is eder in our sight cannot be seen with them that dwell there and the other Pole which is ever out of our sight is in sight to them Again there is a place on earth where both the Poles have even like scituation in the Horizon 28. Of the Circle of the Sphear SOme of the Circles of the Sphear be parallels some be oblique some others goe crosse over the Poles The parallels are they that hath the same Poles as the World hath and there be five parallel circles the Artick the Estival Tropick the Equinoctial The Artick circle is even the greatest of all those circles that we have continually in sight and he scarcely toucheth the Horizon in the point and is altogether presented above the earch And all the Stars that are incluâ—ed in this circle neither rise nor set but a man shall espie them all the night long kéep their course round about the Pole And that circle in our Habitation is drawn of the further foot of Ursamajor The Estival circle most Northward of all the circles that be made of the Sun whom when the Sun removeth into he turneth back from his Summer circuit then is the longest day of all the year and the shortest night and after the Summer return the Sun shall not be perceived to progresse any further toward the North but rather to recoil to the contrary parts of the world wherefore in Gréece this Circle is called Tropocos the Equinoctial Circle is the most greatest of all the five paralled circles and is so parted by the Horizon that the one half circle is above the earth the other half circle lyeth under the Horizon The Sun being in his circle causeth two Equinectials the one in the Spring and the other in the Harvest The Brumal Tropick is a circle most South of all the Circles that by the moving of the world be described of the Sun which when the Sun is once on red into he returneth back from his Winters progress then is the longest night and the shortest day in all the year And beyond this Winter mark the Sun progresseth never a whiâ— further but goeth into the other coasts of the World Wherefore this Circle is also named Trevicos as who so say returnable The Antartick Circle is equal in quantity and distance with the Artick Circle and toucheth the Horizon in one point and his course is altogether underneath the Earth and the Stars that be placed in this are alwayes invifible unto us The greatest of all the said Circles is the Equinoctial and then the Tropicks and the least I mean in our Habitation are the Artichs And these circles must be understood without breadth and be reasoned of by according to the scituation of the Stars and by the beholding of the Dioptra and but supposed onely in our Imagination for there is no circle séen in all the Heaven but only Galaxias As for all the rest they be conceived by imagination 29. The Reason why that five parallel Circles are onely in the Sphear FIve parallel Circles alone are wont to be described in the Sphear not because there be no more paralels than those in al the world For the Sun maketh every day one parallel Circle equally distant to the Equinoctial which may be well perceived with the turnning of the World Insomuch that 128 parallel Circles are twice described of the Sun between the Tropicks for so many dayes are within the two returns and all the Stars are dayly carrted withall round about in the parallel Circles Howbeit every one of them cannot be set out in the Sphear And though they be profitable in diverse things in Astrology yet it is impossible that the Stars may be described in the Sphear without all the parallel circles or that the magnitude on dayes and nights may be prâ—cisely found out without the same parallels But in as much as they be not déemed so be so necessary for the first introduction of Astrology they are left out of the sphear But the five parallel circles for certain special instructions are exhibited The Artick circle severeth the Stars which we ever sée the Estival Tropick containeth the going back of the Sun and it is the further most part of the progresse into the North the Equinoctial circle containeth the Equinoctials and the Brumal Tropick is the furthermost point of the way of the Sun toward the South it is even the mark of the Winter return the Antartick circle determineth the Stars whom we cannot sée And so séeing that they are very expedient for the introduction into Astrology they be right worthy to take room in the Sphâ—ar 30. Of the five greater Circles of the Appearance and Non-appearance ef them ALso the said five parallel circles the Artick circle appeareth altogether above the earth and the Estival Tropick circle is divided into two parts of the Horizon whereof of the greater part is above the earth and the lesser lighteth underneath it Neither is this Tropick circle equally divided of the Horizon in every Town and Country but according to the variety of the Regions it hath diversities of uprising and this Estival circle is more unequally divided in the Horizon to them that dwell nearer the North than we do and further there is a place where the Estival Tropick is wholly above the earth and unto them that draw nearer unto the South than we the Estival Tropick is more unevenly parted in our Horizon Furtheremore there is a coast but south from us wherein the Tropick circle is equally divided of the Horizon But in our Habitation the Estival Tropick is so divided of the Horizon that the whole circle being divided into eight parts five parts shall be above the earth and thrée under the earth And indéed it séemeth that Aratus meant this Climate when as he wrote his book of Phaelomenon whereas he speaking of his Estival Tropick Circle saith on this wise When this Circle divided is into eight parts even just Five parts above the earth and three underneath remain needs must The restlesse Sun in Summer hot from this returneth back And so of this division it followeth the day to be of fiftéen Equiuoctial hours the night of nine Equinoctial hours long and in the Horizon of Rodes the Estival Tropick is so divided of the Horizon that the whole circle being divided into eightéen parts there shall appear 29 divisions above the Horizon and ninetéen under the earth by which division it appeareth that the longest day in the Rodes hath but fourtéen Equinoctial hours in it and the night nine Equinoctial hours with two half hours more beside The Equinoctial circle in every Habication is so justly divided in the middest by the Horizon that the one halfe circle is above the earth and the other half circle underneath the earth And this is the cause that the Equinoctials happen alwayes in this circle The Brumal Tropick circle is so divided of the Horizon that the lesser part shall
and meeâ— as the Chicken 27 Moveable and varying as the Fish 28 Lecherous as the Boat 29 Strong and puissant as a Camel 30 Traiterous as the Mule 31 Advised as the Mouse 32 Reasonable as an Angel And therefore he is called the little world or else he is called all Creatures for he doth take part of all 13. The Description of the four Elements and of the four Complexions with the four Seasons of the Year and the twelve Signs for each Month. IN each man and woman reigneth the Planets and every Sign of the Zodiack and every prime Qaulity every Element every Complexion but not in every one alibe for in some men reigneth one more in some reigneth another and therefore men be of divers manners as shall be made apparent 14. Of the four prime Qualities FOur prime Qualities there be that is to say Coloness Heat Driness Moisture which be contraries and therefore they may not come nigh together without a mean for the hotness on the one side bindeth them together and coidness on the other side Also hotnesse and coldnesse are two contraties and therefore they may not come nigh together without a mean for the moistness on the one side bindeth them together and driness on the other Moistness is cause of every thick substance of every swéet tast And there again driness is cause of every thin substance and of every sower stinking saste and also hotness is cause of every red colour and large quantify there again coloness is cause of every white colour and little quantity These four prime Qualities in their combination make the four Elements Aire minst and hot the Fire hot and dry the Earth dry and cold the Water cold and moist The Aire and Earth are two contraries and therefore they may not come nigh together but as fire binds them on the one side and the water on the other side Also Fire and water are two contraries and therefore they may not come nigh together but as the air betwéen them binds on the one side and the earth on the other side The fire is sharp subtil and moveable The Aire is sabtil moveable corpulent and dull The Earth is corpulent and thick The water is moveable corpulent and dull The Earth is corpulent dull and unmodable In the heart of the earth is the Center of the world that is to say the midst point and in every Center is Hell And there again about the Fire are the stars and about them in Heaven Chrysta-line that is to say waters of all blesse departed in nine orders of Angels then is Heaven in the hightest rooms and largest And there again is Hell in the lowest narrowest and straitest place Right as there be four Elements so there he four Complexions according in all manner of qualities to these four Elements The first is Sanguine that is to say blood gendred in the liver limbe like to the air The seeâ—nd is Choler gendred in the Gal and like thereto and it is according to the fire The third is Mâ—â—â—â—â—cholp gendred in the Milt and like to the dregs of blood and it â—ccordeth to the earth The fourth is Flegm gendred in the lungs like to Gall and it accordeth to the Water A Sanguine man much may and much coveteth for he is most hot A Cholerick man much coveteth and little may for he is hot and dry A Melancholiâ—ue man little may and little coveteth for he is dry and cold A Flegmatick man little coveteth and little may for he is cold and moist A Sanguine man is large lovely glad of cheer laughing and ruddy of colour steadfast fleshy right harry mannerly gentle and well nourished A Cholerick man is guileful safe and wrathful traiterous and right hardy small dry and black of colour A Melancholious man is evious sorry covetous hard false guileful dreadful slothful and clear of colour A Flegâ—â—atick man is slumbry sleepy slow sleightful â—humatick dull and hard of wit fat visage and white of colour 15. The year divided with the knowledge of the state of mans Body by Urine IN the year be four quarters ruled by these four Completions that is to say the Spring Summer Harvest and Winter Spring hath three Months that is to say March April May and it is Sanguine complexion Summer hath also three Moneths that is to say June July and August and this Quarter is Cholerick Complexion Harvest hath also three Months that is to say September October and November and this Quarter is melancholious Complexion Winter hath also three Months that is to fay December January and February and this Quarter is flegmatick Complexion Each day also these four complexions reigneth that is to say from three after mid-night to nine reigneth Sanguine and from nine after mid-night to three after mid-day reigneth Choler and from three after mid-day to nine after mid-day reigneth Melancholy and from nine after mid-day to three after mid-night reigneth Flegme Also in the four Quarters of the World reigneth these four Complexions that is to say Sanguins in the East Choler in the South Melancholy in the West and Flegm in â—he North. Also the four Complexions reign in the four Ages of Man that is to say Choler in child-hood Sanguine in man-hood Flegme in Age and Melancholy in old age Child-hood is from the birth to fourteen years full done Man-hood is from thence to Thirty years of age and from thence to fifty years And old age from thence to fourscore years and so forth to death All these four Complexions reign in the four parts of mans body Choler raigneth in all the soulet Limbs from the brest upward Sanguine reigneth in all small Limbs from the Midriff to the Wesand And Flegme reigneth in all nourishing Limbs from the Reins to the Midriffe And Melancholy reigneth in all Limbs from the Reines downward Wherefore every mans Vrine is cast in four that is to say Corkil Superfice middest of the ground every part of the Vrine to his part of Mans body and therefore to four things in every Vrine we must take heed that is to say Substance Quantity Colour and the Content Three Substances there are that is to say Thick Thiu and Middle Thick substance betokeneth very much moistnesss Thin substance betokeneth much drinesse A middle substance betokeneth temperance Also three quantities be in Vrine that is to say much little mean Much quantity betokeneth great cold Little quantity betokeneth great heat Mean quantity betokeneth temperance Also take â—heâ—d to the taste whether it be sweet or not Sweet taste betokeneth health And other taste betokeneth stâ—knesse Also in Vrines be twenty colours of the which the first ten betokeneth cold and the other ten betokeneth heat The ten colours that betoken cold are these The first is black as dark coal and cometh of livid going before The second is like to lead and those two betoken mortification Che third is white as clear water The fourth is lactick like to
the fatness or leanness of the party take good heed at four fingers nigh the incision and they ought not to make such bléeding without the counsel of the Physitian In every foot be three veins of the which thrée one is under the anckle of the foot named Sophon the which is let blood for to swage and put out divers humours as botches and Impostumes that cometh about the groins and profitteth much to women for to cause the menstruosity to descend and delay the Emroids that cometh in the secret places and other like Betwéen the wrests of the féet and the great toe is a vein the which is let blood for divers sicknesses and inconveniences as the pestilence that taketh a person suddenly by the great super-abundance of humor this bleeding must be made within a natural day that is to say within 24 houres after that the sickness is taken of the Patient and before that the Feaver came on him and this bléeding ought to be done according to the corpulence of the Patient In the angles of the eyes be two veins the which be let blood for the redness of the eyes or watry or that runneth continually and for divers other sicknesses that may happen and come by over great abundance of humours and blood In the vein of the end of the nose is made bléeding the which is good for a re◠pimple◠face as red drops pustules small scabs and other infections of the heart that may come therein by too great repletion and abundance of blood and humours and it availeth much against pempled noses and other like sicknesses In the month in the gams be four veins that is to say two above and two beneath the which be let blood for chausing and canker in the month and for tooth-ach Between the lip and the chin is a vein that is to let blood to give amendment unto them that have an evil breath In each arm be four veins of the which the vein of the head is the highest the second next is from the Heart the third is of the Liver and the fourth is from the Milt otherwise called the low Liver-vein The vein of the head taken in the arm ought to bleed for to take away the great repletion and abundance of blood that may annoy the head the eyes and the brain and availeth greatly for changeable heats and swelling faces and red and for divers other sicknesses that may fall and come by great abundance of blood The vein of the Milt otherwise called the low vein should bléed against Feaver Tertians and Quartains and it ought to be made a wide and a lesse deep wound than in any other vein for fear of winde that it may gather and for a more inconveniency for fear of a sinew that is under it that is called the Lezard In each hand be three veins whereof that above the thumb ought to bleed to take away the great heat of the visage and for much thick blood and humours that be in the head and this vein delayeth more than that of the arme Between the little finger and the leech finger is letting of blood that greatly availeth against all Feavers tertians and quartians and against the flames and divers other lettings that come to the paps and milt In the thigh is a vein of the which bléeding availeth against pain of the Genitals for to put out of man's body humours that are in the groins The vein that is under the ancle of the foot without is named Sciot of the which bléeding is much wroth against the pain of the flanks and for to make avoid and issue divers humours which would gather in the saide place and it availeth greatly to women to restrain their menstruosity when they have too great abundance 24. Of the Year with the growth of things THere be in the year four quarters the which are named thus Ver Hyems Aestas and Autumnus These are the four seasous in the year Prime time is the Spring of the year containing February March and April In these three Months every green thing growing beginneth to bud and flourish Then cometh Summer as May June and July and in these three months every hearb grain and tree is in his most strength and beauty and then the Sun is at the highest Next cometh Autumn as August September and October wherein all Fruits wax ripe and are gathered and housed Then cometh November December and January and these three Months be in the Winter that time the Sun is at the lowest and is of little profit We Astronomers say That the Age of man is threescore and twelve years and that we liken but one whole year for evermore we take six years for every moneth as January or February and so forth for as the year changeth by the twelve moneths into twelve divers manners so doth man change himself twelve times in his life by twelve ages and every six times six maketh thirty six and then man is at the best also the highest and twelve times six maketh threescore and twelve and that is the age of man Thus you may count and reckon for every Month six years or else it may be understood by the four quarters and seasons of the year so man is divided into four parts as to youth strength wisoom and age He is to be eighteen years young eighteen years strong eightéen years in wisdom and the fourth eightéen years to go to the full age of threescore and twelve 25. The change of Man twelve times according to the Months HE must take the first sir years for January the which is of no vertue nor strength in the season nothing on the earth groweth So man after that he is born till he be six years of age is of little or no wit strength or cunning and may do little or nothing that cometh to any profit Then cometh February and then the dayes lengthen and the Sun is more hotter then the fields begin to wax gréen So the other six years till he come to twelve the Child beginneth to grow bigger and is apt to learn such things as is taught him Then cometh the month of March in which the Labourer soweth the Earth and planteth trees and edificeth houses The child in these sir years waxeth big to learn doctrine and science and to be fair and pleasant and loving for then he is eigteen years of age Then cometh April that the earth and the trees are covered with green flowers and in every part goods increase abundantly Then cometh the young man to gather the sweet flowers of hardiness but then beware that cold winds and storms of Vices beat not down the flowers of good manners that should bring a man to honour for then he is twenty four years of age Then cometh May that is both fair and pleasant for then Birds sing in Woods and Forrests night and day the Sun shineth hot then man is most lusty mighty and of proper strength and séeketh
the uttermost of our knowing So that his Diamerer is not passing a thousand furlongs even throughout The Horizon that is imagined by understanding is for the speculation of the Sphear of the fixed Stars and he divideth the whole world into two parts Wherefore there is not the same Horizon throughout every Habitation and Town but to a mans witting he remaineth the same for the spare of four hundred furlongs almost So that the length of the dayes the Climats and all the apparances remain the same still but with the more number of furlongs for the diversity of the Habitation the Horizon the Climate yea and all the apparances shall vary so then change and habitation must néeds happen in geing Southward or Northward beyond four hundred furlongs And they that dwell in one parallel for every exceeding great number have a new Horizon but they keep the same Climate and all the apparances likewise the beginnings and endings of dayes change not at the self same time to all that dwell in the same Parallel But after very exact curiosity the least moving in the world hither or thither even for every point the Horizon is changed the Climate and the Apparances do vary The Horizon in the Sphears not after the manner described for al the other circles are carried together from east to west with the moving of the world and the Horizon is immovâ—able by his own nature as long as he keepeth the same scituation And so if the Horizon were set out in sphears when they should be turned about he might so happen to move and sometime to be over head and that were a thing most inconvenient and farthest out of reason in Sphear matter yet for all that there may be a place assigned for the circle Galaxias is left out in many sphears and it is one of the greatest circles and they be called the greatest circles which have the same center as the Spheare hath And there be seven of the greatest Circles the Equinoctial the Zodiack that which goeth through the midst of the Signs and that which goeth by the Poles the Horizon of every Habitation the Meridian and the Circle of Galaxias 41. Of the five Zones THe outward fashion of the Earth is spherical and divided into five Zones of whom two which be about the Poles are called the cold Zones because they be very far from under the course of the Sun and be little inhabited by reason of the great cold and their compasse is from the Artick to the Poles ward and the Zones that be next unto them because they be measurably scituate towards the course of the Sun be called temperate and above in the Firmament upon the Tropick and Artick Circles between whom they lye Now the fifth which among the said four Circles is middlemost for that it lighteth under the way of the Sun is named the hot and it is divided of the Equinoctial of the earth into two which lyeth all about under the Horizon in the frame of the Spheare 39. Of the Meridian Circles THe Meridian is a Circle that goeth thorow the Poles of the World and thorow the point that is just over our head In whom when the Sun is come to he causeth mid-day and mid-night and this Circle is also immoveable in the World as long as the self-same scituation is kept in all moving of the world Neither is this circle drawn in a Sphear that be painted with Stars because he is immoveable and receiveth no mutation but is mans conjecture by wit for three hundred Furlongs almost the Meridian abideth the same but after a more better exact imagination for every step either East or West maketh another Meridian but goe North or South even ten thousand furlongs and the same Meridian shall serve 40. Of the Circle Galaxias THe Circle of Galaxias oblique also and goeth over the tropicks awry and it is of the substance of five elouds and the onely visible Circle in the Heavens neither is it certain what breadth it is of for it is narrower in one place than in another and for that cause der the Equinoctial of the world But on the two temperate Zones one is inhabited of them that be in our habitation being in length nigh an hundred thousand furlongs and in breadth about half the same 42. Of the Coelestial Signs with their Stars THe Signs that be blazed with Stars are divided into thrée parts some of them be placed in the circle of the Zodiack some be called Northern and some be called Southern and they that be scituate in the circle of the Zodiack be twelve Beasts whose names we have declared in another place in which twelve Beasts there are divers Stars which for certain notable marks espied in them have taken their proper Names for the fixed Stars that be in the back of Taurus be called Pleiades and the Stars that be placed in the head of Taurus be fix in number and are called Hyades And the Stars that stand before the feet of Geminy are called Propus and the cloud like substance that is in Cancer is called Presepe and the two Stars that stand nigh Presepe are called Afini and the bright Star that is in the Heart of Leo according to the name of his place is the Lyons Heart and it is called of some men the royal Aar for that they that are born under it are thought to have a royal nativity The fair Star that sticketh at the fingers ends of the left hand of Virgo is called the Spike But the little Star that is fastned by the right wing of Virgo is named Protrigettes And the four Stars that be at the right hands end of Aquarius called Urna The Stars that be spread one after another behind Pisces taile are called the Lines And in the South Line there are aine Stars and in the North line five The bright Star that is seen in the Lines end is called Nodus So many are counted for the Forthern as be set betwixt the Zodiack and the North. And they be these Ursarmajor Ursarminor And Draco that lyeth betwixt both Ursa Arctophylax Corona Engonasin the Serpentine the Serpent the Harp the Bird the Arrow the Eagle the Dolphin Protomo Hippy the Horse that standeth by Hippachos Chepheus Cassiopeia Andromeda Perseus Auriga Deltoton And he that was stellifted of Callimacus Bernicks heir Again there be other Stars who for certain plain Apparances that they have in them have had their name given them For the notable Stars that lyeth about the midshanks of the Arctophilar is called Arcturnus And the shining Star that is set by the Harp even by the name of the whole Sign is called the harp and the Stars that be at the top of Perseus left hand are named the Gorgones and the thick small Stars that are espied at the right hands poinâ— of Perseus make as it were a Sythe And the clear Star that is set in the left shoulder of the Driver is called the
not worth full 10 years purchase may the lease of an hundred years or the Fée-simple cannot be worth above 10 years purchase allowing the said rate of 10 per cent for the money Many other questions of Purchases and Reversions might be added as you may sée at large in my Purchasers pattern printed for Mr. Pierrepont at the Sun in Pauls Church yard A brief Discourse of the Celestial part of the World of the Distances Magnitudes Motions and Scituations of the Planets and fixed Stars 1. Of the Heaven of the fixed Stars ALthough by the Diurnal motion of the Primum mobile this Heaven as all the other Orbs of the Planets are be violently turned about once in 24 hours yet they retain a proper motion to themselves which is contrary to the former this motion is called natural because it is effected by the proper motion of the Star or Planet in its own Orbe and the other motion is called Violent because it forceth a motion contrary to what the thing it self in nature would perform This Heaven of the fixed Stars is very slow in motion moving but one degree in 71 years and so is 25412 years moving through the whole Zodiack It is adorned and beautified with divers glorious bodies of several magnitudes of which the Ancients have noted 6 in number and that the multiplicity of these glorious bodies might not confound the beholders by their irregular scituation the Ancients have contracted their number by the uniting a certain number of them together into the form or fashion of some living Creature or other object as the SWAN the BEAR the SHIP the CROSSE c. and these are called ' Constellations of these Consteliations the Ancients observed only 48 though there be others found out of later times of which 21 were on the North side of the Equinoctial 15 on the South side and 12 in the Zodiack it self each of these Constellations contain a certain number of these Stars whose magnitudes are very vast in respect of this little ball whereon we live for A Star of the first Magnitude is greater than the Globe of the whole Earth 68 times of which magnitude there are 15 Stars A Star of the second Magnitude is greater than the Globe of the whole Earth 28 times of which magnitude there are 45 Stars A Star of the third magnitude is greater than the Globe of the whole Earth 11 times of which magnitude there are 208 Stars A Star of the fourth magnitude is greater than the Globe of the whole Earth 11 times of which magnitude there are 244 Stars A Star of the fifth Magnitude is greater than the Globe of the whole Earth 21 times of which magnitude there are 217 Stars But a Star of the sixth Magnitude is lesse than the Earth and of his Magnitude are 49 Stars An Appendix to the precedent Almanack 2. Of the Heaven of Saturn THis Heaven is scituated within the Concavity of the Heaven of the fixed Stars and containeth only the body of his own Planet which appeareth as a Star of the second magnitude he is of a swarthy and obscure colour like unto lead his distance from the Earth in his mean distance is 9091960 Miles and the circumference of his Spheare is 57030266 miles according to which by the violent motion of the primum mobile he is moved 2376261 Miles in an hour but his own proper motion is slower than any of the other Planets yet much swifter than that of the fixed Stars for he endeth his course in 30 years 3. Of the Heaven of Jupiter VVIthin the Concavity of the Sphear of Saturn is sciutated the heaven of Jupiter in which moveth the body of 4 which appeareth like a Star of the first magnitude very bright and of nature warm In his mean distance he is distant from the Earth 3431400 Miles his body exceeding the earth in magnitude 14 times the periemter of his sphear being 21568800 miles so that his hourly motion is 898700 Miles he finisheth his Zodiacal period in 11 years and 316 dayes 4. Of the Heaven of Mars UNder the Heaven of Jupiter is the Orb of Mars appearing of a red fiery colour being distant from the earth in his mean distance 1500700 Miles the Circumference of his Spheare being 9432971 Miles so that by the violent motion of the primum mobile he is moved 393040 Miles in the space of an hour he compleateth his revolution in one year and 322 dayes 5. Of the Heaven of the Sun THe Sun is seated in the midst of the Planetary Orb by which he enlightens the superiour as well as the inferiour In his mean distance he is distant from the earth 989000 Miles the magnitude of his body being according to Tycho 140 times greater than the earth the compasse of his Orb being 6216571 Miles and he moveth in a hour 259023 Miles he maketh his Zodiacal revolution in 365 dayes 5 hours 49 min. 16 second 6. Of the Heaven of Venus VENUS the most bright and splendent star in all the Firmament is moved about the Sun as about a Centre her distance from the earth being 989000 Miles she moveth equally about the Sun though her motion séem to be very irregular she is sometimes higher and sometimes lower than the Sun she is six times lesse than the Earth and is distant from the Sun 735300 Miles 7. Of the Heaven of Mercury VVIthin the concavity of the Spheare of VENUS is placed MERCURY he is seituate very near the Sun and is never above 29 degrees distant from the Sun so that he is rarely séen he moveth about the Sun as Venus doth and is distant from the Earth 989000 Miles he is lesse than the earth 19 times 8. Of the Heaven of the Moon THe Moon is the lowest of all the Planets being distant from the earth in her mean distance 48760 Miles the Circumference of her Spheare being 306491 Miles she runneth in the space of an hour 12770 miles she is lesse than the Earth 39 times but according to Copernicus 43 times and finisheth her course in 27 dayes 7 hours 43 min. and 6 seconds Having thus taken a brief view of the heavenly Orbs we cannot but admire their vast magnitudes and swift motions and if from hence we can learn nothing yet let us learn this that there is a God and that he is far above all the works of his hands and the Wise-man contemplating thereupon saith We may understand by the heavens how much mightier he is that made them for by the greatness and glory of the Creatures proportionally the Maker of them is seen A most plain and easie Table shewing the true time of the beginning and continuance of the Reign of each King and Queen in England from the Conquest until this year 1662. Gathered forth of Chronicles and set forth for the profitable use of Lawyers Scriveners c. William Conqueror began his Reign 1066. October 15. and Reigned 20 years 11 months and 22 dayes William Rufus began his Reign