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A85919	The first lecture of an introduction to cosmographie: being a description of all the vvorld. Read publiquely at Sr. Balthazar Gerbiers academy. Imprimatur, Hen: Scobell, Cleric: Parliamenti.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1649 (1649)	Wing G558; Thomason E584_6; ESTC R206228	9,183	20

which both the understanding and wil of man depends Now let us consider I beseech you how the Mercy of God hath alwayes augmented some degree of perfection in each Body for to compleate in man a fulnesse of the perfection of all his workes and how hee hath placed him as a King to command over and to make use of the aforesaid things Et praesit piscibus Maris volatilibus Coeli bestiis universaque Terra omnique reptili quod movetur in Terra All which are only made for mans use and advantage For God was no lesse before the world then he is now and hath no need of any of the creatures to bee more glorious wee ought therefore to have a great and deep sense of acknowledgement And that our labour be not in vaine we must consider that great Architector in his wisdom in his power in his liberality and in his bounty we must adore him honour him and admire him in all his Attributes and thanke him incessantly not onely for the present meanes the vicissitude of which sufficiently shew their vanity but for the hope of eternall blessings to which hee hath designed us provided that we prove true by faith and that we make good by our workes that we acknowledge him above all things but alas unhappy men as we are in what an Age doe we live wherein the creature is more praised then the Creator the gift is perfected to the giver and that which we should but take notice of as a transitory thing we do abuse oft Christian prudence permitting and willing it by a most horrid blindnesse preferring those things unto the Author of them which are but created in order according to Nature Therefore the most insensible things and most inanimate ones both dictate unto and convince those with a most horrid shame and confusion who dare so boldly and impudently abuse that great Author Guider and preserver of all things But he will not be abused doe what thou canst O inraged Atheist thou perverse wit of the most perverse times for he will make thee confesse thy wilfull malice in the day of vengeance when thou shalt not be able to pleade ignorance since as thy senses condemne thee so doe likewise the Elements which at all times seek their proper places the Fire being light ascends the Aire not so light remaines in the lower sphere the Earth the heaviest of the foure keepes to its Center and the Water lesse heavy swims above it Now as those things that are mixt have one of the Elementary qualities in one eminent degree above the other so they seek their sphere do not rest til they have attained unto it For a ston would descend even to the center of the Earth if there were an overture in it as being the most properest place of its abode being its altogether terrestriall We see that wood swims above the water and the reason is that there is more Aire and Fire in its composition then either in the Water or in the Stone And let man do what he will it shall ever be so because that God hath created them and bestowed on them those properties of lightnesse and heavinesse which causeth those motions making the light things to ascend and the heavy ones to descend and since Gods will is inviolable all things must obey it Now let us come to Man made by God as well as all the other Elements and likewise all other things and to what end made God Man only to admire his greatnesse and to adore him which certainly is the sole reason why God made man according to his owne resemblance and indued him with a rationall soule and a sensible appetite or desire Unto what can man then more fitly apply that sensible appetite or desire but to follow in all things the designe and intent of his Maker from the beginning to the very end of his life And this doubtlesse is the true reason of mans being and the true vocation man ought to apply himselfe unto And no more to vary therein then the Stones change their property of descending nor the Fire its course of ascending God hath created thee Oh man to this effect and intent but if thou wilt not follow his dictates to what serveth thy intellectuals thy knowledge and thy will save only to harden thy heart against God and against his will far more then all inanimate creatures do and hereby to hinder the effect of his graces in thee wherfore we ought seriously to meditate hereon and to rest assured that if so bee wee doe abuse the Tallent which we have received by rendring more honour unto vice and unto our stubborne lawlesse senses than unto God we shall render our selves unworthy to be placed even beneath the insensible things and that instead of an eternall blisse for the which we were created we shall most justly deserve to indure eternall torments from which God in his mercy preserve us all and grant unto us that true sense of reason which may preserve his true Image and workemanship in us and inable us to destroy our owne voide of sensuality Dele quod fecisti ut Deus salvet quod secit saith Augustine Now let us enter into some particulars concerning the treaty of the severall parts of the Universe or World particularly described by this Science of Cosmography which may stand us in stead for the present and so enable us for the future that we may be the better disposed to contemplate the same from above What the Sphere is THe Science or understanding of the Sphere is the knowledge or the being acquainted with the particulars of this worlds parts and properties The world is the assembling and ordering of all that God hath created it s the composure of Heaven and of Earth or of the Celestiall and Elementary Region and therefore it is called the Universe And to the end that we might have a more particular insight in this Science an Artificial Sphere hath been framed being of a round forme composed of sundry circles by the which though imaginary ones the motion of the Heavens are described The reasons of the severall changes in the seasons of the yeare that of the difference of dayes and nights according to the severall places and scituations or the terrestriall Globe Finally by the Sphere you may observe the whole course of the world being it was made according to the worlds resemblance What the Heaven is AS we are not resolved to build Castles in the Aire nor to entertaine our Auditory with imaginary things but to give most evident proofes of what we alledge so it will be necessary to make appeare unto you that there is a Heaven before we come to distinguish its qualities and herein we shall meet with no great difficulties since that Nature admitting of no emptines that space which is between the Firmament the Imperial Orbe and the lowermost of the Planets to wit the Moon must of necessity be filled with

fixed Stars are and the which never vary their scituation distance nor figure or shape and this Heaven is called by them the Firmament How the Astronomers divide the Stars or whether they be numberlesse or no AS for the fixed Stars we hold them to be numberlesse the Holy Scriptures giving us a testimony thereof I meane that besides the great infinite number that we see there are yet a far more infinit number of lesserstars which are by us not seen as hath been observed by certain Prospective Glasses made in Italy and though the Ancients have not marked above 1022. their meaning was not that there were no more Stars but that they had observed none but those as being only the cheifest which they had need of And those thousand twenty two Stars are divided into forty eight Constellations or Figures of Animalls which the Ancients have supposed for to discerne the one from the other and have separated and disposed of them into three ranks as Septentrionalls Zodiackes and Meridionalls Moreover the Stars are distinguisht by their severall Magnitudes or Bignesses which have been found to be six So that all the great Stars are of the first Bignesse the lesser of the second third fourth fifth and sixth magnitude or bignesse in which the least of them all are comprehended Whether or no the Stars be translucent of themselves and transparent THe Stars have no proper light of themselves save in this manner all the Stars and Planets are of one and the selfe-same Nature But the Moone hath no other light then what she borroweth of the Sunne so no more can any of the other Stars have any other light but from the Sun But suppose it be objected that the Moon loseth not altogether its light though she Eclipses in the shadow of the Earth because that in the Eclipsed party there appears a rednesse and that such a rednesse for ought we know might be her natural light I answer That that rednes cannot be her natural because that if it were so she would never quit that rednes save when she increases or that she is in her first quarter And then that part of the Moon which is not illuminated by the Sun ought to have that rednesse which is not so as we see by experience And therefore all rednesse is not naturall to the Moon Moreover if it be demanded from whence that rednesse proceeds its from the reflection of the lig 〈…〉 is encountered by the Moone in the shado 〈…〉 Earth For as the Moone is a polisht body 〈…〉 the shadow of the Earth is never destitute of some little light so it 's that little light which causes the rednesse in her So that by what is aforesaid it clearly appeares that the Sunne is the Principle of light it being Gods pleasure to adorn it with such an eminent quality Furthermore we say that the Stars are not so transparent as the Heaven is which may be seen by the Moon and Mercury when they are interposed between our eyes and the Sunne and that they Eclipse her And so its apparent that the Stars are both dusky and danky That the Heavens are round and that they move the one within the other from the East to the West their usuall course AS we have hitherto proved that there are eight Heavens so must we prove that they are round and that they turne the one within the other from East to West the which may appear unto us most manifestly for we see that the Sun the Planets and all the other Stars do rise first in the East on our Horizon then little by little they advance toward the South and that finally they set in the West so next againe they rise all in the East We will but instance in the Sun And say that it must be either the selfe same Sun or another which we daily see to rise and set It cannot be any other for that then every day would require a new one And if it be the same Sun it must either have past over within or underneath the Earth Over the Earth it cannot have past for as much as then there would have been no night the presence of the Sun causing the day neither can it have past within the Earth because as we shall see hereafter its greater then the Earth It remains then that it must have past underneath the Earth and that consequently its Orbe or Heaven turnes about the Earth And since all the Heavens turne the one within the other about the Earth and that from the East to the West we may justly then say that the Heavens are round It s also granted that the Heavens are round because that being they are the most noble part of the world and in which all the rest are contained it is most necessary that they should be of a round forme which is the most capablest and most perfectest of al others For if the Heavens had any other Figure or Forme those which are inferiour to the others could not possibly transport their Planets from the East to the West because of their Angles or else we must grant that they penetrate each other and so there would chance to be a penetration in the matter of the Heavens which would contradict what hath been formerly proved to wit that its matter or substance is both solide and fixt c. The End of the first Lecture concerning COSMOGRAPHY

The FIRST LECTURE of an Introduction to COSMOGRAPHIE BEING A Description of all the VVORLD Read Publiquely at Sr. Balthazar Gerbiers ACADEMY PSALM 8. ver. 3. 4. When I consider the Heavens the work of thy fingers the Moon and the Starres which thou hast ordained What is man that thou art mindfull of him and the Son of man that thou visitest him Imprimatur Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti Printed at London for Robert Ibbitson dwelling in Smithfield neer Hosier Lane 1649. To the Right Honorable William Lenthall Esq SPEAKER Of the most Honourable Assembly of PARLIAMENT Right Honourable I Shall not need as I humbly conceive to seek farre for a just argument that the Dedication of this Lecture being an Introduction to Cosmography read in the Academy which I doe zealously labour to settle for the glory of God the honor of this Nation the encouragement and improvement of all Lovers of Vertue belongs to your eminent place of Trust And from whose determinations as from the highest Influences of so many Stars guide direct move and preserve the whole Body of this Common wealth My Academy-Reader in part to make good my more large intentions having begun with Cosmography as the most noble subject to read on presents therefore these his first productions to your honourable hands as an unquestionable duty and with all Submissivenesse and possible reverence wishing that the State may please not only to protect these hopefull beginnings but likewise to cherish and promote them That all Lovers of Vertue may receive content and profit thereby and the Nation glory that such capable spirits need not to runne unto Salamanca in Spaine to Padua in Italy no● to Paris in France there to seek with hazard of their godlinesse goodnesse and Loyalty to their Native Country that which they may have at home with more ease and safety and with lesse charge to themselves And if in this case the lawfull interest of a particular zealous well-wisher to the State may be comprehended I shall with a joyfull confidence conclude that I have not been ill-perswaded thereunto nor can I have a greater hope or reap a greater contentment than by putting my hand to so good a work which giving me an assured confidence that my indeavours may meet with a favourable acceptance from Your Honour unto whom I shall remaine as I was long since Your Honours most humble and most obedient Servant Balthazar Gerbier From the Academy this 28 of Novemb. 1649. The First Introduction to COSMOGRAPHY COSMOGRAPHY is the description of the celestiall and elementary Region In the celestiall Region we learne to know Heaven its matter its qualities The Planets their motions and their order c. In the Elementary Region we see the most admirable construction of the Elements the which by their unequall proportioned assemblings do compose the severall sorts of kindes of mixt ones which wee see here below All this we shall particularly describe with their qualities properties and scituations And in that Region which seemes for a Center unto the universall world we shall see an innumerable number of most remarkable satisfying and most necessary things to be observed viz. The proofes of its circular forme whether the Earth or Water exceeds the one or the other in quantity The scourses or heads of Springs and Floods the smallnesse of the terrestriall globe not onely in comparison of the Heavens but also of the Sun and of the Stars And how that the said Earth may be measured both on its superficies and on its solidity Afterwards we shall describe the circles which are to be imagined in the Heavens That so we may learn the course of the Planets and the various effects which we feele by them As the causes of their rising and setting of the Summer and Winter of the long and the short dayes So also we must have regard to the Solstices and Equinoxes from whence the different constitutions of the Earth do proceed and severall other things the curiosity whereof as its extreame commendable so its familiar incidents prove altogether necessary unto those who are desirous to passe for men of knowledge and understanding And that we may end in our owne sphere we will finish with a Lecture on the Meteors wherein all the impressions that are made as well of Fire as of the Aire and of the water both in the high middle and low Region of the Aire shall be clearly shewed and set forth unto our view That is to say whence the fiery impressions proceed and how those impressions are framed which are seen in the high Region of the Ayre viz. Like unto fiery Darts Launces Flying Stars and Commets and how it happens that the Heavens themselves seem to be sometimes al on fire whence the lightening thunder and thunderbolts proceeds whence the wild fire glow-wormes and such like have their being And so consequently we will treate of the impressions framed in the Aire as the winds stormes and the whirlewindes Those of the Waters as the Clouds Raine Snow and Hail which are framed in the middlemost Region Then we will proceed to describe other impressions which are not real ones as that Crown of resplendant rayes which seems to be about the Sun the Rain-bow and the like from thence we shall descend lower and observe from whence all Fogs Dewes Mists Frosts and Ice proceeds Finally we will end with the three kinds or species contained in the Earth as Mineralls Vegetables and Animalls observing in the Mineralls their generation in the bowells of the Earth their qualities and connexions and how they chance to be seven correspondent to the seven Planets Moreover we will treate of all kind of Stones as also of the sappes conducing in the Mines like unto Vitriol Allum and such like which depend of these In the ingendering of the vegetables we are to consider the nature of plants their faculties in producing their severall effects and their multiplying by their seed after all wee will conclude with the Animalls the which besides their vegetating Soule and faculty of budding and shooting forth have over and above the sensitive part which gives them both feeling and motion and these are much esteemed above the Plants all their organs and naturall parts being much perfecter then those of the others But of these these are two sorts the rationall and irrationall Man and Beast but we shall leave the beasts for to speake of rationall creatures it being more proper in this place Let us then say that man far more worthy then all other things was created by God for that by his word all things were made fiat lux Genesis the second and the light straight appeared But when God came to make man he formed him Formavit Dominus Deus Hominem de Lima Terrae Et inspiravit in faciem ejus spiraculum vitae factus est homo in animam viventem And both animated and endowed him besides the precedent said qualities with an intellectual soule of