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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42439	The mirrour of true nobility and gentility being the life of the renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius, Lord of Pieresk, Senator of the Parliament at Aix / by Petrus Gassendus ; englished by W. Rand.	Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655.; Rand, William.	1657 (1657)	Wing G295; ESTC R24346	292,591	558

Aix might a little after diligently observe all things thereunto pertaining And that I may relate somewhat thereof for the sakes of those that desire to know such things The Comet appeared from the end of November to the middle of January and because it rose in the morning therefore the tail thereof was seen turning upwards some dayes before the head appeared The head was a star somewhat pale as big as the fixt stars of the first magnitude but twinckled not as they do round on that side which was towards the Sun and crisped on the other end The tail or hair was a thinner Radiation and more white as long at first as an eighth part of the Heaven and broad at the end which did for the first dayes turn a little towards the South as much as came to a sixth part of its length The first appearance of its head was there where Scorpio contracts his clawes its disappearance or ending was where the Dragon parting the Bears does unsold the end of his tail For besides the daily motion whereby this Comet did rise and set as the other Stats it went by its own proper motion from South to North but so as if it had begun at the middle of Scorpio and had there cut the Ecliptick inclining to the West near sixty three degrees And whereas at first this motion was every day two degrees and an eighth part it became about the Nones of December swifter by an whole degree and afterwards it did so decrease that at length it languished as also its tail which at the beginning was so long became by little and little so shortened that at last it vanished and became undistinguishable from the head Peireskius understanding thus much could almost have found in his heart to assent to Kepler who esteemed that motion to be a passage in a streight line which was near us seeing it appeared so swift nor could be hindered by the diurnall revolution as if it had been caused by the revolution of the earth And as he knew that a Comet was no Exhalation from the earth so could he not be perswaded that it was Eructation from the Sun or a Concretion of the liquid Heavens He was more enclined to the opinion of Seneca that Comets are as perpetuall as the stars we daily see so that when this Comet was seen it was not then newly made but onely appeared anew nor did it perish by disso●ution but disappeared by reason of the immense distance Yet it ieemed to him hard to conceive being perswaded that the world is finite Thus much only he easily allowed which was demonstrated from the Observations made viz. that the motion of the Comet was not only above the Moon but hardly lower than the Sun Touching the direction of the tail of the Comet towards that quarter which was opposite to the Sun I need say nothing especially seeing it belongs nor to this place to shew the reason why it kept not a direct opposition but turned sometimes to the right hand and otherwhiles to the left hand by an unequall kind of Deflexion Nor need I speak of what it presaged seeing it is not the least argument of humane weaknesse to be afraid of those things which have nothing to do with this world wherein we live At least it is a wonder that men will not beleeve God himself who commands that we should not be afraid of the signes of Heaven forasmuch as he makes not signes of such things as being unexpounded can give no warning And unlesse God make a Comet to be the signe of calamities en●uing how can the Comet either have knowledge of suture things or a desire to discover them Does not the Comet take its own course as all other naturall things being little concerned what a stir the Nations of Mankind make one with another But this Comet was said to foreshew the wars a●●●●ighters which followed as if before there ●●●●een no wars pestilence nor death of Kings as ●● no Tragedies were now in action twenty ye●●●●●re They refer all to the Comet and by the ●ne reason they may refer all the troubles that small arise hereafter till a new Comet appear and make the former forgotten though it should not appear till an hundred years hence But we have digressed too far Afterwards Peireskius spared no pains that there might be a generall and particular description of the world perfected For 1619. in the first place as he carefully cherished so he did not a little encourage Petrus Bertius who came then newly on t of Holland to publish his Geographicall labours Moreover because there came out at that time that same description of the earth according to nine Climates and the Nubiensian Geography so called by Gabriel Sionita who rendered the Arabick Text into Latine Peireskius presently sent a copy to Cluverius and took care that he should make a Map wherein the situation of places might be expressed according to that Geography Moreover because there was a report that Johannes Maerius a Sea-Captain of Holland having detected a large and calm Strait Eastward of the Magellanick and observed new things Countreys and Peoples sailed happily about the world yet for some reasons would not let his observations come in print therefore he prevailed so far with Gulielmus Schutten the chief Pilot as to obtain a Diary or Journall of the whole voyage which he presently caused to be turned into Latine and printed And because Maerius went to Law with Schutten for so doing he assured him that he would save him harmlesse as to the charge of the Suit Nor did this hinder him from attempting the like about another voyage For it was constantly reported that a Hollands ship was returned from the North or Hyperborean Sea which had sailed within seven degrees of the Pole but he could by no means obtain a description of the course of the voyage But however he commended the Pilot in that though he might have sailed just under the Pole with lesse difficulty than can be imagined yet he did not do it for then having no North or South no Sun-rise nor Sun-set no use of the Load-stone for to shew the winds he would not have known which way to make his course one way or another Again because he knew that Vincentius Claneus a Citizen of Arles having travelled far and near had collected very many observations of such things as he had seen therefore he sent to seek for them that if he were willing they might be printed Whereupon he obtained them but observing that all the discourse was infected with arguings especially with that opinion that the surface of the earth is not round but flat therefore he would have the whole businesse referred to the learned Nicolaus Bergeronus ordering him to select and expresse after his own manner what ever he found meerly historicall and containing a credible narration of things And afterwards he perswaded Blancus to like of that course saying That the