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A59124	Atlas cælestis containing the systems and theoryes of the planets, the constellations of the starrs, and other phenomina's of the heavens, with neccesary tables relating thereto / collected by John Seller.	Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698.	1677 (1677)	Wing S2463; ESTC R12842	39,250	161

ATLAS CAELESTIS Containing the Systems and Theoryes of the Planets the Constellations of the starrs and other Phenomina's of the Heavens with Necessary tables relating thereto Collected By John Seller A brief Description of the several Systems Theories Schemes and Tables contained in this Book Also a Discourse of the Celestial Bodies the Sun and Moon and the rest of the Planets Fiery-Meteors Blazing-Stars and other Phenomena's in the Heavens CHAP. I. A Description of the System of Ptolomy THis Systeme of the Heavens and the Motions of the Planets is of greater antiquity than the other Palanetary Systems either by Copernicus or Tycho and is supposed by some to be more consentaneous to the Letter of the Scripture then the rest It was first invented by one Clandius Ptolomeus a Native of Pelusium in his time the Prince of Astronomers Astrologers and Geographers who lived Anno Christi 135 and wrote several Books on these Subjects This Systeme supposeth the Earth to be fixed as the Center of the World and that all the celestial-Celestial-Bodies move round the same both in their Diurnal and Annual Revolutions The World is supposed to be divided principally in two parts Elemental and Celestial The Elemental admits of four divisions The first is the Earth The second is the Water both which makes one intire Body or Globe whereon we dwell The third is the Air encompassing the Earth And the fourth is the Fire which according to the opinion of ancient Philosophers is contained in that space between the Air and the Sphere of the Moon These four Elements are subject to a continual change and alteration of one into another according to the Proverb Omnia sublunaria mutabilia The Celestial part is that which is without these elementary parts void of all changes and is by the ancient Astronomers divided into ten Parts or Heavens The first of which next to the Region of Fire is the Heaven or Orb of the Moon The second of Mercury The third of Venus The fourth of the Sun The fifth of Mars The sixth of Jupiter The seventh of Saturn The eighth of the Fixed-Stars The ninth is called the Cristalline-Heaven The tenth the Primum Mobile Hypothesis Ptolomaica The magnitude of these Heavens is known by their Courses which those great Bodies within them makes round the Poles of the Zodiack The Moon runneth through the Heavens by her natural course from West to East in 27 Days and 8 Hours Mercury in 88 Days Venus in 225 Days And the Sun in a Year or 365 Days and 6 Hours Mars in two Years Jupiter in 12 Years Saturn in 30 Years The eighth Heaven perfects its course according to the affirmation of Tycho Brahe in 25400 Years These Heavens are turned round about upon the Axis of the World by the tenth Heaven which is the Primum Mobile or first Mover by which motion is caused Day and Night and the dayly rising and setting of the Heavenly Lights Of the Copernican System THis System was contrived by one Nicholas Copernicus a Native of Thorne in Prussia a Cannon of the Church of Frawenburgh the Cathedral of Wamerlandt Scholar to Dominicus Maria of Ferrara to whom he was Assistant in making his Astronomical Observations at Bologna and Professor of the Mathematicks at Rome and had the happiness to frame this Hypothesis which hath the general approbation of the most Learned Astronomers and Mathematicians in Christendom He lived about the Year Anno Christi 1536 whose System and Hypothesis is thus framed 1. That the Sun is placed in the midst of the World in or about the Center of the Sphere of the fixed Stars and hath no Circular motion but Central only 2. The Primary Planets are each of them in their proper Systems moved about the Sun and do accomplish their Periodical Revolutions most exactly in their determinate and appointed times 3. That the Earth is one of the Planets and with her Annual motion about the Sun describeth her Orb in the middle between the Orbs of Mars and Venus 4. That the secundary Planets are ordinarily moed about the primary Planets respecting their Bodies for their common Nodes or Centers 5. That the secundary Planet the Moon is moved about the Earth as her Center where by reason of the Annual motion of the Earth she hath not only relation to the Earth but by consequence to the Sun as the other Planets have 6. That as the primary Planet the Earth is invironed with the Sphere of the Moon so are some if not all the other primary Planets who have in like manner their Moons or Concomitants encompassing them As Jupiter his Satellities or Circum-Jovials and Saturn his Ring With some other Stars lately observed by some of our vigilant and accurate Astronomers both in England and elsewhere Hypothesis Copernic … Schema corporis SOLARIS pr●uta PP Kircher● et Sch … … o Roma Anno 1635 observatum Polus Borea … SPATIUM ETHEREUM Solaris Aequator SPATIUM ETHEREUM Polus Aus … s 〈…〉 Glob● 〈◊〉 Aequator Solaris B. ● C. Sp●t●…m Solis boreale H.G.I. Spac●…m 〈…〉 Spacium Solis torridum A Pute● 〈◊〉 L.M.N.O. etc. Evaporationes una et macularum Or … The order and motion of the Planets in the Copernican System wherein is shewed the proportion of the Planetary Orbs according to the latest and most approved Experiments of Learned Astronomers with some remarkable Observations of the most eminent Phenomena's in the Planetary motions happening therein Of the Sun THe Sun who is Fons lucis oculus anima Mundi the Fountain of pure Light the Eye and Soul of the World is placed in the middle and center of the Planetary Systems and is far greater than any of the Planets that move about him He performs a revolution upon his proper Axis in 26 Days or thereabouts as Telescope-Observations testify by several remarkable spots that appear in his Body by virtue whereof saith the Learned Kepler all the Planets are carried about the Sun in their several Orbs and seems to be forced about by the Central motions of that great Body in the middle of their Vortex And hence it is that according to the diversity and appearance of his rising and setting and obliquation he divideth the Seasons of the Year and causeth an interchangeable course and vicissitude of Day and Night Of Mercury The first primary Planet above the Sun is Mercury who performs his course in his Elipsis in 88 Days His proper Diurnal motion is 4 Deg. 5 Min. 12 Seconds the Circuit of his Sphere is 12059773 Miles so that he wheels in a Day 137040 Miles and in an Hour 5710 Miles and in a Min. 91 Miles The Body of Mercury is less than the Earth 3000 times his greatest elongation from the Sun in respect of the Earths position is sometimes but 17 Deg. and never fully 19 Deg. so that he is seldom seen of us Of Venus Next above Mercury is the Orb and glittering Star of Venus who maketh her Periodical Revolution

Earth Apparent Diameters True Diameters Circumf of their Disque Sol 5176 Sem. Ter. 31 Min. 54 Sec. 41150 Mil. Ger. 129300 Mil. Ger. Luna 59 Sem. Ter. 30 Min. 00 Sec. 442 Mil. Ger. 1389 Mil. Ger. Saturnus 49040 Sem. Ter. 00 Min. 16 Sec. 3362 Mil. Ger. 7945 Mil. Ger. Jupiter 26815 Sem. Ter. 00 Min. 18 Sec. 2054 Mil. Ger. 6455 Mil. Ger. Mars 7855 Sem. Ter. 00 Min. 05 Sec. 160 Mil. Ger. 503 Mil. Ger. Venus 5157 Sem. Ter. 00 Min. 17 Sec. 360 Mil. Ger. 1131 Mil. Ger. Mercurius 5157 Sem. Ter. 00 Min. 06 Sec. 130 Mil. Ger. 490 Mil. Ger. CHAP. III. A brief Description of Fiery-Meteors and Comets AS for fiery-Meteors their place and generation is in the upper lower and in the middle Region of the Air and are Draco Volans Ignis Fatuus Ignis Lambens Sidus Helenae these have their birth in the lower Region Those who are in the middle Region are Stella Cadens Lancea Ardens Fulmen c. And in the upper Region of the Air are reckoned Fax Ignis Perpendicularis Bolis Capra Saltans c. all which arise from Vapours and Exhalations which the Earth continually expires and diffuses round about through its ambient Atmosphere Of Comets As concerning the matter place and efficient cause of Comets Astronomers and Philosophers both Ancient and Modern do much differ in their opinions some will have them not to be any thing real or distinct from other pre-existant Celestial Bodies but rather a meer appearance made by the reflection or refraction of the Suns Beams Others are of opinion that they are fiery-Meteors generated of copious e●halations from the Earth and Sea and elevated to the supreme Region of the Air and hurried about by the swift motion of the Primum Mobile and take fire and last as long as the sulphery unctuous fat matter of which they consist affords them Fuel to burn or shine Others are of opinion that Comets if not all yet for the most part are created by God of nothing or at least formed of such matter as best pleaseth him whether Celestial or Elementary and of such shape and figure as may serve to terrifie or admonish Mankind and presignify Calamities to ensue Of the Tail Train or Bush of the Comets Aristotle and his followers asserts the Bush or Train of a Comet to be an Exhalation set on fire and diversified according to the divers disposition of the matter that feeds its flame Petrus Apianus makes the Bush of the Comet to be nothing else but the Rays of the Sun transmitted through the semidiaphonous head thereof as it were through a Globe of Glass Kepler is of opinion that the Tail of a Comet is only enlightened by the Suns Beams passing through the Body of the Comet which he imagins to be purely pellucid vet dense withall Galleleus supposes the Tail of a Comet to be of its own nature straight as being produced by the Suns Beams but appears to us to be crooked when near the Horizon and inclined thereunto by reason of the refraction of the Species or of the visual Rays made in the Spherical Superficies of the Air which near the Earth is filled with gross vapours Of the different shapes and forms of Comets and their Tails Some resembling the form of a round Dish or Platter Of this kind the chief is called Rosa and is of a bright shining Silver colour mixed with Gold or Amber and some of this sort that are not perfectly round resembling the form of a Shield Others resembles the form of a Tun of which there are of divers kinds some of an Oval figure some like a Barrel set on one end fome inclining and cut short off Others resembles a Horses Main not always of the same shape or figure Of these Pliny saith are very swift of motion and turneth round about it self Others resembling burning Lamps or Torches and are of several shapes sometimes their flame or blaze carried upward like a Sword And some are formed like a Dart or Javelin And some like a Cimitar with a Hilt And some like a Lance with its Stream of light very long thin and pointed Others whose Heads are for the most part Quadrangular having a long Train very thick and uniform all these will better appear by the several Schemes hereunto annexed bearing these several Appellations 1. Rosa 2. Pitheus sive Doli-formis 3. Hippeus seu Equinus 4. Auricomus sive Argenticomus 5. Hircus 6. Lampadias 7. Ceratia 8. Ancontiae 9. Xiphias 10. Lonchites seu Hasti-formis 11. Veruseu Pectica 12. Trigonus se● Quadratus Variae Cometarum figurae sicut ●a … mundi aetatibus appa●a●rune The Various formes of Comets as they haue appeared in severall ages of the World 1 Solaris ●ire Rosa 2 … iformis 3 Ch●…ciformis 4 Chy … ardr● 5 Do … formis … tu●… 6 D … lu … 7 Do●iformis candatus 8 E●quin●s barbatu … 9 E●quin●● qu … a … l … 10 Eq … E … 11 L … diformis 12 L … for … 13 L … p … formis 14 H … 〈◊〉 15 〈◊〉 16 Bar … 17 C … ifor … Lunat … 18 C●r … formi● 19 Cornatus ●icu … datu● 20 Curvatus Dir … catus 21 Tubiformis 22 Ia●uliformis Lunatus 23 Iac●● formis L … icus 24 Iac●● formis rotundu● 25 E … ifor … 26 En●iformis 27 En●iformis 28 En●iformis incuvatu● 30 Ha … formi● 20 En●iformi● 31 Hastiformis 32 V●r● 33 T … ica bifurcata 34 Cometa quadrat●… 35 Coniformi● 30 Cometa T●yramidatu● 37 Cometa 〈◊〉 38 Cometa M … trif●r●… 30 Cometa M● An account of these splendid Enigma's viz. the Comets that have appeared to the World since the Year of our Lord 1600 unto the Year 1679. IN the Year 1607 appeared a Comet on the 26 Day of September and lasted until the 5th of November seen in the Evening about seven of the Clock and from thence all night It appeared under the Great Bear a little higher than the Star which is toward the Square in the 30 Degree of Leo and 36 Deg. of North Latitude its Parallax not exceeding 3 Deg. and consequent its place was in the highest Heaven or Aether It moved in direct motion from the former Foot of the Great Bear under its Belly passing by the midst of Bootes and struck the Serpent coming under the Hand of Ophucus arrived at his foremost Foot and stayed in his Leg. The Orbit in which it was carried seemed to be a greater Circle at last bowed toward the Ecliptick It s Head was not of an equal roundness but here and there exuberating It s apparent magnitude greater than any of the fixed Stars or Jupiter It s light was pale and waterish like that of the Moon It s Tail was somewhat long and thick projected with some little deviation against that part of the Heaven opposite to the Sun It appeared like a flaming Lance or Sword 7 Degrees in length The Effects that followed this Comet The Duke of