I therefore Anagrammatiz'd my name to Naworth and by that Name I writ an Almanack for several years together and continued unknown unless to some two or three of my friends whereby I seasonably prevented the before-named inconveniencies and hazards which otherwise I should inevitably have shared of And I presume that in doing this I neither wrong'd my self nor abused the Country where I lived And whatever other witty construction may be made thereof by these two trifling Gypsies by this they may perceive I took no delight as they do to be termed a Conjurer a Magician a Cabalist a Merline a trucking Mercury or any thing else whereby they desire and endeavour so much to promote and propagate their deceitful and unwarrantable dealings And whereas Lilly in the same Preface chargeth me under the same name to have wrested many false judgments from Astrology against the Parliaments actions intending thereby to prepossess the Kingdom with a vain fear that His Majesty and his designs should take place c. I must tell him that this his Accusation is most maliciously false And let him shew me if he can but one Aphorism or Sentence that ever I delivered for which I either quoted not my Authors or gave a sufficient reason in Astrology or that ever of which I shall hereafter prove him apparently guilty I wrested any part of Astrology from the Genuine sense thereof either to make for his Majesty or against the Parliament And if it hath pleased God to suffer the Loyal party thus to be trampled over it is for their sins and carâ—ies with it a supernatural Cause and Reason above the stars which could not be discerned by the clearest mortal eye No Symptome of such our sufferings could be read or observed by such man in the great Book of Heaven but rather the quite contrary as I could instance for many reasons in Astrology And whatsoever I spoke or writ was as your own sense imploys ever with submission to divine Providence But I will not busie my self so much as to examine and retort every Tatter of his ragged-Preface nor shall I need to vindicate his Majesties Officers whom he is therein pleased to term Ravenous from his polluted lips I see no reason why they may not meet with a fitter occasion and opportunity to require him but the thing I have proposed to my self is first to ferret the poor Quack inpoint of Art and afterwards in matter of Judgment The first thing and indeed the only thing that 's worth my observation is his Transcript of Eichstadius his Ephemerides for the year 1647 wherein indeed he hath taken a great deal of pains and deserves to be commended for this indefatigable Labour but withal I must tell him that he hath theâ—ein greatly betrayed his own ignorance in Astronomy or shewed himself exceedingly negligent and careless in that he hath not fitted the places of the Sun Venus and Mercury but especially the Moon to the Meridian of London as he hath done to his thinking in the Lunations and Aspects of the Planets nor which had been more easie and sooner done prescribed any Rule or Direction whereby to supputate their true places for that Meridian or any other place of the Kingdom And this Error he hath been guilty of throughout the two former years whereby our young Tyro's are much deceived in the Merline when they think they have the places of those Planets therein exactly Calculated to the Noon-tide of every day at London for although in the higher Planets whose motion is but slow there be no sensible difference yet in the Sun Venus and Mercury there is an apparent error For when they are in their swift motion their places at noon as Lilly hath set them will differ about 2. min. and often 3. min. from the truth And in the Moon whose motion is far swifter than any other of the Planets her Error is intolerable especially when she is in her swift motion For example the first of January 1647. the Diurnal motion of the Moon is 12. degr 24. min. being then but in her slow motion The difference of Meridians betwixt London and Uraniburge to which place the Longitude of the Planets as Wil. Lilly hath printed them were Calculated by Eichstadius is 50 minutes by his own confession in his Anglicus 1645. Page 54. that is the Sun cometh later to the Meridian at London than he does at Uraniburge by 50. Min. of time so that how much soever the Moon moveth according to Longitude in that space of time by so much hath Lilly erred in the Moons true place at noon for every day in the year which what it is for the said first of January I examine thus If the Moon in 24 hours move 12 degrees 24 minutes in Longitude What moves she in 50 min. of time Facit 26 min. ferè And by so much hath Lilly erred from her true place the said first of January at Noon So that whereas he hath placed her that day in 21 degrees 10 min. of Pisces she ought to have been in 21 degrees 36 min. of the same Sign And when she is in her swift motion he commits a greater Error as the tenth of March 1647. if you examin it according to the former rule you shall find just half a degree or 30 min. error and in stead of 26 degrees 3 min. of Virgo wherein Lilly hath put her that day she should be in 26 degrees 33 min. of the same Sign The next thing which I mean to take notice of is his Scheme erected to the Apparent time of the Moons Eclipse upon the tenth of January 1647. at 9. hours and 19 min. P. M. as he hath taken it from Eichstadius by deducting 50 min. for the difference of Meridians betwixt London and Uraniburge and to the same time I erect the Figure of Heaven according to the Doctrine of Regiomontanus and comparing his printed Scheme with that which I had more curiously set I find Lilly still bungling and botching but without any result of truth For whereas he hath made the Cuspe of the tenth House 22 degrees 20 min. of Gemini according to exact Calculation it is no lâ—ss than 23 degr 30. minutes whereby it appears that Master Lilly hath mistaken 1 degree and 10 min. in the Cuspe of the Medium Coeli And in the Ascendent of the same figure he haâ—h mistaken above one whole degree viz. 1 degr 10 min. for he hath made the Cuspe thereof but 23 deg and 51 min. of Virgo which should have been 25 degrees and 1 min. and the like Errors follow in the seventh house of the Figure and proportionably in all the rest which makes me wonder with what face this sensless botcher dares term me an A. B. C. fellow when all men may perceive him so shamefully ignorant in the very fundamentals of the Art he pretends to and that I am able to correct him in every point and particle of his profession For I desire
and the last year 1664. and so will again unless the Julian Calendar which yet we follow be reform'd in the years 1667. 1669. 1673. 1677. 1681. 1684. 1685. 1687. 1688. 1691. 1694. 1697. and 31 times more before the year of Christ 1800. Nor is this all For there often happens a whole Months Errour as to the time of the Celebration thereof having already fallen out so three years since that of Christ 1600 viz. in the years 1625. 1652. and 1655. and so will again without correction of the Calendar in the years 1679. 1682. 1720. 1723. 1747. 1750. 1774. 1777. and in the year 1807. For in those years there will happen from the Aequinox two Full-Moons befoâ—e our Easter can be kept Nay there falls out very often no less than 35 days or five Weeks errour in the time of our Easter having already fallen out so no less than eleven times since the year 1600. viz. in the years 1603. 1606. 1614. 1617. 1622. 1633. 1636. 1641. 1644. 1660. and as I said before in the year 1663. and so will again without amendment of the Calendar in the years 1671. 1674. 1690. 1693. 1698. 1701. and just twenty times more before the year 1800. But in the years 2437. 2446. 2491 c. there will be 42 days Errour and sometimes afterwards no less than 49 days And after the year 2698. if the old Calendar should still be continued it will never again happen according to the Rule of the Church which fixeth it on the Sunday following the first Full-Moon next after the Vernal Equinox One Cause of which Errours is the Precession of the Aequinoctium Vernum which from the first Nicâ—ne Council to this time hath anticipated no fewer than Eleven days falling now the Tenth of March whereas at the time of that Council it was on the Twenty first of the same Month. And the reason of this Anticipation is for that the Julian year exceeds the true Solar year by 10 Minutes 48 Seconds or thereabout which causes the Aequinoxes and Solstices yearly to change their places and fly backwards so many Minutes and Seconds The Lunations also by reason of the too great Quantity allowed them do in every 19 years anticipate almost an hour and an half and in 312 years and a half one whole day and therefore not exactly to be found by the Golden Number although on those Lunations the Feast of Easter dependeth as of it all the rest of the Moveable Feasts which is another cause of those Errours and both together the First occasion of the Roman Emendation whereby that Church doth always produce Easter on the Sunday following the first Full-Moon next after the Vernal Aequinox according to the Decree of the Nicene Council Now here I could willingly and indeed intended to have demonstrated how all this might be remedied but that multiplicity of business which Steers my thoughts another course and the Narrow limits I am here confin'd to do both obstruct and discourage me All therefore I shall further say is this I do much wonder that this Lyncaeus whoever he was that so vainly boasted of his discovery of that one Weeks pretended Errour in the time of Easter and therefore traduced us all with Ignorance or Inadvertency should himself not yet discover that real Errour of the first of those Rules prefixed to the New Common Prayer-Book Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker Anno 1664. the very year of that his great Discovery which pretends to shew how to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-days begin viz. Easter-day on which the rest depend is always the First Sunday after the first Full-Moon which happens next after the One and Twentieth day of March. And if the Full-Moon happens upon a Sunday Easter-day is the Sunday after For although that Rule be true enough in respect of the Gregorian yet it is altogether mistaken as being in no wise applicable to our Julian Account which yet the Table of Moveable Feasts in the said Common Prayer-Book calculated for 40 years regardeth only and which must be followed until his Majesty shall think fit to command a better and therefore very improper for that place But I hope the Most Reverend Father in God his Grace the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury will make it his concern not only to cause this Errour to be rectified but in due time also move His Sacred Majesty to assume the Glory of a better Emendation of the Calendar than yet the Roman Church can boast of APOTELESMA or The Nativity of the World and Revolution thereof I 'Le not trouble my self or the Reader with the various Opinions of Men and Nations concerning the Lapsed years of the World's Creation some being utterly lost in conceipts that repugn Philosophy others sway'd with Philosophical Conjectures destructive to Divinity and the rest miserably varying one from another For the Heathens afford us no satisfaction Epicurus and Aristotle will not allow it had any beginning The Jews are wâ—etchedly dissenting in their accompts Philo and Josephus irreconcileable The Samaritans differing from the Jews and indeed all others The Jews from the Christians and they amongst themselves Scaliger and Petavius of the Latins Clemens Alexandrinus and Nicephorus among the Greeks T is true Longomontanus a most learned modern Astronomer with a silere amplius nequeo takes boldly upon him to discover this grand secret from the motion of the Sun 's Apogaeum supposing the Sun's Eccentricity immutable and the Apogaeum a yearly motion of One Minute One Second Fifty Thirds Fourteen Fourths stiling it Illusâ—re testimonium de Mundi Exordio duratione hactenus For by positing the Sun 's Apogaeum in the beginning of Aries at the Creation and his Perigaeum in the opposite point Libra He concludes of 4000 years within a half betwixt the Creation and the Passion of our Saviour and till the 1588 th year of his Incarnation 5554. allowing 33 whole years for our Saviour's Age with addition of the time intercepted betwixt his Nativity and Passion And this this learned Author grounds on the accurate Observations of his learned Master Ticho-Brahe who indeed concluded the progress of the Sun 's Apogaeum S.S.S. till that year 55 degrees 30 Minutes And to the End we might compare the same with the Observations of sundry old and late Astronomers throughout the respective Ages they lived in exhibits to our view the following Table of The Place of the Sun 's Apogaeum from the beginning of the World and the true Vernal Aequinox In the several Ages of Years of the World Deduct Observat Difference Hipparchus Rhodius 3810 65 16 65 30 14 Min. C. Ptolemaeus Alexandriae 4099 70 3 Â Â Â Â Albategnius Maham 4849 82 53 82 16 37 Min. Guarterus Norimberg 5454 93 43 94 15 32 Min. Nicolaus Copernicus Tur. 5492 94 23 95 8 45 Min. Tycho-Braheus Dan. 5554 95 30 95 30 0 Min. Whereby it appears that the moved Apogaeum of the Sun proportionably deduced according to the Annual motion
the year as through the Gate into the Hall or from Two-headed Janus looking back upon the end of the past and the beginning of the following year February à Februo that is to sacrifice because then the Romans sacrificed to Pluto who is also called Februus and to other Infernal Gods for the Souls of their Ancestors which Ovid 1. Fast. seems to intimate At Numa nec Janum nec avitas praeterit umbras Mensibus antiquis addidit ille duos And thus were all the Months of the Numan year ordained and so the year it self to consist of unequal days in honour of an unequal number accounted of as sacred by the Pythagoreans excepting onely February which had an equal number of days allowed iâ— lest if all of them had run either by an equal or unequal number they should have made a like consummation And hence arose this disposition of the Months Jan. 29. Febr. 28. Mar. > 31. Apr. 29. May 31. June 29. Quint. 31. Sext. 29. Sept. 29. Oct. 31. Nov. 29. Dec. 29. Wherein although Jan. and Feb. were put before March and so March not made the First but the Third month yet nevertheless Quintilis now not the 5th but the 7th retained still the name Quintilis as did also the other following months in their order But when Numa observed that by this quantity of the year which is Lunar and conformable to the Graecian year the Sun returned not to the same point of Heaven he reduced and accommodated this Lunar year to the Suns Motion by an Intercalation of a New Month consisting of 22 or 23 days which afterwards the Romans called either February-Intercalar or Mercedonian and which once in two years they intercalated by turns lest March should be removed from the beginning of the Spring or that more years should be accounted from the building of Rome than justly the true quantity of the year would allow of But although this kind of Intercalation so restored the Numan year which without it was meerly Lunar to the Suns course that the Equinoxes and Solstices were in a manner fixed to the same months yet when afterward they observed it somewhat exceeding the true and natural Quantity of the year and that the Arch-Priest whose business it was to correct the Intercalation had often-times intermitted it and either out of Malice and Favour whereby any man might be rid of or longer continued in his Magistery or the Renter of the Tribute or Customs or other publick things either gain or lose by the Magnitude of the year several ways depraved it it fell out that Anno V. C. 708. after the Numan year had been in use 670. compleat years the Correction made by Julius Caesar was received For Julius Caesar the first Monarch of the Romans having learned the Mathematicks at Alexandria observed that yet there was almost 10 days and 6 hours wanting in the Numan year to the full compleating of the Solar year and by the advice of Sosigenes the Mathematician whom after his overthrow of Pompey he brought with him out of Egypt to Rome he added those ten days whereof to January Sextilis and Decemb. two days but to Apr. June Sept. and Novemb. each of them one whence Jan. Mar. May. Quint. Sext. Oct. and Dec. had 31 days and the rest Febr. excepted which had but still 28 30 days as you may read in Macr. lib. 1. Saturn cap. 14. Therefore presently in the first year of the Julian Ordination not only Quintilis which was afterward called July in honour of Julius Caesar the Dictator had 31 days assigned it but also the month Sextilis which was likewise called August in honour of Augustus The words of the Senate you may see in Macrob. citato loco And hence came it that the Civil Roman months were numbered as at this day according to the Verses April terdenos Jun. Septemberque November Uno plus reliqui viginti Februus Octo At si Bissextus fuerit superadditur Unus And although the year hath since been Corrected by Gregory the 13th Bishop of Rome yet do the order of the Months and the number of days continue the same in the Corrected that they did in the Old Julian year they differing only in this that in the space of 400 years the Julian Account exceeds the Gregorian by 3 Intercalations or 3 days as before you have heard Moreover these Roman Months are divided into Calends Nones and Ides The Calends be the first day of every Month from which the days are reckoned backwards calling the next day preceding pridiè Calendas Januarii They are called Calendae or Kalends quasi Colendae because in old time they were used to sanctifie the first of every Month in honour of Juno according to that of Ovid Vendicat Ausonias Junonis cura Calendas Or they be called Calendae of Calo to call because the common people were called or convocated on the first day of every Month to hear the number of Nones The Nones be certain days placed in every Month whereof the most hath but 6 and the Month that hath least but 4. They begin at the Ides and end at the Calends and take their name as some say of Non because during that time the Romans sanctified no day to their God as may appear by Ovid Nonarum tutela Deo caret c. Or they might be called Novae by reason of the renovation of their Images every month or Nonae à Nundinis from their Fairs or Markets because the number of Nones limited the duration thereof in every month Lastly the Ides so called ab iduando which in the Tuscan tongue signifies to divide do part every month in two and are a number of 8 days following the Nones according to the order of the Calendar and the Verse Octo tenent Idus menses generaliter omnes Now as the first day of every month is called Calendae so the Nones in the 4 months March May July and October are the six days from the Calends or they fall upon the 7th day of those months but in all the other Months they are the 4 days from the Calends or happen on the 5th day of every month And the 8 Ides do fall upon the 8th day from the Nones All the other days being accounted by an Inverse order from the Nones and Ides of their own and from the Calends of the following Month are noted with the number of days by which they antecede the Nones Ides and Calends All which is manifested by the following old Verses Prima dies mensis cujusque est dicta Calendae Sex Nonas Majus October Julius Mars Quatuor at reliqui dabit Idus quilibet Octo Inde dies reliquos omnes dic esse Calendas Quas retro numerans dices à mense sequente The Syrian or Syro-Chaldaean months as used by Albategnius Alphraganus and at this day by this people agree with the months of the Julian year in number of days and manner of Intercalation but â—â—ve
Zodiaquâ— accounted from the first assault of thâ— Diâ—â—â—se which makes up the Octile or Semiquadraâ—â— Aspâ—â—t there by the same Reason she begins to opâ—râ—â—e as she will in the next subsequent Critical 〈◊〉 whâ—â—hâ—r it be to Good or Evil And this falls out the Fourth day wherefore it is called of Hippocrates and Galen Index Diei Septimi sequentis The second Indicative the which Hippocrates and Galen six upon the 11 th may also be upon the 10. or 12. days according as the Moon in the Point intermediate shall hasten from the First Quarter or Quadrate to her Opposition and have run through 135. degrees from the time of Decumbiture which makes the Trioctile or Sesquiquadrate Aspect And so of the rest c. This done we must observe the Disposition of the Heavens to the time when the Moon comes to the foresaid Angles and that according to the generally received Precepts and Aphorisms But to make this the clearer I will illustrate all by Example A Gentleman fell Sick at Paris of an Acute Disease Anno 1641. the Second of January about 8 a Clock in the Afternoon at which time I find the Moon in 10 degr 19 Min. of â™’ wherefore I put this Sign with the degree and Minute in the first Angle as it were the Ascendant In the Next place I add 45 degrees to 10 degr 19 Min. of â™’ the Radical Point of the Moon and it gives me 25 degr 19 Min. of ♓ for the place of the Moon the First Indicative And by adding 45 degrees thereunto I get the place of the Moon for the Cuspe of the Third Angle 10 degr 19 Min. of ♉ the Point of the first Crisis And soby a continued addition of 45 degrees it produceth the Fourth Angle 25 dâ—grees 19 Minutes of ♊ the second Indâ—cative The Fifth Angle in which is observed the Second Crisis 1â— degrees 19 Minutes of ♌ being the Point Opposite to the Radical place The Sixth Angle 25 degrees 19 minutes of â™ designing the Third Indicative The Seventh Angle 10 degrees 19 minutes of â™ for the point of the Third Crisis And lastly the Eighth Angle wherein is the Fourth Indicative 25 degrees 19 minutes of â™ These had I therein insert the Places of the Planets respectively and so I have it compleat as the following Figure demonstrates Now to know when the Moon comes to the 10. degree 19. Min. ♉ for in that point she beholds the Radical Point or her place at the time of the Decumbiture with a Quartile Aspect viz. 10 degrees 19 min. â™’ you must do as followeth First look in the Ephemeris on what day the Moon comes to the degree of the Sign that beholds her Radical place with a Quartile which you will find to be the 9 th day of January for on that day at Noon her true place is 6 degrees 11 minutes of ♉ and the 10. day at Noon in 18 degrees 34 Minutes of ♉ wherefore her Diurnal Motion is 12 degrees 25 minutes and the distance from the place of her Quadrature 4 degrees 8 minutes which had I reason thus As her Diurnal Motion 12 degr 25 min. to 24 hours So the Distance 4 degr 8 min. To 8 hours ferè the Critical time desired In the same manner do I find out the Time of the other Crises and Indicatives and after that the state and disposition of the Heavens agreeing to every Critical Phasis as is evident by the following Synopsis Abacus seu Sypnosis Calculi Figura Octogonalis Species of Critical Days The Motion of the Moon The time of â—very Critical Phasis The state of the Moon in respect of her Place in the Ralix with the Syzygies and the Mutual Aspects of the Planets January 1641. S. V. Decumbiture d. 10 â— 19 â™’ D. 2 H. 8 M. 0 P. M. ☽ app ♀ and ♄ âš¹ ☽ ♂ â–¡ ☉ ♂ â–¡ ♃ ☿ ♂ ☉ ♃ ☿ 1. Inâ—icat 25 19 ♓ 6 5 43 Manè Octile oâ— Sâ—mi-quâ—drate 1. Critic 10 19 ♉ 9 8 0 P. M. Quartile Sinister â–¡ ♂ ☿ 3 h. 11′ 2. Indicat 25 19 ♊ 13 2 36 P. M. Trioct Sinister â–³ ♄ 10 h. 57′ shewing a Bad Crisis 2. Critic 10 19 ♌ 17 5 50 Manè Opposition 3. Indicat 25 19 â™ 20 3 44 P. M. Trioct Dexter â–³ ♃ 4 h. 28′ shewing a happy and propitious Crisis 3. Critic 10 19 â™ 23 9 1 P. M. Quâ—rtile Dexter â–³ ♀ hor 22 36′ 4. Indic 25 19 â— 2â— 12 9 P. M. Oâ—tile or Semi-quadrate 4. Critic 10 19 â™’ 29 16 17 P. M. Thâ— Radical plaâ—e The Story of this Observation concerns a Person who after a long and wearisome journy was suddenly assaulted at the time aforesaid by a Quotidian Feaver attended with a dry Cough and a Plurisie The Feaver grew to a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For indeed the Night before it seized on him he was in a grievous condition and the Third day he was quite without any Shivering nor brought it any Intermission to the Patient when the Moon passed 10 degrees 19 minutes of â™’ a Sign of Infirmity at which time she applyed to Venus and Saturn in a long Sextile of Mars who afflicted Jupiter and Mercury both in Combustion and likewise the Sun himself by a Quartile Aspect The Sixth of the same Month of January the disease grew worse for then the Moon came to an Octile or Semi-quadrate Aspect where the first Indicative was celebrated at which time there was no Aspect with the Moon and therefore a doubtful or unfortunate Crisis was to be feared The Ninth day about 8. a Clock produced the First Crisis by a little Sweat about which time both a Cough and a Pain he had in his side left him but his Pulse beat inordinately for thrâ—e hours after the Tritaeophia remaining Wherefore Galen Lib. 1. Epid. Proprium est Febrium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ut malignarum exacerbari diebus Criticis The which also Mars seems to argue by his Quartile Aspect with Mercury about the same time Moreover both these Quartiles namely that of the Moon to her radical place ♉ to â™’ and the other of Mars to Mercury ♈ to ♑ are differing in Qualities as well Active as Passive which aggravates the mischief Besides it is to be noted that the Signs â™’ and ♉ are Signs of Infirmity The Thirteenth day when the Moon came to a Trioctile Aspect in 25 degrees 19 minutes of ♊ Saturn afflicting her by a Trine shewed that an evil Crisis was to be feared The Seventeenth day at 5 hours and 50 minutes in the Morning the Moon possessâ—ng the degrâ—e Opposite to the place she was in at the Decumbiture viz. 10 dâ—grees 19 minutes of ♌ whâ—n there was no Aspect good or bad unto her promised the Patient no hopes of his Health And then indeâ—d he was in greatest fear of himself Notwithstanding The Twentieth day about Four a Clock the Moon entered the 25. degree 19 minutes of â™ and came to a Trioctile with the
by the Sign of the Logger-head in the Front of it upon his judgmentâ— of the Year at the Vernal Ingress where he saith that Jupiter is in Ascendente hora revolutionis and accordingly draws fine Peaceable judgment from Jupiter being in the Ascendant when notwithstanding Jupiter is above 30 deg or a whole sign distant from thence and so in the 11 House as you may see in Wil. Lilly's Figura mundi in his Anglicus Erected for the same time and place by which the Reader may perceive what certainty can be in this dull Fellows Prognosticks who is thus palpably and intolerably erroneous as to miss no less than a whole Sign in the place of one Planet And thus have I diligently and carefully examined Wil. Lilly's Discourse wherein I find him very foolishly rash and even brim-full of Malice and Ignorance and do now assuredly know him unworthy the name of an Artist I could have taken notice of a great many more Errors c. and particularly in his Translation of those first 50 Aphorisms of Ptolomy's Centiloqui wherein he shews himself Ignorant in the Original so hath he infected some of them with his own foolish Commentaries and amongst the rest a ridiculous story of a Suit of Clothes that he tore many holes in in going a Nutting when the Moon was ill dignified in Leo which Suit he says did never do him any service after Whereby you see that Lilly is as bad a Taylor as he is an Astronomer that could mend his own Clothes no better the truth is he was not born to be a Workman But I shall reserve my other more serious Observations till I hear further from him which if ever I do I promiâ—e to lash him without Mercy in the interim I should advise such Gentlemen as desire to be Instructed in this kind oâ— Learning to shake off these Ignorant Fellows and apply themselves to Doctor Nicholas Fisk Doctor Scâ—â—borough Mr. Jonas Moor or Mr. Holland â—ho are all of them singular Artists and Men of Honeâ—t and clear intentions Multiplicatio Effectus Syderum Secreta HE that will know Great and Noble things must commit three Rules to Memory 1. The Rarity and Time of the Planetary Conjunctions and multiply one into the other if it be exquisite or perfect if not into the part thereof in respect of Days and the Factus shall be the number of the Days of that Effect For Example Suppose a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in some point of the Zodiack and besidâ—s that of the Moon ad unguem The Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter is in Twenty Years and the Recourse of the Moon in Twenty seven Days and eight Hours Then Multiply Twenty seven and one third part of a Day by Twenty and they make Five hundred forty six Years and two thirds of a Year for the time of the Effect of that Conjunction But yet it may ere that be obstructed by another Conjunction especially after one half of the time be expired for the Effect will be Naturally increased for the space of Two hundred seventy three Years and one third part of a Year And this when the Conjunction of all the Three shall be in one Point But admit the Moon should then be distant Thirty Minutes we will take the Semi-diameters of the Moon and therewith compare the Proportion of her distance in such sort as that we allow thereunto one half of the time because her Semi-diameter is one half of her distance And so if the Moon shall be distant one whole degree we must give only a Fourth part Multiplying six Days and twenty Hours into twenty Years and the time of the Effect shall be One hundred thirty six Years The like must be done until the Moon shall be further distant than the quantity of her Beams which is twelve degrees and a half For although this Proportion be not altogether perfect yet it is sensible and near to the truth The Magnitude of Sun is 16 m. Moon 17. Jup. Venus 5. almost to 6 m. Sat. Mars 4. Mercury 2. 2. That the Effects be multiplyed in Strength like the Rarity according to an exquisite Application As if Saturn have Four Vertues Jupiter Five Mars Three and are all conjoyned in one Point then let us multiply Three Four and Five together and the Effect shall be Sixty in Strength viz. twelve times so much to the Effect of Jupiter alone fifteen times so much to Saturn and twenty times so much to Mars But if Mars shall be distant one degree at a time when Saturn and Jupiter are in Conjunction we must multiply three Minutes of the Semi-diameter of Mars into three the Number of his Strength and the Factus is Nine Then Divide the Number by Sixty the number of Minutes in the distance of Mars from Jupiter and Saturn and the Quotient is three twentieth parts which we multiply into Twenty the Number of the strength of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter and the result is Three whiâ—h add to Twâ—nty and the strength of that Conjunction shall be Twenty three that is almost eight times so much as the strength of Mars six times so much as the strength of Saturn and five times so much as the strength of Jupiter And the like of the rest The strength of every Planet may be known by the Magnitude thereof and the slowness of its Motion for by how much greater the Planets be and by how much slower they are in Motion by so much stronger are they in General Causes but not so in Particular For Example I would know what Power Saturn hath in respect of the Moon as to length or continuance of their Effects I see that Saturn's Revolution is performed in Twenty nine Years and Three hundred fifty eight Days wherein are 10750 Days This I multiply into the Square of his Semi-diameter and they make 96750 Days In like manner I multiply the Circuit of the Moon into the Squared Minutes of her Semi-diameter and the Factus is 7899 Days and one eighth part of a Day I Divide the one by the other and the Quotient is Twelve And so much is the proportion of Saturn's strength to the strength of the Moon The same I say of Conjunctions in respect of the length or Continuance of their Effects And it may be demonstrated in one word because the Effects continue until the Return as the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter till another Conjunction and the Ingress of Saturn into the first point of Aries untill his next entrance into the same Point For Nihil datur inane in Natura And therefore if the Effects should not continue until the Return it were a Mathematical Circuit not a Natural a Cause without an Effect yea a kind of Impotency Wherefore Proportio Circuitus ad Circuitum ut temporis ad tempus quod erat probandum Nevertheless every one of these Circuits is reduced to the half thereof because that from the Opposition the force of the
Conjunction is finished and the Opposition regarded only These things understood it is manifest that in either Rule what is said of two Planets and three holds also in four and five and six As if Saturn Jupiter Mars and the Moon shall be joyned ad unguem or within some degrees you must multiply their Times and Vertues as well in respect of the Magnitude of the Effects as the Magnitude of Time Observing the first Rule in the Times the Second in their Vertues 1. Hence it is concluded that the most powerful Conjunction and the most durable is that of the Head of Aries of the Eighth Sphere with the Head of Aries of the Ninth Sphere because it is but once in Thirty six Thousand Years And in this Conjunction it is manifest that all the Signs of the Eighth Sphere do agree to those of the Ninth and that all the Stars of the Eighth Sphere contribute their Powers So likewise all the Planets because their Absides are moved by the Motion of the Eighth Sphere and for that the Ecliptique-lines are joyned to one another unto which the Planets have a Respect both in regard of the Sun's Motion and the Motion of Latitude also 2. The Second is the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the Sign of Aries that is the Circuit from Aries to Aries which is but once in Seven hundred ninety five Years regard being had to the change of the Trigon 3. The change of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter from one Trigon to another which happens in One hundred ninety nine Years and proceeds according to the Succession of Signs viz. from the first Trigon of Aries into the second Trigon of Taurus thence into the Trigon of Gemini and then into that of Cancer after which it returns to the first Trigon 4. The Return of Saturn to the beginning of Aries in the space of Thirty Years 5. The Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter once in every Twenty Years 6. The Return of Jupiter to the beginning of Aries perfected at the end of Twelve Years 7. The Conjunction of Mars and Jupiter in Twenty seven Months 8. The Conjunction of the Sun and Mars in Twenty six Months 9. The Conjunction of Mars and Saturn in Twenty five Months 10. The Circuit of Mars in Twenty three Months 11. The Conjunction of the Sun and Jupiter every Fourteen Months 12. The Conjunction of the Sun and Saturn every Thirteen Months 13. The Circuit of the Sun in Twelve Months And what is said of the Sun as to his own Circuit and his Conjunction with the Superiour Planets must be understood also of Venus and Mercury In like manner what shall be said touching the Conjunction of the Moon with the Sun must be understood also of the Conjunction of the Moon with Venus and Mercury 14. The Conjunction of Venus with the Sun in Ten Months or Two hundred ninety two Days 15. The Conjunction of Mercury with the Sun in two Months or in Fifty and eight Days 16. The Conjunction of the Moon with the Sun in twenty nine Days and ten Hours a Lunar Month. 17. The Revolution of the Moon in twenty seven Days and eight Hours 18. The Return of any Planet or Fixed Star or Place of Conjunction to the Ascendant or Circle of the Mid-heaven which hath as much force as the Ingress of the same Star into the first Point of Aries And this is demonstrable by the third Rule which is this Every Star that hath much Power per se as is the Rarity of the Event for this was but even now demonstrated and this Rarity in gradu is always a Three hundred and sixtieth part Therefore if the Star be the same and Rarity the same it is as much to have that Star in the degree of the Ascendant which happens every day and is called the Diurne Circuit as that the same Star should enter the first Point of Aries Now I will shew that Rarity is the same For like as every day that Degree continues but only four Minutes of time in the Ascendant So Saturn remains the space of a Month ferè in the first degree of Aries And thus notwithstanding the Ingress of Saturn into Aries can be but once in Thirty Years and Saturn in the Ascendant but once every day yet because he remains in the Ascendant but for a Moment viz. Four Minutes of an Hour which are the three hundred and sixtieth part of a Day and the whole Circuit and in the first degree of Aries the space of a Month which is also the three hundred and sixtieth part of Thirty Years Circuit It is evident that it is as Rare to have Saturn in the degree of the Ascâ—ndant as in the fâ—rst degree of Aries The same may be demonstrated concerning the Moon and the Great Conjunctions of the Hâ—ad of Aries of the Eighth Sphâ—â—e with the Head of Aâ—iâ—s of the Ninth For although it happen but once in Thirty six thousand Years yet because the Head of Aries of the Eighth Sphere continues in the first degree of Aries in the Ninth and every Fixed Star of the Eighth in one degree of the Ninth Sphere the space of a Hundred Years 't is plain that it is as Rare to have the Head of Aries in the Ascendant whether of the Eighth or Ninth Sphere as that any one is Born at the time of that Conjunction viz. Of the Head of the Eighth Sphere with the Head of the Ninth in the same Degree And so of the rest wherein a regard must be had of the Circuit because one Term remaineth Fixed The like I prove of Those in which the Terms are both moveable and as is manifest for Example in the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter which although it falls out but once in Twenty Years yet remain joyned for the space of the 360 th part of the Circuit that is to say for more than Twenty Days the like of all others And the Reason is the same concerning the Circuit and Corporal Conjunction in respect of one of those Stars in the Cuspe of the Ascendant and Mid-heaven Whence it follows That even all Conjunctions whether of the Planets amongst themselves or of the Fixed Stars in respect of the same distance suppose of one Degree or ten Minutes or in the very same Minute are of the same Vertue according to their Rarity yea and according to their Power or Strength in respect of Rarity but yet not in respect of the Stars that be in Conjunction For that as but now was said the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter can do more than the Conjunction of Mars and Jupiter and much more the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter than of Venus and Mercury in the same distance in regard of their Bodies And so likewise the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the same degree be it in what place soever of a Nativity may do more than if Saturn or Jupiter only were in the degree of the Ascendant or
of time and because of the Suns double motion in respect of us it is also two-fold Mean and True The Mean motion is ascribed to the Mean Equinox and Solstice and containeth 365 d. 5 h. and 49′ 15″ 45‴ 52 ' ' ' ' 48v′ and this is the Rule and Level of all years The True motion called also Apparent and Inequal is ascribed to the true Equinox or Solstice or it is the space of time in which the Sun by his motion according to the succession of the Signs returns to the True Equinox or Solstice But this increaseth or decreaseth according to the swift or slower progress of the Equinoctial and Solsticial points and containeth in its greatest quantity 365 d. 5 h. 56′ 53‴ such as was about 64 years before Christ near to Hipparchus his time and of late again in the year of Christ 1652. at the least 365 d. 5 h. 24′ 38″ such as was about 921 years before Christ and 794 years after Christ near to Charles the Great and not far from Albategnius their times The Sydereal year is the space of time in which the Sun returns to the same Star be it Fixed or Erratical from whence he departed wherefore this also is either Fixed or Moveable The Fixed is referred to the Fixed Stars and its quantity always invariable containing according to Thebith who lived Anno Dom. 1195. and was the first Author of it 365 d. 6 h. 9′ 12″ according to Copernicus 365 d. 6 h. 9′ 40″ but according to Tycho 365 d. 6 h. 19′ 26″ 43‴ 30 ' ' ' ' The Movable is referred to some one of the Planets and either to Saturn whose Mean quantity is 378 d. 2 h. 12′ 13″ or to Jupiter whose Mean quantity is 398 d. 21 h. 12′ 9″ or to Mars whose Mean quantiry is 779 d. 22 h. 40′ c. Now the Lunar year is that wherein the Moon â—fter some Conjunctions with the Sun meeteth and uniteth again with him not far from the former place And this year also 〈◊〉 two-fold viz. Commune containing 12. Synodical Lunations or Embolismal which containeth 13. And again each of these is either Mean the Rule of all the Civil Lunar years or True The Mean common Lunar year contains 354 d. 8 h. 48′ 38″ 7‴ 38 ' ' ' ' the Embolismal 383 d. 21 h. 32′ 41″ 18‴ 16 ' ' ' ' The True exorbitates more or less from the Mean as will appear to him that considers the Motions and Syzygies of the Luminaries The Political or Civil years be such as are every where used for distinction of times wherein a respect is had either to the motion of the Sun or Moon only or to them both together 1. The Egyptians have regard to the Sun who make their year to consist of 365 days exactly for they have 12 Months in the year every one containing 3â— dayâ— and at the end they add 5 Intercalar days And such years the ancient Hebrews observed before the Alexandrean Aera yet so as that they intercalated one whole Month of 30 days in every 120 year The like years also but without the Intercalated Month the Persians used who from the Aera of Jâ—sdagird beginning Anno Ch. 632. unto the Gelalean or yeâ—r of Christ 1079. have numbered 447 Egyptian years for then the Pâ—rsians aftâ—r they had obsâ—rved the year which for some while they had usâ—d to be too small and the days of their Months by little and little anticipated they I say by Authority of the Persian Emperour Alb. Arsalam instituted an Emendation thereof and to the 4 th year for the most part and sometime also to the 5 th they yet add a day as we do in our Bissextiles but in 648. years they include 33811 weeks or 236677 days so that this year of theirs consists of 365 d. 5 h. 48′ 5″ 20‴ 2. The Romans who use a greater year than the Egyptians and ancient Persians For according to Julius Caesar's constitution their year consists of 365 d. 6 h. which 6 hours do make every 4 th an Intercalar containing 366. days whereas the Commune consists but of 365. And this year is not only used by the Muscovites who retaining the Names and Quantities of the Roman Months begin their year the First of September and likewise by the Syrians or Syro-Graecians who number their Months and Days according to the Julian manner although they give them other names as hereafter shall be shewed but also by the Habassines the Cophti and Ethiopians But according to the Emendation made by Pope Gregory the 13 th the year consists of 365 d. 5 h. 49′ 12″ and so not quite 4″ less than the Mean Solar year For because according to that Account there are in every 400 Julian years consisting of 146100 days three Intercalar days omitted it is evident that 400 Gregorian years contain but 146097 days which if divided by 400 quoteth the aforesaid number of days hours and scruples of a year Now that the reasons of this Emendation and so the Julian and Gregorian years themselvâ—s may the better be understood we must know that in the Julian year the odd 6 hours are not reckoned every year but once every fourth year being then increased to the just length of a Natural day which is always put at the 25. of February so that the Letter F. as this present Bissextile 1660. is twice repeated and St. Matthias day observed upon the latter according to the Verse Bissextum sextae Martis tenuere Calendae Posteriore die celebrantur festa Mathiae So then the Julian year is two-fold viz. Commune consisting of 365 days and Bissextile of 366 days It is called Bissextile of Bis and Sex twice six because the sixth Calends of March is twice repeated Intercalar because of the day that is put between and Leap-year for that by this Addition of the day from thenceforth the Fixed Holy-days and the like do as it were leap one day farther into the Week than they were the former year But this Julian Account is very erroneous For though the mean Tropical year consisting according to the Alphonsin's of 365 d. 5 h. 49′ 16″ it is plain that the Julian year exceeds it 10′ 44″ thereby causing an apparent anticipation of the Equinoctial and Solsticial points insomuch that the Vernum Equinoctium whose place at the first Council of Nice was the 21. of March is now come to be upon the 9 th or 10 th the Emendation of which Errour Pope Gregory the 13. hath very well performed by substracting 10 days from the 4 th of October unto the 15 th of the same Month exclusively Anno 1582. that thereby he might make the Equinoctium vernum whereon the Moveable Feasts depend agree to the 21. of March as it was by the Nicene Council established Anno 324. By means whereof all their Months begin ten days sooner than ours their 11. day being the first of the English and our last of every Month the 10. of theirs And
to retain the same Equinoctium vernum for future times invariably upon the same day he appointed that of 400 dâ—ys the 1.2 and 3. hundred the Leap-day wâ—ich in the Julian year happeneth should be omitted and not intercalated but in the 400 year that the Leap-day should not be omitted but intercalated as you may see in Maginus his Secunda Mobilia can 11. fol. 40. And this is the Account received in all Countries professing subjection to the See of Rome but we wiser than all the World besides do still retain the old Julian Account so erroneous as I said before that in process of time if no correction be made our Saviour and St. John must exchange their Tropicks i. e. The Feast of Christs Nativity will fall in June when now the Sun enters Cancer and that of the Baptists in December when now the Sun enters Capricorn And the main reason objected against an Emendation here is the Confusion would follow about the Dates of our Civil Contracts Deeds Bonds Bills Payment of Rents c. But to say no more if all Bissextiles were omitted but 52. years that alone would gradually and insensibly without the least inconvenience bring us two days before the Gregorian and be agreeable to the Sun's place at our Saviours Birth whereas the Roman being reduced only to the aforesaid Council of Nice would be two days less exact And if after that the Bissextiles be kept as before except in every 132. year wherein a Leap-day must be exempted for ever or else that one Leap-day be struck off every 100 year except in each 400 for ever there would need no more to have our Christian Festivals kept according to Primitive Observation For by supposing the Tropical year to be after Bullialdus 365 d. 5 h. 49′ 4″ 21‴ the Annual redundancy allowed it by Caesar will be 10′ 55″ 39‴ which compleateth one day in 132 years and but 2′ 25″ 48‴ over and three days in 400 years with 51′ over which make but one day in 11294 years very inconsiderable The Arabians Indians and Turks account by the Moon who make up their year of twelve Synodical Lunations and in thirty years wherein their Period is compleated they account 19. years of 354 days and 11 viz. the 2.5.8.10.13.16.19.21.24.27 and 30 th of 355. days so that by this account the whole Period consisteth of 10631. days And therefore one Lunation whereof there are 360. in the whole 30. years Period containeth 29 d. 12 h. 44′ The Romans also in times past had respect to the Moon in their description of the year according to Numa Pompilius his Ordination as Macrob. testifies Lib. 1 Saturn cap. 13. But they that regarded both the Luminaries were 1. The ancient Hebrews from their departure out of Egypt to the time of the Alexandrean Aera For in that Interval of time They instituted the Ceremonies of the Temple according to Gods Command and the Motion of the Moon And although they retained some things of a Pristine Form so that their year was as it were mixed being partly Solar running back in some sort to the Equinoxes and Solstices partly Lunar according to which their Feriae and Festivities were directed yet by little and little they anticipated the Equinoxes until at length Alexander the Greâ—t being dead they received the Graecian year as is plain by the Books of the Macchabees 2. The Atticks and Graecians for although they principally fitted their Descriptions of the year to the Course of the Moon and made up a year of 12 months yet observing that the Lunar year did not answer to the Suns Revolution they therefore intercalated a whole Month sometime in the 3 d. and sometime also in the 2 d. year according to the Calippick Period whereby they both accommodated their year to the Suns Motion which alone defineth a year and kept the Equinoxes and Solstices within their just limits 3. The Jews of these days who about the time of Constantine the Great framed a peculiar Calendar by the Industry of Rabbi Hillel wherein they brought the Moons Motion which defineth the Feasts to agree precisely enough with the Sun 's so that the Equinoxes and Solstices could not easily be removed from their places 4. They that follow the Roman Calendar do not altogether neglect the Lunar year but think likewise that the same ought diligently to be considered both because every of the months should have names given them fitted to their Qualities and Operations and also for that the Moveable Feasts especially Easter the foundation of the rest might more exactly be determined Moreover as no year hath any certain Natural beginning being every moment revolved in it self so Hypothetically or at the will and pleasure of Nations it beginneth and endeth at any place or time For Astronomers who in their Ephemerides begin the Tropical year from the Winter and there end it as the numbers expressing the Quantity of the True or apparent Tropical year do manifest are yet wont by a Common Custom to begin the Tropical year as well the Mean as True from the beginning of the Signs of the Zodiack or the Ingress of the Sun into Arieâ— because this point of the Equinox is very famous about which the Sun begins to put forth his vertues afresh openeth the Earth and quickeneth all things thereon growing But they begin the Sydereal year from the first Star in the Horns of the Ram for that Arieâ— is esteemed of as the chief of all the Asterisms The Egyptians although they begin the year from the Noon of the first day of the month Thoth yet that first day is affixed neither to certain Equinox nor Solstice but wandereth throughout all the Months of the year because they make no reckoning of the odd hours or Quadrant of a day whereby the year exceedeth 365 days by which means it anticipateth one day in every four years The like may be said of the Old Persian year which although they began it from the first day of the first month Pharavardin exactly agreeable with Choeac the Egyptian fourth month had like that of the Egyptians also wandered through all the days of the year unless a Correction had been made within 1460 Julian years which make 1461 Egyptian But a new corrected Persian year commencing from the Vernal Equinox and called Neuruz Esulthani or an Imperatorian Equinoctial year was introduced the use whereof is to this day retained in the most ample and potent Empire of the Persians The Romans by the appointment of Romulus began the year from March about the Vernal Equinox but afterward by the decree of Numa and the approbation of Julius Caesar they began it from the shortest day thereof or from the Winter Solstice And therefore Ovid Bruma anni prima est veterisque novissima solis Principium capiunt Phoebus annus idem But forasmuch as we see the Winter Solstice to outstrip the first day of the first month January by 9 days in the New Calendar and by
19 in the Old the Roman year at this time answers not to the beginning thereof as constituted by the Ancients The Muscovites and Russians begin the year from the first of September of the Julian year neither differ they almost any thing in the Names and Feasts of the Months from the Julian Account The Venetians begin their year from the first day of March perhaps because at that time the Foundation of their City might be laid There are those also that begin the year from the Birth of Christ Decemb. 25. as from which the Christian Epocha is deduced But we begin it vulgarly the first of January Howbeit the Church of England and the date of all writings and such like have their year to bâ—gin upon the 25. day of March. The Syrians or Syro-Graecians begin their year from the first day of Octob. of the Julian year unto which they apply the first month Tisrin prior and so begin their year after the Autumnal Equinox The Cophti Ethiopians and Alexandrians upon the 4. Calends of September viz. 29. Aug. of the Old year and so begin their year before the Autumnal Equinox The Atticks from the Summer Solstice or from the New Moon next to it The Hebrews have a double beginning of the year Ecclesiastical whereby they begin the year from the New-Moon next to the Vernal Equinox and Civil which begins it from the Autumnal New-Moon next to the Equinox Therefore in Politick affairs the Jewish year is deduced from the month Tisri but in Ecclesiastick from the month Nisan The Months by which we measure the year so called à metiendo vel mensurando are two-fold Astronomical and Political The Astronomical called also Natural are considered according to the Motion of the Sun and Moon and they be either Solar or Lunar The Solar are the spaces of time wherein the Sun runs through a twelfth part of the Zodiack But because the Suns Motion is two-fold Mean and True the Solar month is also two-fold one Mean the other True The Mean or Equal being the rule of all Solar Months is the space of time wherein the Sun by his Mean motion dispatcheth a twelfth part of the Zodiack and it is always 30d 10h 29′ 6″ 18‴ 50 ' ' ' ' But the True or apparent is the space of time in which the Sun by his True Motion runs through one Sign of the Zodiack and seeing this Motion is unequal it also constitutes unequal Months longer about his Apogaeum in Cancer where his Motion is slowest and shorter about his Perigaeum in Capricorn where his Motion is swiftest The Lunar Months referred to the Moons motion are three-fold Periodical Synodical and the Month of Illumination The Periodical is the space of time in which the Moon by her motion returneth to the same place of the Zodiack from whence she departed which according to her Mean motion is performed in 27 d. 7 h. 43′ 5″ fere but according to the true one hour at the most more or less The Synodical is the space of time from one Conjunction of the Luminaries till the next Conjunction following The Synodical Mean Month in which the Luminaries do meet together by mean or equal motions and which is the Rule and Measure of all Lunar Months is 29 d. 12 h. 44′ 3″ 10‴ 58 ' ' ' ' 10v. But the True whereby they are joyned by their true motions differeth sometime 14 hours from the Mean and so is either so much greater or lesser The Month of Illumination or Apparition is the space of time intercepted betwixt the first day whereon the Moon is seen after her Conjunction with the Sun and the last day of her being visible which the vulgar take to be 28 days nevertheless this is not always so for sometime she is seen sooner and sometime later and accordingly vanisheth 1. as her Latitude is Northward or Southward 2. or her Motion swifter or slower 3. or in Signs Ascending and Descending Right or Oblique Lastly the Political Months are Civil or usual whereby every Nation distributes the year as bâ—st pleaseth them But not only the Proportion but also the Denomination of the Months differ according to the variety of Nations and People For the Egyptian Months are these 1. Thoth 2. Phaophi 3. Athyr 4. Choeac 5. Tibi 6. Mechir 7. Phameneth 8. Pharmuthi 9. Pachoa 10. Payni 11. Epephi 12. Mesori all consisting of 30 days and to the end of their last month Mesori they superadded 5. days more making their whole year to consist of 365 days The Persians these 1. Pharawardin 2. Adarpabascht 3. Chardad 4. Thir. 5. Mardad 6. Sebeheriz 7. Mehar 8. Aban 9. Adar 10. Di. 11. Behemen 12. Asphander or Aspâ—irâ—â— all likewise consisting of 30 days to which are added in the Common year 5 Intercalar days and 6 in the Intercalar year which they call Musterka The Romans according to the ordination of Romulus who was Founder of their City and the first King had at first but only 10 Months in the year as Ovid testifieth in this Distich Tempora digereret cum conditor urbis in Anno Constituit menses quinque bis esse suo Wherein they included 304 days The first of which was March which Romulus so named à Marte from the God Mars or for that he would have the Roman Nation Martial and Warlike The second April ab aperiendo because then the pores of the Earth are opened The third May à Majoribus or à Majo i. e. Jupiter or à Madefactione because of the wet and moisture then caused at the rising of the Pleiades and Hyades The fourth June à Junioribus or from Juno the Wife of Jupiter The 5. Quintilis 6. Sextilis 7. September 8. October 9. November 10. December as is also witnessed by Ovid in these Verses Martis erat primus mensis Venerisque secundus Haec generis princeps ipsius ille pater Tertius à senibus Juvenum de nomine quartus Quae sequitur numero turba notata fuit Four of these 10. Months were called Pleni the other six Cavi The Pleni were March May Quintilis and October containing 31 days the other six Cavi April June Sextilis Septemb. Novemb. and Decem. consisting of 30 days But Aurelius Cassiodorus saith that this Calendar continued no longer than Romulus reigned being 38 years of which years if they followed our measure as very like they did there elapsed in that space 45 Romuleian years and 200 days ferè Yet others say this Calendar lasted but only 24. Romuleian years agreeable to 20 Julian ferè But Numa Pompilius the 2 d. King of the Romans perceiving his Predecessors year too concise thereto added 51 days which together with other six that he took from the 6 Caval Months of 30 days he disposed into two other New Months in such sort that he assigned to the first month Jan. 29 days and to Feb. 28. January is so called either à Januâ because an entrance is thereby made into
the Ecliptique or Distance of the given Aspect as appears by the work SS Aspect 30d. Sine Complement 9.937531 Lat Planets 7° Sine Complement 9,996751 Arch 60° 45′ 9,940780 Sine of whose Complement 19° 15′ is the Distance required 9,688972 And from this ground is Calculated the following Table for Aequating the Aspects of the Planets and Stars Extended to 60 degrees of Latitude from the Ecliptique if in it you will reckon the Aspects as do all Modern Astrologers or of Declination from the Aequator if you had rather side with Antiquity The use whereof is so Obvious by what I have said Examples are Needless A Table for Aequating the Aspects of the Planets and Stars Degr. of Latit Latitude from the Ecliptique or Declination from the Aequator Sextile Arch ⚹ Degr. M. Trigonal Arch △ Deg. Min. 1 60 00 120 0 2 59 59 120 1 3 59 57 120 3 4 59 55 120 5 5 59 52 120 8 6 59 49 120 11 7 59 45 120 15 8 59 40 120 20 9 59 35 120 25 10 59 29 120 31 11 59 22 120 38 12 59 15 120 45 13 59 7 120 53 14 58 59 121 1 15 58 50 121 10 16 58 40 121 20 17 58 29 121 31 18 58 17 121 43 19 58 4 121 56 20 57 51 122 9 21 57 37 122 23 22 57 22 122 38 23 57 6 122 54 24 56 49 123 11 25 56 31 123 28 26 56 12 123 48 27 55 52 124 8 28 55 31 124 29 29 55 8 124 52 30 54 44 125 16 31 54 19 125 41 32 53 52 126 8 33 53 24 126 36 34 52 55 127 5 35 52 23 127 37 36 51 50 128 10 37 51 14 128 46 38 50 37 129 23 39 49 57 130 3 40 49 15 130 45 41 48 31 131 29 42 47 43 132 17 43 46 52 133 8 44 45 48 134 12 45 45 0 135 0 46 43 58 136 2 47 42 51 137 9 48 41 39 138 21 49 40 21 139 39 50 38 56 141 4 51 37 23 142 37 52 35 42 144 18 53 33 49 146 11 54 31 43 148 17 55 29 20 150 40 56 26 36 153 24 57 23 22 156 38 58 19 21 160 39 59 13 53 166 7 60 00 00 180 0 To find out the Time of the Aspects WHat an Aspect is c. you have formerly heard and now I will shew you how to find out the time when they happen which is thus Get first the Diurnal Motions of the Planets whose Aspect you desire to the Day whereon you find it will happen And if the Planets be both Direct or both Retrograde let the Less Diurnal Motion be deducted from the greater but if one be Direct and the other Retrograde add their Diurnal Motions together and the Aggregate is the Diurnal Excess In the next place take the Places of the Planets as you find them in the Ephemeris to the Noon-tide preceding the Aspect and by substracting the place of the Planet that is swifter in Motion from the place of that which is slower you have their distance in Longitude which had the Analogy will be as followeth As the Diurnal Excess to 24. hours so the distance of the two Planets to the time of the Aspect Example Be it required at what time the ☉ and ♄ are in a Quartile Aspect the first of April Anno 1652. April 1. ♄ 22° 30′ ♋ Diurnal Motion of ♄ 0d. 2′ April 1. ☉ 22′ 15. ♈ Diurnal Motion of ☉ 0. 59. Their Distance 0° 15′ Diurnal Excess 0d. 57′ If 57′ require 24h. what 15′ Answer 6h. 19′ Or if you will work by Logistical Logarithms add the Logarithm of 24 hours to the Logarithm of their Distance and from the Sum substract the Logarithm of their Diurnal Excess and the remainder is the Logarithm of the time of the Aspect Thus The Logarithm of the Distance of ☉ and ♄ 15′ 1 801773. And the Logarithm of 24 hours added 1 801773. Logarithm of Diurnal Excess 57′ 859751. Logarithm of the Aspect sought 6h. 19′ 942022. Which 6 hours 19 Min. is the time of the Aspect desired in the Meridian of Uraniburge for which place Eichstadius Calculated from which 1 hour 15 Min. the difference of Meridians leaves 5h. 4′ for the time of the Quartile Aspect between ☉ and ♄ in the Meridian of Kendal on the said first of April 1652. The like in any other Of the Aequation of time in respect of the Inequality of Natural Days THe Natural Days are two ways considered Aequal and Inequal The Aequal are the mean days consisting of one whole Revolution of the Aequator and an additament of so much time as is answerable to 59′ 8″ 19‴ 45 ' ' ' ' the mean motion of the Sun in one Day The Inequal are the true or apparent days which consist of so much time as the Revolution of the Aequator is made in with an additament of so much time as agrees to the true motion of the Sun in one Day The Inequality therefore of these Days arises from this Inequal additament and that for two causes respectively 1. The first of which is the Inequal Motion of the Sun in the Ecliptique for the Sun being moved in an Eccentrical Orb it so happens that in equal spaces of time he describes inequal Arches of the Ecliptique and therefore it must needs follow that the Ascentions of the Aequator or additaments agreeing thereunto are also inequal And this Experience it self tells us for the Sun runs through one half of the Zodiack viz. the six Northern Signs ♈ ☿ ♊ ♋ ♌ ♠not in less time than 186 days and about 6 hours but the other half viz. the six Southern Signs ♎ ♠♠vs. ♒ ♓ in 178 days and almost 22 hours 2. The second is the Obliquity of the Zodiack which causes an Inequality or difference as well in a right as Oblique Sphere betwixt the Right Ascentions of the Aequator and Zodiack Whence it appears that the difference betwixt an apparent and a mean or Aequal day is called the Aequation of Days for that by this Aequation the Natural mean days are converted into the true or apparent Wherefore seeing that Inequal days cannot be the measure of equal motions it is requisite that those Inequal days be converted to equal so oft as we intend to supputate the Equal motions by the Ephemeris but contrary wise when we would reduce the Equal or mean Days to apparent or Inequal Something touching the Nature of Eclipses and also of their Effects AS the Stars of Heaven are the most Excellent Characters of the Divinity Power Wisdom and Glory of their Creator in that they are written and engraven by the Finger of God himself the Father of Lights Quibus invisibilia Dei intelliguntur ac providentur ipsoque aeterna ejus Potentià Quibus Gloria Dei enarratur so among the Coelestial 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Doctrine of Eclipses takes precedence because that from their observations the
saith he saw two at once not many Years since one in the Morning the other in the Evening for many days together But in the Year 1618. there were two infallibly seen at once in the Morning in India and Persia. Nevertheless it hath sometimes fallen out that when indeed there hath been but one Comet yet because perhaps it was first seen in the Morning before Sun-rise and afterwards became Vespertine its Declination and Right Ascention being changed the same hath been mistaken for two as both Apian and Fracostorius observed of the Comets in 1531. and 1532. Moreover Aristotle informs us lib. 1. Meteor cap. 6. that in the 450 Year before Christ or thereabouts Democritus saw a Comet dissolved into many Stars and Ephorus the Historian affirms that the great Comet Anno 372. before Christ which preceded the sad Fate of Helice and Bura two Cities in Achaia both swallowed up of the Sea divided it self into two unknown Stars So Dio testifies that the Comet which hover'd so long over Rome Anno 13. before Christ was afterwards dissolved into many Faces or Stars and Kepler thinks no otherwise of the two Comets by him observed Anno 1618. But Nicephorus lib. 12. Hist. Eccl. cap. 37. records the quite contrary of that great Star or Comet in his time For saith he Paulatim ad eam velut apes ad ducem suum ingens aliarum Stellarum vis aggregabatur A mighty power of other Stars by little and little assembled unto it as Bees to their Prince or Captain 4. The time of their appearance TOuching which Junctinus Suesanus Resta Gloriosus Fromundus and others tell us they are generated for the most part in Autumn and Winter yet deny not but that other times have had their Comets however Ricciolus hath cull'd out only 41 of the 154 Recorded by him to prove that the greatest part have happened in Summer But I know not for what purpose since the Reasons wherein the other 113 happened are unknown or it may be purposely omitted by him in his Collections for in that I find him but too guilty whensoever it maketh for his Opinion or Interest and that as formerly I noted we know not how many have been hidden by the Sun's Beams or appeared in the other Hemisphere only 5. The time they continue AS for this Keckerman lib. 6. System Phys. makes mention of a terrible Comet beheld by Peter Creusser an Astronomer Anno 1527. which continued not above â— 96 parts of a day or which is all one an hour and fifteen minutes And this is the shortest time we read that ever any Comet lasted The longest was that whereof Josephus makes mention Lib. 7. Bel. Jud. Cap. 17. which was visible a whole Year together before the Destruction of Jerusalem for we meet not with any other that lasted above six Months and but three which lasted so long the first of which appeared in Nero's time in the 64 Year of Christ the second Anno 603. about a Year before Mahomet's Birth and the third in the Year 1240. upon the Eruption of Tamberlain the Great 6. The apparent Magnitude of their Heads WHich never was found to be certain few of the Ancients having writ thereof and those few but a few things Some have appeared greatest at their first appearance and by little and little sensibly decreased others the contrary as that of the Year 1460. observed by Pontanus The greatest we read of was that of the Year 146. before Christ which is said to have been bigger than the Sun whereof Seneca Lib. 7. Nat. qq Cap. 15. in these words Paulo ante Achaicum bellum Cometes Effulsit non minor sole A little before the Grecian War there was a Comet appeared as big as the Sun Haly mentions one that appeared Anno 1200. as great as the Moon seemeth when in either of her quarters The like Cardan Lib. 14. Var. Rer. cap. 69. Reports did appear Anno 1521. and 1556. Moreover Haly adds Lib. 2. Quad. Cap. 9. That the Comet in 1200. had a Head three times bigger than Venus The Comet in 1532. Fracostorius found to be three times greater than Jupiter But Tycho that in 1557. seven Minutes and more than twice so big as Venus when in Porridge whose apparent Diameter is according to Tycho 3 Minutes 13 Seconds The Comet in 1585. was at the first appearance observed by Tycho to be almost equal to Jupiter viz. 3 min. So that of the Year 1590. The Comet observed by Longomontanus Anno 1618. was somewhat bigger than the Virgins Spike yet less than Jupiter 7. The Apparent Magnitude of the Tail or Beard of Comets DO for the most part increase in a few days after their first appearance and at the end decrease The Tail of which Aristotle saw Anno 341. before Christ was 60 degrees in length The Tail of that in the 135 Year before Christ was exceeding great as Seneca Lib. 7. Nat. qq cap. 15. relates Attila regnante initio Cometes apparuerit modicus Deinde sustulit se diffuditque usque in Aequinoctialem circulum venit ita ut illam plagam Coeli cui lactea nomen est in immensum extensus aequaret In the Reign saith he of Attalus there at first appeared a small Comet afterward it mounted and dilated it self on high and came even to the Equinoctial Circle so immensly extended as that it equallized that portion of Heaven called the Via Lactea The Tail of that in 1533. was observed by Apian to be 15 degrees That in 1538. Thirty The Tail of the Comet in 1577. by Tycho Twenty two That in 1585. not above a Span in appearance and that other 1590. ten degrees But the Tail of the Comet in 1618. was more notable for Magnitude and variety of Magnitude than all the rest for that in the same Nights it appeared of different lengths not only to sundry Observers in several places but to the same Observer in one and the same place now shorter anon longer by the quavering extension of its Beams For Millerus found it Novemb. 26. when it first appeared 90 degrees Kepler two days after Thirty December the 4 th it was 21 degrees the seventh day 57 degrees The Ninth Cysatus found it 75 degrees and Kepler the same day but 70 degrees The tenth day Longomontanus observed it to be 104 degrees The 14. Rhodius found it 50 or 60 degrees and Blanchinus on the same day but 36 degrees But the Tails of those Comets that appeared in the Years of Christ 70. 400. 1472 and l543 were observed to reach even to the Earth 8. The true Magnitude of the Head and Tail of Comets TYcho observed the true Diameter of the Comets Head Anno 1577. to be Three hundred sixty and eight German Miles and in proportion to the Diameter of the Earth as 3. to 14. To the Diameter of the Moon as 1. to 4. and the true length of the Tail at the least 95 Semi-diameters of the Earth and Eighty one
from whence I have since Calculated its Declination every day and here together present them the Reader Ephemeris Cometae Anni 1652. Decemb. Hor. Min. Longitude Latitude Declination 9 7 0 V. ♊ 10 0′ 39° 10′ A. 16° 46′ A. 10 7 0 V.  5 29 27 51 A. 0 4 A. 11 11 0 V.  2 45 18 20 A. 2 46 B. 12 7 0 V.  1 0 9 0 A. 11 36 B. 14 11 0 V. ♉ 27 30 4 55 B. 24 21 B. 15 10 0 V.  25 30 9 10 B. 28 4 B. 16 10 0 V.  23 45 14 10 B. 32 25 B. 18 9 30 V.  22 50 19 0 B. 36 48 B. 19 9 0 V.  21 40 21 30 B. 38 50 B. 21 9 30 V.  20 40 25 30 B. 42 19 B. 22 8 0 V.  20 25 26 45 B. 43 25 B. 23 10 0 V.  20 10 28 10 B. 44 39 B. 25 10 0 V.  19 30 30 35 B. 46 41 B. 30 6 10 V.  18 50 33 30 B. 49 9 B. By which we see it continued from the 6 7 or 8. day of December till the 30. at the least on or about which day it vanished betwixt Perseus his Sword and Cassiopeia having run through the first ten degrees of Gemini and the last eleven degrees and ten minutes of Taurus by a Retrograde Motion and that perpetually decreasing It changed its Latitude from South to North intersecting the Ecliptique about the beginning of Gemini It was Stella Caudata not Crinita as some supposed because it had a visible Tail projected towards the North-East parts of the Earth Now let us hear and adhere to the Doctrine of Ptolemy lib. 2. cap. 8. Observandi sunt Cometae sive in deliquiis sive alio quovis tempore effulserint in universalium eventuum consideratione quales sunt quae vocantur Trabes Tubae Dolia ac hujusmodi etenim Effectus hae pariunt quales à Marte cientur ac Mercurio ut Bella Aestus motus turbulentos alia quae ista sequi consueverunt Caeterum quibus locis minitentur intentent effectus suos ostendunt Zodiaci partes sub quibus collectae ipsae incensae primum exarserint tum inclinationes Comarum Crinitae pro rationae formae Ex ipsa verò Collectionis ardentis velut facie ac forma affectionis species res in quam illa pervasura est innotescet duratio flammae de eventuum intensione aut remissione habitudo ad solem de initio eorundem quando primum invadent decebit Nam cum Matutinae fuerint diuque flagrant celeriores Sin Vespertinae tardiores eventus arguunt The Genuine sense and meaning whereof is thus in the Englsh. In the Consideration of general Events Comets are also to be observed whether they appear in Eclipses or at any other time or of what form or name soever they be for they produce Effects like those that be caused of Mars and Mercury as Wars Strifes Turbulent Motions and such other Events as usually follow these But unto what places they menace and threaten their Effects those parts of the Zodiack in which they are first collected and fixed as also the inclinations of the Comets Rays in respect of the form thereof do declare But by the Face and Shape as it were of that blazing Substance the kind of the Effect and the Matter into which it will change shall be known The duration of the Flame shall inform us of the intention or remission of the Events The Comets positure to the Sun the beginning of their Operation For when they are Matutine and burn long they argue swifter Events but being Vespertine slower By which words Ptolemy insinuateth three things to be considered in Comets viz. The Quality Place and Time of their Effects 1. For the Quality or Nature thereof I am tyed by the Rules of Art to consider in the first place the Situation of the Orb at the beginning or middle appearance of a Comet or else to the time of the swiftest Motion thereof But forasmuch as not one of those three times can certainly be known I am resolved by the Examples of Haly Cardan Longomontanus and others to Examine the Figures of Heaven erected to the Full Moon of Decemb. 5. at 2. a Clock and 26 Minutes in the Morning And the Quartile of Jupiter and Mars the 7 th of December at 6 in the Morning at or near upon which times this Comet questionless appeared And that Planet which shall be Lord of the place of the Comet and of the preceding Angle because the Motion thereof was contrary to the succession of Signs I shall take to be Lord of the Figure and Comet and consequently the Significator of future Events In the Full Moon preceding or incident with this Comet the Moon was above the Earth and so the Luminary of the time in the 24. degree of Gemini whereof Mercury is Dispositer and together with the Sun opposing her Mars Lord of the Angle preceding applying to a Quartile of Jupiter and upon the Cuspe of the Ascendant In the Quartile of Jupiter and Mars the 27. degree of Taurus is the Cuspe of the West Angle the most part of Gemini viz. 24. degrees thereof being in the same Angle and therewith the Comet Mercury Lord of the place of the Comet Mars of the Angle precedent and the Moon in Quartile to Mars and oppos'd to Jupiter Whereby it appears that Mercury and Mars are as well the Accidental as Natural Lords of this Comet and therefore the Events thereon depending of their Nature 2. Secondly we must consider it as to the colour thereof Color enim significat naturam Planetae dominantis for the colour of a Comet signifies the Nature of the Ruling Planet This was of a Fiery Red but mixed with a dusky Silver colour which made it look but dim in appearance unless in clear Nights before the Moon was up for then it look'd more Rutilant and therefore it was likewise in this respect of the Nature of Mars and Mercury as shall also be the Effects thereof which nevertheless will not be so Noble as if it had been of a more Glorious and Splendent colour Stella quo magis est lucida eo nobilioris censetur naturae By how much brighter any Star or Comet is by so much it is supposed to be of a more Noble Nature 3. The Form or Shape thereof is next to be observed for this also partly denotes the Nature of the Planet unto which it belongs and by consequence the quality of the Effects Quae Crinita versicolor vel bene caudata Mercurius est The Comet that is Hairy of sundry colours or very much Tailed belongs to Mercury 4. The fourth thing considerable as to the Nature of its Effects is the Magnitude thereof I mean first of the Head of the Comet for the knowledge of which there are three things necessarily required 1. The apparent Diameter of its Discus 2. The Distance
in the Thirteenth of Queen Elizabeth a Hill of Twenty Acres with a Rock under it at Kinnaston in Hereford-shire The like another Anno 1583. which removed a Field of three Acres at Blackmore in Dorset-shire 6. Great Winds and Tempests manifest Changes and diversities of the Times Infection of the Air and all that Breath in it especially of such Creatures as are accounted Irrational viz. Oxen Swine and Sheep whose Heads are inclined downward for the Vapours that ascend are deadly Poysonous bringing Plagues and Pestilence as you may Read in Pliny Lib. 2. And in Seneca's Natural Questions 7. Cardan Lib. de Rer. Var. Cap. 72. goes yet a little further For saith he Terrae motus magni Bellum out Pestem Nunciant vel Tyrannicam Oppressionem efficiunt segetum inopiam Famem i. e. Great Earthquakes do presage a War or Pestilence or at least some grievous Oppression they cause a scarcity of Corn and a Famine Sundry Excellent Rules shewing by what Laws the Weather is Governed and how to discover the various Alteration of the same TO Satisfie the Learned and Ingenious part of the World on what grounds we proceed in judging of the Alteration of the Air and to convince another sort of People who reflecting on Marsianus his Rule Si vis divinare totum contrarium ad unguem dicito ejus quod Astrologi pollicentur Suppose we do but guess at the Weather and believe that if they should say Rain when the Astrologer writes fair and dry Weather or Calm when he fore-tells Winds they should hit the Mark as often as the Astrologer I will once for all hint a few of the many Causes which either are or should be considered by all such as aim at Credit or Truth in their Predictions of this kind First then you must know that when the Sun according to appearance wheels to a Star of a hot Nature as to Mars or Jupiter it argues a hot or warm disposition of the Air If to a Star of a cold Nature as Saturn or Mercury a distemper'd Air through the extremity of Cold. And the mutual Conjunction of the Stars that be of one Complexion augments the same Quality As the Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars by a two-fold vertue of their Heat make the lower Region of the Air more fervent Many Planets especially the Superiour in Northern Signs a hot Summer or a temperate Winter The contrary when many Planets the three Superiours chiefly are in Southern Signs For so they signifie a Cold and Moist Peristasis of the Air and a colder Winter Saturn in Southern Signs and especially in Capricorn and Aquarius Terrible Winters of Frost and Cold Summers remiss in Heat a Famine an evil increase of Wine and of all such Fruits as delight in the Sun Moreover when the Cold Nature of Saturn is duplicated by the presence of Mercury it makes the Quality of the Season Colder But if such a Conjunction or Aspect of the Planets falls out at the New or Full Moon or at any other Aspect of the Luminaries the vertue thereof shall appear much more Effectually nay if within three days preceding a New Moon it addeth Vigour to the Vertue of such a Planetary Conjunction or Aspect But when Signs of a contrary Nature be united by commixture of Mutual Aspects then shall a temperate affection of the Air attend the same The like you may Judge if there happen at the same time Constellations of different Natures whereof one produceth Frost and Cold the other Heat or if one of them bode a Dry Air the other a Moist for so of necessity a mean is produced The Influences of contrary Constellations mutually impeding and mitigating one another As the Conjunction of the Sun and Jupiter or Mars when both in Fiery Signs brings with it greater Heat than if one were in a Cold Sign and the other in a Hot. Furthermore the Full and New Moons that be Celebrated in Angles the Horoscope especially or Angle of the Earth are usually accompanied with Rain the same Day they happen But here you must Note That the Effects of the Stars do often-times shew themselves before they come into Partile Configuration that is to say during the time of their Access or Application one to another and sometimes in their defluxion or separation which the Ancient Grecian Astrologers named Epichemasin and Prochemasin There are some who not altogether without Reason Erect Schemes to the Apparent times of the Conjunctions of the Luminaries And having found the Almuten of the Figure and observed what Planets be Angular direct the Horoscope of the Conjunction allowing one Day for every thirteen Degrees eleven Minutes the mean Motion of the Moon in one Day For that when the Horoscope comes by such Direction to any Planet that was then Angular or to the Lord of the Lunation some Change of Air to Rain or Snow or Wind at least a dark Cloudy Air succeedeth Consider likewise the Position of the Lord of the Lunation in the Figure and the Latitude of the Moon for from thence come the Winds that occasion Tempests Take notice also when the Moon comes wâ—â—hin the Beams of the Lord of the Figure or the Angular Planets for then principally does she manifest her self according to the Nature of the Planet The Conjunction of the Planets with Fixed Stars not far distant from the Ecliptique produce a Notable Alteration of the Air And when the Stars leave one Sign and enter into another they betoken Showers Yet still a regard must be had to the Qualities of the Signs and Seasons As if the Mutation be in a Watry Sign and in the Winter or Spring then may Rain or Snow be safely denounced Snow in Winter if so be a Cold Peristasis is impending The General Rule is Grandines in Aprili Octobri Nives in Hyeme in Aestate Tonitrua A special regard must be had to the Nature of the Earth and Air peculiar to the Horizon you live in or Write for because that in all places they are not of a like Nature And no less to the Winds that agree to the particular Season of the Year for as much as they blow not alike in all places some being Topical and peculiar to one place others Chronical which come at a certain time of the Year Wherefore Cardan Seg. 7. Aph. 29. Oportâ—t Coelum cognoscere Regionis quo tempore Anni sit tempestuosum tum etiam cui signo Regio magis conveniat si veritatem in judicando assequi velimus In the next place let the Interval of the Sun Moon and Planets be Observed which consists of the Aggregate of the Sun and Planets Orbs upon the Access or deflux thereof and especially in the Corporal Conjunction of the Planets As in the Sun's Application to a Conjunction with Saturn because the Sun's Orb consists of twelve Degrees and Saturn's of Nine Therefore so soon as the Sun shall be distant from him not more than Twenty one Degrees