Pipe or Channel is known by the Augmenting-glasse so that they being filled with Aire and being in the water do bear up like blown Bladders Also it is credible that it makes much for the nimble swiftness of this Creature when through heat by running that cavity in the hairs is filled with spirit as it is also probable that in Birds that part of the Quils which is void being filled with spirit does assist the Birds in their flight and helps to bear them up But so much of this may suffice Shall I relate how Peireskius caused an high Turret to be built on the top of all his House from whence being very lofty Caelestial observasions might be made How many things were observed hereupon is now no time to relate yet must I not omit the exceeding joy he took when from thence he beheld Mars hiding that Starre which is last in the Virgins Arm-pit For he was much moved with what I had told him touching my observation of Jupiters hiding that Star which is under the feet of Gemini in December fore-going so that for some dayes morning and evening being seen through the Perspective it was observed to have pasted to the South thereof no more then foure minutes on the 19. day of the said moneth at eleven a Clock in the morning and whereas on the eighth day of June about evening I told him he might see the like Eclipse caused by Mars thereupon with great alacrity he was resolved to sit up nor did he depart till the eighth part of an houre after mid-night at which time Mars was conjoyned with the said Starre and went but a minute and an half to the South Nor must I forget the joy that he conceived by entertaining Thomas Campanella that renowned Philosopher at what time viz. about the beginning of November the Conjunction of Mercury with the Sun was to be seen For he could bear witnesse that the Planet was invisible under the Sun being in a Conjunction almost central which is an argument that he was then directly above the Sun even as he was before seen retrograde under the Sun and that therefore he is by his motion carried about the Sun and that he is not carried in an Epicicle detain'd betwixt us and the Sun And by the like observation I evinced the same thing a year and half before viz. about the end of April But with what humanity he received Campanella is hard to relate For coming to France as soon as he was at Marseilles and had acquainted Peireskius with his arrival he sent an Horse-litter and brought him to his House where having made exceeding much of him certain daies together he sent him to Paris partly in an Horselitter partly in a Coach giving him besides Letters to receive money at Lions five hundred Crowns at his departure so that being overcome and consounded as it were with so great a Beneficence he protested that he had before so much constancy that he could refrain shedding teares in the middest of most cruel torments which now he could not do being moved with contemplation of so munificent a Gentleman This you may suppose that passage aimed at which he afterwards inserted into the second Tome of his works about the end of his Oeconemicks For I shall not deny saies he That a man may least his friends liberaly but it must be done srugaâ—y and when they have need and you shall rather account him your friend that offers you his money than he that offers his life as that rare and wonderful Gentleman Fabricius Lord of Peiresk the Glory of France and Mecaenas of Philosophers and famous men whom continually he entertains is an example to the world For the same time that he was with Peireskius he saw divers guests and among the rest Montagutius the Propraetor of Autun who coming to visit the sacred places in Provence would visit him also Moreover he brought him two ancient silver Cochlears measures so called and some other things which were got from out the ruines of Antiquity at Autun and which Peireskius had a desire to see Having measured the said Vessels especially that which was most whole and perfect it cannot be expressed how he rejoyced when he found it weighed two ounces of silver just as the Sextans of the Ancient Pile of weights aforesaid did weigh and that it contained just two drams of oil or the sixth part of a Cyathus as also the foresaid Sextans contained Hereupon he wrote Letters to the Puteans both very large and full of profound Learning taking occasion chiefly from the Picture of Mercury expressed upon one of the foresaid measures seeing that same two-dram-measure was called Cheme that name being taken from a certain shel-fish whose form is retained by the Cochlear which is consecrated to Mercury so that both the doublenesse of the dram and ounce were a Symbol of the double-dealing attributed to Mercury as also that kind of shel-fish with two valves and a thousand such observations He received not long since from Venotus the kinsman of Montagutius a Cifring-table dug up likewise at Autun touching which also he wrote very seriously by reason of the difference of some of the Figures from those which are written upon the model of a writing Table which he had out of the Study of Ciaconius and in the example described in Gruterus according to that which Velserus had published and described out of Occo And here it may be noted that he did not allow of the opinion of Velserus as it is to be read in Gruterus who thought that those two weights under the half ounce and quarter ounce were Duellae weights containing the third part of an ounce viz. two drams and two scruples a piece for he was of opinion that they were rather Sextulae such weights as contained the sixth part of an ounce viz. a dram and a scruple a piece which being joyned together might make a Duella one of which being added to half an ounce makes two Duella's as both being added make five Sextulae for half an ounce contains three of them so that by this means all the parts of an ounce might be computed both the duellary and sextulary parts which could not be if the weights aforesaid should design only Duella's I add that if you shall take the foresaid weights for Sextulae you will be then able to maâ—e eleven parts of an ounce besides the Unitie For one Sextula makes two parts the quarter-ounce three the two Sextula's joyned four the two-dram with one Sextula five the half-ounce six the quarter ounce with two Sextula's seven the half ounce with one Sextula eight the half ouuce and quarter nine the half ounce with two Sextula's ten the half ounce and quarter with one Sextula eleven I shall not here stand to tell how in the mean time he treated with Ludovicus Savotus of the use of Brasse in Coins and of the armour of the Ancients which was made of brass and was
he saluted there the Earl of Fontane and having by way of discourse expressed what a mighty Army his Majesty of France had in readinesse the Earl answered he was not at all afraid thereof because the death of one man would shortly overthrow the same But I must not harp too long upon this string Not long after Peireskius received Letters from Pignorius written the third day of the same moneth wherin he was made acquainted that Galilaeus by his newly invented Telescope had discovered certain great and wonderfull sights concerning the Stars and principally four new Planets which are carried about Jupiter which he had called the Medicean Planets For in the beginning of the former yeer which was 1609 Jacobus Metius of Alcmair in Holland while he was compounding and fetting together sundry sorts of glasses to try their effects he happened accidentally upon that same comparison and composition of a convex and a concave glasse by which especially the Tube being interposed he that lookt thorow the same might see small things grow great and things distant brought neer whereupon the invention of the Telescopium or Perspective-Glasse is attributed to him though Johannes Baptista Porta had already published some such thing in print but Galilaeus only by the rumour of such a thing which he had heard began to invent not onely the cause of the effects of the Telescope or Perspective-Glasse but also the way to make one whereupon after divers essayes and trials he hit at last upon the way to make a most exact one And that was it by which in the two first moneths of the tenth yeer aforesaid he accomplished those observations which he published in March under the Title of Sidereus Nuncius or the Heavenly Intelligencer Peireskius therefore being acquainted therewith himself with great ardency of affection that he might obtain his Book and a Telescope or Prospective glasse as soon as possibly he could But though he got a Book yet was it long ere he could obtain an exquisite Telescope though he got some both from Italie Holland and Paris as soon as they began to be made there And this was the reason that before November he could not discover nor observe the Planet's aforesaid moving about Jupiter at least he could not perceive their full number But as soon as he discovered them t is wonderfull with what joy he did contemplate so rare a sight For presently he shewed the same to Varius and other friends and that he might lose no time he made him an Observatorie and invited the foresaid Galterius and kept him divers daies and spent almost two whole years together in his observations with him His Brother was yet at Paris wherefore he never ceased to urge and sollicite him till he had caused divers glasses for prospectives to be made which he sent him to the number of Fortie For he hoped at last to obtain some of the best sort and such as Galileus made use of Meanwhile notwithstanding having contemplated certain revolutions he began to consult with Galterius about framing of Hypotheses and Tables of their Motions Wherefore Galterius having undertaken the businesse prevailed in a short time so far that be determined as exquisitely as he might the times in which the said Mecicean Stars did first finish their Circum volutions viz the outtermost in 16. daies and 16. houres the next in seven daies three hours and an half the third in three daies thirteen hours and an half likewise the innermost in one day 18 hours and an half I reckon not the minutes because though computation was made even to the Seconds as Astronomers speake yet daily experience taught that there was still somewhat to be added and diminished so that there still remaines something for the Obervation and diligence of following times to amend I only touch upon these things to intimate how vehemently Peireskius endeavoured that this new Invention might be speedily perfected For he made choice likewise of Johannes Lombardus a diligent Man to assist in the observations and of Petrus Robertus a Candidate in Physick and Johannes Baptista Morinus a Candidate in Philosophie two young Men to assist Galterius in the arithmeticall comptuations which would have been too tedious for him alone to calculate Also he got the observations which Johannes Keplerus the Emperors renowned Mathematician and others also besides Galileus had made that by comparing of them the Hypotheses might be perfected Also he caused a †an Artificiall Machine or Sphere mechanicall Theorie or Instrument to be made like the Vulgar one of Peurbachius that the Roots of the Motions being praesupposed the Places of the Medicean Stars might be calculated for years moneths daies and hours Also he gave them names that they might be the better distinguished one from another For seeing Galileus had called them all in generall the Medicean Stars he would not by any meanes change that Appellation but yet he chose out certain Princes of the Medicean familie whose names he would confer upon the severall Stars And because he was bound saving the Honour of the Familie to give the names of two renowned Queens which that house had yeilded France unto two Stars therefore he gave the name of Catharine to the outmost Planet to the other which shines more gloriously then the rest the name of Mary to that which follows the name of Cosmus Major and to the innermost Cosmus minor He purposed afterwards to publish in print both his Oblervations and Tables but understanding that Galileus was earnestly endeavouring the same thing therefore lest he should seem to go about to snatch away the Honour which was due to him he desisted from his purpose Finally it came into his mind to assist the Geographers in delivering the Method of finding out the longitude For seeing the motions of these Planets are exceeding swift and their Configurations every night different therefore he conceived that if observation were made in seveverall places East and West at what moments they happened the distances of places according to the varietie of times might most punctually be known and that consequently Geographical Maps and Carts might be so amended and perfected that for time to come the Art of Navigation might attain the highest pitch of perfection Wherefore he sent Letters to this effect to Jodocus Hondius at Amsterdam wherein also he desired that he would send him the name and Country of him that invented the first prospective Glasse for as yet he knew not that it was he whom we mentioned before He wrote also largely to his Brother in Paris desiring him to send severall sorts of Prospectives which he had ordained to make observations in sundry places but especially in the Easterne Countries and in the new world West-Jndies whither some of his friends were shorly to go And afterward he obtained indeed some observations principally from the forenamed Johannes Lombardus who went Eastward as far as Aleppo but they did not sufficiently satisfie him nor could
which were now grown worse then formerly A day could not suffice to hear what he had sound not to look upon what he had brought away nor to understand the Interpretations which he made of such things as seemed obscure I know not whether I should do well to relate how Peireskius being wont to boast among his Acquaintance of the happiness he had in making Baronius and Bellarmin his friends the good Pinellus was thereby moved to relate what had happened to himself touching those two Cardinals When quoth he the Popethree years ago came to Ferrara they vouchsafed to visit me but concealing their names and in a disguised habit saying that they were only a Couple of Priests I by their Pictures which I had knew presently who they were but making as if I knew them not I brought them into that part of my study where the Pictures of famous men hung and theirs amongst the rest And shewing to Baronius the Picture of Bellarmine Honest friend quo th I does not this Picture exceedingly resemble this companion of yours And shewing Bellarmin the picture of Baromus Does not this also quoth I excellently resemble that companion of yours Whereupon perceiving that they thinking to deceive were themselves deceived they discovered themselves and lovingly embraced me Furthermore Peireskius foreseeing that after a yeer was over he should be sent for home again into his own countrey therefore he set himself seriously to the study of Law which he had intermitted of late yet so ordering his time that he had leisure for many other things For besides divers kindnesses of which hereafter performed for learned men he made continuall progresse in the knowledge of abstruse Histories and remotest Antiquities Of which he gave a remarkable instance when a controversie arising among the curious touching the mount Argaeus he discoursed from a jasper and divers pieces of money coined at Caesarea and other places the originall and the various ceremonies wherewith that mount was anciently adored in Cappadocia Also he continually studied such languages as he thought might be usefull to him For he learnt so much of the Hebrew both in the vulgar and Samaritan character and of the Syrian Dialect and the Arabian Idiom as he thought necessary to interpret the inscriptions of shekels and other such like pieces being instructed by a certain Jew dwelling at Padua whose name was Rabbi Solomon As for the Greek tongue he took more pains in the study thereof both because of the divers Institutions of the Greek Emperours and the Originall of the Law it self which is reckoned to be from Greek fountains as also for the study of Philosophy or wisdome and the most ancient monuments of Poetry and History which remain in that language also for the explication of jewels marbles and coins whose inscriptions are in Greek in the illustration whereof it seemed to him a goodly thing and full of delight to spend his serious endeavours And therefore when he wrote unto any man that was a Lover of Greek as for example to Occo who was alwayes accustomed to strew his Epistles with Greek sentences he also was wont to testifie his learning in that kinde sometimes by putting a Greek verse in the front of his Letters otherwile interweaving some Greek sentence verse or prose in some convenient place of his Letters as to the foresaid Adolphus Occo when he wrote thus Fortunate senex te divae illius antiquae venerandae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 filiae non jam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 duplici nomine Germanum dicent shat is Happy old man now will the daughters of that aneient and venerable Goddesse Mnemosyne call thee no longer Adolphos He alludes to his Nation because a German but Adelphos that is Brother or frater Germanus in a twofold respect Nor was he onely studious of Humanity but he took great pains also in the Mathematicks being from this time forward dearly beloved of Galileus whom he first grew acquainted with at the house of Pinellus and much admired him for the engin he invented to drain out the waters which then infested the city Also he was very industrious to search out the causes of wonderfull things in Nature For he both divers times asked divers Philosophers touching those three Suns and threefold Rainbowes which were seen the seventh day of February about the 21 hour of the day Also intending to Philosophize touching fishes and other things turned into stone he both procured great store of them and placed them in a corner of his study and likewise obtained a platform or description of that mount which at Vincentium abounds with such things And what any man knew touching things digged out of the earth minerals and metals either by rewards or by gentle intreaties he gained the communication thereof but especially at Venice where as he said he saw and observed many rarities in the Arsenall or Armoury there yet was there nothing which he more delighted to behold than the forming of Alum into an octahedricall figure so as to make a body that had eight sides Also he frequently visited the rarer sort of gardens to search out the severall siens and vertues both of homebred and sorrain plants intending to send some of them into Provence and others likewise from Provence sometimes to the garden of Pinellus otherwhiles to other friends And he was wont to be present not onely at the publike dissections of the Anatomists but also at the private ones of Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aqua Pendente who out of the singular good will he bare to Peireskius did admit him to be present when of a parcell of eggs upon which an Hen did sit he took out every day one that he might thereby make observation of the formation of the Chick all along from the very beginning to theend And so much as touching his studies It sollows that we now shew how from this time forward learned and studious men did acknowledge that Peireskius had taken the helm of learning in his hand and began to guide the Common-wealth of Letters I mentioned before how that when he came from Rome the most excellent Pinellus began to be worse than ordinary in point of sicknesse and to tend towards the grave He therefore not long after viz. about the beginning of August departed this world neer seventy yeers old to the great grief truly of all good and learned men but of Peireskius more especially who accounted him as another father and did reverence him accordingly But though he left the whole learned world sensible of its losse occasioned by his death yet was it a comfort that he seemed to have delivered his Lampe to Peireskius leaving him the successour of his virtues and studies For he had so moulded himself according to the manners of Pinellus he became so animated with the studie of noble and brave things and advancing of good Arts that he might justly be thought to have inherited his
first become more Learned under so famous a Professor And therefore he went to Monpellier about the beginning of July and presently put himself and his Brother to board with Pacius And he presently acquainted his Father and his Uncle with his Intentions who never suspecting such a thing were somewhat afraid lest that he had not sufficiently plied his Law-studies in Italie For besides his going aside to Mon-pellier they saw sufficiently both by the Chests which they received from Genüa and those remaining choiser Rarities of which he disburthened himself at Mon-pellier that he must needs bestow so much time in the Collection and knowledge of them that there would remaine little or none to study the Lawes Which when he came to understand he made a kind of Apologie whereby to remove that suspicion viz. That he had cut off none of the time which was due to his Law-Studies but look what houres other young Men did bestow in Games and Plaies in Compotations or Dalliance with women that he spent in gaining of Antiquity And that Masse of Antiquities which they saw was at least a token that the money which he had been furnished with was not consumed in naughty and Dissolute Living And that he likewise knew that the study of antiquity was not unusefull towards the knowledge of the Lawes seeing without that most places of the Digests and the Codes could not be understood and that they themselves might find so much by experience seeing for example sake Interpreters knew not what to make of those Virtolas ex Smaragdis often mention'd by Ulpianus and Paulus which himself could understand by meanes of some which he had got at Rome out of certain Ruines and which he would send to them A thing which had not been seen now for many Ages together That there was likewise among his Baggage many reliques of that kind of mony which the ancients termed Aes grave because they were wont to weigh it and among the many parts of the Roman As there was a Quadrans which upon the one side had the image of a Sow by meanes of which and other pieces stamped in like manner with a Bull and a Sheep money was termed Pecunia a Pecudibus from Beasts marked upon it Also they should find almost innumerable things besides of which to hear him discourse in their presence must needs be a matter of delight unto them both Finally that both himself and his Brother had placed themselves with Pacius not because they thought themselves lesse knowing in the Laws then others of their years but because they desired to know somewhat more excellent and beyond all others This defence which he made for himself did wonderfully please his Parents and his Uncle especially who was inflamed with so great a desire to see him that ere three moneths were well over he would needs send for him home He came away therefore and reached his Fathers House in the moneth of November but he brought Pacius along with him that so he might avoid being kept at home if by no other meanes yet at least under the pretence of accompanying Pacius back again But his Brother was left behind because being then newly recovered from sicknesse he could not undertake the journey with safety It is not my purpose in this place to recount with what exultation Peireskius was entertained when he came home nor how highly Pacius was respected I shall only say that the rare Man Guillelmus Varius who was then President of the Senate of Aix and was afterward as shall be told in its place made Chancellour could not sufficiently admire so excellent a wit and so rare Learning joyned with so much modesty nor be satisfied with asking and hearing what he related so knowingly so clearly and with so much sweetnesse A few daies after being upon this return with Pacius to Mon-pellier he would needs go out of the way to shew him the Fountain De Vau-Cluse not more famous for the plentifull streames of water issuing therefrom then for the Loves of Petrarch and Laura as also that tryumphant Arch which is to be seen at Orenge thought to be built C. Marius thought he judged it to be rather the work of Fabius Maximus and likewise the City of Avenion and the Bridge of Wardon or Guardon built with a triple row of Arches and certain rarities at Nismes which he had not before seen though he had been there two years together Now as soon as he returned he fell to study the Lawes with so much Alacritie that he daily spent ten whole houres therein yet he was wont every day to spend some hours especially towards Bed-time in the studies of Humanity and Antiquity Which Pacius did not wholly dislike being wonderfully delighted to hear him discourse of divers things especially belonging to the ancient Lawes yea and he did not only give way but advized him I may say to see those ancient Monuments of Antiquitie at Narbon but especially that Altar which was vowed and dedicated to Augustus of which being digged up thirty years before he got the Picture printed at Burdeaux with the Illustrations of Elias Vinetus For the Book of Inscriptions of Gruterus was not as yet brought unto him in which he afterward observed that the Tribuneship of Augustus which Tacitus records to have been the 37th in order was by this very Inscription the thirty eighth Moreover because Pacius was very willing to discourse of matters pertaining to naturall Philosophy he took all occasions to ask him Questions touching the more abstruse causes of Nature especially at such houres as were allowed him for his Recreation Thus happening one night upon certain scales of fishes that shone in the darke he gathered them together and conveighed one privately into the study of Pacius and afterwards entring with him he on purpose put out the Candle which he carried before him that he being first amazed and then wondering at the light he might ask him the Cause thereof Pacius referred it to the Heat which was caused by Putrefaction But Peireskius asked him Why therefore the Heat could not be felt neither in those Scales nor in rotten peices of wood Why heaps of Corne growing hot by putrefaction and quick lime wet with water and other things being so very hot did not shine in like manner Why if glow-wormes shine by reason of heat other living Creatures which are much hotter should not also shine To which Pacius answered that the Heat which the Schooles call virtuall might suffice and that befides a certain disposition in the matter was requisite which is found in things which are not hot to the sense but not in those which are sensibly hot I shall not stand to say how that when these and such like reasons could not satisfie Peireskius nothing seemed to him more probable then that all light is a kind of flame though very thin and exceeding subtile which may be known by the Light of the Sun which being contracted and thickened is wont
which he could long for and would of purpose intermingle discourses of pleasant meats it happened upon a time that Varius did occasionally intimate that the Trouts which are caught in the lake of Geneva were not unpleasant in taste He therefore closely marking the same by his great diligence procured a fair Trout taken in the foresaid lake and put into paste to be presented him from some other friend which Varius neverthelesse by the expedition judged to be one of Peireskius his adventures In like manner he endeavoured to provoke his appetite by presenting him with a dish made of the Tongues of certain Birds called Phoenicopteri though it was in the winter at which time only those kind of Sea-birds are taken in the Moores of Arles Those tongues were not much lesse then Kids-tongues and yet because they seemed sweeter in the eating Varius would not say nor could divine what they were till Peireskius brought forth that verse of Martiall Dat mihi Penna rubens Nomen sed Lingua gulosis Nostra sapit My name I have from my red-feather'd Coat My Tongue 's a Bit to p'ease a Glutton's Throat Then he asked him How the flesh of those Birds tasted To which he answered that he wondred why Apicius in Pliny and the Emperours Caligula and Vitellius in Suetonius and Heliogabalus in Lampridius and some others had accounted it for such a dainty dish for it was of an unpleasant or at least of no exquisite taste like that of all other water foule and smelt of fish and therefore the Inhabitants of Provence did for the most part throw the flesh of those Birds away making use only of the Skin and Feathers to cover the flesh of other Birds when they are to be served in at pompous Feasts THE LIFE OF PEIRESKIUS The Third Book 1612. THe following year he went again to Paris for Valavesius had sent for him thither at what time he supposed the Businesse of Riantium would come to a finall hearing And it is so fell out that while he tarried by the way the Judgment was passed in the mean time of which he was iuformed by Letters which he received as he was upon his journey but because he undertook the same not so much for the Businesse sake as out of desire to see his friends therefore he would not return but proceeding more couragiously on his way he came to Paris just when his Brother was to have departed But his good Destinie kept him still in the City for he fell into a disease which held him with such vehemencie an whole Moneth together that unlesse his most dear Brother had come and stood by him he could hardly have recovered out of the same And though he recovered his former health in the moneth of June yet would he not depart without his Brother who deserred his departure till November His pretence was that the late Judgment touching the Businesse of Rians was not altogether decretory or finall for to understand the ancient Law of Provence sometime was interposed to hear what the Assembly of the States would say Whereupon because such an Assembly could not be gathered without the Duke of Guise who was Vice-roy and he could not till then leave the Court therefore Peireskius resolved not to retun till then It is needlesse here to recount with how much joy and how great esteem of his Virtue he was entertained by Thuanus Campinius Rociacus Faber and other of his friends and rare men whom we spake of before and such as had already knowledge of him either by Face or Frame It is needlesse to reckon up the kind offices whereby he obliged very many Learned men not only such as were in the City as besides the forenamed Johannes Savato Carolus Labbeus and others but also in other Places as in the other Cities of France in Italie England and the Low-Countries And whereas he was alwaies busied in the Advancement of Liberall Arts his care in the observation of the Heavenly Bodies was of all others most remarkable and his Discourses which he had thereof with Mathematicians and other Learned Men. Whence it came to passe that no man was better acquainted with the new Phaenomena no man laboured with greater ardency and constancie to know the same So that it was accounted almost a miracle that being distracted with so many other Cares he could gaine so exact a knowledge of these kind of things For he declared many things not only touching the Phaenomena themselves but also about the making and use of the Telescope or Prospective for for which purpose he was wont for the most part to carry some with him both to observe the fabrick of the Instrument and the way to use the same And when he took paines about the Medicean Planets he observed somewhat which will not prove ungrateful to such as are pleased with these studies Viz. He observed that Jupiter passed beyond the Lions Heart to the North on the 30. day of June a little before evening and that Venus being horned went yet more to the North between the evening aforesaid and the Evening of the first of July next following in which likewise shee passed a little beyond a Conjunction with Jupiter whereas even the Moon at that time being the most Northern of all stood very near conjoined to the self same Lions heart aforesaid In like manner he observed two Eclipses one of the Moon and another of the Sun And as for that of the Moon which happened the 14. of May he had noted in his Papers that the Clouds hindered him from observing any thing save that the Eclipse was begun and encreased near to the fourth part of the Diameter when the Town Clocks did variously strike nine and it was by his own watch nine and half an hour over and that it vvas augumented almost to the Semi-diameter vvhen by the Tovvn Clocks it vvas half an hour past nine and by his ovvn Watch ten But he vvrote somevvhat more exquisitely about the Suns Eclipse which happened the thirtieth day of the same moneth viz. hovv he observed that the Sun vvas become like the Moon when shee is near half dark vvhen it vvas nine a clock in the morning by the Town-clocks and a third part of an hour over Afterwards at half an hour after ten and somewhat more he saw the Eclipse encreased but at eleven of the clock it began to decrease and was reduced to the centre of the Sun A little after there was scarce a digit over Finally when it was twelve a clock wanting the sixth part of an hour the Eclipse ceased Which I set down that you may see that there was no diligence at the least wanting in him And he wished asterward that he had observed all things more exquisitely yet he thought there was enough done whereby he might with extream delight compare his observation with one made at Rome of the Moons Eclipse which Johannes Remus Quietanus a famous Physician and Mathematician had
wont to be put in their Sepuichres and with Ludovicus Auberâ—us Menillâ—us of counterfeit Sculptures which Chaducus himself making was not ashamed to give out for pieces of Antiquity Nor again how he took care to get all Manuscripts especially those in Greek written out which treated of Weights and Measures out of the Vatican Library the Kings Library and that of Augsburg and two Volumes of Onuphrius Panvinius also a rare book of the Theorie of Musick which he sent first to Donâ—us and afterwards together with an Arabick book and curious Figures to Marinus Mersennus a Fryar Minim an exceeding good man learned and curious and indefatigable in illustrating the veritie of Nature and Religion Nor to conclude many other things but I choose rather to subjoyn the modesty wherewith he received a Dedication of certain collections out of Polybius N colaus Damascenus and other Historians made by a truly learned and famous man Henricus Valesius who published them in Greek turned them into Latin and explained them with Notes For he besides other passages bespake him in these words For why should I not call you the Parent and Author of his Book which was first by you found out brought at your cost from the Island of Cyprus and sent to this City And presently after But now by my endeavours it comes in print not more considerable by the Purple of the Emperor Constantinus then by your name inscribed in the front thereof And as for Constantine let other men speak as for you both formerly you have deserved well of Learning and will deserve well for time to come yet give me leave among your good deservings of Learning and all learned men that I may reckon this as a principal wherein I am properly concerned And again Which work of mine such as it is I give and bequeath the same to you O Nicolaus Fabricius that this Book bearing your Titles in its front may be accounted totally yours And afterwards having said by way of Preface that of three and twenty Titles of Excerpta there was only one extant entitled de Legationibus and divided into two Books printed partly by Fulvius Ursinus and partly by David Haschelius he made mention also of this Which quoth he now first sees the Light through the liberality of that most famous and learned man born as it were after a special manner to advance Learning Nicolaus Fabricius Peireskius under This Title Peri aretes cai cacias Of Vertue and Vice But Peireskius being perfectly ashamed would not have his name joyned with the Imperial Purple and writing back to Valesius he said it would be sufficient if dedicating the Book to some body else he should only say that he accidently got a sight of the Book and procured the use thereof in an obicure corner when it came first out of the East The like moderation he exercised the following year 1635. when Philippus Rubeus at Rome published and dedicated to him that most ancient Inscription of the Columna rostrata C. DUILIOS M. F. M. N. COS. ADVORSO CARTACINIENSIS IN. SICILIAD REM CERENS of which we made mention before and that with Supplements adjoyned illustrations by Gauges Gozzeus Which neverthelesse seemed to be done not without a Providence seeing he was at the very same time taking care to get not only a Copy of the said Inscription faithfully and exquisitely imitated but also a pattern thereof in Plaister of Paris that he might consider all things and might examine the judgements and Supplements of Ciaconius Lipsius and others that had taken pains about the same But I omit how he would also have a pattern of that other Inscription of Scipio Barbatus aforesaid that he might thereby know the most ancient shape of the Roman Letters because that same Inscription remained unaltered whereas the character of the Duillian Inscription had bin renewed as appears out of Pliny So that he might know the ancient shape of the letters of Athens he procured a pattern of that Inscription which is read in Gruterus ΟΔΕÎΙ ΘΕΜΙΤ ΟΠc. the letters whereof Scaliger writing upon Eusebius thought to be the Ionic characters Though he did that in part to satisfie Salmasius who was minded to illustrate this Inscription as he had done certain others touching the consecration of a Temple and dedication of a Statue Finally he desired Donius to send him an accurate pattern of the Eugubine table so called viz. that brazen one which was found an hundred years ago at Eugubium mentioned also by Gruterus and that because of certain Thuâ—can words in the Interpretation whereof he hoped he should somewhat assist not to say amend the Conjectures of Bernardinus Baldus Moreover about the beginning of the year he heard to his grief that Julius Pacius was dead at Valentia whom he did love and reverence since the time that he first studied the Laws Mean while Theodorus Cardinalis Trivultius gave him a visit who being upon his return to Italy undertook that Orbicius and other Tactick Authors should be copied out from the Ambrosian Library which Peireskius used his utmost endeavours to procure because Salmasius had need of them Also not long after the Cardinal of Lions visited him who journeying towards Rome was desirous to abide some daies in his ancient Arch-bishoprick And being received thither in great Pomp because of the good-will and veneration which he had formerly gained in that place when he both saw and embraced Peireskius who was come a little way out to meet him he could not refrain from saying That he more valued the few paces which he had come then the many miles of others that came out farther to meet him Also Petrus Aloysius Caraffa came to see him in his return from Colen and Leeds being the Popes Legat. And Peireskius asking many questions touching that Countrey both of him and his learned retinue one of which was Silvester Petrasancta he was informed among other things that there was at Leeds a certain industrious Jesuite named Linus who had filled a glasse with water so tempered that a lilttle Globe swum in the middle with the 24 hours written about the same which passing by a fixed Index or hand in order did shew the hour of the day as if that Globe did exactly imitate the motion of the Heavens Which relation was confirmed to him both by the Letters of Rubeus and the Relation of Dormalius who returning into Italy towards the end of the Spring and being detained certain daies at Aix described the thing according as himself had seen it Wherefore Peireskius praised that wonderful invention and began to cast divers waies with himself what power of Nature could effect such a thing for he had gotten many years before the Engine of Drebel in the glassy and arched Pipe whereof the water would passe and repass twice every day seeming in a manner to follow the ebbing and flowing of the Sea But he chiefly called to mind that which Kircherus had told
things about a certain Eclipse which was observed on the third day of March the middle whereof happened at 8. a clock and forty three minutes Consequent hereunto he began seriously to think of which he purposed long before assisting Geographers towards the finding out the difference of Longitude of several places For he would have a certain method written of observing Eclipses and he was wonderfully industrious to procure that the Eclipse of the Moon which was to be in August next following might be observed both in Europe and in divers places of Asia and Africa For besides our Country men and those that live more Westerly he procured that by the instigation of Cardinal Barberino those learned and faâ—â—o is men Andreas Argolus at Padua and Scipio Claromontius at Caesenna might observe the same and by the intercession of the said Cardina he obtained two observations then made at Rome and two at Naples where the most exact was that which Joannnes Camillus Gloriosus a rare man doubtless had made In like manner he procured from Gran-Caire in Aegypt an observation made by the foresaid Capucine Agathangelus being assisted by Joannes Molinus Dragomannus a Venetian also from Aleppo in Syria an observation made by another excellent Capucine Michael Angelus assisted by the foresaid Caelestinus à Sancta Liduina All whose observations cannot be set down in this place yet I must needs say that Peireskius was herein satisfied by the observations aforesaid that it was a clear case that all Geographical Tables and Maps do set those places of Aegypt and Syria at too great a distance from us seeing they do all set Alepo almost three hours that is to say forty five degrees Eastward of Marseilles whereas those observations have made it appear that almost an whole hour ought to be abated seeing they have reckoned no more then thirty degrees between the places aforesaid Whereupon the business having succeeded so well he took a great deal of pains and procured Cardinal Barberino and the Generals of the Jesuites and Dominicans to command such religious persons as lived in both the Indies and all other parts of the world carefully to observe all Eclipses and things of like nature Nor was there afterwards any Capucine or other studious person that passed through Provence intending to travel into the East or any other way or to settle his abode in any forreign part whom he did not oblige by divers kindnesses and to whom he did not injoyn the care of making such observations giving them Books Prospective-glasses and such like things of the use whereof if any were ignorant he took care before their departure both to have them instructed and that they might experiment their skill And knowing that Galileus had framed a Method which we mentioned before to find out the Longitudes of places by the Medicean Stars therefore he desired Galileus to send him for his own proper use a Telescope or Prospective-Glasse of the very best that he himself might make observations and communicate the same with others Which he did having first writ many letters by which he thought he might be allowed to comfort such a friend and to condole with him for his hard hap Moreover about this time he took a great deal of care endeavouring by means of the most excellent Cardinal that the Sentence of Galileus might be moderated and he restored to his liberty Which he did of his own accord judging that the tury of a friend required as much of him and the merits of that man whose memory would be delightful to Posterity About the end of October he took it very hainously that the Parliament did not expect till he had of himself surrendred his Senators office vvhich he had reserved three years for himself when he made his Nephew his Successor wherefore his Brother being at Paris he procured by the Kings letters Patents to be restored perfectly to his said office and that he should exercise the same five years longer This was done the following year 1636. in the whole course whereof he was not wanting in his care for the advancement of Learning For in the first place being much taken with the manifold and rare Learning wherewith Leo Allatius a very learned man residing at Rome did bring to light so many Greek Authors not seen before or full of faults correcting and translating them with wonderful felicity he was desirous to assist and countenance his endeavours carefully treating with the Printers of Paris to undertake the Edition of his workes Which he did likewise concerning certain excellentworks of Fortunius Licetus who was formerly a famous Philosopher in the University of Padua and is now chief Professor at Bononia very much renowned for his great worth So hearing of the death of the excellent Schickardus whom the Plague had taken away November fore-going he used all diligence possible that such workes as he left unprinted might be preserved and set forth which he did by mediation and assistance of Matthias Berneggerus of Strasburge a renowned man I pass over how by the means of Aelius Deodatus of whom we spake before he sent him divers Elegies which when they were to be printed Thomas Lansius the glory of Lawyers and bosome friend of the deceased Schickardus caused a funeral Oration to be printed therewith wherein Zacharias Scafferus the renowned Professor of Eloquence and History at Tubinga could not forbear to relate how that Schickardus had been largely honourably invited by Peireskius that to avoid the troubles in his own Countrey he would come abide with him where he should have opportunity quietly to follow his Studies Likewise he sollicited Elichmannus a learned Hollander to set out the Lives of Pythagoras Empedocles and other Philosophers which he had by him in the Arabian tongue as also Cebes his Table wherein he had observed that there was mention of one Hercules Socraticus a strange person not to be found in the Greek Copies of the said Table and such like things So Samud Petitus being about a new Translation with learned Notes upon Josephus he procured for him by the means of Helstenius the Collation of diâ—ers places with three Manuscripts in the Vatican Library Also when Buccardus was busied about translating and setting forth of Georgius Syncellus and Theophanes he procured a Manuscript to be written out which he both sent to Rome and received back again to get it compared with the Manuscript in the Kings Library nor could he be quiet until it had been compared and some places therein corrected by Salmasins who was then come into France Likewise he gave occasion to Ismael Bullialdus a very rare Mathematician first to write a very large Letter touching the nature of Light and afterwards to set out a pretty large Book after he heard that he had interpreted that Probleme to signifie Light contracted into a Centre by a burning-glasse which was propounded by Baptista Peissonius the Kings Attorney at Anjou in these words Whether there
in relating the Symptoms Prognosticks and Causes of such diseases wherewith they had not bin acquainted as also of the Remedies if not to cure yet to asswage the same From what has bin said we may understand how delightful his conversation must needs be to those in health seeing he so well knew what things were suitable to every ones Genius and Manners For knowing so much as he did it was easie for him to discourse of such things to every one as were to him most contentful and being alwaies intent to learn he would only ask after such things as he knew the party to whom he spake would delight to relate Whereupon being frequently visited by travellers and curious persons he vvould in the first place smell out vvith vvhat study they were most delighted and then he would shew them only such of his Books Rarities and other things which they would be delighted to see nor would he present any thing to them which they did not affect to know Then he would ask them what Rarities they had seen either in their Countrey or upon their journey and he had alwaies some like thing either to show them or to relate as having seen the same or read thereof in his Books Whence it was that every one was sorry to part from him wishing that the hours and daies had bin longer Yea and he was far from making such as frequently conversed with him to be aweary of his company or satiated with his discourse for he was alwaies pouring forth new floods of Learning and his expressions vvere so lively ravishing that such as heard him were always asraid lest he should make an end too soon And sometimes he would pertinently interpose a jest though very seldom for his custome being to speak seriously he poured forth his words with such eloquence as needed not to be seasoned vvith Jests Moreover though his company was most acceptable to every one yet he himself could not endure the company of such as loved only to hear and speak of vulgar and trivial matters And therefore he was wont to complain that he vvas forced to lose such good hours only in hearing and assenting that it was cold weather or very hot that the Sky was very clear or cloudy the Aire healthy or unhealthy and other such like things And for this very cause he shunned the society of Women because he could hardly get any good thereby and he must be forced to talk to them only of toies and trifles Nor could he endure with patience clamorous brawling contentious and talkative People yet could he best bear with the last because amongst many vain words some profitable matter might be intermingled which he was wont to say he picked as Corn from amongst an heap of Chaffe Howbeit they must be sure to speak truth which such talkative folk are not much used to do for he hated nothing more then a man that he found in a lie Wherefore he was wont so to sift such kind of men by asking them divers Questions touching the circumstances of what they told that they must needs have a good memory if they told a lie and did not contradict themselves The like esteem he had of Boasters and Braggadokies save that he was sometimes delighted with some witty passage which would now and then bolt out among their Boastings But nevertheless he wonderfully hated all vain-glorious boasters for he was endued with so great modesty that being more delighted with brave actions then glorious speeches he never was the man that thought or spake proudly of himself So that he might have raught such men better by his own example who never heard his own prayse but against his will and rejected all ambitious Titles which were put upon him and did so extenuate his own vertues though very rare that he was ever accusing himself of infirmity or ignorance giving evident demonstration that nothing could be more desirable then so great moderation of mind And therefore I shall add nothing touching that great gentleness and singular humanity wherewith he was wont to entertain all that came unto him and all that in any thing desired his assistance For it is sufficiently known how he was not ashamed to give greater honour then he needed to have done to any men though of mean condition who were any way considerable for Parentage Learning or any kind of dignity and with what affability he carried himself towards the more obscure clownish and poorer sort of people encouraging them to come unto him sit by him speak to him and to ask and answer Questions till every one thought himself by him fully satisfied And this was truly his carriage towards all but especially to such as desired him to promote their Causes depending in the Court. For he took very great pleasure to hear the parties themselves privately and by questioning and pressing them frequently to attain more knowledge of the matters in controversie then the Lawyers by all their Pleadings and Writings could suggest For although he was a lover of eloquent and learned pleadings yet he was not well pleased but greatly offended when he observed that Truth was disguised Equity ensnared the Lawes defrauded and Ginnes framed and set to intangle Innocence Howbeit how earnestly he endeavoured that every one might have justice we have formerly declared Moreover his Dexterity and Industry was so great and happily effectual that by his own Arbitration he composed the differences of certain Gentlemen which otherwise could never have bin ended procuring unexpected Reconciliation between Families at variance Also whereas it was a custom that the Clients engaged in suites before the Parliament were wont to follow the Senators in Crowds as they went to the Palace to Church to their own Houses or other places he would never suffer it but contenting himself with one Servant or one or two of his familiar friends with whom he might discourse he dismissed the Troop of Clients which would have followed him And as his Gentleness and Humanity was so great as has bin said towards all men so did he in a special manner respect such as he knew to be eminent in regard of their Degree Family or Virtue For as he reverenced them all so did he render to every one as far as he was able more honour then was precisely due unto them Also such as were promoted to Dignities returned into their Country from Travailes recovered of sickness newly married had Children newly born or attained any other of those good things of Fortune so called he was wont to congratulate with them either in their presence or by Letters full of good Wishes Reverence and Affection Nor did he omit any friendly Office or Observance sending Gifts withall or at least communicating what ever rarities he had obtained from sundry places according as he knew or could guess with vvhat kind of things every one vvas most affected And he very often truly complained how much time was lost in giving and
delighted such as heard him discourse for be the occasion of the discourse what it would he could alwaies produce out of his Store-house pertinent matter which he uttered in choise words with the greatest grace imaginable For whether it were some invention of his wit or somewhat treasured up in his memorie or some Passion or affection of his mind which he would declare he had words so at will that he could utter all he had to say distincely gravely copiously and eloquently so that a man could not see things more clearly with his eyes then he would set them out vvith vvords He was of a mature and solid Judgement especially being assisted by so much experience reading and meditation And although some men may have accounted him rash because he never stood considering when occasion was offered to advance Learning and assist learned men yet that was a businesse which he had consulted of in his vvhole life time from his very youngest years so that nothing could be more deliberate Yea and he was wont to say there was no room for deliberation when such men were to be assisted vvho one way or another by their learning or inventions would profit all mankind He seemed in some cases over credulous but though the very sinews and limbs of wisdom are to believe nothing rashly yet reason does not require that a man should believe nothing but vvhat he has seen or heard or felt vvith his hands For a difference is to be made and every man not to be believed yet are there good and learned men who can neither deceive nor be deceived vvhom not to credit were a barbarous bruitish thing Especially seeing it is the disposition of a Wittoo shallow to perswade it self that there is nothing in the secret Closets of Nature beside these familiar things vvhich vve commonly meet vvith in the vvorld and to make those things vvhiche are seen in one Conntrey or Age the measure and model of all that vvhich may be in all other Ages and places Which because Peireskius knew very vvell he readily gave ear to all whose learning or honesty he did not question and though he did not presently determine that such things as vvere related vvere impossible to be or to be done yet he vvas vvont to vveigh all things and at least so to enquire into every circumstance that if at least he gave credit to any thing it could not be otherwise than probable And if sometimes he stuck close to his own reasonings and seemed a little too stiff in his received opinions the cause vvas that he conceived that a man ought not to be alwaies vvavering nor to depart from that opinion vvhich some reason or conjecture had ratified unlesse some stronger evidence appeared to evince more friendly the contrary And doubtlesse the safest vvay is for a man to have his mind disposed to put off all prejudice so as to give place to reason and verity vvithout refractoriness but because the Reasons of things are hardly ever of equal vveight it always comes to pass that a mans mind enclines to one part so that every man is so much more vvorthy excuse inasmuch as vvhether he vvill or no he assents unto that vvhich is most likely He vvas also rarely industrious and of a diligence invincible Which vvas truly greater than could comport with his health strength seeing he hardly ever so much relaxed that same earnest contention and bent of his mind as to let an hour much lesse a day to passe vvithout a Line so exceeding great was his delight in study It is needless for me to tell of his indefatigable care vvhen he vvas to make any observation or to commit any thing to writing For how much he effected in observing things Coelestial or Terrestial Natural or Artificial old or new or what evet else might seem vvorthy of care and consideration I have already all along hinted and he was so unwearied in vvriting that he presently noted dovvn vvhat ever he met with To say nothing of his Letters which were very many in number most full of Learning and commonly very large There never hapned any thing memorable which he did not presently set down in writing with his own hand such as National pompes publick calamities prosperous and adverse accidents pertaining to great men famous contentions discourses had with Princes and learned men and many other things of like Nature He would presently set them down lest by delaying some businesses might intervene and disturbe him and his memory in the mean while languishing might let slip many particularities His diligence was the same when any notable thing came into his mind or was suggested by some other or observed in reading for he would presently take pen in hand and note the same down not enduring that any thing should perish which he conceived might be useful to himself or others Now he wrote things down in his Memorials because he then judged they were out of danger of being forgotten seeing he could not trust his memory as Socrates or Pythagoras were wont to do and had found by experience that the very labour of writing did six things more deeply in his mind Moreover whatsoever he noted down he did it upon a new or fresh leaf of paper that if anything were afterwards to be added it might be done without confusion And he always wrote on the top of the lease or the upper part of the margent the Subject or Title of what he was to note down in a large character with which commonly he inserted proper names and other words which in the ordinary letter could not so well be read or so soon found out and he added the year and the day and if he received it from some other he premised the Authors name Nor did he only leave a margent sometimes on one more frequently on both sides of the sheet that if through haste any thing had bin omitted it might be there added rather than interlined but he lest also a very large front that the Title might be better distinguished and discerned and chiefly if through haste he had not time to set it down Howbeit that seldom hapned for he never willingly left any thing unperfected because he had found too often that things only begun or done to halves out of hope to enlarge them afterwards by reason of intervenient occasions remained as they were left without any further addition And therefore he wrote every thing as accuratly as he could and he was vexed if when any one was bid by him to write any thing which he dictated or somewhat which was collected from some Author or of his own invention he left not room enough to prefix the Title or not margent enough or sufficient distance between line and line and one word and another expecting to write the same over again in a more elegant and ample manner For he truly judged that such delaies were deceitful and that they were an occasion if of
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