rome our Blessed Saviour Charlemaign c. as they seem to be fine Speculations exhibited after the Arabians had muster'd some such observables in Kepler and Ricciolus I do with all deliberation leave them as I found them in as much as my ambition is rather to contribute a Mite toward the advancement of the Celestial Philosophy and the Student whatsoever who shall think fit to take so useful a Theory into his Encyclopaedy On which account I list not to enter a dispute or to pass my Judgement of the Star at the Epiphany of our Lord though Kepler fixed it upon a ☌ of ♄ ♃ de Nova Stella My Employ is about matter great enough for my undertaking without Soaring so high as Alliaco and other Professors § 49. With what face can an Astrologer who lately contended for Drought now talk of Flouds but we have said 't is no contradiction for the rule is Idem qud idem But now the case is altered and you will please to remember the Oracles which spoke of Droughts mentions Flouds also We have been dipt in Flouds before but there is no avoiding them They return upon us again in the name of ☌ ♄ ♃ The First Floud we find is in the Kingdom of Naples usher'd in as Junctine will have it by a Comet V. Kal. Nov. 1523. the Flud it seems following the Summer after 1524. in which time the Summer being full of Cataracts as Alsted hath it a dire Inundation reach'd and made Havock of Houses Villages Men Cattle as far as the reach of 32. Italian Miles Lycosth and others The Constitution of the Summer so Violent and so portracted shews a Commensurate Cause which can be no other but the Long-Spun Aspect of ♄ and ♃ with the Hits of the Rest For in August they lye within 20 degrees one of the other In June but 15. in both distances apt enough though a good Diary of that Drowning Summer would be worth Money § 50. A o 1534. Lyc. notes Flouds in Poland he notes the same thing twice I suppose p. 553. 555. In the later page he takes notice that All Europe beside labour'd under Drought Inund Max. fuere Caeteris terris per Europam arescentibus Not unlikely this for ♃ is opposed to ♄ in in such a qu that it may bring forth a Drought that is out of question with us that this Drought may not in some places obtain is as unquestionable with Observers Now the others may believe what the Learned say in this Matter that a Drought in some places is a Sign of a Tempest in another more especially a rapid not a temperate Drought So much may places differ Now this you must know is an ☠But the same Author reports before Dire Inundations as he calls them in Flanders about Antwerp c. A o 1533. ♄ in fine ♋ ♃ in ♑ princip he is not distinct for the time but difference of Position changes the Influence And the Truth is Drought is the natural product of this Aspect for many days Flouds from Rain excessive or Hail are but the Exacerbations as we have said of Nature caused not from our Planets but by the mixture of such Potent Influences with others set and prepared for such Effect whereuppon give me leave to note the One as well as the Other ☠as well as ☌ as they take place or behold the next Opposition of our Planets newly entred Peucer tells us that there was such a Drought after the end of Aug. that very Ponds were dryed up and the Fruits of the Earth mourned p. 382. He imputes it Good Man to the Solar Eclipse Aug. 31. A o 1551. But it were worth knowledge whether the Drought was not extra suas causas before the Eclipse if but a day or two before 't is enough for whatsoever Cardan somewhere fancies that such Effects may anticipate their Causes Credulity it self cannot believe it Though it be then the ingress of of our Aspect this year yet 't is January following 1552. we hear of many Flouds Lycosth and it was day Jan. 12. saith Gemma Flouds in January may come by a Wet Weather or by Snows dissolv'd True but excess of Wet and Flouds come not no not in Winter without some Exteriour Cause or Conspiracy of Causes Conspiracies said I I look'd upon the Ephemeris and I found the Luck of my Expression for here if ever there was a Conspiracy of ☉ ♀ ☿ ♂ All in ♑ and ♃ in ♋ All the Inferiours engaged against ♃ whose Moisture while he resists he enforceth or increaseth Now if these be allowed of one hand opposing ♃ then ♄ must be allowed on the other hand lying at the same Posture and Distance on his side as ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ do on theirs Nay if you here confess five of the Planets you must confess the Rest For ♃ is 't is true Superiour but ♄ is Higher See the Truth of our Pretensions ♄ ♃ of themselves cause Drought mix'd and engag'd over Head and Ears cause Flouds § 51. I cannot in conscience call for those manifest Overflows which happen'd at Whitsontide the precedent year which Stanhurst says Non sine lacrymis vidimus though I do believe ♄ and ♃ in immediate Signs
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in the same place Ergo the Sun and Moon are not the Causes But still the Argument is Cripple which saith Ergo not the Heavens A blind Consequence that sees not more Lights than two in the Heavens It will be said that by the same day 12 Month or 19 Years rather the Objection means the Sun Moon and Fixed Stars What then Are not the Planets overlook't Do they make nothing of a World The Planets are Worlds They know the Sun is bigger than the Earth a World Celestial ♄ is a World as say Pretenders less than the Sun c. Now for the Fixed Stars what hath the same day 12 Months to do with any of them But those few only that relate to the Sun and Moon there posited If the Objector do believe as he doth not that the Fixed are concerned with the Sun the Controversie would be soon dispatch't for the Fixed would also be found to be concerned which relates to ♄ 's or ♃ 's places c. And that which is a high Truth VII Companies at least of the Fixed are concerned every day according to the number of the Erratiques which transit by them And if it rains not the same day 12 Month the failure proceeds from the different marshalling of those Companies But the VII are always engaged to every day of the Month or year And hence comes the Halt or delay of the Weather which the Objection takes notice of Most times the beginning of March is Stormy sometimes the End not according as the matter is prepared as if the Womb of the Air teemed so many Days Weeks and Months before it brought forth and then by the same degrees returned to its Sterlity This is the Grave Idea which men have of Natures Productions attributing to One what belongs to VII For Matter may be prepared and unprepared and prepared again as often as the Air is overcast and the Winds blow hollow and drive away the Clouds Matter may be prepared in an Hours time the Wind may turn in an Instant verily as soon as the Sun is set 't is ordinary for the Wind to vere about 'T is ordinary for one Wind to blow by Night and another by Day The Barometer will shew us the Truth of this which will change in an Hour or two from Fair to Rainy and never shews above a day before hand The reason is when there are more Workmen about the Preparation then is imagined the more sudden is the Effect So that hence also comes that Dissonancy of the Weather not complyant with the Season Cold at Midsummer and warm at Christmass because every Planet but the Sun Venus and Mercury are at liberty The Sun first makes the Season Venus and Mercury attend him but the ☽ we know and ♂ ♄ and ♃ may saunter or make Excurons where they please to take up their Winter Quarters by themselves while the Sun and his Gang are meteing out the Vernal or Summer Seasons § 74. According to the Nature of the Months April we know is inclined to Rain May to Warmth June to Showres July and August to Heat January to Rain February to Snow March to Hail and Turbulency Suppose these Months be mingled together as they are mixt by Planetary Motion the same Weather will the Planets assuredly make being found in the Signs answering thereto So that if it be warm at time of the year because the Motion of the Sun chalks out the Months of July and August it may Rain at that time because a Fourth Planet may be in April's Quarters and Hail because a fifth may be in Marches Limits And do not the Vulgar confess that many times One Months Weather is found in anothers Yes verily Place now Planets enough in Winter Signs and it may Freeze in March and Snow in April yea as we have heard not impossible in June § 75. Oh! But the same Planets never meet again the second time in the same Place and Posture We answer they may meet again in Equivalent places For do we think there are 365. kinds of Weather Do not divers Places in the Heavens agree in the same inclination Doth it Rain only in April Is not June Dripping and November December c. So the seeming great Objection vanishes Either the same Planets may meet in Equivalent Places or Equivalent Planets may meet in the same Places Verily not Picus nor Gassendus with all their Causes per se or per what they please can give account of One Frost dissolved in Winter No Not after they have felt the Benefit of the milder Air nor of One Chill day in Summer though they have smarted by it much less of a solitary Constitution when one or two days shall strangely thrust themselves into a Month of a Contrary temper They admire and despair to find the Reason why Winter dare not sometimes shew his hoary Head Bald at all times but sometimes not Hoary at all and yet at other times march towards the torrid Zone pass the Line and Face the Aestival Camp No account I say can they give of a White Easter and a Soultry Christmas Snow in May or April and Thunder in December No reason for Long and Lasting Rains seeing the Earths Evaporation is not responsible because the Earth according as the Fires are continually at work Evaporates in Drought as well as Moisture § 76. Gassendus observes indeed p. 996. that the Workmen in the Mines presage Rain upon the rising of the Fumes Subterranean Let those Workmen or some body for them be taught to consult an Ephemeris and they may chance to find some bonny Aspect at that time as we may see in the Aspects of the Superiours which plainly agrees with our Hypothesis and teacheth that all nature is troubled at their Presence being irritated more at one time than another Now that all Nature is troubled to make a digression and the Subterranean Fumes the Evidences of such Trouble do rise at the Presence of Aspects I have met with a remarkable Instance or two to lead in those who can make Additions The First above an hundred years ago in the Month of July An. 1547. which I shall tell in a Famous Doctors own Words in the Margin of his Ephemeris viz. Primo Julii apud Harreret Cati duo Longam postpugnam in fontem morientes utrique inciderunt Pater familias fontem in fici istis cadaveribus haud cupiens puerum demisit istos ut educeret at puer ipse mortuus extractus est descendit homo alter his mortuus etiam tertius insaniâ correptus Patris Familias nomen fuit Ryve duodecim mill pass à Fulburnia factum The Later but lately indeed viz. Aug. IV. 1679. the day when most parts of England felt the Dire Lightning and Thunder to their Cost Those of our Neighbour Borough in Southwark remember it by a Woman slain with Lightning dwelling in Kent Street yea and by this Story parallel to the former when a young man a
in Martial Aspects It may be the dark and dismal Sunday in the Morning is not yet forgotten It happen'd not far from an ☠☉ ♂ whatsoever else frown'd at that time upon us § 17. To speak of the Cold upon occasion of the years -76. -13. is not needdful specially if we remember that ♂ as we have said sits uneasie so that the state of the Air stands upon a ticklish point when ♂ and ☉ are with one and the other in a Frosty Season and conclude to bring in a Thaw as Dec. 21. in the year 1676. as is noted in the Diary For though an ☠be chill of Nature as touched before and weaker Signs must be debilitudes yet ♠♑ ♒ ♓ are very mutable from one extream to the other when they are conscious they have a Friend at the other Hemisphere in the opposite Sign For this is mysterious as in the Chess-board An Aspect bare and naked may do little but alass it may be fortified by this or that appulse then the removing of one man alters the Game § 18. I conclude with the apparition of ♀ by day-Light I have observed Astronomers mistaken in their conjectures in the point we who enquire must be suspicious what if our Aspect should help to clear the Air so as to make the plains more conspicuous ♀ and ♂ as ☉ and ♀ have a brightness of air sometimes attending the same Aspect which at other times makes darkness sometimes after mist clarifies the Air. Our Table witnessing that the Aspect sometimes takes up the Fog Jan. 19. 1679. which at other times else fell thick and threefold Nay under the ☌ as well as ☠we meet with ♀ shewing her self Anno 1660. Oct. 30. CHAP. VI. □ ☉ and ♂ § 1 The First Square after the Lunar deserves some consideration in the former Square ♂ rises before the ☉ contrary to what the ☽ did in the Lunar 2. First Squares home-Diary 3. Nothing antimartial in the Diary 4. In the first Square the days are often all of a suit viz. Wet 5. Rain ante lucem often in the first Square 6. ♂ is a blusterer 7. A strange Phaenomenon of Clouds their quick successive orderly generation 8 Fog no stranger 9. Evident Footsteps of the configuration 10. Prognostic not evacuated though it be dry in one place while it rains in t'other 11. Lightning belongs to this Aspect 12. So doth Hail the Iris. 13. A note or Two concerning the Trine the Second out-does the First 14. Inquiry into the reason § 1. WIth the □ of Sol and ☽ we have troubled the Reader we must instance in one □ more for the Aspects sake and what can be better than a Martio Solar Aspect of that kind We produce but one and that is the First viz. That which follows the ☌ We trouble you not with any of Keplers Diary much less Foreign Collections Admit one of our own and it may suffice Now concerning this Aspect I have nothing to note but only this that our Planet Aspected seeing it moves slower upon the Suns swift Departure from it rises before the Sun in the First Quadrate c. whereas the ☽ is found to rise after which must be taken notice of because we shall make some use of the observation in the timing of the Influence or effect § 2. Let the Table then enter that we may see whether it gives the less account as the ☠precedent hath done if yea than we set ♂ mark upon it □ ☉ ♂ qui ☌ seqr § 2. An. 53. Jan. 21. ☉ ♠♒ 12. XVIII Rain calm wrack ride from South Rain p. m. N W. XIX Fair warm s rain at night S W. XX. Misling H. wind warm S W. XXI High wd showres mist vesp warm morn S W. XXII H. wd s misling S W. XXIII Windy s misle wd and rain 9 d. S W. XXIV Rain ante Iuc s showrs freez night S E. An. 55. Mart. 8. ♓ ♠27. V. Clds ride N E. winds drisle 9 m. S W. VI. R. 4 m. calm fits of showring N W. VII Storms of hail and rain 2 m. cold H. wd Fits of rain at noon N W. VIII Close m. some rain Sun ort sad rain S W. IX Overc. m. clouding strangely some rain N W. X. Dewing ante ☉ ort Hail 7 m. outragious in s places very cold Nly XI Frost close misty m clouds ride contrary storms hail and rain S W. S E. XII Sad soking day clear n. An. 57. May 22. ♓ ♊ 9. XVI Dry wd overc 9 p. s gusts N E. XVII Gentle showr m. misle 9 m. windy blew mist N W. XVIII Close windy open blew mist N E. XIX Close m. open warm N E. XX. Close m. open cool wd misle ☉ occ wind at n. N W. XXI Fair high wd threatning o. cool wind at n. cold even N W. XXII Cloudy m. p. cool s lowring N W. XXIII Close m. p. N W. XXIV H. wind coasting showres 5 p ☉ occ hot still post ☉ occ N W. An. 59. August 10. ♉ ♌ 27. VII Drisling o. 5 p. wdy S W. London fair and hot cold n. VIII Fair rain o. 5 p. Hot London ut supra IX Blew mist wds wetting 9 p. S W. X. Much wet ante Iuc die tot S W. XI Heavy air ante luc rainy 6 p. S W. S E. XII Wet p. m. Tempest of wind at n. showring At London fair die tot s rain at n S W. XIV Flying cl offering m. wetting ☉ occ S W. XV. Lond. Wet a. m. fair heavy air hot Lightn at n. showr 10 p. An. 61. Sept. 28. ♎ ♋ 15. XXIV Cloudy cold wd clear m. p. S W. XXV Rain a med noct ad ☉ ort c. Great Iris and smart showrs ante 8 m. H. wind great storms of rain 7 p. S W. XXVI H. wd smart showrs S W. XXVII Stormy wds frequent showrs p. m. Cold d. S W. XXVIII H. wd s showrs m. cold and windy day Wly XXIX Sad rain a 3 m. ad 9 m. bright cold N E. XXX Frost cold showr 2 p. fog 9 p. S. 1. Octob. Cloudy showr 6 m. litttle showr n. S W. An. 63. Nov. 3. ♌ ♠21. XXXI Oct. Cloudy a. m. open p. m. cold Sly I. Nov. Wind a. 1. Rain 4 p. hottish Sly II. H. wind offer 11 m. at n. hottish Sly III. H. wd cldy hottish Sly IV. Wind rain ☉ ort close hot Sly V. Rain 7 m. wd rain 1 p. S W. VI. Overc. warm very high wd rain 11 p. noct tot S E. An. 65. Dec. 5. ♠♠23. II. Wind s rain ante Iuc cloudy warm S W. III. Close warm mist m. drisle a. m. fog o. S W. IV. Frost warm ☉ clouded suspic 4 p. N W. V. Close blew mist drisling wetting 3 p. VI. ☉ clouded drisle 9 m. wetting ☉ rise circa 1 p. drisle 9 p. S W. VII Wind noct tot ☉ clouded rain 1 p. drisle sub ☉ orcas An. 68. Jan. 7. ♎ ♑ 27. IV. Windy drisly a.