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
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
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
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
please to use my Spectacles what makes the Autumn so Sickly What blows up the Coal for New diseases to sparkle among us It hath bin hitherto said 'T is eating too much Fruit But 't is one thing to say too much Fruit eaten may cause a Quartan Ague c. in this or that Person and another to say when an Epidemic Distemper reigus Too much Fruit is the Cause 'T is the Season not the Fruit of the Season is the cause For how much Fruit doth the Antient Person eat Or the Labourer at Harvest I appeal to the very Practice of the Skilful Physitian whether he find one in Ten of his Masculine aged Patients In a Sickly time that can ascribe his Malady to Fruit immoderately eaten For how haps it that Men eat more Fruit One year than another The more Fruit there is the more is eaten True but are all Fruitful years Sickly We do not find it so nor yet all Sickly Seasons Fruitful Hippoirates teaches no such thing He talks of the Equinoxes and the State of the Air. Learned Men are loath to impute it to the Season because they Ken not the Mystery why the Season it self is Malignant When Hippocrates tells us All unseasonable Weather is such Our Table will shew in some part considerably what are all they which happen August September and October Do not three parts of them fall out in those Months And are not those Months themselves famous for Dangers upon a Celestial account The Physitian is not to Learn what the Aequinoctial means and do not every one of these Harvest Aspects happen in Harvest Signs ♌ â™ or ♎ or beginning of â™ Consult and consider they do and must do so The same Causes make a Sickly Autumn which make a Sickly Spring also as the very Table will inform 'T is not with us as in Jamaica and other places where Fruit hangs on the Tree all the year long Fruit is a Rarity at sometimes of the Year when a Quartan Ague or the Small Poches raigning or a Pestilent Feaver is not CHAP. VIII ☌ ♂ ☿ Conjunction of Mars and Mercury § 1. Parity of Reason 2. Different Aspects may partake of the same Character 4. The Aspect cannot be considerd apart from ☉ ♀ which makes our Diary prolix but is hoped not nauseous 5. The Humour of the Aspect not found but by an enlarged Diary 6. Astrologer without a laxe Contemplation of an Aspect will be put to his shifts as Kepler No such thing as Anticipation the Art betrayed by it 7. Natural Effects are not Orphans 8. Further justification of our prolix Diaries 9 10. Communication of Planets at gr 10. distance to say no more 11. ♂ ☿ Character 12 13. ☿ a sign of Dryth in the Antients Opinion some tokens of that Dryth Locusts a Sign of Dryth 14 15. The Aspect admits of Cold and Frost also 16. Which made the Antients perhaps define ☿ to be of a doubtful Tempur 17 18. In a state of Destitution Light or Heat which conquers not Cold actuates it 19. So our North wind â—s actuated by the Rayes of our Northern Asterisms 10. The Rains and fits of Rain 21. The Winds 22. Harmful and pernicious 23. Thunders reckoned 24. Not all Comets as Cardan will have it belong to ♂ ☿ All the Planets contribute Hevelius as shy as he is his consont thereto 26 27. Account of our Aspect's interest in some Comets 28. Sorer Hail in Germany then in England 26 29. Account of some Earthquakes where our Aspect is concerned 30. Great Fishes stranded note some disturbance of Nature 31. Sholes of Fish argue the like 32. Duration of Earthquakes may be accounted for 33. Currents here also under this Aspect 34. Some shifting of Tydes 35. The late Dr. Childreys opinion curious 36. Some Reasons for our own and our Aspects concern 37 38. Conclusion with our Maculae and Malignancy of our Aspect 39. The Diary 40. The reason of sudden and surprising Showrs by fits 41. The Gentle Dissenter posed § 1. WE have raised the Readers expectations of this Aspect by shewing beforehand what it can do in no mean instance The Truth is the Powr of this Aspect follows the Premises For if ☉ with ☿ have acted and suâ—â—ably ♂ ♀ have imitated them in case 〈◊〉 ☿ have acted ♂ and ☿ may imitate § 2. From different Aspects a different Character must not always be expeced Nature hath several Causes which produced the same Effect and Nature hath divers Causes which produce the same Effects The Fields were green the Flowers blow the Lark and the Trush sung their Voluntaries saith Keplers A o 1621 When even in January So that as Nature can make a Spring when the Sun is an ♉ 〈…〉 make a Spring when the Sun is in ♑ I mean Celestial Nature not Occur Causes where our Mathematicician above thinks fit to shelters 〈…〉 c. § 3. Now though ♂ ☿ may have somewhat peculiar as well as Common yet it would be improper for us to search that out when as yet the Common Influence is not granted us We must shew this first and then if ought appears of Curiosity it will be perhaps welcom § 4. I had a devise once of considering our Aspect of ♂ ☿ separate forsooth from ☌ ♂ ☉ ♂ ♀ but I was forced to abandon it because they rarely happen so as also because a Potent Aspect's Influence may for certain be distinguished even when mixed with Aspects of no small Energy Here the equal Reader will not be offended if he meet with the same Instance a new repeated no more then where a Miner shall take up a piece of the same Ore to search out several Veins of Metal So that if our Diaries be Prolix upon a repeated Aspect they may I hope not easily be censured where even upon a Second Scrutiny which we profess to have made nothing can be spared Add that it is neither ignoble nor unpleasant to be able to ascribe a durable Constitution or State of Air to an Equi-durable mover § 5. Aspects of ♂ ♀ as we have seen in the precedent of ♂ ♀ are either Single or redoubled Single may be in vogue according as I am taught to reckon about 14 days or sometimes more as they are loath to depart But when by the Retrograde Course of ☿ it happens to be re-inforced it redoubles the Term of Time and reaches to a Month or more So I find in Keplers Ephemeris 〈◊〉 1624. where our Planets being met June 2. separate to the distance of 10 gr and then meet a Second time so the Sum comprised arise to days 39. Yea reckoning 10 degrees before and after to 50 Days A time wherein we may view the complexion of the Planets Whereas therefore I had once a Fancy for brevities sake alass to enlarge our Observation but to gr 5 distance supposing to speak Truth the Humour of the Aspect I was taught to double my Files as I did in ♂ ♀ that I might
hath recorded in Tycho's Progymnasm Yet what great harm that could do I do not so readily imagine But in the year 1520. Werner assures us that there happened such a Frost in the Month of May that spoiled the Hopes of the Rhenish Vintage the Buds were so sorely nip't that they never recover'd for that Year Eichstad p. 37. § 7. Whether Maginus had this or any more Instances to bottom upon I skill not but I see he hath ventur'd to put it into its Character Ut plurimum efficit hujusmodi congressus frigiditatem non parum fructibus nocituram Though others since have advisedly left it out I say First that this ought not to be put in to the Character Astrologers at best are counted noisy Men and I would not have them make a noise where they betray themselves and their Art Neither do I find any Aspect but a △ ☉ ♄ a △ ♄ ☿ that are intended for that rare Effect so was I blank well knowing that the △ alone cannot do such mischief He knows little how Cold is dispensed by the Superiour Bodies who thinks there is no Cold but what proceeds from ♄ Is there not ♃ Not ♀ Have we not seen ♂ himself mock us with a Torrid Frost Do not all Interruptions and Gaps make a Chill Air Are not all Conjunctions apt thereto Especially ☉ and ♀ yea ♂ and ♀ also with such limitations as here viz. in a Crude Lonely Sign of ♈ when there was never Planet to the Right or Left § 8. The other Instance I admit A o 1572. for I find ☌ ♄ ☿ about the end of October not a △ but a ☌ for Consonant to this I may observe that ♄ and ☿ in Winter times put in for hard Frosts without the Verge of the Conjunction In Dec. A o 1662. for 16 days In Jan. 1663. twice 7 Days with an Hiatus of 4 days between A o 1667. Jan. XI days What do I speak of Winter When we have a Midsummer Month A o 1682. with Eleven Morning Frosts noted from the Chelsey Garden ♄ I say is not hear enough to warm us which is said according to the Mind of Nature and no fancy because 't is well known ♄ beside his distance is in his remotest Apogee in ☌ with ☿ c. when in the Opposition he is drawn nearer in his Perigee § 9. ♄ then is an Icy Cold Planet I answer no otherwise then as hath been declared for these Cold Winters are but few and where ♄ is found in a state of Desertion which may come to pass when some of his Fellow Celestials are too far off and others too near and this is the very Case of October 1572. when ☉ ☿ ♄ were crouded together while others stood aloof off ☉ ☿ ♄ in ♠♂ in ♑ no Planet in ♠the intermediate Sign to ♠and ♑ There 's the Hiatus there 's the State of Desertion And this Eichstad takes notice of expressly imputing the Cold not to ♄ and ☿ but to ☉ ♄ ☿ united which too strait Union is the Cause Effective or Defective I say both the one and the other of Cold and thus shall we see below § 10. Now if we may be nice in distinction we may perhaps observe that though ♄ and ☿ may cause Cold as ♄ ♀ before it yet there may be some difference in the Energy not seldom observed for Frost and Cold are not all of a sort there are some calm Frosts some accompanyed with chilling Blasts the Aspect with ☿ the more Windy Planet brings One the Aspect with ♀ c. brings the Other So much mistaken was Mr. Hobbs when he imputed all Frost to a Wind of which he is excellently admonished by the Noble Mr. Boyle And thus may we Philosophize if we be put to it concerning the Winters under this Aspect for as for the Frosty Winter Anno 1682. we may defer that till we come to ♄ and ♃ that we may not do wrong to the Aspect § 11. And this will better be done if we should constitute a Comparison between ☌ ♄ ♀ and ♄ ☿ as to these certain Heads of Heat High Winds and Smart Rains Snow Hail Frosty Weather c. we should confirm our Pretences against the ambiguous Nature and settle ☿ so that we may know his Character almost before we ken his Motion But I must hasten 12. Some pretty Fancies further present themselves upon a straiter perusal of the Table For why should I meet here also with Clouds flying Low Clouds at a great Distance in height Perpendicular for that is meant Clouds in Scenes Two or Three Stories high and under this Aspect so oft as to invite us to a remark and specially if we may suspect that sundry of the like Instances may have scaped our Notice May not this Distance of the Clouds Inferiour and Superiour favour of the Distance of their proper Causes Yet I shall not say that ♄ the Higher Planet raised the Higher Story and ☿ the Inferiour the Lower That would be too palpable But what if on the other side ☿ should attract the Higher apartment and ♄ raise the Lower For the Sun we suppose without which neither is effectual ♄ 's cooler Ray may let the Inferiour Cloudy Pavement descend ☿ 's brisker Ray may elevate it nearer to its self I assert nothing but if I may prompt the Curious to further Enquiry This I can say that Experienced Observers may discern and distinguish the Dispositions of the Planets by several Circumstances and Adjuncts proper and peculiar to each A man shall be able to say This is ♄ 's Showrn this is ♂ ' s. This is from ☉ ♀ this From ☉ ☿ or ♃ with greater Evidence than we can say of Comets which yet Hevelius you have heard thinks is far from Ridiculous A Showr with a Pale Fog may be ♄ with a deeper Blew may be ♂ with Wind ☿ without ♂ sometimes or ♀ And many other appearances there are in the Air Fleec'd Clouds Curdled Clouds Clouds like Hemp strip'd Fog Hazy Air Ground Mists which are not to be found at all times nor under every Aspect Ground Mists I say which I find even here in the years of my Rural Observation and might perhaps have bin before heeded since I remember some objection I made to my self against their Observance ♄ and ☿ in Morning and Evening not being able to suspend them but that they fall upon the Land Arable or Meadow As in Winter time we may observe often a deeper Fog with us below yet upwards may see it clear though otherwise it appears cloudy upon the recess of a Mist so different are the Effects and Footsteps of the Celestial Causes But of this before I remember Lib. II. Cap. 2. § 9. § 13. The Objection that I made was that Ground-Mists are the Issues of the Earth only and so could not claim any Aethereal Relation But the Contrary is apparent for if Dews are notwithstanding their Original dispensed by the
that these Conjunctional Comets generated by meer Conjunctions I say for the most part are but short liv'd This lasted but its Week Now if any not exercised in the Doctrine of the Sphear should ask me how this Meteor should be seen being in the same Sign with ☉ the Globe will inform him that though the parts of the Sign near the Ecliptick or the ☉ s place set with the ☉ yet in the Horizon of Europe the more Northern parts nearer the Ecliptical Pole never descend under the Horizon A great Notandum for those who take Pleasure to observe the Dependants of these Meteors upon their Sources the Planets which very often are found to appear in the same Sign as they do often in the Opposite § 21. The next A o 1512. of which we have no distinct account only that it appeared in March and April mark if a ☌ ♃ ♀ doth not happen and that in the Sign ♓ yea was not the last in ♠Which every body knows is opposite to ♓ and therefore is in part the same the two extreams being united in the Radiation Now if it lasted longer my observation takes place here also viz. that it is not a meerly Conjunctional Comet since we find an Opposition of ☉ and ♄ ♀ ☿ as by the way you may note there was before ☌ of the same ☉ ♄ but ☌ s do not give so long date we have said § 22. That of 1516. brings not any particular account with it and therefore cannot expect any from us The general Truth is most plain for 't is not only a Single ☠of ☉ ♃ but a Triple ☠♃ to ☉ ☿ and ♀ in ♋ and ♑ And so let our Table be corrected § 23. That of 1521. in the Month of April has an Opposition of ♃ and ♀ in ♊ and ♠and so it got into our Table But the Place of the Comet consider'd is said to be the end of ♋ And is not the Planet ♂ at the entrance of the Month at the end of ♋ and the beginning of ♌ opposed by ♄ By the greater right therefore it seems to belong to that ☠§ 24. For that of 1527. Dec. 11. noted by Creusser in Gemma The Reader may guess what Faith we give to the report when he shall find with us that the same Celestial Causes are on Foot as were found busie 11 years ago viz. ♃ ☠☉ ☿ in ♋ and ♑ But the Truth is upon better Inspection they allow this Meteor to be but of short continuance And that Terrible Appearance to date it self in Aug. as perhaps we may see in ♃ and ♂ § 25. For that which the Table takes notice of Jan. 18. 1528. we have assigned it the same Original with that in the close of the last year and truly the Illustrious ☠♃ and ♀ ♀ stat does highly perswade But the Comet appeared in ♓ Well and good for on the 18th day ♂ is an near the Fishes in ♒ as he was near the other Comet in ♌ A o 1521. Beside Comets as I take it use to lodge between their Planetary Sires as here between ♀ and ♄ § 26. The next is that of 1532. Sept. 23. which lasted to Nov. 20. That 's well and particular yea to Dec. 8. says Fracastorius which according to Appian who has described part of it it began in ♠and by Oct. 14. got into ♎ by the beginning of Nov. into ♠a Star thrice as big as ♃ How many Proofs have we here of its Original common to other Fiery Meteors Which ought to be argued First from the Concomitants of such Appearances as Inundations c. if we may believe the report of Rochenback Next from the ☌ ☉ ♂ in ♎ at that time observed not by us but by the Age then in being happening on the very Birth-day of the Meteor and the Observation proves to be good only to accomplish it they should have said a ☌ of ☉ and ♂ Partile and ☿ Platique though he be for Three Planets in ♎ as well as other Signs always conduce Then comes our Planets ♀ in the beginning of ♠Stationary and ♃ toward the end viz. ♠24. Who hath so good a Memory to remember that part of the Eclyptique which it respects and what 't is joyned with And doth not Appian's Observation tell us that beginning in ♠it pass'd through ♎ and as far as the 3. of ♠This was Nov. 8. within gr 8. Longit of ♂ Where would you have Comets to be In the Mouths of the Planets Is there not sufficient Neighbourhood betwixt the Generant and Generatum Trust me our Planet ♀ runs back to a ☌ with ♂ in ♎ and holds there till the 25 of Nov. the same are the Causes of Existence and Conservation But why should it begin in ♠I answer 't is well if I can guess why it should make hast into ♎ then to ♠I don't pretend to be a Revealer of all Mysteries I have said that Comets us'd to be generated in the mid place between the Planets I consider'd that Two hours before the ☉ rise the ☽ was the same Sign with ♄ as well as ♂ in the same Sign with ☉ The beginning of ♠where the Comet first started is aequidistant from ♋ 21. the place of the ☽ at that time in the morn and ♂ with ☉ on the other hand For the expiration of the Comet Dec. 8. consider that in the end of Nov. ♂ and ☿ were scarce past that degree of ♠where ♃ kindled it but about Dec. 8. when ♃ and ☿ were past the Opposal of the Hyades and ♂ knocking off there the Fewel fail'd Yea but this seems a Conjunctional Comet and so by our Principle it should not last I answer I am not over-fond of that Notion of mine and then I say it may be reckoned Oppositional in respect of the Fixed Stars Pleiades and Hyades which carry a great stroke in the Nativity and Life of this Meteor as any man who observes the Erratick Motions may confess § 27. The Comets of 1533. 1539. we pass by because they may challenge some other place the first an ☠of ♄ and ♃ the latter a □ For Appian puts this last Comet Five days sooner viz. May 6. If it be the latter There are III. in ♉ § 28. Then A o 1541. Aug. 21. A Comet tayled like a Dragon as our Author Phrases it It seems to be of short continuance we 'll be as short with it ♃ ☉ ♀ in ♠a Conjunctional Comet the more Conspicuous is it because the III. Conjunctions are all noted in the same Month. § 29. The Comet 1560. happening in Dec. not in April points out a different cause from what is assigned in the Table viz. ☠♄ and ☉ in Trop Signs but the more material I reckon to be the Interposition between ♃ in ♈ on one side and ♄ in ♊ on the other This I say I take to be the most material although the
in the Carabrian Earthquakes A o 1626. and 1638. July XI in both which years ♃ and ♀ were so near the same Position that a Candid Reader will startle at the Observation For how saith he a 2d Earthquake at the end of 12 years which is known to be ♃ 's Period Then 't is likely that ♃ is one of the Instruments of that Motion And withal doth it happen saith he to be in the same place in both years Then 't is probable again that ♀ in such a degree of the Zodiack conspiring with certain others is endued with the same motive faculty § 39. To see how Truth will justifie it self not only as to the General that these Tremors of the Earth are imputable to the Heavens but that these Aspects wherein we are at present engaged are their Causes Efficient for the News from Naples in the Gazet. Octob. 1685. the Instant on which I write tells us that Sept. 23. Oct. 3. their Mountain Vesuvius within these few days began to burn again casting out Flames and Ashes with a Terrible noise and the last moiety of the Month What are the Aspects but a ☌ of ♃ ♀ and ☿ Shall I gratifie our Friends Les Scavans in Paris and so close this tedious discourse 'T is not much out of the way they tell us that the City of Paris owns but two Earthquakes the First April 6. 1580. and the other May 12. St. N. 1682. In the first Earthquake ☉ and ☿ are at the end of ♈ and ♀ is upon the Pleiades In the Second ☿ is at the end of ♈ and ☉ and ♀ very near the Pleiades I could make an absolute Rule of it but this place don't allow me to run upon the rest of the Parallel In 102 years somewhat of the same Revolution may come about § 40. Concerning the Parelia though we shall see them happen under other Aspects yet the Revolution of this Aspect co-incident with the Variety of the Appearance doth bespeak the curious to make further enquiry we cannot here digress about the matter which reflects the Light whether the Vapor be Dry or Icy as Des-cartes justly imagines only we say the Lustre reflected is not meerly Solar but borrow from some other Astral Radiations for though the Secondary Suns must by course of Nature be less brave and bright than the chief Luminary yet it doth not always prove so they say Upon no other account sure but upon that of other Luminous Bodies which help to advance the weaker Reflexion § 41. And such was that at Venice of which Cardan gives an account A o 1532. And who knows but Mathematicians may find considering the Situation of the Suns in the Vertical Circle that the brighter of the Parelia belongeth to ♀ the other to ☿ Certainly ♀ and ☿ were much about the same distance from the Sun One to the West the Other to the East § 42. That of Jan. 2. 1586. I have no reason to believe but that our Opposition was Influential He who shall read Rothman's Description in Fromundus how close the Parelia lay on each side of the Sun may probably suspect the near Conjunction also of ♂ and ☿ to help to such Impressions § 43. That of 1550. seen in the Dutchy of Brunswick finds ♃ and ♀ within 6 degrees one of the other and if there be any thing in that ♃ in the same place now where we found ♀ A o 1532. vice versa and ♀ in the same place now where we found ♃ 1586. interchangeably Something there must be for consulting my Notes I found Clouds strangely colour'd with Rain-bow Tincture May 15. in Gem. A o 1556. where ♂ is in the very same degree c. but that belongs to the succeeding Aspect it is true yet we see how the Heavens will answer if they be spoke to § 44. I confess I seem to talk at random as Men are wont to do that are arm'd with a strange Fancy and lull themselves in a Security that one will undertake the trouble of their Confutation Yet I must needs own the further I go I like my self the better For the Instance of Sep. 25. A o 1560. where you meet with a Parelium and a reverst Iris what can I say different from what is said when we shall contemplate with or without Gemma's Figure ♀ and ☉ newly risen together to say nothing of ☿ 's readiness to peep and ♃ setting in the West Can this Arcus and Parelium arise from any other Concourse of Causes It arises from the ☉ alone the Ante-blanetary will say but will he nil he ♀ is within 2 degrees of this all-doing ☉ Science must not speak vulgarly the Shadow that my Body casts under a ☌ of ☉ and ♀ vulgarly would be called the ☉ 's Shadow only but exactly to speak it is not so for 't is known ♀ can cast a Shadow by her self But then why an inverst Shadow I could speak to that but I wonnt grasp too much For the Irides our Forein Diary speaks sufficient § 45. I shall not please my self in speaking to the Currents under this Aspect but shall refer it to a Further place Only my Idle Head asks the question about the White Milky-Waters what may be the Reason and because I confess I have a Months mind to impute its appearance to the Heavens For First it is but an appearance though lasting for a Night or so at Day Light it vanisheth If it were any mixture of any Whitish Ferment it would be sensless to think of an Aetherial Procurement But the Field is too large for any such Mixture the Ship being under Sail all the time of its Observation hence there is no thinking of any such Salvo We shall therefore consider next whether this appearance is observed at any times more remarkable than others as to the Heavenly Positions and if that proves we may next consider whether it be Nonsense to say That the Heaven may own such Effects on the Water as it hath in the Air The Sun can Guild the Clouds and the ☽ can paint them with a Pale hue The others we see can make their Irides and Halo's yea help to the Colouring of a Solar and Lunar One Why may not this Wheyish hue of the Water be an Impression from ♃ and ♀ and others analogically to the appearance of the Halo As for the Position ♃ and ♀ are extraordinarily circumstantiated by relation one to the other and by the Station of Venus each of the 3 days specified A o 1617. Yea A o 1616. I have met with the same appearance before ♃ and ♀ not in ☠'t is true but in a □ Aspect which is a chance that calls for our Attention ♃ and ♀ have Brightness enough to make a Nectiluca of the Sea and all agreeable to those Principles which the Notable Author of that Discourse advanceth We shall see further it may be and if I speed here I shall begin to suspect that our Aspect
to do with the Picture for that the ☽ in ♒ is not yet ascended § 73. Add to these a few from our own Observation A o 1656. Sept. 22. Yarnton near Oxford Semicircle with Rainbow Colours 9 m. ☌ in fine ♠as before A o 1555. So near was I to have seen a Parelium but it was not my Lot A o 1662. Nov. 10. Lond. Iris ☌ in print ♠A o 1678. July 22. Two Rainbows ☌ in ♊ gr 5. distant besides Halo's Lunar Sept. 20. 25. A o 1556. Sept. 29. 1658. and Nov. 2. 1656. § 74. Admit also these from Kepler A o 1621. Aug. 16. Halo ☽ ♋ 17. ♄ ♑ 1. ♂ A o 1623. May 14. Parelia cum Halone Solis die 15. Irides A o 1621. Jan. 7. ♋ 1. ♄ ♑ 25. ☿ ☠May 15. ♋ 5. ♄ 26. ☉ ☌ July 13. ♋ 13. ♄ ♌ o. ☉ ☌ A o 1623. May 30. ♑ 16. ♂ ♌ 2. ♄ ☠A o 1625. Sept. 20. ♓ 27. ♂ ♠9. ♄ ☠A o 1626. July 8. ♌ 17. ♂ ♠12. ♄ ☌ Sept. 4. Iris ante ortum Solis ♠19. ♄ 24. ♂ ☌ A o 1627. June 16. ♠22. ♄ ♈ 17. ♂ ☠A o 1628. Aug. 14. ♠23. ♂ ♎ 9. ♄ ☌ A o 1629. Aug. 26. ♎ 1. ♂ ♎ 10. ♄ ☌ Parelia May 14. 1623. cum halone Solis die prox ♒ 9. ♂ ♌ 25. ♄ ☠§ 75. It will be said these distances are too unreasonable we may comprehend what not at so great a Liberty The answer may be that 't is not perpetual There are some Neighbourly distances 2. For all as I see the greatness of the Distance conduceth to the Effect provided 30 degrees be not exceeded For to paint a Sun or a Lucid Globe in the Water as the Parelium may seem to be requires many a Ray issuing from Arches of a Circumference some less some greater which Suspicion of mine will be found true if we go no further then attending to and comparing those very Instances Jan. 17. and May 15. 1621. Sept. 20. 1625. But we hast This is not a place for it Only this by the way if we were to treat of the Parelia purposely we see we should here also find the Tropiques and Equinoxes § 76. Sol Pallidus noted in Kepler's Diary whatsoever it signifies is not much different from the Halo c. the Causes and Distances of those Operants are near alike First Nov. 20. A o 1621. ♋ 20. ♄ ♒ 8. ♂ April 1. A o 1629. ♑ 3. ♂ ♋ 28. ♄ May 15. A o 1627. ♠21. ♄ ♓ 24. ♂ June 11. A o 1627. ♠23. ♄ ♈ 13. ♂ April 29. A o 1625. ♒ 19. ♂ ♌ 25. ♄ ♄ and ♂ in some Signs I find conduce to a Mystiness as may be observed by our Domestique Diary if ☉ Pallidus be no more nor the Coelum Sanguineum twice met under Territories of ♄ and ♂ the matter is not much though not unworthy of a Remark Octob. 13. 1625. Caelum Sanguin and before that Sol Sanguin April 24. 1623. ♑ 4. ♂ 28. ♄ § 77. This it may be runs higher than we imagine for of Old in the former Century we meet with in April 1547. Universal News of Sol darkned for 3 or 4 Days die 22. c. That it was a prodigious Spectacle throughout all France and Germany some say Britain though our Chronicles are silent noted by Calvisius and Fromond from Lycost and Fritschius when Writers do believe that the ☉ was close Mourner for the Prince Elector Fredrick being taken Whatsoever the matter was that which we regard at present is the place of ♄ ♑ 5. contributing to the Phaenomenon and ♂ in ♊ fine not much above 5. grad dist from a compleat Opposition ♂ I say near ♋ and the ☽ also opposing ♄ in the beginning of ♑ I thought it once had been a Flaw in Calvisius's Chronology that he could not give an account of a Vernal Eclipse of the Sun in the 7th year of Xerxes Anno Christi Nat. 478. for I reckoned there could be no Solar Obscuration otherwise except miraculous but I see there may be some rarer Phaenomenon of this kind from Natural Causes besides a proper Eclipse such are produced by Kepler Epit. Astron § 78. For the Maculae Solis whether they be distinguished from the former Obscurations or not I have a few stragling Instances I don't mention that of March 25. April 5. because the distance is of gr 20. Nor that of May 19. 29. because the distance is of gr 17. Yet a fond Man would mark the Identity of those distances especially when there haps a third and who knows how many more § 79. But I produce May 1. 1625. and June 8. a noted space for the Month wherein our Aspects sweetly reign in ♌ and ♒ I produce 2dly the Month of June 1642. where some Learned Men have ventur'd to teach that the Months was Cold because of the multitude of the Maculae which rebated the Solar Heat Then which there cannot be a greater Demonstration of our Principle for we have here ☌ ♄ ♂ under the Equinox which will give a shrewd Essay to tinge the Sun with their Impressions but there is a Triple Conjunction Flush of Three in ♓ They the Three Superiours which say we can aid the Multitudinem Macularum yea and the Cold too For what Communication of direct Rayes is there between the place of the 3 Superiours and the Place of the ☉ ♀ or ☿ That is the True Cause of the Cold and He may set his Heart at rest who thinks to find any new Principle from the aculae or any thing that concerns the Sun in its solitary Capacity These Instances from Ricciolus I produce 3dly Sept. 1643. S. N. the most of that Month is taken up by ☠♄ ♂ alike tripled though as before in the Conjunction I shall only point at a Spot which came into Play die 14. S. N. the place of ♂ in ♎ 1 of ♄ in ♈ 5. you see how near the Opposition This Macula afterward saith Hevelius was divided into many and on day 19. they met again in ours only in Unam iterum co aluêre and whether this day appears not to be the day of the precise Aspect The 4th of June A o 1614. a New Macula appear'd and held out 6 or 7 days within 3 days of the precise ☌ in ♈ 18. when the soul Weather screen'd it from the diligent Observator when that 3 days after the Weather was fair the same Macula was seen again and not without a Partner Hevelius Appendix to his Selenography § 80. For a Farewel to ♄ and ♂ It would not be convenient we should take leave of our Forein Diary till we have noted the extremity of some Constitutions and the singular accidents therein mentioned To find Hurricanes yea Tuffons Storms which are termed unparallel'd incredible beyond the reach of Nature The Truth is Hurricanes and Tuffons especially come with such Violence that ordinary Nature stands amazed at