in the same place Ergo the Sun and Moon are not the Causes But still the Argument is Cripple which saith Ergo not the Heavens A blind Consequence that sees not more Lights than two in the Heavens It will be said that by the same day 12 Month or 19 Years rather the Objection means the Sun Moon and Fixed Stars What then Are not the Planets overlook't Do they make nothing of a World The Planets are Worlds They know the Sun is bigger than the Earth a World Celestial ♄ is a World as say Pretenders less than the Sun c. Now for the Fixed Stars what hath the same day 12 Months to do with any of them But those few only that relate to the Sun and Moon there posited If the Objector do believe as he doth not that the Fixed are concerned with the Sun the Controversie would be soon dispatch't for the Fixed would also be found to be concerned which relates to ♄ 's or ♃ 's places c. And that which is a high Truth VII Companies at least of the Fixed are concerned every day according to the number of the Erratiques which transit by them And if it rains not the same day 12 Month the failure proceeds from the different marshalling of those Companies But the VII are always engaged to every day of the Month or year And hence comes the Halt or delay of the Weather which the Objection takes notice of Most times the beginning of March is Stormy sometimes the End not according as the matter is prepared as if the Womb of the Air teemed so many Days Weeks and Months before it brought forth and then by the same degrees returned to its Sterlity This is the Grave Idea which men have of Natures Productions attributing to One what belongs to VII For Matter may be prepared and unprepared and prepared again as often as the Air is overcast and the Winds blow hollow and drive away the Clouds Matter may be prepared in an Hours time the Wind may turn in an Instant verily as soon as the Sun is set 't is ordinary for the Wind to vere about 'T is ordinary for one Wind to blow by Night and another by Day The Barometer will shew us the Truth of this which will change in an Hour or two from Fair to Rainy and never shews above a day before hand The reason is when there are more Workmen about the Preparation then is imagined the more sudden is the Effect So that hence also comes that Dissonancy of the Weather not complyant with the Season Cold at Midsummer and warm at Christmass because every Planet but the Sun Venus and Mercury are at liberty The Sun first makes the Season Venus and Mercury attend him but the ☽ we know and ♂ ♄ and ♃ may saunter or make Excurons where they please to take up their Winter Quarters by themselves while the Sun and his Gang are meteing out the Vernal or Summer Seasons § 74. According to the Nature of the Months April we know is inclined to Rain May to Warmth June to Showres July and August to Heat January to Rain February to Snow March to Hail and Turbulency Suppose these Months be mingled together as they are mixt by Planetary Motion the same Weather will the Planets assuredly make being found in the Signs answering thereto So that if it be warm at time of the year because the Motion of the Sun chalks out the Months of July and August it may Rain at that time because a Fourth Planet may be in April's Quarters and Hail because a fifth may be in Marches Limits And do not the Vulgar confess that many times One Months Weather is found in anothers Yes verily Place now Planets enough in Winter Signs and it may Freeze in March and Snow in April yea as we have heard not impossible in June § 75. Oh! But the same Planets never meet again the second time in the same Place and Posture We answer they may meet again in Equivalent places For do we think there are 365. kinds of Weather Do not divers Places in the Heavens agree in the same inclination Doth it Rain only in April Is not June Dripping and November December c. So the seeming great Objection vanishes Either the same Planets may meet in Equivalent Places or Equivalent Planets may meet in the same Places Verily not Picus nor Gassendus with all their Causes per se or per what they please can give account of One Frost dissolved in Winter No Not after they have felt the Benefit of the milder Air nor of One Chill day in Summer though they have smarted by it much less of a solitary Constitution when one or two days shall strangely thrust themselves into a Month of a Contrary temper They admire and despair to find the Reason why Winter dare not sometimes shew his hoary Head Bald at all times but sometimes not Hoary at all and yet at other times march towards the torrid Zone pass the Line and Face the Aestival Camp No account I say can they give of a White Easter and a Soultry Christmas Snow in May or April and Thunder in December No reason for Long and Lasting Rains seeing the Earths Evaporation is not responsible because the Earth according as the Fires are continually at work Evaporates in Drought as well as Moisture § 76. Gassendus observes indeed p. 996. that the Workmen in the Mines presage Rain upon the rising of the Fumes Subterranean Let those Workmen or some body for them be taught to consult an Ephemeris and they may chance to find some bonny Aspect at that time as we may see in the Aspects of the Superiours which plainly agrees with our Hypothesis and teacheth that all nature is troubled at their Presence being irritated more at one time than another Now that all Nature is troubled to make a digression and the Subterranean Fumes the Evidences of such Trouble do rise at the Presence of Aspects I have met with a remarkable Instance or two to lead in those who can make Additions The First above an hundred years ago in the Month of July An. 1547. which I shall tell in a Famous Doctors own Words in the Margin of his Ephemeris viz. Primo Julii apud Harreret Cati duo Longam postpugnam in fontem morientes utrique inciderunt Pater familias fontem in fici istis cadaveribus haud cupiens puerum demisit istos ut educeret at puer ipse mortuus extractus est descendit homo alter his mortuus etiam tertius insaniâ correptus Patris Familias nomen fuit Ryve duodecim mill pass à Fulburnia factum The Later but lately indeed viz. Aug. IV. 1679. the day when most parts of England felt the Dire Lightning and Thunder to their Cost Those of our Neighbour Borough in Southwark remember it by a Woman slain with Lightning dwelling in Kent Street yea and by this Story parallel to the former when a young man a
Feet swelling and shooting against Weather yea the Paroxysmes of the Gout and sundry other Ailments observed in the Hospital of our Bodies remember us thus of superior Alterations § 22. Yea farther all the Prognosticks taken from the Fire it self do note which may be strange some Dominion over Moisture the â—elestial Action terminating not on the Flame so much as the Fewel or the Body inflam'd hence comes the little diminutive sparkling of the Candle the spitting of the Fire from under the Embers the puffing and murmuring of the flaming Coal the concretion of Sparks and Knots in the Snuff Lucernarum fungi the Adhesion of Embers to the Hearth of the Live coal to the Pot-side all betokening some Alteration of the Moisture which betrays it self by concretion of things contiguous or by that little sparkling at the approach of the Flame which at other times burns quiet and cals for no Observation He that pleases may consult Aratus Virgil Pliny Plutarch of the Neotericks Fromond Vossius de Idololatr § 23. Rain and Wind therefore for they are not often severed or their existence to Warmth § 24. And 't is manifest whether Hail reduceth it self being the congelation of Rain As for Snow 't is of a nice crasis strangely consisting of a congeal'd vapour and some little degree of a warm Spirit which helpeth to resolve the continued congelation and make it fall into wafers § 25. Hence what is commonly observed whensoever it snows the Air remits of his rigor and again the greater is the Fleece the warmer is the Air and more bordering on a Thaw § 26. Next the Mist also belongeth to Cold seeing it is a vapor part moist part fuliginous congel'd just as the breath of our mouth by the Cold of Winter is a visible Mist Mists therefore do not arise from the Rivers brink as is commonly reckon'd but the Vapour which before rose invisibly being congel'd descends and by continual aggregation or conflux puts on a visible consistence § 27. Lightning and Thunder need no Herald to derive their Pedegree from Heat Celestial § 28. Comets Celestial have their consistence also from Expirations Celestial taking it for granted that the Sublunar consist of Expirations Terrestrial mingled with Celestial and inflamed thereby § 29. Blite and Blasting in some cases proceed from Heat as when Fruits are prejudiced by Lightning or burning Winds such as the East-winds are reckon'd in Holy Writ § 30. Again it oftentimes proceeds from Cold and Hoar-frosts as Pliny rightly with our Husbandmen define happening with us about May June yea in April March whensoever the Spring is obnoxious to the injury by its unhappy forwardness § 31. Of all these there is not the least piece of a Phaenomenon that is casual in respect of the Heavens though the Learned Kepler can allow it but the Heavens are conscious of its Original § 32. Nay as we shall see there is not the least puff of Wind though a Reflexion of a Blast indeed may be termed Casual but is Heaven-bred if we speak of the direct issue § 33. Howbeit so great and various is the inconstancy of the Winds especially with us on Shore that the Knowledge is abstruse and difficult though neither so pure a Contingent but that it may be lur'd to the Rules of Art § 34. Seeing Wind that we may come to its Definition is nothing else but the motion of an Earthy dry Exhalation and that moved not by Condensation or its own Gravity but by Impulse from Celestial Heat § 35. Some great Authors philosophize otherwise That Wind is made by Rarefaction and a Condensation succeeding the Air condensed tending downwards and acquiring its violence by the heights of its descent But 1. wheresoever it hapneth that there is such Condensation as in Clouds Dews Mists hazie Air Frosts there would be always some sense of Winds stirring but many Clouds and hazie days are calm yea nothing is more husht oft times than a Frost or Mist or more still and silent than the Dew 2. Winds are indifferent to all Seasons Winter Summer to all Weathers to all hours of the Natural Day none have their Quietus'es from it not Sun-rise nor Sun-set Mid-day nor Mid-night it owes not therefore its Existence to Rarefaction and Condensation seeing all Hours Seasons are not indifferent thereto for in a Cloudy day what place is there for Rarefaction In a bright hot Summers day what condenseth 3. Here let the Etesian speak hath not benign Nature provided that refreshing Air for the Aestival Heat and doth not it rise at 9 in the morning when the Heat increaseth and cease again at 4 in the Even 4. Whatsoever may be said in Spring and Autumn for the vicissitudes of Rarefaction and Condensation how comes Winter which even hath its denomination from Wind to be so unquiet when there are no such sensible vicissitudes Nay how doth Wind rise in Winter nights It cannot be said that the Night condenseth what the Day hath rarefied Alas the Day was all benummed in Frost and the windy Nights often introduc'd a Thaw How doth the colder Season rarifie how doth the warmer Season condense 5. Upon this Hypothesis the Wind would blow to not from the Points of the Compass and to many Points at once viz. coming from the Sun as from the Centre for the Air even as Water rising up in a Conical tumor when rarefied upon the recess of the Sun while it condenseth and recovereth its Gravity must needs fall indifferently from the vertex to all parts of the Circumference where it is not hindred i.e. to the East North and South at least if not to the West but the Wind blows not several ways at once nor is confined in the least but tends indifferently from the Sun aud to the Sun and on each side of the Sun through all the Points of the Compass § 36. Again Condensation can give no account of the Winds violence no not the thousandth part of its rage and fury as when it is known to rift up Trees demólish Buildings for admit the descent of Air to be as forcible as the descent of Water though there is some difference sure especially if Air be rarer than the Water by a 1000 degrees yet this will not prevail for in Noah's Floud it self the Cataracts of Heaven did not beat down the Trees as appears by the Story § 37. 'T is said that all Heavy Bodies the further they descend the more violence they acquire this is true in Bodies that have their fixed Dose of complete Gravity disproportioned to the medium as in Stones Metals c. and this by virtue of their Generation but in Condensation 't is otherwise the Body is not condensed at an instant all at once but at leisure and by gradual alteration Proportional thereto must the Gravitation be and as the body condenseth so must it subside in the same measure according as the Applications of the Causes condensing are gradual for as for instantaneous
that the Days are always or most part Character'd in their Constitution according to her accesses or recesses to the Sun or Tropicks Secondly the Mystery would have been kenn'd through the Observation of 2000 years at least seeing the Motions of the Sun and Moon are conspicuous but No body hath pretended to find any Specialties herein excepting three or four days in the month and those too of very remote and uncertain signification for the Moon is a Reflexion and Reflexions are tied to Laws According to the Angle of Incidence so is the Reflexion and the strength thereof but no Constitution of Air is tied and bound to these several Reflexions the Weather returns in such a Month when there is neither the same phasis nor an equivalent § 2. Nay Sun and Moon jointly are not the complete Causes of the Airs Alteration upon several grounds for if so every XIX years Revolution would bring with it the same state of the Year and we should be able to say what would be the Face of Heaven to morrow if we had observed 19 years ago without any great Conjuring § 3. Secondly we argue from the Duration the Same Constitution of Air sometimes lasts a whole week a month yea predominates the best part of a year while the Moon alass every 24 hours changes her phases in two days runs a twelfth part of the Heaven in a Month shifteth all her Schemes and Postures in relation to the Sun § 4. On the contrary we may consider the fickleness of the Weather In two hours yea in half an hours time the face of Heaven shall be Masked clear calm turbulent but in half an hours time the Sun and Moon vary not any considerable difference Sometime it shall rain and shine by Fits with such variety of surprize that if the Moon and Sun had run the Zodiaque in that 12 hours the variety could not have been greater § 5. Next may we take in the violence and extremity of Weather for Heat soultry melting fainting Air for Wind the Fury of Tempestuous blustering rocking the lofty Towers and shaking the best and lowest Architecture Of the extremity of the Heat the Moon supposing the Sun never so much cannot be the Cause the Moon being a Reflexion as was said and a single Reflexion but the Air is heated beyond the power of a single Reflexion as if there were some Anthelii one or two invisible Suns as some have imagined Antiselenae The vulgar impute all to the Sun and on a soultry day say the Sun is very hot but sure the Sun hath some Satellites some invisible Company or Guard that lie behind the Hyacinth-Hangings of the Heavens In the fury of Tempest the vulgar speak more feelingly when they say it Rains as if Heaven and Earth would meet and blows as if it would rend up all before it the Sun and Moon alone give them little supicion of such prodigious strength they rather believe a Devil raging in a Storm than impute such horrid Violences to so sober and civil a Pair as the Sun and Moon are accounted § 6. Add the contrariety of the state of the Air the Sun and Moon may be assigned some Cause of Warmth but who assigns a Cause of Cold the Sun by his oblique annual Accesses and Recesses in the Zodiac dispenses Summer and Winter as by his Diurnal motion he distributes Day and Night The Night and the Winter are acknowledged Both cold by reason of the Sun's Absence or Distance but whence comes the Day to be Cold an Aestival day to be chill Is the Sun the Cause the Cause of Contrarieties and that while Present The Sun cannot be the cause of Darkness when the Sun is present neither can it be the cause of Cold when it affords its presence When therefore a chill Hail-storm follows Lightning and Thunder I ask which of these Two congeles the Hail which kindles the Flash Doth the Moon congele the Storm It may be That 's a tepid Planet Is it the middle Region and the Antiperistasis then it would always Hail not Rain when it Thunders especially for the Hottest days the Fittest for the Antiperistasis but when the lower Region we find is chill'd also when it Thunders with Hail and that at Mid-summer who incourages this Cold what enlarges its Confines 't is too late to talk of Reliquiae Hremis at Mid-summer or in July nor to turn us off with the blind motion of the Matter For what is Uncertain and Confused is Casual and Casualty is inconsistent with Science so inconsistent that it is not to be pleaded by any Lovers of Learning § 7. Lastly the contrariety of the Accident to the Time when e. g. after a Set of close and muddy Days the Air takes its qu and clears up at Mid-night what removes that Curtain 'T is scarce the nature of any Night to remove Clouds her chill Constitution doth rather settle and fix if not seem to gather them the Moon hath not such power for supposing she be up the Sun sometime is hard put to it to take a Mist from the Earth much more the Moon The like we say for Winter the Absence or Depression of the Sun makes cold Weather but How come Winters to be warm warm ordinarily for a Month or more when the Daisie Anemone the Strawberry shall blow and proclaim a favourable Season The Moon for half the time is in Winter-signs as low and humble as the Sun Add when it happens thus that the Day and Night are ordinarily alike as to the Constitution yea the Winter-Nights have commonly most to do being tempestuous at least in the latter end of October and November nay sometimes soultry Nights are found in November as sometimes Thunder and Lightning at Christmas Many a Summer passes and it Thunders not can a Winter-Night be warmer than many a Summer can the Sun in its lowest Degree and Absence withall be more Potent than in Presence and Verticity 'T is more possible for the Sun to raise Thunder in the Frozen Zones if appearing above the Horizon than to play such Pranks in his Winter Nadir As for the Moon how can she by Night or Day operate when she is under the Horizon a Tempestuous Night continues and takes no notice of her Setting and it may Thunder and Lighten in the Winter-night before she rises the Moon as we said doth not so much as look as if she liked such Roister-company CHAP. VIII The other five call'd into the Militia Planets not made for Illumination only Light and Heat the same spirit All the Planets have their Influence Not all of the same Nature or Operation § 1. THere are therefore some Satellites which we spake of to be taken into consideration those five Lights which have been call'd of old by those Heathen Names of Saturn Jupiter Mars Venus Mercury notwithstanding which even by Scripture-precedent may be innocently used § 2. To our purpose 't is enough that they are Lights for no Star no
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
many a fair Experiment making up Her History to which I know the more Curious can add more that I may not say 't is apparent if watch'd at some opportunity even to sense A Perspective of IV 1 2. Foot taking the Rise of the Moon after the Full in August a warm day preceding that the Air may not be Counter-disposed shall sensibly present the Planet's warmth to the Eye The like have I found in a Summer-Even sitting in a Southern Chamber that the Moon being eight or nine dayes old when approaching the Meridian hath infused a sensible warmth into the Chamber though the Sun were set § 37. ♂ is found to be endued with a Heat if the Effect may judge equal nay to all seeming superiour to the Sun yet seeing he acts by dependance on Him as all the Rest do we must compare None of them to their Maintainer § 38. ☿ hath a warmth more remiss than ♂ or ☉ more intense than ♀ § 39. ♀ her Warmth is so remiss and slack that she seemeth to befriend a Cold Influence § 40. There is only left ♄ and ♃ and it is very convenient that the cold Planet assigned should be One of these Two It may be somewhat for Ptolemies reason as also because None of the Planetary Bodies which pretend to Cold except these Two can raign I mean shine all Night the most fit opportunity for Cold ♀ shines but part of the Night and the ☽ is too warm for the purpose § 41. This supposeth I confess that the Nocturnal Cold is ordered and managed by the Celestial Bodies which is most certain and will be evidenc'd hereafter § 42. ♄ indeed who can outface so Ancient and Loud Tradition goes for the Coldest Planet He is indeed of a Tepor so low and indiscernible that he may and must be reckon'd as a Favourer of Cold and so far Experience justifies the Tradition § 42. But ♃ 't is well he hath obtained the Character of Temperate as well as ♀ is oh let the Paradox be pardoned the Principal Cold and crude Planet All the Rest are warm and moist though in different measure only ♃ cold and dry or a Resister of Moisture I know 't is a great Paradox and therefore to some will be offensive but it is such as wanteth neither Apology nor Proof § 44. Not Apology for what must we in earnest submit to every Tradition in Natural Science There 's nought I hope in Philosophy but what appeals to Posterity as to Sense and Reason and will abide the Test of Natural Scrutiny Philosophy is too ingenuous to impose upon us to offer to deceive us by Authority I grant the Authority of our Ancestors is Greater than is allowed by the Junior Inceptors of these dayes Many are despised by Us whose Wisdom we shall never attain to But yet our Ancestors themselves have fixed Bounds to their Authority They swear us indeed not to corrupt their Books they do not swear us to believe All they deliver We must tast before we swallow especially in that part of Philosophy which lies beyond the Moon abstruse Theorems at a vast prospect and distance In these I ought not to follow them hood-winkt to take All for granted as if They were First Principles or from Infallible Dictates They teach us concerning Heaven but they came not from thence I cannot give them their Due Praise unless I examine their Theses I shall be a lazy unwise person if I do not I shall be loath to betray the Generations of the World to Security and Error What Liberty the Antients have taken in a modest dissent from their Predecessors is left to us for a Legacy Ptolemy himself differs from His Seniors the Egyptians § 45. Not Proof no not from the Antients themselves For first though They declare him to be Moist yet they teach us also that He is a Raiser of Winds Ptol. I. 20. which by nature are a Dry Exhalation and Cold too 2. ♃ is the only Aeolus that blows up the North-wind say both Antients and Moderns and they say truly a second Argument that ♃ is the Coldest 3. With one mouth also They truly and consequently affirm that He is the Parent of Serenity but if the Cause of Clouds and Vapor be Heat the Cause of Serenity is Cold the Cleansing Spirit of Cold. Add that we shall see hereafter how No Aspect Planetary causes Dryth but every one of them more or less incline to Moisture except ♃ be one therefore if Cold be the Author of Dryth Dryth I mean in the Constitution of the Air ♃ is that Colder Planet Yea so manifestly is He the favorer of Dryth that he shews this Influence not only in Serene and open Air but in Cloudy and dark Air where many times he suspends the Moisture and as the Vulgar speak when in Cloudy Air a Dry Wind blows It keeps up the Rain Nor is it to be conceal'd that in All Fogs and Mists ♃ hath Influence which argues a dry fuliginous Exhalation mixt with Moisture That Moisture which is found and maintained at the Cost of the Rest of the Planets § 46. Colder and Dryer is ♃ than ♄ it self as much as the North-wind is colder than the East for though the East be cold and dry compared to the West it obtaineth no such character compared with the North. But ♃ is confessed Parens Aquilonis Raiser of the North-wind while ♄ contents himself with the East § 47. And for Dryth Aspects of ♄ are not found to resist Moisture to cause Serenity to raise dry Winds to cast a Fog a Cool Constitution it may profess but with inclination to Moisture for admit it causeth Snow I desire it be consider'd that 't is one thing to cause Snow and another to cause it to fall and the Distinction will be admitted by them that consider that how bitter soever the Weather is when Snow hangs in the Air as they call it yet the Weather relents in a sensible degree at the fall of Snow ♄ then may concur to the Solution of that Cold Mass which ♃ or some other hath created but none contests so much for Cold as ♄ ♃ therefore is the Coldest And let thus much at present serve for the 〈◊〉 § 48. Toward the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how ♃ or any other Celestial Body can be the Parent of Cold we are willing to declare First what is the Nature of Cold whether positive or meet Privation 2. If Positive what is the Primum Frigidum Earth or any other Body 3. What relation a Body Celestial can have to Cold if Cold prove to be a terrestrial Emanation § 49. Though some Philosophers have said that Cold is a Privation and it seems to agree to what Ptolemy would say concerning the Quality attributed to ♄ the remotest of all from the Sun yea though I think it manifest that some things called Positive Qualities are no better than Privations as Siccity Diaphaneity Softness c. yet I
the Water is usually as soon congeled as the top it self § 69. Let us see whether Light have no Energie in this matter Surely if any thing may be entitled to what Philosophers call the Spirit of the World This is it the smallest and most Active Body in the World in Motion confest to be Instantaneous in subtlety incredible and absolutely incomprehensible The vast Activity of Flame is seen in the force and swiftness of a Ball discharged from Cannon c. in the prodigious Eruptions of Earthquakes but Flame it self comes short of Light as to Activity as far as the Sphere of Calefaction as we have said is narrower than that of Illumination An Inch of Flame if it multiplies it self but in one straight line to the Eye at three or four Miles distance of how rare how subtle Particles must that one single Ray consist But when that Lucid Inch as all Luminous Bodies spread themselves Spherically shall send its Beams through 10000 Lines so far protended even as many as the Eyes which can be imagined to be placed in all differences of Position I say it argues the Light to be for subtlâ—ty of Essence and swiftness of Motion for the One follows the Other incomprehensible Hence I may argue thus The most actuous Substance in the world I value not whether the Peripatetick allows any such Notion or no is the Spirit of the World But Light is such Ergo. Light or Heat One of them is but the Premises rightly consider'd it will be found that since Both are Active Light hath not its Activity quatenus of kin to Heat but Heat rather quatenus Luminous From hence doth Heat learn to shed it self into a Sphere of Warmth round about because it is of the same Nature with Light but Light is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of that Quality and indeed of all Activity at least as much as uses to be imputed to Heat because in the Competitorship for Sprightfulness we find one so infinitely surpassed by the other § 70. This Discourse supposeth Light to be a Body and may well do so for very many Arguments not to be produced here seeing 'tis enough that the Peripateticks I hope can produce no Accident whatsoever separable from its Primitive Subject or any Migration of the one without the other the Power of Matter and Eduction thencefrom are meer Words educed out of the power of a Verbal Philosophy § 71. But then for its relation to Cold before we speak of That we must consider that though the Light and Heat be substantially the same Spirit yet for Doctrines sake especially being different Objects of the Sense they must be said to differ specie even as Air doth from Water though in the most probable opinion it differ only from it by a vast rarefaction or Attenuation just as our Light from Heat on which account it may be true to say that Light is the Author of some Action in Nature which Heat is not for the Heat and Light differ only in tenuity or rarity and density the Seat of Fire being neer the center of the Luminous Sphere while purer Light is neerer the circumference the Sphere of Illumination being so Vast the Circumferential parts of the Spirit of so incredible Subtlety must of necessity be denuded from all manner of Heat real and sensible that whatsoever is ascribed to the Spirit so attenuated may in no wise be thought reasonable to be ascribed to any thing else such a vast difference interposing So that it may not follow notwithstanding the Identity of the Spirit that if Heat be contrary to Cold Light must also be deputed to the same Contrariety Hence there is made way for a reconcilement to amity with the Cold Spirit the Contrariety being removed § 72. Now that Cold hath such amity and acquaintance with the Luminous Spirit I prove because Cold is an Active quality Active by way of Emanation Thus in Stone-building that Room is the cooler for the walls sake the Emanation from thence infrigidating the place but if it be so active whence hath it this Activity we answer from the universal Luminous Spirit implanted in it This is confirm'd because Cold is not only active in it self according to its measure as Light is but it resembles also the manner of the Activity Doth Light cast it self into a Sphere Cold also hath its Sphere its narrower Sphere indeed of her Activity Place it in the Centre and all Parts shall feel its Influence so do all things imitate or rather express the motion of the Universal Spirit § 73. Nor can it be otherwise imagin'd since into the most deep recesses of the Earth 't is believ'd the Light of the Sun pierces through the Opacous Body giving Life and Spirit to every Mineral there in his kind Then what Influence the Heavenly Light hath on the Animal and Natural Spirits all the World seeth how cheerfully and briskly our Spirits behave themselves in a serene Season How dull and cloudy in close Air what alteration our Bodies find at night how torpid our Limbs and given to heaviness composed for sleep and darkness A little Light we see raises us wakes us calls for the Spirit to the Circumference cheereth the sick is welcom to those that are frighted with Spectres and Phantasms the Day salutes us All and bids us good Morn The Morning Cock chants not but upon warning given by the Light The very Vegetable Spirit in Darkness is a sleep Darkness I mean of the Time not of the Place a great Argument for our Conjecture Hence the good Houswife gives no leave to broach her Liquor in the Night-Season Add that the subtle mixture of the Cold Spirit delights in the white Colour Frost Snow Ice Hail Nitre Quick-silver but Whiteness partakes of the Light by which I do not say 't is visible in dark but disposed to more visibility than other obscurer pieces Hence we answer an Objection because in the dark recesses of the Earth no Light is perceptible Resp The Spirit called Light or Heat is Innominate of it self is only termed Light in relation to the Sense so that we must not conclude the Non-Existence of the Spirit from the Non-apparence because more is required to the one than to the other We see not the dancing Motes in the Air but where the Sun discovers them howsoever they frisk continually by us no man by Night sees the Lightsome Ray of the Luminous Body if it run parallel to the Eye Nature hath not given us Senses to perceive all possible but all convenient Objects no Microscope reaches All things that are really existent § 74. As to Cold then who knows not that the Brightest Night in Winter and most Star-light are usually most Frosty Dixeris Coelum esse frigidum saith Kepler who raises the Objection to which he gives little Satisfaction nay that the vehement Congelations are found about Day-break § 75. All this concerns every Planet in the Heaven not the Sun it self
this Nice Question § 58. But why the Southerly and Westerly If any ask he may be answered from the Premises that the Lunation helps to warm the Air and by Consequence to the warmer Winds The West and South are such § 59. The indetermination or Change of the Wind in the same Day is notable in my Judgement the Solution is easie for the Change I find makes from the cooler quarter to the warmer 'T is to be ascribed to the Approach of the ☽ toward the Solar Body which at distance suffers a North or East Wind to blow But in the nearer application befriends the Air with a Token of her Favour The ☽ swift in Motion by reason of which she was thought to have no great Influence herein appears to be serviceable to the Change of the Wind which often alters according to the ☽ 's application or recess from the Sun c. So Fate will have it that what is objected to her prejudice tends to her Lustre in Demonstration of her Influence § 60. Kepler therefore and others Eichstad c. make too little of this ♂ ☉ ☽ not vouchsafing to mention it except when the ☽ is found engaged with others preâ—gaged among themselves while they impute great Effects to some of his own Pseudo-Aspects As great an affront to the ☉ and ☽ as can be offer'd Whether that great Mathematician disdained to own any part of his Skill to the less mysterious traditionary way or rather whether he unhappily refused right measures which offered themselves § 61. But could this great Man think if but from his own Diarys ♂ ☉ ☽ is insignificant when in the solitary Year 1617. it rained 7 times on the very day of the Aspect not to meddle with Wind as many times Anno 1621. and 1622. VI. times Anno 1623. to press it no further § 62. Only upon the account of Thunder to which Meteor as rarely as it happens with us we say that even with us this Aspect inclines with a remote yet real Propension and in Germany more On which account we ask again does Thunder appear but a day before the change May 4. Anno 1617. S. N. And shall that Change have no influence thereon At that time there was Thunder and excess of Rain with a ♂ ☉ ♄ But he acknowledges that alone could not answer to so great a Product No nor which he is forced to produce his Quincunx of ♃ and ♀ And yet Ne sic quidem Causarum satis apparet as he honestly confesseth All this while suffering the ♂ to stand by blushing by it self because unsaluted when as he might have observed that not a year scapes him in his whole Decade which brings not that Constitution at the Change Once perhaps Anno 1626. twice Anno 1621. 1628. thrice Anno 1622. 1627. four times Anno 1623. 1625. and more then once Anno 1629. If Meteorum Diurnum may go for Lightning what do I speak of IX or X. years when in the Norimberg Diary from 1623. to 1646. a notable Peice lent me by the Learned Dr. Bernard there appears but two years of Twenty Four wherein there is no noise of Thunder heards at some aestival New ☽ or other In the rest 't is ordinary to hear it thrice at one Aspect Now let any man tell me there is no inclination to Thunder in the New ☽ And if it must be granted for Germany it must be granted though but a Pin or two lower in England also But if to Thunder what inclination hath it to Rain I pray Let the Adversary answer § 63. The Pretence of the ☽ 's swift Course and Transit is not so well Eichstad Ephem For first the Transit is not so sudden it challengeth 3 or 4 Hours in spite of Fate The Face of Heaven is alterable in less time for though it is true many times Clouds by the slow approach of Causes conspiring do leisurely gather into a density while Rain in the Country Phrase is brewing yet I have seen Heaven oft overcast of a suddain and descend in a Showre yea Fair Weather and anon Thunder Charged and Discharged and all in a quarter of an Hour § 64. What shall we say to those Conjunctions which bring their Effect within the time of their Corporal Contact within 3 or 4 Hours such as January 19. Anno 1671. Jan. 19. Anno 1672. Febr. 25. Anno. 1674. Febr. 21. Anno. 77. March 30. Anno 1671. April 28. ejusdem Anni April 7. Anno 1673. April 21. Anno 1677. May 2. c. All these with a little computation will be found to fall within the terms of the said partil Aspect as manifest as the great Dash on Sept. 10. from hor 8. to 10. P. which proclaims the Change at the Hour 10. at Night Or the excess of Wet February 21. Anno. 1671. hor. 7. mane proclaims the Change at 10. Morning To say nothing of the smart Showers July 4. 11. hor. Vesp hint a Lunation following the next Feria at hor 2 Matutine Yea nor of these Trajections which have been observed to shoot at this very time of which we have Examples in the Table Sept. 27 Anno 1676. November 14. Anno 1677. so that 't is not the brief Transit which indeed hath a due Extent makes the ☽ ineffectual but the flinching of the rest when they are ready for Correspondence the Spunge is full and then a Light and transient pressure expresseth moisture otherwise the Spunge is dry and stubborn and will not yield what is expected § 65. 'T is confessed by the experience of Eichstad that the Aspect happening in the Angles i. e. the Oriental Occidental or Meridional is wont to bring Rain But the Course of the ☽ is the same in those Angles as elsewhere and seeing Aspects Platique are also Operative what Conjunction is there that doth not visit those Angles at distance more or less The Fault therefore lies in the Principles of those who discern not or overlook the other Causes which are of the secret Committee as I may call it where this Aspect seems to preside § 66. Posterity will make up this Induction if there be need from all Europe if not from all parts of the World And whereas many ingenious Men say our Island hath no Correspondence with the Continent which renders the attempts of Prognostic Ridiculous because impossible 'T is but an Excuse the New ☽ hath the same Influence here and there and all over the World Observatis Observandis in the prime product be sure and in its Consequents acording to the Capacity of the Region and the Time of the Year Since Fog Snow Rain Lightning are all united in one Original and though they be opposite do you mark me may be predicted for the same day in the several parts of the World by them who live upon the Spot and know the disposition of several Places § 67. What difficulty appears in the Prognostic at home arises not because we are an Island but
IV. E. cloudy a. m. N W. not close p. m. N. cloudy n. V. 4 m. E. Fine day close 5 p. coldish m. E. VI. N. Overc. 8 m. lowring open s wet 6 p. cloudy n. 10 p. E. 75 ♎ 10. XXII Wind open temperate S W. XXIII 8. Rain med noct Fair Wly wd Rain at n. XXIV Rain 4 m. dark m. o. warm p. m. 38. H. wd 5 p. S W. 76. â™ 28. X. Close m. p. open p. m. wind vesp W. XI 12. frost m. s rain circ ☉ ort 4 p cold H. wd N. XII Fr. cool close m. p. brisk wd no dew 11 p. N W. 77. â™ 19. XXXI Aug. H. winds noct tot c. many cl dark lowring circ o. calmer sub vesp red even Wly Clouds N W. but Wly 10 p. I. 11 m. Fog leaving a water in the basin cloudy windy S W. II. Close windy warm open a little but cloudy 10 p. S W. ♎ 17. XXIX Fog 4 m. brisk wd overc 8 m. drisle 9 m. gusts of wd a. m. more at n. rain 4 p. S. S E. XXX 8. showring 4 times aâ— m. open p. m. drops vesp clouds contrary to the wd 10 p. wd various N. S. E. I. Oct. Fog some Frost fair somt overc S W. October 1671. ♎ 25. VII Gusts of wd ante 4 m. R. a. m. warm close n. S E. E. at n. VIII 4 m. stormy wds 3 m. Rain noct gust 10. wd open warm s fog at n. Halo calm beyond expectation S W. IX Fog m. warm drops o. p. m. m. p. N. so Sun occ f. Fog very warm 8 p. Halo with red limb narrow 72. â™ 13. XXV Fair windy cloudy in several pl. Ho. 9. Air disposed for hail N E. XXVI 6 m. R. ante ☉ ort ad 8 m. warm overc at n. S. S. E. XXVII Misty rain ad ☉ ort ad 10 m. showring 4 p. 9 p. S E m. S W. p. m. 73. â™ 2. XIV Fr. mist rain 1. p. c. so 5 p. 10 p. N E. m. S E. o. S W. XV. 5. Tempest of wd noct tot open and wdy day S W. XVI Misly clouds N E. lowring p. m. s wetting 8 p. ante I. S W. 74. ♎ 21. III. Some wet ante l. a. m. H. wd wet Sun occ 8 p. with wd S. IV. 8. S E. hot n. H. wd showr 10 m. great dark 4 p. S. ♀ in M. C. Rainbow above semicircular Sun occ calm n. S W. V. S W. Fair m. showr 10 m. R. 4 p. 6 p. H. wd S. 75. â™ 10. XXII Rain at midn 8 m. H. wds stormy warm R. 4 p. W. XXIII 2 mist warm wetting 8 m. rainy 10 m. ad noon close W. XXIV Stormy wds dash of R. Hail 1 p. Storm of R. 6 p. H. wds 9 p. ☿ in M. C. ☿ occ S. S W. 76. ♎ 28. X. Wet ante l. m. so 9 m. misty open p. m. Freez n. Nly Meteors 11 p. by ☽ light a ♂ Capellam Versus XI 3 Frost misty fair somt overc misty at n. W. XII s rain m. a m. wetting 10 p. s gusts H. Frost at Okeham in Rutland E. 77. â™ 17. XXIX s rain m. Fog Nly s rain 11 m. snow 8 p. Clouds 10 p. cold XXX 10 m. Fr. Fair bordering thin Clouds 8 m. overc brisk wds 11 m. drisle p m. vesp N. XXXI Fog hard Fr. dark m. E. open o. overc 6 p. Frosty n. overc 11 p. no mist 11 p. S E. November 1671. â™ 24. V. Close cool drisle 8 p. N E. VI. 2 p. Clear m. overcast o. Rain 4 p. N E. VII Great Frost Ice above the thickness of a crown piece Frosty d. clear N W. 72. â™ 13. XXIII R. ante l. close wds warm drislle 11 p. W. XXIV 5 p. close drisle o. 4 p. wdy at n. S W. XXV Open closing S W. at n. N E. 73. â™ 2. XIII Frosty d. Fair Fog post Sun occ N W. S W. XIV 6 m. Frosty Fair. N E. XV. Frosty Fair overcast p. m. yielding Freez at n. W. S W. 74. â™ 21. II. H. wind ante l. some wet 9 m. o. 3 p. 7 p. much Rain Sly III. 1 p. Showry somet open wd o. so post ☉ occ IV. Fair m. p. once overcast misty at n. S W. 75. â™ 10. XXI Frosty Fair mist wd Ely p. m morn Nly XXII 9 m. Frost but Rain 6 m. froze as it fell Fair flying cl H. wd black Fr. at n. N E. XXIII S W. then N W. H. Frost close p. m. N W. 76. â™ 28. IX Frost m. Foggy die tot great fog m. missing and misâ—ing 7 p. E. X. 9 m. Rain 9 m. 6 m. mist close warm cold at n. E. XI Frost m. Fog fair wd Ely Frost 12 p. 77. XXVIII Frosty foggy die tot Thaw 7 p. with Rain Gentle showr 12 p. XXIX 4 m. Fog mild air not open above S. S E. Wd and drisse at n. S E. E. XXX H. wd wet m. p. Rain 6 p. dark day S W. December 1671. â™ 24. IV. Rain m. coldish open p. m. clear n. E. wd 11 p. Nly V. 12. Open m. Rain and Sun shine 11 m. showring by fits 1 p. N E. VI. Open cold N E. 72. â™ 17. XXIII Rain a. m. cease 2 p. H. wd cloudy at n. XXIV 6 m. various wd ante l. wd High overc p. m. for a while wdy droppy 11 p. S W. XXV Fair H. wd ante l. flying cl o. S W. 73. â™ 2. XII Clouds a. l. warm bright m. p. wd overc Lambs wool cl a red circle circ ☽ S W. XIII 7. close m. p. warm dry more close at n. S W. XIV Wet morn m. p. mist S W. wd change cooler s frost N W. 74. â™ 21. II. Close day S W. III. 6 m. W. close dry fair p. m. s Frost at n. S. o. at n. S E. IV. Frosty fair mist S E. 75 ♑ 11. XXI Wd cloudy a. m. Rain p. m. m. p. S W. Too warm XXII 9 m. open wdy dry S. XXIII L. frost fair dry wind S W. Dieb 23 24 Ships 9 cast away at Mount Bay 76. â™ 29. IX Frosty Thames near frozen snow ab ho. 1. ad noct med N. X. 4 m. snowing noct tot deep half a yard wind fair W. XI Frosty Snow ante l. offer 10 m. dark close p. m. N. 77. ♑ 18 XXVII Wd and wetting a. m. H. wd vesp S W. damp walls and pavements wd wetting tempestuous 11 p. S. XXVIII 11. H. wd noct tot cloudy H. wd wetting 4 p. Higher at n. little rain S E. W. XXIX Great fr. fog m. die tot circ horizour Cold bright freezing calm Two Meteors though ☽ shine W. S. Plenilunia Eighty Seven Days 261. Moiety 130. § 5. Number of the Aspects you see Eighty Seven First according to our Method let us gather the Quota for that Verily of 87 Full Moons there appear in this Table Seventy Five Drippers
Now between 87. and 75. pray count the difference and the next thing you have to do is to deny the Inclination Alas Our very days even the Dripping Days reach to the Moiety being in number 172. which is 40 days over and above § 6. We reckon but 64 Aspects for Wind and 122 Days which if it seems not so round for the Full Moon brings Wind as soon as any Aspect Lunar at least under publique Notice impute it to us who have fairly pleaded that we could not always dwell on the Watch-Tower or note the Gusts and Gales in the Night seeing whatever they make like Rifts or Furrows on the Water they leave no durable Impression but heal up without any breach Only where Wind is not expressed it may sufficiently be understood either by the Change and Variety of the Winds which yet we have not considered in our Muster or by the flying of the Clouds which we thought fit to admit Add the moist Days most of them have their Gale seeing every Showre saith the Seaman hath its Winds and Calm Rains are seldom though Mists and Fogs are often attended with such Still Musique § 7. Nor still are we to forget our Dis-junctive either one or the other Rain or Winds Consulting the Table I find about 28 Winds without Rain add them to 172. the number of our Rain the Sum is 200. which comes within prospect of 261. the Number of every Day in the Table § 8. And let no Man say What day is there without Wind For suppose there were no Day without neither is there any Day almost without some Aspect there is not a Whiff but hath its Aeolus some Aspect or as good a thing so hath Heaven provided for the Air without which it would stagnate and be unwholsom yea Pestilential as the Air of close Prisons and Dungeons without Perspiration We may thank God therefore for every Flaver of Wind. But then neither hath every Day its Gale that we may be engaged to enquire the cause of the Difference why some are brisk and others dead Calms though the Vulgar cannot be concern'd in such enquiry § 9. Not but that we have a Sence of High Lofty more than Brisk Winds in number of days 86. in number of Aspects 55. The former Number exceeds the latter because many a time every Day of the Triduum proves windy One thing I cannot but observe and 't is the Concern of the Table to remember it that in the year of our Lord 1675. December 23. That very day was one of the two when from Mount-Bay we heard that no less than IX Ships cast away and yet the Table notes only a Dry Wind without any Fury § 10. Here again I beg the Reader to observe the Vicinity of the Event to the precise time of the Aspect or the Complement rather of the Aspect as January XV. ho. 1. M. Anno 1671. Four Hours before One you see it rains June 11. 9. M. Four Hours after Both within Compass August X. 8 m. Three Hours after September VIII 6. P. Three Hours before October VIII 4. M. Stormy Wind and Rain but an Hour before November VI. 2 P. Rain 1 Hour after Try another Year Anno 1672. Januaâ—y IV. 11 m. Four Hours after drisly Rain February XI 12. P. Snow from ☉ set all the Night May I. ho. 9 M. Dash at 8 M. June XXX 3 m. close and drisly August XXVIII 6 m. drisle 9 m. Sept. XXVIII 7 P. Showres 5 P. Octob. XXVI 6 m. Rain ante ☉ is ortum ad 5 m. Novemb. XXV 5 p. Drisle 4 P. Decemb. XXIV 6 m. ante lucem The Table is before the Reader if he please to go on he will find the same effect § 11. Now for warmth that the Full ☽ hath a kindness for that Aristotle hath long ago principled us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Plenilunar nights most warm In Greece no question more sensible than in our Northern Situation But to run to experience I find in Hackluit in a discourse of the North-West passage Edit 1. pag. 601. The Flux of the Sea determined to the Rarefaction of the Water by Lunar Heat And elsewhere he tells us in a voyage to Guinea from Men of good Credit that they perceived issuing from the very beams of the ☽ a sensible Heat Garnishes Voyage pag. 95. in the year 1584. § 12. And without going to these hotter Climes I my self have appealed to experience if any shall have patience to expect near his Chamber Window if situate toward the South while the ☽ makes her Transit or if in an Aestival Night with the help of an ordinary Perspective we nicely mark the affection of our Eye upon the Full ☽ 's first Emersion or Rise the Eye I say that living Thermometer of more quick perception than the Inanimate shall perceive a fair gentle warm Impression from its Beams § 13. So little doth that Objection move us which pleads the contrary because forsooth this Warmth is not perceived by the Dead Thermometer It will be said we know that this seeming warmth is perceived by Fancy and not by any real sensation ab extra To which I shall briefly say but this that if our Intention in that Experiment had been to explore the Lunar Warmth at such times Fancy possible might have imposed upon us being corrupted by the Will so far as to say what she would have But when our attempt was made only to discern the quantity of the Discus or Figure of the ☽ in her Perigee at the instant of her Rise and unawares beyond Expectation a perception of Warmth was found the Impression was therefore not Imaginary § 14. Here if the Question be started whether of the two is the warmer Aspect the Change or the full That we do not perplex the State of the Question it only requires thus much whether the Air be warmer at the Change than at the Full And the answer is that the New ☽ hath the preheminency For the Day speaking of the Artificial Day is warmer at the Change than at the Full Generally But the Night again is warmer at the Full than at the Change § 15. Now let us see whether this agrees with our Tables It doth For Lo we find more warm days in the Day of the New ☽ than at the Full 38. in the First but 32. in the Later Yet least the small difference may not move us let us sum the days of excess and then under the Full finding about 11. or 12. Under the New ☽ we find 28. The Reason is not so much on the ☽ 's part be sure as is evident because of the Aversion of its Beams from us while the Full glares us in the Face but because the ☽ in her Change acts in consort with the Rest which are Day-Birds for the most part and are found more frequent and numerous in the Diurnal Horizon than in the Nocturnal § 16. So for the Nights the Table accords for
the two yet once I found it made me chill in my Bed well fenced and guarded against the injuries of the Air though in the Month of March An. 1671. ten days after the Equinox 〈◊〉 March XX. And the year following on the very day of the Equinox we had Ice even Bearing brought to that consistence in 3 days which we say belong or border on the Trine Just as in Octob. Anno 1677. we had Three Winter days absolute Winter within the same confine § 13. Consonant to this we may have occasion to speak of a notable indisposition of which in our seven years we met with Two Instances we call them Tusses Epidemicae of which the first is noted in our Fugitive Table Jan. 16. 1673. the other was noted all Europe over Octob. 27. An. 1675. Concerning which being interrogated by a GREAT Person what might be the Cause I answered Him with all Respect but with all Assurance also that it depended on the Heavens an Universal Cause in this sense but little thought I then I confess that this Lunar Radiation might have any Finger in it which now appears probable from a redoubled instance yea and from the Mysterious Change of a Pungent Heat to a Stupefactive Cold observable here in this Radiation and others also which our Bodies or rather our Spirits may be sensible of when our unwary attendance on our selves can give no Minute Account of it Some Physitians did impute it I remember to the Change of the Wind over night toward the North which was very true but they will give me leave to advert that there may be more in it so several more hidden Celestial Causes for every Change of the Wind to a cold part brings not an Universal indisposition over all Europe of which we can assign no more as proper to this place but the Lunar △ Radiation among the Rest § 14. We have a double instance which may be glanced upon we shall speak of the store of Rain presently but this is the Singularity expressed by a Great Drop more than ordinary more than once Great Hailstones which in Tables of observation of a wider Latitude do occur a 3d. a 4th a 5th time c. arguing in my judgement a different degree of Heat struck up at that time as in the generation of Hail commonly is seen though encountred 't is true with a contrary Activity § 15. Of the same stamp is the next considerable in the Water-Floods of our River the Thames where a High Tide is noted not only in the ☌ or ☠but sometimes under our Trine also August 1676. and Decemb. 1672. That of the First this of the Later Trine That of Dec. being as High a Tide as ever was known in the Memory of Man being ready to run into Westminster Hall as I my self can attest It had bin a time of Frost and Snow and therefore we shall allow the consideration but withall shall sue out our Title for the Aspect seeing upon review of Tide-Observations for some years I find to my surprize the Tides start as frequently in each Trine to a new degree of Height sometime to equal the Change and Full. But I will not press this too much because it may occasion a Brangle upon consideration of the Tides great variety upon Droughts Rains sudden Thaws and stiff Winds intervening so that even the Sextile and Quadrate the Neaptide Aspect is found at times to usher in exuberant Flouds always provided that we may renew our Plea when time serves and that I may not think it fortuitous I found an extraordinary low Ebb with us at London noted on the same Aspect where so great a shelf appeared at so many places that the River look't not like it self when some curious Persons were invited thereupon to waft thither and to pace the Dimensions of the Terra Firma August 25. 1672. Now the use that I make of this is this the moderate low Ebb in one part doth argue a proportionable height in another Rye suppose or Winchestea 'T is true the Ferrimen imputed this low Ebb to the Western Wind which I reckoned was a careless Answer from such as are not inquisitive Persons because I could not observe any such briskness at that time from the Western Quarter Nor do many Winds from that Quarter leave the River so naked § 16. Come we now to the Wind the Singularity here in my Judgement is very entertaining the Wind not only changing for so it may under all Aspects and less here than elsewhere but want only playing so that as I have often with Pleasure observed the Index hath whiffed round all the points of the Compass from whence I observed by virtue of a Sic parvis the Tornados and Whirlwinds may well depend on the Heavens when an ordinary Linar Aspect shall shew us that variety So May XXIV and Oct. XXVIII 1675. April VIII 1672. Septem VII Octob. VI. 1677. June XII An. 1674. This take along with you that when the Wind so shifts and plays about 't is a sign of Weather approaching in the Horizon or actually existent at the same time somewhere else § 17. Now if the Reader please to like our former Representation of the frequency of the Effect Rain I mean in the Quartile Aspect as it is plain and not unprofitable the like we are ready to present him here  ☉ ☽ Revol Success Jan. ♒ ♊ VIII 7. Feb. ♓ ♋ VII 5. March ♈ ♌ VII 7. April ♉ ♠VIII 4. May. ♊ ♎ VII 5. June ♋ ♠VIII 6. July ♌ ♠VII 5. Aug. ♑ ♑ VIII 7. Sept. ♎ ♒ VII 7. Oct. ♠♓ VII 4. Novemb. ♠♈ VII 6. Decemb. ♑ ♉ VII 7. Jan. ♒ ♎ VII 6. Febr. ♓ ♠VII 7. March ♈ ♠VII 7. April ♉ ♑ VII 4. May. ♊ ♒ VIII 8. June ♋ ♓ VII 4. July ♌ ♈ VII 5. Aug. ♠♉ VIII 6. Sept. ♎ ♊ VIII 8. Oct. ♠♋ VII 7. Novemb. ♠♌ VII 6. Decemb. ♑ ♠VI. 6. § 18. Not unprofitable whereas before you see all Aspects are not alike responsible in every Month no nor in the same Month. Some speed but 4 or 5 times some 6. the Happyest compleat their Number be it VII or VIII Hence it follows that there are different properties of the Zodiacal Signs A Lunar Trine in ♈ ♌ and ♈ ♠you see keeps touch so far I can speak for the Fiery Triplicity and pray overlook not the other A Trine in ♉ ♑ will deceive a blunt Astrologer which speeds but four Times in VII so the rest yet this is somewhat out of place § 19. Yea but the main Singularity to come to that at last is concerning Stress of Weather hinted at already if that be true which we have asserted or rather commended to observation that the shifting of Winds argues Commotions somewhere We have said that the Phasis of the Trine looks with some deformity and the Character △ seems to be Mysterious and Magical if there be such Power
bear us Witness who brings more hot days than all of them only on this account that she keeps near as within call to the Sun and â—ets not till the Sun himself declines in his strength even in the cool of the day This Sextile shews us 36 warm days for her Brother Sextiles 20. I see other doubts perhaps desire admittance as why the First Sextile should not be parile to the Later c. But besides that this may be answered by what hath bin formerly noted concerning the East and West Angles I think it not prudence having so far to go to wait on every puny Scruple § 9. The Hot Nights we meddle not with they are but Rarities and have their dependances more material than on the Two Luminaries The Trajections we speak not to because we cannot Imagine they should be duly and constantly observed No one man can do it It requires the attendance of a Society and an Observatory maintain'd for that and the like Notices Only 't is strange the Second âš¹ should be so brisk to equal the ☌ and the â–¡ 's Trajections being 19. under the ☌ 20 under the Later â–¡ and 21 under the âš¹ This we gain by it It proves the Aspects are not wholly devested of Influence when under the Horizon as the second âš¹ must needs be with both its terms when nocturnal Trajections are conspicuous Only we may note that the Number 4. under the Full ☽ speaks but low because the Plenilunar Lustre envies us their more frequent notice In the mean time those few must be look'd upon as Eruptions of Flame greater than ordinary who discover themselves even while the Air is possessed of so bright a presence and in the aestival season besure speak a glowing constitution § 20. Immediate to this we may view the Coruscations and Thunders under several Titles because many times they are found separate These may be rather consider'd in that their Tale must be just and certain And Lo the New Moon brings but two The Full Four The Quadrates 4. with one or two Mute Coruscations The Later â–³ brings 7. The Later Sextile 6. So the Later â–³ is considerable and we have seen 't is a busling Aspect in Thunders as well as Storms of Wind. Howbeit the Sextiles have a great kindness for Flashing without noise so that it may be we did well to consider Lightnings or Coruscations with Thunder and without apart by themselves Verily the Later Sextile which brought 6 Thunders which Sum is as high as any bating one unite is observed to have brought over and above 5 Lightnings And the first Sextile how Low soever in its Thunders has brought notwitstanding 7 Instances of Flashes Shall we supersede the Enquiry into the Reasons for hasts sake Only take notice of a semblable Parallel between Lightnings here and Trajections before under the Sextile the Later Sextile exceding all the rest here as there if we can make out a probable reason of the One it may hold in the Other And we would venture but that the First Sextile comes in with VII Lightnings and so makes a shift to equal the Later Some inclination no question it bears to it and let the Curious mark whether or no Lightning hath not its several Arks and Segments of a Circle according to the Diversities of the Aspects 'T is more than probable a Sextile may flash through two Signs A â–¡ to the Midheaven a â–³ beyond it an Opposition it may be but one Sign a Semisextile Aspect being reduc'd thereto This is commended to future Observation remembring that I speak of the Signs as they run oblique in the Zodiaque not of the Equinoctial Dodecatemories The Planets indeed in the Sextile Aspect lie so near one to the other that if any cause shall set it self upon making Celestial Fire-Works the Two Planets will be very apt to catch and to keep them alive throughout its allotted interval of spaâ— or time § 11. Let it be noted also that this may agree to the Sextiles in Genere not Lunar only though we must assert the ☽ also to have an Aetna in her according to the New Selenography or a force for Lightning provided that no man construes this to obscure the Powers of the greater Celestial Bodies § 12. Stormy Winds we have spoke to before the Full ☽ here bears away the Bell When the other Hover about the Number of 40. the ♂ ☉ ☽ alarmes two Elements of the Air and Sea about 60 times and possibly more Every gust we have not reckon'd nor every brisk gale nor every Windy Constitution when as if we could have hearkned out many of those days in the Seamans Journal I speak of our Brittish Seas only might have bin noted for Rough and Rugged the Cause is not intricate and hath bin touch'd already remembring that the Full ☽ bears precedence as to frequency of Storms For as to Fury the Trine we have said seems to go beyond it 13. Now for Winds variously Shifting and Frisking we have cryed up the Later â–³ But the Table tells us the Full ☽ holds its own there also so be it then if the â–³ equal it she is content § 14. To the more setled Change of the Wind we have brought in our Quota under every Aspect the Wind may Change we know every Hour but with a Specialty upon the Hour of the Suns leaving us Ventus cum Sole reliquit saith the Poet and accordingly in our Diaries the Evening-Hour most usually presents you with such an alteration 'T is to be imputed to the Aspect according as it appears in the Hemisphere or Disappears and that again as it is whole and entire or as intercepted by the Horizon about its Ascent or Descent And this is worthily remarkable therefore in the First Square which changes the Wind about 70 times when the Rest shew such Feats not much above 50 40 or 30. For that Winds come from the Stars Oh 't is a plain case in all their Periodical Revolutions as the Royal Philosopher tells us Eccles Cap. 1. Yea and in all its variations It deserves the attention of the young Philosopher how apt the Wind is to change Morning Noon Even Midnight under our Quadrate which measures out the Heaven into those equal parts whereby the One Planet follows the Other with a punctual Uniformity as to the Transits by the Horizontal Line and the Meridian And this rather in the First than the Later Quadrate for some such like Reason in proportion as we have rendred before of some difference in the Later â–³ from the Former To clear this you shall find as the Table informs that the ☌ ☉ ☽ admits the fewest Changes of the Winds because there is no difference of the Luminaries concern'd who rise together set together culminate together so that if she can hold her own after the Hour of their joynt descent or disappearing she keeps the Wind at her point for that entire Natural day whereas in the
Gr. fog fr. clumsie p. m. fog freez at n. Aches E. XXIV Great fog cold close s misle 8 p. Ely December 1668. ♠24. IV. L. Frost m. cold cloudy wd drisle 2. p. 10 p. E. V. 10. cold overc a ☉ or open drop red in N E. ☉ occ VI. Close m. p. s drizle freez vehement N W. 73. ♑ 20. XXX Cold clear 5 m. R. 7 m. 4 p. wdy S W. XXXI 2. R. die to harder 2 p. H. wd S. I. Jan. Windy open overc 1 p. H. wind and R. 6 p. S W. N E. vesp 74. ♑ 4. XIV Close p. m. warm wd Aches W. XV. 11. s ◠m. close warm W. S E. XVI Close 76. ♠2. XII H. fr. clear Aches E. XIII 8 m. dark and wet 8 m. E. XIV Fog cloudy cold n. R. 6 p. E. Nly 80. ♑ 14. XXIII Rainy and dash ante 6 m. 2 p. R. vesp H. wind at n. S. XXIV 2. Wind Nly 1 m. great Halo cujus intra aream ♃ Tempestuous wd R. 10 p. S. XXV Open a. m. H. wd dark dewing p. m. Tempestuous 8 p. Comet seen 81. ♠27. VII warm n. yet s little fr. 8 m. wd rise o. ☽ or pleasant coldish n. VIII 8. H. Frost fog fall ante merid not so cold ☉ occ S E. IX Dark a. m misle 7 m. a. m. sweet showr ante 2 p. ♂ M. C. ☽ occ very warm wd W. Die sequente Sea by a strong West wd at Hague broke the Banks and laid 2100 Acres under Water § 29. A Table of the Mercurio Solar Conjunctions as well of his direct Course first noted by themselves and then of his Retrograde where the Aspects you see are XLVIII Days 252. in the former in the Later Aspects XLV days but 143 Of which Later Table we hope it will not be amiss to give you as hitherto the Abridgement that the Reader may Ken the Nature of ☿ Not in a mist or thicker Cloud but in a more expeditious and clear observation Nor in the mean while can the former be rightly censured supefluous because the Faith of the one depends on the Truth of the other seeing the Later without the Former may be pretended by those who are apt to Cavil to be a forgery and feigned Evidence Thus then lies the Abridgement Days 252. 143.  Dir. Ret. Frosty Days 18. 10. Frosty Nights 30. 13. Cold. 10. 8. Warm 37. 26. Hot and Soultry 12. 9. Hot Nights 7. 2. Trajections 13. 5. Lightnings 8. 6. Thunder 9. 6. Mist 39. 17. Fog 55. 20. Halo 1. 0. Windy 68. 36. Stor my 35. 18. East 42. 28. West 46. 27. North. 27. 15. South 20. 15. N. E. 15. 21. N. W. 13. 9. S. E. 9. 6. S. W. 40. 25. Rain 78. 48. Rain Durable 36. 19. Snow 13. 8. Hail 7. 2. Gossamere 4. 0. Wind Change 18. 19. § 30. It cannot be said now but that at first sight 't is probable ☿ hath an Influence for here are the same Names and Instances of several States of the Air which have bin considered in the Lunar Tables Here is Heat Fog Winds Rain c. as well as there and in the same convenient proportions the number of the days concerned in the Lunar Tables being about 261. In this present the days concerned are somewhat short viz. 252. Now if we begin with Heat Extream and Excessive which we have said is most likely to fall under faithful Observation the Number here is XII But XII But then again there are but XI noted in the Pleni-Lunar Table The one is confessed to have Influence why not the other The next Instance is of Stormy Winds wherein the Observation is less liable to make default some it may according as it may happen that the less curious Observator's Library may be situate of those you see 35. the New ☽ it self being but 37. To say nothing of a Sextile or a Quartile who encourages ☿ and bids him hold his own he hath passed the Pikes of the two Scrutinyes while he stands candidate to be reckoned an Officer in the Caelestial Militia He hath sued for his right to heat and hath it adjudged to him he hath recovered his right too as a Friend to Aeolus being always owned for a Windy Planet and it appears so § 31. It remains we make enquiry into Rain Their 's the Plunge well ☿ offers for Rain 78. That comes short of the Lunar Aspect 't is true even when the Disproportion is considered between the Sum of the days on either Aspect But again view the Excessive violent and lasting Showres and our Mercurial Conjunction exceeds the Energy of the Lunar whose Dashing Number is but XXVII where our stirring ☿ exhibits XXXIII § 32. There rests according to our constant Method to compare the Planetary Moisture with the Sum total of the Days listed under its Aspect If the Moiety be obtained the Influence is demonstrated The days of our Mercurial Direct Aspect we have given in 252. the Moiety is plain to a Natural Arithmetique viz. 129. Towards this half Sum ☿ musters up his days of Moisture of the less rate 48. of the greater Rate if you please to inspect the Table 36. In toto 114. but 12. short of 126. Here I might cry out a Mercury a Mercury for such a little difference viz. 11 or 12. breaks no definitions But then we have 20 days more to add whereof 13 for Snow and 7. for Hail the total now is 134. and the Moiety is exceeded as bravely as in the New or Full. For the New gathering all her Instances of Moisture makes 145. for 261. and ☿ makes 234 for 152. days § 33. In good time be it spoken then Planets have Influence and Astrology rightly managed is a real noble Philosophy Not only a ☌ ☉ ☽ is observable for Winds and Rain which all Seamen know as well as their Quadrant and Compass but a ☌ ☉ ☿ starts the like Effects which the more Learned ought to know and deliver to the Seaman when they have got it once then Astrology will lead the Van Triumphant with Flying Colours In the mean time be it writ in Capital Letters upon a Pyramid § 34. Yea but doth this Method succeed in the Retrograde Aspect also It doth Sum up the Quota's for Rain Snow and Hail and the Total amounts to the Moicty of the Days with Overplas for the Sum being doubled makes 150. and the Total of the Retrograde days is 143. § 35. Here may be asked the Question How it com's to pass that the ☌ ☉ ☽ brings more Instances of Winds and Rain then ☌ ☉ ☿ especially when it may be perceived that I drive at the exalting of ☿ above ☽ I answer it strikes not at ☿ 's eminence for 't is a ruled case I hope that Three are more Potent than Two ☿ then is safe notwithstanding the Objection For in a ☌ ☉ ☽ our ☿ is never far off not a Signs distance if we stretch him on Tenterhooks so ☿
14. XXV R. store m. m. p. Nly Ely XXVI Angry clds p. m. set to rain 10 p. c. Wly XXVII R. a. L. cold windy very cold vesp Wly XXVIII Close wetting fine p. m. Wly XXIX Drisling showres p. m. S W. June 1681. Die 18. ♋ 6. XVI Cloudy sometime lowring wind N W. Several Dolphins sporting in the mouth of Severn XVII Lowring m. p. mist at n. per N W. At Ferrara an Earthquake swallowed up Trees Five Mile So at Lions in France XVIII White frost clear most part wds N E. XIX Clouds in Scenes some drisle 7 p. Meteor with a train 9 p. A tempest of Lightning and R. 3 Leagues from Lyme § 6. I acknowledge the Table hath its Length but if it be consider'd what the experience of 30 years is for such an Aspect as ☌ ☉ ♀ the Table should be look'd on as a Cimelium rather than a surfeiting Superfluity Alass I wisht it longer for he that shall survey the Table will find that there are 4 or 5 Months wanting it requires almost another 30 years And let no man be grieved here that we have allowed too many days 13. or 14. towards the Verge of our Aspect not so much for security sake in case of a defective Calculation which in ♀ it seems is not controverted But for the more sure comprehension of those Effects which by clear right belong to the Aspect though at the Distance of two degrees since the Aspect challenges 7 days to it self even while they are close among themselves in the same degree § 7. As to the Warmth of this Aspect when we have met with days of Soultry Heat not seldom accompanyed with Lightning and Thunder They who weigh those Effects and the determinate time of their appearance will find forgetting all foolish conceits our Feminine Planet to be Masculine so far to be a Virago partaking of Pallas the Flashing Fiery Goddess § 8. Thus is she a Friend to Warmth but so as sometimes you see to Cold. Not as the Toy takes her how then should we comprehend her Fickleness Or bring it under Rule But according as she is attended or abandon'd by the rest of the Company 'T is no News that the same Planet under various Circumstances should cause Heat and admit yea and in some measure acuate Cold. The ☌ ☉ ☽ the ☌ ☉ ☿ did so For we cannot dissemble that in the year 1663. we find Extream Frost for 13 days together even through the whole Period almost but we may note that 't is not there alone but generally all Conjunctions as such in some respect favour Cold. Even the ☌ ☉ ☿ it self How so I answer not as 't is congress of Luminous and Calorifique Bodies since 't is impossible but Heat should be intended and increased by such Union but because in all Conjunctions there is a Co-arctation or Reduction of the Luminary to precise Points and Distances which 't is certain may and do act more at a less confinement in the Illumination of the Medium no man to enlighten a fair Room will set the Tapers contiguous but will distribute them at a certain and proportionable Measure The Medium being more enlightned by such distribution than when the Luminous Bodies are contiguous Well may some part of the Room have a Light more than ordinary but the whole Area shall be darkish Just as two Seed-men in a Field that sow more ground at convenient distance than if they walked together in the same Furow The Partile Congress of Two Calorifick Bodies doth increase and also abate heat under several considerations It increases it as to the point it abates it as to the Circumference it increases it as to the proper place it abates it as to the Common for the Congress is Lineal wherein the Planets so meeting are united 't is true but they are constrained and restrained to a precise point a narrow appartment whereby the remoter parts being forsaken by that Influence which erewhile spread it self there is left cold naked and bare of that Influence which was more diffusive when they were at distance not unreasonable § 9. For the Sentiments of the Antients what do they declare when Venus is in Dominion Then saith Ptolemy she makes a fine temperate Air 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pure and Fair. She brings also many and Fruitful Showres 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Raising saith he the Waters Next a windy Constitution with those showres 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he adds also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Star must be fruitful if she be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 she must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Arabs agree for all I see Albumazar and his Mamareth which I suspect to be the Dominion is much for Rain and that in store 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Ptolemy calls it very often For next to the ☽ our Venus is reckoned moist and therefore Benifique because moist Tetrab c. 5. and therefore again Feminine he saith because moist Cap. 6. That 's their reason § 10. For the First of these that ♀ makes a fine Air I thought it had bin a forced illusion to the Beauty of the Planet wherein the Fiction of Venus Aurea and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 must have bin glanced at But when on a review I cast my Eye on the Diary I saw there was no Poetical Fiction in the case Our ☌ ☉ ♀ oft-times makes a bright Air and clear as her Hue pretends Nor will we stand to Imagine any probable reason therefore but this that what causes the one that may be the Author of the Other The Intrinsique brightness of the Planet may perfuse the Air with a suitable Gleam This may appear not only in the bright days or parts of days which are found under her whether Hot or cold frosty Constitutions but even where some wet may happen For how clear is the Air many times except perhaps in Winter how Holiday-like I say doth it look when yet a showre may step in and muffle the azure mirrour In like manner after a morning Foggy though it be may prove a clear and bright day when the sullen Fog may sculk here and there in its scatter'd Atoms apaling the brightness which at other times may be more vivid I shall not stand much upon this only produce one notable Testimony mentioned in the Diary where I was never able to see in our City Horison the Centaur's Head but once and that you see is on our ☌ of ☉ and ☿ § 11. For what follows in Ptolemy we are ready to prove as to Showres and Dropping She brought Rain in above 200 Instances and that will do And Rain or Snow all or most part of the day neer 40 times Once or Twice she continues the Fog all day even therein shewing her Partnership with the Sun and how true she keeps to him so that if under a ☌ of ☉ and ☽ or ☌ ☉ ☿ you will plead you can find the like I answer Nay For
Anno 1579. Feb. 10. Flouds in the Thames Howe 's 685. ☌ ☉ ♀ R. Anno 1594. May 11. Great Water Flouds in Surrey c. by Rain and Hail beating down Houses c. Idem p. 769. Anno 1643. Dec. 2. at Thuringen Kyr ☌ ☉ ♀ ☽ Anno 1655. Jan. XX. H. Flouds with us in England gr 3. In our home Observation we meet with it once or twice at most § 34. One or Two Notes let me add concerning monstrous Hail sometimes recorded under this Aspect specially when it speaks that cold Temper which is often enhaunsed at the Partile Congress of the Planets and according to what hath been noted and because by reason of the Monstrous size of Hail it may speak some Affinity to Flouds An. 1531. Dec. 16. in Cardan de variet c. 11. 1564. Jun 24. at Lovain of an Oval size noted by Fromond from Gemma 11. 52. ☌ ☉ ♀ 10. The like with us at Chelmesford July 17. Anni ejusdem 1684. In England Hail 8 or 9 Inches Circumference C. Smith pag. 124 125. § 35. That the Hurricane mentioned in Keplers Diary goes not alone It is a Twin at least witness Feb. 14. Anno 1627. where Galvisius tells us of 37 Ships and God knows how many Thousand men drowned ☌ ☉ ♀ gr 4. But we have not clogged the Reader with such like Instances from one vehemence Another may be concluded What will procure an Earthquake can make such a bustle in a Superiour Element § 36. So have you seen in part what our Aspect does abroad or at home That we may sure to be brief let us cast up all into the Short Sum thus ☌ ☉ ♀ in a State of Destitution brings cool air at all times of the year in Winter Frosts Sharp and permanent In like manner Mists and Foggs But with indifferent or more considerable assistance Warmth cloudy and close Weather Showres Winds Rain considerable part of the Day if not all day long sometimes Fiery Meteors Lightnings Thunders The fair Weather though sometimes hot we refer to the State of destitution The rarer accidents enter not into the Character So much for the ☌ ☉ ♀ a beauteous Aspect to our understanding for our Corporal Eyes never see it CHAP. III. Conjunction of the Two Inferiours Venus and Mercury § 1. An Aspect fam'd among the Antients for much wet 2. Venus Mercury and the Moon the moist triad 3. The Influence palpable from their Vicinity to the Earth and something more 4. Venus a bright Evening Star 5. She contributes to coruscations 6. She and Mercury are sometimes mad Sparks 7. Equal to any Aspect precedent 8. Evidence from Keplers Diary 9. A prospect of excess of Rain of Lightning from thence 12. The Home Diary 13. Search into forreign Diarys not unprofitable for Navigation 14. Platick Aspect requisite to understand the Nature of a Planet 15. The Forreign Tempest-Diary of Sol and Mercury hitherto reserved and produced 16. The use to be made of it in caution and self-preservation 17. Some Hurricanes with us 18. Forreign Tempest-Diary of the Conjunction of Sol and Venus 19. The Aspects of Sol and Venus with Sol and Mercury compared Mercury more turbulent than Venus The Devil whether he may be in any Storm 20. Forreign Tempest-Diary for Venus and Mercury 21. Venus and Mercury as stormy as Sol and Mercury How that can be made out Stormy especially when either of them is retrograde 22. Account of a stormy constitution sometimes for a whole Month. Magellan's pacifick Sea The interchanges of Sol Venus and Mercury commended to the studious Mariner 24. Stadius in the Governour of Antwerps Hurrican over-looks our Aspect 25 26. A Touch of Comets 27. Co-incidence of the same day of the Comet Anno 1537. and again Anno 1578. very instructive of Gassendus and others 28. Forreign Diary of Fiery Meteors 29. The Design of these Papers is universal This Aspect must be acknowledged as well as any other 30. Some Earthquakes found under this Aspect 31. And inundations 32. Truth not hearkned to 33. Our home Testimonies not inferion to the Forreign 34. Keplers inserviceable Aspect 25. Something of the Motion considered 37. The Aspect of Venus and Mercury never return 38. Motion and Influence both set forth the Glory of the Creator § 1. Conjunction of ♀ and ☿ what do they Effect They pretend severally to do something in ☌ with ☉ but can they produce any thing in ☌ mutual one with the other Astrologers say they may with help especially Per aliquot dies excessum humiditatis ventorum nivium c. infere possunt saith Eichstad But Eichstad is but yesterday What say our Arabian and Indian Astrologers Albumazar yea Alchindus and Giaphar They say the same whether they speak Sence or no we shall see in what follows Quando erit ♀ ☿ ☽ in aliquo istarum mansionum decem humidarum sign pluviam multam so Alchind over and over Cap. 6. Inspice saith he in hora Conjunctionis si Luna applicuerit cum ♀ ☿ sign generationem pluviae in illa septimana Again si quando fuerit ♀ ☿ in Scorpione Capricorno aut Aquario cum ☽ sign pluviam For Planetae ferentes pluviam sunt Venus Mercurius Luna in the beginning of the Chapter When the ☉ is in ♠20. That 's a critical time with the Indian Then if the ☽ apply to ♀ and ☿ sign multas pluvias in eo anno Yea for every New ☽ or if they be found in any of the 10 Mansions the Effect follows Thus the One Now the Other remember he speaks for his own Climate or not above 10 gr Latitude from the Equator If the Two inferiours saith he apply to a Malevolent ♄ or ♂ submersio ruina imbrium assiduitas timenda Sect. 3. Our Moderns follow these Men Adrian Vlacq in Ephemerid Anno 1633. Quod si ♀ ☿ congressus acciderit hora Conjunctionis c. Luminarium pluviarum inundationem pariet And they seem to speak consequently because we have met with some excess in ♀ conjoyned with ☉ which it seems they do not appropriate to that only but plead for the like in this and if it should prove true I can tell you enters us into a pretty distinct Notion of the Planets for ☿ is a second Sol if he can bring forth the same showres c. in amity with ♀ as ☉ hath proved himself to have done in Conjunction with the same Venus § 2. We will not thus argue though the Argument is Legitimate that ☿ ☿ and ☽ met together in ☌ have undenyable Influence as I see the Arabs or Indians also have taught ergo the same ♀ and ☿ by themselves have their certain efficacy This belongs to the Chapter of Complicate Aspects and our Method engages us yet to show the Influence only of the Single and incomplicate § 3. They are both reflexions confessed they appear horned in their First and Last Quadrate as we call it and though
winds N. 1669. Jun. 24. ♋ 12. A die ◠ad July 9. Jun. VII Windy Rainy 9 m. N. IX H. wd close warm some wetting 8 p. heavy air n. X. Sudden showrs o p. m. XI Winds showr 11 m. Sly XII s rain m. XIII Hot and fair p. m. W. XII Heat bright Ground Mist Wly XV. Fog m. heat o. S W. XVI Heat overc 10 p. and as I thought Lightning at midnight XVII Showr a. L. and 7 m. warm some wet Wly XVIII Warm pale mist at n. W. XIX Mist red wind warm N E. XXII Fog m. increases 8 m. hot and dry Rain desired Sly XXIII Fog 9 m. Hot dry mist m. S. XXIV Warm N E. XXVI Fog m. N. XXVII Fog m. dry season Wly XXVIII Fog m. and drought heat drops 7 p. Wly Ely XXIX Fog hot dry Sly XXX Close Thunderclap 10 m. s rain o. and vesp Sly July I. Close m. windy wetting II. Wetting v 7 m. ad 10 m. with mists Sly III. Windy dropping a. m. and showr p. m. IV. Shedding m. S. V. Hot dry W. Die 3 At London great storms of rain Thunder 2 m. none at Kentish Town News of great Rain in the North. 1671. Aug. 3. ♌ 20. A July 13. ad Ag. 16. Jul. XIII R. scrious 5 morning R. hard 2 p. 4 p. ♃ M. C. XIV Rainy XV. Stormy wd some Rain XVI Rain sub vesp XVI Very warm and close XX. Close windy XXII Misty rain m. high winds XXIII High winds XXIV Rainy drrk H. winds XXV XXVI rainy d. XXVII R. p. m. many Flies and Pismires XXVIII Hot rain usque ad 3 p. m. XXIX Hot r. vesp XXX Close hot rainy night XXXI R. Sun or a 3 m. ad 2 p. drowning afternoon as ever was known Aug. III. Hot close air IV. Windy rain p. m. V. Warm night close day V. a Sun occ ad 10 p. VI. Close windy warm VII Warm night R. 10 m. ad 6 p. VIII Warm n. R. 10 m. p. m. in earnest 9 p 10 p. IX Coasting Showrs noon and wind thunder showr 3 p. 5 p. 7 p. ♄ in Nadir 3 p. X. Coasting showrs 11 m. 3 p. S W. XI Rain o. 5 p. 7 p. sad harvest S W. XII H. wind and much rain tempestuous circa o. great rain 9 p. XIII Showr 1 p. XIV Frost fog m. hot p. m Wly warm n. XV. Very thick fog XVI Two Meteors 1673. Sept. 7. ♠24. Ab Aug. 23. ad Sept. 24. Aug. XXIII Drisling p. m. showring 6 p. S E. XXV Showring 1 p. S W. XXVI Stormy winds some wet 2 p. at Branford XXVII R. m. ad 2 p. Lowring after winds S W. showr 4 p. XXIX Windy showr 1 p. 2 p. and 4 p. S W. XXX Windy showr 6 m. 9 m. o. 6 p. 9 c. S W. XXXI R. hard 7 m. wet m. p. especially 3 p. 9. per noct tot Sept. I. R. noct tot showr in prospect 3 p. 5 p. II. Rain hard die tot red in East N W. III. R. 1 p. dash 2 and 3 p. with hail Meteor N W. IV. Fog 6 m. wetting 3 p. 4 p. frost m. wdy S W. VI. Windy R. 4 p. 10 p. S W. VII Fog clear above VIII H. wd noct tot Rain ante luc a m. m. p. S W. IX Frost m. warm p. m. S W. X. Very high wd wetting 8 m. 5 p. XII Furious wind wet noct tot tempestuous day III. Houses blown down by Covent Garden wetting m. p. m. and misty ☉ occ XIII Fog some rain 10 p. XV. Very cold night frost m. XVI R ante luc a. m. wetting 4 p. R. hard with wind 8 p. S W XVII Furious tempest all night H. wind all day R. 1 p. XVIII Wd hail R. m. o. 5 p. S W. XIX Gust of wind and rain ante luc dark 7 m. wdy S W. XX. Rain 4 p. 8 p. 10 p. S W. XXI Very wet all night high winds and R. a. m. per tot fere showr 4 p. 6 p. N W. XXII Frost m. R. noon and p. m. S E. XXIII Showrs Sun or ad 8 m. so 2 p. 3 p. H. wd ante luc Armies in the Air seen by thousands of People at Posen in Poland XXIV Very warm wetting p. m. p. Meteor toward ursa Maj. head N W. 1675. Oct. 16. ♠3. A Sept. 30. ad Nov. 1. XXX ** Oct. I. Frost ice m. II. R. 6 m. Fog wd S. then Ely III. Close wd Indisposit IV. Aches S E. V. Fog rhime Cobwebs winds Indisposits 5 p. s wet 11 p. V. S W. s rain 7 m. warm windy Aches VII H. wind close misle 7 p. Aches Hysterical fits VIII H. wd die tot showr 6 m. W. IX Fr. showr 2 p. misty air Aches N W. XII Frosty foggy fair some relent Aches W. XIII Close warm Indisposit faintness Head-ach W. XIV Close m. and 10 m. warm Wly XV. Close warm some moisture 6 p. W. XVI s wet 5 p. warm XVII Warm close mistyish showre ho 2. fere ☽ ort ♃ in M. C. XV. III. Gr. frost red even wind various but little XIX Warm Lambs-wool clds N E. S E. XXI Mist close Wly Dry weather complained of Country men cannot sow XXI Rainy m. showrs 4 p. 9 p. XXII Rain at midn 8 m. H. wind and stormy R. 4 p. warm Wly XXIII Mist warm rainy 10 m. ad o. Aches XXIV Stormy wd dash of hail and rain 1 p. storm of rain 6 p. H. wd 9 p. XXV Wind and rain 1 p. 4 p. 7 p. tempestuous and wetting 7 p. Lightning at Ghent fired a Steeple at N. D. and slew them who went to quench it Gotes 104. XXVI Windy a. L. Nly Inundat at Amsterdam Hague Harlem XXVII Blustering noct tot s rain 2 p. 4 p. N E. Aches Universal cough throughout all Europe XXIVII R. 11 m. 2 p. 6 p. Aches Ely mist XXIX Gr. fr. misty dry E. XXX Fog fr. Aches Nly XXXI Fog fr. s misle 8 p. N E. 1677. Dec. 1. ♠20. A Nov. 14. ad Dec. 20. XIV Fog and close S E. Dark and a good showr 2 p. Meteor near Cap. Drat. in ♠sickly Mouth but no mortality XV. Rain 5 m. c. very wet vesp usque ad 8 p. warm S W. at n. Nly XVI Showr in earnest 6 m. so 9 m. XVII Fog R. Sun or Nly XVIII Lightning ante 1 2 m. fog s rain 10 m. Nly XIX Gr. fog very cold Ely XXI Fog frost gone r. and sleet 1 p. c. with fog rain 9 p. W. Abortions XXII Snow found so o. p. m. 8 p Stomack aked at the Snow 8 p. brisk wd N E. XXIII Brisk and cold wd suowing often at o. p. m. Nly XXIV Fr. wd snow fog 8 m. E. snow 1 p. and bitter cold hail 1 p. blustering n. XXV H. wd noct tot and cutting snow m. E. Snow driving small p. m. per tot XXVI Snowing ante L. rain 8 p. Ely Hysterical fits Ice in the Thames XXVII Frosty fog indisposit XXVIII
Frosty fog die tot S W. Rain 7 p. Ely gentle showres midnight XXIX Fog mild air h. wd rain at n. S S E. XXX H. wd noct tot and wet dry m. p. each day Rain 6 p. Aches Dec. I. Fog blustering vesp and drisle Rain 11 p. II. Warm rain circa 9 p. Sly Glass rose 25. acc to progn III. Windy and rainy die tot ab 8 m. warm Ely IV. Misty wd drisle 8 m. Great Meteors in a dispers'd cloudy sky Aches V. Dash wind and wetting m. p. E. N. VI. Fog m. a. m. E. N E. VII Rain ante 9 m. and dark Meteors III. Two bright 10 p. VIII H. wd and rain most part Sly IX Fog bright above rain since 1 m. Meteors Clouds contrary ☉ occ R. a. m. blow at midn X. Ruffling wd and drisle m. close windy p. m. XI Rain ante 2 m. windy warm Wly Meteor 6 m. ♌ was vertical where ♀ and ♃ lay XII S E. H. wind and suspic ante 1 p. rain 2 p. R. 6 p. Wly Meteor neer Cor. ♌ Lightn 1 m. Melancholy XIII s rain ante 7 m. H. wd Lightning 9 p. in the S W. s rain 9 p. wet 11 p. XIV Tempest of wind noct tot rain 7 p. Met. 7 p. 9 p. XV. Fog and wetting close and dark E. XVI Fog close m. p. wd XVII Fog die tot E. Indisposit XVIII Fr. ♃ ♀ ☽ a fine sight 5 p. XIX Fog clear above Ice bears 1680. ♒ 25. ad Feb. 28. A Jan. 13. a Feb. 28. XIII Fog rain 6 m. wind high 9 p. Laville de Muslipatan summerge XIV H. wind noct tot offering at 8 m. m. p. warm S W. XV. Mist close S W. XVI Mist close sprinkle 8 m. s wet 9 m. warm XVII Warm season Nosegay offered and white Cowslips H. wind p. m. S W. XVIII Mist s rain ante ☉ ort H. stormy wind XIX Mist dark small rain 9 p. and 10 p. XX. Mist Audible Showr ante 7 p. very warm XXI Rain hard Wly great fog p. m. S. XXII Fog close sharp wind Red Wly showr ante o. XXIII Mist close H. wind warmer Wly XXIV Fog close brisk wd warm Wly XXV Close fog fog at n. W. XXVI XXVII Fog very great cold W. XXVIII Fog frost m. close m. p. XXIX Fog misling ante 8 m. milder XXX Fog brisk wind die tot misle ante 5. W. XXXI Fog wind H. at n. R. 8 m. 4 p. snow 3 p. Very tempestuous wind m. p. Feb. I. Very high winds n. d. tot frosty rain 9 p. N W. Three Tides in 5 hours attributed to the winds extraordinary II. Very high winds blowing and rain Great Wracks and losses at Sea even at Deal III. H. wd showry 2 p. Rain and great flaques of Snow Nly IV. H. fr. wd s drisle 3 p. and 2 a 5 p. sho ante med noct V. Mist brisk wind rain ante 2 p. w. Falmouth 4 or 5 days very stormy VI. Mist H. wd specially circa o. vesp c. drisle 9 p. VII Rain ante Sun or 9 m. close mist brisk wind VIII H. wd die tot dropping 5 p. ante 9 very stormy this week past in and out of the Channel IX Rain circa ☉ or showr 8 m. hail ante 11 m. 2 p. 5 p. a 6 p. ad 8. X. Fog morn 8 m. N W. XI Great fog below frosty Sly ☉ occ ante XIII Frosty foggy die tot XIV Fog m. sharp air Ely XV. s wet o. m. very gr fog E. XVI Close cold wd E. XVII Frosty foggy air E. XVIII Fog frost sharp air XI Warm s rain 4 p. ad 6 p. H. wd XX. Much rain ante Luc. Aches fog n. XXI Very great Fog frost wetting 4 p. showr apace 7 p. wind high 9 p. S. S E. XXII Fog rain ante 2 p. ♀ occ S XXIII Fog R. ante o p. m m. p. W. XXIV H. wd R. ante ☉ ort o. drisle 11 m. warm XXV Very high wd s rain ante L. XXVI Fog R. circa 4 p. blustering p. m. per tot XXVII Very sharp wind Wly H. wd XXVII Very H. wd Wly Cologne Th. Lightn fell on the Church S. Vrsula Merc. Angl. n. 33. Die 7. Strange Epidemic sickness at Castle Nuovo Intell. num 30. 1682. ♉ 14. Apr. 14. A March 25. ad May 5. March XXV H. wind cold showr 10 m. N W. XXVI Very cold some gusts Ely p. m. Wly XXVII R. ante 8 m some gusts R. ante 2 p. Wly XXVIII H. wd scuds of R. ante 5 p. 6 p. 7 p. 11 p. N E. XXIX Cold dark and windy Nly Ely XXX Windy some hail circ 11 m. wind and showrs o. 3 p. 4 p. XXXI Meteor 8 p. near Andromeda Ely XXVIII Plimouth very tempestuous for some time past Ships in the road suffered much in rigging Apr. I. Temperate II. H. winds 10 m. cold wind Ely IV. s rain ante 8 m. and mist cold Ely V. Close misty temperate N E. at n. Wly VI. Warm clouds contrary 9 m. Wly at n. Ely VII Fog warm Sly at n. Ely very Sly foggy vesp Lightning at Cologne overturned a house Merc. Lond. VIII Very cold and fog m. 9 p. W. N E IX Mist High wind gentle showring ante 4 p. S. X. Showr 10 m. ♃ or windy Sly XI Windy wetting 9 m. R. 3 p. Wly XII Showr 10 m. ♄ or ante 3 p. 4 p. ☿ occ ♃ M. C. XIII H. wind fog Sun occ R. 10 p. Sly XIV H. wind rain m a m. S W. XV. Clouds in Scenes showr a. m. ante 2 p. Sly m. Wly p. m. XVI Gross fog m. dash of rain a Sun occ ad 9 p. E. m. W. p. m. XVII s rain ante o. Wly XVIII R. 9 m. alias Rain vesp 9 p. ☽ opposed ♃ near Delphin S W. XIX s rain 9 m. alias a. m. dropping vesp S W XX. Windy some rain 10 m. ♄ or Rainy o ☌ ♂ ☿ in M C. cum ♉ 10 quo tempore multae Stellae fixae Persei c. M. C. occupa runt XXI Showr 11 m. 2 p. XXII R. m. clds in Scenes rain 7 p. red clds ad M. C. Or. XXIII Showr 4 p. dropping Ely XXIV Fog close Rain apace ante 11 p. Ely XXV R. a. L. wetting m. p. Gr. Thund 9 p. with sone R. till day break Sly Ely XXVI H. wind showrs o. ad p. m. Hot n. Sly XXVII s rain 7 m. ante 2 p. red clds even Wly XXVIII Showring m. p. gr Meteor in S. ante 9 p. W. XXIX Hot rain 4 p. and 7 p. S W. XXX R. a 2 p. ad 11 p. c. with high wd VIII Andalusia neer Corduba s pestilence Dutch Gazet. May I. R. ante 6 m. a m. m. p. H. wind Wly II. R. a ☉ occ till fere 11. Indispos Wly III. Showring 2 p. Ely IV. R. brisk 6 m. 2 p. 8 p. ad 11 p. Wly at n. Ely V. R. 1 m. post 5 m foggy die tot Ely VI. Circa hunc diem
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
Anno 1654. ♈ 7. Jan. 29. XXIV Fair. S W. XXV Misty Halo ☽ XXVI XXVII Fair mist rainy S. XXVIII Misty cloudy so 29. S W XXX Close m. open S W. XXXI Frost close m. S W. Feb. I. High winds some wet frost m. N W. II. High wind some snow vesp frost m. III. H. winds very cold threatn snow N W. IV. High winds being cold threat snow N E. V. High wind s snow VI. Frost cloudy suspicious VII Clouds showry so at night Iterum 15. ♉ March 23. ♀ R. XVIII High winds clearing N E. XXI Windy N E. XXII High wind cold XXIII High wind snow hail N W. XXIV Windy some rain at night N W. XXV XXVI Windy cloudy m. p. N W. Tertiò ♠23. Octob. 5. II. Rain powring noct tot violent wind 〈◊〉 powring vesp N W. III. H. winds ante L. variable wet m. stormy day S W. IV. Cloudy rain wind Lightning N. N W. V. Dark and rainy a. m. showres N. S W. VI. Wet at evening S W. Anno 1656. August 24. 〈◊〉 8. XX. XXI Fair hot Halo N W. XXII Very hot Gossamere S W. N W. XXIII Great fog very hot XXIV Fog hot storm of wind 11 p. XXV Wet till 3 m. Bright very cool N E. XXVI Fair N. W after N E. XXVII High winds Ely offering N E. Anno 1658. ♌ 22. July 13. IX Windy rain 9 m. S W. X. Soultry wind S W. XII Melting day Meteors S E. XIII Windy melting day Meteors S W. XIV High winds threatning meteors 11 p. W. XV. VVindy drisle m. XVI Meteors XVII Showry W. Anno 1660. ♌ 18. June 14. IX Open and warm p. m. windy W. X. Close hot W. XI High winds hot H. winds at night N W. XII Hot p. m. S W. W. XIII Soultry ground-mist at n. W. XIV Soultry XV. Soultry scalding air W. XVI Blew mist drops 5 p. showrs lightn 7 p. XVII Showrs 2 m. S W. XVIII H. showrs 4 m. Hot. S W. Iterum August 17. ♠20. ♀ R. XV. Very hot S W. XVI Fog rain 10 m. very hot S W. XVII Soultry hot XVIII The same XIX Hot day tot Rain at midnight XX. Drisle m. Anno 1661. ♒ 16. Febr. 25. Tunbridge in Kent XX. Rain 9. m. and m. p. W XXI Rain die toto wet night great Floud XXII Rain 11 m. n. rain 2 p. N E. XXIII Cloudy warm even S W. XXIV Stormy wet n. W. XXV VVindy rainy 9 m. S W. XXVI Storms of Rain and hail Halo 2. S W. XXVII Little frost fair V V. XXVIII Frost fog misty Halo ☽ S. March I. Sad rainy a. m. Rain p. even S. II. Very rainy windy S. Anno 1663. ♑ 28. Jan. 12. VIII Little frost fair fog at n. S W. IX Fog die tot and night frost E. X. Thick fog die tot cold E. XI Foggy frost chiefly p. m. E. XII XIII Foggy frosty E. XIV Foggy sleet E. XV. Foggy some wet 4 p. 10 p. S. XVI Fog warm S W. XVII Fog rain 8 p. c. m. p. Anno 1664. ♑ 8. Novemb. 27. XXIII Hard frost cold fair N. XXIV Fog frosty N E. XXV Hard frost rain 11 p. E. S E. XXVI Drisling m. close rain E. S E. XXVII Misty rain 11 m. and p. m. 6. p. XXVIII Wet ante Sun ort so m. S W. XXIX VVet ☉ ort some drops 8 p. N E. XXX Close rain p. m. misty 6 p. ad 11 p. Dec. I. Some drisle at n. N E. An. 1665. ♋ 3. July 18. ♀ Stat. Waltham Cross XIV Cloudy m. hot N E. XV. Excessive hot high winds p. m. lightn and a showr p. XVI Much Lightning 2 m. Blew mist extended on the Hills S E. XVII Blew mist over Sun vesp cloudy in S. with two Terrible flashes and a clap of Thunder and Rain from London to Edmonton XVIII Thunder and Lightning with storms 1 p. and coasting round the Horizon P. M. N V V X XIX Fog all m. Hot fine rain 10 p. W. XX. Refreshing rain at break of day and at ☉ rise cooling Showrs W. XXI Dash 10 m. Thund Lond. 11. and Rain S W. XXII Cool High winds coasting showr o. S W. XXIII s showrs 4 p. S W. Iterum ♌ o. Aug. 29. XXII Warm cloudy m. p. V V. XXII Warm drisle 6 and 7 p. S W. XXIV Warm much Lightning and Thunder 10 p. a showr S W. XXV Misty m. misle Rain 9 p. S W. XXVI Close m. p. warm blew mist Meteors E. S E XXVII Warm showring 4 p. 8 p. S W. S E XXIX Suspicious morning windy fair XXX Windy tot noct offering S W. XXXI Wind close m. N W. Sept. I. Frost very cold ante ☉ wet 9 p. m. S W. II. Warm close S V V. III. Warm misty m. N W. Anno 1667. ♒ 28. Jan. 10. ♀ R. VII Windy thaw close V V. VIII Rain at day break S E. IX Cold m. p. Rain and snow N. X Frost and snow offers die tot gusty cold N. XI Frost Thaw noct tot S. XII Dark day Fog taken up S. Iterum ♋ 28. Aug. 6. II. Hot p. m. winds at night N W. III. Hot. N E. IV. Fog m. hot Lightning according to prognostick W. V. Fog m. hot windy S E. VI. Fog m. melting day yet brisk winds S W. VII Fog m. and falls a. m. hot hail 2 p. Lightning N E. melting day and fickly time W. VIII Hot n. fog a. m. melting day dry Thunder toward London o. High winds vesp Lightning at night in the N E. S W. IX Fine showr stormy winds Meteors 〈◊〉 6. p. X. Windy showring 10 m. ad 1 p. S W Anno 1669. ♋ 12. June 23. XX. XXI Warm mist m. W. XXII Fog 8 m. hot rain desired S W. XXIII Mist m. fog 9 m. hot mist m. p. Sly XXIV Warm close S W. N E. XXV Close m. cold n. N E. XXVI Fog m. N. XXVII Fog m. pale thick Clouds a dry season W. Anno 1671. ♊ 27. May 12. VIII IX Windy hot E. X. Much heat N E. XI Mist m. Ropes soultry W. XII Very hot misty showr at Moon rise XIII Soultry yet brisk cool winds S W. XIV H. wind showr 2 p. Dewy n. S W. XV. Windy offer a. m. showr at Humsted S W. XV. VVind showr ☽ so 4 p. showring S V V. Anno 1673. ♊ 28. April 23. XVI Misty air heat E. XVII Hot day mist Field and City XVIII Close morn offering o. heat N E. XIX High wind and rain m. p. showr 4 p. XX. Windy and rain XXI Close high wind m. shedding Noon XXII Windy some dropping p. m. S W. XXIII Lowring High cool wind Sly XXIV Windy Sly XXV Drisle 10 m. and 3 p. S W. XXVI Warm some drisle 6 7 p. S W. XXVII Showr o 4 p. mist S W. XXVIII Close day some moisture 5 p. S W. XXIX Close m. no mist N E. XXX Hot. N E. May I. Showr 6 m. soultry Thunder 4 p storm of Hail and Lightning 9 p. Ely m. Wly p. m.
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
S W. VI. Wet at evening S W. Anno 1656. August 24. 〈◊〉 8. XX. XXI Fair hot Halo N W. XXII Very hot Gossamere S W. N W. XXIII Great fog very hot XXIV Fog hot storm of wind 11 p. XXV Wet till 3 m. Bright very cool N E. XXVI Fair N. W after N E. XXVII High winds Ely offering N E. Anno 1658. ♌ 22. July 13. IX Windy rain 9 m. S W. X. Soultry wind S W. XII Melting day Meteors S E. XIII Windy melting day Meteors S W. XIV High winds threatning meteors 11 p. W. XV. VVindy drisle m. XVI Meteors XVII Showry W. Anno 1660. ♌ 18. June 14. IX Open and warm p. m. windy W. X. Close hot W. XI High winds hot H. winds at night N W. XII Hot p. m. S W. W. XIII Soultry ground-mist at n. W. XIV Soultry XV. Soultry scalding air W. XVI Blew mist drops 5 p. showrs lightn 7 p. XVII Showrs 2 m. S W. XVIII H. showrs 4 m. Hot. S W. Iterum August 17. ♠20. ♀ R. XV. Very hot S W. XVI Fog rain 10 m. very hot S W. XVII Soultry hot XVIII The same XIX Hot day tot Rain at midnight XX. Drisle m. Anno 1661. ♒ 16. Febr. 25. Tunbridge in Kent XX. Rain 9. m. and m. p. W XXI Rain die toto wet night great Floud XXII Rain 11 m. n. rain 2 p. N E. XXIII Cloudy warm even S W. XXIV Stormy wet n. W. XXV VVindy rainy 9 m. S W. XXVI Storms of Rain and hail Halo 2. S W. XXVII Little frost fair V V. XXVIII Frost fog misty Halo ☽ S. March I. Sad rainy a. m. Rain p. even S. II. Very rainy windy S. Anno 1663. ♑ 28. Jan. 12. VIII Little frost fair fog at n. S W. IX Fog die tot and night frost E. X. Thick fog die tot cold E. XI Foggy frost chiefly p. m. E. XII XIII Foggy frosty E. XIV Foggy sleet E. XV. Foggy some wet 4 p. 10 p. S. XVI Fog warm S W. XVII Fog rain 8 p. c. m. p. Anno 1664. ♑ 8. Novemb. 27. XXIII Hard frost cold fair N. XXIV Fog frosty N E. XXV Hard frost rain 11 p. E. S E. XXVI Drisling m. close rain E. S E. XXVII Misty rain 11 m. and p. m. 6. p. XXVIII Wet ante Sun ort so m. S W. XXIX VVet ☉ ort some drops 8 p. N E. XXX Close rain p. m. misty 6 p. ad 11 p. Dec. I. Some drisle at n. N E. An. 1665. ♋ 3. July 18. ♀ Stat. Waltham Cross XIV Cloudy m. hot N E. XV. Excessive hot high winds p. m. lightn and a showr p. XVI Much Lightning 2 m. Blew mist extended on the Hills S E. XVII Blew mist over Sun vesp cloudy in S. with two Terrible flashes and a clap of Thunder and Rain from London to Edmonton XVIII Thunder and Lightning with storms 1 p. and coasting round the Horizon P. M. N V V X XIX Fog all m. Hot fine rain 10 p. W. XX. Refreshing rain at break of day and at ☉ rise cooling Showrs W. XXI Dash 10 m. Thund Lond. 11. and Rain S W. XXII Cool High winds coasting showr o. S W. XXIII s showrs 4 p. S W. Iterum ♌ o. Aug. 29. XXII Warm cloudy m. p. V V. XXII Warm drisle 6 and 7 p. S W. XXIV Warm much Lightning and Thunder 10 p. a showr S W. XXV Misty m. misle Rain 9 p. S W. XXVI Close m. p. warm blew mist Meteors E. S E XXVII Warm showring 4 p. 8 p. S W. S E XXIX Suspicious morning windy fair XXX Windy tot noct offering S W. XXXI Wind close m. N W. Sept. I. Frost very cold ante ☉ wet 9 p. m. S W. II. Warm close S V V. III. Warm misty m. N W. Anno 1667. ♒ 28. Jan. 10. ♀ R. VII Windy thaw close V V. VIII Rain at day break S E. IX Cold m. p. Rain and snow N. X Frost and snow offers die tot gusty cold N. XI Frost Thaw noct tot S. XII Dark day Fog taken up S. Iterum ♋ 28. Aug. 6. II. Hot p. m. winds at night N W. III. Hot. N E. IV. Fog m. hot Lightning according to prognostick W. V. Fog m. hot windy S E. VI. Fog m. melting day yet brisk winds S W. VII Fog m. and falls a. m. hot hail 2 p. Lightning N E. melting day and fickly time W. VIII Hot n. fog a. m. melting day dry Thunder toward London o. High winds vesp Lightning at night in the N E. S W. IX Fine showr stormy winds Meteors 〈◊〉 6. p. X. Windy showring 10 m. ad 1 p. S W Anno 1669. ♋ 12. June 23. XX. XXI Warm mist m. W. XXII Fog 8 m. hot rain desired S W. XXIII Mist m. fog 9 m. hot mist m. p. Sly XXIV Warm close S W. N E. XXV Close m. cold n. N E. XXVI Fog m. N. XXVII Fog m. pale thick Clouds a dry season W. Anno 1671. ♊ 27. May 12. VIII IX Windy hot E. X. Much heat N E. XI Mist m. Ropes soultry W. XII Very hot misty showr at Moon rise XIII Soultry yet brisk cool winds S W. XIV H. wind showr 2 p. Dewy n. S W. XV. Windy offer a. m. showr at Humsted S W. XV. VVind showr ☽ so 4 p. showring S V V. Anno 1673. ♊ 28. April 23. XVI Misty air heat E. XVII Hot day mist Field and City XVIII Close morn offering o. heat N E. XIX High wind and rain m. p. showr 4 p. XX. Windy and rain XXI Close high wind m. shedding Noon XXII Windy some dropping p. m. S W. XXIII Lowring High cool wind Sly XXIV Windy Sly XXV Drisle 10 m. and 3 p. S W. XXVI Warm some drisle 6 7 p. S W. XXVII Showr o 4 p. mist S W. XXVIII Close day some moisture 5 p. S W. XXIX Close m. no mist N E. XXX Hot. N E. May I. Showr 6 m. soultry Thunder 4 p storm of Hail and Lightning 9 p. Ely m. Wly p. m. 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. Iterum â™ 25. Dec. 7. III. Wet a. l. showr 2 p. p. m. S W. IV. Rain a. l. cold rain a. m. high wind N. V. Frost cold Nly but at night E. VI. Frosty cold sharp wd E. Very high wind a. l. VII Extreme frost mist E. m. Sly p. m. VIII Rain 7 m. 1. windy S W. IX Rain a. m. at 9 p. S W. X. Wind warm close S. V V. XI Drisle 1 p. 7 p. 〈◊〉 Anno 1675. â™ 10. Octob. 27. XXIII VVarm rain 10 m. at o. wetting p. m. V V. XXIV Stormy wind dash of Hail and rain 1 p. and storm rain 6 p. high winds 9 p. XXV Frost yet warm m. wind and rain 1 p. at 4 p. Tempestuous and wetting 8. p. W. XVI VVindy a. l. cold Inundation in Holland Amsterdam Hague c. XXVII Blustering noct tot rain 2 p. 4 p. N E. Cough universal taken notice of XXVIII Rain 11 m. 2 p. 6 p. E. XXIX Frosty misty E. XXX Fog frosty N. Anno 1677. ♎ 23. Sept. 13. X. Fog Meteors 10 p. W. Die praeced Fire-Drake as the people call it seen in Moorfields as big as 20 Meteors XI Fog warm brisk wind N E. XII Fog brisk wind Fila warm Meteâ—â—n East XIII Fog wind turned from E. to S E. 9 m. a showr 11 m drisle 4 p. S V V. XIV Rain 2 m. misty Meteors 2 or 3. One near ♈ horn E. XV. Thick so Nly Gossamere Meteors ab â™’ manu ad ♄ 9 p. XVI Fog violent dash ab 8 ad 10 p. S. XVII VVarm drops 7 m. showr 7 p. cold wd p. m. Wly Anno 1678. ♈ 22. May 8. ♀ Stat. IV. Brisk wind rain 10 m. high wind showr 2 p. 7 p. S W. V. Showr 10 m. wet 10 p. E. VI. Misty rain ante C. Blast at Foresthill and Ely there VII Brisk winds clouds in Scenes warm VIII Very bright Meteors ab Ophiuch IX Misty hot S E. m. S W. hot 11. X. Hot by all confession Mist Meteors 2 near â™ Aquila XI Mist Ely hot rough wind ☉ ort Red Meteors 9 p. Lightning hor. 11 p. XII Mist rain m. rain 1 p. ♃ occ storm of wind 11 p. XIII High wind noct tot Rain at 8 m. W. XIV Misty windy W. Iterum ♉ 21. June 18. XIII Hot n. very hot a. m. Rainy a 3 p. ad 9 p. 11 p. Nly XIV Misty drisle 1 m. misty d. ☉ 〈◊〉 looks red Heat 10 p. XV. Sun shine red heat Nly XVI Misty glowing cl heat E. XVII Misty N E. warm XVIIII Misty m. heat E. XIX Soultry Thunder lightning 4 p. 5 p. with rain Lightning 9 p. â— W. XX. Hot Clouds in Scenes Lightning 4 p. 9 p. S W. XXI Hot misty a. m. Rain and thunder m. p. m. drowning Highways and Cellars Wly Ely 11 a. at 10 p. Nly XXII Lightning ante 4 m. rain heat Wly a m. Ely p. m. XXIII Heat coasting showrs 5 p. Iris Thund 7 p. Clouds rise 8 p. Lightning and Thunder in the Night XXIV Brisk winds p. m. Lightning and Thunderclap some rain hor 8. p. Rainbow N E. with variable H. winds XXV Windy showr m. N E. XXVI Warm N E. XXVII Warm misty heat wind N. Sly at Night XXVIII Heat rain circa 9 p. W. XXIX Close and heavy air a. m. warm Lightning and dry Thunder Anno 1679. ♎ 17. Aug. 15. XI Gentle rain 7 p. Ely at night XII Ely misty day ☉ red warm offer 3 p. XIII Ely some fog rain 5 p. Sly at n. XIV Wly Fiery Meteors 10 p. XV. Wly some wet in S. 7 p. rain 9 p. XVI Wly Fog some little rain presum'd 1 p. in the South warm XVII s rain at 9 m. 10 m. Brisk wind rain 2 p. Lightning 9 p. Meteor 5. S. XVIII Some rain 1 p. 3 p. cloudy 7 p. Wly XIX Nly rain a 6 p. ad 9 p. warm night mist troubled air a. m. Ely XX. Fog rain ante 6 m. 2 p. N. â™ 7. Octob. 25. ♀ Stat. XXIII High wind bl frost XXIV Fog cold Meteors 3. N W. XXV Fog frosty Nly XXVI Fog die tot E. XXVII Fog a. l. dark E. Anno. 1680. ♉ 21. May 27. XXIII Rain 8 m. very high wind showrs 3 p. W. XXIV Very high wind rain 4 p. Wly XXV Very great fog warm rain 10 p. S E. XXVI Rain 7 m. brisk wind troubled night Ely XXVII Rain a 2 m. usque ad 3 m. and a 2 p. ad 4 p. hot day soultry night XXVIII Fog soultry rain a 3 p. ad 8 p. XXIX Brisk winds rain a 9 m. ad 2 p. showr 3 Claps of Thunder rain apace ante 10 p. Ely XXX Rain hard fog brisk wind smart showr 8 p. Wly XXXI Brisk wind warm Wly Ann 1682. ♉ 4. April 13. VIII Cold fog Foggy 9 p. wind Ely IX H. wind gentle showrs at 4 p. S. X. Windy showr 10 m. temperate S. XI Windy wetting 9 m. cool p. m. Rain ad 9 p. Wly XII Showr 10 m. ante 3 p. 4 p. XIII High winds fog Sun occ high winds and Rain 10 p. Sly XIV H. winds and rain a. m. cold p. m. W. XV. Clouds in Scenes showr a. m. and at 2 p. Sly m. W. p. m. XVI Gross fog close and foggy p. ☉ occ Dash of rain usque ad 9 p. wind E. m. and W. p. m. XVII Clouds in Scenes some rain ante o. W § 10. Perusing these Premises though but of two degrees distance which is reckoned too little by Artists for an Aspect of ♂ with ♀ I note these particulars some whereof are omitted in the common description and what is the First but Heat ☉ and ♂ have a different Situation in the Heavens and what that difference may produce I have no other way to acquaint my self but by Observation Verily ♂ and ♀ also are remarkable for this which we have hitherto called the prime Product § 11. The Sum Total of our Bill is 280. from whence if we deduct the odd 80. or 90. rather for so many days are exhibited from our Winter Months viz. from October to March inclusive We shall find but 200 days or 190. The Moiety of which is 100. and toward that we have 89. say 90. Express hot days Be pleased to look upon our account of August 1656. July 1658. June 1660. What would men have more They are the first Summer Months appear in the Table and they are immediately consequent one to the other for of their kind none have interposed in the intermediate years none in 1657. or 1659. to contradict Try therefore again not June only 1660. but August also corresponds So doth the next Summer Months of 1665. 1667. 1669. 1671. Scarce a Month to be found in discord amongst all the variety that Nature presents Signally
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
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
cold Nly 5. Fr. snow dark wds Nly 6. Warmth snow considerable Nly 7. Wind close fine thaw Wly 8. Rain day break S E. 9. Cold m. p. rain and snow wind a. l. Wly 10. Fr. and snow die tot Nly 12. Mist m. fr. dark fog taken up Sly 13. Mist suspic a. m. Ely 14. Fr. misty die tot h. wind Sly A o 1668. Jan. 14. â™’ 4. A Jan. 3. ad 24. 3. H. wind a. l. warm misling m. vesp N W. 4. Windy dropping short but furious Tempest ♂ or Wly Lightning at Salisbury and Bagshot 11 p. Dr. Childrey 5. Tempestuous noct d. some showrs p. m. Wly 6. Rain m. wind and misling m. p. Nly 7. Tempest of wind and rain a. m. Wly 8. Tempestuous driving rain snow 2 p. 4 p. 6 p. S W. 9. Fr. windy a. l. N. 10. Stormy cutting wind a. l. die tot snow a. L. 11. H. fr. closing Wly 12. H. fr. mild N W. 13. Wetting 1 p. warm Wly 14. Bright warm summers day Talk of a Comet wind audible at n. 15. Fr. N E. 16. Mist close mild yet N E. 17. Close mild Birds sing misle 5 p. N E. 18. Close misling mist 19. Dark cold flavors N. E. but n. S W. 20. Fog m. p. m. close Sly 21. Foggy m. p. cold wind fog n. Sly 22. Wetting a. L. vesp 22. Fog warm ☽ near Aequinoct S E. 24. H. cold audible wind so mist S W. A o 1669. Jan. 25. â™’ 16. A Jan. 13. ad Feb. 5. 13. Hard Fr. snow p. m. with Hail snow n. 14. Fr. windy more or less die tot 15. Cold dark day snow a little p. fr. continued 16. Fr. obscure air little wd stirring 17. Cloudy cold thaw p. s Hail and R 6 p. m. 18. Cold close frosty Star-light night 19. Frosty m. drisling snow n. 20. Frosty m. thaw p. frost at night 21. H. fr. cutting air 22. Fr. brake misty cold drisle 23. Rainy dark day 24. Bright m. Rain and wind p. Storms of hail 3 p. 25. Winds and rain 26. Frosty m. pleasant day 27. Cold windy moist drisle 18. Pleasant day Halo ☽ 29. Moderately pleasant 30. Small frost wd N. Halo ☽ 31. Frosty m. windy cloudy p. at n. dropping Feb. 1. Pleasant m. wdy cloudy p. Rain at night 2. Cloudy moist hail p. wdy cold n. 3. Terrible winds and rain day and night 4. Great winds continue some rain day and night 5. Frosty but variable 1670. Feb. 6. â™’ 28. A Jan. 25. ad Feb. 17. 25. Rain p. m. Tempest 11 p. with Snow Nly 26. Tempestuous noct tot some snow m. frosty Ely Blustering till Even 27. Snow 9 m. o. p. m. N. 28. Snow m. p. N. 29. Snow 6 m. p. m. Lightn 8 p. Ely 30. Vehement frost drisle 5 p. warmish at n. Ely 31. Blustering frosty Thaw show ante 11 p. Feb. 1. Blustering m. frosty N E 2. Blustering noct tot Vrâ—e froze Stormy wd N E. 3. Vehement fr. snow 9 m. 1 p. Bitter N E. 4. Snow a. l. Taps froze Nly 5. Vehement Fr. snow p. m. N E. 6. Great snow a. l. m. Nly o. 7. Hard fr. N E. 8. Snow 8 m. 11 p. N E. 9. Urine froze snow m. 11 m. p. 10. Snow a. m. per tot Nly 11. Much snow p. m. H. wd thaw 12. Blustering noct tot wind and rain p. m. Snow and Hail 4 p. Much rain 8. and 11 p. 13. R. circ Sun ort freez 4 p. 14. Frosty windy Ely 14. Rain Sun or Freez upon it and glaze the ground Thaw p. m. Ely 16. Frost m. wet p. m. Ely 17 Foggy day wet at night 1671. Feb. 18. ♓ 10. a Feb. 9. ad March 1. 6. Snow a. l. Halo 9 m. 7. Snow 8 p. Misling die tot 8. Wetting a. m. p. m. 9. Warm and cloudy winds a. l. H. wind at night 10. Wetting m. p. 11. Dew on the Windows 12. H. Gusts 3 p. c. Drisle 9 p. 13. Warm m. close misty vesp 14. Close m. p. cool 15. Close m. p. wd lower at Even 16. Wetting 3 p. 17. Fog very warm p. m. E. 18. Close dewing o. N E. 19. s wet m. drisle a. m. cold N. 20. Snow o. Halo 3 p. 21. Frost m. wind often showr o. p. m. Nly 22. Frost m. R. 8 m. 23. Fog drisle even 24. Some drops 4 p. 25. Wet sub meridiem cool p. m. showr from one cloud 26. Frost misle drisle 5 p. N. 27. s drops N W. 28. Close Sickness at Barbado's Gazet. March 1 Coldish noon S E. 1672. March 2. ♓ 22. A Feb. 20. ad March 13. 20. Fr. m. N E. 21. Mist m. drops towards Sun set Comet at Dansk Transactions 4017. 22. Close warm wind 23. Misty air warm 24. Cooler p. m. Ely 25 Dry m. Rain 9 p. N E. 26. Close damp windows cool N E. 27. Wetting a. m. close 28. Indispositions 29. H. wd a. l. cold close dry March 1. Ice N E. 2. Fr. Sol rubens Luna N W. 3. Misty die tot ☉ rubens frost m. 4. Fr. Pleasant 5. s mist offer p. m. 7 p. 10. p. 6. Showr 8 m. warm 7. Snow o. 1. p. cold wd N W. 8. Snow hard p. m. tot 9. Frost ice W. 10. H. wind 11. Ice misty lowring m. p. 12. Fog thaw 13. Gr. fr. misty close m. p. wind 1673. March 15. ♈ 5. A March 5. ad 26. 5. Snow slabby 11 m. cold wd N E. 6. Rain 1 p. 2 p. 5 p. N E. 7. Fr. close cold misty dry N E. 8. No fr. cloudy 9. Fr. fog m. close and cold 10. Warmish wet p. m. Rain 11 p. N. 11. Close m. p. mist dry N E. 12. Snow and rain vesp ad midn E. 13. Drop o. close open even S W. 14. Warmish S E. 3 Children complain 15. Warm S E. 16. Windy wetting circ 6 m. R. 11 m. 17. Windy Rain 7 m. 10 p. o. 5 p. 9 p. S E. 18. Thick noon but no rain windy p. m. Great Halo 9. p. 19. Showr o. showring 7 p. 20. Fine warm day 21. Misting 5 m. close cold wd N E. 22. Hysterical fits 3 m. close cold N E. 23. Very cold close misty Hail ante 6 p. N E. 24. Wetting 3 p. Rain 10 p. S E. 25. Hail 11 m. Rain 2 p. S E. 26. Wind showr 3 p. N E. 1674. March 28. ♈ 18. A die 19. ad Apr. 1. 17. Rain 6 p. c Ely distempers 18. Snow a. l. N E. so a. m very cold p. m. some misle N E. 19. Snow a. l. Tempestuous a. l. very sharp wind Nly Aches 20. Snow a. l. m. p. foggy High wind a. l. Aches 21. Close cold and fog N E. 22. Fog offer snow Aches N E. 23. Fog variable wind A. 24. Close fog Aches ches 25. Very warm s mist 26. Rain m. warm 27. Warm hottish 28 Hottish Ely 29. Fog hot Ely 30. Brisk wind fog Ely 31. Fair. Ely Apr. 1. Frost wind Ely Aches 2. N E. Fr.
Nly Fog brisk wd 14. Cool wind rain 2 p. Ely 15. E. Mist wd 16. Brisk wind hot night 17. Drisling hottish 18. H. wd drisle 19. Clear 20. Brisk wd dry Hail as big as an Egg. Thunder in Hassia neer Marpurg 21. Brisk wd soultry E. 22. Clear Ely Southerly 22 Great Fog frost m. hot Ely 24. Brisk wind hot Ely 25. Harmful Thunder at Venice 26. Ely Clear soultry 27. Ely Soultry little showr Thunder 9 p. Clouds contrary 28. Brisk wd soultry 29. Clouds contrary Lightn 30. Ely High wind dew 7 m some mil-dew observed blasting July 1. Ely Dry cooler 2. Brisk wind rain 2 p. 3. Rain 6 m. dash 1 p. Thunder stormy wind Plague at Andalusia 4. Brisk wind rain 5. R. smart showrs 1681. July 8. ♋ 26. A June 27. ad July 20. 27. Showr 11 m. hot and saint Lightning 9 p. 28. Hot n. fog m. showr 11 m. 29. Rain o. ad 4 p 30. Very wet ante Sun ad o. Nly Die 27. Darchester about Two miles from it Globe of Fire burnt Trees to ashes July 1. High wind rain 8 m. and 11 m. Nly 2. Cool fine day Nly 3. Troubled air 11 m. wd 5. Fog m. Harmful lightning in W. 10 p. 6. Th. R. W. circa 2 m. gentle showr 4 p. Nly 7. Hot n. some rain circa o. 3 p. 1. Fog in Fields soultry n. Nly 9. Cooler N W. 10. H. wind m. N W. 11. Rain 2 m. 1 p. Temperate 12. High wind some rain p. m. 10 p. 13. High wind calm at n. 14. R. High wind 6 m. Rain 6 p. 15. High wind some drops 9 p. 16. Some rain 9 m. 4 p. windy vesp 17. H. wind drisle 9 m. and 11 m. 18. Dry some rain 1 p. Nly 19. Dry clouds warmer N W. 16. Plague broke out at Magdeburg 1652. July 15. ♌ 2. A July 3. ad 26. 3. Dropping red wind N E. 4. Dropping H. red wind N. 5. Red wind rainy at night N. 6. Showry windy N W. 7. Showry Thunder at night N W. 8. Showry more wind calm at night 9. Windy some showr at n. 11. Rain like some wind S E. 12. More wind rain at night 13. Showry misty at night S E. 15. Windy S E. 16. Rainy die tot 17. Dropping m. at n. wind change 18. Dropping more wind misty still at n. N. 19. Misty m. windy n. then E. 20. s wind misty n. N E. 21. Misty m. close 22. Thunder showrs sh at n. N. 23. Dropping at n. 24. Showrs clouds contrary windy 25. Windy dropping 26. Windy dropping 1682. July 23. ♌ 10. A July 11. ad Aug. 4. 11. Showr early close yet hot Hurricane at Anjou 12. Hot. 13. Hot n. soultry p. m. 14. Fog soultry brisk wind N E. 15. Hot n. Thunder rain ante 3 m. 16. Showr o. 1 p. some drop ante 5 p. 17. Wind brisk fits of rain 18. H. wind and showr 7 m. drop 1 p. very cool 19. High wd cool 20. Cold n. showr o. Meteor 11 p. 21. Wetting Rain 10 p. c. 22. Showrs coasting cool windy 23. Wind and drops 11 m. showr 1 p. p. m. great Iris 7 p. N W. Harmful Lightning at Philispburg 24. Early wetting dry pains in the Head 25. Fog m. hot N W. 26. Fog m. hot Meteors 2 by Aquila T. M. at Friburg 27. Early wet warm 28. High wind warm some drisle 29. High wind suspicious cold vesp Meteors 30. Warm great Halo 31. Warmer gentle rain 2 p. ad 8 p. Die 28. Hail at Burdeaux harmful to the Vintage Aug. 1. Windy lowring p. m. 2. Windy 3. Fr. cold m. 4. Cold great dew clouds contrary 1653. July 30. ♌ 16. A July 19. ad Aug. 10. 19. Cold red wind N E. 20. Some rain N E. 21. Windy hot N E. 22. Hot and dry season High wind n. N E. 23. High wind cold close N E. 24. Hot calm N E. 25. Misty m. hot rain Thunder 26. Some rain cold wind blew mist 27. Rain a. l. blew mist N E. 28. Coasting Showrs hot 29. Cold m. coasting showrs 30. A Showr N W. 31. Gentle rain die tot Aug. 1. Some rain windy n. 2. Rainy windy thunder showr 4. High wd H. wd showry Thunder 5. Windy showry 6. Idem Flash of Lightning 7. Windy showry rainy n. 9. Some wd N W. 10. Little wd N W. 1683. Aug. 6. ♌ 23. A July 27. ad Aug. 17. 27. Foggy air some gusts ' warm 28. Foggy dark but no Rain Ely 29. Foggy hot high wind Ely 30. Foggy winds dry Ely 31. Foggy m. warm winds Ely Aug. 1. Misty soultry rain 4. p. c. 2. Foggy showrs p. m. soultry 3. Fog showr hot brisk wd 4. Brisk wind cool showr 5. Brisk wind showr 6. Some rain dark 4 p. 7. Brisk wind cool m. Nly 8. Rain m. p. by fits high wd die tot 9. Some rain coldish Nly 10. Hard frost mist gusts no Rain 11. Hot n. wetting m. 12. Cold high wd showr N W. Hamburgi glans ignea delabitur fulguris instar 13. s drisle cool even 14. Rainy o. dark hot high wind 15. Foggy rainy m. p. 16. Frosty m. some drops showr 17. Misty m. coasting rain N W. 1654. Aug. 13. ♠o. Ab Aug. 1. ad 25. 1. Red wind high wind cool mists N W. 2. Dry Sun eclipsed 7 of 12. N E. 3. Wind and red wd still n. N W. S W. 4. Fine showrs mists S W. 5. Hottish and still some wd p. m. N W. 6. Wind some drops misty at n. S W. 7. A showr discovered Some little wet at night S W. 8. Wind good store of wet S W. 9. Fair bright air S W. 10. Wind frost hot day S W. 11. R. Th. b. d. dropping s fits of Wet 12. Thunder m. high wind much wet so at night Th. S W. 13. Most violent wind with rain s say Thunder S W. 14. Rain b. d. cool wind showring S W. 15. Wind higher stormy die tot S W. 16. Cool unconstant not so much rain 17. Cool m. cold showring N W. 18. Cool wet at Sun set wet to purpose N W. 19. Very cold wind mist at n. N E. 20. Hot muddy clouds fair N E. 21. Hot ground mist at n. N E. 22. Misty m. suspicion of R. Sun occ N E. 23. Blew mist red clouds at n. N W. 24. Fair white clouds suspicion clear wd N E. 25. Hot fair fewer white some audible wd S E. A o 1655. Aug. 27. ♠13. Ab Aug. 16. ad Sept. 7. 16. Rain a. L. and Sun rise wet die tot S E S W. 17. Dark and showrs S W. 18. Showring 3 p. hot W. 19. Very wet hot S W. 20. Wet m. so at n. Thunder s places N W. 21. Wind and wet some clearing N W. 22. Clearing some storms and clouds N W. 23. Dropping mist at midn N W. 24. Mist m. Rain with us none elsewhere Rain hard a Floud fear'd N W. 25. Mist Sun shine N E. S W. 26. Hot. W. 27. Fr. clear m. mist
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
which it seems also by the same unanimous Voice to belong to this Body Ptolemy makes it out by a fetch of his own but be that attempt of his passable or not the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is true 3ly I have been curious to observe the Aspects of ♄ and ♃ each with the ☽ and I find Frosty Morns and other Tokens of Cold even as often under the Later as under the Former I tryed also in Keplers Nine Years Diary and I found Nothing but Agreement It will be said and so it will prove in the Aspects of ♂ with the ☽ I answer Nay Let any make Experience who hath Observations by him or for Want of them in Keplers Diary § 13. We want some Authority to back us now there being Few or none who tell us that he hath a Chill Influence Yet we are not altogether Destitute of that Experienced Eichstad's Suffrage who though he tell us pag. 38. ♃ and ♂ are hot yet he tells us pag. 40. that some Transits of ♃ cause an East Wind and a Cold Air at least by Night and a bright Air by Day But more home a little before that even the Aspect of ♃ and ♂ sometimes being Mediocre Gelu because of the North-Wind that accompanies it So much doth Ptolemy's Fetch stand him in stead § 14. What have we to say but this leaving the Mystery of the Satellites if they have Influence considerable as I believe they have none no more than a new single Star in Cygnus suppose hath but that Jove singly considered with or without those Attendants though he be Warmer than ♄ doth not abandon his Interests in frigid Impressions since Warmth it self when dull'd and rebated by the Affluence of the contrary is not wholly bound up but may and doth exert its Power according to its Stint in exciting the chill Exhalation Thus in the Freezing Experiment the mixture of Salt with the Cold Water helps to Congelation the Salt invigorating the Cold of the Water and so conglaciating the Snow To which I refer the other Newer Experiment wherein an Empty Bottle stopt close and sunk a while in the Depth of the Sea-Brine returns again either with a Crack or Flaw or with the Cork forced into the Neck of the Bottle So great is the Condensation of the Air as I reckon from the Coldness of the Water invigorated and actuated by the salt Ambient Spirit § 15. How to unriddle this better I know not for I am not fond of a Heterogeneous Principle lodg'd in the Planet though 't is suitable enough to the Gopernican Subtilty to make a Luminous Planet Fraught with store of Heterogeneous Emanations Cold and Moist Nitrous Sulphurous yea and these reaching not 2 or 3 Miles but 2. or 3000 Miles if the proportions assigned to the rarefaction of late take place which maketh Air to exceed Water in rarity 1000 times according to which a misle of Vapour or Fume may be extenuated into some hundreds at least Yet least I should be forced to make use of the same Hypothesis in the Fixed Stars who emit all the way a Warm Emanation as certain as they do Lucid One For a Frigid Efflux I will not undertake only say as you hear that Light or Heat from such a Body so distanced so circumstantiated may have some Interest in the Cold Atome Cold being not caused as Astrologers define from the meer absence of Aspects but often from the presence of such determinate Aspects of ♄ and ♃ or as we may after learn from the Planetary Bodies Position in relation to the Fixed whether they be mutually among themselves Aspected or not I said at the beginning that Light was the Spirit of the World and the Learned Isaac Vossius I see since is much of that Mind § 16. The Truth is the Antients as I have reason to believe drew the Character of Jupiter from their Observation of the Conjunction only and therein I confess most to an end he is found Warm and Moist and the reason may be because in Conjunction with the Sun he becomes Diurnal and so partakes of the Additional Steams of those Celestials which always attend the Sun As a Man is always warmer in a Croud Six Five Planets may be Four must be above the Horizon at Noon when Conjunction with Jove § 17. Nor is this all for Joves Motion in Conjunction with the Sun is more deliberate and slow-paced than in Opposition c. thereupon he may seem to imbibe a greater share of the Solar Warmth then by a further distance § 18. To this Effect some years ago I have disputed but what say Second Thoughts since They say that the First besure is the Certainty of Prognosis wavers not for ♄ is cool and ♃ many times in a Cold Fit and the return of that Fit comes under Cognisance But then I find by what follows that I may be obliged to retract any Superiosity in this kind given to Jove as if he was cooler than ♄ for albeit Jove doth play his part as often for Frost even as ♄ perhaps yet Jove is a much warmer Star and Cold only by accident which is far a more facile and smooth way of Procedure Here we will first consider from the Experience of the Diary the Warmth and settle that and then for the Cold afterward The Diary in this place seeing a Controversie is to be decided thereby hopes to be more welcome then ordinary ♃ ☉ Diary The Hyemal Part. A o 1661. Oct. 7. ♎ 24. Sept. 26. H. wd mist m. sometimes showrs S W. 27. Windy a. m. and clear stormy wd and frequent showrs cold d. 28. H. wd s showrs m. cold cold and windy die tot S W. 29. Sad rain a 3 m. ad 9 m. clear p. m. cold n. W. 30. Fr. cold s drops showr o. fog n. S. Oct. 1. Showr 6 m. cold L. showr vesp S. W. 2. H. wind cold showr 2 p. Lightning much and Th. 8 p. ad 10 p. then violent Hail Harm done by Lightn E. N. 3. Fog warm cloudy even E. 4. Warm close mist m. ad 11 m. Ely 5. Clear m. p. and warm fog fall n. E. 6. Suspic some wd cool m. warm N E. 7. Clear m. p. fair warm misty vesp N E. 8. Misty a. m. warm cloudy E. 9. Cloudy m. p. dry s wetting 11 p. 10. Fog cloudy warm colder p. m. S W. 1673. Oct. 11. ♎ 28. 2. H. Frosty lowring m. p. Aches S W. 3. Fr. m. windy and wetting 1 p. S W. Armies in the Air at Posen in Poland seen by 1000 of Spectators 4. Frost m. lowring 4 p. cold and Winterly-misty Great T. m. in S. Domingo Gazet. 127. 5. Frosty ice m. Wly frosty day 6. Wind and rain a. l. warm dropping 2 p. S W. Aches 7. Frost ice at Putney showr 3 p. 9 p. 8. s frost fair mist winterly Air. N. 9. Frost close foggy a. m. wetting 10 m. p. m. Sly 10. Wetting o. some Rain a. L. S.
misting at p. m. m. p. S W. 8. Some moisture 5 m. S W. 9. Cold cloudy open 10 m. cloudy p. m. sharp wind clear n. Wly 10. Overcast m. cloudy open N. p. s clouding 11. Thick fog till 11 m. overcast at m. s drisling by fits S W. Sly 12. Thick fog misling m. sharp wd lowring die tot 13. Thick fog mist m. cloudy overcast coldish N E. 14. Fog clear Sun shine o. Summers day The Sickness increased this Week S E. 15. Mist m. cloudy open at o. clear fine and pleasant day Nly 16. Fair a. l. mist frost fair overcast n. Nly 1678. Feb. 18 ♓ 10. 8. Pleasant a. m. wdy o. cldy m. p. W. Rain 1 p. 11 p. 9. Rain 1 m. cloudy m. p. drisle 8 p. W. 10. Cloudy misty drop or 2. W. Aches indispos 11. Mist m. open Summers day W. 12. Fog cloudy N E. a. m. Wly p. m. then N W. ho. Meteor 6 p. prope ♄ cor ♌ ho 9. prope ♀ Sirium Aches 5 p. 13. Fog some wetting 7 m. temperate Aches 11 p. N. 14. Mist cloudy fr. m. coldish ☿ ☽ 6 p. a. fine sight N W. Great Meteors circ 8 p. 15. Mist Aches close windy even W. 16. Mist m. cloudy wind N. at n. W. 17. Mist Aches 8 m. Wly close p. m. mist 5 p. N. Aches 18. Fr. mist clear above coldish Aches E. Two Meteors ho. 8. one by ♀ the other juxta Sirium 19. Some frost mist fair above overcast p. m. dewing 1 p. Sly 20. H. wind s drops o. rain p. m. m. p. S. 21. Rain m. o. high wd R. 7 p. 11 p. S. 22. Wind cloudy m. p. S W. 1655. March 17. ♈ 6. 8. Sad soking rain S W. 9. Strangely clouding s l. R. S W. Clouds as in hail 10. Dewing ante Sun ort hail 7 m. very cold N E. 11. Frost close misty m. stormy R. Hail S W. S E. 12. Sad soking day cleer n. 13. Frost m. wind rise 10 m. clouds low N E. 13. Rainy m. p. m. by fits clear n. S W. 15. Bright m. wind rise cold a drop S W. 16. Fair m. clouds ride contrary dry wholsome cool S W. 17. Close warm s moisture at n. S W. 18. Close and cold m. warm close d. S W. 19. Close wind cloudy dry 20. Some wet 3 m. close and dry somet open 21. Fr. bright cold wd N E. 1667. March 22. ♈ 11. 13. Frosty offering snow some what open calm E. 14. Fr. gusts of wind mist Winterly Weather freez n. S E. 15. Frosty and sn a. l. thaw misty thick air S S E. 16. Close thaw rain a. m. m. p. calm Thames much ice though Sun in Equinox 17. Fog midn close misty warmish Sly 18. Fr. ice fair welcome day Ely 19. s frost Sun clap in close offering at n. Wly 20. Grass fr. fair and welcom day fine Gales Halo at n. N W. 21. H. wd wetting Wly 22. H. wind noct tot s the wet a. l. W. N W. 23. s Rain close mist wetting calm Nly 24. Fair mild pleasant day freez at n. N W. 25. Fr. fair a. m. blew clouds and sh p. m. 26. Fr. ice very cold wind Hail o. 7 p. H. cold wind at n. Nly 1679. March 27. ♈ 16. 17. Gr. fog bright broad cl o. cold n and day S E. 18. No fog cold wind wetting m. p. S. 19. Great fog rain 5 m. drisle S E. sharp wind and cold n. rain 4 p. Nly 20. s rain ante 7 m. N. 21. s fog Rain ab ho. 5. med vesp usque ad 7 med fair 〈◊〉 m. R. 6 p. Iris. 22. Clear Wly Rain ab ho. 6. ad 8 p. S. 23. H. wind no fog R. circa ho. nocte 24. R. ho. 3 m. clear no fog N W. 25. No fog cloudy s snow ante 5 m. cold sharp windy N E. 26. s fog frost cold sharp wind E. 27. Fr. great fog cloudy Sly warm day 28. Some fog frost S. 20. Gr. fog freez clear above very cold E. 30. Gr. fog clear above S. 31. Rain ho. 3 m. cold m. warm p. m. S. Aestival Part. 1656. April 22. ♉ 12. 13. Rain 7 m. 2 p. Hail p. m. in some places Rain Sun ort S W. 14. Wind and hard rain all n. s coasting showrs Floud never so high 15. Overcast 9 m. Halo Sun 9 m. cold E. vesp W. 16. Rain ante L. cloudy Wly 17. Close foggy ante Sun ort warm coasting showrs o. S W. E. 18. Red m. warm rain p. m. gusts W. 19. Cool and flying clouds warm W. 20. Red m. warm gentle drops 2 p. S W. 21. Closing very hot blew mist heat drops Sun occ S W. 22. Sun morn hot wd showr 5 m. 10 m. H. wind p. m. Red cl fr. West to Mid-Heaven 23. Blew mist high wind noct N E. 24. Cool m. soultry A cloud raised by the very heat 25. Bright m. soultry Frogs croke 26. Red m. lowring s places misty clouds 1668. April 28. ♉ 18. 25. Fair white cl warm s gales S W. 26. Mist in prospect windy l. showr 2 p. Wly 27. VVindy m. s showring a. m. s dropping p. m. V V. 28. Cool drisle 8 m. c. mist a drop at n. N V V. 29. VVet m. s wetting p. m. 30. Fr. m. very cold a. m. N. Hail clouds p. m. cold fair p. m. N E. 1680. May 3. ♉ 23. April 24. E. Mist clear some overcast vesp 25. Much dew audible wd warm E. 26. E. Very hot n. by all confession warm day cold wd Aches 11 p. E. 27. Clear above fog below very warm sickly Passing Bells 5 p. E. 28. Clear above small wind soultry E. 29. E. Some thin cl hot brisk wind S E. 30. S E. Mist very high wd somewhat cooler E. May 1. E. Close cool wind mist suspic Sun ort clds contrary Sun occ 2. E. open cool brisk wind Country wish rain Caterpillars begin to appear 3. Hail Thund Ground-mist not a Cloud in the Sky suspic overc Sun occ 4. Rain a. l. c. E. close cool wd dewing 8 m. E. 5. E. Fog clearing 7 m. warmer close die tot 6. E. Fog close dark p. m. showr with Thunder-claps Three 6 p. ♂ or dash 10 p. c. ♄ occ ☽ or ♀ in Nadir 7. N E. Fog s wind drisle m. o. dash 6 p. rain ante 11 p. c. 1657. May 13. ♊ 18. 20. Cool wind misle Sun occ wind at n. N W. 21. Fair high wind threatn o. cold even N W. 22. Cloudy m. p. cool N W. 23. Close m. p. N W. 24. H. wind coasting showr 5 p. Sun occ hot calm a Sun occ 25. Cool wind somet overc Bees swarm and return again 26. Mist Sun or dry very hot S E. 27. Close m. s showr hempen clouds Sun occ S E. 28. Red m. hot blew mist N. 29. Red m. wind s drops 3 p. 6 p. S W. 30. Lowring m. p. s drops Sun occ Showring Oxford and with us 10 p. colds 31.
W. 27. Rain a midn m. p. rain 7 m. wind and rain 4 p. furious tempest and flying clouds Aches S W. 28. Bright and windy S W. 29. Frost bright m. windy Aches S W. 83. Wet die tot and wind H. at n. Aches S E. 31. Frost fair Aches 8 p. Wly A o 1675. Nov. 15. ♠24. 6. Terrible frost ice in the Channels of the City 7. Fog frosty fair ice bitter frost Wly 8. Fog thaw p. m. N W. 9. Some mist rain at 10 m. and o. Aches S W. 10. Close warm high wind R. 4 p. 5 p. 8 p. 11. Drisling m. p. very warm s wetting o. Wly 12. Close warm Wly 13. Close warm mist some misle 10 p. 14. Frosty m. open 15. Open misle 7 p. Nly 16. Fair m. p. cool mist Wly A o 1676. vacat A o 1677. Jan. 14. vide in ♃ ☉ A o 1678. Jan. 25. ♓ 4. 20. Great storm of wind and rain 3 m. stormy o. 2 p. great Halo noted 7 p. 21. Open rain p. m. open vesp and mist Nly 22. Fair m. cloudy m. p. mist m. so 6 p. N W. 23. Hoar frost fair foggy N E. 24. Frost rain o. snow offer p. m. vesp N E. 25. Fog snow gone Ely smart rain 7 m. 26. Fog cold misty Ely A o 1679. April 2. ♈ 18. March 29. Great fog clear above Ely 30. Great fog clear above Sly 31. R. ho. 3 m. cloudy cold m. warm p. m. April 1. Rain considerable p. m. dark showr rain 11 m. 6 p. 2. Very clear m. showr o. S. 3. Rain 11 m. 2 p. m. S E. Part Aestival A o 1656. May. 13. ♉ 17. 9. Fr. very cold red wd Ely 10. Frost fair cool wd Frogs croke S E. 11. White clouds flying low 12. Some frost fair m. red w. 2 or 3 drops N E. 13. Rain 100 miles N. ward frosty cold wind N E. 14. Fr. clear white streaks Red bliting N W. N E. Wind blew mist A o 1668. May 25. ♉ 24. 20. Close coldish offering m. Ely Nly 21. Coldish wd open S E. N E. 22. Wet die tot and n. threatn Flouds N E. 23. Close drisling m. p. wind at n. ☽ near Aequinox N E. 24. Winds coldish misling m. p. close n. Ely 25. Warm open some lowring N. 26. Cool m. with clouds warm Wly A o 1657. May. 18. ♊ 15. 15. Dry wd m. streak'd cl N E. 16. Dry wd lights cloudy winds s gusts N E. 17. Close m. a gentle showr s misling 9 m. blew mist N N E. 18. Close windy cloudy blew mist N E. A o 1669. May 31. ♊ 22. 28. Temperate showr o. 4 p. bright n. Nly 29. s overcast m. heat p. m. bright n. Sly 30. Close showring 6 p. Aches Sly 31. Temper calm day A o 1658. June 4. ☿ Stationary 1. Windy cool S W. 2. Much rain S W. 3. Rain Lightning S W. 4. Much rain S W. 5. Cloudy S W. A o 1670. Jun ♋ 2. Cool wind open offer o. s wetting Sun occ c. Aches 11 p. 3. Open offering warm Wly 4. Soultry a. m. wd brisk much Rain and Thunder a 4 p. ad Sun occ then a gr storm of Lightn n. S W. 5. Fair windy Wly 6. Close and drisling 7. Close m. p. and fair p. m. wdy 8. Close m. fair p. m. H. and cool wind 11 p. Wly 9. Warm open s bl cl s mist soultry at n. A o 1659. July 30. ♌ 22. 26. Fair m. drisling showr hot gusts of wind W. 27. Wet 2 m. and a. m. Wly 28. Cloudy a coasting showr 12 Meteors N W. 29. Cool wind a showr 2 p. some Meteors N W. 30. Clouds in stories warm s rain 1 p. N W. 31. Rainy day break at o. tempest wind at even S W. S E. A o 1671. Aug. 11. ♌ 28. V. in ♃ ☉ A o 1660. Aug. 5. ♠17. 30. Showring a. m. close lowring 1 p dropping vesp N W. 31. Close m. stiff wind misty open Meteor n. N W. 1 2 3. Cloudy morning p. drisle 4. Thunder and Lightning Tempest in Kent much R. n. 5. Drisle m. fair p. after and dry Lond. 6. Fair and cloudy Lond. A o 1672. Aug. 16. ♠20. 11. Showr in prospect 1 p 2 p. 3 p. Rain and many Thunder-Claps H. wd 2 p S W. 12. Close m. p. and lowring drisle 9 p. S W. 13. Wet n. close a. m. H. wd R. 6 p. S W. 14. Close showr o. wetting p. m. m. p. windy S W. 15. White lowring clouds showr 4 p. N W. 16. Fog frost close m. p. white frost m. Ely A o 1673. Oct. 21. ♠o. 16. Misty cloudy N E. Lowring p. m. and some wetting 8 p. s wetting a. I. S W. 17. Fair a. m. close p. m. showrs 9 p. S W. 18. Tempestuous die tot overcast noon and rain 1 p. 19. Frost fair very misty 20. Mist at n. 21. Hard frost misty and close m. p. Aches 22. Misty Aches rain 8 m. S W. N W. A o 1680. April 8. ♉ 17. 3. Rain ante Sun ort mist cldy H. wind wetting a. m. ante 4 p. 4. Rain dark H. wind m. litle wetting circa 1. 4. showring 7 p. N E. 5. Rain a 1. ad 8 m. N E. fog brisk wind red Heaven misling 7 p. 10. p. Ignis Fatuus at Waltham Abbey S E. Ely N E. 6. Some mist gentle wind rain a 3. ad 4 m. fog close N W. 7. Dark fog close ♠and ☿ seen hora 8. 8. Brisk wind dewing circa 8 m. rain ante o. with Hail Rain 1 p. 9. Open brisk wind dewing 7 p. Rain 10 p. S W. A o 1681. June 13. ♊ 28. 10. Cold m. cloudy open p. m. dry s wind 11. Cold m. fair few white clouds wind variable 12. Cloudy and suspicious close gusty Sly 13. Some drisle 6 m. H. wind and close 14. Very high wind bright air wd and wetting 10 p. welcome N W. 1682. vide in ♃ ♀ Summa Dierum Part Hyemal Days 72. Wet 34. Wind 22. Frost and Cold 29. Part Aestival Days 68. Wet 42. Wind 25. Frost and Cold 14. As we were saying there are more Wet days and sorer in the Aestival Part. We find 42. under 68. days here and there in the Hyemal we find but 34. under 72. we gave the reason as to ♌ ♠which holds in the ☠also as to smart Rains in July and August July and August abroad are the Hurricane Months § 9. Blite is a Country Observation taught me at first by the Husbandmen often-times accompanyed with a blew Tincture of the Air or Red Wind as they call it bringing not small Prejudice to Vegetables especially in the first blowing of Fruit Corn c. It became my Diligence to mark it for it concerns the Publick which we all labour after and I find it to belong especially to a Configuration of Jove with Mercury with Sol with Mars May 12 13 14. A o 1658. under the Conjunction with Mercury July 19. A o 1653. under
Foggy clear above fr. S W. m. N W. p. m. 22. Wd rain 6 m. wet p. m. 8 p. Sly Ely 23. Mist fair above S. S E. A o 1653. Decemb. 17. ♒ 17. 15. Foggy moist and warm N E. 16. Wds a. l. clear s wd R. at n. S. 17. Rain a. l. Sun shine fr. n. great Halo circa Sun S. 18. Fair fr. some gusts clear N E. A o 1664. Dec. 8. ♑ 22. 7. Mist rain a. l. 4 m. wet a. m. p. m. Sly 8. Much wet 4 m. Dog 〈◊〉 8 p. rise S W. 9. Close wet m. rain hard 8 p. and store as hath not been known A o 1675. Dec. 4. ♠28. 3. Fog fair wet close m. p. S W. 4. Dark mist close wind S. S W. 5. Fog dry clear n. fr. Wly A o 1677. Dec. 23. ♒ 27. 22. Fr. fog cloudy yielding p. m. mild S E. 23. Cloudy wind p. m. some rain S E. Ely 24. Wet a. l. close foggy drisle s rain p. m. Wly 25. Cloudy fog a. l. cool dry fr. h. n. Ely January vacat A o 1653. Feb. 15. ♒ 4. 14. Cloudy some wind warm and dry E. 15. Cloudy some wind Summer weather W. 16. Clouds s wd Sun app fair and warm N W. 17. A blast of wind Sun occ N. A o 1664. Feb. 3. ♑ 8. 2. Brisk wind close m. p. warm 3. Close m. p. h. wind some wetting Sun shine S W. 4. Fair windy cloudy o. coasting hail 2 p. s drops 7 p. S W. 5. Cloudy windy p. m. s Rain S W. A o 1666. Feb. 28. ♓ 8. 27. Close mist offer a. m. storm of hail 4 p. N E. 28. Bitter frost m. snow lies some offer m. clds at for Hail offering m. N E. 1 March Mist m. close wind clear n. no frost A o 1677. Feb. 12. ♒ 13. 20. Rain 4 m. rain hard 5 p. Wly 21. Much wet 7 m. ad 9. rain 8 p. Wly 22. Rain p. m. tot warm Wly S E. A o 1655. March 6. ♈ 3. 5. Clouds ride N E. wind s drisling 9 m. S W. 6. Rain 4 m. very still showrs unconstant 7. Showrs of hail rain 2 m. cold fr. H. wind some fits of rain m. S W. 8. s rain Sun or a sad soking R. S W. A o 1657. March 30. ♊ 5. 29. Winds cold and cloudy s moist m. N E. 30. Close some wind a. l. cold lowring clear n. H. wind S E. 31. Wind a. l. close very cold mistyish m. white flying clouds from W. A o 1668. March 20. ♉ 9. 17. Close cold windy fair p. m. ♃ ♀ make a fine show 18. Br. cool wd rise 10 p. not so brisk S E. 19. Brisk wind audible n. Ely Nly 20. Fr. for the last fortnight in London Fair dry ☽ under Lanx B. A o 1679. March 12. ♈ 13. 11. Fine springing showr ante 1 p. 12. Some fog rain ad 7. noct S E. 13. Some rain m. some fog cold frost Ely A o 1681. Apr. 6. ♊ 13. 4. Cloudy misling 1 p. ♃ ☿ made a fine show Ely 5. Bright fair brisk wind Ely 6. Fair some wind warm Ely 7. Misty air clear above and calm W. 8. Fair hot high wind S W. 9. Fair m. mist windy clouding a. m. gentle rain 3 p. § 13 This you see is our English Diary and do we not meet with Lightning one day Rain hard the next A o 1656. Rain all the Forenoon May 17. and Thunder 18. 1667. Aug. 30. 1659. and the next day Wind and Storms of Rain Aug. 31. Flashes of Lightning Sept. 1. Dashes of Wet Sept. 2. Fax Volans Aug. 25. Lightning Aug. 27. 1670. Lightning Sept. 9. Smart Showr Sept. 10. High Wind June 13. 1658. June 9. 1669. Sept. 7. 1672. Soultry Air June 22. 1671. Aug. 28. 1670 To say nothing of troubled Air which argues a Ponderous Influence 'T is a great Stone which upon injection mudds the Water I need not pray you to observe the Lightning ♃ and ♀ we have said carry it in their Faces § 14. The Hyemal rains hard Nov. 24. 62. and Nov. 22. A o 1673. Rainy at Night and Wet Morn Dec. 16 17 A o 1653. Then Dec. 7 8 9. Rain in such store as hath not been known A o 1664. Wet anto luc Dec. 24. A o 1677. Summer Weather in the midst of Febr. A o 1653. Warm in the beginning of Febr. 1664. with High Wind for Two days after Hail Febr. 4. 1664. and Febr. 27 28. A o 1666. which Hail in ♂ 's Theory we produce as a Mark of Violence c. Rain hard much wet Rain the whole Afternoon Febr. 20 21 22 A o 1677. At the same tone in March A o 1655. Rain Hail unquiet Weather a sad soking Showr 6 7 8. Fine Showr March 11. A o 1679. High Wind and Heat Apr. 8. 1681. Days in the Hyemal Part 54. Rain 26. Brisk Influence or Violence 15. Frost 11. In the Aestival Part Days 46. Rain 27. Violence 15. Frost 4. § 15. The Account you have received the Aspects are but short howbeit they run the Zodiaque once round and That brevity will be pardoned in me who conceal nothing for fear of being discover'd You may see by the Sum § 13. that according to our Method the Aspect conduces I had almost said as much to Moisture as Serenity § 16. How comes it to pass then that ♃ ♀ have been voic'd for Fair Weather Is it because of the difference of the Climate Is it because Serenity as I said is more taken notice of One Fair Day making amends for Two Foul Days or is it because at the close of the Fair Day ♃ ♀ appear in the Western Angle and make a fine Spectacle so ampliating the Serene Day preceding by an Illustrious Close ♃ and ♀ making the most notable Congress in the Heavens the Fair Couple of the Celestial Court or Is it because in the Hour of Serenity These Two Stars add to the Glory of the Serene Day beside what the Usurping Sun challenges to himself though the Truth is 'T is we ascribe All to the Sun which the Sun challengeth not § 17. For shame will some say Doth not ☌ ♃ ♀ make Fair Weather I have answered and I cannot recall it In such Circumstances of Non-assistance Vacancy of a mediate Sign or co-arctation of Place So ♃ ♀ are white Boys and bring you such Lovely Weather as makes Life it self the sweeter § 18. Now try the Truth of what is now observed August the 30. and 31. A o 1660. the first pleasant days in the Aestival Table See before your Eyes no Hiatus but straitness of place ♠17. ☉ 22. ♃ 23. ♀ ♎ 6. ♂ 9. ☿ ♠8. ♄ 11. ☽ Not only ♃ ♀ together but ☉ is crouding with them in ♠nor only that but ♂ and ☿ nusling together in ♎ Again shall May 19. 1667. go for a Fair day Then you have not ♃ ♀ alone ☌ in ♈ but ♂ and ☉ in ☌ in ♊ I say nothing 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.
Current ♉ 4. ♃ 19. ♂ ☌ ☉ ♀ 1635. Octob. the 8th a Current ♌ 28. ♃ ♠4. ♂ III. in ♎ Octob. 27. A Current ♠1. ♃ 15. ♂ 1648. Dec. 18. Currents Monconys ♠14. ♂ ♎ 8. ♃ And I do not insist much upon these as if the Aspect had any eminent Power in the Streams because I see other Causes nearer the ☉ and nearer home to the Earth I mean that challenge this Province and whether They or These do exert remarkable Influences unless in some places of Heaven posited is to be enquired as also whether among the Superiours ♄ may not have more Power though remoter than ♃ in the Motion of Waters The Seamen use to adjust their reckonings by allowing for Impediments wherein besure Currents are comprehended Notwithstanding I have noted none but where the Current made them speak out and have none of the Moderation above premised in the mean time I desire comparison may be made between the two Superiors in the case Parelia § 70. Something is contributed but other Aspects may be more proper ♃ and ♀ perhaps may multiply the Images of the ☉ before our present Aspect because ♀ Pranks it more than ♂ seems to do howbeit take our few Instances of Parelia with Halo's 1528. May 16. Halo circa Solem Lyc. ♊ 22. ♂ ♋ 22. ♃ 1550. Aug. 11. Norimberg alibi in a fair day Irides and other Phoenomena Lycosth 607. ♊ 13. ♂ 26. ♃ 1551. Magdeburg Paraselenae seen with VII Irides Lyc. 612. at Wittemberg also describ'd by Lycosth p. 613. 615. Gem. 1. p. 194. ♋ 5. ♃ ♌ 11. ♂ 1559. Febr. 28. Antwerpiae Tres Soles cum variis atque diversis circulis Visisunt Lycosth 614. ♊ 22. ♃ ♊ 3. ♂ 1607. Dec. 13. Iris tot die ♑ 22. ♃ ♒ 4. ♂ 1617. May 1. Parelia ♒ 1. ♃ ♌ 27. ♂ 1619. Mense Maii Tres Soles ♃ ♂ ☠Dec. 13. Iris tot die Kepl. ♑ 22. ♂ ♒ 4. ♃ 1621. Aug. 18. Halo ☽ ♠o. ♂ ♊ 22. ♃ 1623. Lincii Parelia Kepl. May. 18. ♑ 16. ♂ ♋ 26. ♃ May 30. Iris K. ♑ 16. ♂ ♋ 28. ♃ Nov. 24. Halo ☽ Kyr ♠o. ♃ ♓ 3. ♂ 1625. July 6. Iris ♠25. ♃ ♓ 27. ♂ Sept. 20. Iris et clarus Sept. ♓ 27. ♂ ♎ 10. ♃ Octob. 14. Gaelum Sanguineum Kepl. Dec. 8. Oldenburgi Parelia in Coron Regis Ferdin 3. die Kepl ♎ 25 ♃ ♈ 10. ♃ 1627. Octob. 18. Halo Solis Kyr Kepl. ♠4 ♃ ♊ 6. ♂ 15. Iris Kepl. Nov. 12. Halo ☽ Kyr Kepler ♉ 29. ♂ ♠9. ♃ Dec. 14. Parelia Kyr in Bavaria ♉ 21. ♂ ♠21. ♃ 1628. Jan. 2. Iris Kepl. Kyr ♉ 27. ♂ ♠20. ♃ March 18. Iris Kyr ♑ 3. ♃ ♋ 11. ♂ April 13. Iris Kyr ♑ 3. ♃ ♋ 9. ♂ 25. Iris Kepl. Kyr ♑ 2. ♃ ♋ 15. ♂ May 14. Iris Kepl. Kyr ♑ 1. ♃ ♋ 26. ♂ 23. Iris Kyr 1629. March 24. Halo ☽ K. Kyr ♒ 1. ♃ ♓ 3. ♂ 1631. March 4. Iris Kyr ♈ 9. ♃ 21. ♂ 1635. Jan. 14. Halo ♃ ♂ ♌ ♒ 29. Partil ☠1637. Febr. 9. Halo ☉ Kyr ♓ 26. ♃ ♎ 4. ♂ 10. Tres Soles cum Iride Kyr March 2. Paraselenae ♎ 1. ♃ ♈ 19. ♂ April 19. Tres Soles cum Iridd Kyr △ ♃ ♂ Nov. 13. Halo ☽ Columnae Kyr ♎ 17. ♂ ♃ partile Dec. 10. Halo ☉ ♎ 25. ♃ 29. ♂ Dec. 20. Halo ☽ Kyr ♠2. ♃ 6. ♂ 23. Iris Kyr Febr. 2. Iris Kyr ♠4. ♃ 15. ♂ March 18. Halo ☉ ♎ 23. ♃ ♈ 15. ♂ 1640. April 27. Iris Matut Kyr ♑ 7. ♃ ♒ 5. ♂ 1644. Aug. 17. Parelia Kyr ♉ 29. ♃ ♊ 9. ♂ 1646. Aug. 25. Iris Parelia ♋ 3. ♂ 28. ♃ Aug. 29. Iris. 1672. May 15. Halo ☉ 10 mane lasted near an hour ♠9. ♃ 25. ♈ ♂ § 71. Concerning the Halo the Iris we must not repeat what has been said we are in the mind still that there 's more Pencils go to the draught of such Images as we shall see in the Cognate Phaenomenon of the Claritas Septentrionalis which happening in the Night time cannot then arise from the ☉ alone As to the greater appearance of the Parelia and Paraselenae we have here a considerable number a Dodecade of such Rarities and such a Number in spite of fate proves they have some dependance on the Aspect in hand however we cast about to make it out The great Joseph Scaliger on Eusebius was engaged by his Argument to give us some Chronological Notes of these Phenomena but he scarce tells us the Month much less the Day A Fault that more are guilty of besides him having no Opinion of Celestial Philosophy We do not trouble our selves here about their signification Fromond modestly takes off Gemma for his Vanity in that respect He proposes perhaps his own Fancies for standing Rules They can't well reconcile Aristotle and others who make the Parelia to be the Forerunners of Tempests and Showry Weather with Des-Cartes his opinion before commended of a Solar Reflexion from some Icy Particles which at that time may hang in the Air. For nothing hinders but that such Particles may hang in a cold clumsie Air as well as a Sheet of Snow 't is certain floats before 't is portion'd into Flakes Secondly because I well remember that upon the report of three Suns seen at Oxford on a certain day before noon which I neither had hap to see nor yet to record I took notice that the morning was cold Nor does any of these appearances shew themselves at Sea but under a chill Latitude So by a good token Scaliger tells us that his Hollanders saw it in the Latitude of 71. All which sweetly agrees with our Aspect of ♃ and ♂ which we have owned and shall farther prove of a Dry and Cold Energy Claritas Septentrionalis § 72. The Nocturnal Brightness whether in the North or in the East may deserve to be consider'd which we have said cannot come from the ☉ alone but from some new accessions of Light from those Bodies which are as moveable as Torch-Light sometimes together sometimes asunder which though I am assured it springs from a Conflux of Celestials so posited yet I protest 't is hard to find such an appearance without our Aspect of ♃ and ♂ Days noted in Keplers Diary are 1625. August 28. September 20 ♎ 5. ♃ ♈ 3. ♂ 1626. June 16. Claritas nocturna ♠o. ♃ ♉ 1. ♂ 1628. Dec. 10. ♑ 11. ♃ ♠14. ♂ Dec. 16. ♠18. ♂ ♑ 12. ♃ 1629. Sept. 11. ♑ 27. ♃ ♋ 2. ♂ St. Octob. 6. ♑ 28. ♃ ♋ 12. ♂ St. Octob. 19. ♑ 28. ♃ ♋ 14. ♂ In most of these days we find a Congress of three Planets or more Kepler hath observed that the Clarity used to happen at a ☌ ☉ ☽ and though observing two he was in a fair way for three yet he did not deliver it to posterity ♄ ☉ ♂ are 3. Aug. 28. S. V. 1625. Sept. 20.
☉ ♃ 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
to avoid Repetition omitted those Aspects Jovial that are co-incident whether with ☉ or ♂ c. which must be allowed their Weight and Strength according to their Fortitude yet so as not to exclude the Influence of our Termagant which is as the Basis to every I fusion that is mixed therewith or like the Keel the first Poundation-Piece of a Ship whereunto all the Minor Aspects for the time being are Riveted and Mortaised like the Ribbs of the Vessel § 6. But what hath been hitherto our Method which I hope upon due consideration will be taken in good part we must consider this our supreme Configuration at the wrong end of the perspective viz. with its abbreviature first and after survey it in its farther extent § 7. The abbreviature will shew us the Nature in Little and notwithstanding afford us some Extravagances sometimes whereby a suspicion will be raised of some Stranger and stronger Power that lies Couchant between the configur'd Pair § 8. My Reader would I fear be at a loss if I should transcribe the Character of this Aspect from our Elders as from Cardan the Congress of ♄ and ♃ saith he as to the qualities of the Fixed and the Signs where it happens does affect the Air for many days with fair Weather or Rain or Winds Comment in Ptol. if the Luminaries at least be Aspected Is he not almost ridiculous But that he hath a Salvo from the Sign and the Fixed Stars which determine the Dis-junctive Regiomantanus saith For many days before and after it brings great Drought in ♈ ♄ ♠the Fiery Signs and in Watry Signs ♋ ♠♓ it brings Rains Flouds Inundations Particularia Diluvia This is very well But then in Aerial Signs I hope it brings Winds in ♊ ♎ ♒ In Earthy Signs Frost and Snow ♉ ♠♑ Regiomont dare not say so of this whatsoever he hath said of an Aspect in General Maginus is as cautelous consenting as to the Drought and Flouds but passing by the other Moiety of the Denomination of the Signs He comes to the Quarters of the year and tells us that In Spring it brings turbid Clouds and moist Air In Summer Hail and Thunder In Autumn Winds and Rain In Winter Turbid Air again Tagliacozzo accords only he restrains the Turbid Constitution to the Spring the Hail to the Summer the Rains and Flouds to Autumn and the Turbid Air in Winter to the Humid Signs only in which the other seems to be indifferent regarding only the Diversity of the Seasons Eichstad after all He went by his own experience ventures not on the premisses or their variety but asserts though not from his own experience what I do now from mine that ♄ and ♃ first hath an Influence for Drought while he brings Instances from 1516. 1614 of which in due place and expressing himself further in Keplers way who fancies that the great ☌ of the Superiours hinders the Concoction of the Earth so that it cannot attract the Waters of the Ocean whereupon must issue Drought § 9. We I hope more intelligibly say that ♄ and ♃ produce a Dry Constitution because it produces a Cold one being the two most remote Planets if there were no more but That Cold being the Parent of at least some Species of Drought 2ly We say it produces a Cold Air more often and more Naturally than Heat This few agree to though they admit Hail in Summer which is some Token but it appears Consequent from their very distance beside what else hath bin said before of the Planet ♃ 's Influence 3dly It produceth often with the Cold and the Drought a misty Air Fog and Foeculent confessed at least in Winter But Argol who hath added somewhat of use to what he found in Maginus and consequent to that which I would not forget put in great Dews more often observed in or after foggy Mornings § 10. And this I take to be meant by Kepler when he saith ♄ cum Jove vapidum ex Calentibus terrae latebris edu cit acrem qui in producendis meteoris ingentes habet vires in Optic Paralip p. 274. quoted also by Eichstad where I do not pretend to understand his Philosophy either the Misty Reek out of the Earth or Waters visible as the Fume from a Stable much less that Mists have such tendency to Meteors more than other Clouds but I do assert the Truth of the Aphorism that ♄ and ♃ is an obscure Foggy Congress very frequent § 11. In the mean while we are told our Aspect brings a Settlement as to what happens Rain or Shine for many days but they leave the poor Disciple to determine the Number himself Alass how many 20. years must a Student pass to determine That Notwithstanding they are not to be reproved for the variety of Motions and Habitudes of the Planets are so admirable that no determinate number will fit The year 1682. with 1683. saw 3 ☌ 's meet in one and so it continued 9 Months in the year and the like we shall shew presently in 1622. c. § 12. Now to make out our Cold and Dry Character what with Intelligence from Germany and my own Experience I could produce four of these Grand Conjunctions with their respective Diaries Entire the first whereof and 2d we shall present the first Conjunction though it be Celebrated in the Month of July and in the Sign ♌ a Sign besides other disadvantages which hath no great favour for Cold for Heat rather Thunder and Lightning yet we can be content to make no exception against it but all things consider'd to admit it The Conjunction lies at the Door of July 7 17. but how many degrees we shall expatiate before or after the day of the Conjunction in this our Minor Table which we make praevious to the following larger Diary That is a Question for sundry reasons I have pitch'd upon 8 degrees of Platique Distance not more because I would not overcharge the Reader nor Less least I should wrong the Aspect especially when the Aspect for fear it should be wrong'd seems to me to repeat its Motion not being content as we may see to pass part of September October November December entire A o 1622. but Commences again at April 1. 1623. and so holds on to October 4. Yea a third time from about the end of March 1624. to the beginning of May the same year So falls it out that we have some tast of this Aspect not only the Summer Months of June and July where we find little of his cooling Influence but of the early Spring Months yea of the later Autumn and Winter § 12. For what are Aspects tyed do we think to precise Minutes and Moments the Vanity of that appears from this Grand Conjunction An Astrologer must be lost in a Mist there not knowing whether he goes when Astronomy it self confesseth She is uncertain and does but conjecture at the Moment Hear Kepler's honest confession Planetae
Frost to Flame to shew that ♄ and ♃ in ☌ viz. from the exact Aspect so call'd to the Quincunx hath an Influence sometimes more sometimes less on all Lightnings Thunders that have been heard in Summer or Winter and bordering on the ☌ for the space of Vyears together How say you Even so I know 't is no small enterprize 't is such as will amuse Astrologers themselves till they please to calmly consider what hath or shall be said Yea but this needs a Proof Keplers Diary is extant for some years when this happened He is a man of Authority who making inquisition into Astrology as many ingenious Persons at this day do hath left us his Notes From them we Demonstrate our Thefis we demonstrate that this ☌ ♄ ♃ haps in 1622. in ♌ 6. July 7 17. Now we are not going to say that the Heat and Thunder a Twelvemonth before June 2 3. St. N. depend on the Superiour Configuration as posited in that very Sign or degree ♌ 6. though that Congress were then and not before in its perfect Complement but we say that when ♄ and ♃ in prospect of such Conjunction entred within such Barriers as shall render them within 30 degrees distance there can nothing happen all that livelong-while but must be imputed more or less to those Planets so approximate For Example take me the Tonuit of Jun. 2 3. aforesaid ♃ 5 51. and ♄ place in 6 43. ♄ and ♃ are on the Quincunx are They not If I prove ♃ then is concerned in that Thunder then ♃ and ♄ both being so Aspected are not quit Now that ♃ is concerned any man that is but so moderate as to grant us that a Concourse of Planets in the same Sign is apt to beget something shall find that ♃ and ☉ are but gr 6. distant then ♃ and ♀ are but gr 4. distant so there are 3 Planets in ♊ and the ☽ in ♠which is Anti-Gemini and opposing both ♀ ♃ ☉ ♃ being strengthned by the Vicinity of ☉ and ♀ and somewhat by its Vicinity to ♄ Let not the Reader think we have said all shewn all the Causes Nay we see but a part in which ♄ and ♃ have a share To make this more probable know that the same Method gives account for the next Tonitru Jun. 8 18. and therefore we scape that We meet with next ferventissimum tonuit pluit Moist soultry Air and Thunder day 19 29. see if ☿ ♀ ☉ are not posited all between ♄ and ♃ so that ♄ and ♃ are the Bounds and Shedds as it were to coerce them but if any of the Planets so coerc'd are Operative the extreams Coerced cannot be Idle To say none are Operative is against our Supposition for no moderate man but will in this case grant that ☉ ♀ and ♄ all Three in their Tropical Heights can raise Fervours in the Air This is so easie so evident that I would begin my Pains here to teach That Man Astrology i. e. to look upward § 22. The next is a Tempestuous Day with Thunder Jun. 9 19. as yet we do not say that our Planets Influence is so legible as others of the Minor Rank for ☉ ♀ ☽ ☿ are all within 10. grad one of another II. in the end of ♋ the other II. in princ ♌ Now note that 't is the New ☽ the day of the Change I argue thus if any of these IV. had Influence as the New Moon at least is granted toward the raising of Tempest then all these IV. had the like Well still the ☉ and ♀ have operation in the end of ♋ and shall not ♄ in the middle of the same Sign And if ♄ have shall not ♃ also being near the same Tropique height on the Left side as ♄ on the Right Besides that he is now got three degrees nearer ♃ then at the last time There comes two more Tonuits before this Month is done for they are like to be thick on the account of the Tropical Height of our Planets which are the first in the Pass and therefore strike up the first Heats Le ts balk a Thunder or two and come to Much Thunder Aug. 19 29. Aestus Pertonuit pluit so the Diary Here to make short work ♃ is concerned if it be Thunder the while ♃ is in ♊ ♂ is in Anti-Gemini shall ♂ 's wide ☠to ♃ be efficacious and shall ♄ 's ☌ to ♃ be ineffectual ♄ and ♃ now approach 5 degrees more the One where ☉ is at Junes beginning than the other where ☉ is station'd at the end of June § 23. Well the Sun begins to decline as Kepler uses to say and therefore Thunders begin to sleep in ther Embers Howbeit there is a parting blow Sept. 9. St. N. 1621. some places Fired or struck with Lightning We see and cannot chuse but see where ♀ and ☿ are posited but that ♃ is so near appears by his Height ♊ 23. by this strong opposal from ♂ as was said before and by the ☽ 's ☌ with ♃ partaking with those Heights and receiving that fierce ☠from the Martial Star ♃ I say who is approach'd to ♄ now six degrees of the Thirty Thus much for the First year § 24. No news of any Thunder now till April of the year following 1622. Then comes a Clap 2 days together die 7 8. where is ♃ trow we In his Tropique Height still ♊ 22. Where is ♄ Fallen back a little to ♋ 15. nearer the Altitude Tropick ♄ and ♃ are come nearer now by a degree and if that will not unite them the ☽ will Die 7. the ☽ wades between ♄ and ♃ for that day and the day after forsakes him not This is so plain as if we read with a Fescue § 25. ♄ and ♃ now are almost within 20 degrees a great approximation for the Superiour Planets as hath appear'd before even in the Minors See by the way whether the Stars be not Thunderers For ♂ which but now raised Thunder by ☠of ♃ is at the same Sport in the ☌ with the same ♃ the One at the Entrance the other at the Exit of ♊ § 26. So certain I say that the ☽ cannot come to ♂ but in Thunders again A o 1622. May 1 11. the ☽ ♂ ♃ Three Comrades in ♊ and ♄ within 20 degrees of the nearest of the Three § 27. All this may go for Gratis dictum But will any Man's Obstinacy say that the Aestus Tonitrua May 19 20. were not caused by ♄ and ♃ as to a share when ♃ hath got into ♋ a Sign of the same Denomination with ♄ and but 18. degrees distant Then let them say that ♂ or ♃ makes no heat on those Aestuant days and let them prove it because the Sun makes none when it comes into the same Sign Here the Planets in ♉ strike up the first Heat ☉ and ♂ continues them ♃ and ♄ in the highest Absis Finish § 28. So will I leave ♂
Winter from before the Feast of All Saints till after Twelftide with great and deep Snows and sometimes Rains a Late Spring the Wind continuing N. and E. till after the Ascension with sharp Frost and Snows June 7. Hail and Rain at Tocester in Northamptonshire whence Flouds whereby 6 Houses were born down c. many Sheep drown'd lying in the High Hedges where the Water-Flouds left them the Hail square and six Inches about About Lammas Dearth at London A o 1574. July 9. At the Isle of Thanet A Whale shot himself on Shore ho. 6 p. Length 22 yards Any Man might have crept into his Mouth Sept. 4. Storm of Rain c. Nov. 6. Two great Tides in the Thames the First by Course the other overflowed the Marshes Nov. 14. About midnight following strange Impressions of Fire and Smoak out of a black Cloud in the North noct seq that in all parts it seemed to burn with marvelous rage the Flames did double and roll one on another as in a Furnace the Flames rose from the Horizon round about and met over head Nov. 18. Stormy and Tempestuous out of the South specially after midnight till next morning I have not known the like from any Quarter says our Annalist A o 1575. Feb. 14. Cold and Hard Frost after a Floud which was not great Great numbers of Flies and Beetles came down the River of Avon at Tewksbury a Foot thick above the Water Feb. 26. Between ho. 4. 6 p. m. Great Earthquake in York Worster Gloucester Bristol Hereford July 30. Great Tempest of Lightning and Thunder wherewith in divers places Men and Beasts were stricken Dead Great Hail also 6 or 7 Inches about Sept. 26. In the City of London A Woman deliver'd of four Female Children who followed all in Health and good liking their Deceased Mother who died a Month after which whether I had reason to transcribe will be seen toward the Close of our Papers I must observe that they were conceived if not born under the Aspect A o 1576. March 5. In the Night a great Flaw of Wind from the N. W. ruin'd a Tilt-Boat with 31 Persons one Boy excepted July 4 5 6. The Fatal Sessions at Oxford where so many Men were destroy'd by a Damp. We have referr'd it to ♄ ☿ and we abide by it as a parcel-Cause but we are willing to reduce it also among other notable Causes to our ☠for 't is certain 't is a Borderer ♄ ♂ are within Bounds and ♂ opposing ♃ delivers up ♄ also linked with it 'T is no little matter that kills 500 Persons by a Breath A o 1582. May 13. Comet hora 10 p. descending in the N W. the Beard streaming S W. Aug. 12. Lightning Thunder Whirlwind with hail fashioned like Spur rowls two or three Inches about in Norfolk beat the Corn flat to the Ground rent up many Trees and shiver'd them into pieces or writh'd them like Wit hs the Top of Henden Church was lifted up 5 Webs of Lead ruffled up together like so much Linen Cloth 1583. Jan. 13. Blackmore in Dorsetshire a piece of Ground of 3 Acres removed from its place 600 Foot Octob. 10. Caster in Norfolk a Fish by Force of the Easterly Wind driven ashore whose Tayl was 14 Foot in Breadth Summary of the Occurrents happened at or about the last ☌ ♄ ♃ 1682. and seqq from our own Collections § 10. 1611. April 1. Romae Septentrionem versus Cometa major Lucidiorque nupero qui Neapoli visus est Die 22. Ex inferiore tractu Albis Ruricolae queruntur ex anni siccitate grandem scarabeorum invalescere numerum qui delicatum arborum florem abradit Dioecesis Bremensis tristius conqueritur de inusitato Murium numero qui segetem radicitus abradunt Rela◠Colon. Num. 37. May 3. 13. Lately an Earthquake in Zealand and Meteor of an extraordinary bigness for 3 Nights in Amsterdam Horizon Die 5. This Night following a great and general Bliting Wind the Walnut-Trees felt it Middlesex Die 20. Hurricane lately at Barbado's Die 22. St. Johnston's Hail Rain Thunder and Lightning unusual circa 5 p. T. M. for a quarter of an Hour Benskins Intelligence Die 27. Drought not within memory Engl. Die 30. Near Lancaster Lightning and Hail as big as Walnuts for two Hours damaging the Corn. June 18. About a week ago Rained Wheat in Dean Forest Die 13. Oxford lately happened Lightning c. which fired a House Die 16. Dolphins sporting in the Mouth of Severn 17. Ferrara Thunder Hail Earthquake 20. Lime A Vessel put in which felt a Tempest of Thunder Rain and Lightning never the like 20. Lately at Lyons in France terrible Earthquake 29. Dorchester within two Miles a Globe of Fire falling among a Tuft of Trees burnt two or three to Ashes July 3. Sheerness Whale lately seen in the Mouth of the Thames 5. West-Chester a Man stroke Dead with Lightning 6. Chichester about 3 m. Trumpets sounding a Charge c. Thunder c. 16. Hamburg Plague broke out at Magdeburg 23. Friburg Thunders Armies Squadrons Battalions c. 25. Thunder bolt clove a Woman in 4 parts a Man had no hurt 26. Portugal Row near Hide Park Thunder 8 m. shook the House so till 11 m. T. M. in Lorrain 6 Stately Houses destroyed St. Colombs Church suffered by Lightn Aug. 9. Francofurti ad Viadrum Locustarum pestis 11. Lues epidemica Dresdae in reliqua Misniâ 16. Jersey Comet SW ante 5 m. with a Train of 3 yards 27. Whale in Flushing taken 30 Foot long Nevis in India occid Hurricane Two Bristol Ships lost 4 or 5 at Antigoa Sept. 6. Meteors seen in Moor Fields with a Stream 6 Inches broad 13. Vesuvius burns for four days T. M. in Naples two Shocks Gazet. Numb 96. 14. Lues Epidemica in Calabria 16. Pestilence continues at Hamburg 20. Great Storms of Hail then Swarms of Flies for 3 Hours pass'd Eastward with the Wind. Octob. 2. Hurricane at Jamaica 6. Comet lately appeared in ♒ 13. swift in motion 10. At Falmouth for some Days Very Stormy Weather so at Harwich 16. Plague in many parts of Spain seems not yet to be decreased 23. Star last n. with a large Train but the Clouds hindred 29. Dreadful Storm at Dover Rode 30. Portland Dismal accounts from several places of this Stormy Weather Nov. 2. Weymouth such a Floud from the continued Rains that the Ways are hardly passable 4. Near Lincoln Lucid Circle in the Air like a Rainbow reversed 6. Deal a Zeland Vessel cast away in Tempest 10. Westchester Monstrous Fish lately taken like a Crocodile Domest Intellig. 13. Plague not quite ceased at Magdeburg 29. Sickness lately broke out in Barbary 30. Violent Storms since day 26. at Hague ruin'd part of the Fortification at Narden Dec. 10. Hague Strong S W. Wind broke up the Banks and laid 2100 Acres under Water 8. Falmouth many Shipwracks Decemb. 15. Summer Weather and much Thunder p. m. 21. Gopenhagen Waters
Sense will be given to the Testimonies the Expression is bottom'd on nothing but what we plead for the warmer Rayes of the Moon For as to the First Testimony Rheumes and Indispositions of the Head therefrom may be raised it is confess'd by the Power of the Moon imputed to the Falling of the Dew but as justly ascribed to the Moisture of the Brain and its Fermentation by the Nightly Beam As to the second the Rare and Choice Fruits once growing in the several Walks of Paradise and still according to the time of Year put forth in their Seasons is as beautiful a Contemplation as Spectacle owing their Original to the Night as well as Day to the Sun as also to the Moon which even in Vegetation is Solis vicaria My Lord Bacon I remember assuring me so much that the Night contributes as well as the Day as in Artificial Preparations sometimes a quicker sometimes a slacker Heat is requisite § 20. Gu◠de Val Physician to the most Christian King who gave us a fair Edition of Aristotle A o 1654 tells the University of Paris News of Plants Solar and Lunar these latter he saith are Brisker Broader Fairer Sweeter and every way more pleasant by Night than by Day such are the Convolvulus caeruleus a Bell-Flower call'd by Artists Flos Noctis with another or two of the same kind the Indian Mogli totâ nocte sub amicâ Lunâ flores expandit tantâque pulcritudine micantes imò tantâ odorum suavitate fragrantes ut incolas omnes rapiat in sui admirationem called Arbor Tristis because it hangs like dead and wither'd in the Day-time Next Geranium triste 't is pity they are Indian Plants which smelleth like Musk saith Mr. Parkinson for he also bears witness to the Curiosity at Night only not at all in the Day-time as refusing the Sun's Influence but delighteth in the ☽ § 21. As popular an Argument as This is the Instances make out that the Dew gently falling upon the Flower advances the Sent that the Nights have their Warmth that the Moon when it shineth for 't is not yet time to assert the Influence of a Star at what time 't is hidden hath a soft cherishing Beam and Reason tells us that what is accomplish'd sensibly in a Few may hold though less sensible in All. For the aperture and explication of the willing Flower betrays a kindly Warmth breathing upon it from the Ambient as we see an Anemone which closes at Night will open again as in the day-time by the immersion of the Stalk in warm liquor in which warmth the Moon when it shineth especially will be concerned So that 't is no Paradox for the Moon to conduce to Vegetation Maturation c. the Sun ripeneth the Moon attempereth and distributeth the proper Juice The One baketh the Other as it were soketh that I may use Pastery Terms the Fruits of the Season Antiquity therefore hath ascribed Fertility to the Moon Canentes ritè crescentem face Noctilucam Prosperam frugum saith the Lyrick And another in his Hymn saith well Tu cursu Dea menstras Metiens iter annuum Rustica Agricolae bonis Tecta frugibus imples Which may serve for a Commentary on our Words of the Text. There is one Testimony more behind which may take place in the Lunar History speaking out the plain Philosophy of Hippocrates or Nature rather concerning the Acounts of the Moon as to Animals and the set times of their Geniture For as 't is a fine Contemplation to consider the Times of the Year wherein they are excited to Propagation Spring Autumn or Winter for some strangely choose That most barren Season which Naturalists justly enough principally refer to the Sun Ptolem. I. 2. because 't is a set time of the Year so from this Season of Propagation there is a Fixed term for their Birth Yeaning Calving c. justly ascribed to the Moon because 't is a Term of Months as before was observ'd Hear the Philosopher Knowst thou the Time when the Wild-Goats the Rupicaprae Ibices of the Rock bring forth Canst thou mark when the Hinds do calve Canst thou number the Months they fulfill Job XXXIX 1 2. Months to be fulfill'd and numbred now from Months you may as well exclude the Moon 's Course as Influence the Heavens measure Motion but the Sun and Moon are not bare Measures not in Motions which tend to Life and Vegetation they are Moderators as well as Measurers seeing Life consists in Warmth and Moisture to which the Moon is no Enemy Yea the Number of these Months are some of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 H. Writ speaks of Gen. I not only Politick or Ecclesiastical Festivals the Feasts of the New Moon c. but the word is applied also to Natural Seasons the set times when the Stork in the Prophet and the Swallow and the Crane recede and return again the set times of the Summer-fruit the Olive the Date according to their Months say the Jews the Time of Life in the History of Abraham Gen. XVIII 10. and elsewhere And All this is Reasonable with Aristotle in that great Chapter de Generat Animal lib. IV. 9. who was shie in the admission of any thing which he could gainsay his words are Copious 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Reasonably therefore do Philosophers define the times of all Procreation Gravidation and Life it self to be measured by Natural Periods By Periods I mean the Day Night Month Year and what Greater Times are measured by them as the Less not forgetting the Revolutions of the Moon the Full Moon the Interlunia and the Quartiles Now the Moon is as it were a Less Sun and therefore it conduces to all Generations and their Perfections and after That Corruptions for the Motions of these Planets do comprehend the Beginning and End of all Three Thus and more the Philosopher For the Evidence of these things being such as cannot be resisted no marvel if he applaudeth them who elsewhere giveth his Testimony to the seeming-mystical Septenary Number as Hippocrates before who treating of Fishes and the History of their Procreation he saith that the Female teem some of them not above 30 days some less but none of them go any time but what may be divided into and therefore measured by the Septenary Number Hist Animal VI. 17. Understand it with Allowance and Exception sometimes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and other impediments de Generat IV. 9. CHAP. VII Sun and Moon nor singly nor jointly the sole Causes of the Constitution of the Air. § 1. SO have we seen the Vigor of the Sun so of the Moon in order to the Changes of the Air. But the Changes of Air however vigorous these Planets are for certain cannot be referr'd wholly to Either or Both not to the Sun as you have heard nor to the Moon herself for allowing the Moon to have something of the Solar nature we do not find what was said of the Sun
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
and Thunder And on the 29th of the same Month many Meteors marked Anno 1676. and Heat expressed not till the Day after § 36. But the answer I take to is as follows We must distinguish of warm Days Days of Expressed Notation for Warmth or Heat and so they are but a few scarce enough to baffle the Cold Chill Days But I pray remember how many and sundry times may an Observer not find himself engaged to write Warm and Temperate in Spring or Summer time when 't is a Natural Constitution When 't is an Ordinary and Durable though Preter-seasonable Constitution Cold will be sure to be remembred even in Winter it pinches us to make us remember and we wish it over But Warmth we observe not unless it be News and note some alteration The Taedium of Tautology is odious to every Pen and Ear. Once then for all Every Day where there is no mention of Cold is ascribed to the Warm Side Certainly all Days of Rain and some of Snow being often found with a Tepor And may I not say that Fog Experience being Judge doth betray a Cause remissive of Cold and the Extremity thereof Nebulas neque in aestate nec in maximo frigore exitene saith the Naturalist So that upon the upshot we exclude not a Day but those which are absolutely Cold and Freezing without the least Sign of Relent or Yielding for why should we give away our Right seeing That Relent or Yielding bespeaks a contrary Agent prevailing in part at least however sometimes not getting the Victory § 37. Because the Right of the Heavenly Bodies is not ours to give away what shall we say to those Novilunar Days when no Remission of Frost seems to appear and yet sometimes a Southerly Wind is known to blow Must not the new ☽ answer for that Wind Yea and this use we make of this Secret in Nature that as the South-Wind is of a warm Character though it may breath under a Frosty Constitution even so though under such cool Circumstances now and then our Aspect may challenge the same Character also § 38. And all this conduces toward the Prognostick part unless you would have the Pretender like the Crow always bespeak Rain or think nothing is done with the Vulgar unless they see a Showre Alass There is no place on the Earth where it rains always We besure have our vicissitudes of Temperate and quiet Air a Fog a Cloud the more silent complications according to Natures ambling pace so that it behoves an Astrologer to trade in dry Weather sometimes and be content to foresee a gentle remission of a stubborn Frost and think he hath done well if it falls consonant to Nature who must not always be upon the Gallop § 39. Thus for the Prime Product But now for the Rain and Wind. Hoc opus hic labor How shall we justifie that We have more ways than one to this Wood. What if we should acquaint the World that seeing the Days in the Table exhibited are treble to the Aspects that we are not bound it may be to the number of the Days It is enough if we have regard to the Aspect and then our advantage is this that whatsoever shorter proportion the Effect beareth to the Days we are safe enough if that Aspect affords us its Influence in any one Day of the Ternary by that means giving Testimony sufficient to it self Thus the Seaman justly imputes the Flaw of Wind and the Husbandman his expected Showre to the change of the ☽ If it happen at all he thanks I say the said Configuration hap it at what time it will within that Triduum § 40. This may surprize our Adversary so far that he may censure us as no fair Dealers But there is no avoiding it for the Aspect must be considered from the beginning to the end from the Minimum quod sic to the Maximum quod non throughout the whole Territory and Dominion and therefore we see the Shepherd and the Mariner do not fix the day but expect it once or twice it may be within the Three and prize their Experience counting themselves no small Men for understanding more than some who are greater Conjurers § 41. For Aspects then the Table witnesseth thus LXXXVII Aspects are brought on the Stage no less then LXXI bring Rain with them No less then LXI bring Winds § 42. Concerning which by the way we acknowledge that we have made use of every Brise for we who do believe there is no Casualty in the least Puff directly issuing could do no less Every Gale at least which may be Serviceable to the Navigator ought to be considered But here we are conscious of some defect unavoidable seeing our Observations could not be made on the Top Sail at Sea a constant Watch kept above Deck Day and Night by Succession must needs tell a different Tale from him who hath slept out a Watch or two in the Hold or confin'd to his Sedentary Cabin Not but the Seaman is sometimes becalm'd at the very new ☽ as I have observed from Hackluit nor can Linschoten or Sir Francis deny it notwithstanding they would say that in such Cases the Causality of the Aspect must not be impaired because of the rarity and disproportion of the Instance And who doubts it Howbeit as to our deficient Observation of the Wind now acknowledged we may be believed a little and the defect supplyed from the observation of the Change of the Wind and its quota which may fairly be reduced under the stile of Winds since there cannot be a Change of Wind where there is no Wind stirring That I say nothing of the Specification of Winds which could not be specifyed where there is a Dead Calm § 43. But to return to our Rain I do acknowledge that Rainy Changes of ☽ are not always of so high a Sum they Rise or Flag according to the general Temperature to which a single Aspect must pay respect yet still the Change makes her part good at the long Run So though in Keplers Diary from the beginning of 1621. to the end of 1629. CXI Lunations bring but LXXXII wet ones yet in the Diary of 24 years from Norimberg ab 1623. to 1646. Lunations CCCXI. bring CCCVI of Rainy or Snow of Winds CLXXII And of our own Observation from 1652. inclusive to 1677. of CCXXIII. Changes or because two are missing CCCXXI. We have of Moisture CCLIV and of Wind CCXXXIII § 44. Now back Friends to Astrology have a long time exclaimed that there is no certainty in Aspects for say they they as often miss as hit they reckon the single day on which it happens by Calculation and then they think they may Triumph But they are short in this that they reckon no other Notion of a Day but the Feria the day of the Week For what if the Feria be dry when the Moon changes Sunday suppose on June 15. 1675. hor. 4 Morn If Saturday night before