the world yea and extant in the Gospel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S. Matth. IV. whether it signifie Epileptick persons as is certain say Physicians from the Symptoms Matth. XV. or the Raving Melancholy distracted Persons as the Syriac expounds it see the Learned Martinius in Lexic such as we meet S. Matth. VIII and S. Marc. V. they are both sad Instances of the Lunar Dominion on Humour in general and the Humours of our Temperature Of the Epilepsie 't is confess'd of the Other also 't is as true by the testimony of the Syriack And though some of the Antients S. Hier. and Origen are jealous of this Notion ascribing all to Diabolical Ferity and Cunning lest we should raise an Evil Report and bring Infamy on God's good Creature if we should grant the Moon contributed any thing of disposition to the Distemper yet we answer in a conciliatory way with the Generality of the Learned avoiding Both Extremes thus To refer all to the Natural Cause is one Extreme to impute All to the Infernal Fiend is the Other There is more danger of Injury done to Religion in the denial of these Natural Evidences than of Infamy to God's Creature in admitting them It would be wrong to the Creature to say the contrary seeing This also Lunar Warmth is God's Creation Therefore the Arabick Translator owns the Philosophy and construes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be Those who are tormented and vexed in principiis Pleniluniorum whether he means Either or Both of the Distempers abovesaid is to be learned from the Arabian Physicians See Gul. Ader the pious Critick on the Diseases mentioned in the Gospels § 16. The Experience concerning the Shelfish and their fatness at the Interlunium is evaded by saying that the Tide recruits them the Fresh water that comes along with it But doth not the Moon conduce to the freshning i. e. rarifying and quickning of that Stream Doth it not immit a new or call up the native spirit from its recesses to the very surface of the Element The Lunar warmth hat a double Office not only quickning the Aliment but as the Philosopher saith comforting the Cold bloodless Feeder his words are these The Shel-fish thrive most at the Full Moon not because they feed more 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quite contrary to the Answer given but because the Nights are warmer by reason of the Moon de part Animal IV. 5. For bloodless Creatures saith he are easily chill'd and rejoice therefore in warmth Now warmth we know nourisheth as well as Victuals as we see in Sleep not excluding the Food but distributing it Certainly the Lunar History gives Instances of its Power over those Bodies whose Nutrition is not so facile as Theirs seems to be who have a whole Sea to guzle in § 17. But at Cambaja it seems at Bengala Java Islands and elsewhere neither do the Tides appear at the New or Full but at the Quarters when the Shel-fish also make their Markets Answ Some Difficulties there are and who can expect otherwise that studies the Universe rais'd against the Moon 's Soveraignty which yet are found to vanish the nature of the place be it Sea or Shore once consider'd For whatsoever difference here is found no doubt is on the part of the Recipient according to that good Maxim Quicquid recipitur c. and that solves all doubts in this case even the various Fluxes of Euripus it self For let the Ocean flow in some places four hours and ebb eight as with us in others seven and ebb five as long as it flows once in 12 hours and twice a day we are secure Do these Spring-Tides observe the Quarters of the Moon invariably do they keep their times for the whole Periods twice a day with other Ports does the Succession keep to its Measure I mean happen 48 Minutes later every day The Moon is the cause even of those Quarterly Floods yea the Change and Full may be the Cause with Us while the Quadrate may be assigned for the Cause there the Quadrate being less powerful than the Conjunction but not utterly infirm or of no force as will be seen hereafter Who knows then but that the Quadrate the less in an Intemperate Zone may be equivalent to the greater in a Temperate we having defin'd that 't is not Heat in every degree but only a Kind and a Temper'd Warmth that is effectual The Conjunction and Opposition may be excessive in the Torrid Zone and so unfit to raise the Humid Spirits on which account we are taught that the smallest Tides are perceived under the Equator Be the Mystery what it will many Definitions are absolutely True confin'd to their Clime which universally cannot hold The Sun riseth and setteth in 24 hours in Greenland not so the South-wind blows from the Pole not in these Countreys the Absence of the Sun causeth Winter with us but Those under the Line have no Winter but when the Sun is nearest them § 18. I must not conceal that I have seen an Ingenious Manuscript concerning this Subject determin'd by the Hypothesis of a third motion of the Earth with great happiness solving many New Phaenomena but yet I who have not proceeded so far in Mathematicks as to espouse Any Thing of that Principle content my self with these vulgar Presumptions and think I have some reason so to do when I shall have ask'd these few Questions not determinable I fear by such Hypothesis 1. Why even in calm and dry weather the Tides from the Change to the Quartile from the Quartile to the Full yea the Two Tides of the same day keep not their proportional Increase or Abatement 2. Why the Spring-Tide about the Full of the Moon most commonly is less than That about the Change 3. Why the Moon 's Perigee swels the Tide more than the Apogee in as much as what Dr. Childrey my late worthy Friend hath observed All prodigious Floods have happen'd remarkable at that time 4. Why the Moon commonly loses nothing at her appulse to the Equinox at what time of the Month soever it happens 5. Why it gains in her Applications to either Tropick if in her utmost Latitudes Northern or Southern 6. Why the Moon on the day of the Last Quadrate decreasing makes as high a Water sometimes higher than at the First in the Increase 7. Why the Lunar Aspects even with the Rest of the Planets do advance the Tides yea and her Applications also to some of the Notable Stars amongst the Fixed § 19. It may not be amiss here to glance upon Sacred Authority where there is manifest Testimony of the Lunar Energy Per Diem Sol non percutiet te neque Luna per Noctem Psalm XXI That 's the First The other is in Deut. XXXIII where Joseph's Blessing is not compleat without the pretious things of Heaven the Dew c. yea not without the pretious Fruits brought forth by the Sun and the pretious Things put forth by the Moon Whatsoever
may be thought that three days are too many for the purpose of pretended Art I have answered Nay already to secure said I the effect which must happen within such a Term for if it falls beyond the Effect may not be reasonably owned of which presently § 20. Those who consider but one Day only must be asked what if an Aspect by its very chosen time falls out in the very Confine and Juncture of several Days at or about Midnight Must not this Aspect and its pretended Influence belong to more than one of those Days so united A ☌ put case may last four or five Hours as by Ecliptical Conjunctions is manifest in such case the ☌ may relate to those days as a Tenement by its Situation may belong to two Counties or Parishes § 21. Once for all we must speak out and a proper Chapter it may make that Aspects Planetary challenge a greater duration than four or five Hours space seeing the Bodies Planetary are capable of mutual affection at distance not by Corporal only when Indistant but by Virtual Contact Influence like Streams ofttimes mingling and blending together when their Fountains are diversly situated § 22. And if it be well remembred this Postulate cannot be denyed by those who allow the Lunar Influence to be Moderatress of the Tides which swell and rise one or two days before and after the Aspect as Ptolomy from and with Experience hath taught The same Experience hath further taught us to observe the like or greater Interval of two days before and after in the Dissolution of Frosts as we shall see in the next Chapter § 23. Justly therefore Astrologers have taken up that famous Division making Aspects to be not Partil only exact to a Degree and Minute but Platic also with enlargement and latitude to more than one or two such Degrees § 24. All the Difficulty is concerning the precise Terms and width of this enlargement To which the Ancient Arabs have made shift to answer For all Astrology we shall see lies upon it that the Terms of the Suns Orb as they call it the Orb of its radiation be comprised in Fifteen Degrees the Moons Orb in Twelve for Saturn about Nine Jove about Nine or somewhat more Mars Venus Mercury about Eight Summa Anglican distinct 10. tract 1. Cap. 5. And such Answer upon my Word proceeds from a great experience not vain and arbitrary as in the mutual Aspects of the other Planets will be noted where I hope to clear up the matter Twelve Degrees you see are ascribed to the ☽ 's radiation Well was I when I saw and it was long first that the Ancients the Arabs of old accorded to my Method observed in the Table For if XII Degrees must be allowed to the ☽ 's Orb of Radiation ante retro for so they express themselves distinctly then a Triduum is necessarily engaged in the Lunar Table in behalf of the ☽ 's efficacy and its demonstration § 25. Verily some such Salvo or more than this must be had on the account of the New Aspects the Smisextile and Quincunx two of which border on the ☌ like as Sextiles Quartiles and Trines we know are double In behalf of which we may say that it is even pity these Aspects are not damtted as well as any but no more because then their Definitions woul de in a natural Order of equal successive Distance VII Aspects defin'd by the distance of Signs O 1 2 3 4 5 6. The Conjunction at Sign ◠no distance at all the Semisextile at Sign 1 the Sextile at 2 the Square at 3 Signs distance the Trine at 4 the Quincunx at five Signs distance the Opposition lastly at 6. I confess for order and memory sake 't is pity it is not so But let me tell you unless the Semisextile on each side ante retro be reduced to the ☌ and the Quincunx likewise to the Opposition as their Matrices their Forts and Principals the Conjunction as prescinded from this new Semisextile forsooth will be found the most insignificant Aspect in the pack I prove this from the IX years of Keplers Diary where I took the pains to examine the Semisextile and Quincunx and the Issue was of as frequent effect near the time when the ☽ is about a whole Sign 's distance as when near the the Hour of her Conjunction But no reason in the Earth can be given why any Semisextile for Power or Dignity should take place of his Mistress nor Physical I wis nor Harmonical Nature it self will appear against such bold Innovators who go to depretiate her great Instrument the Aspect of the ☌ which by crying up Semisextiles will be utterly evacuated as between two Interlopers when as common Sence tells us that whatsoever little pittance may be afforded to such Pretenders they must at no hand be compared to their Chief for as much as in all Union of Activity the Force must naturally unless by accident be more strong and Effective nearer the Perpendicular Line then the Oblique So that when the Activity of the Lunar Congress is rampant the Reason is plain that Rampancy can by no means be ascribed to the Vicinity of the Semisextile but contrary the effectuousness of the Semisextile secluding accidental advantages must be referred rather to that efficacy which issuing most vigorously from the Perpendicular is not yet extinct in the Oblique Line Surely the Observer shall never find it worth while to observe Lunar Semisextiles or Quincunxes either prescinding from their Principals No body as yet hath found himself obliged to do it If we find any such thing in the other Planets we shall not stifle it but as to the ☽ 't is certainly a Frustrá fit per phera § 24. I spoke of accidental advantages I intended thereby some even Lunar Conjunctions with other Planets ♂ ♄ c. Therefore let no Man wonder if I introduce ☿ and ♀ here who are alwaies ☿ at least within two days march of the ☉ and consequently of the ☽ in her conjunctional Aspects so the Lunar ☌ with ☿ being so near at hand to the Sun helps to credit the Solar Conjunction with a heightned Influence which belongs in part to himself and it would be silly to impute an effect to an Upstart Semisextile single Aspect which is palpably reducible to an old confessed not single but a double Conjunction the one of the ☽ with ☉ the other of the ☽ with ☿ and sometimes ♀ Not but that the ☽ hath her Orb of radiation even here for ☿ is not always contiguous to the Lunar Body but that as in Morals so in Naturals also a Friend may though at some distance step in and help at a dead lift Hence I fairly desire it may be considered whether this ☿ and ♀ as the case stands may not be subservient to the Sun and ☽ in the swelling of the Tides sometimes before sometimes after the Change as their position happens
March 19. for so you must read it ad April 14. Mr. Cavendish separated from Sir Walter Raleigh Hakl 734. Wonderful that then began ☌ ♄ ☉ in ♈ 8. and about that time in April ☉ had got out of the Sign 1587. April 16. Easter Day very Great Storms for 3 days Cables broke Hakl 759. ♂ ♀ oppos in ♠♓ ♄ ☉ ♀ in ♉ and before that Apr. 12. Foul Weather E. of Cumberland Hakluit 1596. Febr. 8. Great Tempest We lost the Foresight Drakes Voyage 3. ♄ ♀ in ♠and ♓ 1597. Aug. 24. Foul Storm most intensely violent 5 or 6 hours Purch 1943. ☌ ♃ ♂ but ♄ ☉ ♂ are in ♠and Sept. 19. 20. ♄ ☉ ☽ ♀ all in ♠1599. Sept. 7. Streights of Magellan Storms forced Cpt. Wirtz to stay In 2 Months not one fair day our Principle refuses not to give an account if need be of those Two Months Suffice at present that it began at a New ☽ near the Equator of one side with ♄ ☿ deep in ♎ on the other side 1600. Octob. 17. Streight of Mamilla Storm had almost rob'd us of our Masts and Sails ♄ ☉ ♀ in ♠and ☿ within call 1606. June 10. Shoteland All afternoon and Night following thick and Rainy Weather Purch 3. 823. Die 15. Lat. 56. deceived by an Orderly Current 22. Storms Purch ♄ ☽ ☿ in Trop July 6. 58. A Southerly Current Purch 8. Die 9. A violent Current Lat. 60. Is not the ☽ added now to ♄ ☉ ☿ Die 19. Mighty Current Id ♄ ♀ ☿ 1607. Decemb. 8 Frosts till Jan. 15. thence to Febr. 15. It began ♄ ☿ in ♈ Yea and the ☽ on the day it first appeared to say nothing of ♀ being come within the term 1608. June 18. C. de Agullias Tempestas Frigus Maximum Arthus ♄ ☉ ☽ in trop die 26. Tanta vis ventorum ut aliqui umbilico tenus aquis institerent Id. ♄ ☉ ☿ 1609. July 2. New-found-Land At night much great Rain Wind shifting Purch 3. 184. ♄ ♀ ♂ die 8. we caught 118 great Codd Fish and saw great Sholes of Herrings ♄ ♂ ♀ ☿ Die 10. Great Current and yet no ground at 170 Fathoms Lat. 41. ♄ ♂ ♀ ☿ 1610. Circ Jul. princip we had a Storm our Men fell sick ad fretum Davis Purch Lat. 78. Aug. 2. A great and whirling Sea whence I know not Ib. 1615. March 15. About C. Comorin we saw 3 Spouts of Water not far from us one whereof continuing about half an Hour Purch 1. 515 ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ in ♈ Die 28. Magellan Streights Wind and Tide forced us out Purch 17 ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ 1616. March 16. Terrible Storm in the Bay of Portugal 5 days and Nights 1617. March 21. Ventus Decumanus Kepler ♄ ♀ in ♉ juxta Pleiad May 1. Parelia K. ♄ ☉ ☿ and ♉ Die 1. Lightning K. ♄ ☉ ☿ in ♉ Oct. 22. Sol Pallidus K. whether ♄ do not contribute by way of Opposal of the ☉ and ☿ with the ☽ by way of Opposal to ♄ inquirendum est 1618. April 21. Thunder very vehement but no Rain Extream hot at Night ☌ ♂ ☉ ♀ in ♉ Die 16. Hot. They cannot endure to wear so much as Linnen ♄ ut supra 1619. July 1. Pluviae Continuae Calv. ♄ ♀ ☿ in ♊ ♃ ♂ opposed in ♈ ♎ Dec. 10. A Current to the Northward which used to be South-East Purch 1. 1629. if that usual Current came not from the Streights 'T is not impossible that former Current may considering that ♄ ☉ ♀ ☿ are all opposed in the Tropique 1621. June 20. Tempestas perstrepuit K. ♄ ☉ ♀ in ♋ 29 30. Largissimae Pluviae Ib. ♄ ☉ ♀ ☿ in ♋ Dec. 23. 24. Parelia ♄ ☉ ☿ in ♑ ♋ 1622. Circ Anni Princ. in Poland Comet and Earthquake Purchas Vol. 5. ♄ ☉ ☿ ♋ ♑ Die 25. Phasmata in Norico Arcus inversus in Franconia K. ♂ ♀ in ♓ ♄ ☉ in ♋ ♑ 1626. Sept. 4. Iris ante ortum Kepl. ♄ ♂ ☉ in ♠1627. Jan. 18. Ventus decumanus nix copiosa ♄ ♀ in ♠♓ Feb 9. Ad Franciae oram ingens Tempestas ♄ ☉ ♀ ♀ Stationary March 1. ☉ Pallidus ♄ ☉ in ♠♓ A Feb. 22. ad March 6. Maculae ☽ likewise ♄ ☉ ♀ in ♠♓ April 2. Nix multas ♄ ♀ ♠♓ Aug. 13. Grampisce at Woolwich ☠♃ ♂ is brisk but ♄ and ☿ at the end of ♠do alone proclaim a Disturbance of Nature Febr. 14. Naves 37. submersae cum milibus Hominum Calvis ☌ ☉ ♀ but opposed by ♄ 1628. Octob. 2. Westminster Hall Floated ♄ ☉ ☿ in the last Decade of ♎ the Opposition of ♂ and ♃ helps to swell the Waters but our other 3 Planets wring them down Not unlike was the Weather in Silesia as appears from Keplers Ephemerides Imbres continui for Two days together at the end of September Sept. 7. Nimbi Grandinosi Octob. 28. Parelia ♄ ☿ ☽ in ♈ ♎ there 's ♂ and ☉ in ♠too Perhaps that 's the Principal Contributor 1629. April 1. Continual Rain Kepl. ♄ ☉ ☿ in the last Decade of ♎ Die 16. Wittemburg Parelia ♄ ♀ ☿ in ♎ fine ♈ Die 21. Tempest and Horrid Thunders K. ♄ ♀ ☿ in ♎ fine ♈ Sept. 17. Rain the whole day ♄ ☉ ♀ in ♎ So die 19. ♄ ☉ ♀ ☿ now ☿ it got in Die 20. Sol Pallidus ♄ ☉ ♀ ☿ in ♎ to me nothing Plainer the Sun's Satellites and ♄ Glow upon the Sun 1630. May 7. Noxious Thunder Kepler ♄ ☉ ♀ ☿ ♠♉ 1636. Jan. 4. Rain and Storms ♄ ☉ ♀ in ♑ Die 6. Much Rain Die 21. Viel St. Rain fast Durchans Kyr ☉ ♀ helps to rain the whole day we have heard Here they are found in ♒ but ♄ and ♀ in ♑ contribute May 14. Chasme ♄ ♀ in ♑ ♋ June 6. Heat Thunder ♄ ☉ in ♋ ♑ Die 15. Frightful Thunder and great Rain ♄ ☉ ☿ in ♑ ♋ July 1 2. Rain and Thunder ♄ ☉ in ♋ ♑ 1639. Febr. 21. Travado's Whirlwind Mandelslo Lat. 21. ☉ ♀ ♓ ♄ ☿ in ♒ Aug. 9. Near Madagascar Grashoppers deprived us of the Sight of ☉ ♂ ☿ opposed by ♄ in ♒ Die 22. Monson came unexpectedly 1641. Octob. 16. At Danube Stream Storm and T. M. Kyr ♓ 6. ♄ ♠28. ♀ 1644. Nov. 17. Parelia London C. Wharton Die 18. Snow all day and also Thunder Kyr Die 25. Halo ☽ 1645. April 16 18. Sol sanguineous ☌ ☉ ♀ solves it pretty well but withall ♄ opposes them near the Equator 1646. Febr. 11. Thunder Meteors Kyriander ♂ and ☿ we allow before but also ♄ ♀ and ♈ and ♎ nearly opposed 1648. Nov. 13 14 15. Rainy and Windy Die 19. Near the Isle Andro a Spout half a quarter of an Hour Id. ♄ opposing ♀ ☿ in ♠♊ Die 28. Very violent Storm Id. Dec. 2 3. Fortune tres-violente all the Night Id. Die 14 15. Very violent Id. ♄ opposes ♀ ☿ in princ Tropicks Die 18. Currents
Feet swelling and shooting against Weather yea the Paroxysmes of the Gout and sundry other Ailments observed in the Hospital of our Bodies remember us thus of superior Alterations § 22. Yea farther all the Prognosticks taken from the Fire it self do note which may be strange some Dominion over Moisture the â—elestial Action terminating not on the Flame so much as the Fewel or the Body inflam'd hence comes the little diminutive sparkling of the Candle the spitting of the Fire from under the Embers the puffing and murmuring of the flaming Coal the concretion of Sparks and Knots in the Snuff Lucernarum fungi the Adhesion of Embers to the Hearth of the Live coal to the Pot-side all betokening some Alteration of the Moisture which betrays it self by concretion of things contiguous or by that little sparkling at the approach of the Flame which at other times burns quiet and cals for no Observation He that pleases may consult Aratus Virgil Pliny Plutarch of the Neotericks Fromond Vossius de Idololatr § 23. Rain and Wind therefore for they are not often severed or their existence to Warmth § 24. And 't is manifest whether Hail reduceth it self being the congelation of Rain As for Snow 't is of a nice crasis strangely consisting of a congeal'd vapour and some little degree of a warm Spirit which helpeth to resolve the continued congelation and make it fall into wafers § 25. Hence what is commonly observed whensoever it snows the Air remits of his rigor and again the greater is the Fleece the warmer is the Air and more bordering on a Thaw § 26. Next the Mist also belongeth to Cold seeing it is a vapor part moist part fuliginous congel'd just as the breath of our mouth by the Cold of Winter is a visible Mist Mists therefore do not arise from the Rivers brink as is commonly reckon'd but the Vapour which before rose invisibly being congel'd descends and by continual aggregation or conflux puts on a visible consistence § 27. Lightning and Thunder need no Herald to derive their Pedegree from Heat Celestial § 28. Comets Celestial have their consistence also from Expirations Celestial taking it for granted that the Sublunar consist of Expirations Terrestrial mingled with Celestial and inflamed thereby § 29. Blite and Blasting in some cases proceed from Heat as when Fruits are prejudiced by Lightning or burning Winds such as the East-winds are reckon'd in Holy Writ § 30. Again it oftentimes proceeds from Cold and Hoar-frosts as Pliny rightly with our Husbandmen define happening with us about May June yea in April March whensoever the Spring is obnoxious to the injury by its unhappy forwardness § 31. Of all these there is not the least piece of a Phaenomenon that is casual in respect of the Heavens though the Learned Kepler can allow it but the Heavens are conscious of its Original § 32. Nay as we shall see there is not the least puff of Wind though a Reflexion of a Blast indeed may be termed Casual but is Heaven-bred if we speak of the direct issue § 33. Howbeit so great and various is the inconstancy of the Winds especially with us on Shore that the Knowledge is abstruse and difficult though neither so pure a Contingent but that it may be lur'd to the Rules of Art § 34. Seeing Wind that we may come to its Definition is nothing else but the motion of an Earthy dry Exhalation and that moved not by Condensation or its own Gravity but by Impulse from Celestial Heat § 35. Some great Authors philosophize otherwise That Wind is made by Rarefaction and a Condensation succeeding the Air condensed tending downwards and acquiring its violence by the heights of its descent But 1. wheresoever it hapneth that there is such Condensation as in Clouds Dews Mists hazie Air Frosts there would be always some sense of Winds stirring but many Clouds and hazie days are calm yea nothing is more husht oft times than a Frost or Mist or more still and silent than the Dew 2. Winds are indifferent to all Seasons Winter Summer to all Weathers to all hours of the Natural Day none have their Quietus'es from it not Sun-rise nor Sun-set Mid-day nor Mid-night it owes not therefore its Existence to Rarefaction and Condensation seeing all Hours Seasons are not indifferent thereto for in a Cloudy day what place is there for Rarefaction In a bright hot Summers day what condenseth 3. Here let the Etesian speak hath not benign Nature provided that refreshing Air for the Aestival Heat and doth not it rise at 9 in the morning when the Heat increaseth and cease again at 4 in the Even 4. Whatsoever may be said in Spring and Autumn for the vicissitudes of Rarefaction and Condensation how comes Winter which even hath its denomination from Wind to be so unquiet when there are no such sensible vicissitudes Nay how doth Wind rise in Winter nights It cannot be said that the Night condenseth what the Day hath rarefied Alas the Day was all benummed in Frost and the windy Nights often introduc'd a Thaw How doth the colder Season rarifie how doth the warmer Season condense 5. Upon this Hypothesis the Wind would blow to not from the Points of the Compass and to many Points at once viz. coming from the Sun as from the Centre for the Air even as Water rising up in a Conical tumor when rarefied upon the recess of the Sun while it condenseth and recovereth its Gravity must needs fall indifferently from the vertex to all parts of the Circumference where it is not hindred i.e. to the East North and South at least if not to the West but the Wind blows not several ways at once nor is confined in the least but tends indifferently from the Sun aud to the Sun and on each side of the Sun through all the Points of the Compass § 36. Again Condensation can give no account of the Winds violence no not the thousandth part of its rage and fury as when it is known to rift up Trees demólish Buildings for admit the descent of Air to be as forcible as the descent of Water though there is some difference sure especially if Air be rarer than the Water by a 1000 degrees yet this will not prevail for in Noah's Floud it self the Cataracts of Heaven did not beat down the Trees as appears by the Story § 37. 'T is said that all Heavy Bodies the further they descend the more violence they acquire this is true in Bodies that have their fixed Dose of complete Gravity disproportioned to the medium as in Stones Metals c. and this by virtue of their Generation but in Condensation 't is otherwise the Body is not condensed at an instant all at once but at leisure and by gradual alteration Proportional thereto must the Gravitation be and as the body condenseth so must it subside in the same measure according as the Applications of the Causes condensing are gradual for as for instantaneous
Clients of the Skie flock after him and retreat dishonourably at his retirement The life of Animals subsists by his Energy of our very Immortal Spirits he is the Union § 3. Notwithstanding This and a less Hymn I could not make on Him whose Lustre dazles us I say that the Sun alone this Glorious Creature cannot be the Cause the entire Cause of the Changes of the Air and its Vicissitudes § 4. Because the Sun consider'd alone All things rightly weighed requires those of his Fellow-Celestials to constitute even the Seasons of the Year The Seasons differ one from the other in length of Day or proportion of Light and the proportion of the Warmth the Sun alone is the Author of the First not of the Latter He is confess'd a Light All-sufficient but that it must therefore be a Heat All-sufficient is no warrant A Taper lights the Room which will not warm it for that the Sun carris the Name of Warmth That argues that he is indeed the Principal most Eminent not the sole Dispenser So the General carries the Glory of the Battel who is far from being the Sole though he be the Principal Souldier According to the tenor of which words must our piece of a Hymn on His or rather his Creator's praise be expounded § 5. The truth of this will be clear when we have considered that the Sun's approach and Exaltation encourageth the warmth of the Spring and keeps up the height of Heat in Summer being the Eminent Cause of Both. But yet neither Dayes nor Months do always increase in or stand or remit their warmth in proportion to the Solar access or recess from the Solstice This hath been urged by others and may be instanced fourty wayes It is notorious that the Aestival heat even increaseth as the Sun declines for the Month of July and part of August are usually more soultry than the Solstitial month of June § 6. Here it is answer'd with one accord that the Heats of July receives their intenser degree from the measure of the prae-existent warmth but this we have precluded before and add that the Heats of July have been found as intense when the precedent June hath been contrary affected every man's memory being able to prompt an Instance of an April May or June beyond expectation cold upon which the common comfort hath been from hopes that July and August would make amends Besides that this holds not in July alone the end of March may have more warmth than April and April than May November warmer than October as again January colder than December March than February we may here after name some Times when it proves generally so therefore the Sun is not the sole Administrator of Celestial warmth § 7. It may be said again as it is by some great men in things of this Nature that they are Casual But the word Chance in Causes Natural and determinate speaks our Ignorance and it may be something of Injury to the Creator But 2. a hot July is never casual being intended so by God's ordinary Providence for Harvest sake That great Providence which workes by the Great Machine of Second Causes 3. Nothing that is Prognosticable can be Casual § 8. Again if the Sun alone were the cause every fourth year would bring about the same Revolution of Winds and Weather the Sun being then exactly restored to the same place by the Intercalary day interposed but no such Revolution appears I find Eudoxus of old gave out indeed to this purpose Plin. II. 47. but no Experience confirm'd it from his time to Pliny's age he was only fond of his own Surmise If it had been so we had been weather-wise by this time without out consulting Star or Kalendar § 9. Considering what is behind it will not be very needful to say more here only to take away all Scruple I would answer a possible Objection The Returns of the Weather being fixed and determined 't is reasonable as you say that the Fixed cause be assigned the Author of That determination but the Sun and nothing else is the Determinate Cause for what else consines the Return to the same Day therefore it must be the Entire and Adaequate Cause The Answer is ready if all the Stars in the Firmament should conspire with the Sun into one Tempest they could choose no time but what the Sun the Lord of Time should determine It followeth not therefore that if the Sun be the Determinative Cause he is the Adaequate the Sun bearing two places Physical and Chronological in the first he helps to produce in the second he circumstantiates the Production But if the Identity of the Day 's constitution be press'd we answer that the Sun determineth That not absolutely and entirely for then the Return would be infallible but on supposition of the other Causes meeting these Concauses met do determine the Effect as it were Materially the Sun closing with them specisies the time Thus Disputers say the last Vnity is the form of Number a principal Cause but not an Adaequate CHAP. VI. The Lunar Influence and its History Hippocrates doctrine of the Tides Dissent from the Learned Vossius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aristotle agrees with Hippocrates § 1. PRoceed we then and let us say that the Changes of the Air cannot be referr'd to the Sun taking in the Moon along with it though to give the Moon her due also she is of great Efficacy as Ptolemy tells us in that excellent II d Chapter of his first Book All things saith he animate and inanimate receive her impression the Rivers swell or abate according to Her light the Tides and Ebbes of the Ocean 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sway'd by his Rising and Setting Plants and Animals are in poor or better case as she waxes and wanes Upon which words I would we could comment we endeavour thus What the proper quality of the Moon is we find disputed Ptolemy and the Ancients define her to be Moist they mean or ought to mean that she is of a remiss warmth to such a degree as is no Enemy but rather friend to Moisture by Resolving it Calling it forth or otherwise Actuating it by her spirituous Ray according as that fluid and withall salt Element is capable of impregnation § 2. And to this one principle of Warmth will all the various Effects usually ascribed to the Moon be justly reducible For on this account the Sea it self ebbs and flows in all Rivers Creeks and Shores making a Full Sea precisely at what time the Moon comes to such a Point of the Compass falling back every day as many minutes about 48 as the Moon comes later to the same Point luxuriating in her Spring-tides about the Full and Change when she is direct with the Sun and flagging all the Quarters when she is at an oblique distance On this account it is that Flesh exposed to the Lunar Rayes sooner putrifies those which walk along by Moon-shine feel a Dose in their
Definitions have excluded and therefore are to be corrected but who understanding himself can exclude it the Ancients did not Pliny discoursing of the Tides puts the Sun in the first place and Ptolemy acknowledgeth the Sun as more absolute in all the productions ascribed whether to the Moon or any other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I. 2. § 9. For the very Nature of the Moon which is a Reflexion supposes the same the Moon being but a Sun reflex'd as they say of others also whose Full and the Change being the observable Phases are nothing else but eminent Relations to the Sun A Relation must include both its Terms the Sun therefore cannot be excluded the Author demonstrates the Sea would have such motion supposing there were no Moon but he may be pleased to enquire and he may find that the Moon cannot be spared spared I say as to that warmth which the Sun it self imparts for by Her the Warmth is modified temper'd increased remitted according to the variety of her Phases by Her this warmth is made so kindly so suitable to the humid Element that without it it cannot be governed Warmth will rarifie Water this Author hath excellently taught us and that the Moon hath a kind of warmth quatenus Lucid he justly defines so there is not much betwixt us every warmth Celestial we shall see hath Influence on the Waters § 10. We have as good Demonstration that the Ebbs and Flows depend on the Moon as that she borrows her Light from the Sun the diversity of the Phases according to her access and recess shew the one the suitable Increase and Decrease of the Tides according to those very Phases shew the other § 11. At the Quarters the Tides are lowest Neap tides at the Change and Full they are higher Spring-tides in the one the Moon is conjoin'd with the Sun in Diameter-line making no Angle in the Other making a Quadrate the utmost distance from the Conjunction and Opposition § 12. The 〈…〉 or supposing viz. that the Tides are lowest at the Quarters endeavours to shew how they come to spring against the Change and much truth without question he delivers but how comes it that Neap-tides happen just at the Quarters if the Moon have no Causality they might happen at the Full as well as at the Quarters and if those Low-Tides might have run through all phases of the Moon and a Fortnight after had boil'd into Spring-tides then I should have hearkned to the Demonstration so far as to exclude the Planet but when the Low-tide is confin'd to the Quadrate That creates Suspicion We that say the Moon communicates a greater yet still kindly warmth to the Air at the Change Full and a less at the Quarters may easily see why God at first ordered the Abatement of the Waters to the One and the Increase to the Other if it be true that the Sea works and purges every full Moon as at other set Times of the Year which accrue to the Sun's account § 13. 'T is an Illustrious Instance that is drawn from the Exuberance of the Tides at or neer the Aequinoctial Lunations taken notice of even by the Inhabitants on the Thames side below the Bridge at least yea of an elder Observation as to the Ocean in Strabo and Tacitus 'T is pretended that in our River they are observed in February and October rather than on the precise Months of March and September This Objection is not confident the very Neighbourhood of the Months February to March and October to September creates a Suspicion of some Truth in the Instance for That Difference is easily accounted for considering that Fall of Wet makes some addition and that This is notorious in February the Close of Winter nor unusual in October the Prologue thereto Let March or September put on the wet Masque of either of these Months and the Effect will be the same Secondly who knows not that the Tides swell not on the precise day of the Lunation but two or three dayes also before and after remembring then the motion of the Moon supposing it hath no Latitude 't is odds but within two dayes after after I say the Lunation in February the Moon will be found in the Equinoctial Sign ♈ as in October two dayes before it is found in ♎ But if Latitude as reason is may be observed the Moon may be found situate on the Aequator in either Month by a Southern Latitude in the One and a Northern in the other For 't is the whole Circle Aequinoctial not the Intersection only that is considerable in this Affair adding withall that the Aequinox Physically considered hath some Latitude as every Centre hath within which bounds the Effect proves even the same As therefore the Spring-Tides in general happening two dayes before and after are justly imputed to the Lunation in general so the aforesaid Equinoctial Exuberancies in February and October are with the same justice ascrib'd to the Equinox for if we calculate rightly the Interval between them is not as it seems a whole Month but only two dayes difference in as much as the Sun in a whole Months time gets no more ground than the Moon acquits in Two dayes where the Moon overtakes her Leader § 14. But the Retardation of the Tide parallel to the Moon 's coming to the South about 48 minutes later the only common motion as is acknowledged to the Planet and the Element is such an Argument For that Two motions from the Creation to This day should just jump together to so nice a Calculation of time and yet the Bodies moved have no dependance one on the other is not easily digested especially when one of the Bodies is fluid easily moved and as easily interrupted disturb'd by Inundations fury of Winds Droughts Frosts Earth-quakes Natural Motion we know once disorder'd will run false like the Index of a Watch 'till some good hand replace it Sometimes the Tides fail sometimes they pay us with superfoetation who restores Nature in this case the Sun keeps its course differing little from it self and its own Elevations a day or two after and yet the Water returns to its wont and forgets its disorder composing its self according to its measure warrantable by the Age of the Moon Here will it not suffice to say the Moon is an Index seeing it may be so and yet a Cause too as Excessive Heat of the Body is a Token of a Feaver or a Southern Sun an Index of Noon An Index of the Tides so may the Tides vice versa be Indices of the Lunar motion and Both be equally causes one of the other if the Moon be a meer Index i. e. not a Cause But the Moon is a warm Mover and That Influence reacheth yea penetrateth the Element insomuch that if the Sun be constituted the Motor of the Seas the Moon her History being attended can scarce without violence be excluded § 15. There is a Notion of Lunacy abroad in
that the Days are always or most part Character'd in their Constitution according to her accesses or recesses to the Sun or Tropicks Secondly the Mystery would have been kenn'd through the Observation of 2000 years at least seeing the Motions of the Sun and Moon are conspicuous but No body hath pretended to find any Specialties herein excepting three or four days in the month and those too of very remote and uncertain signification for the Moon is a Reflexion and Reflexions are tied to Laws According to the Angle of Incidence so is the Reflexion and the strength thereof but no Constitution of Air is tied and bound to these several Reflexions the Weather returns in such a Month when there is neither the same phasis nor an equivalent § 2. Nay Sun and Moon jointly are not the complete Causes of the Airs Alteration upon several grounds for if so every XIX years Revolution would bring with it the same state of the Year and we should be able to say what would be the Face of Heaven to morrow if we had observed 19 years ago without any great Conjuring § 3. Secondly we argue from the Duration the Same Constitution of Air sometimes lasts a whole week a month yea predominates the best part of a year while the Moon alass every 24 hours changes her phases in two days runs a twelfth part of the Heaven in a Month shifteth all her Schemes and Postures in relation to the Sun § 4. On the contrary we may consider the fickleness of the Weather In two hours yea in half an hours time the face of Heaven shall be Masked clear calm turbulent but in half an hours time the Sun and Moon vary not any considerable difference Sometime it shall rain and shine by Fits with such variety of surprize that if the Moon and Sun had run the Zodiaque in that 12 hours the variety could not have been greater § 5. Next may we take in the violence and extremity of Weather for Heat soultry melting fainting Air for Wind the Fury of Tempestuous blustering rocking the lofty Towers and shaking the best and lowest Architecture Of the extremity of the Heat the Moon supposing the Sun never so much cannot be the Cause the Moon being a Reflexion as was said and a single Reflexion but the Air is heated beyond the power of a single Reflexion as if there were some Anthelii one or two invisible Suns as some have imagined Antiselenae The vulgar impute all to the Sun and on a soultry day say the Sun is very hot but sure the Sun hath some Satellites some invisible Company or Guard that lie behind the Hyacinth-Hangings of the Heavens In the fury of Tempest the vulgar speak more feelingly when they say it Rains as if Heaven and Earth would meet and blows as if it would rend up all before it the Sun and Moon alone give them little supicion of such prodigious strength they rather believe a Devil raging in a Storm than impute such horrid Violences to so sober and civil a Pair as the Sun and Moon are accounted § 6. Add the contrariety of the state of the Air the Sun and Moon may be assigned some Cause of Warmth but who assigns a Cause of Cold the Sun by his oblique annual Accesses and Recesses in the Zodiac dispenses Summer and Winter as by his Diurnal motion he distributes Day and Night The Night and the Winter are acknowledged Both cold by reason of the Sun's Absence or Distance but whence comes the Day to be Cold an Aestival day to be chill Is the Sun the Cause the Cause of Contrarieties and that while Present The Sun cannot be the cause of Darkness when the Sun is present neither can it be the cause of Cold when it affords its presence When therefore a chill Hail-storm follows Lightning and Thunder I ask which of these Two congeles the Hail which kindles the Flash Doth the Moon congele the Storm It may be That 's a tepid Planet Is it the middle Region and the Antiperistasis then it would always Hail not Rain when it Thunders especially for the Hottest days the Fittest for the Antiperistasis but when the lower Region we find is chill'd also when it Thunders with Hail and that at Mid-summer who incourages this Cold what enlarges its Confines 't is too late to talk of Reliquiae Hremis at Mid-summer or in July nor to turn us off with the blind motion of the Matter For what is Uncertain and Confused is Casual and Casualty is inconsistent with Science so inconsistent that it is not to be pleaded by any Lovers of Learning § 7. Lastly the contrariety of the Accident to the Time when e. g. after a Set of close and muddy Days the Air takes its qu and clears up at Mid-night what removes that Curtain 'T is scarce the nature of any Night to remove Clouds her chill Constitution doth rather settle and fix if not seem to gather them the Moon hath not such power for supposing she be up the Sun sometime is hard put to it to take a Mist from the Earth much more the Moon The like we say for Winter the Absence or Depression of the Sun makes cold Weather but How come Winters to be warm warm ordinarily for a Month or more when the Daisie Anemone the Strawberry shall blow and proclaim a favourable Season The Moon for half the time is in Winter-signs as low and humble as the Sun Add when it happens thus that the Day and Night are ordinarily alike as to the Constitution yea the Winter-Nights have commonly most to do being tempestuous at least in the latter end of October and November nay sometimes soultry Nights are found in November as sometimes Thunder and Lightning at Christmas Many a Summer passes and it Thunders not can a Winter-Night be warmer than many a Summer can the Sun in its lowest Degree and Absence withall be more Potent than in Presence and Verticity 'T is more possible for the Sun to raise Thunder in the Frozen Zones if appearing above the Horizon than to play such Pranks in his Winter Nadir As for the Moon how can she by Night or Day operate when she is under the Horizon a Tempestuous Night continues and takes no notice of her Setting and it may Thunder and Lighten in the Winter-night before she rises the Moon as we said doth not so much as look as if she liked such Roister-company CHAP. VIII The other five call'd into the Militia Planets not made for Illumination only Light and Heat the same spirit All the Planets have their Influence Not all of the same Nature or Operation § 1. THere are therefore some Satellites which we spake of to be taken into consideration those five Lights which have been call'd of old by those Heathen Names of Saturn Jupiter Mars Venus Mercury notwithstanding which even by Scripture-precedent may be innocently used § 2. To our purpose 't is enough that they are Lights for no Star no
Semisextile as we have hinted being therefore to be discarded yea the Quincunce it may be hath no Activity but what is founded on a Fallacy of the Cause § 9. Multiplying of Aspects is to be taken heed of proceeding from a false perswasin viz that all Effects Sublunar are to be imputed to the meer Planetary Habitudes even Kepler himself was offended at some better Principles when he first brought in this Abortive of which hereafter § 10. The Old Aspects according to Ptolemy are five 1. Conjunction whose Character is ☌ 2. Sextile marked thus Sextile 3. Quadrate □ 4. Trine △ 5. Opposition ☠§ 11. Conjunction when two Celestial Bodies are situate at or toward one end of the same Line perpendicular in the same Sign and degree which Line being protended reacheth the Centre of the Earth § 12. Opposition when they are found at the Extremes of the same Diameter viz. at VI Signs distance § 13. 'T is hard to say whether of These have the greatest Efficacy for the Conjunction may be more potent in one Respect and the Opposition in another the ☌ is more for Warmth and Moisture the ☠for cool Air and Winds seeing the further the Ray is protended the more it befriends the Cold Spirit Note this must be understood per se and of its own nature howbeit by accident it may prove otherwise § 14. Trine and Quadrate where the Celestials are distant a 3 d or 4 th part of the Sphere i. e. four or three Signs of XII have a notable proportion of Activity in the one the Rays make a right Angle in the other an obtuse not much wide from a Right Angle at the Centre of the Earth yea a Trine makes just a Right Angle sometimes according to the difference of the Obliquity of the Zodiac § 15. The Sexile whereby the Celestials at two Signs distance and no more make a very acute Angle on the Surface of the Earth whose Lines being protended cut one the other much on this side of the Centre the most imbecil therefore of All the Aspects § 16. So the Aspects it may be have not their Foundation so much on Harmonical Proportion as on Physical and Optical Principles § 17. Aspects of Planets are in Number XCIII being distributed among the several Complications of the Planets § 18. Complications are XX thus exhibited ♄ ☽ ♃ ☽ ♂ ☽ ☉ ☽ ♀ ☽ ☿ ☽ ♄ ☿ ♃ ☿ ♂ ☿ ☉ ☿ ♀ ☿ ♄ ♀ ♃ ♀ ♂ ♀ ☉ ♀ ♄ ☉ ♃ ☉ ♀ ☉ ♄ ♂ ♃ ♂ ♄ ♃ § 19. These Complications let out by their several Aspects ☌ ☠△ c. if every Planet were alike free would amount to CV but when ☉ with ♀ and ☿ and These among themselves admit no Aspect but ☌ the Summe is abated to XCIII § 20. Unless the utmost Distances of ♀ and ☿ from the Sun may be reckon'd in being tantamount to ☠with him § 21. Some one or more of these Aspects are extant every Month to qualifie or vary the Season according as the Decree Eternal hath laid out their Motions For if there be no ☌ there may be ☠if neither a □ or △ c. § 22. Yet the Periods of Conjunctions are rarer ♄ and ♃ meet ☉ but once in the Twelvemonth ♂ once in two years ♀ about a Year and half only ☿ in two Months and the ☽ runs through every Aspect with every Planet once in the Month so that if an Aspect be any thing or Celestial Influence any thing the Moon is a Great Dispenser of it § 23. ♀ and ☿ meet in 8 or 9 Months ♄ with ♂ about 2 years ♃ with ♂ somewhat more ♄ ♃ ♂ with ♀ and ☿ according to their different meeting with ☉ ♄ and ♃ in no less than 20 years called therefore the Great Conjunction § 24. The shifting of these Aspects every Revolution is observable how they fall in the subsequent year later than in the precedent as ☌ ☉ ♄ later by a Fort-night ☌ ☉ ♃ about a Month ☌ ☉ ♂ above a Month ☌ ☉ ♀ about half a year ☌ ♄ ♃ though at 20 years distance shoulders out half a year also § 25. Sometime ♀ and ☿ falling Retrograde are willing to salute and be saluted by one another and as it happens by the Superiors also so that an Aspect may be reiterated within less than its ordinary or direct Period And wherefore All this but for the various dispensation of Nature and the most of it within the memory of Man though it be not necessary the Divine Providence should confine its Transcendent Actions to the short Observation of the Small Epoche of one Man's Life Howbeit the Moon 's Revolutions are of a short Term whose constant Visits as we have heard of every Planet cannot be idle unless we make All a dumb Shew nay it were well we did for then there would be oft-times Mystery couch'd Sure if there be so much of Art or Wisdom there must be somewhat of Natural concern in her various Phases § 26. One thing we have not consider'd yet of no small concern in this Theory and That is their Duration for though exact Calculation pretends to scruples First Second yet Natural Causes are not so straight-lac'd a Convex-Glass will burn at several distances § 27. Confining therefore the ☌ and with That the rest of the Configurations to the same Sign and Degree and allowing the Acme of the Aspect to take place at the precise Astronomical Time with proportional allowance of Vigor or Abatement according to the Scruples of Access and Recess yet true it is that the Physical Influence of an Aspect exerts it self before and after i. e. as long as the Heavenly Moveables keep within the Terms of the Definition Such may be the Motion of the Planets that they may keep even to the same Degree though not Minute for a considerable Space On this account we see an Eclipse Solar or Lunar lasts several Hours whose exact Central Calculation is tied to a Minute § 28. Lo then another Suspicion of no Idle Conceit since Nature hath made nothing in vain that ☌ ☉ ☽ should last about 4 or 5 hours ☌ ☉ ☿ ☌ ☉ ♄ ☌ ☉ ♃ 3 dayes ☌ ☉ ♂ 8 dayes ☌ ☉ ♀ 9. Again ☌ ♀ ☿ lasts 9 dayes ☌ ♄ ♂ ☌ ♃ ♂ the like But ☌ ♄ ♃ continues 24 dayes These are the chief and for Brevities sake we content our selves with them § 29. Now as concerning their Influence and the Specification thereof be pleas'd to take notice that there is a Table goes about pretending to acquaint us with their significations with some little Modifications indeed according to the four Seasons of Spring Summer c. but as to the main agreeing with it Self and Truth Let the quainter Reader be pleased not to nauseate it lest the Knowledge of Celestials suffer thereby I do not say 't is exact and beyond Amendment I shall offer toward some Amends my Self but for the General I say
it Rains soundly from hor. 9. Vesp to or toward Midnight the Feria the Sunday is dry but the Change is not so A day is 24 Hours if it comes therefore within 12 Hours before or after it rains on the Day of the Change As there is a Lunar Month consisting of 28 or 29 Days so there is a Lunar Day the World admits a triple Lunar Month Periodical Synodical and of Illumination Ours is a day of the Synodical Month only in this it is singular that it comprizes as many Hours after the Change as before the Hour of the Change being the common Term half way of the whole reckon the Day so and then let them tell me their Mind § 45. Always provided that we be not too hasty or self-conceited to conclude against an Old Rule for one or two invidious Observations of such or such a year which as it may happen may be extraordinary as in the year 1623. By Keplers Diary we find no Rain neither in January a Winter Month nor in February nor in April the three moistest Months in the Year No not in the Triduum Well we who look back many Years before we pronounce do find that there is great and admirable Variety in the Celestial Courses and that a General Temperature of the year swallows up the particular Inclinations must the Aspect therefore be indifferent to wet or dry because it failed twice or thrice Can my crazy Body be said not to be inclined to an Ague unless it be a Quotidian Suppose an Intermitting Tertian or Quartan hold me half a year do not I retain a Propension to the Malady though it scape the first or second Day So is it here the Aspect makes her part good at the Long Run The Neighbour years will make amends In the year 1621. we have Moist Changes 9. Anno 1622. 9. Anno 24. 10. Anno 1625. 11. and Anno 1623. the year objected we have 6 put them together and the Sum will answer the Objection § 46. Let me not be reckoned tedious if I give a further Example of our Own in the year 1652. when we first observed the Change in January proved very Dry and Frosty in February Cold and Windy in March Foggy and Hot an Intermission of 3 Courses what then The Inclination to Rain sleeps not for the Change in April May July September November brings Rain and Winds In June and August Rain and Thunder While October and December intermit again with Mists and Frosts Cloudy Air and Windy Well then the Change January the next year 1653. brings Rain so April mark the intermission of February and March yea the April Lunation brought but a drop or two and July scarce perceivable May and June August September October December all but November showred down its Influence And if Hevelius had observed but thus much he would have told us that the ☽ was placed so near us rather for this Influence than for the advantage of those who observe her Motion to a Scruple and nothing of Influence § 47. But suppose now that we forego this Device of the Aspect and it be said we are bound to give account still of so many Days concerned Casting our Counters right we maintain that there is an Inclination Visible and Palpable to bear up toward the Number of the Days though twice or thrice as many as the Number of the Aspect And for this we appeal to the Table which was let me tell you produced for this Reason to make good this Notable Inclination and to show the Irrationality of those who will not allow it The Objection proceeding alike against this as any other Configuration The Question seems then thus Not how many times but how many days do we find concerned in the total of the Lunations Answer 261. See Now how many of these by the Table find for Rain or Wind For Rain we find days 109. to which add what we noted by themselves the Violent Rains whose Sum is 28. and the whole amounts to 137. beside a petty Sum to be added for Snow or Hail which advances the Sum to 140. and upwards How Of 261 days are there found 140 Drippers by one single Aspect And is not the Inclination Palpable For 't is the proportion of Fifty to an Hundred not considering the Overplus One Aspect and the like we shall find true of any other Aspect reaches to a Moyety § 48. For I hope we are not to learn what Mechanical Writers teach us to good purpose that Power and Inclination vis Motrix may be proportioned out by Numbers As toward the Motion of a Bulk of 100 Weight there may be applyed Movers of several rates as of 10 20 30 40 50 c. where the motive force of 100. moves that Bulk infallibly because thereby the Agent is equal to the Patient whether this equality be found in One only or made up by several rates of ten suppose 20 30 40. or otherwise which of themselves 't is clear are not each of them of infallible Effect because inadaequate Yet notwithstanding each of these have a real unequal Share though it be in that Effect That of Ten is a Tenth that of 20. is a Fifth that of 40. above a Third part that of Fifty is a half Sharer since another of the same rate performs the whole § 49. This presupposed helps to clear our design of our Table and the Constitutions there all which say we except those which come in by accident the Aspect reaches Consideratis Considerandis For we do not except it should Snow or Hail as often as it Rains nor Lighten or Thunder as oft as 't is Warm seeing the year is not wholly Winter or Summer but is divided into Lesser Seasons where those rarer Constitutions happen by Virtue of that Inclination Lay them now in progressive Order and see whether that will edifie 〈◊〉 Lightning or Thunder 6. Trajections 19. Mist 80. Wind. 103. Rain 134. And is this Influence of the Change indifferent Now Doth it not most incline to Rain Next under that to Wind Mist Trajections c. Hence say I one ♂ ☉ ☽ inclines to Mist Clouds Winds Rain and to Trajections at times yea to Thunder it self But to Rain and Wind most else how come these instances to exceed For Rain and Wind we have demonstrated come not from any unaccountable Motion of Matter but at set determinate Periods and Revolutions of Heavenly Bodys From this difference of the Account in such Revolutions say I as there is greater disposition to Fog or Cloudy than to Frosty or Serene hence in ♂ ☉ ☽ there is some real Influence towards Mist and Fog and close weather And if there be a greater aptitude for Wind and Rain than for Dry and Calm Weather such as shall aspire almost to the Moyety of Days Comprehended reckoning 2 or 3 to every Lunation then there is some known Force and Influence in the Lunation which being not content with such Imperfect Productions
in these two Aspects of Change and Full by the periodical resolution of tedious Frosts which sometimes lock up the Elements with our Blood and Spirits in Icy Chains till a comfortable Relent of milder air sends out a warrant for their release § 2. This gentler Spirit blows as at the ☌ so at the ☠Let the vulgar notion and public monuments attest it of this sort is to run back no further the Frost VII o Elizabethae An. 1564. It began saith Stow Dec. 21. and lasted till our City-River was frozen so that New Years Festival was celebrated in warming Sports and Exercises on the River the new Thames Street now as Stow tells us it thaw'd Jan. 3. An. 1564. the day after the Change § 3. The 2d of that noted year 1572. famous for the Star in Cassiepeia a Tedious Frost from Alhallontide to Twelftide This Frost is remembred for congealing rains as they fell till the arms of Trees overcharged with Ice brake from the Trunk after Twelftide it took its leave in good time for reckoning the hour of the ☌ being Ho. 10. noct Jan. 3. the dissolution falls within less than three days after the Change A cold Spring follow'd it but that belongs to another consideration § 4. A 3d. An. 1579. short but by the fall of Snow perilous to Wayfarers and poor Cattel still mentioned by some of our yearly remembrancers it began Feb. 4 and held till Feb. 10. the day preceding the ☌ § 5. A 4th An. 1598. from Jan. 1. to 10. the Thames almost frozen the Frost remitted Jan. XI two days preceding the Change Further in Decemb. of the same year the Thames almost froze again which the Week before Christmas was dissolv'd Now Seven days before Christmas happened the day of the Change Again after that remission Dec. XXVII it freezes a 3d. time when lo On New years day it relented the very day of the Full. § 6. Another An. 1615. Jacobi I. 13. held a months space from Jan. XVII to Feb. XIV yea with little remission till March VII That 7th of March is the day following the Full. § 7. An. 1621. a Frost from Nov. 24. ad Dec 7. when after a milder season it returned again § 8. An. 1627. * Jan. XX. for three weeks till Feb. XII Divers Booths not for sale of Drink only but other Merchandize upon the place But All remove on Feb. 12. within three days of the Full ☽ In Germany in the beginning of the year we find Frigus intensissimum Frigus sonticum immane Danubius Concretus but behold a gentle Aspect of a full ☽ brings a Relent Jan. 27. St. Vet. * Note that in the Frost An. 1622. the Relent was in Germany not so long for with them the Danow was frozen by Jan. 8. 18. but the remission came at the approach of the New ☽ Jan. 31. St. N. Febr. 10. Such difference there is in nice cases between Regions By Nicer cases I intend Frosts not universal § 9. An. 1623. The Danow frozen the 3d. time the Frost began Dec. XIV ceased Jan 11. 1624. within three days before the Full. § 10. An. 1626. Nov. XXI Danow floted with Ice it terminates Dec. 4. the day next after the Full. Thus Keplers Diary affords us plenty of instances in a few years for more may be observed from those Diaries who yet good Man in his account of the natural cause as is noted before gives not half the due to the Aspect § 11. An. 1635. A great and sore Frost within memory the same which is celebrated by Poets of the time began as I remember about the midst of Dec. ceased as a Manu-script tells me Feb. 11. three days after the New ☽ § 12. An. 1645. Frost from Dec. 8. complained of by the Parliament-Forces so called as an impeder of their winter-marches the ☽ perigee might help to hasten it away Jan. 17. for die 18. as the Story says the Frost was newly gone and that comes within compass of three days before the Full. § 13. An. 1659 Decimo Caroli IIdi at the end of the year a Frost begun Dec. XXIX and although it remitted a little Jan. XI in 60. and again on Jan. XIII yet it receeded not till day XVIII the day after the Full. § 14. An. 1662. Nov. XV. Frost brought Ice on the River day XXIX but Dec. 1. the day after the New ☽ it thaw'd It returns again and keeps its own till day XII which preceeds the Full not above two days And the third time Decemb. XXIV in four Nights the Thames floated with Ice it took its leave on New-years-day the day after the Change § 15. An. 1663. Jan. XXVIII the day preceeding the new ☽ a Frost began we confess and could have own'd the like before but if it begins at the new ☽ it ends at the full with some little warning the day preceeding § 16. The Winter of that fatal year 1665. is not yet quite forgot the Thames was sick of dead palsie for three weeks it seized her first Dec. XXVIII An. praeced now what the Comet of that year could not do the Plenilunar ☠performed for III. days before the Frost vanished It froze again Jan. XXIX by the fourth of the next month Ice appeared on the Thames Feb. 7. All dissolveth two days after the Change § 17. An. 1667. A strange Frost from Feb. XV. at which time we comfort our selves against the Menaces of Cold by the Topick of the Suns altitude which will not say we suffer such Hyemal Enchroachments at that time of year when mal-gre what the Sun could do though in the Vernal Equinox there was much Ice in the River Mart. IX I will not ask the Anti-Astrologer an account of this accident only acquaint the Reader that March XIV was new ☽ and the XV. day the bold Face of the Winter changed § 18. An. 1669. Dec. VII A Frost of XX. days the bitter Christmas day and the Holy-Day attending were universally noted as intolerable as those two days where the 27 was sensibly milder ☠☉ ☽ and three days after the wind turning to the South it wore away by Inches § 19. The same winter in the year following viz. An. 1670. Jan. XXV Frost began with the Full ☽ we see when it begun note also when it dissolved Feb. XI the Second day after the Change § 20. An. 1674. Jan. XXIV Frost began the Full ☽ on Feb. I. Had a good mind to the dissolution the wind turned so the dissolution succeeded Feb. II. § 21. An. 1672. Feb. XXIV as late as it is in the Winter This Frost like that in 67. held us uncivilly till March XII on whose morn ☠☉ ☽ made its mittimus § 22. An. 1677. from Nov. 19. Frost of X. days brought Ice on the River die 29. It vanisht two days after which fell within a day of the Full. § 23. An. 1678. Dec. IX ad 18. Nine days it held and the last day was exactly the day
by its nearer distance to the Earth 47. Prospect of the Quadrates failing or infallible § 1 IN the next place the Quadrate calls for our consideration made much of by the Astrologers next to ☌ and ☠Conjunction Opposition and Quadrate go for Tant-amount in the Meteorological part We do not deny the Rule to have its truth and the virtue of the Aspect we have founded Architect-like on a Right Angle formed by the Rays of the two Luminaries so related 'T was a pretry Pythagoric fancy to compare the Aspects of the Celestial Bodys to the divisions of the Musical Chord So a Square to be a Diatessaron as the ☌ is an Unison and the ☠a Diapason But this made way for such a crowd of incroching Aspects see Kepler Sect. de novis Aspect in Ephemerid Anno 1617. that every Pretender would yearly strive to put in a new One till Kepler ingeniously confessed that Tempestates observando vidi tandem deserendam esse Musicam and we always suspected it for a forced Hypothesis which Mathematicians sometimes may be guilty of § 2. This Quadrate or Quartile in its Dichotomy as the Greeks call it is preceptible to sense as the Full ☽ is That by the Plenary This by the Half-Face illuminated vulgarly the Half ☽ and this Aspect returns twice in the Month First in the increase or tendency to the Plenilunium the Second in the decrease tending to the Interlunium as the half-way-House upon the Rode Backward and Forward § 3. Now since the ☌ and ☠and their Influence is undeniable confessed and granted us even by the Scruplers who have no great kindness for the Ptolemaick Astrology it remains that the Quadrate also may produce its Credentials Her Letters Patentssigned by Experience the Mistris of Faculties whose Name and Seal will not be questioned within the Territories of Sound Phylosophy § 4. Therefore for a double Aspect we present more than a single Table that we might evince to the World that we are of a guiltless profession not afraid of any Witnesses in Court against us so that the Jury be honestly empanel'd The Diary is the verdict of the Countrey For brevities sake I could have contented my self with the account of One only but that the Reader I hope may hereafter find some reason to the contrary § 5. It may be said that we have already produced our Tables for ☌ and ☠in vain for what need we trouble our selves with the proof of any conclusion which is granted to which we answer we fear they are granted us out of Charity not as of Debt or for our importunity as an Alms is thrown to a clamorous Beggar to stop the Mans Mouth who deserves not the pittance although more he expects Not granted I say as our due by Virtue of our Evidence because our Evidence may be excepted against as not Full and Home by the Fastidious Dissenter we claim therefore that the Reader Serenely and Calmly will be pleased upon due consideration to accept or favour our Evidence without which for all as we know since there is no other imaginable Proof he may recall his grant and plead Non-Conviction even about the Influence of the Change and Full. On the contrary if he allows our proceedings and gives sentence for the ☌ and ◠upon the strength of what hath bin alledged we hope the same Right will prevail for this third Aspect Since the evidence being produced to publique view if it be alike for one as for the other All or None must be admitted § 6. To the ensuing Tables we have allowed the same Number of Days as in the precedent Aspects viz. three Days to each It must be confessed in so doing we may seem to interfere with the Neighbour Aspects on one hand or the other which appears to be some inconvenience to which we say First we found it necessary for the comparing of the Aspects among themselves which is intended at the close of this Lunar Treatise that they should be allowed all of them an equal Number I thought it fit once I confess to avoid this Coincidence to produce but one or two days at most omitting sometimes the First otherwhiles the Third according as those Days were found to be of a wider distance from the Hour of the Aspect Nay sometimes I omitted both the extream Days namely when the Aspect happened about Mid-day reckoning 24 Hours to be a Competent Measure of its duration or Influence But I found at last one 24 Hours could not possibly involve the total of the Influence and another day being added obliged me to add the third also upon the account that 't is better to allow with the most than with the least § 7. This I take to be certain that the Influence of the Quartile lasts twice 24 Hours And if so that space of time unless the Aspect happens precisely at Midnight is found to exist more or less under the Denomination of 3 days So that with the Readers patience if the Aspect happen on Friday-Noon we reckon the compleat boundary of that Aspect to begin on Monday Noon and end at Mid-day on Wednesday § 8. This being allow'd 't was convenient to produce 3 almost entire days in regard that First though the Day may yet the Constitution when Uniform cannot be divided Next that the different quality of the present Aspect may be stated notwithstanding sometimes we reckon one and the same Constitution to the two Competitors viz. the Sextile or the Trine the Dignity of the Aspect I say will be found notwithstanding that common Accession by its proper Instances their Number and Moment So have I seen the same Weight successively thrown into both Scales to evidence the difference of the Body which preponderates Howbeit when an Instance falls out let it be reckoned by all means to that Aspect to which it is nearest situate § 9. But how a Right Angle should admit such a Latitude as we pretend may be another Scruple but we know there may be some Latitude in a Natural Angle where there is none allowed in pure Mathematiques A Right Angle made by Luminous Bodies may have a virtual reach to half a Sign Fifteen degrees breaks no Squares at least are not discerned to make such sensible variation in a croud of other Causes which pretend to co-operate to the same Effect Besides there may be something considerable from the Vicinity of the Moon for in other Syzygies except the Lunar I cannot say the Quadrate reaches so far A Quadrate of Saturn or Mars with Sol loses it self in five Degrees perhaps § 10. Furthermore observe that the two Columns of the approaching Table serve the first for the former Quadrate the 2d for the later which differ a matter of 14 or 15 days one from the other □ ☉ ☽ The Quartile Table □ ☉ ☽ January 1671. ♑ ♈ 28. VI. Frost ice wet much p. m. S. VII 11 p. rain ante luc fair windy NW VIII H. wd ante luc
to its Month but yet that it is so here in ☽ as hath been said I have reason to suspect what the second □ doth in this nature see § 38. § 35. Jofrancus Ofhusius an inquisitive person in his Book de Divina Astrorum facultate hath taken upon him to some good purpose to examine the Principles of the Vulgar Astrology where he foundeth with us the Basis of the Quadrate Aspect on the Right Angle of the mutual radiations conspicuous in that Aspect but then withall he seeth not how it can be efficacious but at those precise times when one of the Luminaries is possessed of the Mid-heaven at the moment of the others Situation in the Horison I am glad for true Astrologys-sake that so much is allowed for unquestionable Our Tables being witness to that nice Truth as in part we have manifested in the Premises But it appears also from the same Evidence that the Aspect brings weather with it at other hours of the Ante-Noon and Post Noon more especially yea not seldom also for half the day if not the entire 12 Hours which doth proclaim a continued Influence though not discovering it self so signally but at some particular times § 36. Yea but how can this be for on the Meridian only the Ray seems perpendicular to which I Ken not what to say unless this that though on the Meridian the Ray is to us Perpendicular yet at other times it is also Perpendicular if not to our Meridian Terrestrial yet to our Terrestrial Hemisphere as long as both of them are seen by us within our Horison keeping a right Angle For the Lines of a right Angle protracted pass the Center of the Earth which I remember to be the the definition of a Line Perpendicular Let us not mistake the Rays of a Quadrate Aspect are not always vertical but yet they are always to the Earth Perpendicular § 37. Howsoever for the 〈◊〉 that the Quadrate brings Rain at Noon Afternoon and most part of that Afternoon yea the greatest part of the Day let this little Table be our Monitor ☽ Noon 18. Afternoon 61. The whole Afternoon 10 Whole Day 5. ☽ Noon 18. Afternoon 47. Whole Afternoon 8. Whole Day 9. Ante Lucem 30. § 38. Here we should have concluded but what I have hitherto passed by in the ☌ and ☠I am enforced not to dissemble in this Aspect though it may seem not directly to belong to Astrologers to treat of Dolors Dolors and Diseases But seeing these Phaenomena of our little world do principally relate to the Stars and their Aspects whose Influence thereby is not only illustrated but also are renewed upon us by a dayly remembrance we present this following Account for 2 or three years consisting of indispositions some more trivial indeed as the Aches of our Feet some more grievous Among which we could have inserted the complaining noises of Birds whch are confessed an Evidence of the Mutation of the Air as we have said before and indeed arising from some disposition of their bodys in Sympathy with ours But they being omitted let us at present observe our own Complaints rather at this time Anno 1671 Dec. 27. Hysterical fits 1672. Jan. 28. Aches of Limbs and Feet 1673. Several Childrem complain of Ailments July 7. Aches in Limbs Nov. 4. 5. Hysterical fits 6. Aches in Limbs Anno 1674. Feb. 3. Distempers March 5. Pains in the feet April 2. May 2. Children complain Aches 13. Aches again June 1. Children Aches 30. July 29. Aches Aug. 28. Indispositions Hysterical Sept. 25. Children sicken Notob 26. Nov. 25. Dec. 25. Aches An. 1675. Feb. 22. Headach Hysterical Fits Aches in Feet April 21. Aches Children sicken May 21. Aches Dec. 13. Children complain An. 1676. March 12. May 10. Pains in the Feet April 10. Headach Sept. 3. Aches and indispositions Oct. 3. Nov. 2. Pains in the Feet Dec. 2. Convulsions An. 1677. Jan. 30. 31. Remembrances of the Gout Feb. 22. March 1. Aches in Limbs April 29. Indispositions May 27. Gout Aug. 24. Indispositions Gout Oct. 23. Sicking of Children Sept. 23. Gripes 24. Indispositions of aged Persons § 39. So have you a little Hospital-Bill of Dolors happening at or within the verge of the Square Aspect Soli-lunar which justifies the old observation and those Good Men who in other places have born such witness to the Influence of this Aspect Honest Piso among the rest whereby the skilful in Medicine may be convinced of the Lunar Power over our frail Bodys the more conspicuous indeed where the greater frailty but as sure and certain even in the most sound and healthful constitutions the best of which have some Flaw or Breach in their Texture § 40. And there is no avoiding this Evidence I find indeed a remarque Jan. XXXI 1677. of a fit of the Gout noted precisely at hor 9. vesp at what time as I suspected I found that Mars over and above what the Aspect Lunar could do was posited in M. C. and Febr. 3. 1674. I made a greater Observable of Distempers happening hor 6 m. at what time ♃ ☌ ☽ were all together and again hor 10 p. the ☽ having got to the Pleiades Distempers returning All which I vow to be no contemptible Observations and say that 't is possible for a Physitian by these Methods to be aware of his Patients Paroxysm But this notice of other testimonies is not intended at any hand to exclude the Lunar Aspect other causes may help to irritate that Passion which the ☽ in Square to the Sun inclineth to § 41. Seeing then this Quartile Aspect hath power on Humane Bodys and is undeniably a VIIth and that a critical day it may be expected what I would say to the Question whether every VIIth day whether it fall in with the Aspect or not as the Physitians will have it may be Critical and if so whence comes so strange a faculty Nay if the Physitians ascribe it to the Heavens we are like to go along with them The Cause is Celestial saith Sennert quoted by the Learned Dr. H. More for at the First assault there is a ☌ as it were of the ☽ with the Disease when the Sick man's Month begins where on the VII day from the first complaint of the Patient the ☽ comes to the Square of that point of Heaven where the Morbifick Conjunction began And is not this reasonable to believe when even in Pestilential Diseases where there is least discretion of Critical days the Influence of the ☽ confessedly appears not only on the Aspects of the ☽ in the Macrocosme ☌ ☠□ but also whensoever as it pleaseth God any Person is taken sick the whole Family is shut up for the space of a Month. The Sick Month the Patients month commencing at the first Indisposition complained of Consequent to which 't is observed oft times that the residue of an Infected Habitation who perhaps have continued in Health do often drop down one after another within a Fortnight
a Piep beyond it the Former Sextile I say Full Quadrate and Trine for smart and frequent dashing cannot do better Now if they be asked what they will subcribe for Dashing Rains they will answer in this order § 17. ☌ ☠□ I. □ II. △ I. △ II. ⚹ I. ⚹ II.  28. 47. 47. 42. 48. 52. 60. 27. Where 60. you see under the first Sextile the Tale of her Dashes out-goes the Full and Quartiles and is scarce approached unto but by one of the Trines § 16. And here Let us a little view the Wonders of the Creator Great and various are the Shapes of the Changes of the Air. And be they never so many God hath adapted Causes as numerous and various to answer those Effects All the strange and free postures of our Bodies such as you see in Sprightly Youth whether at Sport or Exercise we poor Ignaro's think they proceed from the Pliantness of our Frames it may be or the freedom of our Will but the Learned Anatomist who hath dissected Nature knows that there is a proper distinct Muscle fixed in our Fabrick to discharge every such Motion So is it in the Heavens We meet with strange Weather sometimes when the Heaven is as I may call it fitted for Rain when it shall clear up to a pure and bright Sky and of a sudden showrs smartly and in earnest and so continue showring and clear interchangable for a considerable part of the day Of which sort they occur in our Table not here produced several Examples The Celestial Philosopher assigns this Aspect That 's the Muscle as it were which the Creator hath made to exert this Motion For 't is a short Aspect and if there be in the Heavens any advantagious Post above another it arrives sooner thither Now the smartness of the Showre shews an Aspect and the suddenness shews a Sextile § 17. Nay if there be any thing in the Posts of the Horizon and the Meridian a Lunar Sextile by its applictions thereto can give account without any other assistants of Rain VI. times a day so with other help it may come to twenty times in one day And of this we had one most notable Instance § 18. The days when it thus rain'd by such intermitting Fits were these Jan. X. An. 1676. May I. An. 1674. April VIII An. 1676. May VIII and IX An. 1676. c. § 19. Now if on any of these days the Fit came on Noon or Sun-rise or Sun set or about two Hours distant then 't is a clear case we assign the Cause of this admirable Product of Nature But so it is For on Jan. X. An. 1676. the first day noted we meet with wet Morning which may comprehend either ☉ or ☽ rise or the space between and again Rain 6 P. wherein the ☽ in ⚹ of the ☉ is exactly on the Meridian this is to begin The next is May I. An. 1674. which being the last of the Triduum is to be found under April Here we find showres 10 m. and about the time when the ☽ in Sextile rises as is expressly also noted The 3d. is April VIII An. 1676. Rain 4 P. the ☽ then in ♋ 2. was exactly South We will give you a 4th May VIII An. 1676. it rains hor 4. because the ☽ in Sextile 4 m. ♌ O. exactly upon the Meridian at that Hour Thus is God Nature and Art justified by these plain demonstrations not to be avoided And this I proclaim holds not only in the First but Second Sextile though more rarely and that not according to the Southing of the Sun and Moon but also to the rise and setting witness June 20. 77. where at the ☽ s sitting hor 3. exact you meet with a Thunderclap § 22. Nor must we say that a Quadrate and a Trine are apt as often to stir up Nature the Negative being plain from the very constitution of the Aspect which is founded upon the Distance of two Signs and no more the Influence then of the Stars so Aspected if they have any must in a shorter space shew themselves then those who have a larger Tedder Sooner shall the Stars at the distance of two Signs arrive to their Critical places than those who are distant 3 or 4. § 23. Now our Muster according to the difference of Signs as we did before in the Quartiles stand thus ⚹ I. Signs Quotient Success ♒ ♈ VI. 4. ♓ ♉ VII 5. ♈ ♊ VIII 6. ♉ ♋ VII 6. ♊ ♌ VIII 8. ♋ ♠VII 7. ♌ ♎ VII 7. ♠♠VII 5. ♎ ♠VII 6. ♠♑ VIII 5. ♠♒ VII 6. ♑ ♓ VII 6. ⚹ II. Signs Quotient Success ♒ ♠VII 5. ♓ ♑ VII 7. ♈ ♒ VIII 6. ♉ ♓ VII 5. ♊ ♈ VII 4. ♋ ♉ VIII 8. ♌ ♊ VIII 6. ♠♋ VII 6. ♎ ♌ VII 5. ♠♠VII 7. ♠♎ VII 5. ♑ ♠VI. 5. § 23. If the Quota's are not so full as in the Quadrates c. we may probably infer that the Sextile is the weaker Aspect Howbeit there are here again some near infallible Bespeakers of a showre That in ♊ and ♌ brings 8. for 8 under which I would Martial ♠and ♒ in the First and ♌ and ♊ with ♒ and ♠under the Second but they seem not to fadge Take then ♋ and ♉ which bring 8 for 8. and those which find 7 for 7. and let the Reader make his use of them ♓ and ♑ and ♠and ♠are such Howbeit I must not enquire the reason or foundation of the difference which appears in this place § 24. Speak we to the inclination for Winds ⚹ I. ⚹ II. East 50. 46. N. E. 38. 42. S. E. 13. 14. 101. 102. ⚹ I. ⚹ II. West 31. 45. N. W. 20. 18. S. W. 91. 51. 142. 104. ⚹ I. ⚹ II. North. 41. 44. N. E. 38. 42. N. W. 20. 18. 99. 134. ⚹ I. ⚹ II. South 21. 31. S. W. 13. 14. S. W. 91. 51. 125. 106. § 25. 'T is pretty to observe that the second ⚹ brings 134 Northerly Winds of due West little The First 142. Westerly Winds of North but a little that the S. W. Wind abates from the Quota's found under the □ or △ and yet 't is almost double 91 to any other Quota assignable In a word I do not remember that the △ or □ brought so much of Easterly Winds though West and North and South do somewhat outbid the Eastern Thus is the Character of the Sextile § 26. Neither is there wanting foundation in Nature for so much Effect Ofhusius himself allowing it reasonable that Planets at any such distance whether they happen One on the Midheaven while the other is on the Horizon may alter the Air which happens under the Three Posterior Aspects □ △ ⚹ Even in this Later in some parts of the Ecliptique at or about Two Signs distant The Sextile is equal notwithstanding or equivalent to a right Angle viz. to the Equinoctial Angle which is always the same And this
Rain The less Aspects exceed New and Full the prior Sextile almost doubles the number 17. The Change brings the least Snow the Full ☽ most Hail First Square and last Trine bring more Snow than the Change 18. Rainbows made by the Sun not without Assistants 19. Former Square and Trine conduce to a limpid Horizon 20. Fogs rarer at the Full than Change The Trines have the Fewest Instances ☽ more inclining to Fog than the Sun 21. Gloomy days oftsn misty 22. Fila Gossamere defined 23 24. New ☽ favours South-West Winds the Full much more 25. All the Aspects incline to the Western or Southern Winds 26. A Rule for a Mariner who expects an East-Wind § 1. WE could not have been so diligent in declaring the Power of the Lunar Aspects but that we saw some necessity of a new closing Chapter to discover some other considerables belonging to the premises which we presumed would arise from the further comparison of the Aspects subjoyned in an Universal Table or where all the Aspects march in a Rank even and just with their Influence that they may mutually justifie one the other § 2. Influxuum Lunarium quoad Aspectus singulos quotquot integro haud ita pridem Septennio observati fuere Tabella Synoptica  ☌ ☠□ 1. â–¡ 2. â–³ 1. â–³ 2. âš¹ 1. âš¹ 2. Frosty D. 16 26 34 27 26 16 28 19 Frosty M. Ev. 37 27 31 26 29 27 30 26 Hot D. 28 11 13 24 25 16 20 36 Hot N. 8 5 8 5 5 3 5 5 Trajections 19 4 12 20 5 6 17 21 Lightnings 0 0 1 2 1 0 5 5 Thunder and L. 2 4 4 4 5 7 3 6 Stormy Winds 37 69 34 43 44 31 33 35 Winds varying often 3 5 3 3 2 5 1 1 Winds chang 29 55 71 53 43 43 32 41 Rain 109 103 143 132 111 162 149 144 Rain violent 28 47 47 42 48 52 60 27 Snow 5 14 16 12 12 15 13 10 Hail 5 14 16 12 12 15 13 10 Inis 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 Halo 0 3 4 0 5 6 3 6 Grosser Fog 38 23 31 29 17 26 21 38 Winds East 45 53 56 35 42 44 50 41 West 44 44 56 42 31 49 31 45 North. 40 33 36 41 28 27 41 44 South 18 38 22 20 35 21 21 31 N. E. 30 29 42 37 34 34 38 42 N. W. 31 26 24 40 21 27 20 18 S. E. 16 15 7 17 20 26 18 14 S. W. 58 80 73 103 90 69 91 51 § 3. To begin with Frosty days a Title which we cannot well miscount The New ☽ you see gives 16 Votes the Full ☽ 26. And there is an excess The Full ☽ then as we have said is colder than the New by Day viz. and we have ventur'd at the Reason But now in the Later â–¡ â–³ âš¹ there is no such matter no excess of Frosty days but the contrary as the Tale sheweth Then the Later â–¡ â–³ âš¹ I say are warmer then their Mates Wherefore But because the ☽ rises before the Sun in the Later â–¡ â–³ c. Therefore there is apparent Warmth in the ☽ which diminishes the Matutine Frosts while it shines and hath not so much Power before it is risen Which if we have said it before in part deserves now in full to be asserted again because it convinceth those Learned who pass for the more Learned by denying such an evident Truth § 4 But why the Full ☽ is colder than the New we have answered already adding withall that the same Reason holds in part here for â–¡ â–¡ âš¹ the ☽ is late before she rises always remembring we speak of the day time only when the ☽ more or less as at the Full absolutely hides her Head § 5. Here if it be objected that the ☽ at Full shews her self by Night though not by day the Objection is Seasonable for it puts us in mind of what we have determined in the case viz. that shee is warmer to us in Plenilunar Nights than Days And this Decision of ours appears to be no quick or subtile Evasion but a Lightsome manifest Truth In witness hereof the Frosty mornings appear Fewer even although the entire Frosty days have appeared more Consequently on the same ground it holds here also in the other Aspects though the Frosty Mornings be not always of so certain a Cognizance as the entire days that the Later â–¡ â–³ âš¹ bring not more yea Fewer Mornings so qualified than their Chiefs choose to bring I mean the First â–¡ â–³ âš¹ § 6. Thus we go on with the same certainty almost in Natural Demonstration as is found in Lines and Numbers and therefore Astrology is Some Body so far at least as she hath acquaintance with the Sun and ☽ and their Mutual Aspects § 7. Pass we now to consider the Hot Days where as we have said before we are less liable to falter in our Animadversions View I pray the Number The New ☽ brings more such Days than the Plenilunium the Reason is plain the ☽ is up invisible though she be she is in consult with the Sun on the Day of her Change and makes a shift to own and maintain the Heat notwithstanding her dark side as hath bin shewn before § 8. For the Rest then the Second Square brings more hot days than the First the Second Sextile also 36. to 20. We are ashamed so often to repeat the Cause viz. the ☽ preventing the Sun and rising before which in the former â–¡ and âš¹ holds not where the ☽ follows But then here we meet with an unlucky objection for that our Second â–³ brings Fewer hot Days than the First we must look for some Râ—bs in pursuit of Natural Knowledge but by good hap this is none For if we recollect that the Denomination of many a hot day arises chiefly from the time about Noon to the Hour between 3 and 4 and withall consider that the ☽ in her Later â–³ appears not but is descended and gone in large speaking almost two Hours before Noon we will easily grant that the Qualification of the day for Heat must needs be at a loss where the Cause of the Qualification hath been so long withdrawn In the Square 't is otherwise the ☽ is but upon the Horizon and so she gradually sinks lower and lower yet for a considerable space doth she maintain Warmth in the same proportion as we see them maintain some Light after their descent while the Sun is posited about the Meridian so the Critical places agree punctually to that time whence the Denomination begins But in the Later â–³ the Sun hath lost his Mistress the ☽ even at 9 in the Morning so she is disappearing before he himself hath mounted his Meridian wherefore this not obscurely make for us who impute the difference of Heat in the Later Aspects to the difference of the Apparition of the ☽ under one more than the other wherein that we feign nothing let the Later Sextile
bear us Witness who brings more hot days than all of them only on this account that she keeps near as within call to the Sun and â—ets not till the Sun himself declines in his strength even in the cool of the day This Sextile shews us 36 warm days for her Brother Sextiles 20. I see other doubts perhaps desire admittance as why the First Sextile should not be parile to the Later c. But besides that this may be answered by what hath bin formerly noted concerning the East and West Angles I think it not prudence having so far to go to wait on every puny Scruple § 9. The Hot Nights we meddle not with they are but Rarities and have their dependances more material than on the Two Luminaries The Trajections we speak not to because we cannot Imagine they should be duly and constantly observed No one man can do it It requires the attendance of a Society and an Observatory maintain'd for that and the like Notices Only 't is strange the Second âš¹ should be so brisk to equal the ☌ and the â–¡ 's Trajections being 19. under the ☌ 20 under the Later â–¡ and 21 under the âš¹ This we gain by it It proves the Aspects are not wholly devested of Influence when under the Horizon as the second âš¹ must needs be with both its terms when nocturnal Trajections are conspicuous Only we may note that the Number 4. under the Full ☽ speaks but low because the Plenilunar Lustre envies us their more frequent notice In the mean time those few must be look'd upon as Eruptions of Flame greater than ordinary who discover themselves even while the Air is possessed of so bright a presence and in the aestival season besure speak a glowing constitution § 20. Immediate to this we may view the Coruscations and Thunders under several Titles because many times they are found separate These may be rather consider'd in that their Tale must be just and certain And Lo the New Moon brings but two The Full Four The Quadrates 4. with one or two Mute Coruscations The Later â–³ brings 7. The Later Sextile 6. So the Later â–³ is considerable and we have seen 't is a busling Aspect in Thunders as well as Storms of Wind. Howbeit the Sextiles have a great kindness for Flashing without noise so that it may be we did well to consider Lightnings or Coruscations with Thunder and without apart by themselves Verily the Later Sextile which brought 6 Thunders which Sum is as high as any bating one unite is observed to have brought over and above 5 Lightnings And the first Sextile how Low soever in its Thunders has brought notwitstanding 7 Instances of Flashes Shall we supersede the Enquiry into the Reasons for hasts sake Only take notice of a semblable Parallel between Lightnings here and Trajections before under the Sextile the Later Sextile exceding all the rest here as there if we can make out a probable reason of the One it may hold in the Other And we would venture but that the First Sextile comes in with VII Lightnings and so makes a shift to equal the Later Some inclination no question it bears to it and let the Curious mark whether or no Lightning hath not its several Arks and Segments of a Circle according to the Diversities of the Aspects 'T is more than probable a Sextile may flash through two Signs A â–¡ to the Midheaven a â–³ beyond it an Opposition it may be but one Sign a Semisextile Aspect being reduc'd thereto This is commended to future Observation remembring that I speak of the Signs as they run oblique in the Zodiaque not of the Equinoctial Dodecatemories The Planets indeed in the Sextile Aspect lie so near one to the other that if any cause shall set it self upon making Celestial Fire-Works the Two Planets will be very apt to catch and to keep them alive throughout its allotted interval of spaâ— or time § 11. Let it be noted also that this may agree to the Sextiles in Genere not Lunar only though we must assert the ☽ also to have an Aetna in her according to the New Selenography or a force for Lightning provided that no man construes this to obscure the Powers of the greater Celestial Bodies § 12. Stormy Winds we have spoke to before the Full ☽ here bears away the Bell When the other Hover about the Number of 40. the ♂ ☉ ☽ alarmes two Elements of the Air and Sea about 60 times and possibly more Every gust we have not reckon'd nor every brisk gale nor every Windy Constitution when as if we could have hearkned out many of those days in the Seamans Journal I speak of our Brittish Seas only might have bin noted for Rough and Rugged the Cause is not intricate and hath bin touch'd already remembring that the Full ☽ bears precedence as to frequency of Storms For as to Fury the Trine we have said seems to go beyond it 13. Now for Winds variously Shifting and Frisking we have cryed up the Later â–³ But the Table tells us the Full ☽ holds its own there also so be it then if the â–³ equal it she is content § 14. To the more setled Change of the Wind we have brought in our Quota under every Aspect the Wind may Change we know every Hour but with a Specialty upon the Hour of the Suns leaving us Ventus cum Sole reliquit saith the Poet and accordingly in our Diaries the Evening-Hour most usually presents you with such an alteration 'T is to be imputed to the Aspect according as it appears in the Hemisphere or Disappears and that again as it is whole and entire or as intercepted by the Horizon about its Ascent or Descent And this is worthily remarkable therefore in the First Square which changes the Wind about 70 times when the Rest shew such Feats not much above 50 40 or 30. For that Winds come from the Stars Oh 't is a plain case in all their Periodical Revolutions as the Royal Philosopher tells us Eccles Cap. 1. Yea and in all its variations It deserves the attention of the young Philosopher how apt the Wind is to change Morning Noon Even Midnight under our Quadrate which measures out the Heaven into those equal parts whereby the One Planet follows the Other with a punctual Uniformity as to the Transits by the Horizontal Line and the Meridian And this rather in the First than the Later Quadrate for some such like Reason in proportion as we have rendred before of some difference in the Later â–³ from the Former To clear this you shall find as the Table informs that the ☌ ☉ ☽ admits the fewest Changes of the Winds because there is no difference of the Luminaries concern'd who rise together set together culminate together so that if she can hold her own after the Hour of their joynt descent or disappearing she keeps the Wind at her point for that entire Natural day whereas in the
in the same place Ergo the Sun and Moon are not the Causes But still the Argument is Cripple which saith Ergo not the Heavens A blind Consequence that sees not more Lights than two in the Heavens It will be said that by the same day 12 Month or 19 Years rather the Objection means the Sun Moon and Fixed Stars What then Are not the Planets overlook't Do they make nothing of a World The Planets are Worlds They know the Sun is bigger than the Earth a World Celestial ♄ is a World as say Pretenders less than the Sun c. Now for the Fixed Stars what hath the same day 12 Months to do with any of them But those few only that relate to the Sun and Moon there posited If the Objector do believe as he doth not that the Fixed are concerned with the Sun the Controversie would be soon dispatch't for the Fixed would also be found to be concerned which relates to ♄ 's or ♃ 's places c. And that which is a high Truth VII Companies at least of the Fixed are concerned every day according to the number of the Erratiques which transit by them And if it rains not the same day 12 Month the failure proceeds from the different marshalling of those Companies But the VII are always engaged to every day of the Month or year And hence comes the Halt or delay of the Weather which the Objection takes notice of Most times the beginning of March is Stormy sometimes the End not according as the matter is prepared as if the Womb of the Air teemed so many Days Weeks and Months before it brought forth and then by the same degrees returned to its Sterlity This is the Grave Idea which men have of Natures Productions attributing to One what belongs to VII For Matter may be prepared and unprepared and prepared again as often as the Air is overcast and the Winds blow hollow and drive away the Clouds Matter may be prepared in an Hours time the Wind may turn in an Instant verily as soon as the Sun is set 't is ordinary for the Wind to vere about 'T is ordinary for one Wind to blow by Night and another by Day The Barometer will shew us the Truth of this which will change in an Hour or two from Fair to Rainy and never shews above a day before hand The reason is when there are more Workmen about the Preparation then is imagined the more sudden is the Effect So that hence also comes that Dissonancy of the Weather not complyant with the Season Cold at Midsummer and warm at Christmass because every Planet but the Sun Venus and Mercury are at liberty The Sun first makes the Season Venus and Mercury attend him but the ☽ we know and ♂ ♄ and ♃ may saunter or make Excurons where they please to take up their Winter Quarters by themselves while the Sun and his Gang are meteing out the Vernal or Summer Seasons § 74. According to the Nature of the Months April we know is inclined to Rain May to Warmth June to Showres July and August to Heat January to Rain February to Snow March to Hail and Turbulency Suppose these Months be mingled together as they are mixt by Planetary Motion the same Weather will the Planets assuredly make being found in the Signs answering thereto So that if it be warm at time of the year because the Motion of the Sun chalks out the Months of July and August it may Rain at that time because a Fourth Planet may be in April's Quarters and Hail because a fifth may be in Marches Limits And do not the Vulgar confess that many times One Months Weather is found in anothers Yes verily Place now Planets enough in Winter Signs and it may Freeze in March and Snow in April yea as we have heard not impossible in June § 75. Oh! But the same Planets never meet again the second time in the same Place and Posture We answer they may meet again in Equivalent places For do we think there are 365. kinds of Weather Do not divers Places in the Heavens agree in the same inclination Doth it Rain only in April Is not June Dripping and November December c. So the seeming great Objection vanishes Either the same Planets may meet in Equivalent Places or Equivalent Planets may meet in the same Places Verily not Picus nor Gassendus with all their Causes per se or per what they please can give account of One Frost dissolved in Winter No Not after they have felt the Benefit of the milder Air nor of One Chill day in Summer though they have smarted by it much less of a solitary Constitution when one or two days shall strangely thrust themselves into a Month of a Contrary temper They admire and despair to find the Reason why Winter dare not sometimes shew his hoary Head Bald at all times but sometimes not Hoary at all and yet at other times march towards the torrid Zone pass the Line and Face the Aestival Camp No account I say can they give of a White Easter and a Soultry Christmas Snow in May or April and Thunder in December No reason for Long and Lasting Rains seeing the Earths Evaporation is not responsible because the Earth according as the Fires are continually at work Evaporates in Drought as well as Moisture § 76. Gassendus observes indeed p. 996. that the Workmen in the Mines presage Rain upon the rising of the Fumes Subterranean Let those Workmen or some body for them be taught to consult an Ephemeris and they may chance to find some bonny Aspect at that time as we may see in the Aspects of the Superiours which plainly agrees with our Hypothesis and teacheth that all nature is troubled at their Presence being irritated more at one time than another Now that all Nature is troubled to make a digression and the Subterranean Fumes the Evidences of such Trouble do rise at the Presence of Aspects I have met with a remarkable Instance or two to lead in those who can make Additions The First above an hundred years ago in the Month of July An. 1547. which I shall tell in a Famous Doctors own Words in the Margin of his Ephemeris viz. Primo Julii apud Harreret Cati duo Longam postpugnam in fontem morientes utrique inciderunt Pater familias fontem in fici istis cadaveribus haud cupiens puerum demisit istos ut educeret at puer ipse mortuus extractus est descendit homo alter his mortuus etiam tertius insaniâ correptus Patris Familias nomen fuit Ryve duodecim mill pass à Fulburnia factum The Later but lately indeed viz. Aug. IV. 1679. the day when most parts of England felt the Dire Lightning and Thunder to their Cost Those of our Neighbour Borough in Southwark remember it by a Woman slain with Lightning dwelling in Kent Street yea and by this Story parallel to the former when a young man a
For God is not a God of the North only He takes care even for those Lands which the Holy Phrase seems to say He takes no care of § 26. Hence if ♂ doth not cause Drought in our Northern Climes but when obstructed by some dissenting Influence c. 'T is not for us to muster up a Barren Catalogue of Heats and Droughts when Heat seems mostly to domineer as our Friend Eichstad hath done in his hot July Anno 1596. Hot August 1592. also September 1594. and October 1596. a Remission of Cold noted in December Then skip to a hot June Anno 1605. and July 1607. Not that we question the Truth of the Testimony but because he brought it no further when he wrote about Anno 1636. for the demand will be as he said in the like case where are the Names of the Shipwrackt Seamen who are not hung up in the Tables of Neptunes Temple Why is not the year 1609. 1611. and so on mentioned to make up ♂ his Triumph § 27. We therefore chuse to consider ♂ his Heat dry and Wet if dry then 't is plain to Sense if otherwise to Reason For who knows not that after a Storm of Rain in Summer if the Sky clears up we find a hot Day the Traveller confessing that 't is Hot after the Rain so far that if through intense Heat he finds the Ground to dry apace He prognosticates more Rain to succeed yea that this proves all the year long except where Frost brings Serenity if a Wet day clears up 't is Fine and Warm except yea sometimes al beita cool Wind blows § 28. If we must allow Heat to a Summer Fog we must allow it in proportion to Wet A Foggy morning introduces Heat and Drought A wet Morning clearing up discovers Heat and Floating Clouds That you shall not question ♂ his Warmth you shall find that he causeth both at times Wet and Fog according as I find it makes up a piece of the Character in some Modern Astrologers Argol c. which I wonder at because it savours of Novel Experience But by their favour I must here say as before of Drought that ♂ with us causes no Fog but when debilitated or resisted ♂ is Generous and Large He is for powring out his Influence on such Showres or Storms which by their Excess and Over-doing bear his Signal § 27. Will the Reader therefore be pleased to ride Post with me through the Wet for that is the next enquiry from year to year Rain with store and whatever says the definition Verily Anno 1652. in May you shall find Showry V. days together just about the precise time of our Aspect In July 1654. VI. days together to the Prejudice of Hay-Harvest In August An. 1656. die 17. Rain powring 7 mane die toto Showres dashing 4 days together die 10 11 12 13. beside what more In September Anno 1658. Wet and Coasting Showres VI. days together Die 26. Rain for 3 hours and the whole Night following to ☉ rise and so along § 30. Or had he rather see the Breviate of our ensuing Table Thus I present it The Days are in Sum 584. of which we find Rain Snow or Hail 301. Whereof softer Rains 38. Immoderate 65. Showres with some briskness 143. Morning 12. Evening 12. Noon-tide 13. Winds 169. Whereof with Storm and Fury 97. § 30. Here see the Benifit of a Prolix Observation Others may repent it I beg their Pardon I cannot We must observe as much at home as the Antients have done abroad if we mean to pronounce Otherwise we make Science contemptible and reduce Books to Wast Paper for Lo you now § 32. If our Argument from the Moyety be any thing our Planet to them who will calculate his Influence with industry and Patience will prove as we would have it a Friend to Wet for 301. is a good Moyety of 600. of which Sum our Total bears short A Friend I can tell you and a lusty Friend too whose Vote passes for more than a single one the Modern Astrologers therefore have got it by the end that he is a vehement Planet For is he not a Superiour Remember we are come among the Superiours the Inferiours are quick and nimble Where if one position will not do another will the Superiours are not in such Hast they are slow but sure So have I seen a Granado in the Air fuming as it went along in a sullen silence and at last break and tear all in a Thousand Pieces And have we here no Violence We have 61 immoderate Rains and 97 violent Winds If my Friendly Reader pleaseth to contract the Table by selecting their Places he will find the Violent Fits and Concussions of Nature at home and from abroad some as the Intelligencers came to our Hands § 33. He will find the Finger of our Aspect from the Critical hours not only as to the Lustre of our Aspect which paints the Clouds Red in the West 5 or 6 times yea to the Mid-Heaven twice or thrice to the East it self from the Western setting cross the whole Hemisphere Five or Six times But further as to its Rainy or Blustering Faculty since you shall find Showres at Noon Showres in the Morn but most of all Rain in the Evening or ☉ set 20 times Add that the Continuance the Duration speaks the Author as we have observed before in ☉ and ♀ since ♂ as we have said as well as ♀ moves along with the ☉ for several days § 33. And this we reckon so undoubted that we are not ashamed to say that this is visible even in the Debility when we see a Mist or Fog in the Morn and the like again at Even The Noon-tide is not so capable of it we mean after an interruption if the Winter Fog hold above half the day 'T is another case This we rather mention because we contend not with the Antients here but we with them avow he is Dry even here in the Northern Latitude in that he is so affected when in his Debility when not assisted enough by ☉ or the rest of his Brethren § 34. Here let me shelter my self under the Modern Artists that I may not seem fond of Paradoxes in the Fundamentals of the Theory They acknowledge the Dryth of the Syzygie and they acknowledge the Wet only they come off more easily than I can do and according to the received difference of Watry Signs and Fiery which distinction I wish could do yea or that which with some seems to carry more reason that in Spring and Autumn it brings Winds in Summer Thunder and Hail in Winter remission of Cold. I fear my Diary as Prolix as it is will scarce justifie it no more then that it brings Darkness in Airy Signs or Signs Bicorporeal where as it brings Darkness well assisted in places near the Tropic or Equinox be the Signs of what Divisions they may But I commend them when they tell us towards his
a Fortnights experience at first Introduction Their Latitude above Gardefeu Again anonother Captain Sept. 21. nearer the time of ☌ ☉ ♂ which happened Sept. 27. ♎ 13. For 6 days together the Wind against our will forced us to the Leeward toward Shore with a Strong Current Lib. 3. Cap. 12. § 1. p. 278. After we had got clear of these dangers we found the Current to carry us to the Northwards Thirty Leagues when we thought we had pass'd but Fifteen Ib. Oct. 10 11 12. we found our selves to lose more and more every day by the Current Ib. Latitude by Judgement 70 Leagues above the Mozambique Third Captain near Madagascar or St. Laurence Isle Sept. 10. Lat. South gr 17. A strong Current setting South-West having a stiff Gale we could not but have run these 24 Hours 24 Leagues but in the Evening we made to the Island about 4 Leagues off Sept. 11. We were carried by the force of a Current to the Southward almost a degree Southward Sept. 13. The Current very strong against us Sept. 19. We steered North-East but by the extremity of the Current we were carryed to the Southward so that we were 10 days and could not get to the Northward notwithstanding we had a reasonable stiff Gale Lib. 4 p. 335. Sept. 21. The Current did set exceeding strongly to the South-West by West c. Sept. 22 23. We laboured to get rid of the Current Octob. 3. We came to an Anchor after much Trouble by Currents p. 336. That the Cause is from over-head the Seamen themselves suspect some have said it is the Full ☽ Purch p. 192. Others have said at times it is the New ☽ And they who expect to get clear of them by Alteration of the Latitude the depression of the Pole-Star and the like I can make it very probable that here at this year in this Latitude considering in what Sign our ☌ is celebrated in an Equinoctial Sign of ♎ and this over an Equinoctial Latitude that our ☌ of ☉ and ♂ doth trouble the Waters Especially when the Tables furnish us with the like Evidence at the same ☌ ☉ and ♂ in a different Month and different Latitude Anno 1612. Add a Third Testimony from a ☌ in January in another difference of Latitude we felt a great Stream saith the Seaman And a 4th Anno 1620. May 9. the ☌ being found May 16. 'T is out of road to pursue it further here If it proves thus it will become our Seamen to be no Strangers to Conjunctions to know a New ♂ as well as ☽ and the ☌ of ♂ and ☉ with them Yet let no man think I appropriate it to a Martial Aspect but I look upon ♂ as one of the Celestials which moves the Sea And if so then by Galilaeos his favour there will be no need of moving the Earth for the Flux of the Waters To the ☉ ☽ and Stars it belongs which seems to be proved from hence For if a part of the Heaven move a part of the Sea a Current then the Whole moves the whole § 49. And let no man object ♂ his unreasonable distance in my first Instance viz. of gr 14. for that Four Nights time terminates nearer to gr 12. 10. which we proclaim aloud to be a Legitimate distance such as doth strengthen rather than invalidate the Influence of the Application as we have said before before ever we dream't of such use to be made of it But then secondly we have nearer applications of ♂ to ☉ in the other 3 years yea in the very same No let us rather see by this how the Celestial Bodies irritate the Waters Beside the additions of moisture which they lend the Waters they put them into a Heat and a Ferment and make them run over as I suppose Both Tide and Current which are aloof from Shore Ordinary and extraordinary come to pass by a Fermentation see something of this Feb. 11. 1680. III. Tides in 5 hours on our Home River § 50. To conclude as the Heavenly Bodies operate on the Elements so do they one upon another to all seeming I mean as the Sun seems to be eclipsed Histories note and Astronomers also take notice that the Sun it self suffers labours and looks pale Nec prosunt Domino saith the Heathen Much ado hath been made from before in Heathen time with the Maculae Solis nay Spots are observed now with a delicate curiosity in the other Planets The Learned Ricciolus bids us be gone with our Astrology as if all the Changes of the Air were to be imputed to the ☉ alone with such Maculae or without Injuriously and Unhappily The First because 't is plain or may be plain that the Sun alone or ☽ cannot be the Causes of the Changes of the Air or Seasons of the year The Second because these Spots are the Products I speak probably again of those very Conjunctions and other Aspects which He with others proscribes This the kind Reader will give me further time if need be to make out § 51. Take we with the Character of the Aspect ☌ ☉ ♂ is apt to Heat and sometimes even in these Northern Climes to Dryth but more frequently to Lowr Bluster Rain gentle or dashing sometimes to Hail which though it be rare is more frequent under the Martial Aspect than in other Aspects In a weaker Condition it admits against its will a Frosty Season 'T is apt to colour the Clouds rising or setting with the Sun It is voic'd and truly for some malignity of Influence upon our Bodies whether which is to be noted it be Summer or Winter Hot or Cold as to Frosty Seasons with a little Help it uses to cause some Relent or to bring Snow CHAP. V. Opposition of Mars Sol. § 1. The Opposition and its Diary 2. The Breviate of the Diary 3. ☠☉ ♂ more cold than ☌ ♂ ☉ 4. Because ☠in general is cooler 5. Because the ☠☉ ♂ is shorter liv'd 6. ♂ in Perigee helps to smart Influence yet he is but solitary and therefore not so brisk 7. His Thunders in Summer do not hold in Winter 8. Ninety one days of 118. either Rain or Wind or Heat In frosty Seasons ♂ sits uneasie 9. Fog and hazy Air. 10. A Tempest given a Philosopher may know the Hour of the day 11. Forreign Table 12. ☌ and ☠of a like Influence for the Main 13. Maculae Solis 14. Thames stows thrice in 9 Hours 15. Suddain motion of the Mercury in the Barometer 16. The Dismal dark Sunday 17. Frosts are not to be ensured under ☉ ♂ 18. Why ♀ in Perigee is sometimes seen § 1. Conjunctions we have consider'd but this is the First Opposition which comes in our way the Lunar excepted We will present its Table because of its use yea because it is short and not clogging ☠♂ ☉ ad intervall hinc inde grad 5. 1653. ♠8. 25. May 6. III. Cloudy windy S W. IV. Showry windy S
incapacity of conspiring as effectually with the rest who then make their appearance § 5. Add that the days concerned in the ☠are fewer in Number than the days of the ☌ where the Planet Aspected with the Sun being Retrograde as ♂ here is sooner disengaged from any respect to the Sun the one falling back where the other keeps his place § 6. A man would have thought that this ☠would have outdone the ☌ because of the Perigee of the Planet in the ☠nearer considerably to the Earth then in the ☌ Tycho making him lower than the Sun at such time and shewing a greater Parallax No doubt this difference of Situation approaching to the Earth and to the Sun whom it faceth makes the attaque hotter and the grapple of the Beams more close and compact but yet as we observed in the ☽ 's Opposition the solitariness of the Planet helps to cool the Courage in proportion to the Fortitude it is endued with by the Approximation And therefore our Sums of Rain and Wind sink under the ☠though they did not flinch under the ☌ that being more able to be responsible for so many days than ☠for half so many § 7. This is clear and open we confess what we find we do not strive to wrack up Testimonies to make good any anticipated Fancies as I thought my self when at the First observation in Anno 1652. I was greeted with Rain and Thunder as Anno 1655. I should find a bloudy Aspect of ♂ But ♂ proves not so Termagant the Vicissitudes of Nature and the Northern Climes take off much from his edge § 8. To proceed then the Sum of our days for Fourteen Oppositions All which are found in 30 years amounts to 118. The Sum of our Rains 51. What do we stand Pedling Rain or Wind or Heat 91. As to the Cold and Frosts we have spoken enough already For Thunders we have scarce 5 or 6. But bating the Winter Months of 1661. 1664. 1674. 1676. 1679. 1681. Seven of the Fifteen you shall observe that those Months which Thunder not were not asleep You shall find Rain and Winds An. 1657. 1666. 1672. 1683. Heat and Soultry Air Anno 1670. For ♂ take him where you will is a vehement Planet to which if you will confront us with a vehement Frost Anno 1676 and smile at our Zeal we have prevented That Frump by observing that ♂ sits uneasie in such Icy Chains and takes opportunity to strike Fire out of the Cold Steel even in Winter it self and that in our Neighbour Countries the like we presume in different parts of Lapland but that I cannot maintain so large an Intelligence of which we have given you I am sure one Instance from Gemma and shall suddenly from Calvisius produce another Howbeit Less Symptoms will argue a Distemper of a Planet than such downright Fury § 9. And whereas I once thought it good to take notice of Fog among other Concomitants of the Aspect I believe now I had reason so to do since I find the Antients to take notice of Humiditas Horizontis among the Effects of the Mamareth of ☉ and ♂ This I interpret to be Hazy Air as the Seamen call it when 't is misty in the Horizon and clear in the Zenith See the Table in Escuid fol. mihi 33. in the Signs of ♠♑ ♒ This hath been observed under the ☌ but here is Authority to our Experience Now if the Arabs allow a Fog on hazie Air in their more Southern Hemispheres how much more must it prevail with us in Northern distance where our case is sometimes that of Nov. 21. 1659. when such an Aegyptian darkness hover'd over us both by Sea and Land that our Day-Labourer was benighted and our Vagabond Waterman lost in his Boat § 10. Here we must not forget our punctual Evidence from the Critical times of Noon Sun-rise Sun-set as before in the precedent Lunar Aspects by which a Philosopher may know the Hour of the day many times by the Showr for if it rains about Noon I hear ♂ strike as well as the Clock unless with vulgar People in matter of Eclipses you will believe no Phaenomenon Celestial but what you see when as then at Even or Sun rise I find it rain c. A Philosopher doth as verily see ♂ glaring on the Sun as he in the Story Saw by force of Refraction the Eclipsed ☽ facing the Sun at the same Instant Now with recourse to the Table take notice to this purpose of what happened vesperi May 7. Anno 1653. What at 4 m. July 16. Anno 1655. What at Noon Sept. 24 Anno 1657. and so please to go on So we pass to our vagrant Table ☠of ☉ ♂ with a Little more Lattiude than the former Table 1506. ☠circiter Jan. 26. ♒ ♌ § 11. Jan. 15. ad 26. King Philip's Tempest sailing from Flanders to Spain driven on the English Shore to which Stow adds the Eagle from the Spire of St. Pauls blown down Lycost antedates it ☠☉ ♂ cum ♄ c. April 8. ♉ m. 1510. T. M. in many parts in Italy Lyc. 516. the Month not specified 1531. Cometa Fracastorii a Sept. 8. ad 18. Ricciolus p. 9. vide ☠♃ ♂ 1533. Nov. 25. ♠♊ Eod. die In the Province of Torgaw in Germany the Sitter a River dammed up by an Earthquake Lyc so Mezaldus p. 245. ☠☉ ♂ cum ♄ 1538. ☠circa Febr. 4. ♒ ♌ Jan 20. Basil shook with Earth quake Lycosth Jan 19. ad diem 22. Comet in ♓ following the Sun Mizaldus Appian Gemma Lib. 1. p. 211. cum ☌ ☉ ☿ circa gr 10. Lychosth misplaces it 1540. ☠circa Mar. 9. ♓ ♠Mar. 2. 3. Tempest dangerous Hakl Vol. 3. p. 422. March 8. Tempest dangerous still Idem 423. March 9. Great Wind and Rain every thing in the Ship wet Id. ☠♂ ☉ ♀ circa ♄ opp Mar. 13. Great store of rain they say in Cassel Id. March 14 15. Tempests brake two Cables 1632. Circa April 22. ♉ ♠Contrary Winds that we could not reach to New-found-Land till the VII of June Hakl Edit 2. pag. 240. ☠☉ ♂ ♄ 1644. Circa June 24. ♋ ♑ June 16 17 18. Tempest of Wind in Sundgoy c. destroying Corn-Fields Vineyards Lyc. 1550. Circa Dec. 18. ♋ ♑ init On this very Dec. 18. The Thames flowed Trice in 9 Hours mentioned by Fromond Meteor Lib. V. Stow. pag. ☠cum ☌ ♀ ☿ 1553. Circa Jan. 21. ♒ ♑ July 1. So much Wind that we spponed afore the Sea Frobisher in Halluit 1678. ☠circa Sept. 26. ♎ ♈ Octob. 8. A great Storm Purch part 1. p. 50. Cometa iterum visus est in Fronte Pegasi 1680. ☠circa Nov. 18. ♠♊ princ Lat. North 63. Contrary Winds and Foul till day 18. Hakl pag. 475. Comet ab Octob. 2. to Jan. 24. Hevel 1582 ☠circa Dec. 26. ♑ ♋ Dec. 18. Fair Weather but stiff Gales Hakl Vol. 3. p. p. 183.
1517. ☠circa March 4. ♓ ♠Febr. 23. Foul Weather Hakl Edit 1. Very great Storm Hakl p. 224. Edit 1. Marca 1. Storm at N. continued 3 or 4 days Mr. Cavendish Voyage 1593. ☠circa Aug. 30. ♠♓ Comet July 01. ad August 21. Hevel Quere in ☠♂ ☿ 1595. ☠circa octob 31. ♠♌ Octob. 26. Storm separated the Fleet Sir Francis Drake apud Hakl 1600. ☠Circa June 16. ♒ ♋ Starr in Cygni pectore in ♒ 18. Lat. 55. N. Kepler de N. Stella Jan. 20. The Thames almost froze in Seven-nights Howes Stormy Purch 1. 75. Jan. 2. ad 8. continual Rains Id. pag. 73. 1602. Febr. 13 14. St. Vet. Terrae Motus W. High Winds Transact 2065. ☠cum ☌ ♀ ☿ 1604. ☠circa March 27. ♈ ♎ April 4. 1608. ☠circa July 22. ♌ ♒ July 26. Great Thunder Lightning Rain Calvis cum ☠♄ ♀ 1640. ☠circa October 6. ♎ ♈ Sept. 26. Winds drive us to the shelter of a Rock The Tramontana from the Black Sea brings often with it such Storms Sept. 10 ad Oct. 10. Current Purch ☠♂ ♀ ☿ ☉ which Aspects being spent the Currents were lost 1612. ☠circa Nov. 28. ♠♊ Nov. mens Terrae motus in Westphalia per. integr mens Calv. I. Nov. Dec. Continual Flouds and Rains at Siam Purch 322. cum ☠♄ ♃ 1615. ☠circa Jan. 7. ♑ ♋ fine Jan. 18. Lat. S. 8. degr Violent Current set us an hundred Leagues back Purch p. 1. 525. Jan. 1. In Thuringia when other places were frozen Storms Lightning Thunder Calvis 1617. ☠circa Febr. 7. ♒ ♌ Febr. 6. much Foul Weather in the Downs Purch 631. Jan 29. Tonitu Fulgur Terrae Motus Kepl. A Steeple rent with Thunder at Spelhurst Strasburg Tower at the same time Kepl. 6621. ☠circa April 24. ♉ ♠April 22. Pluit tonuit in Suevia Kepl. where he commends some of his poor Aspects whereas our ♂ lies within 2 days of it Febr. 7. March Very foul Weather Purch 1. 655. 1623. June 23. Formidable Tempest at Strasburg Fired their Magazin of Powder Calvis Kyrian June 24. 1625. ☠circa Sept. 12. ♌ ♑ 1625. Chasma Kyr 1629. ☠circa Nov. ♠♊ Nov. 14. Heimlichen Erdheben Kyriander 1629. ☠circa Dec. 22. ♑ ♋ Jan. 1. 1630. Here began exceeding wet M. S. 1632. ☠circa Jan. 26. ♒ ♌ The American Fleet routed by Tempests 1636. ☠circa April 7. ♈ ♎ April 7. Heat Rain Thunder Lightning Kyr June 11. Thunder and Earthquake in Culabria 1637. May 28. Much Thunder and dashing Kyr 1640. Aug. 11. ♌ ♒ Heat vesp Thunder Kyr 1642. ☠circa Jan 22. ♈ ♉ Octob. 15. Iris Matutina Kyriander 1647. ☠circa Jan. 13. ♌ ♒ 7. St. Vet. Comme toute la nuit it plu tonte la pour avec tourmente gresle esclaiers Moncon Voyage d' Egypte p 151. so die 8 9. 1649. ☠circa Febr. 15. ♓ ♠Febr. 10. Ignes Cadentes at Bristol Hitherto do I conceive the Earthquake at Messina the Flouds at Riga and the Flames of Vesuvius in Calvisias are to be reckoned May 10. Terrible Storm at N E. 1659. ☠circ Nov. 31. ♠♊ Nov. 17. Sad dark rainy day 1674. ☠circa Febr. 3. ♒ ♌ 24. Febr. 11. Lightning Thunder 1666. ☠circa March 8. ⚹ ♠March 3. Maculae in the Body of ♂ by Mr. Hook Trans p. 240. 1670. July 12. Great Thunder and Rain dashing 3 m. 1674. ☠circa Nov. 3. ♠♉ 21. Mercury in the Baroscope fell an inch me inspectante circa hor. 5. 1679. Jan. 20. Terrae Motus according to prediction which happenned in Guelderland throughout cum Fulmine Tonitru Lond. Gazet numb 138. Jan. 12. A dismal dark Sunday morning Jan. 29. Terrae motus at Fort Saint-George C. W. Limbry 1681. ☠circa Febr. 22. ♓ ♠14. Febr. 25. Another Comet seen at London from South-East ab 8. ad p. broader than the last Febr. 7. Terrae motus at Mentz Francfort according to Prediction Lond. Gazet. March 3. Cometa iterum Hagae eodem fere loco § 12. As the Full ☽ and New agree in Influence so do our ☠and ☌ of ☉ ♂ Did the ☌ raise Storms separating Fleets So doth the ☠Doth the ☌ contribute to a Fiery Meteor So doth the ☠Is there a Comet hovering about the ☌ So also an ☠helps to such an Impression Inundations I do not find break in upon us so much but Comets and Earthquakes are frequent enough to gain the Readers Opinion Bate now the New Star in Cygni pectore I am not yet ripe for that One or Two exceptions will not spoil a Rule Yet our Currents also at Sea do correspond in some measure it may be not so often as in the ☌ § 13. Our Maculae do begin to bring in their Witness For that Spot in the Body of ♂ observed by Worthy Mr. Hook falls in under the Verge of our ☌ § 14. As to our Currents see them brought home to our Very Doors when the Thames flowed thrice in 9 Hours Dec. 17. 1550. Will I say you then offer to ascribe that Prodigious appearance to our ☠I think I may safely especially if we met any such like accident under our ☌ before as Feb. I. 1680. For what though it be prodigious as acknowledged by Fromond and others Prodigious Events have natural Causes is as much confessed And I am jealous there is much in the Sign which whether it prove or not must be considered in due place seeing there are no instances abroad of thu same Nature § 15. To draw to a Conclusion I have taken notice of a pretty accident Anno 1674. concerning the quick motion of the ☿ in the Barometer which at such an hour of the day fell while I looked on hor 5. an Inch of the Sudden Fell I say in the Tube but rose in the Curveture the Air being of a sudden levitated to such a measure Let the Learned bear with me in my Folly we have adventured on the Currents Marine I have found a Current in the Air proportionable to that in the Water For the Currents in the Sea as all Tides are made by Levitation of the Humid Body made by way of Tumour which is always Lighter and more puffy than when the Humour subsides unfermented From whence having received the Notion of the Air gravitating I am by this petty appearance confirmed in the opinion Learning withall that it is the Celestial Bodies which according to their various positions do ferment or flatten the Air gaining also into the bargain that the Air is of the same Lineage cognate to Water and though in the day of its Creation it was rarified so far as 1000 times they say as that no natural cause shall reduce it again yet still it hath a common Nature and Affection with it § 16. I would take notice of the Obscurity of the Heavens sometimes appearing more than others and that
some such instance before And doth not all help As the Wren said § 10. Now let not our Holy-drops sink noted I remember May 4. An. 60. in the Second Sextile a casual Instance I confess but such as may be accounted for no doubt where there is opportunity for a curious Observer Stench of Mists and Hony-drops we know belong to the same Cause § 11. Our last Instance is the worst for it seems to be beyond question it brings oft-times a sick Interval in March 74. June 76. August 78. for the First March An. 73. April Anno 75. May Anno 77. for the Later Six continued years with one and the other Aspect you see are unlucky I use the Word with an ut ita dicam call it Offensive to Health or what you please Posterity will believe this when they have confirmed it with their own Observation And so I make an end of the Martio Solar Aspect the Habitude of those two Great Planets CHAP. VII ☌ ♂ ♀ Conjunction of Mars and Venus § 1. This ☌ takes place here before ♂ ☿ 2. 'T is many times visible and a fine sight to see 3. In Heathen Theology it is a lewd Fable 4. 'T is of uncertain return 5. It brings an Apertio portarum 6. It commonly brings its effect 7. The Aspects Character 8. The Home Diary produced 10 11. Descant upon the Evidence i. e. as to Heat 12. The Objection of frosts 13. It brings Testimony to Rain Not to Flouds in the Partile they belong to the Platic 14. The Fog 15. The Winds the Observation concern Wind changing 16. Oft-times prognosticable to an hour 17. Halo Parelia 18. Fiery Meteors 19. Days 240. of 280. bear the Character 20. The Forreign Diary 21. Who wishes well to the Sea-man is a well-wisher to his Country 22 Distance of 10 Degrees proper to stormy Constitutions 23. Account may be given of the Duration of a Tempest for a Week Month c. 24. Stated or arbitrary 25. Kepler forced to concurr 26. One Aspect extinguishes not another 27. A Tuffon is a dire Meteor 28. This Aspect as proper for Hail as any 29. Its Thunders 30. Keplers confession 31. Blite 32. Seven Degrees distance remarkable for Lightning 33. This Aspect either produces or prolongs Comets 34. 35. Proved 36. New Star in the breast of Cygnus Dissent from Hevelius 37. Earthquakes challenged by this Aspect 38. Platic Aspect must be admitted with Partile 39. Currents challenged 40. Fournier's Opinion the Moon not the only Cause 41. Some difference between Partile and Platic 42. Flouds 43. Some Flouds without Rain speak fermentation 44. They belong more to Mars and Venus than ♂ ☿ 45. A List of Mercurio Martial Flouds 46. A List of Venereo Martial Flouds 47. Our Planets Aspected operate in sight one of another proved 48. Opposition of Mars and Venus also a Flooding Aspect 49. Strange Tides 50. The Antient Astrology in this justified Apertio Portarum 51. Dissent from the Antients who make the contrariety of the Houses to be the cause of Apertio 52. 53. Other causes offered 54. Apertio Portarum a handsome term of Art 55. The Milignity of Martial Aspects 56. Demonstrated by a large induction the Origine of the Pestilence is Celestial against the diligent Dimmer-Brock 57. 'T is not eating of Fruit makes the Autumn fickly § 1. THe Conjunction of Mars and Venus should in complyance with our former Method not precede but follow that of ☿ for so it was in the Solar Conjunctions But the consideration of the more confessed and exact Calculation on ♀ side moved me to present it before that with ☿ whose account till of late days hath bin in the dark § 2. This ☌ happens some years to show it self to the publique view in the Nocturnal Hemisphere God so ordering it for Astronomy's sake that what could not be possible in the Diurnal Solar Conjunctions should be conspicuous to all who were given to observation and a fine Scene it makes in the Heavens Jucundum spectaculum saith Kepler truly as all must confess who regard the Motion and Lustre § 3. In the Harlot Theology of the Heathen the Conjunction of ♂ with ♀ makes a lewd smutty Story but in the Chaster Regions of thr Aether 'T is a Congress of two Glorious Lights parlying one with the other such Language as we labour at present to understand § 4. The Revolution of this Aspect is somewhat intricate not visiting us once in Two years as the ☌ ♂ ☉ but with more uncertainty and variety Variety because it is found sometimes to repeat the same Radiation once or twice before its departure as Annis 1654. 1660. c. Uncertainly because we may meet with an ☠♂ ♀ and also our ☌ within the space of one Twelve month and again otherwise neither ☠or ☌ in the same time § 5. Now this is so far from an Every-day-Aspect that it is by Astrologers vouched to be free of the Society which bear an Apertio Portarum for their Motto A Port-opening opening of the Sluces of Heaven for Rain and Wind concerning which Notion and the grounds of it If I may speak freely we will at the Close of this Chapter declare our Sentiment § 6. The Aspect is violent That 's plain of a large effusion exceeding many of its fellow Martial Aspects and so the Neoteric's tell us For when they come to declare its Influence They lay Weight upon their Words and say Semper fere fert malum statum aeris and others willing to forget the Feré as if there were some absurdity in Semper joyned to Feré pronounce roundly Semper malum as if the Effect never fail'd But who goes to perswade that No Solet movere saith Eichstad and goes no futher The infallibility of the Effect belongs to the perfection of Astrology We are now treating but of the Rudiments only and first Principles considered by themselver § 7. Will you know the entire Character of this Aspect from Eichstad's Experience It useth to bring saith he Warmth Rains Winds and in particular West-Winds and at time of the year Snows Not forgetting Lusty Coruscations And He adds That this Influence lasts for some continuance of days as before in ☉ ♀ because the two Planets are of an Equal Gate Ephem part 1. ad Annum 1636. § 8. We hear him and therefore we produce our Table for the interval of two degrees Distance which relate to a Week and somewhat more at all times yea as it may happen may concern three Weeks or a Months time within the confines but of two degrees That 's brave advantage for a Learner The Home-Diary of ☌ ♀ ♂ § 9. Intra Grad 2. An. 1652. ♈ 11. February 26. XXI Clear Rain snow wind changes N. W S. XXII Rain XXIII Rain windy N W. XXIV Wind various dropping S W. XXV XXVI Wind. S W. Wrack rides N W. XXVII XXVIII XXIX Cloudy high wds March I. Wind shift S W. N E. windy N E.
II. Warm wet 3 p. N E. III. Warm close mist Field and City N E. IV. Close m. p. some wet 4 p. Nly Iterum ♋ 15. May 21. ♀ R. V. Drisle once or twice cool N E. VI. Drisle 6 p. cool day some wind N V V. VII Very cold m. Nly VIII Rain 10 m. brisk wd N E. IX Coasting showr 8 p. N E. X. Some wet overcast N. XI Clouds clearing some Rain or Hail 2 p. N. XII Gentle rain 1 p. 5 p. 7 p. very cold night XIII Wet p. m. tot S V V. clouds ride Nly XIV Wetting m. offer p. m. Nly XV. Showry 3 p. 5 p. N E. XVI Rain m. brisk wind XVII Brisk wind N E. XIX Temperate blew mist N. XX. Windy offering mist taken up S W. Parelii at Womondham in agro Leicest XXI some showrs 9 m. S W. XXII s showrs at o. and vesp Sly XXIII Showrs coasting and towards midnight XXIV Showr ante 1 m. 4 m. smart at o. dash at 2 p. N W. XXV Windy wetting ante 9 m. Thunder at Warwick Lightning Rain in the S W. at ♃ rise showrs ♀ South S W. XXVI Showring 10 m. offer p. m. windy S W. June 24. 1625. ☠circa Sept. 12. ♌ ♑ 1625. Chasma Kyr 1629. ☠circa Nov. ♠♊ Nov. 14. Heimlichen Erdheben Kyriander 1629. ☠circa Dec. 22. ♑ ♋ Jan. 1. 1630. Here began exceeding wet M. S. 1632. ☠circa Jan. 26. ♒ ♌ The American Fleet routed by Tempests 1636. ☠circa April 7. ♈ ♎ April 7. Heat Rain Thunder Lightning Kyr June 11. Thunder and Earthquake in Culabria 1637. May 28. Much Thunder and dashing Kyr 1640. Aug. 11. ♌ ♒ Heat vesp Thunder Kyr 1642. ☠circa Jan 22. ♈ ♉ Octob. 15. Iris Matutina Kyriander 1647. ☠circa Jan. 13. ♌ ♒ 7. St. Vet. Comme toute la nuit it plu tonte la pour avec tourmente gresle esclaiers Moncon Voyage d' Egypte p 151. so die 8 9. 1649. ☠circa Febr. 15. ♓ ♠Febr. 10. Ignes Cadentes at Bristol Hitherto do I conceive the Earthquake at Messina the Flouds at Riga and the Flames of Vesuvius in Calvisias are to be reckoned May 10. Terrible Storm at N E. 1659. ☠circa Nov. 31. ♠♊ Nov. 17. Sad dark rainy day 1674. ☠circa Febr. 3. ♒ ♌ 24. Febr. 11. Lightning Thunder 1666. ☠circa March 8. ⚹ ♠March 3. Maculae in the Body of ♂ by Mr. Hook Trans p. 240. 1670. July 12. Great Thunder and Rain dashing 3 m. 1674. ☠circa Nov. 3. ♠♉ 21. Mercury in the Baroscope fell an inch me inspectante circa hor. 5. 1679. Jan. 20. Terrae Motus according to prediction which happenned in Guelderland throughout cum Fulmine Tonitru Lond. Gaze numb 138. Jan. 12. A dismal dark Sunday morning Jan. 29. Terrae motus at Fort Saint-George C. W. Limbry 1681. ☠circa Febr. 22. ♓ ♠14. Febr. 25. Another Comet seen at London from South-East ab 8. ad p. broader than the last Febr. 7. Terrae motus at Mentz Francfort according to Prediction Lond. Gazet. March 3. Cometa iterum Hagae eodem fere loco § 12. As the Full ☽ and New agree in Influence so do our ☠and ☌ of ☉ ♂ Did the ☌ raise Storms separating Fleets So doth the ☠Doth the ☌ contribute to a Fiery Meteor So doth the ☠Is there a Comet hovering about the ☠So also an ☠helps to such an Impression Inundations I do not find break in upon us so much but Comets and Earthquakes are frequent enough to gain the Readers Opinion Bate now the New Star in Cygni pectore I am not yet ripe for that One or Two exceptions will not spoil a Rule Yet our Currents also at Sea do correspond in some measure it may be not so often as in the ☌ § 13. Our Maculae do begin to bring in their Witness For that Spot in the Body of ♂ observed by Worthy Mr. Hook falls in under the Verge of our ☌ § 14. As to our Currents see them brought home to our Very Doors when the Thames flowed thrice in 9 Hours Dec. 17. 1550. Will I say you then offer to ascribe that Prodigious appearance to our ☠I think I may safely especially if we met any such like accident under our ☌ before as Feb. I. 1680. For what though it be prodigious as acknowledged by Fromond and others Prodigious Events have natural Causes is as much confessed And I am jealous there is much in the Sign which whether it prove or not must be considered in due place seeing there are no instances abroad of thu same Nature § 15. To draw to a Conclusion I have taken notice of a pretty accident Anno 1674. concerning the quick motion of the ☿ in the Barometer which at such an hour of the day fell while I looked on hor 5. an Inch of the Sudden Fell I say in the Tube but rose in the Curveture the Air being of a sudden levitated to such a measure Let the Learned bear with me in my Folly we have adventured on the Currents Marine I have found a Current in the Air proportionable to that in the Water For the Currents in the Sea as all Tides are made by Levitation of the Humid Body made by way of Tumour which is always Lighter and more puffy than when the Humour subsides unfermented From whence having received the Notion of the Air gravitating I am by this petty appearance confirmed in the opinion Learning withall that it is the Celestial Bodies which according to their various positions do ferment or flatten the Air gaining also into the bargain that the Air is of the same Lineage cognate to Water and though in the day of its Creation it was rarified so far as 1000 times they say as that no natural cause shall reduce it again yet still it hath a common Nature and Affection with it § 16. I would take notice of the Obscurity of the Heavens sometimes appearing more than others and that in Martial Aspects It may be the dark and dismal Sunday in the Morning is not yet forgotten It happen'd not far from an ☠☉ ♂ whatsoever else frown'd at that time upon us § 17. To speak of the Cold upon occasion of the years 76. 13. is not needdful specially if we remember that ♂ as we have said sits uneasie so that the state of the Air stands upon a ticklish point when ♂ and ☉ are with one and the other in a Frosty Season and conclude to bring in a Thaw as Dec. 21. in the year 1676. as is noted in the Diary For though an ☠be chill of Nature as touched before and weaker Signs must be debilitudes yet ♠♑ ♒ ♓ are very mutable from one extream to the other when they are conscious they have a Friend at the other Hemisphere in the opposite Sign For this is mysterious as in the Chess-board An Aspect bare and naked may do little but alass
Planets CHAP. VII ☌ ♂ ♀ Conjunction of Mars and Venus § 1. This ☌ takes place here before ♂ ☿ 2. 'T is many times visible and a fine sight to see 3. In Heathen Theology it is a lewd Fable 4. 'T is of uncertain return 5. It brings an Apertio portarum 6. It commonly brings its effect 7. The Aspects Character 8. The Home Diary produced 10 11. Descant upon the Evidence i. e. as to Heat 12. The Objection of frosts 13. It brings Testimony to Rain Not to Flouds in the Partile they belong to the Platic 14. The Fog 15. The Winds the Observation concern Wind changing 16. Oft-times prognosticable to an hour 17. Halo Parelia 18. Fiery Meteors 19. Days 240. of 280. bear the Character 20. The Forreign Diary 21. Who wishes well to the Sea-man is a well-wisher to his Country 22 Distance of 10 Degrees proper to stormy Constitutions 23. Account may be given of the Duration of a Tempest for a Week Month c. 24. Stated or arbitrary 25. Kepler forced to concurr 26. One Aspect extinguishes not another 27. A Tuffon is a dire Meteor 28. This Aspect as proper for Hail as any 29. Its Thunders 30. Keplers confession 31. Blite 32. Seven Degrees distance remarkable for Lightning 33. This Aspect either produces or prolongs Comets 34. 35. Proved 36. New Star in the breast of Cygnus Dissent from Hevelius 37. Earthquakes challenged by this Aspect 38. Platic Aspect must be admitted with Partile 39. Currents challenged 40. Fournier's Opinion the Moon not the only Cause 41. Some difference between Partile and Platic 42. Flouds 43. Some Flouds without Rain speak fermentation 44. They belong more to Mars and Venus than ♂ ☿ 45. A List of Mercurio Martial Flouds 46. A List of Venereo Martial Flouds 47. Our Planets Aspected operate in sight one of another proved 48. Opposition of Mars and Venus also a Flooding Aspect 49. Strange Tides 50. The Antient Astrology in this justified Apertio Portarum 51. Dissent from the Antients who make the contrariety of the Houses to be the cause of Apertio 52. 53. Other causes offered 54. Apertio Portarum a handsome term of Art 55. The Milignity of Martial Aspects 56. Demonstrated by a large induction the Origine of the Pestilence is Celestial against the diligent Dimmer-Brock 57. 'T is not eating of Fruit makes the Autumn fickly § 1. THe Conjunction of Mars and Venus should in complyance with our former Method not precede but follow that of ☿ for so it was in the Solar Conjunctions But the consideration of the more confessed and exact Calculation on ♀ side moved me to present it before that with ☿ whose account till of late days hath bin in the dark § 2. This ☌ happens some years to show it self to the publique view in the Nocturnal Hemisphere God so ordering it for Astronomy's sake that what could not be possible in the Diurnal Solar Conjunctions should be conspicuous to all who were given to observation and a fine Scene it makes in the Heavens Jucundum spectaculum saith Kepler truly as all must confess who regard the Motion and Lustre § 3. In the Harlot Theology of the Heathen the Conjunction of ♂ with ♀ makes a lewd smutty Story but in the Chaster Regions of thr Aether 'T is a Congress of two Glorious Lights parlying one with the other such Language as we labour at present to understand § 4. The Revolution of this Aspect is somewhat intricate not visiting us once in Two years as the ☌ ♂ ☉ but with more uncertainty and variety Variety because it is found sometimes to repeat the same Radiation once or twice before its departure as Annis 1654. 1660. c. Uncertainly because we may meet with an ☠♂ ♀ and also our ☌ within the space of one Twelve month and again otherwise neither ☠or ☌ in the same time § 5. Now this is so far from an Every-day-Aspect that it is by Astrologers vouched to be free of the Society which bear an Apertio Portarum for their Motto A Port-opening opening of the Sluces of Heaven for Rain and Wind concerning which Notion and the grounds of it If I may speak freely we will at the Close of this Chapter declare our Sentiment § 6. The Aspect is violent That 's plain of a large effusion exceeding many of its fellow Martial Aspects and so the Neoteric's tell us For when they come to declare its Influence They lay Weight upon their Words and say Semper fere fert malum statum aeris and others willing to forget the Feré as if there were some absurdity in Semper joyned to Feré pronounce roundly Semper malum as if the Effect never fail'd But who goes to perswade that No Solet movere saith Eichstad and goes no futher The infallibility of the Effect belongs to the perfection of Astrology We are now treating but of the Rudiments only and first Principles considered by themselver § 7. Will you know the entire Character of this Aspect from Eichstad's Experience It useth to bring saith he Warmth Rains Winds and in particular West-Winds and at time of the year Snows Not forgetting Lusty Coruscations And He adds That this Influence lasts for some continuance of days as before in ☉ ♀ because the two Planets are of an Equal Gate Ephem part 1. ad Annum 1636. § 8. We hear him and therefore we produce our Table for the interval of two degrees Distance which relate to a Week and somewhat more at all times yea as it may happen may concern three Weeks or a Months time within the confines but of two degrees That 's brave advantage for a Learner The Home-Diary of ☌ ♀ ♂ § 9. Intra Grad 2. An. 1652. ♈ 11. February 26. XXI Clear Rain snow wind changes N. W S. XXII Rain XXIII Rain windy N W. XXIV Wind various dropping S W. XXV XXVI Wind. S W. Wrack rides N W. XXVII XXVIII XXIX Cloudy high wds March I. Wind shift S W. N E. windy N E. Anno 1654. ♈ 7. Jan. 29. XXIV Fair. S W. XXV Misty Halo ☽ XXVI XXVII Fair mist rainy S. XXVIII Misty cloudy so 29. S W XXX Close m. open S W. XXXI Frost close m. S W. Feb. I. High winds some wet frost m. N W. II. High wind some snow vesp frost m. III. H. winds very cold threatn snow N W. IV. High winds being cold threat snow N E. V. High wind s snow VI. Frost cloudy suspicious VII Clouds showry so at night Iterum 15. ♉ March 23. ♀ R. XVIII High winds clearing N E. XXI Windy N E. XXII High wind cold XXIII High wind snow hail N W. XXIV Windy some rain at night N W. XXV XXVI Windy cloudy m. p. N W. Tertiò ♠23. Octob. 5. II. Rain powring noct tot violent wind 〈◊〉 powring vesp N W. III. H. winds ante L. variable wet m. stormy day S W. IV. Cloudy rain wind Lightning N. N W. V. Dark and rainy a. m. showres N.
these Let it be remembred that we find melting Weather Anno 1658. 1667. Scalding Air Anno 1660. and excessive Heat Anno 1656. 1665. 1671. 1678. and where not Except once or so when the Wet hath palliated the Heat as 1679. or 1682. § 12. The Objection of what Cold occurs we have said ought not to move a Wise man for where is variety but in the Work of Nature Study it in what Topique you please and you shall find it This we say not as if we were hindred by the Objection for the rarity of the contrary is Argument enough for us as in the ☌ ☉ ♂ hath bin observed March 1654 June 1663. October 1679. What is Three to XXVIII Beside that 't is not for nothing that the Two last of those Months have foggy Air joyned with Frosts which shews an abatement of the Cold and a Similar Effect of a reserved Cause For when we say Heat we do not mean every Day should melt or scald us but some sensible degrees of the Quality more or less and rather for the more Therefore you hear that the Character of this Aspect speaks of Snow and Hail at the Seasons as well as Rain or Coruscations hence Rain and Snow which is next is not omitted by the Common Character § 13. This little Table I so term it because it stands upon a little Basis bears a competent Testimony to Rain For even here He who shall hunt for a dry Season as March 1654. August 1656. c. must wade through many a wet day to get thither As in our First and Second Instance of Feb. Anno 1652. Jan. Anno 1654. is visible March it self subornes two days Witness for us with Snow and Hail in one day and Rain in the other To make short we find 139. wet days Snow and Hail included of our 280. which being an absolute Moiety speaks its mind For the Flouds or Inundations the Effects of profuser Rains we shall speak in our Larger Account For though we find even here an Inundation or Two as that of Amsterdam Hague c. Anno 1675. Yet they are found more commonly unconfin'd to such a Scantling of a degree or Two of which alone this Home-Diary consists Hence that in Febr. 1661. about Tonbridge cannot be imputed to a Single day but to sveral precedent Days at a greater distance by two or three degrees more Of Flouds therefore in their proper place Eichstad I say refers Inundations to ♂ and ☿ which we shall find to be true but so that ♂ and ♀ put in too yea many times at the very Nick when ♂ and ♀ may seem to be the only Sluce-Openers § 14. This brings us to the Third considerable which I find is Fog observable for 18 days which though it come near a 20th part almost of the whole yet you know I reckon it not so much to the Influence of our Aspect as to the Half-Influence A Fog being nothing but a wet or dropping Constitution spoiled in the making The First Draught and Lineaments of a Showr drawn as it were in Cole not by a dropping but a more dry Pencil And hitherto do we reduce the Fila the Ropes on the Ground and the Floting Gossamere which I have observed to be the Product of Fog or Mist when that the moisture being exhaled the clammy part is left behind § 15. Winds I would take to be accidental to our Partil Aspect at least or not so suitable to the Influence as is found in others Though I acknowledge 90 Insâ—â—ces of which 42 are heard as High and Lofty In like manner as in ☉ aspected with ♀ we found not so much Wind as with ☿ But the Winds changing which I find Twenty times and upon a more attentive Watch believe it might have been trebled I am not going about to perswade notwithstanding that it belongs to this Aspect alone remembrieg what I have said already of the ☽ to some such purpose yet it may concern some certain Aspects more than others For the Solar Aspect with any Planet the ☽ excepted as we have said I reckon here to be excluded since they help to Fix the Wind antecedently to the Change For if they do not what else can be assigned The Sun and those which conspire with with him settle the Constitution if any other adventitious cause can alter it it may The Sun I say in Aspect or out of Aspect gives being to the Constitution the other which are concerned not with him but with one another exert their peculiar Strength in Weather and Winds provided that the Aspects of these different Planets lye at some distance from the ☉ for otherwise their Influence like Flames unite But if it so happen that the Sun being up These Aspects are not in hast to follow him because of their distance their Influence may be separated so far as to suffer a cooler Wind to blow which upon their Rising shall vere to a warmer point For observe it when you will if the Wind turns to a chiller part of the Compass There is some retreat of the Heavenly Bodies They either part One from the Other or leave the Horizon On the contrary when the Winds turn from a cold Quarter to a Warmer West or South c There is some new appearance above the Horizon or new Application of one to another And this it may be made Eichstad observe to us that the Wind changed often to the West under this Aspect which so far is true that it never changes from the Warm Quarter by virtue of this Aspect toward the warm Quarter it doth unless in State of Dereliction § 16. Verily 't is a pleasant piece of Art to be able to say as on some certain days we may while a Northerly Wind blows to assign I was going to say the Minute when the Wind shall turn I remember One Instance of that Nature I cannot say 't was this Aspect precisely that once according to observation expecting the Wind to turn I went up to the Battlements of the House and Lo Within half a quarter of an Hour the Vane of a Neighbour Church at a very little distance turned to the Point which I was aware of 'T is well I was alone for if any less curious Person had been with me to have attested the Event which is sober Truth I should have been suspected for a What d' ye call him This can the Observation of the Planets attain to as may be seen in the Chapter of the Rise and Setting of the Stars a part of this Treatise § 17. There is another appearance for which this Aspect hath a Fame and that is Iris Halo Parelia Of the former we have one great Instance from Leicestershire of the Later I fear I have met with more than are noted down Something I am sure we shall find though not proper to the Aspect perhaps nor again improper Kepler hath one remark under the name of Phasmata by which he means some
such appearances as may be seen by his note of Iris Inversa circa solem ad Febr. 4. Anno 1662. Nay by Halo and Parelia expressly noted April 25. Anno 1625. Remembring also that the inversed Iris is a praelude of the Parelium The Truth is He mentions no other Sights but what we have pointed at I have reason to think that ♂ hath a great stroke and ♀ too though not always under this determinate Aspect appealing to his Diary of 1623. Or rather for our Aspects sake to that 1622. Where besides what we have seen within two Degrees Phasmata Parelia Jan 25. Styl Vet. We meet with them a Second and Third time at a further distance both before and after the Partile Aspect at 7 gr distance and 11 degrees Jan. 3 4 5. S. N. Now least any should at a venture tell us that gr 11. is too unreasonable a distance he will be put to the Blush when he shall be told that the next Parelii noted in Keplers Diary are found once again when ♂ and ♀ are at the same Distance of gr 11. Mart. XXII 1622. § 18. Of Meteors Coruscations and Thunders we shall speake in our Larger Diary we will put some up here and reckon them Meteors 17. Lightning 12. Thunders 13. Genuine Off-springs of ♂ and ♀ In Aestival Months understand and I add and in Aestival Postures In such a case ♀ is a Fire ♀ is a Vulcan an Ignivomous Globe scattering Flames through the Aether a Fury as well as a Beauty § 19. Suppose then we add no more the Character of the Aspect will shine from the surface of this little Diary For if the Premises have any Force in them we shall find in about 280 days near upon 240. that carry a manifest Signature of ♂ in them If Heat if Wind if Rain Snow Hail and Lightning and Meteors if thick Fog for Martial Fogs are more Gross and Dense than some others if Iris and Halo be fruits of ♂ his configuration Then here we see them Rain with Flouds and Lightning with Blite Heat with a Sickly time now all is out we cannot eat our Words Then ♂ and ♀ in ☌ are not to be slighted For Flouds Blite and Sickness are hinted even in this Table more largely and more sensibly to be seen in the Following Diary which I have collected with some Diligence and presented to the Reader The Larger Foreign Table of ☌ ♂ ♀ of Stormy Winds and Rains in order to the asserting of the Aspect and the Platic Capacity Anno 1500. ♋ 23. May 29. Brasile 23. Storms suddain sunk four of Admiral Capralis Ship Purch 1. ☌ gr 11. soon after another Tempest Ib. gr 3. Anno 1520. ♈ 22. May 13. Barua in Aethiopia June Great Rain and Tempest being their Winter Purch 1. 1047. 15. Great Rain and Thunder at Night ☌ gr 15. Anno 1524. ♓ 18. Febr. 15. Lovain January yea and Febr. Stormy Gemma cosmocrit 1 192. Anno 1626. ♊ 13. May 23. Ormuz 11. 12. Storm lasting several days Purch 11. 1014. ♂ ♀ gr 11. ♂ ☿ gr 2. â™ 6. Sept. 22. Afric Octob. 15. Snow for 2 or 3 Days burying Men and Carriages Leo Afric apud Purch ☌ ♂ ♀ gr 10. Anno 1549. ♎ 9. Sept. 10. China 15. Prodigious Tuffon Purch III. 197. Anno 1551. â™ 27. Aug. 3. July 24. Barasque or Whirlwind Purch 1. 876. gr 4. Anno 1556. ♓ 25. Feb. 19. 17. 18. Tornado Foul W. day and night Towerson's Voyage Haâ—l gr 1. 20. Fowl Weather great change of Winds gr 1. 27. Great Tornado with much Rain gr 4 March 1. Tornado Towerson R. 11. gr 8. S. Domingo Hither add Jan 24. Storm lasting 11 days with great Mist dispersed 8 Ships Tomson's Voyage Hakl Edit 1. 582. ♂ ♀ a gr 13. ad gr 8. Anno 1558. ♓ 13. Jan. 12. Dover 9. Tempest Hollinshed gr 1. 21. Foul Weather Hakl Edit 1. 12 gr 9. Iterum ♊ 7. May 8. Caspian Sea 13. Dangerous Tempest for 44 Hours gr 6. Tertio ♑ 9. Sept. 29. Octob. 5. Weather very foul Towersons Voyage Third Hakl gr 3. English Coast 16. Great Storms at Night we lost Foresail continued 3 days ♂ ♀ gr 9. Anno 1562. ♌ 11. July 9. Caspian Sea 22. Stiff Gale forced us to Anchor Jenkinson's Voyage Hakl ☌ ♂ ☿ gr 7. ☌ ♀ ☿ Anno 1570. â™ 11. Octob. 15. 5. Terrible Wind and Rain with great Shipwrack c. Stow gr 5. Anno 1573. ♋ 1. Jun. 20. Tocester 7. Tempests and Hailstones 6 Inches about Rain c. Howes ♂ gr 7. Anno 1577. ♌ 8. July 10. N. L. 61. Inter July 8. 16. Cold Storms Steerage broke Masts blown overboard Frobishers 2 Voyage v. Hakl gr 2. Friezland 17. 18. Cruel Tempest at Night in the frozen Sea Hakl gr 8. Anno 1579. ♎ 29. Octob. 24. ☿ circ â™ 2. Die 29. West-Indies Nov. princip Rough Weather Acosta Lib. 3. gr 5. Anno 1583. ♈ 1 Febr. 21. Rain and Thunder Welshes Voyage Hakl Anno 1590. ♓ 17. Jan. 14. A Jan. ad March 15. No fair Weather but Stormy Purch 11. 1674. Febr. gr 10. 12. Two great Storms in Jan. die 5. ibid. gr 8. Iterum â™ 14. Octob. princip Oct. 1. Storms Hakluit gr 10. In September Month saith Stow in his Summary Thunder and Snows Anno 1592. â™ o. Aug. 21 London Sept. 6. Boisterous Wind driving out the Water of the Thames Howes ♂ ♀ gr 9. Anno 1594. ♌ 16. July 12. North Sea 10. Storm out of the West Purch III. 475. gr o. London Rain continually through June and July every Night Howes July 26. 27. Rain extreme Ibid. gr 10. Anno 1596. ♌ 7. June 7. May 12. Storm in which was lost our Barks company Sir W. Raleigh Hakl Edit 2. gr 12. S. Domingo May 13. Unwholsome Rain Purch IV. 1167. gr 11. Cadiz June 20. Storm Earl of Essex his Expedition Hakl Purch gr 8. Iterum ♎ 12. Sept. 17. N. L. 32. North Sea Sept. 8. Most terrible Storm at Even Purch II. 1175. Waves as high as the Top-mast gr 8. Sept. 27. Blows hard and freezes hard gr 15. Anno 1599. ♑ 17. Jan. 8. Wind hindred we could not double the Cape of Bonsperanz Purch I. 118. Anno 1602. â™ 15. Octob. 17. Streights of Malaca Octob. 17. S. N. Grand Spouts powring out of the Heaven Hakl gr 17. Cauchin South Lat. Inter Octob. 3. 31. Tempest Purch I. 913. Nov. 4. No end of Storms Rain Hail gr 6. Anno 1605. ♋ 5. June 23. Die 19. Wind at Bedtide force us a shore gr 1. Jun. 11. Snow Hail Sea High by reason of a mighty Current Purch p. 816. gr 6. Anno 1609. ♌ 2. June 26. N. Lat. 48. 8. Stormy variable with Wind and Rain gr 11. 14. 15. Stormy spent our Foremast overboard Hudsons Voyage 3. ♂ ♀ gr 8. Iterum â™ 15. Dec. 3. Nov. 29. Hard gale of Wind proved stormy c. Purch I. 104. gr 2. Dec. 3. In Bohemia Pluit In Voitlandia Ninxit Die 4.
sometimes are at a Platique distance and thereupon seem to have less Interest seeing we know not but nay it begins to appear now I imagine that a 10 12. gr distance or thereabouts are requisite to a more potent Influence than on the Partile Howbeit let it be divided amongst them and let the Platique be Equal in great Motions at least of Air and Earth Here I should say something to the paleness of the Solar Body those Changes which are counted prodigious and prove the Heavens Subject to Generation and Corruption but we are only upon a hot Sent of this Arcanum it may be we shall come to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Have we not said something before also § 39. A Word or two about Currents as before in the preceding Aspects some Experience we have met with in this Quarter and are willing to present the Reader Anno 1605. June 1. Mighty Current violently brought us among the Mountains of Ice Hall's Voyage Purch p. 816. June 11. Fresh gale made the Seas high by reason of a Mighty Current which sets through the Straits Ib. ☌ ♂ with ☉ ♀ c. Anno 1609. June 3. Currents held us strong out of S W. North Lat. 58. Hudsons 3d Voyage to Nova Zembla Purch 582. gr 12. June 11 Current from the Northward deceived us 10 Leagues of our account N. Lat. 51. gr 10. cum ☌ ☉ ☿ Anno 1611. Oct. 10 11 12. a Current Downton's Voyage neer Zacotora cum ☉ ♂ gr 8. Purch p. 278. Oct. 22. Current Westward Ib. gr 2. Nov. 1. Afternoon we met with a Current C. Guarda de Fuy gr 3. cum ☉ ☿ 5. Current put us short 60 Leagues Purch 280. gr 5. cum ☉ ♀ and ☿ An. 1662. Dec. 29. Great Current to the Southward C. Limbery's Diary N. Lat ' 36. gr 7. cum ☉ ♂ Anno 1663. Jan. 9. Hindrance by a Current N. Lat ' 28. gr ' 1. cum ♂ ☉ die 14. Hindrance by a Current N. Lat ' 21. Id. ☉ being near the Zenith 18. Hindrance by a Current gr 3. cum ♂ ☿ Anno 1665. July 18 19. Help of a Strong Current Lat ' S. 22. near the Tropique gr 1. ♀ Stationary Aug ' 11. Great Current to the Southward Lat ' 37. Southward 12. 13 15 Currents 17. A Current deceived us by 73 Miles Lat ' 37. Southward 23. A Current deceived us 109. Miles since Aug. 18. ♂ ♀ gr 2. 24. A Current 25. Current of 18 Miles 26. Current of 34 Miles 27. Current set West by North South Lat ' 34. Sept. 1 2 3 4 5 Currents These are Currrents with a Witness § 40. Mr. Fournier in a particular Chapter concerning those Currents enquiring into the Cause tells us it is a very hard thing to assign it And as others before him refers it to the ☽ This we get by discarding Astrolology and the Influence of the other V. and yet stand dayly in need of them I do not commend these Disputants who when they could not find out an Aetherial Cause for some wondrous Effects in our visible Heaven refer'd them to the Empyreum But I confess I wonder that the Learned thought it bootless to overlook the Visible part of Heaven the Planets and their Configurations Men shall never give an account of these Great Questions if they deny our Influences no more than they can of the Magnet denying it efflux the Question is so gravelling And I hope Copernican's will not undertake it suposing the Motion of the Earth could give account of the Flux and Reflux Which Mr. Fournier hath shewn is not done yet by Galileo There is no medling wtth the Solution of this Phaenomenon by such a Principle The Currents are not Uniform nor perpetual as I am informed by my knowing Friends and I am glad on 't Glad of any occasion to make men enquire into a True though disgraced Principle The Motion of a Trough cannot make the Water boyl and swell in the Free Ocean The ☽ answers to all the variety of the Tide and the Planets to all the Variety of the Current How comes there a great Current Dec. 21. 1662. I will point you First to ♂ ♀ but 7 gr distance to ☉ and ♂ but 1 gr distant I will point to ☽ entring upon its Change her meeting with the Sun yea and ♂ also The ☽ will be allowed us especially if a New ☽ But why then a Strong Current Aug. 23. 1665. Will a Square of ☽ do it alone No ☌ ♂ ♀ within 2 degrees We have noted the Causes in the Diary all along ☉ ♂ ♀ ☿ ☉ in the Zenith ♀ Stationary § 41. And Let me note here some Diversity of the Platique and Partile Aspect here it may be the Later conduces most forcible to this Effect when as the former may contribute to the Change of the Air I mean those which are accompanyed with Turbulency because such State of Air is more universal and unconfin'd then a Current seems to be The one is ty'd to a certain Elevation the other may reach from one Pole unto the other But I define nothing § 42. We are to treat next of Flouds whose Praediction if it may be reached is a matter of moment to the Publique He that makes inquest into the Cause may consider that they do not all arise on the same Spring some are Subitaneous the Product of 24 Hours or a less matter others rise by degrees and Steal upon the Land they invade by additional Portions And some I may call mixed such whose appearance is sudden and yet were gradual in their production I mean those which upon a sudden Thaw of much Snow successively fallen on the Days precedent render a large quantity at once in Water In this case the Enquirer is not to consider the precise day of the Overflow but to look back some Weeks more or less that he may if he can determine or at least take in the Time in which it fell Beside that some Flouds are caused they say in maritime Countryes by the Swelling of the Sea and by tempestuous Winds driving the rarified Brine over its Banks Such were those of Oct. 14. 1579. c. Surely in that of 1608. there are no gluts of Rain mentioned by Cambden And our Wonder may be confirmed when as we shall meet with Flouds which are said to have happened without any apparent Cause as if Overflows were to be distinguished some whereof had some again had no Cause apparent But the distinction must on no hand pass for having made some Diligent search into all that I could raed of 100. in number I found that they all admirably agree with the same Celestial Cause with very little variety of the Species from whence I am ascertain'd there is seldom an apparent Floud without an apparent Rain somewhere though not a drop falls perhaps in our Division for who knows not there are Topical Rains as well as Winds which will descend Secundo Flumine and betray the Injury
Foggy clear above fr. S W. m. N W. p. m. 22. Wd rain 6 m. wet p. m. 8 p. Sly Ely 23. Mist fair above S. S E. A o 1653. Decemb. 17. ♒ 17. 15. Foggy moist and warm N E. 16. Wds a. l. clear s wd R. at n. S. 17. Rain a. l. Sun shine fr. n. great Halo circa Sun S. 18. Fair fr. some gusts clear N E. A o 1664. Dec. 8. ♑ 22. 7. Mist rain a. l. 4 m. wet a. m. p. m. Sly 8. Much wet 4 m. Dog 〈◊〉 8 p. rise S W. 9. Close wet m. rain hard 8 p. and store as hath not been known A o 1675. Dec. 4. ♠28. 3. Fog fair wet close m. p. S W. 4. Dark mist close wind S. S W. 5. Fog dry clear n. fr. Wly A o 1677. Dec. 23. ♒ 27. 22. Fr. fog cloudy yielding p. m. mild S E. 23. Cloudy wind p. m. some rain S E. Ely 24. Wet a. l. close foggy drisle s rain p. m. Wly 25. Cloudy fog a. l. cool dry fr. h. n. Ely January vacat A o 1653. Feb. 15. ♒ 4. 14. Cloudy some wind warm and dry E. 15. Cloudy some wind Summer weather W. 16. Clouds s wd Sun app fair and warm N W. 17. A blast of wind Sun occ N. A o 1664. Feb. 3. ♑ 8. 2. Brisk wind close m. p. warm 3. Close m. p. h. wind some wetting Sun shine S W. 4. Fair windy cloudy o. coasting hail 2 p. s drops 7 p. S W. 5. Cloudy windy p. m. s Rain S W. A o 1666. Feb. 28. ♓ 8. 27. Close mist offer a. m. storm of hail 4 p. N E. 28. Bitter frost m. snow lies some offer m. clds at for Hail offering m. N E. 1 March Mist m. close wind clear n. no frost A o 1677. Feb. 12. ♒ 13. 20. Rain 4 m. rain hard 5 p. Wly 21. Much wet 7 m. ad 9. rain 8 p. Wly 22. Rain p. m. tot warm Wly S E. A o 1655. March 6. ♈ 3. 5. Clouds ride N E. wind s drisling 9 m. S W. 6. Rain 4 m. very still showrs unconstant 7. Showrs of hail rain 2 m. cold fr. H. wind some fits of rain m. S W. 8. s rain Sun or a sad soking R. S W. A o 1657. March 30. ♊ 5. 29. Winds cold and cloudy s moist m. N E. 30. Close some wind a. l. cold lowring clear n. H. wind S E. 31. Wind a. l. close very cold mistyish m. white flying clouds from W. A o 1668. March 20. ♉ 9. 17. Close cold windy fair p. m. ♃ ♀ make a fine show 18. Br. cool wd rise 10 p. not so brisk S E. 19. Brisk wind audible n. Ely Nly 20. Fr. for the last fortnight in London Fair dry ☽ under Lanx B. A o 1679. March 12. ♈ 13. 11. Fine springing showr ante 1 p. 12. Some fog rain ad 7. noct S E. 13. Some rain m. some fog cold frost Ely A o 1681. Apr. 6. ♊ 13. 4. Cloudy misling 1 p. ♃ ☿ made a fine show Ely 5. Bright fair brisk wind Ely 6. Fair some wind warm Ely 7. Misty air clear above and calm W. 8. Fair hot high wind S W. 9. Fair m. mist windy clouding a. m. gentle rain 3 p. § 13 This you see is our English Diary and do we not meet with Lightning one day Rain hard the next A o 1656. Rain all the Forenoon May 17. and Thunder 18. 1667. Aug. 30. 1659. and the next day Wind and Storms of Rain Aug. 31. Flashes of Lightning Sept. 1. Dashes of Wet Sept. 2. Fax Volans Aug. 25. Lightning Aug. 27. 1670. Lightning Sept. 9. Smart Showr Sept. 10. High Wind June 13. 1658. June 9. 1669. Sept. 7. 1672. Soultry Air June 22. 1671. Aug. 28. 1670 To say nothing of troubled Air which argues a Ponderous Influence 'T is a great Stone which upon injection mudds the Water I need not pray you to observe the Lightning ♃ and ♀ we have said carry it in their Faces § 14. The Hyemal rains hard Nov. 24. 62. and Nov. 22. A o 1673. Rainy at Night and Wet Morn Dec. 16 17 A o 1653. Then Dec. 7 8 9. Rain in such store as hath not been known A o 1664. Wet anto luc Dec. 24. A o 1677. Summer Weather in the midst of Febr. A o 1653. Warm in the beginning of Febr. 1664. with High Wind for Two days after Hail Febr. 4. 1664. and Febr. 27 28. A o 1666. which Hail in ♂ 's Theory we produce as a Mark of Violence c. Rain hard much wet Rain the whole Afternoon Febr. 20 21 22 A o 1677. At the same tone in March A o 1655. Rain Hail unquiet Weather a sad soking Showr 6 7 8. Fine Showr March 11. A o 1679. High Wind and Heat Apr. 8. 1681. Days in the Hyemal Part 54. Rain 26. Brisk Influence or Violence 15. Frost 11. In the Aestival Part Days 46. Rain 27. Violence 15. Frost 4. § 15. The Account you have received the Aspects are but short howbeit they run the Zodiaque once round and That brevity will be pardoned in me who conceal nothing for fear of being discover'd You may see by the Sum § 13. that according to our Method the Aspect conduces I had almost said as much to Moisture as Serenity § 16. How comes it to pass then that ♃ ♀ have been voic'd for Fair Weather Is it because of the difference of the Climate Is it because Serenity as I said is more taken notice of One Fair Day making amends for Two Foul Days or is it because at the close of the Fair Day ♃ ♀ appear in the Western Angle and make a fine Spectacle so ampliating the Serene Day preceding by an Illustrious Close ♃ and ♀ making the most notable Congress in the Heavens the Fair Couple of the Celestial Court or Is it because in the Hour of Serenity These Two Stars add to the Glory of the Serene Day beside what the Usurping Sun challenges to himself though the Truth is 'T is we ascribe All to the Sun which the Sun challengeth not § 17. For shame will some say Doth not ☌ ♃ ♀ make Fair Weather I have answered and I cannot recall it In such Circumstances of Non-assistance Vacancy of a mediate Sign or co-arctation of Place So ♃ ♀ are white Boys and bring you such Lovely Weather as makes Life it self the sweeter § 18. Now try the Truth of what is now observed August the 30. and 31. A o 1660. the first pleasant days in the Aestival Table See before your Eyes no Hiatus but straitness of place ♠17. ☉ 22. ♃ 23. ♀ ♎ 6. ♂ 9. ☿ ♠8. ♄ 11. ☽ Not only ♃ ♀ together but ☉ is crouding with them in ♠nor only that but ♂ and ☿ nusling together in ♎ Again shall May 19. 1667. go for a Fair day Then you have not ♃ ♀ alone ☌ in ♈ but ♂ and ☉ in ☌ in ♊ I say nothing of
Comet which lasted but 28. days may seem to expire at the Expiration of ☉ and ♄ which according to our Principle lasted to the end of the Month. § 30. Now for the year of Grace 1572. and that great Star in Cassiopeia's Chair the Wonder of the World then while the Poets of the Age Beza and others noted it for a Second to that Sacred Star which shone out to the Eastern Magi and it still shines in Records illustrated by the Noble Tycho and discoursed of by all the Learned since who love the Beauteous Theory of the Heaven over us 'T is this Star claims to know his Kindred Family and Original for we are far from believing it a Star of the first Creation but of the same Descent and Linage as other new Lights whether it have a Train or no Though who knows as some ingenious Men have quaeried whether it may not have some Train upward into the Aether opposite to the right Line which passes its Center We know other Learned Cometographers do not reckon them amongst Comets Ricciolus Hevelius because they wander not but keep their Station like one of the Eternal Fixed But if the Comets and New Stars have the same spreading Train the difference of Fixat on will be but accidental Now That it was of the same Production I shall not infer from those Attendants that usually accompany Comets whether they be Droughts c. or distemper'd Airs from Gemma's Cosmocriticks and others referring that to another place but from the consent of the Learned followed and confirmed by Hevelius and from the Particular Evidence which I now introduce while I advance ♃ and ♀ their ☠noted about the 14. of Nov. in the Ephemeris but it began Enquirers say at the entrance of Nov. or the end of Octob. So have we a Platique Aspect of 10 degr distance which is no small advantage and withal ♀ Stationary For so I call it when it is Three or Four days in One degree whether it be upon the Reflex or Direct Course And was not ♀ in the same Circumstance as ☿ also when time serves in other Comets under this Aspect § 31. The second Instrance shall be concerning the conservation of Comets by this and other Aspects hinted already as in that we read of A o 1511. It began in the end of May there 's ☉ ♂ and ♀ III. in ♊ to kindle it after the middle of June peeps in the ☠of ♃ ♀ ♃ being in ♒ and after July 's beginning consonant to what we have already deliver'd ♀ and ☿ draw near to a Partile ☌ and so the Comet expires § 32. Let the next come for confirmation A o 1527. seeing it lasted but an Hour and a quarter it will not be much Trouble Yea but it was of no duration the answer is the Opposition was Partile Partile ☠or ☌ alone will not do they have no Life in them § 33. And what need we say after A o 1572. but that a few being behind we must speak to them All. Truly 1618. is as Famous almost as 1572. Here in Aug. 15. ad Sept. 15. we find a Comet which lasted about a Month. It began upon a near meeting of ☉ ☿ while ♃ exactly I may say opposed both but Exact and Partile Aspects will not do say we without more Lax and Winder-spread Radiations to supply the Light or Flame of the Meteor and These Lo agreable to the Observations just now made for ♀ is opposed by ♃ ad grad 28. Distance which is the measure of a Sign the Distance of a Providore who looks abroad into the Country for the supply of his Charge seeing the Country forage neer home will not maintain a Comet § 34. The Sum for our Earthquakes we have in the precedent Table in these years viz. 1508. 1539. at Basil 1556. Constantinople which held Three days and threw down the Church of Sancta Sophia A o 1569. at Bruxel with hoarse noise strange Colours in the Air some said Spectres 1580. in London where it continued but one Minute On the Sea Coasts in Kent extreme felt 3 times hora 6 8 9. A o 1586. West-Indies again 1596. Westram in Kent 1601. 1609. at Nera once and again A o 1621. Burgundy 1626. in Calabria 1629. Among the Alps. 1636. at Norimberg 1638. in Calabria once or twice 1639. in some other part of Italy 1646. in Apulia 1650. Northampton 1679. at Piedmont 1680. Vesuvius Flames 1681. in Zealand about XXI in the Total And is not That a great Total § 35. Hence am I as sure as I write that this Phaenomenon as great and Stupendious as it is depends upon this Celestial appearance ♀ or ☿ with ♃ Those who believe that Comets have Influence upon Earthquakes which is an opinion hovering about and bordering upon Truth may think I believe no Improbabilities since our Bright Planets ♃ and ♀ do not much ablude from some kind of Comets Yet why should I trifle Is it not plain that for severalyears our Planets are both in the same Sign what have we but a ☌ of ♃ and ☿ A o 1609. 1679. 1645. 1680. In like manner a ☌ of ♃ and ☿ A o 1530. 1639. 1681. within the same Sign I say or within so many degrees which is all one and this with great Variety some at a distance of 28. suppose some 24. some 16. some at 8. some at 2. and I hope that will please our Partile Customer § 36. But the ☠out-goes the ☌ and there 's reason for it witness A o 1569. 1580. 1636. 1638. which is also visible in the Complications for whereas there are but Three on the Conjunctional side viz. A o 1539. 1621. 1650. the Oppositions are more A o 1508. 1556. 1580. 6591. 1626. 1628. 1629. For if ♃ and ♀ or ☿ have their Effect it stands to reason as we have said that ♃ ♀ and ☿ have something more So these Earthquakes may be reduced to their Classis as well as the Storms and the Lightnings § 37. Here I must note again pursuant to what hath been said already in the like Notion that in the ☠the wider is the distance so it be within compass the greater is the Disposition of Firing the Subterranean Train in the Earthquake as before the Aetherial Train of the Comet Therefore as it may be confess'd an Earthquake should be produced at 5 degrees or 8 distance so 't is more than possible it should be produced at 14. gr distance as in the second Instance of A o 1580. or at 20 gr dist as in the Kentish Earthquake A o 1596. And somewhat yet further as the Enquirer into particulars will observe § 38. We cannot define for certain which Sign of Heaven or Months in the year are most apt to produce Earthquakes Our Information from our Fore-fathers being defective even as Ricciolus justly complains about Comets part 2. pag. 23 24. but this we say that ♉ and ♠are sometimes remarkable as may be seen
♋ 1464 1463 ♓ 1504 1505 1506 ♋ 1524 1521 1522 1523 ♓ 1526 1544 1541 1542 ♠1543 Eod. Anno ♋ 1564 1568 1583 1582 ♓ 1585 1603 1600 Eod. anno ♠1623 1625 ♌ fin 1643 1647 1661 1663 1664 ♠1665 1680 1683 1682 ♌ Which Table proves more fortunately favouring our Principles then could be expected for seldom do we find the Comet or New Star appear on the precise year as it happened A o 1603. but a year or two before or after where ♄ and ♃ are half a Sign distant yea and sometimes more as we have said and could prove even from the Table but even Good way is tedious if the Miles be long And note I pray how justly we stated the Question with the dis-junctive Consequent or Concomitant For the years Precedent are too often found furnished with a Blaze of a Meteor as well as the Consequent that we may safely aver there is foundation in Nature for such appearance so circumstantiated And don't let pass those years which repeat their Effects in the same kind teeming as it were 3 years together sometimes and lying Fallow at other times The ☌ A o 1306. is own'd by the years 1304. 1305. 1307. The ☌ 1524. is alike owned by the bright Issues of 1522. 1523. 1526. Just as in our own time the ☌ 1663. is own'd by 1661. 1664. 1665. Hence we see what the Arabians must mean They could not intend their prediction from the precise year since we find no such Instance from the time that they flourish'd For after Ptolemies Quadripartite was by the command of the Saracen King turn'd into Arabick then we hear of Messahala and Albategnius A o 889. and Alfraganus A o 950. Haly A o 956. Alphard 980. Haly Aben Rodoan 1024. Alkindus 1100. Alpetrag 1149. Albumazar 1166. whose years I have set down that we may see what were those very Comets observed by the Arabians every man in his day upon which they founded their I think I may call it Excellent Rule so that I wondred that the Learned Ricciolus should tell us but of one Instance who gives us a Catalogue of all Comets and a Chronological Table of Astrologers by comparison of which his own Works he might have inform'd himself better But great Men who sail with the Stream have no appetite to any thing that is hight Astrology though in it self never so Noble though it give account of such Arcana they confess they despair to find out § 45. His next Argument proceeds not so much against the Thesis that the Great Conjunctions are productive of New Stars as against the pretended method of Predictions the time or place of the appearance by the Observation of the degree of the Zodiac and the precise Day But the precise day is not yet agreed on some approaching sooner some later as in ☌ 1603. there was observed among the Mathematicians near a fortnights difference All this we know to be true and the vanity of the Arabs was to talk of Degrees and Minutes forsooth in cases where there is no necessity as we see it usual with them in Prognosticks of Rain when they would be thought not to say nothing They propose Methods Nice and Scrupulous which it may be they scarce believe themselves I am sure can never be made out But what is this to the Thesis The Conjunction may be a Cause of an effect though we know not when that Cause will be produced to act Not that I deny that Comets may be predicted to a Month yea a Day why not as well as an Earthquake But then 't is by Christian not Arabick Method by considering the Rest how they fall in with the Grandees Aspected contributing each One their share to the common Product § 56. The third thing An Aspect of ♄ and ♃ cannot produce a New Star because the Aspect is only comparative and in relation to us upon Earth It is not absolute in its self nor in Relation to the Fixed Stars for in such relation ♄ and ♃ are always in ☌ seeming in a right Line drawn through their Centres wheresoever they are will terminate on some part of the Firmament and so there must be Comets everlasting Answer this Argument proves that no Aspect in the Heavens can produce either Wind or Clouds or Showrs of Rain no nor the very New ☽ for the Conjunction of of ☉ and ☽ is an Aspect only in reference to us not in its self nor in respect of the Fixed Why is it not in its self Is there no Specialty upon a perpendicular Ray terminated on the Earth and thereby redoubled Is there no difference of the Angle of Incidence though it make Summer and Winter A Line drawn through two Planets place them where you will terminates on the Firmament for one extreme but shall it terminate on the Earth for the other But the Argument strikes at the Doctrine of Aspects in general which stand as sure as Philosophy and Geometry can make them An Aspect is somewhat in comparison to us 'T is nothing in its self saith he A meer Fallacy For though for Examples sake a Solar Eclipse be nothing in its self since all its deficiency is quoad nos and so the distinction may be allowed Yet the membra dividentia may sometimes tumble in One Belly Some things there are that challenge both the New ☽ is dark quoad nos the Full ☽ is Lucid in se quoad nos also For what doth This make of Us or the Earthly Globe I speak not to the Learned Opponent but to the Argument which is a Copernican Subtilty to say the best Was not the Universe Celestial made for Us I know how indifferent the Coprnicans are but I ask my self was not Heaven and All that is therein made for Mans benefit The Zodiack I hope was I speak according to their own Sentiments How came the Lumpish Earth to describe it so exactly Was it not for the benefit of its Inhabitants Planets placed where you will have Influence but not Influence of Aspects The One is General the Other Special by the General they illustrate and Cherish by the Special they moderate the Seasons of the year and qualifie the Days presenting Ordinary and Extraordinary Meteors according to the Law of the first Mover § 47. The last and best Argument speaks thus ♃ and ♄ cannot be the Progenitors of that Star which is bigger then themselves but the New Star 1603. was bigger than ♃ by much the Minor is confirmed from the great distance of the place from whence it shone even the Firmament far above ♃ and ♄ But the apparent Magnitude seeming to equal ♃ it is known it must be in it self much bigger I answer the Argument smells well of Learning and Reason and deserves a fair assent or a fair Solution and this we take to be such while we give two Reasons First that ♄ and ♃ are intended not for the sole Progenitors of the Star but only the more
Vacation Frost or Fog as in January and November 1664. But see these Planets are not distributed they are too near one another whether Three or more to shew any remarkable Influence as we have said 'T was a great mistake therefore of Poor Stoefler to alarum all the Country with fears of a Deluge when time was to make the Country build or procure boats for their safeguard or fly to the remote and higher places in Febr. 1524. because all the Planets forsooth met in the Watry Sign ♓ as they are apt enough to do if the Superiours wait for them there for what was the Issue to the Infamy of Astrology through ignorance and ill management the whole Month proved Fair and Screne as in such case according to our Principles 't is very apt to do On the other side when Distributed what do they not Shake the Earth Burn it Drown it raise Mountains out of the Sea for new Islands must be such bring Lakes out of Mountains abolish Cities exterminate Inhabitants burying them alive in Earthquakes and washing them away in Flouds Concerning which take one Paragraph in Purchas when he comes to speak of Guatimala a fertile Province and City of the same Name in the West Indies He tells us that the City was once Situate at the Foot of a Vulcan but was removed Two Miles thence because in the Year 1542. one of our years on December 26. A Lake hidden in the Bowels of that Hill forth in many places with such Violence that it ruined most part of the City But mark ye All is well for a matter of 40 years so one ☌ is harmless yet in the year 1581. which is a Borderer as we call it there issued from another Vulcan two miles off such an Eruption of Fire as threatned to consume all before it and such a Showr of Ashes as both filled the Vallies and almost buried the City Now the next year 1582. a year claimed by our Aspect there issued for 24 hours such a Stream of Fire that burned the Stones and Rocks drank up 5 Streams of Water He adds this remarkable Note that before that first Eruption of Waters some Indians came and told the Bishop that they had heard an incredible Noise at the Foot of the Hill The Christian Bishop reproved them that they should not trouble themselves with vain yea Superstitious Fears But about the Hour Two in the Morning that Deluge appeared which carried away many Houses and whatever stood in the way wherein 520 Spaniards perished Purch Vol. V. Cap. 14. § 2. So that sometimes we see good meaning may censure us unjustly of Superstition but the design of these Papers is to give more light to us that have seen 1682. then those Good Men who lived in 1582. Now at none of these Terrors I wis whensoever our Superiours then were can we find the rest to be placed in the same Sign neither Watry nor Fieri but distributed at their several Posts as if they were sent out upon duty to execute their orders for in all such great Products Nature uses her Mechanicks her Distances her Lines her Angles of unequal Measures and Proportions All the Planets lye not in one Concentrick Orb as neither do the Fixed Wherefore by the Rule of the Vectis the higher Planet Caeteris Paribus must have the greater Force I see some Emblem of this in my hand the strength of that Organ lies in the unequal measure of the Fingers of which the Little Finger is the weakest and the Longest is the lustiest 6. After all this the Prowess of our Two Superiours I fear wont be discerned so convincingly by distracted Instances hitherto presented in their respective Tables as by one continued Prospect in their more united order and succession whereby we may see how they exert their heavy Influences according to the Series of time Wherefore we may further think fit to present you an example of Two or Three for the Most part from our own English Annals wherein we are more neerly concerned that by comparing our last ☌ ♄ ♃ in ♌ with that of 1582. where the said Planets are in opposite Signs to the former or else with that of 1563. where they are about the same Signs which we tell you is ♌ we may see them coguation § 7. A o 1562. Pestilence at Newhaven when an English Garrison where they were scarce able to bury their Dead A o 1563. Pestilence in London of which dyed 23600. Jul. 8. Lightning destroy'd one Woman here I am punctual because we are at Home and it concerns us to understand where we live while in Essex a man Stow saith was torn in pieces Stones and Trees rent in many places Earthquake in divers places Lincoln Nottingham c. Dec. 1. ad 12. Continual Lightning and Thunder specially day 12. at n. This Month at Grimesby in Lincolnshire was driven ashore a Fish in Length 19 yards his Tayl 15 Foot broad 6 yards between his Eyes c. A o 1564. Great Floud from the River Thames many Cattle perished Octob. 7. The North parts of the H. seemed to be covered with Flames proceeding toward the middle of the Firmament and after an hour it descended West and All the Night being the next after the Change seemed as Light as if it had been day Dec. 21. Frost Thames passable from the Bridge to Westminster heretofore remembred in our Kalendars till That of 1683. drown'd it and its mention A o 1565. Jan. 3. It thaw'd and on the fifth day no Ice to be seen which caused great Flouds many Travellers drowned July 16. Thunder Lightning and Hail from ho. 9. p. ad ho. 3. mat which destroyed the Corn until'd Houses beat down Church Battlements at Chelmesford Leeds Cranbrock Dover c. Dec. 24. Tempest of Wind so raging that the Seas yea the Thames overwhelmed many Persons and blew open the Gates of the West end of St. Pauls Cathedral The Terms of our Aspect if they be out 't is no prejudice to omit it 't is a Borderer at least This for the ☌ Let us approach now to the years which are adjacent to the ☠§ 8. A o 1570. is but a bordering year Nor doth Stow mention any thing but which is too much if it had so pleased God a General Pestilence there was throughout Europe at Venice above 60000 deceased Oct. 5. Terrible Tempest of Wind and Rain much Shipwrack many Houses and Villages overflowed many Women and Children lost A o 1571. Feb. 7. Earthquake at Kinaston in Herefordshire for 4 days certain Rocks with a piece of Ground removed carrying great Trees and Sheep-cotes It overthrew Kingstone Chappel the Ground in all was 26 Acres At first it made a Terrible Noise A new Hill of 20 Fathom high Which Circumstances I relate the rather that we may see how our Country is obnoxious as well as others A o 1572. Nov. 18. Star in Cassiopeia for the space almost of 16 Months Great Frost and sharp
Winter from before the Feast of All Saints till after Twelftide with great and deep Snows and sometimes Rains a Late Spring the Wind continuing N. and E. till after the Ascension with sharp Frost and Snows June 7. Hail and Rain at Tocester in Northamptonshire whence Flouds whereby 6 Houses were born down c. many Sheep drown'd lying in the High Hedges where the Water-Flouds left them the Hail square and six Inches about About Lammas Dearth at London A o 1574. July 9. At the Isle of Thanet A Whale shot himself on Shore ho. 6 p. Length 22 yards Any Man might have crept into his Mouth Sept. 4. Storm of Rain c. Nov. 6. Two great Tides in the Thames the First by Course the other overflowed the Marshes Nov. 14. About midnight following strange Impressions of Fire and Smoak out of a black Cloud in the North noct seq that in all parts it seemed to burn with marvelous rage the Flames did double and roll one on another as in a Furnace the Flames rose from the Horizon round about and met over head Nov. 18. Stormy and Tempestuous out of the South specially after midnight till next morning I have not known the like from any Quarter says our Annalist A o 1575. Feb. 14. Cold and Hard Frost after a Floud which was not great Great numbers of Flies and Beetles came down the River of Avon at Tewksbury a Foot thick above the Water Feb. 26. Between ho. 4. 6 p. m. Great Earthquake in York Worster Gloucester Bristol Hereford July 30. Great Tempest of Lightning and Thunder wherewith in divers places Men and Beasts were stricken Dead Great Hail also 6 or 7 Inches about Sept. 26. In the City of London A Woman deliver'd of four Female Children who followed all in Health and good liking their Deceased Mother who died a Month after which whether I had reason to transcribe will be seen toward the Close of our Papers I must observe that they were conceived if not born under the Aspect A o 1576. March 5. In the Night a great Flaw of Wind from the N. W. ruin'd a Tilt-Boat with 31 Persons one Boy excepted July 4 5 6. The Fatal Sessions at Oxford where so many Men were destroy'd by a Damp. We have referr'd it to ♄ ☿ and we abide by it as a parcel-Cause but we are willing to reduce it also among other notable Causes to our ☠for 't is certain 't is a Borderer ♄ ♂ are within Bounds and ♂ opposing ♃ delivers up ♄ also linked with it 'T is no little matter that kills 500 Persons by a Breath A o 1582. May 13. Comet hora 10 p. descending in the N W. the Beard streaming S W. Aug. 12. Lightning Thunder Whirlwind with hail fashioned like Spur rowls two or three Inches about in Norfolk beat the Corn flat to the Ground rent up many Trees and shiver'd them into pieces or writh'd them like Wit hs the Top of Henden Church was lifted up 5 Webs of Lead ruffled up together like so much Linen Cloth 1583. Jan. 13. Blackmore in Dorsetshire a piece of Ground of 3 Acres removed from its place 600 Foot Octob. 10. Caster in Norfolk a Fish by Force of the Easterly Wind driven ashore whose Tayl was 14 Foot in Breadth Summary of the Occurrents happened at or about the last ☌ ♄ ♃ 1682. and seqq from our own Collections § 10. 1611. April 1. Romae Septentrionem versus Cometa major Lucidiorque nupero qui Neapoli visus est Die 22. Ex inferiore tractu Albis Ruricolae queruntur ex anni siccitate grandem scarabeorum invalescere numerum qui delicatum arborum florem abradit Dioecesis Bremensis tristius conqueritur de inusitato Murium numero qui segetem radicitus abradunt Rela◠Colon. Num. 37. May 3. 13. Lately an Earthquake in Zealand and Meteor of an extraordinary bigness for 3 Nights in Amsterdam Horizon Die 5. This Night following a great and general Bliting Wind the Walnut-Trees felt it Middlesex Die 20. Hurricane lately at Barbado's Die 22. St. Johnston's Hail Rain Thunder and Lightning unusual circa 5 p. T. M. for a quarter of an Hour Benskins Intelligence Die 27. Drought not within memory Engl. Die 30. Near Lancaster Lightning and Hail as big as Walnuts for two Hours damaging the Corn. June 18. About a week ago Rained Wheat in Dean Forest Die 13. Oxford lately happened Lightning c. which fired a House Die 16. Dolphins sporting in the Mouth of Severn 17. Ferrara Thunder Hail Earthquake 20. Lime A Vessel put in which felt a Tempest of Thunder Rain and Lightning never the like 20. Lately at Lyons in France terrible Earthquake 29. Dorchester within two Miles a Globe of Fire falling among a Tuft of Trees burnt two or three to Ashes July 3. Sheerness Whale lately seen in the Mouth of the Thames 5. West-Chester a Man stroke Dead with Lightning 6. Chichester about 3 m. Trumpets sounding a Charge c. Thunder c. 16. Hamburg Plague broke out at Magdeburg 23. Friburg Thunders Armies Squadrons Battalions c. 25. Thunder bolt clove a Woman in 4 parts a Man had no hurt 26. Portugal Row near Hide Park Thunder 8 m. shook the House so till 11 m. T. M. in Lorrain 6 Stately Houses destroyed St. Colombs Church suffered by Lightn Aug. 9. Francofurti ad Viadrum Locustarum pestis 11. Lues epidemica Dresdae in reliqua Misniâ 16. Jersey Comet SW ante 5 m. with a Train of 3 yards 27. Whale in Flushing taken 30 Foot long Nevis in India occid Hurricane Two Bristol Ships lost 4 or 5 at Antigoa Sept. 6. Meteors seen in Moor Fields with a Stream 6 Inches broad 13. Vesuvius burns for four days T. M. in Naples two Shocks Gazet. Numb 96. 14. Lues Epidemica in Calabria 16. Pestilence continues at Hamburg 20. Great Storms of Hail then Swarms of Flies for 3 Hours pass'd Eastward with the Wind. Octob. 2. Hurricane at Jamaica 6. Comet lately appeared in ♒ 13. swift in motion 10. At Falmouth for some Days Very Stormy Weather so at Harwich 16. Plague in many parts of Spain seems not yet to be decreased 23. Star last n. with a large Train but the Clouds hindred 29. Dreadful Storm at Dover Rode 30. Portland Dismal accounts from several places of this Stormy Weather Nov. 2. Weymouth such a Floud from the continued Rains that the Ways are hardly passable 4. Near Lincoln Lucid Circle in the Air like a Rainbow reversed 6. Deal a Zeland Vessel cast away in Tempest 10. Westchester Monstrous Fish lately taken like a Crocodile Domest Intellig. 13. Plague not quite ceased at Magdeburg 29. Sickness lately broke out in Barbary 30. Violent Storms since day 26. at Hague ruin'd part of the Fortification at Narden Dec. 10. Hague Strong S W. Wind broke up the Banks and laid 2100 Acres under Water 8. Falmouth many Shipwracks Decemb. 15. Summer Weather and much Thunder p. m. 21. Gopenhagen Waters