forth among other his Mathematical Works Ephemerides which he entituled Tabulae Bergenses in honour of Robertus à Bergis Bishop of Liege He put forth likewise other Ephemerides from the year 1654. to the year 1606. with an Isagoge in Astronomiam Astrologiam He left Tabulas aequabilis apparentis Motus Coelestium Corporum as G. Vossius stiles them and Prognostica Stellarum fixarum cum Tabulis in the beginning whereof he hath prefixed the History of Astronomy NICHOLAUS SOPHIANUS CORCYRAEUS wrote in Greek of the Astrolabe and by Gesner is said to have flourished about this Time VICTORINUS STRIGELIUS of Kaufbeurn a Town in Suaben published at Wittemberg an Epitome of the Doctrine of the Primum Mobile illustrated with Demonstrations He was Scholar to Melancthon AUGERIUS FERRERIUS of Tholouse Doctor of Physick whom Scaliger the Father entirely loved and consulted in all his learned Designs writ as I find mentioned in Gesner Castigationes Practicae De Diebus Decretoriis secundum Pithagoricam Observationem JOHANNES MERCURIUS MORSHEIMERUS put forth at Heidelberg a Dissertation of the Name of Astronomy it 's Division and Causes to which he adjoyned a Table of the Species of â—…ontinued Quantity serving only for the use of young Beginners He professes himself to have been Scholar to Melancthon JOACHIMUS HELLERUS corrected and published several Astrological Authors before which he prefixed Prefaces of his own at Norimberg ANDREAS GERARDUS HYPERIUS Professor of Divinity in the University of Marpurg writ besides other various Tractates Geometrica Optica Cosmographica quaedam as Simler affirms in Bibl. Gesner ERASMUS REYNOLDUS Native of Salfieldt a Town in Thuringe a Province in the Upper Saxony Son to Iohannes Reynoldus and Scholar to Iacobus Milichius was Professor of Mathematicks in the University at Wittemberg and wrote a most learned Commentary on Purbacchius's Theory of the Planets He composed likewise and dedicated to Albert Marquess of Brandeburg and Duke of Prussia Astronomical Tables according to the Hypothesis of Copernicus which he called Prutenick Tables in honour of the said Prince as also Tables of Directions He endeavoured likewise to illustrate and establish Chronology from the Eclipses of the Luminaries and the great Conjunctions of the Planets but his Death prevented the finishing of that Work He had also a Son called after his own Name an eminent Mathematician and Physician who wrote upon the new Star in Cassiopaea as Tycho Brahe testifies Progymnasm Tom. 1. ARIEL BICHARDUS put forth a Collection of Questions In Sphaeram Iohannis De Sacro Bosco which he dedicated to his Godfather Antonius Mullerus sayes Ricciolus in Part. 2. Chronic. Astronom JOHANNES ROIAS wrote and dedicated to the Emperour Charles the Fifth certain Commentaries upon the Astrolabe or Planisphere JOHANNES MARIA TOLOSAS of the Order of the Predicants wrote something of the Sun 's greatest Declination He published likewise a short Correction of the Roman Calendar touching the due celebration of Easter JOHANNES BAVARUS Medicus Mathematicus put forth Ephemerides beginning in the year 1551. and ending in the year 1560. This Bavarus is different from Iohannes Angelus Bavarus mentioned in the year 1494. GEORGIUS JOACHIMUS RHETICUS Disciple to Copernicus and Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Wittemberg where he interpreted and explained Alfraganus But hearing of the new Hypothesis of Copernicus he quitted his Professor's place and went to Copernicus whom he ceased not to exhort to perfect his Work De Revolutionibus which after his death he made publick illustrating his Hypothesis by a particular narration which he dedicated to Iohannes Schonerus published by Maestlinus and annexed to Kepler his Mysterium Cosmographicum in the year 1621. He likewise set forth Ephemerides according to the Doctrine of Copernicus until the year 1551. What other Astronomical or Astrological Works he had either perfected or designed will appear by his Epistle written to Petrus Ramus LUCAS GAURICUS a Neopolitan first Professor of Mathematicks at Ferrara afterwards Bishop of Civita Reale corrected the Alphonsine Tables as also those of Regiomontanus and Blanchinus and published Tables of his own of the Primum Mobile commonly called Tables of Directions and Laurentius Bonincontriu s his Book De Rebus Coelestibus and Zacutus his Tables together with Astrological Precepts and Problems He illustrated with Annotations Ptolemy's Almagest put forth a learned Dissertation touching the miraculous Defect of the Sun at the time of our Saviour's Passion and composed a new Ecclesiastical Calendar compiled out of the Sacred Scriptures and Ancient Synods which last was Printed at Venice 1552. at which time like wise he published at Venice a Book called Tractatus Astrologicus wherein are many Astrological Judgments on the Nativities of the most eminent Persons of his Time V. Simler Bibl. Gesner TOBIAS MARMORARIUS a Florentine and Monk of the Cistertian Order Vir Mathesios studiis egregiè excultus as Vossius sayes of him wrote yearly Prognosticks of the Seasons of the year and future Events ANTONIUS MYZALDUS writ Phaenomena sive Tempestatum Signa quatuor Aphorismorum Sectiunculis Methodicè concinnata Cometographia Aesculapii Uraniae Conjugium Planetologia Three Books of the Sphere illustrated with Figures and Demonstrations Zodiâ—…cus sive duodecim Signorum Coeli Hortulus Libris tribus concinnatus Planetarum Collegium and some other Tractates of like Argument as Simler in Bibl Gesner JACOBUS HOMELIUS is about this time reckoned by Ricciolus in the Catalogue of Astronomers but without any mention of his Works There was also one Iohannes Homelius who wrote concerning the New Star in Cassiopea and is mentioned by Ticho Brahe in Progymn Tom. 1. JOANNES STABIUS of Austria Poet Laureat Cosmographer and Historiographer to the Emperour Maximilian the First Professor of Mathematicks at Vienna wrote a Piece entituled Horoscopicum Universale and several other Works mentioned by his Scholar Georgius Collimitius in Gesner's Bibliotheca Tom. 1. PAULUS EBERUS KYTZINGENSIS put forth Calendarium Historicum in the Preface to which he treats De ejus Utilitate de Mensium apud diversas Gentes varietate See more of him in Gesner's Bibliotheca GASPAR PEUCERUS Son-in-Law to Philip Melancthon wrote of the Doctrine of the Celestial Circles and the Primum Mobile and De praecipuis Divinationum generibus and among them De Praedictionibus Astronomicis as it is affirmed by Vossius De Scient Mathemat He wrote also Hypotheses Astronomicas seu Theorias Planetarum ex Ptolemâ—…i aliorum Veterum Doctrinâ ad Observationes Copernici Canones Motuum ab eo conditos accommodatas Printed as Draudius affirms at Wittemberg 1572. JOHANNES SCHRAETERUS VINARIENSIS published at Vienna in Austria Astrological Tables designing to gain himself a repute by his predictions of whom see Gesner's Biblioth HIEREMIAS BROTHEIEL put forth various Prognosticks mentioned by Simler in Addit Bibl. Gesner ANDREAS PERLACHIUS of Stiria Doctor of
he were the same with the Author of this Poem have been as he reckons 120 years old when he began to write an ill Age to play the Poet in this Piece being written in the later years of Augustus his Reign But the Author in the Proem of this Work wishes for long life to compleat his intended Poem Wherefore sayes Scaliger certainly he was not then old who wished he might live to be so But leaving this Argument at present to be anon reassumed We shall go on in our further Enquiry The same Pliny l. 36. c. 10. speaks of one Manilius a Mathematician who upon the Obelisque which Augustus erected in the Campus Martius for finding out the Hours of the Day by the Shadow of the Sun with the Increase or Decrease of the Dayes and Nights placed a guilded Ball. Cujus Vertice Umbra colligeretur in seme tipsam alia Incrementa jaculantem Apice ratione ut ferunt à Capite Hominis intellecta sayes Pliny who commends the Design as a Thing worthy of Knowledge and the Invention of a pregnant Wit To this Person Scaliger conceives this Work may with fairer Probability be ascribed than to the former which Opinion is by divers other learned Persons likewise embraced The excellently learned Doctor Isaac Vossius conceives yet that the Manilius Antiochus and the Manilius Mathematicus before mentioned are not two distinct Persons but one and the same under different Titles and Appellations and the very Author of the Poem we now publish Whose Particular Sentiments upon this Subject and Arguments confirming the same he was pleased not long since to impart to Me by his most obliging Letter in Answer to some Queries by Me proposed in one of mine to him upon Occasion of my intended Publication of this Piece which for the Readers Satisfaction I shall here make Publick though not in his own Words yet as near as may be in his own Sence And first in Answer to Scaliger's Argument drawn from Reason of time against Manilius Antiochus upon the Supposition that Staberius Eros one of the three before-mentioned set open his Grammar School in the Time of Sylla ninety five years before the Death of Augustus And that therefore according to Scaligers Computation Manilius could not probably be less than 120 years old at the time when this Poem was written He urges by way of Reply that Suetonius from whom Scaliger takes the Ground of his Argument does not say that Staberius Eros opened his School in Sylla's Time but that he taught Gratis the Children of Those who in Sylla's Time were proscribed The Words of Suetonius are these Sunt qui tradunt tantâ eum scilicet Staberium honestate praeditum ut temporibus Syllanis Proscriptorum Liberos gratis sine Mercede ullâ in Disciplinam receperit How long that was after the Times of Proscription will be needless here to declare and that Manilius was not so old as Scaliger conceives when this Piece was written may be made out from this that he was the Cousin German of Publius Syrus who that he was brought a Young Boy to his Patron Macrobius affirms from whom likewise and from the Verses of Laberius it may not obscurely be collected that he was but a Youth when he came upon the Stage against Laberius which was a little before the Death of Julius Caesar and of Laberius also to whom he succeeded on the Mimick Stage in the second Year of the CLXXXIV Olympiad that is in the Year of Rome DCCXI as Eusebius testifies And therefore seeing it is manifest that Manilius published this Poem soon after the Varian Defeat which hapned in the DCCLXII of Rome it is as evident likewise that between the Youth or Adolescence of Manilius and the Time wherein he writ this Piece there could not pass above one and fifty years and consequently there is no Reason to assign so great an Age to Manilius as Scaliger here does since perhaps he was not Seventy years old when he had finished this his Astronomical Poem As to what Scaliger subjoyns touching Manilius his Wish for long life together with a chearful Old Age and the Inference he thence makes that he could not reasonably be then thought to be Old who wished he might live to be so The Argument is but weak for Senium is one thing and Senium Annosum another Nor does he simply wish Vitam Annosam but Vitam Annosam quae conjuncta sit cum molli Senecta which may be wished for even by those who are very old As for the Name of Antiochus he seems to have taken it from the famous Philosopher Antiochus Ascalonita often mentioned by Cicero Plutarch Sextus Empiricus and others whose School not only Cicero but Varro Brutus and divers others are said to have frequented and in all Probability this our Manilius also as being not only of the same Nation but happily born in the same Town Ascalon So that it may seem no VVonder if after the manner of those Times he took upon him the Name of his worthy Tutor and Instructor For that he was a Syrian is not only manifest from his Consanguinity with Publius Mimus but may likewise be collected from the Title or Inscription of this VVork which in an antient and excellent Manuscript in the Possession of the said Doctor Vossius is this M. MALLII POENI ASTRONOMICON DIVO OCTAVIO QUIRINO AUG That the Phaenicians were by the Romans called POENI is manifest out of Horace Cicero a pud Nonium and our Author in this very Poem He concludes therefore that this our Manilius or as he is rather pleased to call him Manlius was a Phaenician and in all Probability Native of the same Town as Antiochus his Tutor whose Name he assumed From this Dedication of his VVork to Augustus by the Name of Quirinus as the Inscription shews will appear the Error of those who imagine the same to have been dedicated to Tiberius or some later Roman Emperor And the reason of attributing the Name of Quirinus to Augustus may be made clear from the VVords of Suetonius Censentibus quibusdam Romulum appellari oportere quasi ipsum Conditorem Urbis c. Dion likewise tells us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That Augustus Caesar extreamly desired to be called Romulus and Joannes Philadelphensis scripto de Mensibus in Aug. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Octavianus Son of Octavius was after his great Victories honoured with divers Names for by some he was called Quirinus as another Romulus c. As to the other Manilius by Pliny stiled Mathematicus he conceives that Titular Distinction to make no Difference in the Person but that he is the same with the former further adding Omninò existimo illum quoque de Nostro Manilio accipi debere And whereas Salmasius affirms that the Name Manlius or Manilius is not to be found in that Place of Pliny in any antient Manuscripts and therefore ought to be expunged out of the Printed Copies he makes
Name are these Oculus seu Fundamentum Opticum Sol Ellipticus Disquisitiones Mathematicae De Controversiis Novitatibus Astronomicis Apelles post Tabulam and lastly Rosa Ursina in which he hath so excellently and learnedly written of the Solar Spots that according to the Judgment of Des Cartes and Hevelius nothing can be expected in that kind more satisfactory DIONYSIUS PETAVIUS Native of Orleans in France of the Society of Iesus the Varro of our Age as Ricciolus stiles him hath not only merited much by his Studies in Theology but in Chronology likewise and the Reason of Times and particularly in Astronomy as his two Volumes the one De Doctrina Temporum the other Rationarium Temporum and his Uranologium sufficiently evidence JOANNES BAPTISTA MORINUS Regius Professor of Mathematicks at Paris put forth several Astronomical Tractates as first Nova Mundi Sublunaris Anatomia Another with this Title Famosi Problematis De Telluris Motu vel Quiete hactenus optata Solutio A third was entituled Arae Telluris fractae written in opposition to Gassendus's Book De Motu impresso à Motore Translato Three Books of the Doctrine of the Sphere Tabulae Rudolphinae ad accuratum facile Compendium redactae to which is annexed a Compendium of Trigonometry Plain and Spherical Constructio Figurae Coelestis Nova Dirigendi Methodus Et de Planetarum Revolutionibus tà m Mundanis quà m Genethliacis He published a Book in French called Remarques Astrologiques being a Commentary on Ptolemy's Centiloquium He put forth likewise Nine Books of Longitude under the title of Astronomia à Fundamentis integrè exactè restituta To which is to be added his long-studied Work entituled Astrologia Gallica published after his death HENRICUS PHILIPPI a Iesuit Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Gratz Vienna and Prague of whom Ricciolus reports that Plurimis Operibus Chronologiam Universam praesertim sacram illustravit The Works by him put forth are first Chronological Questions for reconciling the Iulian years of our Lord and those of Nabonassar with the Iewish Aera Likewise Chronological Questions touching the year of our Saviour's Birth and Passion in the first of which is explained the Roman Calendar with the Epacts Calends Ides Nones and Beginnings of the Moneths as well of the Greeks Syro-Chaldeans and Aegyptians as also of the Feriae Cycles of the Sun and Moon and of Indictions c. G. Voss. ADAMUS TANNERUS a Iesuit of Inspruck Professor of Mathematicks at Munichen Ingolstadt and Vienna wrote a most learned dissertation De Caelo as also another Piece entituled Astrologia Sacra PHILIPPUS LANSBERGIUS of Gaunt put forth at Middleburgh Tables of the Celestial Motions fitted to the Meridian of Goese together with a Thesaurus of Observations and the Theory of the Planets He put forth also Progymnasmata Astronomiae restitutae and three Books Uranometriae Whereto may be added his Commentationes in Motum Diurnum Annuum grounded partly on his own partly upon Martinus Hortensius's Observations JACOBUS LANSBERGIUS Doctor of Physick wrote an Apology for Philippus Lansbergius his Commentary In Motum Diurnum Annuum Terrae against Fromondus MELCHIOR INCHOFER a Iesuit sometime Professor of Mathematicks Philosophy and Theology at Messina in Sicily wrote a Treatise entituled Tractatus Syllepticus De Statione Terrae Motu Solis secundum Sacram Scripturam SS Patres And an Examen Thematum Coelestium variorum Astronomorum usque ad Tychonem the Reason of calculating Eclipses and of the Theory of the Planets these three last published not under his own Name but that of Academicus Vertumnius EVERARDUS WELPERUS of Strasbourgh put forth a Compendium of Astronomy as well Spherical as Theorical collected out of various Authors from whom says G. Voss. much more might have been expected had he not been opprest by a low and necessitous Fortune PETRUS CRUGERUS Professor of Mathematicks at Dantzick and Master to Hevelius besides his Logarithmical Tables undertook to write Astronomia Dantiscana which yet he lived not to finish as his Scholar Hevelius testifies He wrote likewise another Piece entituled Uranodromus Cometicus ANDREAS ARZET a Iesuit of Constance put forth a Mathematical Clavis and diligently observed the Stars as Ricciolus affirms as long as either his Occasions or the Gout would permit many of whose Observations especially about Eclipses he freely communicated to Ricciolus BONA VENTURA CAVALLERIUS Iesuatus Mediolanensis Disciple to the Excellent Galilaeo and Primary-Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Bologna put forth Directorium Generale Uranometricum Practica Astrologia and a Century of Mathematical and among them Astronomical Problemâ—… a Person of an acute Wit and Judgment and by Ricciolus acknowledged to have been no mean Assistant and Promotor of his Astronomical Studies He wâ—… Trigonometria wherein are some Astronomical Problems more exquisitly demonstrated than are else where to be met with PAULUS GULDINUS Native of S. Gal of the Society of Iesuâ—… taught Philosophy and Mathematicks at Rome Gratz and Vienna He wrote in defence of the Roman Calendar against Sethus Calvisius in which Work he also opposes Scaliger's Diatriba De Aequinoctiorum Praecessione He also published a Geographical Problem touching the difference in numbring the dayes between those that sail hence to the New World and those that inhabit there Not to mention his Centrobarica and other Geometrical Pieces of which Ricciolus in Chronologâ—… Astronom HUGO SEMPILIUS by Birth a Scotch-man by Profession a Iesuit in the Colledge at Madrid writ twelve Books De Mathematicis Disciplinis In the three last of which he treats distinctly De Astronomia De Astrologia De Calendario Printed at Antwerp in folio in the year 1635. and dedicated to Philip the Fourth King of Spain In the End of which Work he hath annexed several Catalogues of Mathematical Authors and among them of Astronomers and Astrologers but giving no more of them than their bare Names NATHANIEL CARPENTER sometimes Fellow of Exeter-Colledge in Oxford put forth Geography Delineated-in two Books in the first of which containing the Spherical Part among other things he treats of the Magnetical Affections and Motion of the Earth of its Site and Proportion in respect of the Heavens of the Longitudes and Latitudes of Places and their several Wayes of Invention In the second containing the Topical Part he treats likewise among other things of the Adjuncts of Place in relation to the Heavens either Northward Southward Eastward Westward with the Differences of the respective Hemispheres and several other things worthy the Knowledge of a young Student in Astronomy Printed at Oxford 1635.4 o. Upon the same Accompt may be here inserted Varinius his Geography being much after the same Method and a very useful Piece especially since lately reprinted at Cambridge with the Addition of the several Schemes wanting in the former Edition JOHANNES PHOCYLLIDES HOLWARDA wrote an Epitome Astronomiae
and made other such kind of Observations The said Instrúment being still preserved in the City Tengfang where likewise is yet standing a Tower on which he used to make his Observations called Quensing Tai or the Starry Specula as Martinius in his Atlas attests By which several Instances it may appear that the Chineses of all the Asiaticks have seemingly the most Reason to claim Precedence and Priority in Point of Antiquity as to the Study of Astronomy and Celestial Observations even before the Egyptians and Chaldeans themselves If any Credit may be given to the Histories and Chronologies of that Nation GERYON a famous Trojan Augur Companion to Brutus or Britus at his first Entrance into this Island as Pitsaeus from the Authority of Ponticus Virunnius affirms wrote among other things De Astronmia PERDIX a Britain surnamed PRAESAGUS by Pitsaeus stiled Mathematicus Insignis atque Observatione Stellarum ac Coelestium Corporum supra quam dici potest Curiosus Of his Writings I find no other mention than of one Book of Predictions HESIODUS ASCRAEUS a Poet supposed contemporary with Homer by Ioseph Scaliger stiled the most Ancient Astrologer and Theologue of the Greeks A Specimen of his Astrology yet remaining in his Poem entituled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of his Theology in that entituled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 merits a Place in this Catalogue and therefore being omitted by the oversight of the Transcriber in his due Place we have inserted him in this Supplement DEMOCRITUS besides what we have already mentioned is said to have written the several Works following relative to our present Subject although no Remains of them be now left as his Magnus Diacosmus and Parvus Diacosmus in which he not only treated of the Fabrick of this Visible World but of other Worlds which he held to be innumerable De Sideribus Vagis seu Planetis which he asserted to be more than the Seaven commonly observed and taken notice of which Assertion of his Modern Experience hath since confirmed Phanae Causae i. e. De Sole vel Apparentiis wherein he took Cognizance of the Solar Maculae or Spots as Magnenus in his life affirms for Phana or Phanes is the same with the Sun so called quòd maximè appareat of which Macrobius Certamen Câ—…epsydrae which Magneâ—… stiles a most subtle Piece because he thereby examined the Motion of the Heaâ—…ns and made as it were a commensuration or Comparison of Motion and Time 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive Poli Descriptio qua voce nihil aliud intelligitur sayes Salmasius Exercit. Plin. p. 740 quam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Descriptio for these Ancient Sorts of â—…ials if we may relie upon Salmasius his Authority were called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 à rotunda Poli Forma cujus Medio Gnomon infigebatur ORONIUS a Britain surnamed MODESTUS is by Pitsaeus from the Authority of Ponticus Virunnius about this time affirmed to have flourished of whom he thus writes Dicunt eum in Astronomia in Poesi Plenidium superasse Plenidius was a learned British Philosopher of the same time He writ both in Greek and Latin several Works among them divers Poems not now extant PROTAGORAS ASTROLOGUS not the same with Protagorâ—… the Philosopher of Adbera is celebrated by Euphorion Chaleidensis who was Keeper of the famous Library of Antiochus Magnus King of Syria and a great Historian and Poet in an Epicedium which he wrote upon his Death mentioned by Diogenes Laertius in the Life of Protagoras Abderit HYPSICLES of Alexandria in Egypt Disciple to the great Isidorus flourished in the Reign of Ptolemaeus Physion He writ De Dodecaedri Icosaedri in eadem Sphaera Descriptorum comparatione atque inter se Proportione as likewise a Treatise entituled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive de Ascensionibus or as some MS. entitle it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this last published in Greek and Latin by Iacobus Mentelius Printed at Paris by Cramoisy together with Heliodorus Larissaeus his Opticks 1657. in 4 o. ATHELSTAN King of England was learned in Astronomy and among other Writings of which he was Author wrote one Book De Rebus Astrologicis as Pitsaeus testifies MICHAEL PSELLUS of Constantinople is by some conceived to be Author of those Astronomical Pieces ascribed to Enthymius of whom before among the Authors of uncertain Times who perhaps is the same with Euthymius Zygabenus Monachus who was in a manner Contemporary with Psellus viz. Synopsis Astronomiae De Sphaera Quod Rotunda sit Terra AVERROES besides what he wrote upon Ptolemy's Almagest already mentioned writ likewise Astrologica translated into Hebrew by R. Iacob Ben Samson extant in the French King's Library See Labbée Bibliothec. MS. NICHOLAS TREVET already mentioned in the Catalogue at this year wrote besides what is there exprest Canones de Conjunctionibus Oppositionibus Eclipsibus Solis Lunae as they are cited by Pitsaeus GEORGIUS MEDICUS CHRYSOCOCCA is by us already mentioned in the year 1240. But Scaliger l. 1. Epist. 80. places him in the year 1346. at which time he published his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at Tibena Chasariae quae Regio erat in finibus Imperii Trapezuntici in the longitude of 72° according to the said Scaliger whose Authority we willingly submit to ROGERUS SWINSETTUS or rather Swineshead vulgarly but erroneously Suisset surnamed for his Eminent Skill in Algebra Calculator Fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford afterwards Monk of the Cistertian Order a most subtle Mathematician of whom the great Master of Subtlety Iul. Caesar Scaliger Exercitat 324. thus wrtes pene Modum excessit Ingenii humani And Exercitat 340. gives this further Elogy of him Dignus profectò quem neque Senium Senem faceret neque Naturae Lex vitâ privaret nisi meliorem Vitam apparasset He wrote two Books De Coelo Mundo one Book entituled Descriptiones Motuum Coel. stium said to be extant in MS. in the Library of Caius and Gonvile Colledge in Cambridge He put forth likewise Ephemerides and Calculationes Astronomieae this last said to have been Printed by Iohannes de Cypro at Padua Vide Pitsaeum GUALTERUS BRITHUS or BRITTE an English-man Fellow of Merton Colledge Oxon of whom Leland sayes Celebre sibi Nomen acquisivit maximè quod Astrorum Motus Corporum Coelestium Naturas Proprietates Affectiones curiâ—…sissima Sedulitate scrutatus fuerit He writ Theoremata Planetarum de Rebus Mathematicis c. Vide Pitsaeum JOANNES DE SACRO FONTE Anglicè HOLYBROOK an English man born in Surrey reduced Alphonsus his Astronomical Tables into a clear and easie Method and published Tabulae Novae Mediorum Motuum Aequationis Dierum according to the Testimony of Leland very accurately computed He put forth likewise Canones Astronomici said by Pitsaeus to be extant in the Publick Library at Oxford ALBERTUS DE
it appear that Salmasius is extreamly mistaken by the Testimony of several antient MS. of Pliny in his Possession whereof one is in a Character written above 8 or 900 years since In all which the Word Manlius is found though with some small difference in writing of the Name Nor does he think the Name of Marcus praefixed to Manlius ought to be scrupled at upon the account that none of the Manlian Family after the CCCLX Year from the Building of Rome could or did use that Praenomen seeing that Prohibition as Cicero in Philip. intimates is only to be understood of the Patrician Race Now that this Manilius or as he calls him Manlius was before his Manumission a Slave not only the Place of Pliny already cited but the very Agnomen of Antiochus sufficiently evinces for as much as a Greek Agnomen joyned to a Roman Name is alwayes a most certain Token of a Servile Condition With this rational Discourse of so incomparable a Person both my Self and Reader might well rest satisfied Did VVe not meet with another Manilius mentioned by Pliny l. 10. c. 2. of Senatorian Dignity honoured by him with the Character of the most diligent of all the long Robe and enobled with the greatest Learning without any Teacher VVho is said first of all the Romans to have written of the Phaenix That there was never any man that saw it feed that in Arabia it is Sacred to the Sun and to omit the mention of some other Particulars that it lives 660 years and that with the Life of this Bird is consummated the Conversion of the great Year In which the Stars return again to their first Points and give Significations of the same Seasons as at the Beginning That this Great Year begins about High Noon on the Day wherein the Sun enters the first Degree of Aries and was compleated as he declares when P. Licinius and M. Cornelius were Consuls c. This person not taken Notice of by any others that have written touching our Author Monsieur Tristan in his Historical Commentaries Tom. 1. conceives to be the same with our Manilius The Reasons inducing him to embrace this Opinion being grounded upon the Concinnity of Time and Conformity of Study The Subject here mentioned clearly implying him to have been conversant in the like Astronomical Exercises as our Author whom not improbably he believes to have made these curious Remarks touching the Phoenix and the Annus Magnus in the sixth Book of his Astronomicks which is now lost though as Scaliger affirms extant in the Time of Firmicus who from thence collected his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sphaerae Barbaricae as he did from the fifth Book yet extant his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For that Manilius wrote of the first Kind as well as of the last mentioned may appear by these Verses Quae mihi per proprias Vires sunt cuncta canenda Quid valeant Ortu quid quum merguntur in undas The Elogy which Pliny gives him seeming likewise as Tristan observes to insinuate besides a particular Respect a kind of Intimacy and Acquaintance between this Manilius supposed our Author and Pliny who as he was a Person very curious might be desirous to be known to him upon the Score of his Eminent Learning and happily enjoyed what he desired about the end of Tiberius his Reign at which time Manilius might be far advanced in years and Pliny a Young Man I am not yet ignorant that the Learned Pighius in his Roman Annals and some other knowing Persons are of Opinion that this Elogium ought to be applied to Titus Manilius Son of Publius and Nephew of Marcus Manilius whom Cicero in Roscio calls Ornatissimum Senatorem But with the leave of those Learned Persons I do not find that among the Characters which Cicero gives him there is any one of his Learning or Erudition for though he sayes he was a most honourable Senator of a great Age by Nature pious and Religious and of a plentiful Fortune yet he honours him not with any Encomium of his Studies or of his great Proficiency in all Sciences which doubtless he would have done had he merited eminently in that kind In all Reason therefore We may conclude the Manilius mentioned by Pliny to be different from that of Cicero and with much seeming probability suppose him as Tristan does to be the same with our Manilius Author of this Poem who by Petrus Crinitus de Poet. Latin is reported we wish he had strengthened his Assertion by some Authentick Testimony to have been of illustrious Extraction which adds some further Weight to Mounsieur Tristan his Conjecture But since this cannot be made out by other Arguments than what are meerly probable we shall sorbear to determine positively thereupon but leave the Reader freely to judge which hath the best Pretence to be entituled to this Work the Slave or the Senator As to that Opinion started by Gevartius that this our Manilius was the same with Manlius Theodorus who 400 Years after the Death of Augustus and of our Author tâ—…o was Consul and Praefectus Praetorio in Illyrium under the Emperors Theoâ—… Honorius and Arcadius and who by Claudian is celebrated for an excellent 〈◊〉 Philosopher and Astronomer It is so groundless and so unworthy the Name of Gevartius that we shall not spend time in refuting it since the Reader may find sufficiâ—…nt Evidence against it from the Pen of our Author in this very Poem without the help of those Arguments which from thence are drawn by Tristan in his Commentaries before mentioned Tom. 1. p. 114 and 115. and Barthius in his elaborate Animadversions upon Claudian p. 112. The Name of Manilius is no less controverted than his Person some affirming it to be Manilius some Manlius and others contracting it compendio improbo as Barthius terms it into Mallius But his true Name uncertain whether derived to him by Adoption or Descent seems to be MANILIUS which was the Name of a Roman Family distinct from that of the Manlian as is apparent both by the Capitoline Tables and other Evidences in the Roman Story of which see Schottus de Famil Roman and Glandorpius in his Onomasticon This Name of Manilius all the Antient Editions in the very Infancy of Printing give him and most Manuscripts particularly as Barthius in Claudian notes that of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford and as he adds he is so named with the Addition of the Praenomen Marcus above 600 Years since by Gerbertus Rhemensis Bishop of Ravenna and afterwards Pope of Rome in his cxxx Epistle in these Words Age ergo te solo conscio ex tuis sumptibus fac mihi scribantur Marcus Manilius de Astrologia Victorinus de Rhetorica Demostenes Ophthalmicus c. And though some Antient MSS. call him Caius yet generally all the late printed Copies give him the Name of Marcus Manilius Which as being confirmed by the most prevailing Authority we admit of Of his Studies his
Lignorum Acervo lento dabantur Igni multis Corporibus simul congestis And this by Macrobius is called Tumultuarium funus only used in calamitous Accidents In which kind of promiscuous Funeral it is noted by Macrobius that it was usual to every ten Mens Bodies to add one Womans to make them burn the better He gives the Reason likewise Quòd Muliebre Corpus juvabat ardentes Viros non Caloris erat sed Pinguis Carnis Oleo similis Vide Macrob. Saturn l. 7. c. 7. fir'd Bones burnt dead Carkasses Whilst to so great a People scarce an Heir Remain'd Such Woes dire Comets oft declare They bring with them the Worlds n Manilius here will have Comets to be the Ushers of the Worlds general Conflagration Which Opinion seems to be grounded upon this supposition That the Aether by reason of the long Consumption of its humid Aliment shall be then fitted for such fiery Productions at which time likewise the Sun and Stars having wasted all the Elementary Supplies shall reduce the World into Flames Being the Opinion of the Stoicks especially of Zeno Cleanthes Chrysippus and but doubtingly of Panaetius of which Cicero in secundo de Natura Deorum Though the Doctrine be as antient as Heraclitus Empedocles and Hyppasus the Metapontine Yet was it not by them believed that this Conflagration should bring with it a total substantial Destruction but rather a purifying Renovation of the World For so Cicero delivers their Opinion where he says Ad extremum Omnis Mundus ignescet Ita relinqui nihil praeter Ignem à quo rursum animante ac Deo Renovatio Mundi fieâ—… atque idem Ornatus orietur Christian Philosophy likewise declaring not only the Worlds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Conflagration but its 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Resâ—…itution See Lipsius in Stoic Phil. Dissertac 22 and 23. Delrius in Commentar ad Octav. Senec. p. 533. Gassendus Tom. 1. Syntagm Philosoph part 2. p. 178. and L'escaloperius in Ciceron de Natur. Deorum l. 2. Sect. 118. last Funeral Fire In which sick Nature one Day must expire Suppos'd to occasion the Worlds General Conflagration Wars they proclaim too Tumults to arise And open Arms from secret Treacheries So when the Nations late from Faith withdrew When the fierce Germans our great o Divers and some eminently learned among whom is Sleydan de 4. Imper. Stadius in L. Florum and the excellent Gassendus in vitae Epicuri conceive the Quintilius Varus here mentioned to be the same with that Quintilius Varus of whose Death Horace in that consolatory Ode of his to Virgil Carm. l. 1. Od. 24. But since it is evident that Quintilius Varus who was General of the Roman Legions in Germany was not slain till twenty eight years after the Death of Virgil to whom that Ode is directed Virgil dying in the DCCXXXIV year of Rome and Varus not till DCCLXII year of the same at which time neither Virgil nor Horace were living It must be against all Reason and Chronology to imagine him the same with that Quintilius Varus whom Horace there bewails He being justlier conceiv'd to be the same with him mentioned by Eusebius in Chronic. in these Words Olymp. CLXXXIX Quintilius Cremonensis Virgilii Horatii familiaris moritur Servius likewise stiling him 〈◊〉 Virâ—… gilii and therefore Horace makes this Particular Application of his Loss to Virgil. Multis ille quidem flebilis occidit Nulli flebilior quà m Tibi Virgili See Torrentius in his Notes upon that Ode and Tanaquil Faber expresly discussing this Point Epistol 46. l. 2. But the Quintilius Varus here meant was the Son of Sextus Quintilius Varus who together with Aâ—…ius Varus warred against Iul. Caesar as we find in his Commentaries de bello Civili l. 2. and was flain afterwards in the Battle with Brutus and Cassius against Augustus by the Hand of his Freeman Quem id facere â—…egerat cum se Insignibus Honorum velasset as Velleius Paterculus l. 2. c. 71. relates Whose Fate his Son followed though in a different Cause Quippe to use Paterculus his Words Paterni Avitique Exempli Successor se ipse transfixit He was before the Generalship of the Army in Germany Prefect of Syria Quam Pauper Divitem ingressus Diveâ—… Pauperem reliquit as the same Velleius Paterculus testifies l. 2. c. 117. Varus slew And Fields in p Of this sâ—…d defeat of Quintiâ—… Varus and the Roman Legions by the Germans under the Conduct of Arminius occasioned by Varus his overweening confidence who in the midst of an Emâ—…my Country undertook to rule by the bare Formalities of Law a fierce and warlike People whom the Power of the Sword could not terâ—… or subdue See Strabo l. 7. 〈◊〉 Paterculus l. 2. Lucius Florus l. 4. c. 12. Tacitus Annal. l. 1. 〈◊〉 in August and Dion Cassius l. 56. A Disaster so resented by Aâ—…uius that it brought him almost to despair who often in Passion knocking his Head against the wall would cry out Quintili Vari redde Legiones Quintilius Varus restore Mâ—… my Legâ—…ons The Place of this defeat Cluverius in Antiqu. German l. 3. will have to be near the Town of Dietmel antiently Thâ—…utoburgium for thus from the forenamed Authorities he describes Varus his March as he was train'd by the subtlety of Arminiâ—…s from his Camp at Alizon now Esen towards the Borders of the Cherusci First pâ—…ssing through the utmâ—…st Bounds of the Marsi towards a Town which now is called Teuten Meyer he came to the Woody Hills where is the Castle at this Day called Falkenberg In the Vallies beneath which runs the River vulgarly called Beerlebeker Beâ—…k so named from the Town Beerlebek ' then entring the confines of the Cherusci he was there between the said Mountains and the Town of Theutmel or Dietmel set upon and his whole Army defeated and slain Otho Frisingensis l. 3. reports this Defeat to have been given within the Territories of Ausburg near a Place where there is a Hill by some said to be raised by the heaped up Bones of the slaughtered Romans and therefore called Perleich quod ibi Legiones perierint But that gross Errour is refuted by Velserus l. 1. Rerum August Vindel. Berâ—… in Sueton. affirms the Place where this Defeat was given to be at this Day by the Germans in Memory of their Victory called 〈◊〉 near the Town Horn in Westphalia not far from Dietmel aforesaid But one Place or Time was not sufficient to comprize so signal a Disaster for the Fight or slaughter rather was continued for three days The first Days Conflict was near the Head of Luppia now called Lips-spring the second Days Discomfiture was carried more remote from thence toward the Castle of Falkenberg the third and final Defeat was in the Fields from their Victory by the Germans called 〈◊〉 between Horn and Dietmel before mentioned Vide Monument Paderbornens p. 35. Blood of three whole Legions drown'd Through all the Skies such Ominous
of which that is the Pillar of Stone he affirms to have been extant in his Time in a Place call'd Syrias or Seirath conceived to be the Land bordering upon Mount Ephraim not far from Iericho Astronomy being thus brought into the World was cultivated and improved by the following Patriarchs who by reason of their long lives had the Opportunity of observing and noting many Astral Revolutions To which end chiefly according to the Opinion of some of the Jewish Doctors the Prolongation of their Lives was by divine Providence in a manner miraculously extended Among whom in this Science the most celebrated is Enoch whose Books upon this Subiect are said to be extant at this Day whence Tertullian and Origen produce several Citations But to what Extent of Improvement this Science was brought before the Flood is uncertain This only from the Testimony of Origen citing the Books of Enoch before mentioned appears That the Stars were then reduced into Asterisms under peculiar and distinct Denominations Touching which Names the said Enoch wrote many secret and mysterious things And Scripture makes it manifest that the Year then as now it is was computed by 〈◊〉 Revolutions of the Moon to one of the Sun 's through the Zodiack For in Genesis it is said that Noah entred into the Ark the 17. Day of the 2. Moneth there is likewise express mention of the 7. and the 10. Moneth and that on the 27. Day of the 2. Moneth of the Year following Noah went out of the Ark. Whence we may infer that the Patriarchs had then the knowledge as well of the Sun's Course as of the Moons with their Periods and in probability of the other Planets And that the Opinion of those who conceive the Year before the Flood to have been only Menstrual deserves to be exploded as most absurd and ridiculous After the Flood and the Dispersion of Mankind over the face of the Earth the Study of Astronomy began to be improved by several Nations who doubtless had derived the Knowledge thereof from Noah and his Posterity So that it may seem no wonder if at one and the same Time divers Persons in divers Regions applied themselves to the Observation and Study of this Astral Science Hence arises among several Nations the Contest for the Glory and Honour of its Invention But seeing it is clear beyond all Controversie that Mankind issued and dispersed themselves out of Asia into Africk Europe and other parts of the World the Glory thereof ought in the first Place to be attributed to the Asiaticks and among them chiefly to the Babylonians Chaldeans and Bactrians Among whom are principally celebrated Evahdnes Belus Zoroaster and his Successor Otanes as likewise Cidenas Naburian Sudinus and Seleucus the Chaldean before whom yet is to be reckoned the Patriarch Abraham and his Father Thare as great Improvers of those Inventions which had been handed down to them from their Forefathers and the Sons of Noah From the Assyrians and Chaldeans it came in the next Place to the Egyptians brought thither by the Patriarch Abraham as Eusebius proves from the Authority of Iosephus Eupolemus Artapanus Melo and others as cited by Alexander Polyhistor though Eupolemus seem to infer that Abraham first taught the same to the Phenicians before his Descent into Egypt There are others yet who attribute the Honour of its Invention to the Egyptians before the Chaldeans conceiving that Tradition of Abraham's instructing the Egyptian Priests to be inconsistent with Reason since Abraham's Stay in Egypt however Artapanus report it to have been 20 years seems not to have been above 3 Moneths most of which time was spent in Fears Jealousies and Dangers which in all Probability would not permit him to communicate at leisure and with freedom the Mysteries of that sublime Science They add further that the Egyptians were so far from receiving the Knowledge of Astronomy from the Chaldeans that on the Contrary they affirm the Chaldeans to have been first instructed therein by the Egyptians To prove which they produce the Testimonies of Diodorus Siculus and Hyginus The former writing that Babylon was a Colony of the Egyptians founded by Belus Son of Libya who therein instituted a College of Priests who were to contemplate the Sâ—…ars in the same manner as those in Egypt The later reporting that one Evahdnes is said to have come from beyond the Seas into Chaldea and there to have taught Astronomy But it seems strange if this Science were known to the Egyptians before the Babylonians and Chaldeans that yet the Egyptian Observations should be so much later than those of the Babylonians for we find scarce any of the Egyptians to precede the Time of Alexander the Great his Death than which even those of the Greeks are earlier whereas the Observations of the Babylonians appear to have been made almost 2000 years before that Time Others there are who would rob both the Chaldeans and Egyptians of this Honour and assign the Invention thereof to the Ethiopians of which Opinion is Lucian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But this Assertion seems to want much of Validity as being opposed by the general Stream of Tradition and that long before Lucian's Time Nor wants Africa besides the Egyptians and Ethiopians other Pretenders to the Invention of Astronomy particularly the Mauritanians who are said to have been instructed therein by Atlas the Son of Libya their King From the several Nations before mentioned Astronomy seems to have been divided anciently into Three Principal Sects that is to say the Assyrian comprehending the Babylonian and Chaldaick the Egyptian and the Atlantick of which last yet the Greeks and Romans made no reckoning for among them were only enumerated these 3 Sects the Chaldaick Egyptian and Grecian the Original and Progress of which last comes next to be described To pass by the fabulous Age touching which there is nothing certain we shall only confine our Discourse to the Historical which began with the Olympiads Nor do any Monuments of this Later inform us that the Greeks had made any considerable Advance in Astronomy before the Death of Alexander the Great For excepting some few Observations of Eclipses made by Thales and Anaxagoras the rest of the Greeks imployed their Studies no further than in nothing the Rising and Setting of the fixed Stars and accommodating the Cycles of the Sun and Moon to the Constitution of the Civil Year to which end they observed the Solstices and Equinoxes Oenopides Cleostratus Harpalus Democritus Meton Euctemon or Eudoxus having not delivered to us any thing of the proper Motion of the fixed Stars or their certain Distances from one another nor yet says Ricciolus of the Revolutions of the Planets or the Periods determining the Apocatastasis of the Moons Anomaly and Latitude And yet such was their Self-conceit and Presumption as confidently to affirm that Astronomy ow'd its Invention to them and particularly to the Rhodians from whom they will have the
a Iesuit sometime Professor of Mathematicks in the Iesuits Colledge at Palermo in Sicily afterwards at Wirtsberg in Franconia set forth Cursus Mathematicus sive absolut a omnium Mathematicarum Disciplinarum Encyclopaedia in 28 Books In the seventh eighth and ninth of which Books he treats of Astronomy the first comprizing Astronomia Elementaris or the Description of the Sphere the Celestial Circles c. the next handling Astronomia Theorica the Theory of the Planets the third Astronomia Practica resolving divers Astronomical Problems as well Organically as Geometrically The whole Work Printed in folio at Wirtsberg 1661. He published likewise Kircher's Iter Ecstaticum Coeleste adorned and augmented with several Prelusions Scholia's and Schemes and promises the Edition of a greater Work by him entituled Mundus Mirabilis which whether it were ever finished or published I know not THOMAS STREET Student in Astronomy and Mathematicks put forth a New easie Geometrical and Harmonious Theory of the Celestial Motions under the Title of ASTRONOMIA CAROLINA with Astronomical Tables and their Uses exhibiting most plain and easie Examples of finding the true Places of the fixed Stars and Planets and the Eclipes of the Luminaries at all times the several Calculations therein being compared with all the best and most certain Observations both Ancient and Modern In which likewise more particularly is asserted the Verity of the Equation of Time for the inequality of Natural Dayes and the near Agreement of the Lunar Theory therein proposed to the Phaenomenon whence the Science of the Longitude or Difference of Meridians as well at Sea as Land may be far more truly obtained than formerly it hath been Printed at London 1661. 4 o. To which he added an Appendix in the year 1664. and in 1667. put forth Memorial Verses on the Ecclesiastical and Civil Calendar with an Epitome of the Heavenly Motions He is now about publishing Planetary Instruments PLACIDUS DE TITIS of Perugio Professor of Astronomy in the University of Pavy in Italy put forth Ephemerides of the Celestial Motions beginning in the year 1661. and continued to the end of the year 1675. calculated according to the Lansbergian Hypotheses for the Longitude of 35° together with a Treatise of the Efficient Proximate and Remote Causes of the Transmutation of the Elements with a Method of erecting a Celestial Scheme or Figure and some Observations upon Earth-Quakes Printed at Pavy 1661. Mr. LAURENCE ROOK first Astronomy and then Geometry Professor of Gresham Colledge and Fellow of the Royal Society had begun to make exact Observations of the Immersions and Emersions of the Satellites of Iapiter besides many others of other Celestial Bodies but was snatched away from his Studies and Labours in thâ—… year 1662. shortly after the Establishment of the Royal Society whose Institution he had zealously promoted and it was a Deplorable Accident in his Death as is noted by the ingenious Authour of the History of the Royal Society that he deceased the very Night which he had for some years expected wherein to finish his accurate Observations on the said Satellites His Loss was regretted by all that knew his Extraordinary Worth both for Knowledge and Probity deservedly celebrated by that excellent Prelate the now Lord Bishop of Sarum Doctor Seth Ward at the Time of Mr Rook's Decease Lord Bishop of Exon by this Sepulcral Monument M. S. Hìc subtùs sive dormit sive contemplatur Qui jamdiu Animo metitus est Quicquid aut Vita aut Mors habet Vir Cl. LAURENTIUS ROOK è Cantio Oriundus In Collegio Greshamensi Astronomiae primò deìn Geometriae Professor Utriusque Ornamentum Spes Maxima Quem altissima Indoles Artesque Omnifariae Mores pellucidi ad amussim probi Consuetudo facilis accommoda Bonis Doctisque Omnibus fecere Commendatissimum Vir totus Teres sui Plenus Cui Virtus Pietas summa Ratio Desideria Metusque omnes sub pedibus dabant Ne se penitus seculo subducere mortuus possit Qui iniquissima Modestiâ vixerat SETHUS WARD Episcopus Exoniensis Sodalis Symmystae desideratissimi Longas suavesque Amicitias Hoc Saxo prosecutus est Obiit Iunii 27 o. A. D. MDCLXII Aetat XL. There is extant in the Philosophical Transactions N o. 22. p. 388. his Method for observing the Eclipses of the Moon free from the common Inconveniencies His Astronomical Papers are if I am not misinformed in the Hands of the above mentioned Lord Bishop of Sarum who will doubtless take care of seeing them digested and published ANDREAS CELLARIUS PALATINUS Scholae Hornanae in Hollandia Boreali Rector set forth a large Work in folio with this Title Harmonia Macrocosmica seu Atlas Universalis Novus totius Universi Creati Cosmographiam Generalem exhibens In qua Omnium totius Mundi Orbium Harmonica Constructio secundum diversas Diversorum Authorum Opiniones Ut Uranometria seu totius Orbis Coelestis ac Planetarum Theoriae c. ob oculos ponuntur Printed at Amsterdam with curious Sculps and dedicated to his present Majesty Charles the Second JOHANNES HECKERUS of Dantzick set forth Ephemerides of the Celestial Motions beginning in the year 1666. and continued to the year 1680. calculated for the Meridian of Uranoburgum from the correct Observations of the Noble Tycho Brahe the Physical Hypotheses of Kepler and the Rudolphine Tables To which he prefixed an Introduction Printed at Dantzick 1662. Having gained good Repute among the most nice and skilful Astronomers CORNELIUS MALVASIA Marquess of Bismantua and General of the Artillery to the Duke of Modena set forth Ephemerides of the Celestial Motions by him stiled Ephemerides Novissimae calculated according to the Hypothesis of Philippus Lansbergius for the Longitude of Modena being 34° 5′ beginning in the year 1661. and ending with the year 1666. together with the Author 's own Observations of Saturn Iupiter Mars Venus the Sun and Moon for the year 1662. reduced to Calculation wherein he shews the Excess or Defects of the Lansbergian Tables To which are added Ephemerides of the Sun and Tables of Refractions according to the latest Hypotheses of the famous Cassini at present Regius Professor of Mathematicks at Paris JACOBUS GREGORY a Scotch-man Professor of Mathematicks in the University of St. Andrew's in Scotland put forth his Optica Promota Printed at London in the year 1663. in which Work there are divers difficult useful Problems relating to Astronomy The same Author hath prepared a Treatise of Dioptricks and Astronomy which may supply and doubtless much exceed a second Edition of the forementioned Optica Promota NICHOLAUS MERCATOR published a Piece entituled Hypothesis Astronomica nova Printed at London in a thin folio in the year 1664. And two Diatribes De Emendatione Annua and hath prepared for the Press a Treatise of Astronomy in which his design is to render Astronomy Geometrical He hath likewise prepared for
Shapes for sometimes it hath its Flame or Blaze carried upward like a Sword sometimes double and treble pointed which Phaenomenon is yet very rare 7. Ceratia or the horned Comet sometimes appears Bearded sometimes with a Tayl or Train Some have the Figure of a New Moon those that are tayled have sometimes a crooked Tayl bending upward sometimes downward others have the Tayl of an unequal Breadth and thickness every Way some have their Hare or Bush pointed others like a Horn or Trumpet 8. Acontiae are Comets formed like a Dart or Javelin with an oblong and close compressed Head and prolix extenuated Tayl or Train 9. Xiphias sive Ensi-formis is a Comet resembling a Sword the Head being fashioned like to a Hilt the Tayl being long straight and pointed yet sometimes bending like a Cimitar when it is of a lesser and more contracted Form it resembles a Dagger or Knife 10. Lonchites seu hasti-formis is a Comet resembling a Lance its Head being of an Elliptical Figure its stream of Light or Tayl being very long thin and pointed 11. Veru seu Pertica is almost of the same Species with the Former save that its Head is rounder and its Train of Light longer and sharper pointed 12. Tetragonias seu Quadratus is a Comet whose Head is for the most Part Quadrangular It hath a long Train very thick and uniform and is not unlike that Meteor called Trabs or a fiery Beam But all these will better appear by the several Schemes hereunto annexed to which We referr the Reader and shall forbear to add those Distinctions which some have given them in reference to the Planets making some Solar others Lunar Mercurial Venerial Martial Iovial and Saturnine or of their Magnitudes Duration Motion Prognosticks or final Causes of which Authours are full but give the Reader an Historical Abstract of the Times of the several Appearances of THESE SPLENDID AENIGMA'S PROPOSED BY GOD BUT NEVER TO BE RESOLVED BY HUMANE WIT as Ricciolus ingeniously sayes of them Table exhibiting according to the Series of Time the several Comets that have appeared together with their Principal Phaenomena Collected for the most from Hevelius and Lubieniecius Anni ante Christ. The time of first Appearing The time of Duration and Disappearance The time of Day or Night The Place or Region of the World The Motion Direct or Retrograde swift or slow The Nature Magnitude Figure colour of the Head The length shape and scituation of the Bush or Tayl 2292 About three dayes before the Death of Methusaiem a Comet appeared Visible by the space of one Month and disappearing the sixteenth of April Rochenâ—…ch  In Pisces under Iupiter Passed through the twelve Signs of the Zodiack Iovial  2191 A little before the Confusion of Tongues at Balel Laâ—…ed sixty five Dayes  In Capricorn visible in Egypt Passed three Signs in the Zodiack Saturnine  1920 in the 80 year of Abraham's life 5 years after his Departure from Haâ—…an Shined for the space of twenty two days  In Aries visible in Chaldaea  Martial  182â—… In the fifth year after Abraham's Death Lasted nine dayes  Under Leo in Egypt  The Head like an Imperfect Circle or Globe very fiery  1718 According to 〈◊〉 though 〈◊〉 will have â—…t to be in the year 1â—…32 not long before the seven years scarcity in the time of Ioseph   In Sagittary under Iupiter visible all over Arabia  Of a dreadful Aspect called Typhon by an Egyptian King then reigning and resembling a Wheel  1495 A little before the Children of Israel departed out of Eâ—…ypt for the Land of Promise   Under Capricorn seen in Syria Babyloniae and India  Like a Wheel  1200 In the Moneth of August not long after which followed the Death of the impious Amenemâ—… King of Egypt the Trojan War and a great Sedition among the Israelites wherein 42000 of the Tribe of Ephraim were destroyed   In Cemint visible in Assyria  Of a dreadful Aspect  1100 In the Reign of â—…eutamus King of Assyria contemporary with Sampsâ—…n Lasted forty three Nights  Under Aries visible all over Greece    479 At which time according to Calvisius there hapned an extraordinary Eclipse of the Sun and Nerues marched from Sardis against the Greeks or rather according to Pliny incountred them in the Sea-fight at Salamis Lasted twenty two dayes     Like that called Ceratias being crooked like a Horn 〈◊〉  Seventy five dayes After San-set   Fiery and Martial of a great and unusual Splendor like a huge Beam  411 In the Month of Ianuary   Towards the North    371 In the Winter about the Time of the great Earthquake and Inundation in Achaia Aristaus being Archon at Athens  In the Evening after Sun-set  It ascended as high as the Girdle of Orion and there vanished and consequently its Motion was direct At the beginning it was like a Beam and extended its Rayes to the third Part of the Heavens and was therefore as Aristotle l. 1. Met. c. 6. affirms called the Way in the End it parted into two Stars At the first Day of its Appearance it Tayl was seen and not the Head 354 About the time of Alexander the Great his Birth and the burning of the Temple of Diana at Ephesus   In Leo   At first Bushy or as some affirm representing a kind of Beard afterwards turned into the Figure of a Spear 339 About the beginning of Alexander's Reign Nichâ—…machus being Archon at Athens Lasted 19 dayes Never rose in the Evening Appeared near the Equinoctial Circle about the 19° of Sagittary    220  Lasted twenty two dayes  In Aries    196 Two Comets first The second Lasted but few days nineteen dayes  In Capricorn In Cancer  Of a stupendious Magnitude  194 About the Birth of Mithridates King of Pontus Lasted eighty dayes    Of an extraordinary Bigness  183 A little before the Death of Scipio Africanus Lasted eighty eight dayes  In Pisces  Exceeding the Sun in Brightness Taking up near the fourth part of the Heavens 174  Lasted thirty two Nights  In Aries    172  Lasted fifty five Weeks      166 September fourth   In Taurus  Of the Nature of that called Hircus  154  Lasted nine dayes      144  Lasted twenty two dayes  In Capricorn  Not less in appearance than the Sun fiery red bright shining and dispelling the darkness of the Night but by degrees diminishing  134  Lasted eighty three dayes  In Gemini seen at Praneste in Italy  At first small but in few dayes spread so as to reach the Equinoctial Circle and to be equal to that Part of the Heavens called the Via Lactea Â