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A37608	Mēno-Ezeologia, or, A treatise of moneths and years comprehending a survey of the solar and lunar moneths and years, a description of the moneths and years heretofore in use among the Hebrews, Babylonians, Persians, Egyptians, Grecians, Arabians, and ancient Latines : an accommodation of all the said moneths and years to the present Julian and Gregorian : together with a new and easie directory for the finding out of the golden number, cycle of the sun ... : to which is also adjoyned, an abridgement of the history of the world from the creation unto Christ, and a continuation of the British history from Christ to this present : with a reduction of the era's of Nabonaffer, of the Olympiads, of Rome ab urbe condita, and of Seleucus, unto Scriptural accounts, and an adjustment of them vvith one another, very necessary for the understanding of the writings of the ancients : with many other chronological and mathematical observations, no less useful than delightful / composed by Nathaniel Eaton.	Eaton, Nathaniel, 1609?-1674.	1657 (1657)	Wing E117; ESTC R872	44,898	112

even ones that is to the 2. 4. 6. and others of that kind they only assigned 29. from whence it also proceeded that they called the one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 full and entire moneths and the other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or months that were maimed and defective because they wanted a day of that was allotted to the other 5. The second Lunar moneth that I may also say somthing to the rest though they have little to do with our account of times is that which Galen calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The time of the Moons proper circuit by later Astrologers it is called the moneth of Peragration comprehending the time wherein the Moon passeth through the Zodiacque not regarding whether she have overtaken or be in conjunction with the Sun or not which is absolv'd in 27. days and 8. hours saith Galen or if you examine the matter more exactly in 27 days 7. hours and 20. minutes So that this moneth cometh short of the former well near the space of a whole Sign that is two days 4. hours and about 40. minutes Yet doth not the Moon as she passeth through the Zodiacque move at all times with an equal quickness for when she is in apogaeo or in the higher part of his Orb she moveth slowly by reason that that part of his epicycle is carried against or contrary to the succession of the Signs from the East unto the West and then in 24. hours she moveth but through 11. degrees 37. minutes and 10. seconds and continueth in a Signe about 64. hours but when she is in perigaeo or the lowest part of her Orb she moveth swiftly by reason that that part of her epicycle is carried along or together with the succession of the Signs from the West unto the East and then in 24. hours she moveth through 15. degrees 19. minutes and 50. seconds and continueth little more then 47. hours in a Sign In her mean motion that is when she participates of neither of these extreams she moveth in 24. hours through 13. degr 10 min. and 36. sec and continueth in a Signe almost 55. hours and by this motion not heeding either of the extreams which ballance one another we may calculate her progress and determine very near what Sign she is in every day of the year for ever allowing her at the time of her change to be not above 15 degr at the most nor less then 6 degr at the least distant from the Sun whether she precede or follow him For this is to be noted that the Moon is not alwaies in the same Sign with the Sun when she is in conjunction with him but somtimes in the Sign before him and somtimes in the Sign behind him but still within the distances before mentioned And here because we are treating of this subject it will not be amiss to subjoyn what Plin. l. 1. c. 17. and with him Macrobius l. 1. Somnii have observed upon it viz. that somtime during the whole time that the Sun is in Sagittarius the Moon hath no conjunction at all with him and somtimes again before he go out of Gemini she changeth twice or hath two conjunctions with him which things are peculiar unto these Signs and happen not when the Sun is in any of the other Unto this proper circuit of the Moon it is that Galen refers those particular and proper changes which happen unto every singular and individual person as preferments honours and the like together with those diseases which proceed from the particular either natural or self-acquired indisposition of every mans body and upon the successive weeks of this moneth every one of which consisteth of 9 days 19 hours and about 50 minutes would he have a critical or decretory judgement to be made upon them unto life or death either good or evil 6. The third Lunar moneth is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the moneth of Illumination or Apparition comprehending the time wherein the Moon demiseth his beams upon the earth and is conspicuous unto men and that saith Galen de dieb decret l. 3. c. 9. is 26 days and 12 hours so that this moneth is 3 days shorter then the moneth of Consecution Which though it be not alwaies true for somtimes the Moon recovereth the light within 1 or 3 days and somtimes again not until 4 days after her conjunction be compseated yet 3 days is the middle betwixt both the extreams and falleth out more frequently to be the time of the Moons recovering his light then either of the other Now the causes say Astrologers why the Moon recovereth her light somtimes earlier and somtimes later after her conjunction with the Sun are these three 1. The swiftness of her motion when she is in the lower part of her epicycle 2. Her septentrional latitude when her conjunction is in the head of the Dragon as it is from the beginning of Capricorn to the beginning of Cancer 3. Her conjunction in Signs by reason of her greater elevation from the Horizon directly occidental that is when the degrees of the Circle of the Moons elevation above the Horizon be more then the degrees of the Zodiaque which she hath passed Now as often say they as all these causes do concur which can only be as Pliny and Macrobius in the before-mentioned places do affirm when the Sun is in Aries and at no time else then the same day may we see both the old Moon and the new but this happens exceeding rarely When two of these causes meet together then she is seen the second day after her conjunction when but one of these causes onely is existent then she appeareth the third day after her coition but when there is none of these causes at all in being then it is the fourth day after her conjunction before she become perspicuous This third Lunar moneth is called by Galen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the common circuit of the Moon because indeed as it hath nothing proper of its own but is compacted and results out of the common stock of both the other so also it hath a common and universal efficacy upon all men and in that respect is elsewhere termed by him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the circuit wherein she putteth out her efficacy upon us for as Galen conceiveth those days wherein the Moon is deprived of her light she is also deprived of this common efficacy but as she recovereth her light so she recovereth her virtue which together with her light she imprints upon the Elements the Ayr the Water and the Earth whereof because all men do partake therefore this efficacy takes hold of all men and doth as he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 equally conduce unto us all So that if there be a Pestilence a Famine Inundations Storms Hail or any disease which runneth almost over all a Country proceeding from the extraordinary immutation or putrefaction of the Ayr or other elements it is from this efficacy of the Moon that they