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A45203	Demonstration of astrology, or, A brief discourse, proving the influence of the sun, moon, stars, over this terraqueous globe grounded on the fundamental rules of the Copernican system and philosophy, and verified by practical examples and experience : illustrated by diagrams : whereby the art is rendered almost mathematically demonstrable : to which is added, an astrological and philosophical appendix, or second part, treating of this summer's effects, both in the macrocosm as well as microcosm : wherein we have great cause to fear, that the sword, pestilence, and famine will annoy our European territories this ensuing summer / by William Hunt, a lover of the mathematics and natural philosophy.	Hunt, William, lover of the mathematics and natural philosophy.	1696 (1696)	Wing H3762; ESTC R7694	25,280	47

see that Saturn is in Perigaeon or near the Earth and Mars in an abject Place as also ♃ which is the Cause of our cold Summer for Saturn's nearness fills our Atmosphere with Nitre and Mars not being able to oppose his chill Influence we therefore had a very cold Summer notwithstanding the Sun was then in his greatest Northern Vertical Strength And in the next place let us see the Reason for our warm and favourable Winter especially in January and February following the said cold Summer which two Months are as much fam'd for Cold as June and July are for Heat In the sixth Diagram which is drawn for the Sun's entrance into ♓ viz. the 8th of February at Sun-set wherein we find the cold Planet Saturn in an abject place being thereby far remote from the Earth and Mars and Jupiter are in Perigaeon and also in an Estival Sign viz. on this side the Equator and Mars in a Southern and Winter Sign for depressed Mars in this place becomes our Deputy Sun who like a Burning-Glass warms our Atmosphere by reflecting back the Sun's Rays upon us thereby warming our Air very much whose Heat is augmented by the Proximity of Jupiter they both being in Opposition of the Sun In Places about ten degrees North and South Declination viz. on each side the Equinoctial yea all that part of the Torrid Zone they felt Mars his Influence with a Vengeance for Mars being in ☍ of the Sun and in Conjunction with Jupiter a Nitrosulphurious Planet would like Gun-powder cause violent Combustions in the Atmosphere great and violent Thunders and Lightnings burning up the very Vegetables with their great Heat But we in the more Northern Climates by reason of the Sun's Absence and great Depression only enjoy'd a more warm Season than usual at the Season nay it was oft and many a day in January and February warmer than several days in June and July preceding We had Thunder and Lightning even at Christmas this Year in our Climate caused by the aforesaid Position But before I conclude this Chapter I shall say something concerning the unparallell'd and never to be forgotten Frost which happen'd in the Year 1683 which most Astrologers judged to be a Badg of the Effects of the grand ♂ of Saturn and Jupiter trebly repeated the Winter and Spring preceding but tho that was the Cause as I believe it was why had we not the Cold the Winter before when they were partilely conjoin'd I doubt not but it will puzzle most of our Modern Astrologers to shew the Reason But by our Copernican Method it 's plain why the Cold did not commence the Year before for tho ♄ and ♃ were both in Perigaeon which by our Method is a strong Augment of cold and severe Frost yet we had then Mars our Deputy Sun in square to the Sun who being upon the Meridian or Zenith while Saturn and Jupiter were upon the Horizon who hath great Force and Power by that Position and did by his great Power overcome the chill Influence of ♄ and ♃ and caused a temperate Season But after that Mars had got into an abject place which was the succeeding Winter and Saturn and ♃ still continuing near together and becoming in Perigaeon again the next Winter who then play'd their parts to purpose for Mars was also in a Winter Sign as well as in an abject place who being thereby weakned and not able to over-power the Influence of ♄ and ♃ who then play their parts to purpose then began the time for Severity They that will or can may draw the respective Diagrams for the said Winters wherein they may find Satisfaction And so I shall conclude this Chapter and with it the first Part. June the 11th 1696. at Sun-set Diagram III. This Diagram I call a Copernican Projection upon the Plane of the Equinoctial In which the Sun is the Centre about whom move all the Planets in their respective Orbs as also the Earth about whom moves the Moon as her Centre But for the Explanation thereof see the 3d Chapter of the first Part and also the 6th Chapter Diagram IV. This Diagram is drawn for the sake of demonstrating the Aspects of the Planets and is only a Projection of the Lunar Circle of the 3d Diagram in a larger Figure whereby the planetary Aspects are more plain to the Eye they being the same in the Lunar Orb in the 3d Diagram but not so easy to be understood June the 11th 1695. at Sun-set Diagram V. February the 8th 1696 at Sun-set Diagram VI. The Second Part. Being a brief Astrological Judgment or Appendix treating of this ensuing Spring and Summer's Effects both in the Macrocosm as well as Microcosm wherein there are many Causes to fear that Pestilence and Famine will be added to the Plague of the devouring Sword in our European Territories CHAP. I. I Shall begin with the Month of March wherein about the 10th day the Sun enters into the Vernal and Equinoctial Sign Aries at which time I consider the Position and Affection of the Planets according to our former Method At which time Saturn is in great Southern Declination viz. in ♑ a Winter Sign but yet the Earth begins to apply to him he being separating from a Geocentrick ⚹ of the Sun and applieth to a □ of him Mars separates from Jupiter by Retrogradation and is gotten out of his Perigaeon and left Jupiter therein Mars is also in Opposition with Venus which is a general Aphorism amongst all Astrologers viz. when ♂ and ♀ are conjoined by Body or Aspect and especially in ☍ then they produce at this season Rain or Snow to excess it being called an Apertio Portarum or an opening of the Floodgates of Heaven But at this Season for the abovesaid Reasons we shall have rather Frosts and Snow with Hail for Jupiter in Perigaeon and so far elongated from Mars who is out of his Perigaeon in ☍ with ♀ will undoubtedly cause much Frosts and Snow to the Detriment of our too forward Spring and early Vegetables as Apricocks c. And these frosty Mornings are like to continue throughout the Month because about the end ♃ is in ☍ with ♀ and ♄ becomes in □ to the Sun a Position wherein he is very powerful yet ♂ in △ with the Sun will mitigate a little and give us a glimpse of his warm Influence about the two or three last days of this Month and beginning of April and may cause a Remission of Cold especially in the Afternoons but the Cold prevails afterwards again And now being come to April in the beginning whereof as I said before there is an ☍ ♃ ♀ and □ ☉ ♄ which notwithstanding the aforesaid △ ☉ ♂ will cause a glum cold Season for the most part of the Month because ♄ and ♃ are in more powerful Positions than ♂ our Deputy Sun for ♄ is every Morning at Sun-rise upon the Meridian by which Position he becomes vertical to them

DEMONSTRATION OF ASTROLOGY OR A brief Discourse proving the Influence of the Sun Moon and Stars over this Terraqueous Globe Grounded on the Fundamental Rules of the Copernican System and Philosophy and verified by Practical Examples and Experience Illustrated by Diagrams Whereby the Art is rendred almost Mathematically Demonstrable To which is added An Astrological and Philosophical Appendix or Second Part treating of this Summer's Effects both in the Macrocosm as well as Microcosm Wherein we have great cause to fear that the Sword Pestilence and Famine will annoy our European Territories this ensuing Summer By WILLIAM HUNT a Lover of the Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy Canst thou refrain the sweet Influences of the Pleiades or loose the Bands of Orion Job 38.31 LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be sold by George Sawbridge in Little Britain 1696. To the Right Honourable CHARLES Viscount MANDEVILL Baron of Kimbolton Earl of Manchester Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the County of Huntingdon My LORD THE last Favours which I receiv'd from you embolden me to affix on your Lordship this Dedication and commit these my first Fruits to your Honourable Protection For which Presumption I humbly beg your Lordship's Pardon The Stile I confess is plain and rustick and ●anteth that elegancy of Language which a more learned Pen might have dressed it up with But the Subject tho ill clad is wholly new and sublime being a Subject never before treated on in this Nature viz. the Demonstration of Astrology founded upon the Copernican Hypothesis And tho but an Embrio I hope it will live in spite of all its Opposers especially if it may receive the auspicious Favour of your Lordship's Countenance then shall I not doubt its Preferment and therein the Advancement of the Celestial Sciences and chiefly this most useful and innocent Part the Knowledg of the Weather Wherein I through my diligent Study and Observations have gained more select Arcana's than ever were known to the late tho Learned Dr. Goad who wrote K. James the Second's Weather I confess it unworthiness to stamp the Impression of your Honour's Titles upon such an abortive Embryo yet could I imagine it would in the future become the least disparagement to the Dignity of the Godfather I would even now crush it in the Bud and stop its production and not suffer it to appear in this wild World where the Zoilian Sharks stand ready with their duplicated Teeth to devour it if not sheltered under the Shadow of your Honour's Wings to whose Tuition I only commit it for Protection humbly imploring your Lordship's favourable Construction of this my Boldness and it will be an Incouragement to the future Endeavours of My LORD Your Lordship 's most humble and obedient Servant WILLIAM HUNT The Preface to the Reader I Designed to have wrote a large Volume of the Demonstration of Astrology but considering that Books of this Nature are chargeable to print by reason of the Diagrams which are many And when printed there being but few Students or Lovers of this Art whereby I feared it would not pay the Charge of Printing therefore I altered my first Intentions and do now design to appear in this manner quarterly viz. at every Solar Ingress of the Sun into the four Cardinal Points or oftner as Matter and Occasion shall permit provided this finds a kind Reception In which intended Essays I shall endeavour towards the Demonstration of Astrology and the Restauration of the Celestial Sciences which like many antient and ruined Cities lie buried in their own Rubbish for Arts and Sciences have their Crisis their Times of flourishing and Times of decay as well as all other sublunary things We have a common and ignorant saying amongst us That every Age groweth wiser and more learned than other but I am of the contrary Opinion and do believe that at this day Astrology is not so well understood as it was in the Days of Solomon and Daniel who understood it in its Purity But alas now it 's so sullied over with Innovations and Superstitions that it 's hard to find the Truth from Falshood But in our following Discourses I desire to be believed or credited no further than I can rationally demonstrate the same The following Work is founded upon the Copernican Hypothesis wherein I shall make it apparent that the aforesaid Philosophy is so far from destroying Astrology as some ignorant Astrologers pretend that it 's the unum necessarium the only thing needful in the demonstration thereof My Method is wholly new and different from the Modern Astrology whose Basis is founded upon the Ptolomean Hypothesis and Aphorisms as mine is upon the Copernican System and Philosophy My Books will be composed of a First and Second Part The first Part generally treating of Astronomical Astrological and Philosophical Aphorisms and Arcana's tending to the Propagation of the Celestial Sciences and Restauration of Astrology and will be introductory to young Tyro's in this our new Method to whose consideration I commend it And the second Part will be composed of my Astrological and Philosophical Judgment for the Quarter I write of wherein I chiesly shall treat of the Weather and its Intemperatures whereby we have sometimes scarcity of one thing and sometimes of another as also Sickness and Health Earthquakes Thunders and Lightnings Blasts and Mildews and at some times pleasant and fruitful Seasons thereby producing Plenty and Health all which I shall demonstrate in their several Seasons as I foresee them to happen I shall also in some other succeeding Tracts treat of the Weather day by day wherein I shall be more large than in this Which is the larger in the first Part being it is an Introduction to the rest Which second Part I chiefly direct to our Countreymen wherein they may see as an Object in a Glass the Natures of the Seasons before they happen Wherein they need not much question the Verily thereof for I shall not deliver any thing or impose the belief thereof upon any farther than I can give probable Reasons for my so doing Therefore these following Essays being Select Astrological and Philosophical Arcana's grounded upon Rational and Experimented Athorisms never before made publick and I believe known to very few besides my self I commend to all Lovers of Learning and also to my Countrymen hoping I have not cast a Pearl before Swine but set a Glass before the grateful Doves Will. Hunt Allconbury March 10. 1695 6. ADVERTISEMENT THese Medicines mentioned are prepared and sold both Wholesale and Retail by Hen. Martin of St. Ives in Huntingtonshire Student in Physick and Chymistry namely a famous Stomach Pill in the Green-Sickness and many other Diseases also Sal Solutivum or Glauber's admirable purging Salt the Elixir Salutis or purging Cordial called by some Dassie's Elixir Dr. Bostick's Cordial an Eley Water also Spir-Mundus both plain and exalted to an Oleosum Volatile also Vinum Vitae proprietat also Arcanum Vniversalis and Species

Astrologically we have had Saturn annoying us by his Presence all last Summer and Mars this Winter and just at the Solar Ingress into our Northern Tropick ♃ and ♂ are in ☌ in ♍ a Sign and Position by Observation and Experience noted for Sickness Where was Saturn when the last devouring Plague raged in London Was he not in Capricorn the same place wherein he now is which Distemper was agitated and stirred up by the ☍ ♃ ♂ To be brief I have too many Reasons both Astrological and Philosophical to fear a blasting and pestilential Season which will if not prevented by the Almighty produce a Pestilence and Scarcity in most of our European Countries who are already under one of God's Scourges viz. the devouring Sword But in the day of God's Anger when that he resolves to pour forth his Vengeance and join to the Sword Pestilence and Famine who can stand before him He hath been pleased like a kind Father to correct us at first gently to see and try if we would repent and amend our Ways but when he finds that will not do he then corrects us with more Severity I pray God I be not a true Prophet but that we may with the Ninevites avert his Judgments which hover over our Heads with true Repentance and Prayer And now tho contrary to my intended Method I shall consider what Countries will be most passive this next Summer Jupiter is the Planet Passive who is afflicted by ♂ in ♍ and Saturn strong in ♑ being the Significator of the Turks shews their Strength ♃ being afflicted shews the Weakness of the Christians viz. of the Emperor and K. Lewis for Jupiter in ♍ conjoined to ♂ is the Significator of the French Government Mars is our England's Defender viz. the Heroick and unparallel'd in Valour K. William who afflicts Jupiter in the very Bowels of France for France is generally known to be under the Sign Virgo who like a dying Cock is resolved to strike the sparring Blow if possible and in order to it musters up all her Force and Strength but missing her Aim she falls flat down and expires Certainly France is driven to her last Shifts when that she hath no other way to rid her self of her Mortal Enemy than to invent and contrive so horrid and devilish a Design contrary to the Law of God Nature or War viz. the Assassination of his Majesty K. William certainly every honest Man can't but hate the thing Surely it 's enough to make the Jacobites themselves which have any spark of Honesty in them to hate and abhor the Contrivers of so black and detestable Practices and come over to K. William But be it as it will his Sword will decide the Controversy and make him more Friends this Summer than ever who will be forced to sneak to him for shelter for he is born to be a Shield to the Reformed Religion What can any Protestant Jacobites propose to themselves or expect to gain by a French Power but Popery and Slavery if they should have attained their Ends but before that could have been effected the Nation must have been ruined by a Civil War For let me reason with them thus Suppose they had made an Insurrection and Invasion and that Hellish Project of theirs and the French King's had taken effect viz. the Assassination of our King which God out of his Mercy hath and I hope will prevent I say suppose they had brought in a French Army yet we see that the Confederates had Eyes over them and in kindness to us and our King was resolved to land an Army to assist us the Duke of Wirtemberg having twenty thousand Men ready to land and assist our King or Us if he had been so unfortunate as to have lost his Life by those barbarous and wicked Men I say we should not have been left to be devoured by the French but before the Disorders had been settled and that we could have crowned the next Successor the Nation might have been ruined no body considering the Miseries of a Civil War but those that groan under it Have we already forgot the Civil War in Oliver's Days We have now a King who ventures his All to make us happy who stands himself between Danger and Us who crosses the Seas to defend our Lives Liberties and Religion And yet we are so ungrateful to him and unkind to our selves as not to assist him to our Powers Had we a King who minded nothing but Luxury and Ease and cared not what became of his Subjects we might well grumble or had we a King who like the Stork in the Fable devoured us and our Liberties we might then justly complain and Self-preservation would be a great Temptation to make us rebel But contrarily we have an Hero who undergoes all Perils to make us easy and happy Therefore be so kind to your selves and Native Country as to stand by and defend your King against his Enemies and instead of bringing in the Sword amongst us let us unanimously join and carry it into the Bowels of France I say let us share in the Honour thereof for if I ben't mistaken she will be afflicted with War Pestilence and Famine this Year 1696. Scarcity and Sickness will be our Visitants in England I hope no Civil War but if it be it will be to the Cost of the Jacobites let them begin as soon as they will King William is born to bring down the Power of the French King and I believe this Campagn will end the Controversy and we shall not be long e're we enjoy the long-wish'd for Honourable Peace But yet I fear the Emperor loseth Ground with the Turks Many will be the Calamities which will afflict Europe this Year which undergoes several Catastrophes let Time demonstrate Howsoever I am certain the French War is almost at an End and the fatal Blow will be struck this Summer and so shall end this Chapter CHAP. III. IN this Chapter I shall consider of the Causes Symptoms and Cure of this Sickness or Pestilence so often hinted at in the foregoing Chapters which if it should happen in England which God divert our Physicians especially the Astrologians may prepare Antidotes and preventative Remedies as being the fittest Men to cure as well as prevent all Distempers especially those which have their dependance upon the Season and Stars who by their Nitro-sulphurious and poisonous Rays infect our Air whereby our Bodies by breathing and sucking in that Air c. whereof I said something in the last Chapter do become corruptive and tending to Putrefaction For how many Souls have perished for Want of the Physicians Knowledg of the true Nature of the Disease which alters according to the Nature of the Afflicting Planets c. for every Year brings with it a new Distemper not known to the Drug-Doctor until he hath found it out by Experience which costs the Lives of perhaps half a hundred of his languishing Patients While the Astrologian sees the true Cause and Nature of the Distemper before it comes and can if desired prevent the Malady if not destined by the Almighty to Destruction The Places chiefly menaced by the Stars are France Germany Hungary Spain England and Flanders and especially in the French Camp in Flanders The Symptoms and Nature of the Distemper 't is hard to define but may be guest at by the afflicting Planets c. Which are both Saturn in Capricorn and Mars afflicting Jupiter in Virgo Saturn in Capricorn afflicts the Head with Diseases proceeding from Melancholy which will produce Madness Ravings Frenzies beginning with great Pain and Heaviness also Pains and Weariness in the Joints Knees and Sinews c. Secondly Jupiter afflicting Mars in Virgo and Luna at the Solar Ingress in Opposition to them denotes Melancholy to have Dominion causing stoppages of the Liver Cardiaca Passio great pain in the Sinews and Joints and all over the Body and the Bowels are afflicted from a cold Cause Cholick Gripings of the Guts with tough and thick Flegm falling upon the Throat and Lungs causing troublesome Coughs And if we be so happy to escape in England from a Pestilence yet I am certain that we shall have a new malignant Distemper and the Symptoms will be partly as I have before described The Method to prevent or cure this hovering Malady is as followeth viz. we must have respect to the afflicting Planets and see how they are dignified Mars being the chief afflicting Planet and not very strong we may oppose him by Antipathy with Herbs of Venus but Saturn being strong and beholding Jupiter and Mars with a friendly Trine we must sympathize with him and make use of his Herbs in the Cure Also we must in all Pestilential Distempers make use of a certain number of Solar Herbs which have a principal Virtue to strengthen the Heart and Vital Spirit So that you must have recourse to the Herbs of Saturn the Sun and Venus being gathered according to their Planetary Strength and Vertue respect being had to their Number and Proportion in the Composition Verbum sat ☞ It 's also requisite to open the Obstructions of the Liver and Breast and to clear the Body of Melancholy this Spring by purging Medicines composed of the aforesaid Herbs c. And so shall I conclude this Embrio of Astrological Influence designing to be more large and particular in my next in the mean time farewel FINIS Errat Pag. 14. lin 24. for Faces read Phases