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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51558	The use of the astronomical playing-cards teaching any ordinary capacity by them to be acquainted with all the stars in heaven, to know their place in heaven, colour, nature, and bigness. As also the poetical reasons for every constellation, very useful, and pleasant, and delightful for all lovers of ingeniety. By Joseph Moxon hydrographer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty.	Moxon, Joseph.; Hood, Thomas, fl. 1582-1598. aut	1692 (1692)	Wing M3027A; ESTC N66308	31,031	62

THE USE Of the ASTRONOMICAL Playing-Cards Teaching any Ordinary Capacity by them to be acquainted with all the STARS in HEAVEN To know their Place in Heaven Colour Nature and Bigness As also the Poetical Reasons for every CONSTELLATION Very Useful Pleasant and Delightful for all Lovers of INGENIETY By Joseph Moxon Hydrographer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty LONDON Printed by J. Moxon and are to be Sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Atlas in Warwick Lane 1692. OF THE Stars in HEAVEN THE Stars are divided into six sorts or sizes called Magnitudes which are you may see distinguisht with six several sizes of Asterisks made like Stars as sēt down in a Table on the Card over Dorado whither I ●efer you Astronomers have computed the sizes of these Stars by comparing them either to the Diameter or ●lse to the whole Globe of the Earth The Diame●…er of the Earth is 6872 of our common Miles viz. ●uch Miles as the whole Circumference of the Earth ●nd Water makes 21600 Miles allowing for every ●egree of the greatest Circle 60 Miles Now the Diameter of a Star of the first Magnitude compared with the Diameter of the Earth hath such proporti●…n to it as 19 hath to 4 therefore it containeth ●he Diameter of the Earth 4 times and ¾ The Diameter of a Star of the second Magnitude ●s unto the Diameter of the Earth as 269 is to 60 ●herefore it containeth it 4 28 90 times The Diameter of a fixed Star of the third Magni●ude is unto the Diameter of the Earth as 25 unto 6 ●herefore it containeth it 4 ⅙ times The Diameter of a fixed Star of the fourth mag●itude is unto the Diameter of the Earth as 19 unto 〈◊〉 therefore it containeth it 3 ⅘ times The Diameter of a fixed Star of the fifth Magnitude is unto the Diameter of the Earth as 119 unto 36 therefore it containeth it 3 11 36 times The Diameter of a fixed Star of the sixth magnitude is unto the Diameter of the Earth as 21 unto 8 therefore it containeth it ⅝ times As for the proportions of the cloudy and obscure Stars they are not expressed because they are but few and of no great account in respect of their smalness The proportions of the fixed Stars compared with the Globe of the Earth are as follow A Star of the first Magnitude is to the Globe o● the Earth as 6859 to 64 therefore it containeth the Globe of the Earth 107 ⅙ times A Star of the second Magnitude is to the Globe o● the Earth as 19465109 is to 216000 therefore i● containeth it 90 ⅛ times A Star of the third Magnitude is to the Globe o● the Earth as 15625 is unto 216 therefore it containeth it 72 ⅓ times A Star of the fourth Magnitude is to the Globe o● the Earth as 6850 is unto 125 therefore it containeth the Globe of the Earth 54 11 12 times A Star of the fifth Magnitude is to the Globe o● the Earth as 1685159 is unto 46656 therefore i● containeth the Globe of the Earth 36 8 1 times A Star of the sixth Magnitude is to the Globe o● the Earth as 9261 is unto 511 therefore it containeth the Globe of the Earth 18 1 10 times I confess all this may seem matter of incredulity to those whose understanding is swayed by their visual sence because they cannot perhaps conceive it possible that the Heaven which appears so small to the bare eye should be able to contain so great a number of such great bodies as is here spoken of yet if those be capable to consider the vast distance of this Heaven and consequently of the Stars placed in it from the face of the Earth and also the Diminutive quality of distance their reason will be rectified and their incredulity turn'd into an acknowledgment of the unspeakable wisdom of Almighty God and they will say with the Psalmist Great is our Lord Great is his Power his Wisdom is Infinite Psal. 147.5 The distance of the Stars therefore from the Earth is according to Mr. John Dee's computation 2008 1 ½ semidiameters of the Earth The semidiameter of the Earth containeth of our common miles 3436 4 11 such miles as the whole Earth and Sea round about is 21600 allowing for every degree of the greatest circle 60 miles so that the distance of the Stars from the Earth is in miles 69006540 a distance so vastly great that were there a path for a Footman to walk in of that length he must have set forth 9452 years 347 days ago and have travelled 20 miles every day to have been just now at his Journeys end Now as Mr. Dee saith almost in the same words if you weigh well with your self this little parcel of fruit Astronomical as concerning the bigness and distance of the Stars c. and the huge massiness of the Starry Heaven you will find your Consciences moved with the Kingly Prophet to sing the confession of Gods Glory and say The Heavens declare the Glory of God and the Firmament sheweth the works of his Hands Of the Constellations in Heaven A Constellation is a certain number of Stars placed by God Almighty neer one another in Heaven and by Astronomers circumscribed in one Figure depicted about them as Aries the Ram is a Constellation Taurus the Bull is another Constellation c. Astronomers brought them into these figures for instructions sake things cannot be taught without names to give a name to every Star had been troublesom to the Master and for the Schollar for the Master to devise and for the Schollar to remember and therefore the Astronomers have reduced many Stars into one Constellation that thereby they may tell the better where to seek them and being sought how to express them And they brought them into these figures and none other being moved thereto by these three Reasons first these figures express some properties of the Stars that are in them as those of the Ram to be hot and dry Andromeda chained betokeneth imprisonment the head of Medusa cut off signifieth the loss of that part Orion with his terrible and threatning gesture importeth tempest and terrible effects The Serpent the Scorpion and the Dragon signifie poyson The Bull insinuateth a melancholly passion The Bear inferreth cruelty c. Secondly the Stars if not precisely yet after a sort do represent such a figure and therefore that figure was assigned them as for example the Crown both North and South the Scorpion and the Triangle represent the figures which they have The third cause was the continuance of the memory of some notable men who either in regard of their singular pains taken in Astronomy or in regard of some other notable deed had well deserved of mankind The first Author of every particular Constellation is uncertain yet are they of great antiquity we receive them from Ptolomy and he followed the Platonicks so that their antiquity is great Moreover we may perceive them to be

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