DE LYNN so named from the Town where he was born in Norfolk a Carmelite Fryer Astrologorum sui Temporis in Anglia celeberrimus ac maximus sayes Balaeus He wrote Canones Tabularum De Natura Zodiaci De Planetarum Domibus De Sphaera Iudiciali Astrologorum Dogmata De Figuris Signis De Mundi Revolutione De Usu Astrolabii De Eclipsi Solis De Astrorum Iudiciis de Variis Genituris BLASIUS PELACANIS or as the Italians write him BIAGIO PELACANO of Parma by Alberto Leandro in Descript. Ital. stiled an Excellent Philosopher and Astronomer left sayes Simler from the Authority of Iovius Quaestiones Subtilissimae in Astronomia Optica He taught at Pavy under Io. Galeazzo first Duke of Millain His Book being yet extant in MS in the Medicean Library LEO Emperour of Constantinople Son of Basilius Macedo was very learned in Mathematicks His Tactica sive de Acie ordinanda are yet extant Printed at Basile 1554. And some MSS. of his are in the French King's Library entitled Logarica an Obsolete Word instead of Logistica and are supposed to contain some Astronomical Computations and an Exercise upon Diophantus HENRICUS DE HASSIA a Germane Professour of Theology and Astronomy at Vienna having shewn his Knowledge in the latter in his Comment upon Genesis lib. 1. and in Theoricis Planetarum as Ricciolus affirms JOHANNES CHYLMARK Fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford Mathematicus insigniter doctus as Balaeus characters him published a small Treatise De Accidentiis Planetarum JOHANNES SOMER a Franciscan Fryer in the Convent of that Order at Bridgewater wrote Calendarii Castigationes Tertium Calendarii Astrorum Canones and De Quantitate Anni RICHARD the Second King of England wrote something in Astronomy or Astrology now extant in his Majesty's Library at St. Iames's JOANNES DE LINERIIS or DE LINARIIS Siculus wrote Canones primi Mobilis of which mention is made by Zacutus in his Tables He wrote likewise Canones Quadrantis compositivi operativi which Pieces of his are extant in MS. in the Library of Nicholaus Trivisanus of Padua as I find in Thomasinus his Bibliothec. Patavin GERARDUS CREMONENSIS translated Geber out of Arabick into Latine and put forth Theoricae Planetarum but such as are severely censured by Io. Regiomontanus JOHANNES DE EGMUNDA Professour of Astronomy at Vienna Published Tables De Motibus Planetarum de Luminarium Eclipsibus calculated for the Meridian of Vienna He wrote likewise De Astrolabio together with other Works which are said to be yet extant in the Library at Vienna GALFRIDUS CHAUCER a learned Knight and Prince of English Poets Cui Veneres debet Patria lingua suas to use Leland's Encomium of him merits a place in this Catalogue for his Book of the Astrolabe which he composed for the use and instruction of his Son JOHANNES WALTERUS Scholar at first in the Colledge of Winchester afterwards Fellow of New-Colledge in Oxford where he chiefly applied himself to Mathematical Studies and published Tabulae Aequationis Domorum and Tabulae Ascensionum Universalium as they are cited by Balaeus GULIELMUS BATECUMB alias BADECON Professour of Mathematicks in the University of Oxford wrote De Sphaera Concava De fabrica usu ejusdem De operatione Astrolabit and Dâ—… Sphaera Solida He is said to have flourished in the Reign of King Henry V. by G. Vossius and by Balaeus he is ranged among the Authours of this time PETRUS ALIACENSIS Cardinal and Bishop of Cambray and Chancellour of the University of Paris wrote besides his other Theological Works Quaestiones in Sphaeram Sacrobosci De Reformatione Calendarii and another Tractate entitled Concordia Theologiae Astronomiae JOHANNES GERSON Chancellour of the University of Paris put forth at Lyons Trilogium Astrologiae Theologizatae or as G. Vossius mends the Title Trilogium Astrologiae ad Theologiae Trutinam expensae PROSDOCIMUS DE BELDEMANDO of Padua some time before Io. Baptista Capuanus Published a Comment in Sphaeram Sacrobosci which Lucas Gauricus caused to be Printed in the year 1531. He writ likewise Canones Operativi Compositivi Astrolabii and Canones de Motibus corporum Coelestium written in the year 1434. Whereof a MS. transcribed by Candus Master of Arts and Doctour of Physick Nephew to the said Beldemandus is extant in Bibliotheca Candorum as Thomasinus affirms in Bibliotheâ—… Patavin GEORGIUS TRAPEZUNTIUS born in Creet but taking his name from Trapezond a City in Cappadocia translated into Latine Ptolemy's Almagest to which he added of his own an Isagoge together with a Comment He commented likewise upon Ptolemy's Centiloquium and wrote a Book De Antisciis and another with this Title Cur Astrologorum judicia plerunque fallant as Voss. de Scient Mathemat affirms ULUGH BEIG Nephew to the Great Tamerlane put forth most exact Astronomical Tables in Arabick of the Longitude and Latitude of the Fixed Stars calculated for the Meridian of Samarcand To which were added the Commentary of Ali Cushgi But the said Tables collated with Three Persian Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library about the year 1665. were translated into Latine and Printed with the Arabick at Oxford by Doctour Hyde Keeper of the said Library to which he added his own most learned Commentary together with Mohammedes Tizinus his Tables of the Declination and Ascension of the Fixed Stars in Arabick and Latine ALI CUSHGI wrote Astronomica extant among the Manuscripts of Iacobus Golius He flourished in the time of Ulugh Beig to whom he was assistant in composing his Tables KADI ZADA or as the Persians pronounce it KAZI ZADE whose name more fully expressed is MULANA SALAH EDDIN MUSA surnamed Cadi-Zadi Rumaeus was one of the Assistants to Ulugh Beig in calculating his Astronomical Tables MULANA GIJATH EDDIN GIEMSHID Published a Piece by him entitled Scala Coeli or Of the Distances and Magnitudes of the Celestiaâ—… Bodies He was likewise an Assistant to Ulugh Beig JOHANNES GAZULUS of Ragusa a great Astronomer and Astrologer flourished about this time of him Simler writes that Nescio quid Astronomicum scripsit He is named by Ioannes Regiomontanus in his Tables of Directions and what he writ was a Method of the erecting a Celestial Figure or Scheme which is now called the Way of Campanus and Gazulus HUMPHREY Duke of Gloucester surnamed The Good Son of Henry the Fourth King of England Nobilitatis omnis atque Eruditionis Phoenix planè Unicus as he is stiled by Balaeus was a great Lover of Astronomical and Astrological Learning and set forth Tables of Directions of his own Composing GEORGIUS THEMISTUS PLETHO CONSTANTINOPOLITANUS composed a Book entitled De Mensium ac Annorum Ordineâ—… Dierúmque Recensione NICHOLAUS CUSANUS born at Cusa a Town seated upon the Moselle in the Diocess of Treves known by the title of Cardinal of St. Peter's ad
1580 GEORGIUS COLLIMITIUS TANNESLETTERUS was Scholar to Andreas Stiborius as Gesner affirms He writ De Applicatione Astrologiae ad Medicinam De Natura Proprietatibus Planetarum out of Haly Firmicus and Alchabitius and some other Tracts upon those Arguments Printed at Basil 1524. MOHAMMED IBNO'L ATTAR published Astronomical Tables of the Motions of the Planets calculated for the Longitude of Damascus written in the year of the Hegira 930. and of Christ 1523. and preserved in Manuscript in the Publick Library at Oxford ALBERTUS BRUDZEVIUS Professour of Mathematicks in the University of Cracovia was the first Master and Instructour of Copernicus in Astronomy as we find it mentioned by Gassendus in the life of Copernicus PETRUS APPIANUS of Leipsick called in the Germane Tongue Binewilt Professour of Mathematicks at Ingolstadt in intimate favour with the Emperour Charles the Fifth who not only invited him to his Court but also honoured him with Knighthood wrote a Book of Cosmography revised and augmented by Gemma Frisius together with Observations of several Eclipses He put forth likewise an Instrument or Table of the Primum Mobile with 100 Problems thereupon and another Piece entituled Opus Caesareum in which to use Ricciolus's Expression Rotulis Automatis ingeniosissimis docet expedire omnia ferè Problemata Astronomica Of his several other Works not proper to this place see Vossius De Scient Mathemat FRANCISCUS SARZOSUS of Xelsa in Arragon wrote two Books in Aequatorâ—…m Planetarum Alphonsinae Hypothesi superstructum as Ricciol affirms Chron. Astronom Part. 2. JOHANNES VOGELLINUS was Disciple to Ioh. Regiomontanus and made Observations on the Comets appearing in the years 1527. and 1532. PETRUS CIRVELLUS besides his Cursus Mathem Artium Published a Treatise De Correctione Calendarii Printed Compl. 1528. HENRICUS BAERSIUS alias VEKENSTYL a Mathematician and Printer to the University of Lovaine put forth but not under his own Name Tabulae perpetuae Longitudinum Latitudinum Planetarum calculated for the Meridian of Lovaine And under his own name he likewise set forth a Book De Compositione Usu Decretorii Planetarum and another De Compositione Usu Quadrantis OTHO BRUNFELSIUS Doctour of Physick at Mentz totius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cultor a great Student likewise in Divinity and the Sacred Scriptures out of which he endeavoured to refute Iudiciary Astrology He prefixed likewise to the Edition of Firmicus Printed by Hervagius and dedicated to him by Nicholaus Prucnerus a small Treatise not unuseful to young Beginners De Definitionibus Terminis Astrologiae JOANNES FERNELIUS of Ambois a famous French Physician and as eminent a Geometrician and Astronomer wrote besides other his Learned Works a particular Treatise entituled Cosmotheoria in which he explains the Motions Site Magnitude and Theory of the Celestial Bodies and another Piece called Monalosphaerium JOHANNES CARIO besides his Chronological Work left as Vossius terms them Practicas Astrologicas nec non Ephemerides beginning with the year 1536 and ending in the year 1550. JACOBUS MILICHIUS Professour of Mathematicks at Wittemberg and Tutour to Erasmus Reinholdus wrote a Commentary upon the Second Book of Plinius Secundus the Subject whereof is chiefly Astronomical ORONTIUS FINAEUS of Dauphiné Regius Professor of Mathematicks at Paris wrote De Sphaera Of Cosmography Of the Theory of the Planets Astronomical Canons or Problems of the Primum Mobile Of the difference of Longitude to be found by the Moon and several other Pieces which as Blancanus advises ought to be read cum Antidoto Petri Nonnii de Erroribus Orontii HIERONYMUS FRACASTORIUS a Native of Verona an excellent Poet Physician Philosopher and Astronomer Published a Book De Orbibus Excentricis Homocentricis which he dedicated to Pope Paul III. SEBASTIANUS MUNSTERUS was famous for two things as Vossius affirms to wit Hebraeis Literis Mathesi As to what concerns our purpose he wrote Notes In Geographiam Ptolemaei Universalem Cosmographiam and of Dyalling as also Organum Uranicum wherein the Theories of the Planets and their Motions were computed for an hundred years and more He was also Authour of the Canones super novo Luminarium Instrumento JOACHIMUS FORTIUS RINGELBERGIUS of Antwerp writ De Horoscopo De Tempore De Cosmographia and Three Books of Astrological Institutions JOHANNES ROBINUS in English Robins was a great Astrologer and put forth a Book De Portentosis Cometis dedicated by him to King Henry VIII which Balaeus calls Opus valde Lucidum now extant in Manuscript in the hands of Mr. Thomas Gale SIMON GRYNAEUS Native of Viring a Town in Suevia or Suaben merited eminently in all kind of Learning particularly by publishing in Greek the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Ptolemy to which he added a Preface of his own touching the use thereof Dedicated to King Henry the Eighth of England Printed at Basil 1538. HENRICUS GLAREANUS a Geographer Chronologer Musician and Physician Native of Glarona commonly called Glarys a Town in Swisserland put forth a Book De Geographia induced chiefly thereunto as he pretends in his Preface because he found the Sphere of Proclus to be too concise and only fitted to the Horizon of Greece and erroneous as to the Description of some Circles and Sacroboscus in his Parallels and Climates mutilous and defective He published likewise other Pieces both in Astrology and Cosmography being according to the testimony of G. Vossius Vir undequaque doctissimus ACHILLES P. GASSARUS of Lindaw by Gesner stiled Medicus Mathematicus praestantissimus put forth a Chronology from the beginning of the World to the year of Christ 1532. He published likewise a Mathematical Table entituled Sciaterion Pedarium Printed at Zurick JODOCUS CLITCHTHOVEUS NEOPORTICENSIS writ a Comment upon Iacobus Faber his Theory of the Planets GEORGIUS PRUCNER of Ruspach left behind him sayes Simler in Bibl. Gesner very fair and exquisite Astronomical Instruments and several Books collected by him in Astrorum Scientia yet preserved at Vienna in Bibliotheca Facultatis Artium JACOBUS CEPORINUS of Zurick eminently learned in the Hebrew Greek and Latine Languages put forth a Commentary upon Dionysius his Periegesis and Aratus his Astronomicon Printed at Basil by Wolphius in the year before mentioned as Gesner testifies LUDOVICUS DE RIGIIS published Astrological Aphorisms addressed to the Patriarch of Constantinople Printed at Norimberg in the year 1535. together with Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos JOHANNES STIGELIUS Native of Gota a City in the Province of Thuringen in Germany an ingenious Poet and Mathematician Professour at Wittemberg and Iena put forth Prognosticks upon the Eclipse of the Moon happening in the year 1536 as likewise others upon one of the Sun in the year following and upon one of the Moon and another of the Sun in the year 1551. JACOBUS KAEBELIUS besides an Arithmetical Treatise Published another of the Astrolabe
Physick and Professor of Mathematicks in the University at Vienna set forth as Gesner stiles them Gâ—…mentaria Ephemeridum ita conscripta ut quisque absque Praeceptore ex sola Lectione integram inde Artem consequi possit Printed by Aegidius Aquila at Vienna 1551. FRANCISCUS RAPALDUS Doctor of Physick at Bruges in Flanders wrote against Astrology as altogether useless to a Physician to whom Petrus Haschardus of Lisle a Chirurgeon replied in a Discourse by him entituled Clipeum Astrologicum ROBERTUS RECORD a Learned Doctor of Physick and an excellent Mathematician descended of a generous Family in Wales illustrated by his learned Labours Cosmography Geometry Musick and Astronomy He published Cosmographiae Isagogen wrote a Book De Arte faciendi Horologium and another De usu Globorum de statu Temporum All which with several others he writ in the English Tongue PETRUS NONIUS a Portuguez Professor of Mathematicks in the Colledge at Conimbra wrote ' De Crepusculis De Erratis Orontii Astronomical Problems and Rules for Observation together with Annotations in Theoricas Purbacchii commendable sayes Vossius not only for their Acumen and Perspicuity but for discovering divers things omitted and detecting several Errors committed by others HIERONYMUS CARDANUS a Native of Milan Professor of Physick and Mathematicks at Bologna commented upon Ptolemy's Quadripartitum De Iudiciis Astrorum and put forth several other Tracts as 1. De Supplimento Almanach 2. De Restitutione Temporum Motuum Coelestium 3. De Iudiciis Geniturarum 4. De Revolutionibus 5. De Exemplis Centum Geniturarum Aphorismi Astronomici Not to mention his many other Works not relating to our purpose LEVINUS LEMNIUS Medicus Zirizaeus writ three elegant Tractates in the first whereof he treats of Astrology shewing the verity or falsity of that Art in which sayes Gesner multae amoenissimaeque causae explicantur and particularly the Original of the Proverb Quartâ Lunânati MICHAEL NOSTRADAMUS Physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX Kings of France is famous for the several Centuries of Prophetical Prognostications extant under his Name lately Englished with large Annotations which in his Epistle Dedicatory of some part of them to Henry II. he affirms to have calculated by Astronomical Doctrine But whether he were a greater Trifler or Astronomer is by some questioned but especially by Iodelé an ingenious French Poet who hath bestowed on him this Distich NOSTRA DAMUS cum falsa damus nam fallere nostrum est Et cum falsa damus nil nisi NOSTRA DAMUS NICHOLAUS SIMUS Professor of Mathematicks in the Univertsiy of Bologna set forth the Theories of the Planets reduced to a Compendium illustrated with divers Sculps and Figures He put forth likewise Ephemerides for 15. years calculated for the Meridian of Bologna with Canons expounding the use of the said Ephemerides MARCUS FRITSCHIUS LAUBANUS HEXAPOLENSIS wrote a Book De Meteoris with a Catalogue of Prodigies and Ostents Printed at Norimberg 1555. as Gesner attests ANDREAS SCHONERUS Son of Iohannes Schonerus of Carolostadt published Tables of the Primum Mobile according to the Fundamentals of Regiomontanus HADRIANUS JUNIUS HORNANUS for his Learning merited to be stiled Alterum ab Erasmo Hollandiae Lumen He published a Commentary De Anno Mensibus likewise Fastorum Liber sive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rerum Memorabilium qualibet Anni die actarum apud Hebraeos Graecos Romanos gentesque exteras also Calendarium Syllabicum so called because the dayes of the year Vocabulorum Syllabis respondeant besides these he put forth Fasti Caesariani Calendarium These as he writ them were from hand to hand presented to Edward the Sixth King of England afterwards being enlarged and corrected dedicated to his Sister Queen Mary See more of him in Meursius in Athen. Batav and G. Vossius de Scient Mathemat p. 398. JOANNES GARCAEUS a Brandeburgher wrote a Piece entituled Methodus Astrologiae illustrated with 400. Genitures as Ricciolus affirms To which Vossius adds that he put forth at Wittemberg a Commentary consisting of XXII Propositions in which he comprizes the Doctrine of erecting a Celestial Scheme and computing the Motions of the Planets Draudius sayes he put forth a small Treatise De Tempore sive De Ortu Occasu Stellarum De usu Globi Coelestis Printed at Wittemberg 1565. He was Scholar to Gaspar Peucerus JOSEPHUS ZARLINUS a Native of Fossa Clodia commonly called da Chioggia an excellent Musician who in his Institutioni Harmoniche published in Italian treats likewise of the Harmonick System of the Spheres RODOLPHUS BATTINGIUS a Friezlander published Methodum Astrolabii according to Vossius De Scient Math. CORNELIUS VALERIUS VETERAQUINAS Successor to Petrus Nonnius at Lovaine in Collegio Trilingui put forth an Encyclopaedia in which he treats of the Sphere and the Elements of Astronomy and Geography succinctly and elegantly JEAN PIERRE DE MESMES a French Gentleman writ in his own Language Astronomical Institutions Printed at Paris in folio 1557. CONRADUS DASYPODIUS Professor of Mathematicks at Strasbourg put forth Astronomical Precepts and wrote a brief Treatise of Comets and their Effects famous for being Author of the Astronomical Horologe set up in the Great Church at Strasbourg the Description whereof he published in the year 1578. GULIELMUS XYLANDER Successour to Iacobus Mycillus in the Greek Professor's place at Heidelberg a Person of good repute for his Philosophical and Mathematical Studies among other Tractates of the later kind put forth a small Treatise De usu Globi Planisperii Printed at Heidelberg DANIEL BARBARUS a noble Venetian and Patriarch of Aquileia hath sufficiently manifested his excellent knowledge in all Parts of the Mathematicks and particularly in Astronomy by his learned Commentary upon Vitruvius his ninth and tenth Books JOHANNES TEMPORARIUS wrote an Astronomical Treatise which he entituled Organum Astronomicum grounded upon the Prutenick Tables in which the whole Work of Astronomical Calculation is contracted to two Operations to wit only Addition and Substraction All Proportional Scruples are laid aside in the search after which much time is fruitlesly spent The true Precession of the Equinox which by the Alphonsine Astronomers is called the Motion of the Auges of the fixed Stars is exposed to view for some Ages to come The places as well of the Planets as the fixed Stars are with little or no trouble found for any time given The Conjunctions and Defects of the Luminaries with their Quantities and Durations are most exquisitely defined not only â—…n one Climate but in any Parallel whatsoever The Parallaxes whose invention gives trouble to the most experienced Artists are by a wonderful compendious way found out and cleared as to Latitude and Longitude without the trouble of Calculation Whence any one may frame to himself Ephemerides without any pains or labour The Original Manuscript of which Work is at
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
Lansbergius Maginus Galilaeo Gassendus and Bulialdus Almag Nov. Tom. 2. p. 24â—… and 243. Of the Constellations We have in our Notes treated so particularly and so fully that We shall not need to add any thing by way of further Illustration thereunto Only whereas Manilius hath omitted among the Northern Constellations Coma Berenices Ganymed or Antinous and Equuleus or the lesser Horse and in the Southern Hemisphere Eridanus or Fluvius Orionis and Corona Australis besides those which having been but lately detected by Modern Discoveries could not therefore be known to the Ancients We are obliged according to the References given in our Notes to satisfie the Readers Curiosity by making a Particular Description of them in the same manner as we have done of the others COMA BERENICES is by Bayerus called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Coma Spicarum Manipulus and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu Crines called likewise by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Colus as being fashioned like to a Distaff of Flax by the Arab's it is called Alhaud i. e. Lacus seu Cisterna sayes Doctor Hyde in his Notes upon Ulugh Beigh's Table It consists according to Proclus and Stoester of seven Stars according to Kepler of fifteen The Original of this Constellation was from Berenice the Wife of Ptolemaeus Euergetes who vowed if her Husband returned Victorious from his Asian Expedition she would shave her Head and offer her Hair one of her most beauteous Ornaments to Venus to be hung up in her Temple which having accordingly performed it was the next Day after the offering thereof found missing whereupon Conon to flatter King Ptolemy discovered to him that the Head of Hair was translated to Heaven and made a Celestial Constellation celebrated by Callimachus in a particular Greek Poem turned into Latine Verse by Catullus Pliny l. 2. c. 27. seems to make this a Southern Constellation but Ptolemy places it to the North of the Sign Leo not far from the Tayl thereof whose Situation likewise is thus represented by Catullus in the forementioned Poem Saevi contingens namque Leonis Lumina Callisto juxta Lycaonida Vertor in Occasum tardum dux ante Booten Qui vix serò alto mergitur Oceano ANTINOUS and GANYMED are one and the same Constellation for the Asterism which by the Greeks is feigned to represent Ganymed rap'd by the Eagle and carried up to Heaven to serve Iupiter as a Cup-bearer the Romans in Honour of Antinous the beloved Favourite of Hadrian the Emperour will have to be the Representation of that beautiful Bithynian who dying a voluntary Death for the Welfare of the Emperor was by him honoured with Statues Temples Priests and a Place among the Celestial Constellations between the Eagle and Sagittary It consists according to Kepler of seven Stars according to Baierus of eleven and comes to the Meridian at Midnight about the Middle of Iuly EQUULEUS or the Lesser Horse is by Ptolemy called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by others 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Sectio Equi in Chrysococca's Tables 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Caput Equi By Ulugh Beigh Kit'a Al Pháras i. e. Sectio Praecisio vel Segmentum Equi by others of the Arabs called Al Pharas al Auwal i. e. Equus Primus consisting of four Stars in Form of a Horses Head and Neck it comes to the Meridian at Midnight about the Beginning of August To these Northern Constellations some late Astronomers have added several other Asterisms composed out of the Inform Stars or Sporades As of those between the greater Bear and the Sign Leo they have formed the River Iordan Of those between the North Pole Perseus and Auriga an Asterism called Camelo Pardalis and Gyraffa Of the four Stars interposed between the Triangle and the Tail of the Ram another called Vespa by some Apes i. e. the Wasp or the Bees Of the Tract of Stars running between the Swan and the Eagle as far as Serpentarius they have formed the River Tigris or Euphrates and to a single Star of the second Magnitude placed in the midst between Charles his Wain and Coma Berenices from which if a right Line be drawn through the first Star in the Tayl of Ursa Major towards the Pole it will point directly to the Pole Star they have given in Memory of the most Glorious Prince and Martyr Charles the First King of England the Name of Cor Caroli The Primary Invention and Denomination thereof being owing to the most Loyal and truly Learned Sir Charles Scarborough Knight Physician to His Majesty and my Honoured Friend ERIDANUS or PADUS is a Southern Asterism which some will have to be made a Constellation in Memory of Phaeton who was drowned therein the Egyptians challenge it for their Nilus It is called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Fluvius and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Fluvius Orionis because it springs from the left foot of Orion and runs from thence in a flexuous Course Southward Lycophron calls it Aetuse It is called likewise Gyhon and by those of Fetz sayes Ricciolus Vardi i. e. Fluvius by the Moores Guad and by the Arabs Nah'r in the same sence The Thuscans call it Botignon the Ligurians Botigum seu Bodintum as Bayerus in Uranometr Schilleriana affirms It consists according to Ptolemy of 34 Stars according to Baierus of 43. Kepler reckons therein 39. In which the 34 th Star of the first Magnitude is by the Arabs called Al Dalim i. e. Agger or as Doctor Hyde from the Authority of Golius Interprets it Terra fossi primitus Putei or Agger in Aquae Extremitate Hence in Chrysococca's Persian Tables it is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Sulcus Porca It is likewise called in Arabick Acher Nah'r i. e. Ultima Fluminis whence the common Name Acarnar It passes by the Meridian at Midnight in November CORONA AUSTRALIS sive Notia called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Coronae Australis Asterismus and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Corona Secunda likewise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Parvum Coelum and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Caduceum It is called by the Greek Poets 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Rota Ixionis The Arabs give it different Denominations as Al Kubba i. e. Testitudo vel Tabernaculum propter circularem formam and Az'ha Al Naâm i. e. Nidus Struthionis as being near two Stars in the Leg of Sagittarius called Al Naâim whereof one is called Al Naâm al Sadir i. e. Struthio adiens aquam the other Al Naâm Al Wârid i. e. Struthio rediens ab Aqua Ulugh Beigh calls them in the Plural Number Al Naâim which Doctor Hyde translates Pecora because in
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Names Page TAlentonius Johannes 79 Tanaus 117 Tannerus Adamus 88 Tarde Johannes 84 Tacquet Andreas 108 Taruntius Firmanus 15 Teilesanus 74 Temporarius Johannes 58 Teucer Babilonius vide Zeucrus 16 Thales 9 Theaetetus Atheniensis 11 Themistus Pletho Constantinopolitanus 40 Theodoret 23 Theodosius Tripolita 15 Thâ—…on Alexandrinus Senior 20 Theon Alexandrinus Iunior 22 Theophrastus 12 Theut or Thoth vide Hermes 7 Thius Atheniensis 24 Thomas 74 Thrasyllus 18 Tiberius Caesar 18 Timeus 10 Timochares 12 De Titis Placidus 105 Tolosas Johannes Maria 55 Tormius Ericus Olaus 124 Torperley Nathanael 78 Townley Christopher Esquire 93 Townley Richard Esquire 114 Trapezuntius Georgius 39 Travagini Franciscus 109 Trechindus 76 Trew Abdias 9â—… Tribonianus Sidetes 25 Trivett Nicolaus 34 121 De Tryllia Bernardus 77 Tullius Cicero 15 V. Names Page VAlerius Cornelius Veteraquinas 58 Valla Georgius 49 Varro Marcus 15 Ubaldus Guid ' or Guidus 65 Vernerus Johannes 46 Verro Sebastianus 122 Vesputius Bartholomaeus 45 Vettius Valens 21 Victorinus Acquitanus 23 Vieta Franciscus 68 De Villa Nova Arnoldus 7â—… De Villa Dei Alexander 32 Vinetus Elias 59 Virmius alias Virunnius Ponticus 43 Vitalis Ludovicus 46 Vitalis Hieronymus 108 Vitellio Thuringo-Polonus 33 Ulack Adrianus 87 Ulugh Beig 39 Vogellinus Johannes 47 Volaterranus Raphael 44 Uisinus Adamus 61 Ursinus Benjamin 83 Usserus Jacobus 97 Vuestisius Christianus 60 W. Names Page WAllingford Richard 35 Wallis Doctor John 111 Walterus Johannes 38 Waltherus Barnardus 43 Ward Seth L. Bishop Sarum 101 Weigellius Erhardus 103 Welperus Everardus 89 Wendelinus Gothofredus 97 Wendelinus Johannes 100 Wharton George Esquire 93 Wilkins John late Lord Bishop of Chester 91 Wing Vincent 104 Winkerus Nicolaus 65 Wittekindus Hermannus 64 Wolkenstein David 68 Wrenn Sir Christopher 112 Wright Edward 86 X. Names Page XEnocrates Calcedonius 12 Xunus 119 Xylander Gulielmus 58 Y. Names Page YUmchinius 119 Z. Names Page ZAgut or Zacuti Abraham 41 Zahel sive Zael or Zeel Bebis 76 Zalese Jacobus 74 Zanardus Michael 84 Zarlinus Josephus 58 Zeltus Danita 73 Zergol Andreas 86 Zeuchrus or Teuchrus 16 Ziglerus Jacobus 49 Zineris Johannes 75 Zoroafter vide Perso-Medus 7 Zucchius Nicolaus 100 INDEX or TABLE of the Principal Matters contained in the ANNOTATIONS and APPENDIX A.  Annot. Page Append. Page ABraham the Patriarch erected Astronomical Pillars as Seth â—…ad done Said to have taught Astronomy to the Egyptians c.  7 Acontiae Comtes so called 61 193 Actian Fight described 67  Adonysia whence their Original 5  Aegyptian Priests great Promoters of Astronomy 4  Their Hierogliphical Statue of the Sun 44  Aequinoctial Circle its description 44 145 Aemilia Familia 57  Agriculture by whom invented 7  Agrippa his Character 57  Altar the Asterism so called 35  One dedicated to Penury and Art in the Temple of Hercules at Gades 6  Amalthaean Goat the Constellation 30  Andromeda Constellation 28 36  The Fable of her Exposure and Rescue   Antarctick Circle 44  Aquarius the Constellation 22  Aquila or the Eagle Constellation 27  Artick Circle 43  Arcturus 25  Argo Constellatio 33  Ariadnes Crown 25  Aries the Constellation 19  Arrow Constellation 27  Arts their Kinds 5  Astrology its Authors 4 5  Astronomy its first Authors 3 2 3 4 5 Studied by Princes 3  Authors that have written therein vide Catalog   Asterismes by â—…hom first found out 10  Those of the Chaldeans Persians Egyptians Arabians Indians Chinese and Tartars differing from the Greek which are conceived