ad diem St. Barthol A Comet obscure and pale Stadius p. 66. Bunting Chron. a ☌ ☉ ♀ gr 2. Anno 1578. May 16. Lyc. ☌ ☉ ♀ gr 11. Lubienec Anno. 1582. May 15. Howes 695. ☌ ☉ ♀ gr 10. Anno 1597. July A Comet continuing from the 16th day to the 9th of August Ricciol ☌ ☉ ♀ in princip ♌ a ☌ ♃ ♂ No nor Earthquakes for they also occur Anno 1552. Sept. 16. at Basil Lyc. ☌ ☉ ♀ princ ♎ Anno 1554 April 30. at Lovain Gemma 11. 23. ☌ ☉ ♀ gr 4. Anno 1556. Jan XVIII 19 20. at Sanxi in China Purchas Vol. 3. 198. Anno 1575. Febr. 26. York Worcester Gloucester Bristol Hereford c. Howes p. 679. a ☌ ☉ ♀ Anno 1585. Aug. 4. An Earthquake Howes p. 709. ☌ ☉ ♀ gr 4. with an ☠♄ ♂ Anno 1586. Perceived at Sea Hakl p. 810. part 2. Vol. 2. Anno 1613. Jan. 13. in Zant Coryat apud Purchas Anno 1642. April 25. in Norico Terrae fremitus a noise heard in some Earthquake ☌ ☉ ♀ in ♉ 15. Kepler Anno 1626. April circ 28. In Calabria about what time with Kepler fell the Ignes Caelitus cadentes ☌ ☉ ♀ Partil Anno 1628. Jan. 9. a Fame of an Earthquake Kepler ☌ ☉ ♀ gr 9. Anno 2629. Princ. Augusti In the Alps among the Grisons Rhoetos surpassing that which happened Anno 1618. ☌ ☉ ♀ gr 9. yea ☌ ☉ ☿ gr 10. ☌ ☉ ☿ gr 11. Kyriander Now that happened in August 15. on a ☌ ☉ ☿ Anno 1634. April 17. Kyr ☌ ☉ ♀ ☽ in ♉ Anno 1637. July 1. at Tours Storms and at Norimberg an Earthquake Kyriander Anno 1642 Mart. 27. Turin in Piemont p. 469. Kyr ☌ ☉ ♀ gr 7. ☌ ♄ ♃ gr 12. Anno 1643. Sept. 2. in Turin again Kyr ☌ ☉ ♀ gr 7. ☠♄ ♂ Anno 1668. Sept. 3. an Earthquake in the Canibes and Fear of Hurricane following ☌ ☉ ♀ gr 4. Gazet Numb 304. § 30. Now let no man Nauseate the Names of our Witnesses here in this knowing Age as petty Trades in Prodigies Objects of the Vulgar understanding because though it may be shortness of Understanding to Multiply 't is scarce so to acknowledge such a thing Our Speculation doth sometimes border upon such a thing as Prodigy but 't is clear our Primary intention comes to the orderly Course of Nature wherein if God please to shew himself in a clearer Glass of his Power it will be not Piacular we hope to offer at the Cause deputed by the Creator for such Effect For to remove the Nature of Prodigies from every Natural Production under correction I fear is a mistake since though we must not with the Vulgar reckon every Effect prodigious wherein God shews his Power yet every such Exhibition of his Power and Fury joyned I believe comes near For 't is hard to say that an Inundation which washes away thousands or an Earthquake which buries as many signifies no harm If it doth signifie Harm c. I gather from thence a Deity displeas'd So 't is a Prodigie otherwise the Universal Floud had nothing Prodigious no Lesson read to us thereby For Wise Men I can tell you give opinion that even there some use was made of Natural Causes as also in other Destruction of Cities by Fire § 31. I say then if we put the Chasms and Globi Ignei together there may be some cause of wonder why Ptolemy is silent especially when there are a great volly of Instances of Lightning and Thunder almost within hearing In like manner for his Silence in Earthquakes But ☿ being more frequent in his Congresses fell more frequently under Observation and so got the Name and it may be they were unwilling to believe that ♀ could Frown since we have seen her entituled to a soft sweet Influence § 32. But the Table speaks impartially And Comets themselves it seems are beholden to ♀ And who will dispute it when the great Astronomers who undertake to consider their Course Tendency Duration after all begin to suspect some Relation they have to those Celestial Bodies In one place Tycho suspects the New Star 1572. had its Original with the New ☽ Nov. 5 To what purpose unless the ☌ of ☉ ☽ help to light the Taper When elsewhere Anno 1577. he carefully observes that the Comet there spread out its Train not so much within the Opposition of the Sun as of our Planet ♀ When ♀ was even in her Elongation a sign and a half distant We do not exclude the Sun in our Celestial Production but Tycho observed right and we thank him for it The Comet here transmitted the Rays of ♀ Yea but ♀ as he scruples it hath not such a Potent Ray. Resp ♀ exalted and assisted may own so much for within a few degrees there lies another Planet who is called ♂ If Tycho had said that ♀ and the Planet ♂ in ☌ had transmitted their united Rayes he had hit it for as sure as Truth the Comet owes its Original to ♂ and ♀ drawing on from 12 gr distance by Inches to a Partile Conjunction The Comet began Novem. 10. the Partil ☌ of these two Planets happens Dec. 2. so was the Comet all that while in good heart and by proportion must continue so till it come to 12 gr distance on the Dexter side that is till Christmass Thence I reckon it declines and much more by what time ♀ came to be a whole Sign distant i. e. out of the Bounds of Conjunction precisely the Comet vanished Jan. 26. Which very point is remarkable though I wot well that such an appearance which begins by one Conjunction or Opposition may be fed by a succession agreeable to this Mark what Tycho hath observed and 't is memorable even in Ricciolus his judgement who is no Friend to our Principle that the Star in Cassiopeia Anno 1572. was saluted by All the Planets before it was extinguished Let any Man be Judge if this be unreasonable now viz. if so be all the Planets in their Turns and Positions have to do with the Generation of New Stars Ricciol p. 769. 7. And I think I noted before that Tycho observed the same of a Comets Train opposite to 〈◊〉 But of this more elsewhere Howbeit Kepler calls to be heard Lib. de Stel. Nov. pag. 6. Et memorabile est eundem fuisse situm Solis ad Venerem anno 1572. sub exortum illius Sideris qui jam anno 1604. recurrit § 33. We cannot finish this discourse till we have pointed at the Waters that have flowed in with ☌ ☉ ♀ remembring always that our Aspect is responsible for the days preceding the Date of the Flood least any should think that Nature raised them in an Instant from any Subterraneous Fountains An. 1501. where the Ebb overflow'd memorated by Lyc. ☌ ☉ ♀ Anno 1573. the great Inundation in Holland c. cum inaudita Clade Gemma 11. 167. and again Sept. 1. gr 11.
should vouchsafe this Truth which none of our Moderns for want of Experience have dared to accept I was not little pleased I say to observe that those Pagan Friends of ours who speak of the Inundations of Tigris and Euphrates from this Aspect found in one certain Sign in which I know they speak true by the way should tell us that in other Signs ♃ and ♂ make great Colds in ♈ Snow in ♉ great Cold in ♌ Astrol Anglic. dist IV. Lib. 1. § 7. Surely the Summer Months then are not quite free for in May 1661. we find Frost Morn yet hot day noted A o 1663. Mense Junii Hail 3 or 4 times In Sept. 1665. Notable Frosty Cold Weather In March 1675 Icy Frosts Hail Hail die 8. Snow die 9. yea Frost Ice Snow and Hail all on Die 15. But Sept. 20. Shews black Frost in 1679. And this moves us easie People to believe Old Traditions § 8. I said we would begin with the least offensive Influence and that was Cold I hinted thereby contrary to the vulgar Presumption that Cold is not always a wholsom innocent Constitution no not in Winter In Summer perhaps it will be said that it is unseasonable and therefore may not be agreeable For I fancy I may distinguish to speak rudely two Spirits of Cold the one proceeds by Nature the other by the Chymistry of the Heavens i. e. by mixing Two Hot Ingredients to produce Gold as our Noble Pyrophilus offers The Cold proclaimed under our Aspect or its Equivalent answers to this later Production Two Luminous Planets conspiring to effect it I remember in the year 1665. a year which we ought all to remember who were concerned when in the Month September there came Notable Frost Cold and Winterly Weather All men gladded themselves with this Conclusion That the Plague would cease I doubted it then having found by Observation that ♃ and ♂ had a Hand in Both and the event was too true the Sickness abated not upon it but rather rose to its Fatal Height When the Cold came by the ordinary way of Nature i. e. Separation of Calorific Bodies then God be thanked we thought of returning to our dear Native City but before that the Observer durst not venture Now for the Winter even there we find Frost and a Cold Dec. and yet great Suspicions of Hurtful Influence our Aspect being confest as may appear by the Murrainer of Cattle in that time and the Eruption of Evil in Youth which accompanyed it § 9. Now though our ☠to speak of that alone may ordinarily produce a Frost and help to continue the same put up by other Causes yet the Hyemal part shews the Turbulent Nature of our Planets in Winds not only cold and cutting but High and Disorderly Twice or Thrice do we meet with Fury and Damage often with Lofty and Hurrying Gusts The beginning of January 1668. and the Close of Dec. tells us of Lightning in the Holy-days Destroying Towers of Churches As for the great Tide noted about that time it seems but a single Instance but we may reckon for it or the like in our Doctrine of Inundations § 10. How turbulent are we in the Summer then Winter I hope is the more Turbulent Season November December January and February and March also For all Observation gives in November and December to be notable for Turbulency witness our Hyemal Breviat so of the rest yet in the Summer-time as short as our Notice is for the Longer will tell you another Tale ♃ and ♂ bring then I say High Winds and Rain June 1652. and Store of Thunder at the same time Store of Rain in Sept. 1654. and Thunder on the 23d day Sad Rainy Day April 26. 1661. with Heat after A o 1663. Thunder and Hail violent Storms in June Stormy in Sept. 1665. Heat and Meteors all June 1677. Rain and Lightning Hard Rain and Flashes of Lightning Sept. 1679. § 11. We must not forget the Dryth for what conduceth to Frost conduceth to a dry State of Air in Summer especially The Figure of Leo and Aquarius happily shew I do not say prove the One should be Dryer than the Other July Fairer than Jan. This we note to stop the Mouths of those who dipping upon this place perhaps may be apt to condemn us for the Rain which falls under this Aspect which we think observable though the greater number of the Days be free from it § 12. Maginus tells us if the Aspect hap in the same Quarter with the Sun it produces Soultry Heat in eadem Quarta as I remember in the Antients signifies the same Quarter of the year and That is reason and confirmed by our Aestival Breviat Proviso that you understand the Effects of Heat too Storms Rains Thunders as the Fit takes them In the same Sign with the Sun it must needs do the like § 13. He tells us further that in this Aspect we must regard which Planet hath most Prevalency and why because if Jove prevails happy go lucky but if ♂ prevail then come Droughts and Sickness and Alia Mala suboriuntur To which I say I heartily acknowledge ♃ and ♂ to be a Weighty and Dire Aspect I may say and I fear others will be of my Mind before we have done But I understand not the Mamareth or Elevation of the Arabs or if I do I see not the suitable difference of the Effect Fortitudes and Dignities of Planets are Terms not to be wholly exibilated for a Planet above the Horizon is more strong than below Of Northern Latitude they say more strong than the Southern concerning which in another place But yet as they are vulgarly taught I speak as to our Affair They are to me Quick-Sands I find no Footing This I was willing to do what Ptolemy and Others speak of Dominion of a Planet to apply it to a ☌ or some great Aspect ☠or □ and I found it to accord For a Planet encouraged or irritated if it have any Influence must shew its Strength by that Irritation Now such Irritation is found in the greater Aspects § 14. The like I say of Fires and Conflagrations which are imputed to this Aspect especially I know not but Ptolemy may mean only the accident of Firing of Trees and Woods by excessive Heat in his more Southern Countreys as hath bin touched before or Firing of Buildings by Lightning and this may be too true then and since in those places And if true it helps to abett the Immortal Influence of Planets which are the Divine Instruments of Vengeance but if otherwise he means though I shall not go about to deny some seeming Evidence which may be brought therefore I say I am not engaged to meddle in it nor do I believe it can or will be ever made out The Effects which we teach have a natural dependance on their Causes as Rain depends on Heat as the Colour of the Rainbow depends on Light § 15. But to make amends
adventure to declare our Experience let is be remembred thus much is granted us that at ☌ ☉ ☽ oft times happens Winds or Rain if not both as Mirandula's Sea men you see have witnessed What do I speak of one Century past Even in S. Ambroses Age much above a 1000 years ago in time of Drought it could be said Ecce Neomenia pluviam dabit Oh we shall have Rain at the Change of the ☽ the Father 't is true gently reprehends it with Nollem dictum Not that he rejected the Philosophy by which he greatly illustrates the Creators Glory in that very Discourse but abating rather the Confidence which we are too apt to place in second Causes though imperfectly apprehended § 9. When it is remembred then that our Ambition reaches but to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 speaking of a single Aspect as hath been often said and said not out of a politick Restriction but with reason from the nature of a single Cause whose efficacy many times reaches not either for want of Coordinates or is broken by the Counterpoise of contrary Agents We avow that ☌ ☉ ☽ produceth a warmer Air attended for the most part with Rain or Winds but whether of these takes place exclusive to the other must be determined by the whole conjuncture of the seven not by any one single Aspect § 10. So that Warmth is the Prime product the other are Consequents that Cardan may no longer say of this Aspect Non unum significat discouraging Inquirers by so loose a Character since it produceth a Determinate effect as much as any other Aspect and as often § 11. 'T is true we who deal in prognostique must treat of such warmth only as is sensible but yet of a truth there is very often warmth in Nature which is not directly distinguished by our Sensories No man can say that he alone hath the Standard-sensory to which all the Sensations of other must Conform Sometimes we infer rather then discern the presence of Warmth viz. from some visible effect to which the Sense would not otherwise assent as by Snow melting in a Cold Thaw or an early Shrub the Gooseberry suppose sometimes sprouting in January whose Mornings may be Frosty in this case when Warmth is so observed by Logical inference rather then Sensation the Aspect thinks she hath right in the Effect § 12. They who are not studious of Nature impatient to attend her leisurely methods will scarce be content with any thing less then the Effect in its highest Complement Unless we can warrant Wind or Rain at every Change the Art professeth nothing whereas if a Cloud or a Mist be produced it may perhaps be not unworthy the Observation of those who inquire into Causes since the Air in its pure Naturals is serene and supposing no Sun ☽ nor Star must needs be such becase not any vapour can be raised or suspended by Heat but when that Heat is extinct must necessarily return by its innate gravity or which is all one sympathy with its Original to its First Bed What harm is there in exactness if Account may be given of those places effects at least in the more Acreamatic part of Philosophy since these Effects make room for the Greater yea perhaps are distinguished only by a gradual distance Some portions of Clouds being observed to drops when the Zenith is absolutely dry and a Mist in some 〈◊〉 shall we an English man to the Skin § 13. The Congress therefore of ☉ ☽ produceth Warmth and thereby Rain as its Consequent produceth I say or continueth it already produced Now what if I go further and say that it inclines at times also to Snow and Hail for they also have a certain dependance on Warmth as a Comproductive at least since 't is easie to distinguish between the Drop and its Congelation ascribing those distinct products to the contrary generants some pieces of Nature like those of Art passing through many hands before they are finished § 14. However to Rain it conduceth and to Wind also since in all Wind the Warm Atomic is found impelling the Cold aut contra whence warmth must be a constitutive ingredient in the exhalatiâ—â— driving or driven § 15. Wind and Rain although they differ formally as can be agree in their Original as the great Veralam also observes Resuscitatan Hist vent p. 42. Hence as we have seen they promise a common prognostique as Harbinger before them to prepare for their entertainment the same Disturbances of Animal Bodies witnessed by the Notes and Postures of Animals the Aches and Malodies of Man and Beast do fore-speak yet disjunctively and undeterminately Winds or Rain This argues say I the Unity of the Origin and on no other account even Windy Nights as I am informed from the Kilne make the boyling Liquor apt to overflow To say nothing of the Testimony of the Baroscope where the Mercury falls alike to windy Weather as it doth to Rainy Now for Wind and Gusty Weather and their Cognation to the new ☽ we reduce further if need be the Testimony of Moderns who in the Voyages to the East Indies complain'd of bad Rodes by reason of a small ☽ Linschoten lib. 3. cap. 2. Yea for the West also our own Drake tells us again that a small Moon makes foul Weather all the main along Last Voyage apud Purchas § 16. It might be time now to produce our evidence that the Dubious may be disposed to a further enquiry if not assent In our Diary you shall see we have allowed no less than three Dayes to the Aspect that we might more securely hedge in Observation § 17. 'T is a perpetual account of VII years for if the kind Reader will admit the like for the Opposition Square c. to the Sun we shall not burden our paper with the same Aspects repeated between ♄ ♃ ♂ and the ☽ although a private Observer may perhaps find them not unworthy his consideration they carrying their price in their Foreheads especially those from ♂ ♃ ☿ § 18. In the Tables observe that the Dayes are reckoned after the Civil account viz. from Midnight to Midnight because Art must apply it self to the Publick so that the Observer must not content himself with the Day Artificial only but look through the interval of the natural Day entire since Nature when we poor Mortals are compos'd to Rest like its Great Master neither Slumbers nor Sleeps Since if at any time soever be it the Dead of the Night a violent Tempest hap to awaken the Neighbourhood unforeseen the Science is sure to be indited of I know not what uncertainties it behoveth therefore that Art on the other side should be relieved by all the true Affidavits of Showre or Wind c. which may steal in at that Interval wherein the Major part of the World buryed in their Beds will be concerned in censuring the Method when it fails though unconcerned in its Justification when it hits § 19. Here it
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
tells us the one Kepl. Epit. Astr VI. Cap. 5. are silent in the other § 38. At length we have done and presented the Reader with what we have to say not any Dreams of fanciful Men but honest Lectures of watchful Observers of the great Folio of Heaven to whose Creator from the considering part of the World at least for 't is time to close all Glory for ever to which I hope these Speculations do contribute CAAP. IV. Conjunction of Sol and Mars § 1. Transition 2. ♂ of a sore Influence 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a quick terrible Planet of old reputed Plato explained 5. Notwithstanding the Planet is no Bug-bear 6. Droughts prodigious not frequent 7. Nor raging distempers 8. Civility to Truth though a Stranger 9. A Star Hot and dry with the Arabs 10. But also inclined to Wet in our opinion 11. Dry it may be but not absolutely such 12. Some cause assigned of droughty Seasons under this Configuration 13. Aptitude to Storm ♂ 's prime Natural Influence 14. His slow motion prevents the frequency of his quarelling 15. ♂ in vulgar speaking hotter than the Sun it self and more Turbulent 16. Objection to that 17. Answ The Direct Ray with the Reflex is more than the Direct alone consider'd 18 19. Frosty Winters c. under this Aspect 20. Are no blot in the Martial Escocheon 21. The ☠proclaims the Planetary Inclination in hard Winters for the time more than a ☌ 22. the Violence of the Aspect by the kindness of Providence is not so frequent as those among the Inferiours 23. Therefore in vain do we seek for Droughts to prove our Aspects Character 24. The Martial Heat is visible in Droughts to Sense in Storms and Winds visible to Reason 25. A foggy Morn in Summer or a showry day infer Heat ♂ acknowledged to conduce to Fog 26. Evidence of Wet 27. Breviate of the Diary before hand conc Wet 28. Benefit of a Prolix observation 29. Superiour Planet slow but sure 30. Argument to prove our Aspect concerned in the Wet 31. and in the Fog 32. The modern Astrologers avow Wet in aqueous Signs at least our Opinion of their Method 33. Remainder of the Breviate 34. Search into Natural Texture intricate Fog c. imputable to our Aspect 35. The nicety of Nature in snow Generation of Hail belongs to ☉ ♂ 36. Prognostic not evacuated by the confest intricacy of the Contemplation 37. The large Diary 38. Mars is a malignant Planet 39. A Forreign miscellany Table of the Aspects effects 41. The Violence of Mars more clearly shews it self in the following Configuration 42. Something of Comets 43. Storms 44. Blasts scorching and burning 45. An essay to the cause of the Currents in the Ocean § 1. SO have we done with the Inferiours and their matches amongst themselves Let us now see the issue of an inferiour match'd sometimes with a Superiour House ♂ ♄ ♃ the First of which in order of nature and our method is Mars § 2. The Planet Mars through all Ages past hath been reckoned one of the Grandees in Aetherial Regions of a sore Influence and those ill consequences that are wont to take place under Hot Dry fervid Constitutions § 3. The Truth is if that helps it looks Red and Fiery whose Name of Old was therefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Plato's Timaeus and the Modern Hebrews addicted also to Astrology after the Heathens have learned to call him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the same Red Fiery hue § 4. But there is more in it than the Lustre there is the Operation and Experience of That the Fervors that issue from thence in Spring and Summer Seasons For so Cicero long ago in his excellent Book de Nat. Deoâ—um having occasion to describe the Planets saith of our present Planet Media Martis Stella incendit Igneae ardentisque naturae saith Pliny the Mouth of all his Antient Predecessors 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Porphyry Martis Stella rapax A Rampant Star saith another Propert the Astrologer in Lucan Tuque ô flagrante minaci Scorpion incendis cauda c. because â™ is reckoned our Planets House whence Virgil also makes the Sign or Asterism Scorpius to be Ardens for Mars's sake But Tally in the fore-cited Book saith of Mars that he is Terrible Rutilus horribilisque terris and Macrobius from him which is the Highest and fullest Testimony though all the precedent intend as much wherein the Philosophers for such was Cicero pronounced his own Sentiments and the Ages without any cautelous restriction of ut dicitur ut ferunt and yet not over Credulous to believe every idle report nor in matter of Philosophy would he have took Plato's Testimony alone though that also is not without its Weight as founded on the experience of Ages precedent had not the following Ages from Plato downward to Cicero's time agreed in their Suffrage But Plato talks higher of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which gave occasion to Tully's expression What Fears you will say I answer agreeable to his Hot rampant Character long and contumacious Droughts and Wants of Rain where all Verdure by the immoderacy of the Season is parch'd and burnt Languors and Faintings Feavers and Contagions at certain years depopulating Towns and Cities by Pestilence which they attribute to the Angry Heavens among the Planets to Mars and to Syrius among the Fixed Stars All which Ptolemy recounts on the Charactrr of ♂ when in his Dominion § 5. But sure the noise could not have bin so loud since no Planet can be always extream but that overlooking the more temperate and remiss intervals they made sure to transmit the Fame of the more notable Excesses only Hence we poor Posterity Believing and admiring those rare Events are afraid of the conceived Dominion of the Planet because we think he is always such as he is voic'd to be But this Fear ought to be corrected for it is easie to bring in less than an 100 years above a hundred merciless Storms which in their times happen in several parts of the Ocean at New and Full ☽ and yet for all that Navigation with Gods Blessing goes prosperously on Because those Phases of the ☽ are not always out of Humour but for the most part send merry Gales to the Seamen yea and sometimes even a Calm So that howsoever the Antients have represented the Planet ♂ for an ill condition'd Creature it is not to be understood but that like our English Mastives they may be seen to fawn sometimes upon the Stranger and have the name of a gentle Creature § 6. For as full as the Antients are of the definition the Meadows and Pastures are not always parch'd into a Desart nor the Grass Crumble under our Feet 'T is not always the Men or Cattle languish and dy for Thirst whose Watring places have forsaken their Valleys whose Rivers are exalted into a Fuliginous Atmosphere There are but few Instances in any part of the World of Forests Fired
his Configurations with the ensuing Planets yet even here 't is conspicuous in his share of Heat Storms Lightning c. and the Flames of Vesuvius Comets of extraordinary Shape and if any other Novelty steps in § 42. Here we may be excusable if we bring one and the same Instance under several Aspects thereby admonishing that the grand Productions of Nature are owing not to our single Cause but to many who are hired out and employed for the Service as may be seen in all Works of Nature So my very Pen moves not now but by the Assent and Consent of all those numerous Muscles Veins Arteries Nerves which make up the Fingers We have mentioned nothing in our Table but what we would willingly speak to in its turn And First Comets stare in our Faces as Anno 1511. 39. 54. 50. But the Truth is they do not presevere for we heard of no more till Anno 1633. We shall see what they will do in the next in the Two Superiours For the reason I perswade my self why a Comet shews it self one year rather than another and why so thick and frequent in some years as 1618. 1665. Why Hecla Mountain flamed not from Anno 1558. to Anno 1593. Why Vesuvius sometimes two years together Why every Twelve years the Indians look for their Tuffon their All-destroying Whirlwinds Arduous Questions which the Worthy Democritus Junior proposes to us The Reason in general can be no other but this though there be eminent Strokes in these Productions of some peculiar Caelestial yet there happens or happens not a Concurrence of all Requisites in such and such determinate postures and Habitudes and distance Quibus positis the Result follows For if one or other be wanting the Effect gives no appearance Where a Comet begins with ☌ ♂ ☉ whether alone or in Company with ☌ ♀ ☿ I take this to be an eminent Stroke of our Planet or Aspect § 43. What should I reckon up the Lightnings Storms and Tempests for they are next which occurr Oh Had our Intelligence been uninterrupted and uniform but the very Times did not bear that 't is not yet 200 years since the Indies were known by European Navigators nor did Navigation flourish with us till Q. Elizabeth Howbeit more might have been amassed together but that we judged some loss of time as Hevelius also complains when he sought out the History of Comets This let us observe that as deficient as our Table may appear there is scarce a ☌ within these last 100 years but contributes some remark favouring our Fiery Meteor § 44. Among which there occur once or twice Burning and scorching Winds at the Famous Port of Sues at the hither end of the Red Sea which put me strait in mind of Ptolemy's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hot and Melting Blasts and shews to what Climes Ptolemics Character may be properly reckoned and withal that the Character it-self is no Figment but grounded upon Experience and Observation as all good Learning is § 45. Halo's Rainbows and Parelia are noted but they belong as hath been said to a Conflux of Planets For the Sun alone makes not any Rainbow that is vivid or Illustrious nor doth the ☽ solitarily cause an Halo but the ☉ and ☽ are assisted sometimes by ♀ ☿ ♂ as in less matters when the Evening is red at ☉ set and then overspreads the Hemisphere There is beside the ☉ ☿ near the Horizon or ♂ or ☽ be either Eastor or West or perhaps in Medio Coeli § 46. I may add further as to Comets that although they appear not within the Verge of what may be called a ☌ ☉ ♂ yet they appear often when our Planet is associated with the rest I mean in the same Hemisphere for we are willing to believe that more Comets are kindled in that space than when he wanders alone in the other the ☌ being more potent than the ☠§ 47. This though we have not mentioned it is certain that the Aspects of ☉ and ♂ especially our ☌ are of Mal-Influence to Mens Bodies and in token whereof we shall find those years complain of Epidemic Distempers c. with their ☌ of ♂ ☉ Yea even all the very time of the Conjunction I could have inserted a large Table to this purpose from all parts of Europe and undeniable it is Put these Two Observations together and the Corollary will be that upon this account Comets may signifie unhealthy times New Diseases Plagues c. even as they do Earthquakes and Inundations being the Com-Productions of those Superiour Causes which are the Authors of the aforesaid Evils For if it be once granted that the Celestial Bodies are the Causes of the one with the other the Earthquake with the Comet then the Comet may be a Sign of the Earthquake and whatsoever comes in Prospect with it Hence upon this account many times may the Earthquake antecede the Comet not always follow it because 't is not the Comets but 't is a joynt Effect of a Third Cause according to Natures Method Productive of both Now Nature's Method is not always the same as in Smoke and Fire The Smoke commonly precedes true in Green Combustibles but not in dry and unctuous There the Flame precedes and the Smoke follows Now how comes Smoke to be a Sign of Flame but because one common Incentive produceth both A Comet therefore following an Earthquake though it looseth the Praemonitory part yet it looseth not the Nature of a Sign because though for the most part it doth by its precedency premonith Yet it is subsequent too and so a Sign not of what 's future but what is past As the Footstep is a Sign of an Inhabitant So much for that § 44. But we have a greater Task in hand and that is the Currents of the Ocean Now a Current you must know is such a Tide or Stream peculiar to a place that it shall frustrate the Mariners reckoning and set him back 20. or 30. Leagues when he the Wind being not able to Stem the Force of the Stream shall think he is so many Leagues advanced The Philosophic Royal Society to excellent purpose have desired that all Navigators should take notice of the Current in all parts of the Sea for the improving Navigation Which the Seafarers moved by their own Judgement and Interest do daily practice 'T is not many days since that I strongly suspected any such Novelty for they are not always Constant and Unchanged to relate to the Heavens How many Noble Problems will a good Astrology solve May I without Envy endeavour the Invention Perhaps it is made out in our Table What saith Sir Henry Middleton in his East-India Voyage in Purch Lib. 3. § 5. From August 12. to 27. this is ☌ ☉ ♂ time A great Current setling South-West 4 Miles an Hour so that what we got by a favourable Wind we lost that and more when it fell Calm being carryed back by the Current Here 's
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
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
might be the Cause of the Whitness the extraordinary Whiteness for ordinary is not to our purpose it may be as some have observed long ago in Hail whiter than ordinary which proves to fall under our Aspect Howbeit to the Whiteness of the Sea pray look back to what is noted in the Diary A o 1541. § 46. What we have to say of Phasmes and Apparitions in the Air which we do meet with in unquestionable Records whatsoever may be expected we shall say but little Des-Cartes we see ascibes all such Stories to the Fancies of Superstitious People and so some other Learned of our Men who have followed him But we who heartily believe Spiritual Substances Good and Bad believe said I Nay we say in the Name of Mankind we account the Evidence such that whosoever resists it while he denies Truth confirms it Why so Will you say Even because Humane Nature cannot I think acquire such a proud Antipathy to a confess'd beside Divine Truth without some black Veil cast over their Eyes We I say who admit these Substances considering the report of Heathen Jewish and Christian History can easily admit such appearances as Armies Camps Ships Noses Trumpets so far forth that the Truth is They come not under our Cognizance no more than other Pranks of Daemons do unless as is confessed in Lunacies the Spirits of the Air who no disgrace to natural Science are better Philosophers than our selves know the times and Seasons fitted to their use by the admirable variety of the Course of Nature And this I avow to be highly probable as shall be made good in the Close of this Discourse Here under ♃ and ♀ we meet with that of July 19. 1550. seen at Trebinium in Saxony not far from Wittemberg Armies and Noises heard with Bloud spilt Lycosth Fincelius Our Aspect beside that of ☉ and ♄ is paramount here ☌ ♃ ♀ Partile about ♊ 20. or 21. Another such Spectacle in Saxony again I would He had named the proper place he gives us of a Hearfe seen and Mourners and Trumpets heard Oct. 1. 1541. here to say nothing of III. in ♎ before as observable in rare Effects our Planet ♃ from ♓ 3. oppose ♀ in ♠27. There 's a Third 1554. Aug. 5. 9. P. M. near Stolpen Armies with shooting and Lightning between whiles which though I put no stress upon because the Adversary may be apt to say the Military Noise was nothing but disguised Thunder I answer if History spoke only of Noise c. They said something But when they add Instances of Fighting Bloud Shouting Trumpets which are not so easily represented by Thunder When they add Horses Naval Forces c. as in that before the Spanish Invasion mentioned by Fromond seen by thousands we must not allow that Truth in part shall pass for the whole Truth The whole Truth implys both Physical and Hyphysical Agents in the Affair But of this hitherto only for the Truth of the Phaenomenon if you desire the Jewish History you have the Maccabees Story If the Heathen you have besides the Poets Pliny Appian Valerius Maximus and others And for Christian you have among the Antients S. Gregory if the Moderns Melanchtan Fincelius and Snellius Where we don't introduce Hyperphysical Causes to defeat Natural but only unite them and make them agree thereby confirming us in the Rational belief of that good Record which tells Stories of Spirits making use of Nature for natural Eftects such as Whirlwinds c. What Angel was that what Visible Angel which Jerusalem's King saw slaying his Subjects And what Motto was that which Constantine saw written in or near the Solar Body Are they not hitherto to be reduced A Supenatural Power cloathed in Nature may be Legible as Visible § 47. Let us shut up this Aspect with Frost 't is not enough it may be to say that an Aspect of ♃ and ♀ is found in all obstinate Frosts as in that severe Winter which they say kill'd up the Birds and Beasts A o 1502. though ♄ and ♂ were in Play before yet in February came in ♃ and ♀ So A o 1581. a Winter which in Poland Gangreen'd the Bodies of Military Men Calvis ☌ ♂ ♄ ☌ ♃ ♀ A o 1520. in the Month of May which was so cold that all the hopes of Vintage was nipt in the Bud notoriously upon the account not of ♂ and and ♀ conjoined but of ♃ being opposed to both A o 1572. in Octob. early long and untimely Frost Eichstad p. 39. upon ♄ ☿ long Conjunction for a Month together with ♃ and ♀ in ♈ and ♎ opposed Which Frost by the way introducing the new Star in Cassiopeia Evidences that It also was of the Nature of Comets which not seldom are produced in Frosty Seasons A o 1587. So in the Months out of Winter quarter do we meet with a Hyemal Constitution June 19. A o 1557. and ♃ opp ☉ ♀ ☿ Sept. 4. 1587. When it Freez'd Bluster'd Hail'd Snow'd saith our English Annals upon the account chiefly I confess of ♄ and ♂ in ♉ and ♠but also on the account of our ☌ ♃ ♀ even in ♌ A o 1597. May again Cold and Dry Stow and Hakl Part. 3. p. 195. tells us of extream Cold Weather manifest on ♃ in ☌ with ☉ ♀ ☿ Yet for all this on the other side the same Planets strongly assisted may contribute to Heat So the Seamen complain they were half rosted the 10th of June A o 1660. Lat. North 65. while ♃ and ♀ were in ♊ And June is not July also A o 1645. on near the same accident is recorded for a Hot Season The First being in ♊ the Second in ♋ but within Bounds The Reason of Frost and Cold we have declared to be either the Restraint of the Planets to few Signs 3 or 4. Or 2ly an Hiatus in their order or which is equivalent a width or distance above the Signal Term viz. grad 30. Note that the opposite Sign coming in place instead of the co-opposite is next door to an Hiatus One or more of these Conditions are found in every one of these Chill Years unless there be some Mystery in the Positure of ♄ and ♃ to be mentioned in due place § 48. ♃ ☿ are not so notable because of shorter Comprehension Yet they also minister some occasion to speak a Word of this Constitution We have both kinds here Cold and Hot. For he is no Astrologer who cannot swallow such seeming Contradiction that establisheth both upon the same Cause in several Circumstances viz. When Solitary and When in Consort If Snow and Storms Nov. 18. 1644. If Snow for 4 days in March be any Argument If Snow a. Foot deep found at London at the end of April can move us If extreme Snow at Chery Isle on May 16. A o 1607. Purch 5. 526. or if Snow with Internal Cold as the Mariner calls it Purch 3. 504. if an extreme Cold March and April and May to boot
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
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
several Texture of Matter Density Rarity c. we must carefully distinguish between Them and their Privations the rather because the Philosopher saith rightly that the same Sense is Judge of both for t is no reason to look for a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Privative Beings but only of Positive Thus it will be vain to look for a Prime Recipient of Siccity the Fire being dry and the Earth also and neither owing that Quality one to the other because being a bare carentia and Absence of Humidity all Bodies so deprived must aequè primò rejoice in that Denomination Thus I take it is Rarity nothing but a Privation of Density Softness of Hardness Smoothness of Asperity Fluor of Solidity Friability of Viscosity Leanness of Fatness total or partial Privations For the Prime Recipient though it be commonly a certain species yet 't is not always so § 54. There are Properties which follow the Genus as All men must confess such are the known Properties of Quantity Figure Place Motion Time Gravity Colour Sound Figure I say for if Quantity be such a Property then Figure must also however it be called Quality or otherwise a Property of Corpus solidum Then Motion for be the principle of Motion what it will Matter or Form or Finiteness of Nature 't is plain 't is a common Generical Attribute to which it is annexed we may call it corpus or if you will substantia finita Then for Gravity we have a General Recipient for That whether in the new Philosophy which reckons All Elements to be Gravia as tending to their Centre Fire it self seeming to tend upward only on this account or in the more stale Philosopby which makes Earth Water Air Gravia in comparison of Fire I say according to the one the Prime Recipient of Gravity is corpus Homogeneum supposing the Heavy substance out of its place and corpus Opacum according to the other understanding it here as opposed to Luâ—id in which sense Air Water Earth are opacons and therefore Gravitating as being destitute of That Spirit which tendeth upward We say the same of Colour that corpus opacum but as distinguish'd to pellucid or Diaphanous is the Prime Recipient of it Colour being nothing else but a nice mixture of Light and Opacity Yea for Sound it self we give a prime Subject and That is corpus Spirituosum it being the Spirit that is the Subject and Vehicle of the Sound § 55. These things being premised I say that All Qualities truly so called positive Beings not privative have necessarily their Prime Recipient in the Species or the Genus at least Heat Cold Humectation Tast Odour All Sensible Qualities have their Prime Recipient it being hard to find Humectation where there is no Water Cold where no Earth Tast where no Salt Odour where no Oyl Light and Heat where no Fiery Spirit And what do we say of the Second Tactile Qualities Crassitude Solidity Density Hardness Roughness The Earth no doubt is the Prime Receiver of them All so that where there is Solidity and Density there is Earth as Plato saith even in the Stars themselves For Viscosity unless we say 't is a Compound Complicate Quality ex pingui arido and so get off from the necessity of assigning a Prime Recipient as there is no Prime Recipient of Tepor and mixt Colours so otherwise we may nominate a Gluten to supply That place with the same liberty as the Chymists name Sulfur and Salt for if it be said that there is no such species in which this quality inheres no more is there any species of Salt and Sulfur the Prime Recipient of Savours and Odours they are Generical Natures common to all Sapid and Odorate Bodies § 56. Surely unless some Recipient be admitted both in Active and Passive Qualities the Family of Nature will be at a loss The several Tribes of Hot Cool Sapid Odorate how manifold soever in their Natural Colonies must needs depend on some prime Propagator as all Families do § 57. I will not say this is in imitation of God himself and his Communications Nature being nothing else but a Sciagraphy of Divinity who being a Creator hath ordained a Generant communicating Essence and Gifts and Graces Himself being of them All the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 § 58. And truly when upon a just Induction made we may find a prime Subject for all the Active Qualities truly stated as Light Heat Cold Humidity c. why we should not seek for prime Subjects for All the rest which are absolute perfections of the Subject in which they dwell I see not seeing the Fabrick of this Great Universe though it be abstruse yet it is such as doth incourage Enquiry not discourage it by the Mutual dependance of Causes the Second on the First and the Third on Both the Creator being admirable not only in the Number but in the Order of his Creatures To find Fire in Fish-bones Rotten wood Tasts in Dews as well as Plants and Minerals Stenches in Mists as well as Puddles and All through the communication of the same prime Subject incourages a Modest Enquirer and brings him to the knowledge of a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the prime Cause of All. § 59. Neither is the prime Generical Recipient to be thought an Empty Notion as if Universal Natures subsisted only by the Operation of the Intellect and did not exist à parte rei for certainly They are guilty of the Empty Notion that make a Nature not We that find it Surely the Individual borrows all its Reality from the Species unless his Essence be a fiction and the Species in part from the Genus the One is a Modification of his Vniversal the Other a Difference and thus far for the second Enquiry § 60. Now thirdly what Relation a Body Celestial may have to Cold if Cold be a Terrestrial Emanation is the next Enquiry seeing Reason as Cardan confesses makes them All without difference warm even ♄ it self if he be Luminous Resp The Nature of the Planet is to be estimated not from his Magnitude only and Distance and Light and Colour but much if not chiefly from its Consistence and Spirit if any there be that inhabits it § 61. Their Bodies of their own nature are Opacous but they are Pervious too This is known for certain as to the ☽ it is full of Cells and Concavities of a vast Penetration for otherwise neither It nor the Rest could so visibly so potently reflect the Solar Incidences As to the Spirit all that believe the Sun to be of an Igneous Nature as 't is high time we should come so far do resolve that there are Mines of Sulfur in the Sun which minister an Eternal Pabulum to the Flame as the Mines do to our Hot Baths This is so certain that the Assertors of the Maculae Solares know not what else to define them but Sulphureous Fumid Exhalations issuing from it § 62. Again all that are Curious
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
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
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
common apprehension but in our case 't is more than so her Expressions seem founded on a Primaeval Tradition which from Adam to Noah from Noah to the Jewish Nation as his VII precepts also did may resolve ultimately into Divine Revelation the voice of Him who best knows the Universe because he made it Known was it of old that the Globe of the Earth a great Truth is Round and that it hangs on nothing fixed on its own Centre Nor doth the Scripture speak here Secundum captum vulgi And what saith the Leading Book of the World that is the History it saith that at the beginning of Gods own System the Earth as the Waters hung in vacuo for Darkness Privation and nothing else did encompass it till He was pleas'd to say Light which being created for distinction of the Day and Night made it move from the Opposite Hemisphere where it was first created to the upper Hemisphere of the Eastern Countrys so that Even and Morn made out the day the Light was not first created and then the Earth to move towards it but contrarily He made the Earth first and the Light to wheel about so the Earth was the Centre of that Orb of Light If the Sun had bin made the first day all things had went Mathematically the Gentre first then the Gircumference Or if this New Planet the Earth had been made the fourth day and bin placed in the Expansion with its fellows who would not have reckoned the Earth among the Planets But the Expansium in whose utmost Lofts the Planets are placed 't is manifest begins at the Earth the Terraquaeous Globe thence dividing and parting those inferiour Waters from the Superiour setting them at their due distance the Terms of which distance are of one side the Earth and those Waters on the other side the Firmament Now if this Expansion be uniform and alike in all Hemispheres I see not but that the Earth must hand in the Middle of the Firmament § 4. But whether this Explanation hold or no I affirm 't is the Interest of the Creation that the Planetary Motions should be as direct so Retrograde Direct for the ordinary Uniform dispensation of the year and its Seasons equally distributing to all their due Signature and Temper But Seasons we know do sometimes seem short and at other times are prolonged Winter holds longer one Year than another and Heat renews it self at the Latter end of Summer in August suppose or September What is the matter One Reason is Planets by Retrocessions play their Lessons over again they walk such an Arch of Heaven a second and a third time which in a direct course they measure but once Then the Station of a Planet is a great occurrence and causes Extremity of Weather you cannot dip into a Diary but so you will find it the Effect is apparent The Cause must be real Nay saith the Hypothesis not real in its self but real to us it may be as the Suns Eclipse Or to come nearer his rising or setting For do we not see say they that when we part from shore the Bankside and all the Buildings seem to recede from us yea when in a clear Night we ferry over the River do not the ☽ and Stars fly apace from us even so upon the Motion Annual of the Earth the Planets seem to recede when as indeed they continue a regular undisturbed Course But this doth not yet clear off the Objection for the Shore and the Buildings and the ☽ and the Stars though they seemingly fly amain yet withal among themselves they are found to keep their Station and due distance one from another In the Planetary retrocession 't is otherwise for they alter their Places in their Orbs and under the Constellations to which they are subject When I put off from Pauls-Wharfe the Houses recede and fly from me but at no hand change their Station among themselves their Ground or Distance The Houses on the Wharfe run not for hast behind Pauls Steeple or come one Inch the nearer then they were Nor do the ☽ and Stars however hasting away for any motion of mine alter their respective distance among themselves whatsoever they do in order to me So the Planet ♄ when in his direct course he passed the Hyades as in the Month of Octob. An. 1677. By his Retrograde pace He got engaged in the midst of them again Jan. 1678. Yea in August 1676. he was past the Pleiades also in the Month following In September October November he returned and passed them a third time and 't was curious to observe how he inched along in the Retreat of his where his least motion in other places not so sensible was here more distinct and conspicuous being adjusted by such little Measures viz. the Petit distances of the Stellulae of the Pleiades This being a noble Instance may suffice § 5. To this 't is answered that the Parallax of the Planet and the difference of Prospect makes this seeming alteration the Planets hanging much lower than the Firmament so that the Earth approching toward the Planet casteth the Sight of its Inhabitannt to one point forward and when it hath passed the same it casteth to a contrary point Yea but you see therefore I Instance in ♄ who they say hath little or no Parallax so exalted is he and so near the Firmament Next if there be any such Parallax in ♄ then there would be found such difference of Motion even among the Pixed since They also be in different Orbs or Heights on which account some shifting of place would even there be discerned They answer that there may be made some such observation in time perhaps Kepl. Epit. Astron So a 1000 years hence we shall perhaps see somewhat or nothing for a 1000 years backward there hath been no such thing Others deny any proportion between the Earth nay between the Orb of the Earth a swinging Circle and the Fixed No proportion How comes it to pass then in measuring the Universe Miles 60. or 70. answer to a degree A degree and that in the Firmament when the Stars hide themselves Northwards or ward if we walk from either side How comes it to pass that the Day increases unless a Degree in the Earth's Annual Motion answer to somewhat considerable in the Firmament § 6. It is affirmed that the Planets while seeming Retrograde do keep on their direct course let experiment be made by some Observator within the Tropicks it must be where the Planets to such and such portions of the Terraquaeous Globe do sometime become Vertical at what time all Parallax ceases whether any of the Superiours rtreating to any notable Fixed Star be not to be found there where Tycho states him rather than where the Hypothesis pretends whether it be not found near the Fixed Star or Constellation as really when it receded thither as when it first met it in its direct motion This Astrologers are sure of that
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
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
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
these Let it be remembred that we find melting Weather Anno 1658. 1667. Scalding Air Anno 1660. and excessive Heat Anno 1656. 1665. 1671. 1678. and where not Except once or so when the Wet hath palliated the Heat as 1679. or 1682. § 12. The Objection of what Cold occurs we have said ought not to move a Wise man for where is variety but in the Work of Nature Study it in what Topique you please and you shall find it This we say not as if we were hindred by the Objection for the rarity of the contrary is Argument enough for us as in the ☌ ☉ ♂ hath bin observed March 1654 June 1663. October 1679. What is Three to XXVIII Beside that 't is not for nothing that the Two last of those Months have foggy Air joyned with Frosts which shews an abatement of the Cold and a Similar Effect of a reserved Cause For when we say Heat we do not mean every Day should melt or scald us but some sensible degrees of the Quality more or less and rather for the more Therefore you hear that the Character of this Aspect speaks of Snow and Hail at the Seasons as well as Rain or Coruscations hence Rain and Snow which is next is not omitted by the Common Character § 13. This little Table I so term it because it stands upon a little Basis bears a competent Testimony to Rain For even here He who shall hunt for a dry Season as March 1654. August 1656. c. must wade through many a wet day to get thither As in our First and Second Instance of Feb. Anno 1652. Jan. Anno 1654. is visible March it self subornes two days Witness for us with Snow and Hail in one day and Rain in the other To make short we find 139. wet days Snow and Hail included of our 280. which being an absolute Moiety speaks its mind For the Flouds or Inundations the Effects of profuser Rains we shall speak in our Larger Account For though we find even here an Inundation or Two as that of Amsterdam Hague c. Anno 1675. Yet they are found more commonly unconfin'd to such a Scantling of a degree or Two of which alone this Home-Diary consists Hence that in Febr. 1661. about Tonbridge cannot be imputed to a Single day but to sveral precedent Days at a greater distance by two or three degrees more Of Flouds therefore in their proper place Eichstad I say refers Inundations to ♂ and ☿ which we shall find to be true but so that ♂ and ♀ put in too yea many times at the very Nick when ♂ and ♀ may seem to be the only Sluce-Openers § 14. This brings us to the Third considerable which I find is Fog observable for 18 days which though it come near a 20th part almost of the whole yet you know I reckon it not so much to the Influence of our Aspect as to the Half-Influence A Fog being nothing but a wet or dropping Constitution spoiled in the making The First Draught and Lineaments of a Showr drawn as it were in Cole not by a dropping but a more dry Pencil And hitherto do we reduce the Fila the Ropes on the Ground and the Floting Gossamere which I have observed to be the Product of Fog or Mist when that the moisture being exhaled the clammy part is left behind § 15. Winds I would take to be accidental to our Partil Aspect at least or not so suitable to the Influence as is found in others Though I acknowledge 90 Insâ—â—ces of which 42 are heard as High and Lofty In like manner as in ☉ aspected with ♀ we found not so much Wind as with ☿ But the Winds changing which I find Twenty times and upon a more attentive Watch believe it might have been trebled I am not going about to perswade notwithstanding that it belongs to this Aspect alone remembrieg what I have said already of the ☽ to some such purpose yet it may concern some certain Aspects more than others For the Solar Aspect with any Planet the ☽ excepted as we have said I reckon here to be excluded since they help to Fix the Wind antecedently to the Change For if they do not what else can be assigned The Sun and those which conspire with with him settle the Constitution if any other adventitious cause can alter it it may The Sun I say in Aspect or out of Aspect gives being to the Constitution the other which are concerned not with him but with one another exert their peculiar Strength in Weather and Winds provided that the Aspects of these different Planets lye at some distance from the ☉ for otherwise their Influence like Flames unite But if it so happen that the Sun being up These Aspects are not in hast to follow him because of their distance their Influence may be separated so far as to suffer a cooler Wind to blow which upon their Rising shall vere to a warmer point For observe it when you will if the Wind turns to a chiller part of the Compass There is some retreat of the Heavenly Bodies They either part One from the Other or leave the Horizon On the contrary when the Winds turn from a cold Quarter to a Warmer West or South c There is some new appearance above the Horizon or new Application of one to another And this it may be made Eichstad observe to us that the Wind changed often to the West under this Aspect which so far is true that it never changes from the Warm Quarter by virtue of this Aspect toward the warm Quarter it doth unless in State of Dereliction § 16. Verily 't is a pleasant piece of Art to be able to say as on some certain days we may while a Northerly Wind blows to assign I was going to say the Minute when the Wind shall turn I remember One Instance of that Nature I cannot say 't was this Aspect precisely that once according to observation expecting the Wind to turn I went up to the Battlements of the House and Lo Within half a quarter of an Hour the Vane of a Neighbour Church at a very little distance turned to the Point which I was aware of 'T is well I was alone for if any less curious Person had been with me to have attested the Event which is sober Truth I should have been suspected for a What d' ye call him This can the Observation of the Planets attain to as may be seen in the Chapter of the Rise and Setting of the Stars a part of this Treatise § 17. There is another appearance for which this Aspect hath a Fame and that is Iris Halo Parelia Of the former we have one great Instance from Leicestershire of the Later I fear I have met with more than are noted down Something I am sure we shall find though not proper to the Aspect perhaps nor again improper Kepler hath one remark under the name of Phasmata by which he means some
ante 2 p. gr 9. August 2. High Winds gr 6. 3. Dashes of Rain with Thunder gr 5. 4. Great Dash circa 3 p. gr 5. 6. Rain Storms of Rain gr 〈◊〉 27. Showring Storm of Rain gr 5. 28. Rain ante luc m. p. High Wind a. m. gr 5. 29. Rain die tot Hurricane in several parts of the Empire blowing down Houses and Men up into the Air c. vide Gazet gr 4. Sep. 2. Rain 4. Rain 5. Rain gr 7. 6. Rain hard die toto gr 7. 9. Rain ante ☉ ort gr 7. 13. High Wind great Showr 3 p. gr 8. 15. Rain morn 11 m. and ante 7 p. gr 9. Iterum ♠7. Octob. 25 ♀ Stat. Oct. 3. Rain 6 p. gr 10. 4. A dash 11 m. ♀ ort ☽ p. ☽ ort Rain o. gr 10. 5. Rain hard gr 10. 6. Rain ante luc 8 m. 10 m. 3 p. gr 9. 8. Very High Wind gr 9. 10. Rainy n. a 2 m. ad 8 m. Tide gr 16. Muslipatan in the East Indies plus parte submergèe 1500 drown'd French Gazet July 30. 1680. 11. H Winds Rain Great Flouds as within the memory of Man at Hockly by Clerkenwell Lincolnshire Hereford Bridgewater Welshpool Gazet 1451. gr 9. 12. Rain 14. Rain 15. Rain gr 8. 16. Rain hard a 5. ad 9. c. gr 6. 17. Rain feré die tot gr 5. 18. Rain 19. Rain 4 p. 21. Rain gr 5. 22. Very High Winds 3 Tides to day gr 3. 19. News of much harm by the Flouds several-Houses Coaches Waggons and Passengers lost Domest Intell. Num. 31. gr ' 5. 22. Tide Ran all one way and yet the Water rose 29. High Winds 31. Very High Wind Rain morning gr 3. Nov. 2. Rain gr 8. 3. Coughs complained of gr 9. Anno 1680. ♉ 21. May 27. 6. Showr with Thunder at 3 m. gr ' o. 7. Dark at 6 p. gr 10. 8. Rain ante lucem gr 9. 12. Rain ante m. 10 p. 13. Cool Winds Rain at 8 m. gr 6. 16. Rain very hard die tot gr ' 8. 18. Storm of Rain Thunder and Hail bigger than Pigeons Eggs gr 4. 19. Rain circa 3 p ad 10. p. gr ' 4. 20. Rain ante lucem Iris. gr 3. June 1. High Winds gr ' 3. 4. Rain 4 m. ad 10 m. gr ' 4. 7. Coasting showrs gr 6. 10. Great Hail near Doway gr ' 7. 11. High Wind. 12. Dash 4 p. 13. Rain gr 7. Anno 1682. ♉ 4. April 13. March 22. Stormy Winds much Snow gr 10. Tides at London Bridge twice in 12 Hours flowed 7 hours a 2 p. 23. High Winds noct tot ' at Harwich very tempestuous gr ' 10. 24. High Winds rise 9 p. gr 10. 25. High Winds cold showr 10 m. gr 10. 27. Rain ante 8 m. 2 p. gr ' 8. 28. High Winds Scuds of Rain gr 8. 30. Hail 11 m. High Winds Showrs gr ' 6. Die 28. Very Tempestuous at Plimouth Ships suffered greatly in the rigging April 2. High Winds gr ' 6. 4. Some Rain at 8 m. gr ' 4. 20. Rainy 21. Showrs gr ' 3. 22. Rain 23. Showrs gr ' 5. 24. Rain hard ante 11 p. gr ' 5. 25. Wetting most part greivous Rain 9 p. gr ' 7. 26. High Winds and Showrs gr 7. 27. Some Rain 28. Showr m. p. gr ' 7. 29. Rain 30. Rainy a 2 p. ad 11 p. gr ' 8. May 1. Rain High Winds gr ' 9. 2. Rain a ☉ occ ' ad 11 p. gr ' 9. 3. Showring at 2 p. gr ' 10. 4. Rainy gr 9. About this day in Berkshire Hurricane tore up Trees by their Roots c. Curt. Intelligence 153. § 21. No less Evidence than this will serve to establish our Principle and I wish it may Those who have no need of it I hope will not count it a Burden Our Marine Evidence will be acceptable too to our Studious Navigator to whom while I wish well I reckon I do right to my Country It concerns him at least to know there are Storms and Tempests and Shipwrack appearing in all its dismal Shapes and Denominations of Whirlwinds Hurricanes Borasques Tornado Tuffon whatsoever the Portuguez or any other of our English have smarted under Effects of Nature so intollerable to speak with a fellow-feeling of Humane misery that a Man would be glad to know though it were but the pretended cause of such Extremity Remembring that while we speak of Tuffons Whirlwinds we have to do with Miseries incredible which weigh more Grains Heavier than some other even intolerable accidents And how frequent these are at Sea none knows so well as they that feel them of which the 1000 part appears not in publick And therefore what Hiatus soever is found in our Table must be imputed to the Rarity yea and imperfection of printed Journals whose Abstracts most commonly of the true Voiage give not account of one Tempest in Twenty beside that toward the beginning of the Later Age Navigation had not spawn'd into Sholes as afterward the Time allotted by Divine Providence being not yet come § 22. Now whereas we have owned before-hand that ♂ and ♀ perhaps are not so ready to excite Winds and Storms as the Mercurial Aspects are I answer There lies a general Exception in case of the Platique Circumstance Two Planets shall do that at gr 10 12 14 16. distance toward Stress and Violence of Weather which at gr 1. or two they shall not be able And the Reason I have hinted before is Mechanical To my surprise then I found searching into Stormy Weather the Distance of several Planets at or near 10 degrees The first inspection I made was of Feb. 2. 1652. High Winds saith the Diary ☿ lies distant from the ☉ just gr 10. ♂ from ♀ 11 Again Feb. 6. Another such stormy Day ♀ is indeed gr 16. distant from ☿ but from ♀ ♂ is distant 9. Again March 2d and 3d Stormy Days ♂ is gr 9. distant a Sole and ♀ gr 11. from ♂ Now that this should happen to fall upon a ☌ ♂ ♀ I confess is casual The rest is not For neither thus do we make this distance an Efficient properly so called but a due disposition of it only And this justifies the Burden of our Larger Table and as we have said gives the Astrologer Room enlarges His Prospect and finds him wherewithall to take the Altitudes of Influence at any distance And this holds in other excesses of Rain Hail Thunder Heat in droughty times § 23. We have observed already that this consideration gives an account of the Severity together with the Duration of a Storm in Planets of slow Recess or Duration of a day or two indeed this may be solved by a Partile Aspect if a Week it may be solved by an allowance of 2 degrees As we can have Instance from the Lesser Table so Anno 1661. there are but 〈◊〉 quiet days found in 11. Anno 1680. 8 in 9. Rainy But where 10 or more degrees take place we can give
visible and they in Partile also Again we shall find some certain Month not so prompt to shew us this Fact Not June July August but chiefly the Winter Months and especially those which are capable of the Variation of the Equinoctial Tides February March October and November and so we cannot speak fully to it till we come to treat of the Signs of the Zodiack In the mean time the First suspition we had of this hidden Cause arose from observing our Aspect caught twice or thrice in the Company ♂ ☿ are more than the occasion they are the Authors as they are the Authors not Solitary and Adaequate but Partial and at times of Currents Thunders c. This the Diary witnesseth that when in Sept. 1663. there happened an Equinoctial Tyde March 31. 'T is not the Sun but Two Friends of his be point blank upon the Equinox our ♂ and ☿ § 37. And if the Maculae which have bin so carefully observed those later years shall come to be imputable to our fantastick Causes then the said Causes may come in some repute or that Effect to be vilified But neither is the Effect to be vilified nor the Causes to be disputed We have said before for ♂ ♀ we may venture in the same bottom for this Aspect also 'T is no small matter to give an account of the paleness yea of the darkness which is a disposition of the Sun without an Eclipse Such was that Famous Phaenomenon in Herodotus when Xerxes and his Army march'd from Sardis as Calvisius will have it I began to question his Excellent Chronology on that account for setting Sacred Story aside I could not imagine how Day should be turn'd into Night Which Herodotus asserts without some eclipse or Lunar Interposition But Astronomers have collected some Instances which come home or very near ☉ Pallidus is pretty frequent in Kepler's Diary which denotes more than a mist since that is every where expressed by by its proper term The ☉ labours an dis disturbed at such times as the Learned Writers of the Macular Obscurations conclude Scheiner and Hevelius All that I have to say is this Inquietation comes from the Heavens In the Body of Celestial Sphere one part affects another A ☌ or an ☠of ♂ and ☉ nay with ♀ or ☿ will help to bring in a Macula into the Body of the Luminary Nay the ☌ or ☠of the Superiors aspected together will do the like And if the Sun be the Center of the Planetary Heaven which I am willing to believe from the Reasons of the Copernicans there can be no scruple how it shall come to pass since every part of the Circumference glances upon the Center Thus in October 18 28. A o 1642. where Hevelius acknowledges a Macula and a Halo there is an ☠of ♂ ☿ at 7 degrees distance contributes with an ☠of ♂ ☉ at gr 5. distance July 4. Stylo Veteri ♂ ☿ at 6 degrees distance July 16. at 7 degrees distance A o 1644. June 3. ♄ and ♂ 3 degrees distance July 16. ♃ and ♂ 5 degrees distance And any one may think it probable when they shall find the Phenomenon of ☉ Pallidus May 1. 1627. and again 5 12 13 15. and 28 29. and all within ♄ and ♂ opposition at gr 12 8 5 3 1 0. distance May 12. being a Partile Opposition § 38. Here also comes at last or a little Table of the Male-Influence noted as it haps by its self Which if I may serve the Student in Physique thereby I will present I shall not need make a Cross upon the Door of this Aspect seeing what Pestilential Influence it hath for the most part is not easily distinguished from the precedent Aspect of ♂ ♀ I shall only present a few Notes of the Years 1673. 1675. Some of more some of less concern of Aches Indispositions c. In 1671. there were noted but 3. June 18 21 22. In 1673. July 22. what more ought here to be noted I cannot say But in September I read thus 13. Aches 21. Spasmes 4 m. Aches 10 at Night 25. Pains in the Feet 26. in the Shoulder 29. Scorbutical Sweats Oct. 2. Podagra 6 15. Pains in the Shoulder 21 22 23. Aches 24. Pains Fits A o 1675. July 4. Indispositions 5. Soultry afflicting Weather 9. Sickness Feavers September 20 22. Indispositions 26 27. Pangs October 3 4 5. Indispositions 6 7. Aches in the Shoulder Hysterical Fits Sickness and within 7 days Death 9. Aches So the 12 hor 3 p. the 13. Indispositions But the following one in December is frightful Dec. 2. Fits of Distraction 4. Hysterical Fits terrible 5 6 7 8. Aches in both Shoulders 9. Convulsion 10. Child Sickned 2 m. 11. Podagra 13. Children Sicken 15 16. Aches 17. Hysterical Fits 22. Indispositions ad 24. Aches 25. Indispositions and 31. Aches And so much for ♂ ☿ Mars aud Metcury Home-Diary 1652. Ab Apr. 16. ad Mai 2. 18. High wind showrs S. 19. Very H. wind showring 20. High wind showry so 22. S E. 24. H. wind 27. H. wind 28. Showring m. â—â— 29. Showry very Windy May 2. s Storms at night Iterum June 6. ad 29. 8. s rain windy 9. Dash Thunder 10. Thunder and Showrs 14 15 16 17 Red wind 18 19 20 21. Thunders 24 25. Thund 26. Windy 27. R. wdy 28. Some Rain wdy 29. Showry high Wind. Tertio July 1. ad 23. 2. Some drops 3. Dropping windy red wd 4. Dropping high wind red wind 5. Rainy at night 6. Showry wdy 7. Showry Thunder 8. Showry more wind 9. Windy some showts 12. More Wind rain at n. 13. Showry 15. Windy 16. Rain d. t. E. N. 17. Cloudy dropping wind W. than S. 18. Dropping more wind 22. Thunder showrs 23. Cldy at n. and dropping 1654. A June 24. a July 8. 25. Winds and suspicious 26. Winds fine Showrs Heat 27. Hot S. Showrs Night S E. 28. Th. Store of rain N E. 29. Hot N. E. 30. H. wind s drops July 1. Cold Rain and Wind. N E. 3. Brisk Winds s Wet 4. High Wind. N E. 5. Misty hot 6. Hot some rain at night 8. Th. showrs Iterum Plat. a Sep. 9. ad 27. 9. Wind showry 10. Dark suspicious n. 11. Misty m. hot 12. Suspicious so me drops 17. s rain 19. Winds a. l. dark 21. Fits of wet Iris more than Semicircular 22. Heat 22. s rain Th. seeming at midnight 24. Rain l. p. m. wind S. 25. s store of rain 10 p. 26. Warm wind suspicion at night 27. Misty m. warm 1636. June 7. ad 27. 7. High wind s misle hot N E. 8. Hot dry Wind s misle N E. 9. Wet 9 m. wind hot p. m N E. 10. Thunder dry N E. 11. Hot and dry â— E. 12. Very hot thunder 13. Red wind 14. Dropping ☉ occ 16. H. cool wind 3 p. 17. H. wind showrs 4 m. H. cool wind till ♂ occ 18 Storms of R. and H. wd 19. Wind dropping coasting p. m. 20.
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
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
will bespeak us the Table will furnish you with the years 79. 97. 1644. for ☿ 's Influence in his Solitary Capacity § 49. Hitherto may I add the Ice of the Northern Seas in Aestival Months from the years 1527. 87. and the like And let no man wonder that I sail to the Frozen Zone upon the account that these I have almost said Eternal Ice-Banks take place only from the absence of the warm Sun there being no room there for the small Game of This or that Planet though I Worship the Sun as well as another man yet after careful Observation I for certain found the contrary to this most certain Principle For it is known that the Northern Seas are not always of a Temper Some Winters the Ice makes inrodes upon the more Southern Climes sometimes again it retreats till it is Coop'd up almost to the Polar Circle Concerning which see the Islanders Latine discourse in Hakl Edit 2ly That Author makes us believe sometimes that there is a quite clear Sea when sometimes again we shall find Ice 100 Fathom deep as Purch 3. p. 38. and that in Lat. 60. which difference of years cannot proceed meerly from the Suns absence which in all Winters is one and the same but from these petty Skip-Jack Aspects which have to do and have Patent to shew for it where ever the Sun hath to do I have made it my business to observe it scrupulously the rather because in times of Yore as of late the English with other Nations have had an ardent desire if that would carry them through to find a North-West Passage to the East-Indies wherein our Frobishers Hudsons Davises have taken immortal Pains but as unless encouraged by an Aspect Columbus had never found the West-Indies neither shall the North-West passage succeed without the same Clew Martin Frobisher by good hap through its Influence as then assisted A o 1587. found it Hot Extreme Hot in Lat. 61. our ☌ ♃ ☿ being the same at both times What do we in his First Voyage A o 1676. when he met with Ice at a nearer distance Lat. 61. our ☌ ♃ ☿ being the same at both times What do we speak of 61 When under the same Aspect we find Mountains of Ice in our own Latitude in New-found-Land I mean where it appears A o 1527. We cannot encourage the ordinary Undertaker to any of these Voyages no not in those years where ♃ and ☿ meet in Summer Signs because we find the Assistance so rare that our Aspect seems to favour Ice in two years of three and the third only to give the Mariner some flushing hopes of the dissolution of the ice which was yet notwithstanding the warm Reflexions in vain expected However the difference of the Extent of the Frozen Sea doth depend on the Heavens I appeal to any one who shall please to compare the well-set Full-bodyed Ray of Heaven in the Warmer year from the Shatter'd Order and Positions of the Planets in the Colder Years Small hopes therefore of a N W. passage and yet there is Difference of years some less desperate than others of which later kind if my Augury fail not the present year 1686. will be remarkable But this will occur again it may be LIB III. CHAP. I. Of the Three Superiours mutual Configurations And first of SATURN and MARS § 1. The Three Superiours call for Wonder 2. Whether ♄ and ♂ have any Tragical Conse quences 3. 30 or 40 days by right are to be allowed for the view of this Aspect 4. 7. Eichstad c. to secure the Art are cautelous in rendring the Character of the Aspect 5. Maginus also puts in his Limitations 6. All Concurrents allowed the Influence of the Configuration is plainly discernible 8. The Vehemency of the Aspect seen in Tempests Lightning Hail 9. Not so many Inundations here as elsewhere to repress those who say We know nothing of the Stars 10. Astrologers therefore do not put up this Aspect for a constant Rainer 11. Oft-times dry and sometimes Frosty 12. As in Southern Signs 13. Yet its inclination to Rain reaches near the Moyety of 30 days 14. Yea they have their excessive harmful Fits a Wonder in ♄ so remote a Planet The Sun's Exaltation alone produces not Lightning 15. Fiery Meteors brief under this Aspect 16. How for Snow 17. Other effects of this Aspect Irides Halo's interchangeable clearing and clouding 18. Mists of a deep blew 19. Mists progressive creeping in the Vallies 20. Blushing Tincture of the Clouds even from this Aspect 21. Dark Air. 22. The Diary 23. Some Additionals to the Diary 24. The Character of the Aspect 25. Diary Forein of Storms Hurricanes Rains Thunders Flouds 26. Necessary to the greatness of the Argument 27. It s Theory Irresistible 28. The utmost Platick distance with the Quincunx and Semisextile have their Effect 29. ♄ and ♂ are engaged in all violent Effects if posited within 30 degrees 30. Evidence from the Table the Famous Stormy year of 88. considered 31. Further Evidence 32. A discovery of the Causes unknown to the Learned Kepler 33. Our Aspect engaged in the account of 40 days Turbulency 34. ♄ and ♂ has no Name for Inundations 35. A List of Comets proper to ♄ and ♂ 36. Their Planetary Original proved from the Comets A o 1528. 1538. 1558. c. 39. Not ♄ and ♂ only but ♄ with ♀ c. 40. Yea ♄ and ☉ but rarely 41. More frequent in ♄ and ♂ 42. Keckerman's Observation Comets appear near their Autumnal Aequinox the Reason 43. Comets us'd to appear also about ♌ Why they so often shew themselves near the Feet of Ursa Major 44. ♊ and ♠carry the greatest sway 45. Comets of 1528. and 38. though at the same time of the year and the same place of the Zodiack are not the same Most Comets appear about January 46. Comets which were said to oppose ♄ did oppose ♂ too 47. Astrolegers often predict Comets 48. T. M. and Comets under ♄ and ♂ of equal Number 49. A List of Earthquakes proper to this Aspect 50. Some Affinity between Comets and Earthquakes 51. Why Comets universally appearing are sometimes visible to Asia sooner than to Europe 52. Sickness and Pestilence fear'd to have relation to this Aspect 53. No danger to Religion 54. There are some Aspects Malignant the Vulgar confessing the thing though not in Terms 55. A List of Sickness Epidemical and Remarks thereon 56. Some Ghostly Counsel Whether all years are Sickly 57. Sickly years are too frequent 58. Physitians accord with us 59. Eclipses no natural Signs of Pestilences 60. Why Sickness in one place more than another A noble Enquiry 61 Some emollient Observations to lay our Fears Tropical and Equinoctial Signs most Critical Scorbute Epidemical not indifferent at Sea every year 62. Pestilence arises not from meerly supernatural Causes Dimerbrock answered 63. New Diseases therefore preter-natural is no Consequence Yet God sometimes punishes Miraculously 64. Observations of
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.
♄ ♉ 11 ♂ Norwich 1630. Octob. Great Shipwracks by Storms ☌ in princ ♠1631. May 18 19. Thunder Plashing Rain Kyr ☠♉ ♠gr 12. June 14. Thunder and Plashing Rain Kyr ☠gr 11. Hamburgh 1632. Oct. 11. Inundation Norimberg Ephem 1634. Octob. 11. Inundation Kyr ☌ ♠gr 10. where 6133 men were lost Calv. Append. Oct. 11 12 13 14. were nothing but rainy Kyr 1635. May 19. Plashing Rain and Thunder ☠♊ ♠gr 5. dist June 27. Great Tempest of Hail c. Kyr July 26. Thunder Lightning Rain August 10 m. Lightning ab Oriente ☠sive QV. 1636. Octob. 22. Tempest lasted 5 days at Astrachan Olear ☌ in ♑ 9. ♃ and ♀ ☌ in ♠26. Kov 11. Tempest Olear 188. 13. Tempest continues 14. Tempest abated a little it grew again we lost our Anchor Rudder and Mast Ib. 1637. June 15. Thunder then a Showr Kyr 1638. Octob. 21. Dry Tempest of Thunder and Lightning 1639. Aug. 29. We had those Storms call'd Travado's which are quickly over Olear Mandeslo's Voyage ♄ ♂ in ♒ ♌ 1640. May 17. Harmful Thunder and Lightning Sept. 23. Storm of Wind and great Water-Gust ☌ ♄ ☌ ♒ Octob. 18. Chasmata 1641. Aug. 25. Audib Thunder ☠♠♓ gr 5. 1643. Sept. 2. ad 6. Much Rain Kyr ☠gr 5. 1644. April 23. 24. ad 30. Frost and Snow ☌ ♄ ♂ gr 25. in ♓ May 3. Chasma Kyr 16 17 18. Thunder Harmful ☌ in ♈ gr 10. 23. Men slain with Thunder ☌ in ♈ gr 6. 1645. Sept. 4. Extreme Wet Fairfax's Soldiers and Horses dyed Sprig 9 ☠gr 19. in ♎ ♉ Oct. Extreme Wet the Ways unpassable for Military Carriages Sprigg ☠♠8. gr 18. 1646. May 4. Thunder Harmful Kyr 26. Thunder and Hail Kyr June 23. Terrible Thunder July 11 19. Thunders 1647. Nov. 11. Dark and Tempestuous Night when his Majesty Charles the I. escaped from Hampton Court ☠in ♉ gr 18. 1648. Nov. 9 19. Near Andros Isle a Spout near a quarter of an hour ☠♄ ♂ 1660. Oct. 30. In Hertfordshire Caelum ardens ☌ ☠♂ supra in ♃ ♀ 1668. Dec. 17. R. Hail Th. Lightn ♒ 11. ♄ 27. vide sapra in ♃ ♀ § 26. Great is our Subject and great must be the Care and Pains to Master it We travers'd the World the Reader sees to display our Aspects Greatness We could wish we had Circumnavigated the Globe and taken Observation all the way Great use in the mean while may be made of the Mariners Journal to teach us to look up to the Stars and Bright Asterisms to learn not so much their Number as their Power Note in the mean time the Table presents the Opposition mostly for Brevities sake § 27. We have already labour'd to preclude all Objections that we suspect may be brought against these Tables their Imperfection or their Prolixity 'T is in vain to struggle with the Libyan Hercules we lift our Adversary up into the Air and he must expire § 28. As to our large extent of the ☌ even to a Semisextile Let it take its Fate let the Censurer of these Papers as in some Tradesmen's Bills abate what seemeth unreasonable so he allows us something for our Pains 'T is not the first time we have done so yea we are required to allow so much in some grand Effects Eichstad upon his own Observation I see hath abetted the Quincunx whose Influence when he found he was in hast to attest it and thereupon inserted though out of place a Notandum at the end of his Calculation A o 1644. We have not given you our Word here but some Evidence also though not so often as we might both for the one and the other We might do as much for the Semisextiles § 29. And now what shall I say What New Thing comes under Observance Storms are no News nor Thunders nor Rains The Effects are common spread over the Face of the Earth But the Man of Experience with the Man of Science the Mariner and the Student knows not that ♄ and ♂ are many times the Signal Causes of such Effects yea and have some Causality more or less according to their Stage so that wheresoever they be in Aspect or out of Aspect within 30 degrees or without they know they are engaged as sure as the Sun knows his going down § 30. And this is visible in our Table to those who will please to ponder the frequency of the Fits of the Weather that return within a Months time As in 1540. 1550. c. in Febr. 1556. In Jan. June 1557 or shall weigh the Obstinate Constancy of a Churlish yea sometimes of a Savage Constitution as in June 1549. In June and July 1557. Add 1585. where July August and September are troubled with Cold or May and June 1588. which year the English and the Spaniard will never forget where in we would not be thought to derogate from the First Cause but only as we are now engaged do assert his Wisdom by not abrogating the Second created and assumed by himself § 31. Nor do we stay here For March and April 1589. April and May 1591. August and September 1596. April and May again 1597. Sept. and Octob. 1598. May and August 1606. June 1607. are extant in the Table And what need I wade further § 32. 'T is Want of this made Kepler at a stand when he professes he understood not the Cause of Wind Rain Storm and Thunder in the beginning of Aug. 1626. Initium saith he cui ascribam non habeo When as there are sundry Causes some nearer some remote Amongst the remote the distance of ♄ and ♂ 18 degrees at furthest and is it not reasonable to think so When he finds ☿ near upon as distant from ♂ on one side as ♄ is on the other Such Curiosity there is in the Planetary distances as we have before admonish'd The like loss he is at for his Pluit tota nocte July 3. Anni ejusdem For though ♄ and ♂ be 27. degrees distant they are not excluded from their Share in the Effect for they find several ways of Union as in our Natural Body it happens not so obvious to be remarked Little thought he of the ☠of ♂ and ♀ but at 6 degrees distance Little thought he of the Moon 's application to the Opposite of ♄ in process of the whole Night In fine Little thought he of the numerous Fixed then and there posited which connects ♂ and ♄ between ♌ 14. and ♠11. § 33. Shall I give you one Instance more in A o 1627. We find Lightning and Rain and Cataracts for 40 dayes in the Months of May and June in which while Thunder and Lightning 14 times Amongst other Aspects we find our ☠of ♄ and ♂ Kepler whom I never mention without an Interiour Honour flies to the Nature of the Soil to the exudations of Oily Plants and Minerals and Fossiles which he saith are full of Vitriol c.
Whereupon he produceth a like place of Medicinal Waters and Quarries of Slat which more frequently suffer by Lightning allowing himself only one Thundring day to our Aspect Now in all this 40 days there is not an Aspect likely but an ☠of ♃ and ☉ ♃ and ♀ and a ⚹ of ♄ and ♃ to which ⚹ he makes his recourse conjecturing that 3 or 4 Aspects could not shew themselves so illustriously but that this ⚹ opened the Earth to emit its Exhalations for half a year together But omitting that manifest subter-fuge of an half-year-Aspect for the account of 40 days an Aspect that is not so moist or so impregnative with Moisture nor so Potent seeing t is but a ⚹ He must have an hard Forehead that will deny an ☠of ♃ and ♀ to have an Hand in these Excesses when he shall see Tonitrua horrenda upon the very Day and Cataracts the day after Then he must be very Resty that will not allow it for probable at least that the meeting of our ☠of ♄ and ♂ with this ☠of ♃ and ♀ did not contribute to all those numerous Thunders within those Limits Does not Nature it self teach us to enlarge these Aspects and make them comprehensive of these Celestial Tumults that they may be laid at their Door Single neither one nor the other can do it but mixed they may for at the end of 40 days ♄ and ♂ are but 23 degrees distant Whosoever therefore shall say ♄ and ♂ did none of this neither by themselves nor by the help of others ♃ had as good tell us there are no such things in Nature that they are upstart new invented Terms that there is no such thing as Arab that there is no such Man as Kepler that He and all that look upwards are and have been Fops and Simpletons or if this last be no great absurdity then let them but confess what they see with their Eyes that ♃ opposed the Pleiades and ☿ not far off from them Stationary all the Month and if he knows not what this signifies 't will become a man to learn § 34. There remains a doubt about Inundations which I have ventur'd to assert do not break in so often under this Aspect as under some others Yet so it haps that the Three First Instances of this Table are solely concerning Flouds The Aspect with ♀ must carry away the name for Flouds sometimes with ☉ sometimes with ☿ but most with ♂ That ♄ and ♂ may sometimes wet their Feet or wade deep into the same must not be denyed But we must enquire whether it be so frequent ♂ and ♀ shall cause an Excess of Wet in more parts of the Zodiack then ♄ and ♂ their Situation here shews the reason ♈ and ♎ ♓ and ♠are the Signs for the most part where a Floud appears under ♄ ♂ being the Equinoctial Signs Next it may not be amiss to see whether when a Floud happens under our Aspect an Aspect of ♂ or ☉ with ♀ be not as Paramount there as ♄ ♂ can be If so the Effect must rather be imputed to that Cause which oftner obtains though he who hath the fewer Votes must not be excluded But ♄ and ♂ doth not come near the wringing-wet Influence as Houswives call it of ♂ and ♀ Ergo. Take therefore the first Instance of Febr. 11. A o 1500. There 's ☌ ♄ ♂ in ♉ There is so Now stretch it as far as you are able when all is done there will be found ☌ ☉ ♀ remember an Aspect which is next to ♂ ♀ for Excess of Wet which sticks closer and reaches further That Aspect then must be reckoned the main procurer of the Effect The Rain and Snow which contributed to the Floud fell in November December or January or in the first week of February or in all together I find in November ☉ ♀ distant but gr 15. In Dec. Die 10. but gr 8. distant In January but one degree In February when the Floud came but 7 gr distant while ♄ and ♂ come not in Play till the midst of December from which time They are allowed to contribute but not to evacuate the Right of the other Aspect The same Answer must serve to the 2d or 3d on S. Thomas Eve Gem. Lib. 2. For ♄ and ♂ were opposed 't is true and in a Critical place in princ ♊ But who but ♂ and ♀ I say nothing of her being Retrograde the while were conjoyned all the preceeding Month and on the very day of the ☠♄ ♂ was within less than 15 degrees dist so that the ☠of ♄ ♂ in ☌ Platique of ♂ ♀ which Nexus our Planets one with another in a Triple Cord let me tell you brings Excesses of all kinds The 3d of A o 1511. if it were in the Month February as the word Rursus in Gemma's Margin may import Lib. II. p. 151. That falls under the Signs ♈ and ♎ So A o 1629. May 3. and 4. Otherwhile ♂ in ♎ as A o 1570. Aug. 1. but A o 1627. concerning which we have spoken already as to its Cataracts which are Flouds in another term the Signs were ♓ and ♠'T is true A o 1551. ☠♄ ♂ in ♌ ♒ but ☉ and ♀ were within less than half a Sign in April which must contribute to a Summer Floud Thus with such Remarks as these we assoil the Difficulty § 35. The Comets we shall represent as they succeed orderly with the Places of our Planets in the Dexter Margin whether ☌ or ☠presuming it observable if they be at that time within the Compass of a Sign i. e. 30 degrees though the Terms of that distance lye under several Denominations as ♉ ♊ ♋ ♌ yet they are as in the same Sign A o 1500. Comet in April for 18 days Others four Months in Sept. one sub Signo ♑ said to be Horrendae Magnitudinis attested by several Lycosthenes Funccius c. our Planets lye at 28 gr distance viz. ♄ 23. ♉ ♂ 21. ♊ A o 1505. Circ Fest Michaelis Novilun Novembris A Comet like the ☽ but not so bright It lasted till Shrovetide the following year Linturius apud Lubienec Now in Sept. 27. our Planet lay thus at gr 16. distance ♄ ♋ 29. ♂ ♌ 15. A o 1506. April 12. Cometa per 5 Dies others 25. visus est Calvis our Planets gr 2. dist ♄ 10. ♌ ♂ 12. ♌ A o 1513. A Dec. fine ad Febr. 19. Anni sequent our Planets are set at gr 2. distant ♄ 23. ♠♂ 21. ♠A o 1516. Comet said to shine a little before the Death of Ferdinand King of Spain which must be about January ♄ 13. ♠♂ 9. ♠A o 1521. Mense Aprilis Cometa in fine ♋ Ricciolus ♄ ♒ 15. ♂ 5. ♌ A 1528. Jan. 18. Cometa in ♓ in the Opposition of ♄ saith Ricciolus Hevel ♂ in ♈ o. ♄ in ♈ 27. A o 1538. à Jan. 27 ad 21. Comet observed to appear
the Aspect in ♉ ♠at the end of Sept. the highest Week Aug. 28. Let any Man consult the Ephemeris 1648. Valencia in Spain at Constantinople in July In Africk also Kirch Sect. 1. Cap. 9. June 28. ☌ ♊ 11. The ☌ is tim'd for a Summer Month and in a Tropical Sign It lasts all July and not quite ceased in Aug. 1652. At Cracow Grant Sickly in England Id. The ☌ in August in principio ♌ Yea other Aspects have their shares opposed in Tropical Signs See ♄ ♃ Table Aug. ☌ in ♌ 1654. At Copenhagen Grant Sickly in London Id. Sept. 3. ☌ ♠2. ♄ ♂ draw toward ☌ in July celebrated in the Sign ♌ in Sept. princip vide ☠♄ ♃ as above 1656. At Naples a great Plague at at Rome at Genoa Kyrcher Sickin England Grant Sept. 24. ♠28. ♄ ♂ appear where but in Sept. The precise ☌ within 2 degrees of the Equator 1657. At Genoua the Height at August in principio Grant June 22. ♈ ♎ o. ♄ ♂ precise ☠in the Equinoctial Point ad Jun. fin calls for our remembrance 1661. Sickly London Id. June 26. ♠♉ Our Planets are oppos'd about Midsummer which we see by sundry Examples premised bodes ill Yea the very Aspect held till August the midst 1665. That I hope never to be parallel'd Pestilence of 100000 Funerals ♄ ♂ in Tropical Signs in July there is one String of the Scourge But our killing ☠of ♃ ♂ holds on § 56. Have I not said too much is it not too plain 'T is not too much for a sober Melancholly Consideration It were Wisdom in us if we could secure our selves against those Fears which Annually fall upon us almost every Summer or Harvest by seeking a more healthful Air and a better Countrey above this Elementary World I did not know but some may make this use of it and then I have not said too much The new Atlantis no question as some have happily mistaken concerning the Situation of Paradise is above the Moon be above ♄ and ♂ and all malefique Influences real or seeming But this by the way I am aware of a just exception against such Discourses as these which seem to make every year almost Pestilential for so the curious Reader will quickly find that what with one Aspect and what with another we make very few years to pass free since not a year goes over our Heads but we shall meet with a ☌ ♄ ♂ or at least an ☠and if so by chance it haps that these Aspects prove inoffensive their Malignity being quenched by the the Season of the time or by their State of Desertion then another Malignant Combination of ♃ with ♂ suppose exercises the same Malignity as before To this the Physitians will answer for us that there is difference between Pestilences as in Motions of Water all are not raging or furious wherefore although at the inauspicious found of the Word we fear yet God be thanked we do not often feel its Fury There is a difference I say when the yearly Bill shall scarce arise to 10000. from that higher year which raises it to 5 times yea ten times as much When a year brings 5000. or 6000. in the whole and the other brings as many in the Week And the Physicians tell us again that there is difference between absolute Pests and Diseases that may have some Spice of Malignity and therefore call'd Pestilential because of their Cognation and too near Vicinity Nay further we take it in a more large Signification where if you please Forgoe the Name and consider the years that are Sickly and found to be such when as yet the Citizen notwithstanding finds it not his Interest to remove from his employ whereby he subsists Here I say Not only the Croking Astrologer but the Phystian and the Eminent Virtuoso himself takes notice frequently of the year and arrests them upon suspition of Malignity § 57. Now if every sickly year which yet I do not believe had some manifest Criterium of Malignity in it you need not be afraid to look into a List even of such years at least if they were only of Forein concern We can easily believe that Coonstantinople or Grand Cairo is never free yet we are not troubled at the report But if we are concerned as I think we ought for those that are abroad also and if we keep Correspondence in most parts of the World whether we like it or no we shall find that somewhere or other some Sickness not unworthy the Note of the Curious is brisk upon our Mortal Bodies That these Configurations are disposing or if you will indisposing Causes of our Humours and Spirits will be plain if it is not already and the very frequency of their return either by ☌ or ☠does confirm the Thesis which imputes those Maladies to those Configurations For what can we say when we find those Configurations in being when the Distemper reigns What will you say when you find the Distemper to start out within a Fortnight or Week of the precise Aspect What will you say if when the Aspect seems to expire it shall not absolutely cease Supposing the Sickness to continue till it hath introduced another in its Room to maintain the Indisposition begun by the First What will you say when the Malady shall hold though with some abatement the Season consider'd in the Winter Months in October November December This not always as Dying Reliques of the Summer distemper but as continued Impressions of a durable Cause which may be will not expire no not in the year following and so unite two Pestilential Summers together by a never dying because always cherished Relique So that Jan. and Febr. of the succeding year shall write as Pestilential as the closing Months of the former They were but moderate years 't is true but yet within this Century from A o 1606. to 1610. 5 continued years are reckoned Pestilential And in the Former Century Fallopius you find hath noted as much So that I quote no Astrologer and yet you see what I offer is too true It is not Vanity nor Noise but the weighty Truth that Pestilential or Unhealthy years are as frequent as the Superstitious Planetary Contendeth For that they are the Causes is as certain in Nature as that they alter the Air in in those very times Nay the former is demonstratively proved by the later Since Pestilential Disposition of Air depends upon unkind Excesses and Exorbitances of Weather to Heat and Drought sometimes to Cold and Wet which can be ascribed to nothing but the Heavens over us § 58. What therefore should I quote Authors of our side when the Physicians themselves appear for it Who yet are not commonly Well-willers to the Mathematiques Erroniously thinking that there is no other Science conducing to their Practice but what they are Masters of Time may come if God shall give leave that we shall point out not only Aspects but
them Then the great execution of Lightnings too often which proceeds from no mild Causes but great and angry Instruments of a Divine Power The Singularities which I mean are beside the Parelia and Irides the last thing we treated of The White Waters and shining Sea which I would fain attain to the Cause of if it can appear to be Celestial The Disturbance of the Creatures Marine Whales and other Monsters I do impute I do not say 't is perpetual to our Aspect the Reader must be Judge of all that is offer'd Thus then A o 1574. July 9. A Monstrous Fish I hear of at the Isle of Thanet shot himself a-shore Stow ☌ ♠18. ♂ ♠2. ♄ A o 1607. June 11. VII Whales ☠♑ 16. ♄ ♋ 10. ♂ A o 1608. April 20. ☌ ♑ 25. ♂ ♒ o. ♄ May 15. 7 Whales and a Mermaid ☌ ♒ o. ♄ ♒ 7. ♂ A o 1615. Sept. 25. Great Fish struck his Horn into the Ship c. ☠♈ 24. ♄ ♠8. ♂ A o 1626. Aug. 13. Grampass at Woolwich ☌ ♌ 10. ♂ 16. ♄ A o 1639. April 2 Whales ☠♒ 1. ♂ ♌ 25. ♄ § 81. I reckon that Fish are disturbed when they swim visibly above the Water they find themselves ill at ease in the Element and seek ease elsewhere All Animals labour under the secret Influence of a not secret Cause § 82. The Mermaid I take it as I find it I will not dispute whether it were a Reality or a Spectre I can prove Spectres are seen at Sea sometimes and I can believe also that there are such Mockages of Humane Nature by Sea as an Ape is on the Mountain There were Whales seen with it and that 's sufficient And Thus much for the great Superiors Saturn and Mars CHAP. II. Aspect of JOVE and MARS § 1. An Aspect to be heeded with a sober Observation as the Precedent 2. Great on divers accounts 3. 4. What Influence it hath on Cold. 5. The Hyemal part of its Diary 6. It has a great Hand in Monstrous Frosts particularly in that never to be out-done of 1684. The Arabs consent in the Case 7. Some Frost even in Aestival Mornings 8. Cold Weather not always Wholsom 9. The ☠oftimes Turbulent even in the Winter 10. Whether so in Summer 11. What Influence upon Dryth 12. Maginus's Note concerning Heat if our Aspect haps in eadem Quarta with ☉ justified 13. Maginus's difference of the Aspect when ♃ prevails and when ♂ prevails not so clear 14. Whether this Aspect conduces to Fires and Configurations 15. To Sickly Seasons it does conduce 16. God having made all things Good hinders not the Malevolency of the Creature against Sinners 17. Sicknesses of the Season depend upon the Season it self 18. Instance in Catarrhs Note on the Universal Tussis in Octob. 1675. 19. A determinate prognosis of a Distemper aimed at 20. The Aestival part of the Diary 21. Fog belongs to this Aspect Not always proceeding from a declining Sun some Curiosities about Fog 22. Monstrous Hail 23. This Aspect is a Cooler 24. Some Instance from abroad 25. More abundant Instances from Kepler's and Kyriander's Diary to which the Reader is referr'd 26. This Aspect brings Cold in March April and sometimes May. 27. Yet our Aspect as to Cold is a false and uncertain Configuration 28. ♃ and ♂ no welcome Aspects How we are to be afraid of the Signs of Heaven 29. The Character of the Aspect 30. Zeal for a well-founded Astrology 31. Ancient Times must be reviewed 32. Forien Table of Tempest c. 33. Aspects of the Superiors more Signal than the pure Inferiors 34. No amazing Extremity without the Superiors 35. Two or Three days Weather is nothing under a Superiour Aspect 36. They often bring Two Three Months disturbance 37. Some Dire Inundations may happen under this Aspects 28. An honest Monitum for the Low-Countries about Inundations 39. Another for Rome 40. A List of Flouds found under this Aspect 41. 42. Dire Inundations admonish those who may be concerned to consult Astrology That Consultation will not be fruitless 43. In Inundations Waters are rarified as well as augmented 44. No clashing with the Premises ♃ and ♂ in their private Capacities are one thing in their publick another 45. Catalogue of ♃ ♂ 's Lightning 46. The Aspect in a Rampant Estate knows no moderation 47. Some monstrous Instances of Lightning 48. Thunder all Summer long No Thunder without an Aspect 49. Comets Planetary Original proved 50. Three of the four Comets in 1618. belong to our Aspect 51. 52. The Comet Anni 1531. 53. c. An Account of the following Comets 62. New Star in Serpentarius Thuanus and That Age make it of Planetary Original 63. Summary of the Comets under ♃ and ♂ 64 65. Earthquakes and Vulcans under ♃ ♂ their Table with Remarks Van Helmont's arguments against the Earthq Planetary Original answered 66. The baleful Circumstances of Earthquakes not mentioned 67. Firing of Cole-Mines Analogous to Vulcan's Earthquakes lye deep 68. Diseases under ♃ ♂ with Remarks 60. Something of Currents 70. Parelia Halo's Irides enumerated 71. And spoken to 72. Claritas Septentrionalis 73. Sol Pallidus 74. Maculae Solis from Sheiner Hevelius accounted for 75. Prodigious Rains Sanguinis Frumenti 76. Droughts Plagues of Locusts and Mice c. § 1. AS the Aspect of ♄ to ♂ were to be regarded because they are Leagues and Alliances of Superiour Planets upon the same account are these Habitudes of ♃ and ♂ to be heeded with a sober and composed Observation For Astrologers justly crack of great things proceeding from their Supeoiours though not every moment falling out yet recorded abroad and some of them comprehended within the Memory of Man yea it may be hapning every 7 years as in ♄ and ♂ hath bin observed § 2. The Aspect of ♃ and ♂ we suspected to be Great even before the knowledge of any Influence only because it visits us but seldom once in two years A ☌ or ☠will make us wait so long till they return in specie again For such is the Interim of 2 Conjunctions or Oppositions In this later there is some Variety or Design rather in Nature for if ☠haps to be Retrogade these Two Superiours will face one another twice or thrice before they come off so a great part of the year will be sometimes engag'd according to Us in one considerable Aspect There 's a certain Law in the Heavens we have said which none but Astronomers contemplate none but Astrologers make use of The First look on it as a perplexed business The other a Wise and Powerful Oeconomy But why of all Mathemetical Diagrams should the Celestial Scheme be least useful He who looks upon Architecture and Fortification to be only Trangunims is a Wise Man of great Experience and He who thinks the Distance and the Motions of the Planets with all their Variety either as to themselves or to the rest is only
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
Earthquakes at the Indies run so many leagues yea and at home as the last in Oxfordshire shall run in a Chanel as it were as far as Barbary the Convulsion must lie deep and contracted into a less circumference that it may diffuse it self to the greater § 68. Here we must take notice of one instance supplied from Van Helmont That Helmont who under the name of the Schools makes nothing to run down all Philosophers before him for that saith he no Exhalations nor Vapor nor Sulphurous Spirit hath any thing to do in the Earthquake but only some Fiend or Cacodemon is employ'd by Commission from Heaven Now the Vesuvii and the Aetnae the several Vulcans flaming round about the World and the indisputable affinity between the Earthquake and the monstrous Eruption which the Schools teach might have kept Him to rights For 't is not any Levity or a Wind enclosed but a vast Nitro-Sulphureous Spirit of incomprehensible Force that striving within her womb discomposes the Earth To this he presently comes upon us and asks us First Is there a vein of Sulfur c. throughout the whole Low Countries for all Holland Trembled and Flanders to boot I answer there may be for all that he knows Agricola perswades that the Subterranean Fires are as copious especially in Maritime places where Earthquakes mostly appear and this is witnessed by Sulfureous Stench which hath been observ'd whereever the Vapour gets vent Yea as some have deliver'd a dis-colouring of the Air as it were by sulfureous Fumes Nay 't is beyond as it were for wherefore do the poor Birds fall to the Earth But that being taken giddy by such suffocating Steams 2dly He cannot intend sulfur refin'd and depurate then by his own Principles he must allow Sulfur to be every where in every compound Body or in their Matrices the places where they take their being Every Peble is constituted of so many Grains of Sulfur and our Castle-Goal we see betrays its constitution by perfect yellow sume mixed with the darker Soot Every thing then will melt hath Sulfur in it and what will not melt in those all-dissolving Heats of the Subâ—â—ranean Furnace The Earth will melt like Wax and run many 2 Mile in a fusile constitution and yet we speak at large for if it be a Bitumen of any kind or color if it be Pitch if it be Naptha if it be Coal 't is Sulfur to us whereever there 's Mineral or hot Baths or Medicinal Waters or Metals or Quarries of Stone there 's Sulfur and Salt c. So that 't is in vain to anatamize the Regions of the Earth to the Centre and assure us there 's no room in the Globe of the Earth for He hath offer'd nothing that I can see why the seat of the Tremor may not be where he acknowledges the Mineral for there besure are Oyls Sulfurs Salts Mercury and Earths and Juices and whatsoever wants a name and one of those impatiently contrary to the other nor is He ignorant of it but confesses that if the least drop of Water falls upon Metal or Marchesites melted they fly about like mad with incredible Antipathy Consonantly some Stories say that in one of our Hiatus's there was observed Water in the depth of the Cavity in Stow. He asks 2dly why the Concussion is so transient quickly past tho' it returns by fits Oh to that I say that the Planetary Positures as they require Critical places so they watch their Critical Hours Did not this T. M. happen at Midnight He asks thirdly why the Earthquake in 1640. and that of threescore years before happened both in April I could ask him why his Angel or Devil chuses to scare us That Month Yet we say that the Spring is the time of the year and seeing it happened that there were but 12 days difference between that of 1580. April the 6th the time that I believe Mechlin trembled as all England did and 1640 It manifestly shews that these Earthquakes come under the Philosophical Rules He asks 4ly what extraordinary heat was found there to shake the Earth at those precise times which was not found in the Intermediate years adding that that night was a very cold night with a Chill North-Wind and much Snow the day before How say I doth a Chymist call for a sensible Heat to all wondrous Operations Nothing more against his own Experience who tells us in one place of his fellow-Travellers Shoulder burnt by the Suns imperceptible Heat as he passed over the Alps as plainly as if he had been stung by Gantharides and teaches us in another 1 ounce of Salamniac mingl'd with 4 ounces of Aqua Fortis shall break the glass presently and how but by an invisible Eâ—halation And what great heat there is in the Ingredients separate He knows best An Exhalation you see by his own Confession can make a strong glass fly in pieces But I answer the Schools call it Heat they should say Influence or his own Gas which takes place in cold Weather as well as Hot. As we see and feel oft-times the Influence of the Heavens opeperate upon our Bodies while that Heat is not discerned by our Sensories There may be Communication between Homogeneals Fire and Fire Aetherial and Subterranean when there may be no Communications between Fire and Earth I mean our Corporeal Organs Yea I come closer to the matter and say that Planetary Warmth in a remiss degree as in Weak and Calmer Earthquakes may actuate Cold as well as encourage the Grosser Warmth may stir the Nitrous Spirit as well as enflame the Sulfury Particle for it is necessary that 's more than probable that all such immane Violence must be founded upon those Hostilities of Nature which we call Antipathy When we are agreed about this then I 'le point at the Influence with my Finger and shew him our Aethereal Heat in ☌ of ♄ and ♂ at the first Earthquake and a ☌ of ♃ and ♂ at the Second And these Aspects in Critical places which do not occur every year 'T is well if they meet in 12 in 30 and even then if they want any one requisite the Effect is blank We grant him that the final Cause of the T. M. is the awe of the Divine Menace And upon this account whatever others think I value our Theory being engag'd in matters of so ponderous concern But we do no think that the Divine Power acts immeditely in those Effects which are Periodical and have their Revolutions though they be strange We dare not grant the Creation so imperfect that the Divine Power which made the Universe acts as much without a created instrument as with it But this 't is for Wise Men to lay aside the consideration of the Noblest Parts of the Universe so overlooking and setting at nought those Wonders of the Aether the Fixed Stars and Planets to run higher into Heaven or lower into Hell to borrow Angelical Spirits from thence to make up the
the distance of gr 33. but a Fortnight after on which account this very later end of Octob. shews 100 of the Plague though in Nov. it slept because ♄ ♂ are even unhing'd 1607. We have said before of this year and the Month of June how ♄ ♂ were domineering there but note that June this year was not to be compared to September and October where ♃ ♂ are opposed in Equinoctial Signs and the Totals though the Plague be moderate is three to one Now what Live Coal is it which continues the Pestilence from Nov. 1. the preceding year where ♄ ♂ fell off to the Spring of this Instant year What but our Aspect of ♃ ♂ which held 4 Months to bring that along thither through the Winter Months of Novemb. Dec. Jan. Febr. when Serpents themselves can scarce sting Any further we do not enlarge 1609. ♄ ♂ grasp all but hath ♃ ♂ nothing in this year Yes as much as the 4 first Months come to They are but Winter Months but we speak of a glowing Coal in Winter an ☠♃ ♂ in Febr. 18. on which every Week by some means or other secondary Agents the Total appears 40. in the Plague Mr. Bell's Account 1610. Now if the Pestilence continues as to our fore-cited Account till this year be expired all of a piece with the former our Aspect takes place in Dec. past and Jan. and Febr. of this instant and that in Tropical Signs We find 't is true no Master-Pestilence but the Total is higher in that very January under ♃ ♂ than in April under ♄ and ♂ 1617. At Rome and Naples a Murrain of Cattle Kirch § 1. Cap. 9. ♄ ♃ all along and ♃ ♂ in March April May. In June July August September I confess 't is ♃ ☿ and ♀ which by their Pace seem to be ♂ 's Substitutes according as we have hinted before though in Sept. Octob. ♄ ♂ inches in and they will challenge those Seasons 'T is between them and Writ as I say in Capital Letters to those who read the Alphabet of Nature and is to much purpose taken into our consideration because there is some Affinity between the make of the Bodies of Brutes and us wherefore there must be some Affinity in our Maladies Sure I am that Kircher notes a death of Infants at the same time 1618. Plague at Norway saith C. Grant and sickly year in England For the Spring and Summer May June July we have own'd ♄ ♂ before For August we have ♃ opposing ☉ ♀ ☿ which will do no good when ♂ lies perdieu for an opposal in â™’ and ♌ in the following Months 1619. At Grand Cairo 72500 swept away in X Weeks C. Grant A Dismal Effect of a dire Cause for I have learn'd to tremble at the Aspects of the Superiours as they may be set high or low Now suppose as Story saith that the Plague with them in Aegypt ceases when the Sun enters into ♌ 'T is a Secret but I observe our ☠♃ ♂ was dire and high-set above 10 Weeks before the ☉ 's entrance into ♌ Dire I say and high set in slow but sure Motions and Equinoctial Signs 1620. Sickly England C. Grant The Astrologer Answers if the Spring were Sickly you have ♃ and ♂ in Equinoctial ♈ if the Summer we have noted before 1622. Another Grant in New England Capt Smith ♄ ♃ ♂ 1625. For this 1625. we must consult ♄ ♃ yet we can scarce honestly refer you thither without wrong to ♃ ♂ the Weekly Bill will inform us Buryed saith the Bill of all Diseases 5205. the Highest Week ending Aug. 18. and where are our Planets Read and Judge On Aug. 18. One of our destroyers is in ♎ 3. and the other in ♈ 1. They differ 2 degrees from Diametrical Opposition and that in the commanding part of Heaven the Circulus Maxemius which we have often call'd the Equator or Equinoctial Circle and is famous with us Superstitious People for Remarks of Nature Here I note and forget not that this was the 2d Instance which convinc'd me 1627. At Amsterdam Grant the ☠♄ is acknowledged in its proper Table which tells us of another Superiour joyn'd with ♂ this year and that is ♃ in August we know its ☠in ♉ and â™ 'T is easie by the way to note Amsterdam to be none of the best Air in the World because of its frequent Infections The Truth is no Town or City seated near the Brackish Waters of the Sea can be pure and agreeable For the Air must have its ill disposition from the Waters as the one not Potable so the other not Potable also for the Lungs and Spirits do draw as well as the Stomach I would it were as easie for Them to observe the Aspect of the Superiour Planets that they may be cautious under them and learn to fear not the Planets but the Divine Rod which will we nil we hangs over Populous Cities 1630. Some Pestilence at London and at Cambridge above 1000. dyed that year if the Saturnine Aspect with ♂ in the former Table comes to close in the year viz. in Sept. 27. as it doth not then see how you will like our ☠in July and August in ♓ â™ This is clear that the Highest Week in July 29. was nearer our Jovial than the Saturnine Aspect 1636. We find it in our other Table but withall we find ♃ in the highest which is within 3 gr of ♀ But what is that to ♂ Yes ♀ Stationary is Tantamount a new lesson at first but now an old one 1637. Some little Pestiferous year 3000 in all the highest Week was June 29. near the Aspect of ♄ we would deal impartially yet nothing hinders but we may note withal â–¡ ♃ ♂ in Cardinal Signs 1641. Is found in ♄ before but as the year exhibits an Aspect of ♄ in August it premises an Aspect of ♃ with ♂ in July 's beginning and what time it increased 5 in the Total and 50 Parishes more infected 'T is true the height appeared not 703 till Sept. 2. at what time we find ☠♄ ♂ at large or which is as Potent ♄ and ☿ when ☿ is Retrograde Yea ♂ ♃ ♀ exact in the beginning of ♌ and â™’ whose Influence we cannot as yet discourse of 1644. A little Visitation not much above a 1000 Total the highest Week ended Octob. 3. ☌ ♃ ♂ â—â—receded in ♊ and was not expired at the Height of the Distemper 1646. We noted â—he ☌ of ♄ to have endured till the end of July or the first Week in August and then we pretended another Aspect of the Superiours entred That 's our present Aspect where I flatter my self that 't is not unworthy consideration that whereas the one Aspect according to us seems expired Aug. 4. the other this of ♃ and ♂ enters about Aug. 13. so careful are the Heavenly Host in their Watches to relieve one another when in a State of Hostility toward us In the highest week Sept.
☉ ♃ 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
't is such such a Chance as has chanced before my scantling time For how came the Arabians to dream of it But enough of that Go we backward have we known any Comet about 1644. Verily none appears we must be content then Let us retreat to the year 1625. where ♄ and ♃ are but a Sign distant which to me is as good as if they were about half a Sign or XII degrees distant seeing there is difference of Communication of one Planet to another according to the difference of their Station in the Firmament We have ventur'd to say the Influence runs beyond 30 degrees sometimes of which we may perhaps in due place give some account 'T is a Wonder and no Wonder None because a Comet is not accomplished without the concurrence of the Inferiours and yet a Wonder because ♄ and ♃ carry such a stroke with them that they seldom are without such Issue being more as we say than half the Fathers of it § 34. What a Drudgery 't is to convince an Adversary Come for his sake let us begin at the first Stage of the last Century At the end of A o 1503. there was a notable ☌ of the Three Superiours In June 1504. it came to the turn of ♄ and ♃ to meet alone about the end of ♋ I am not so zealous for my Crony Aspects as to put up 3 Comets or 4 in the year 1504. 1505. 1506. That of 1504. though extant in Hevelius and Lubieniec to the best of my discretion must be discarded proceeding from the Mis-understanding of Niphus his Words quoted by Cardan who tells us not of any Comet appearing A o 1504. the very year of that Triple ☌ ♄ ♃ ♂ but only referreth a Comet of 1506. to that marvellous ☌ precedent though 2 years after For Mizaldus saith not with Hevelius his leave that Heller observed any such Comet in that year For if that very Authors Preface be consulted found in the same Volume with Mizald. his Cometography he manifestly distinguisheth the 3 years as I have said and only tells us that the Comet in August 1506. was that Cujus Halitum prioris Anni Eclipsis 1505 magna Conjunctio contraxisse putantur The confess'd Comet we dispatch first and say with those Old Good-fellows who made up the Putantur that it is a Product of the Congress of ♄ and ♃ Not of the Partile Conjunction working at two years distance but of the self-same ♄ and ♃ at the distance wherein they are found at the time of the appearance which the Ephemeris gives us at scarce 30 degrees at which Distance we have seen they operate as well as at nearer approach Now let me ask this Comet of Aug. where did it appear In the Signs ♋ ♌ â™ here above Ursa Major After under it as Hevelius gives us satisfactory Testimonies Let me see where was the Planets ♄ and ♃ in the year 1682. when the Comet appear'd about the same Constellation Were they not in the same Signs This Comet was call'd Cauda Pavonis We are not arrived as yet to so much exactness as to expect the same Figure at several times the same Celestial Station is pretty well proportion'd to our Pretences But there was another in April for 5 days at least which was drawn out by Werner of Norimberg If there were which I do not much question beside ♄ and ♂ do countenance it with a Partile Aspect ♄ and ♃ are nearer than they were in Aug. But was there no Comet in 1505. then There was and that in Sept. about New ☽ at Michaelmas Note the Planets One in ♋ two in ♌ two in â™ two in ♎ Oh! that they had been so good as to have communicated the place to Posterity I have said enough for the production of it as ♂ was within 30. grad of ♄ so ♄ was within 20. grad of ♃ So much for our first entrance of ♄ and ♃ in defence of the Truth of our Arabian Brethren only note that the first of these Comets was look'd upon to be attended with Siccity § 35. Now taking a XX. years Leap to the next ☌ which happened about the 10. degree of ♓ and near the beginning of Febr. I st us see whether our Arabs are always Lyars Nay we have Rockenbach to assure us yea and Mizaldus too brought in by the diligence of Hevelius who testifies that there was such a Saturnine Comet as he calls it and that Famine and Pestilence did for two years space afflict his Countrymen But it is left at large they do not tell us Day nor Month. I do not know ♄ and ♃ were in due Distance April 1522. And if that but answer 't is enough But A o 1523. we have more satisfaction for there about the end of October or Novembers Entrance a Comet was justified by a great Inundation saith Lycosthenes and Praetorius Great Inundation That is but a little Word a Dire Inundation of 32. Miles Men and Cattle innumerable swept away in the Kingdom of Naples Quarto Kal. Nov. ♄ and ♃ 10. grad distance a Dire Congress and a Dire Effect The Partile of this ☌ happened about ♓ 11. Febr. 1524. I would this were the only Dire Effect that belongs to our Aspect my Fears have not been â—ain we shall not find it so § 36. The next Partil ☌ falls in Sept. 1544. about the end of â™ Now whether 1543. shew us a Comet or anything like it for by our Principles we are indifferent will be seen from Lycosthenes followed by Sennert and Fromond who tell us that IV. Nonas Maii in the Marquisate of Baden was seen bor 4. P. M. A Fiery business as big as a Milstone the Tail of which or some other Meteor so call'd descended and swoop'd up a River the likelyhood of which descent Scnliger is call'd in to attest Exerc. 79. the Reader sees we acquiesce with Lubieniec and while we stand not for the strict acceptation of the Word but a remarkable effect we think must be own'd by some Cause or other the Distance within bounds of ♄ and ♃ are ♎ 20. â™ 16. And by the way Comets and Fiery Meteors are cognate § 37. For A o 1535. if there were any Comet as from Rockenbach they take it up and Hevelius brings somewhat of confirmation from Camerarius I shall not stand upon it seeing it seems to be like the precedent with the Story of Ignis Cadens and no time is specified but if there were we have ♄ and ♃ in â™ will stand for Witness § 38. So move we on to 1564. and it s ☌ of ♄ and ♃ in April ♋ 28. and here we meet a Comet on the Feast of St. James July 25. no more is said of it § 39. Another Step brings us to ☌ ♄ ♃ A o 1583. in ♓ 22. the year 83. hath no Comet but 82. fails us not They give it out to be of immense Magnitude they mean the Train May 14. between North and South after ☉
set noted by Tycho Kepler c. It s Train streamed before Auriga's Right and Left Shoulder lasted from May 14. to 28. This Light being given us we see its Original by its place in ♊ where ☉ is with ♀ and ♀ both Retrograde near him which we grieve not to acknowledge have the most visible concern in that appearance but yet that ♄ and ♃ have also their share appears For it began precisely when the ☽ was first conjoin'd to ♄ and lasted 15 days say some until the ☽ came in ☠to ♄ Note we from Mr. Cambden's Eliz. that this Comet was attended with a Desperate Tempest not only of Thunders and Stroms but of Hail 3 Inches about some Stones being form'd Star fashion or like the Rowls of Spurs a rarity from ♄ and ♃ 's Anvil § 40. So at last we are entred into our Century now current in good time for now we are come into ☌ ♄ and ♃ and a Comet Octob. 1. A o 1604. Yea and that Comet predicted by some Arab upon the account of the Conjunction and of this Kepler in his Discourse of the New Star is a competent Witness who tells that many Astrologers with Herlicius foretold this Phaenomenon And have they not Reason Hath any great ☌ as yet miss'd for the space of a 100 years This is the 6th ☌ of which not above one that hath flinched but brought forth according to expectation For we have precluded the Objection from a new Star before which if it be the Argument is the Stronger and the Theory more ennobled if even this Novelty depend on a Planetary Aspect A New Star is more than a Comet for a New Star besure is Aetherial and so the Comets are Sublunar We know right well that this New Star has bin produced already under the Configuration of ♃ ♂ and we might vapour of such a Phenomenon which began on a ☌ of ♄ ♂ Sept. 2. By a good token that a Gentleman given to Metoroscopy looking on the two Stars in ☌ saw three so near was the Effect to the Cause but at no hand must a great ☌ exclude a greater ♄ and ♂ are in Partile ☌ ♄ and ♃ were within X. degrees so ♄ ♃ ♂ were all three in the same Sign to evidence the Astrological Conclusion The Triple ☌ is a Triple Chord 't is three Witnesses Have we not met the like before a Comet imputed to the Three Superiours in ♋ How Potent is the Heavenly Militia This Comet was among the Fixed as appears from the immobility seeing it budges not at least from its first Distance in respect of the Stars in Opiuchus's Leg and Foot from whence it appears that if the Planets can reach to the Seat of the Fixt upward then they may reach to our Sublunar World There lying in the Midway may receive the Influence as in a Racket and send it down to the Subter-Aetherial Globe but This by the way Let us enquire how long this New Star lasted At what time it was extinguish'd A year besure That is agreed on and Octob. day 8. A o 1605. saw it The Truth is we would have it so yet after that there is little News of it It decreased too fast Three Planets produce it but Two ♄ and ♃ help to continue it possibly to the end of the year but its Quincunx is not yet spun out till then In March after for certain there was no such appearance § 41. How Signal is our Conjunction How much concerned At whose expiring a Comet expired Hence comes that memorable Note of Kepler as Ricciolus justly call's it that Every Planet in the Heavens made their Transit by this Comet before it was extinguish'd ♃ and ♂ dwelt with it in its Cradle and ♄ for two Months together All help but we see who are the Principal § 42. Yea but do you hear saith Ricciolus Lib. 8. § 2. c. 18. how many Objections lye against the Opinions of the Arabs Not one I hope as we have stated it Yes First saith he How many Conjunctions have passed us without any New Stars 'T was but one saith he viz. that in the year 1604 answered the Prediction but one event fortunate cannot make a Fixed Rule Right but what means One only event Did the Arabian Sages Found their Rule upon that of 1604. who liv'd some of them above a thousand years before No question they observed themselves or had observed to their hand many such an Attendant on the ☌ of ♄ and ♃ Mollerus and Crabb were not such Ofes to predict a New Star 1604. unless back't by some Tradition or precedent Experiment 2ly Osiander hath seen plentifully that there is scarce a ☌ ♄ and ♃ since 150. but hath brought its Meteor to say nothing of ♄ and ♂ or ♃ and ♀ before produced And therefore we give the Poet leave cry'd up by Kepler Ricciolus and others to call us Astrologasters but by his leave we do not in this case tell a 1000 Lyes to one Truth we appeal to Consideration § 43. Here my Zeal forced me to look back on the former Centuries by the excellent Table of the Great Conjunctions from the beginning in Ricciolus Lib. 7. And there I find A o 1464. ☌ in ♓ 11. attended with a Comet A Comet A o 1463. Another on the very year 1444. the ☌ in ♋ the Comet in ♌ and when at the day of the Solstice so ♄ ♃ ☉ c. were in the Scrape The ☌ A o 1405. in ♓ 2. was beset with Comets 1403. and 1407. That of 1365. in ♎ was squired in by a Comet on March the 11. lasted above 5 Weeks That in 1345. in ♒ attended by a Comet in Aug. and lasted two Months That of 1306. may bring three for all as I know One A o 1304. 1305. which was Horrendae magnitudinis saith Hevelius And another 1307. and 1286. brought one about 1284. The ☌ 1266. was squired in by one of 1264. and ☌ 1246. with one 1245. And let this be enough unless the Reader hath a Thirst to look to our Saviours time and Lo we were of the same mind comprizing all the Conjunctional and Cometical years as they are recorded A Table of Comets which have happened On or within the Verge of ☌ ♄ ♃ since the Incarnation Anni Christ Anni Comet 15 14 55 54 ♓ ♈ 75 76 ♠214 218 333 335 ♠373 370 ♠♑ 393 392 ♠396 412 409 sive ♉ 413 532 531 ♊ 571 570 ♎ 611 613. ♓ ♈ 684 683 ♠730 729 ♓ 750 749 fin 829 830 ♌ 869 868 ♠908 Eod. anno ♈ 928 930 ♠fin 948 945 ♌ 1008 1005 Sive 1009 ♌ 1028 1027 1031 1107 1106 ♑ 1147 1145 ♉ 1146 ♉ 1167 1165. fin C. 1168 ♑ 1226 1223 ♑ 1246 1245 ♠fin 1266 1264 ♈ pr. 1267 ♊ 1268 1286 1284 ♑ pr. 1304 ♎ pr. 1306 1305 ♎ 1307 ♎ 1345 1347 ♈ 1365 1362 ♎ pr. 1385 1382 ♊ 1405 1403 ♒ 1407 ♓ 1425 1426 ♠1444 Eod. anno
♋ 1464 1463 ♓ 1504 1505 1506 ♋ 1524 1521 1522 1523 ♓ 1526 1544 1541 1542 ♠1543 Eod. Anno ♋ 1564 1568 1583 1582 ♓ 1585 1603 1600 Eod. anno ♠1623 1625 ♌ fin 1643 1647 1661 1663 1664 ♠1665 1680 1683 1682 ♌ Which Table proves more fortunately favouring our Principles then could be expected for seldom do we find the Comet or New Star appear on the precise year as it happened A o 1603. but a year or two before or after where ♄ and ♃ are half a Sign distant yea and sometimes more as we have said and could prove even from the Table but even Good way is tedious if the Miles be long And note I pray how justly we stated the Question with the dis-junctive Consequent or Concomitant For the years Precedent are too often found furnished with a Blaze of a Meteor as well as the Consequent that we may safely aver there is foundation in Nature for such appearance so circumstantiated And don't let pass those years which repeat their Effects in the same kind teeming as it were 3 years together sometimes and lying Fallow at other times The ☌ A o 1306. is own'd by the years 1304. 1305. 1307. The ☌ 1524. is alike owned by the bright Issues of 1522. 1523. 1526. Just as in our own time the ☌ 1663. is own'd by 1661. 1664. 1665. Hence we see what the Arabians must mean They could not intend their prediction from the precise year since we find no such Instance from the time that they flourish'd For after Ptolemies Quadripartite was by the command of the Saracen King turn'd into Arabick then we hear of Messahala and Albategnius A o 889. and Alfraganus A o 950. Haly A o 956. Alphard 980. Haly Aben Rodoan 1024. Alkindus 1100. Alpetrag 1149. Albumazar 1166. whose years I have set down that we may see what were those very Comets observed by the Arabians every man in his day upon which they founded their I think I may call it Excellent Rule so that I wondred that the Learned Ricciolus should tell us but of one Instance who gives us a Catalogue of all Comets and a Chronological Table of Astrologers by comparison of which his own Works he might have inform'd himself better But great Men who sail with the Stream have no appetite to any thing that is hight Astrology though in it self never so Noble though it give account of such Arcana they confess they despair to find out § 45. His next Argument proceeds not so much against the Thesis that the Great Conjunctions are productive of New Stars as against the pretended method of Predictions the time or place of the appearance by the Observation of the degree of the Zodiac and the precise Day But the precise day is not yet agreed on some approaching sooner some later as in ☌ 1603. there was observed among the Mathematicians near a fortnights difference All this we know to be true and the vanity of the Arabs was to talk of Degrees and Minutes forsooth in cases where there is no necessity as we see it usual with them in Prognosticks of Rain when they would be thought not to say nothing They propose Methods Nice and Scrupulous which it may be they scarce believe themselves I am sure can never be made out But what is this to the Thesis The Conjunction may be a Cause of an effect though we know not when that Cause will be produced to act Not that I deny that Comets may be predicted to a Month yea a Day why not as well as an Earthquake But then 't is by Christian not Arabick Method by considering the Rest how they fall in with the Grandees Aspected contributing each One their share to the common Product § 56. The third thing An Aspect of ♄ and ♃ cannot produce a New Star because the Aspect is only comparative and in relation to us upon Earth It is not absolute in its self nor in Relation to the Fixed Stars for in such relation ♄ and ♃ are always in ☌ seeming in a right Line drawn through their Centres wheresoever they are will terminate on some part of the Firmament and so there must be Comets everlasting Answer this Argument proves that no Aspect in the Heavens can produce either Wind or Clouds or Showrs of Rain no nor the very New ☽ for the Conjunction of of ☉ and ☽ is an Aspect only in reference to us not in its self nor in respect of the Fixed Why is it not in its self Is there no Specialty upon a perpendicular Ray terminated on the Earth and thereby redoubled Is there no difference of the Angle of Incidence though it make Summer and Winter A Line drawn through two Planets place them where you will terminates on the Firmament for one extreme but shall it terminate on the Earth for the other But the Argument strikes at the Doctrine of Aspects in general which stand as sure as Philosophy and Geometry can make them An Aspect is somewhat in comparison to us 'T is nothing in its self saith he A meer Fallacy For though for Examples sake a Solar Eclipse be nothing in its self since all its deficiency is quoad nos and so the distinction may be allowed Yet the membra dividentia may sometimes tumble in One Belly Some things there are that challenge both the New ☽ is dark quoad nos the Full ☽ is Lucid in se quoad nos also For what doth This make of Us or the Earthly Globe I speak not to the Learned Opponent but to the Argument which is a Copernican Subtilty to say the best Was not the Universe Celestial made for Us I know how indifferent the Coprnicans are but I ask my self was not Heaven and All that is therein made for Mans benefit The Zodiack I hope was I speak according to their own Sentiments How came the Lumpish Earth to describe it so exactly Was it not for the benefit of its Inhabitants Planets placed where you will have Influence but not Influence of Aspects The One is General the Other Special by the General they illustrate and Cherish by the Special they moderate the Seasons of the year and qualifie the Days presenting Ordinary and Extraordinary Meteors according to the Law of the first Mover § 47. The last and best Argument speaks thus ♃ and ♄ cannot be the Progenitors of that Star which is bigger then themselves but the New Star 1603. was bigger than ♃ by much the Minor is confirmed from the great distance of the place from whence it shone even the Firmament far above ♃ and ♄ But the apparent Magnitude seeming to equal ♃ it is known it must be in it self much bigger I answer the Argument smells well of Learning and Reason and deserves a fair assent or a fair Solution and this we take to be such while we give two Reasons First that ♄ and ♃ are intended not for the sole Progenitors of the Star but only the more
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
not with the New Philosophy I may answer if it agrees with Proof and Reason we are well enough I think I can prove that they hang all in one Thred Three of them and for Earthquakes connexion with Pestilences Fromond himself admits it beyond all doubt or Suspicion Not that I believe you know that Earthquakes are the Causes of Pests but that the Three Superiours as the Chaldeans have said of Earthquakes are the Causes under God of Epidemical Distempers Agues Feavers Nor will it conclude against this Doctrine that sometimes our Earthquakes appear without an Inundation a Comet without an Earthquake or Plague without a Comet therefore their meeting is Casual For many things in Nature are not reciprocal which yet have Connexion one with the other though the Connexion always appears not To Instance in nothing but what belongs to our present Discourse Flaming Eruptions are of kin to Earthquakes yet not always doth an Earthquake follow Why not Why 't is obvious to say and the Answer is good here All things are not ready the matter is not prepar'd c. much less Vice versa doth it always Flame when the Earth Trembles The Reason is because it cannot break forth according as before we have Instanced in Lightning and its Consequent Thunder Thunder and its Consequent Rain Lightning and Thunders and Rain hang all on a Third yet it doth not always Rain when it Thunders nor I am sure always Thunder when it Rains § 81. Now as we have attempted before to shew ♄ or ♃ affected with ♂ to have no benign Influence upon Health now it may be expected we should say the same of ♄ and ♃ and verily we must speak as we find nor is it dissonant from reason for the Superiors Influence met together is too unkind and disagreeable too much disproportion'd to our Nature our Bodies being nothing in their Hands like a Venice Glass by a rude touch quickly complains As the Man so is his Strength and the Deduction is Strong For if ♄ or ♃ united with ♂ the less erratic can disturb our Frame and Temper how much more can ♄ and ♃ unquestionably the two vaster Bodies put us out of order All Disease is nothing but Disturbance and Distemperature of our Tenour of Life our Bloud Spirit and Humour and I hope we need not beg any Man's Belief of the less Conclusion when we have demonstrated the greater Those Planets which we have demonstrated to be Inceendiaries Perturbers of Heaven and Earth may for that while at least be suspected and presented for the disturbance of Man an infirm part of the Universe § 82. The best Physitians consent even those who otherwise are not so Astrologically given which is a probable Argument of the Truth whensoever a Professor is fain to run abroad out of his own Jurisdiction to give account of what is done at home Their Eye chiefly I confess is upon ♄ and ♂ with reason enough if the Premises be true But they do not mean that Configuration in any exclusive Sense Hippocrates meant All by his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All that concur to the Character of the Season Now our Two Superiours are more to be suspected in impoisoning the Fountains and corrupting our Mass of Bloud because of their Pertinacy and Perseverance as he that on the Stage hath the longest part ' is most concerned in the Plot the Terms of Duration in ♄ and ♃ are more protracted than any other ♄ and ♂ by the Repetition of the Aspect may sometimes disturb the Ambient above a year ♄ and ♃ by playing fast and loose seldom disturbs us less than Four or Five in which space of time they create such immethodical variety and inequality in the Air so alien from the kindly natural State and Season that our Bodies yield like Flesh fresh and sweet in a hot Air and are sensibly exposed to Putrefaction and That which follows Stench which is a Token of the Dissolution and as it were the Deordination of the Compound And to make some improvement of This I reckon that even the Malignity of a Distemper is nothing but the Enmity that takes place in the Compound when the curious parts component are at discord the Mal-Effects of Discord being Infinite I confirm my self by this Conjecture that there is such a Proportion between the Live-Flesh and the Carcase that as the Faetor or Stench of the one is infectious and thereupon abominable Even so is the Effluvium or odour of the Infected Person as malignant and pernicious though not so obvious to Sense because the Spirit of Life-Bloud is more Subtile and Minute than the crasser Spirit of Carcase-Gore Be it how it will Astrologers venture sometimes to predict Epidemical Distempers they venture their Credit too when they hazen a Good City every foot with some such Nusance but when they pronounce on the accont of our Aspect they have sometimes come off with Credit Comets have been several times predicted and 't is owned by Herlicius Appian and others In like manner I remember the Pestilence of 1665. was given notice of by Mr. Edlin in his Astrological Treatise of our ☌ preceding It may be disputed I confess whether we had not better be ignorant of such a future Evil Day among other Reasons for that he that proclaimeth such unwelcom News will thereby make himself hateful to his Country as hard-hearted pityless if not dealing with Evil Angels seeing in the Jews Theology They are concerned here unless perhaps he heartily loves the Publick and is so obliging that he counterpoises that Suspicion by his known Innocence and Merit Alass Is not the Misery I fear not so much the Astrologers Skill as an unwillingness to prepare against an Evil Day which the best of us 't is true desire to put off I fear it I was going to say I know it for 't is a clear case if upon a surprize we may sometimes though too late wish we had foreknown the event it is Consequent then that 't is a desirable Science that inables us to foreknow For put case the Prediction fails instead of ridiculing the Observation it might be much better to thank God for his long-sufferance since what usually hath been might have been once more nor was it improbable howsoever § 83. Here the Astrologers put in their note of Attention to observe which of the Two Planets have Dominion or Elevation one above another for if ♄ have Dominion say they then Nothing but Mischief if ♃ the contrary or something better And when Haly or who is it defines one way of Dominion over the other to be when a Planet shall be on this side the Medium Caeli or nearer to the West and so Cardan in Ptol. Lab. III. Cap. 14. while the other is under the Earth I must own thus far that there is some difference between a Planets Application to or the Separation from another as to the State of the Air Every Agent being more fortified in
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