commented upon by Paschasius Hammel Rivaltus and Mersennus The Lemmata of Archimedes recovered out of the Rubbidge of Antiquity were published in M r. Forster's Miscellanies as likewise by Borellius at the end of the three latter Books of Apollonius CONON an excellent Geometrician and Astronomer collected divers Observations made by the Chaldeans of the Solar and Lunar Eclipses wrote six Books of Astrology not now extant and invented the Constellation called Coma Berenices Celebrated he is by Pliny and Hyginus C. SULPITIUS GALLUS a Roman Tribune by his skill in Astronomy much encouraged the Roman Army in the War against Perses For when the Souldiers were terrified with the Eclipse of the Moon by his Oration to them he made it appear that what they apprehended as a Prodigy was only the effect of a natural Cause describing to them the Reasons of the Eclipse and so animated the drooping Army with fresh courage to the attaining of a glorious Victory HIPPARCHUS by the Arabs and Eastern Writers called Abrachys whom some make a Native of Nice a City in Bithynia others a Rhodian Prince of Astronomers in his time He wrote a Catalogue of the fixed Stars several Observations of the Aequinoxes mentioned by Ptolemy of the Moon 's monthly motion according to Latitude A Collection of divers Observations of the Chaldeans touching Eclipses by him examined and compared Chalcidius in Timaeum cites a Book of his De Secessibus atque Intervall is Solis 〈◊〉 which Meâ—…rsius Not. in Chalcid conceives to be the same mentioned by Poppus in 5. Syntax Ptolâ—… under the title 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. De Magnitudinibus Distantiis He hath left likewise yet extant three Books by way of Comment upon Aratus in which he shows Aratus to have taken all from Eudoxus and to have followed him even in his Errours first published from a Manuscript in the Medicaean Library by Petrus Victorius and since in Greek and Latine by Dionysius Petavius in Uranolog NIGIDIUS FIGULUS wrote a Comment De Sphaera Graecanica Barbarica mentioned by Servius in Georg. Virgil whence the Commentatour in Germanici Arat. cites divers particulars L. TARUNTIUS FIRMANUS a familiar Friend of Varro's and a great Astronomer He calculated the Nativity of Romulus and the Horoscope of Rome's foundation and wrote in Greek of the Stars He is mentioned by Cicero and Plutarch though with some small variety in the writing of his name MARCUS VARRO the most learned of his time among the Romans wrote of Astronomy of which Cassiodorus makes mention in Mathem Discipl GEMINUS a Native of Rhodes wrote an Isagoge in Meteora and in Arati Phaenomena out of which Proclus's Sphere is for the most part compiled published by Petavius in Uranolog POSIDONIUS APAMENSIS SYRUS a Stoical Philosopher Disciple and Successour to Panaetius observed at Rhodes the Star Canopus He is commended by Cicero for an Artificial Sphere by him made representing the motions of all the Planets Laërtius mentions a Book of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 De Meteoris and another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Labbeé in his Catalogue of Manuscripts mentions another Piece of his Of the Original of Comets and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 extant in the French King's Library M. TULLIUS CICERO translated the Phaenomena of Aratus into Latine Verse THEODOSIUS TRIPOLITA signalized his name by his three Books Sphaericorum and his twelve Propositions De Habitationibus both published by Mersennus in his Synopsis Mathemat He wrote likewise De Diebus Noctibus and Sceptica capita Astrologica as cited by Laertius JULIUS CAESAR first of the Roman Emperours according to the testimony of Pliny wrote of Astronomy in Greek Macrobius affirming likewise that he left several not unlearned Books of the motions of the Stars which he derived from the Doctrine of the Egyptians SOSIGENES a famous Astronomer of Alexandria whose assistance Iulius Caesar made use of in reforming the Roman year and reducing it to the course of the Sun which we yet retain Of this Argument he writ three Discourses as Pliny witnesseth lib. 18. c. 25. DIONYSIUS AFER called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Geographus wrote a Greek Poem De situ Orbis He was sent by Augustus before his adopted son Caius into the East the better to describe to him those Regions and Provinces ALEXANDER EPHESIUS surnamed LYCHNUS wrore besides his Historical Pieces an Astronomical Poem of the Heavens and another of the Description of the Parts of the Earth He is mentioned by Strabo lib. 14. and therefore cannot be less ancient than these times He wrote likewise a Comment in Arati Phaenomena P. OVIDIUS NASO the most Ingenious of the Latine Poets besides that he translated Aratus his Phaenomena into Verse which is lost hath leftfix Books De Fastis Romanorum yet extant being a Calendar describing their Year Moneths Festival Days together with the rising and setting of the several Constellations and the most noted of the fixed Stars dedicated by him first to Augustus afterwards revised in his Exile and addressed to Germanicus Caesar. STRABO the Geographer hath left us the Description of the World in seventeen Books wherein there are divers Astronomical Disquisitions ARTEMIDORUS COSMOGRAPHUS was Contemporaâ—…y 〈◊〉 Strabo and wrote upon the same Subject MARCUS MANILIUS wrote five Books of Astronomicks 〈◊〉 Heroicis non contemnendis sayes Ricciolus in Chron. Astronom which he dedicated to Augustus Caesar wherein he comprehended as well the Astronomy as the Astrology of the Ancients according to the Doctrine of the Chaldaeans and Egyptians the first of which five Books treating of the Sphere is the Subject of our present Undertaking The few following Authours not being reducible to the certain time wherein they flourished either before or after our Saviour's Nativity are for want of authentick Testimony in this place ambiguously inserted BOLUS MENDESIUS a Pythagorean Philosopher wrote among other things de Signis ex Sole Luna Ursa Lucerna Arcu Coelesti as Suidas testifies in voce 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LASBAS BABYLONIUS wrote of Astronomy in a Book entituled Selech cited by Iohannes Camaterus in Opere Astrologico especially in the Chapter De Canonibus Astrorum Sorte Fortunae extant in Manuscript in the hands of my worthy Friend M r. Thomas Gale ZEUCHRUS or TEUCHRUS or TEUCER BABYLONIUS by Scaliger in Manilium and Salmasius De Annis Climactericis stiled an ancient Authour wrote De Decanis Signorum some Fragments of his according to Labbeé being extant in the French King's Library ALBU-BATUR is by Iunctinus placed in the Catalogue of Astronomers about the 500. year before Christ he writ De Nativitatibus Printed at Noremberg by Iohannes Petreius in the Year 1540 but wanting good Authority to confirm the Time wherein he flourished We have rather inserted him in this Place PAPYRIUS FABIANUS is mentioned by Pliny in several places of his Natural History
present in the possession of my worthy Friend George Wharton Esquire PHILIPPUS FANTONIUS a Florentine Monk afterwards Abbot of Camaldolat published a Book in Italian of the reason of reducing the Year to its true Form and Measure of whom G. Vossius sayes that he was Matheseos Scientia egregius which he publickly professed in the Academy at Pisa. See more of him in Simler Bibl. Gesner CYPRIANUS LEOVITIUS of the Leonitian Family in Bohemia Mathematician to Otho-Henry Prince Palatine of the Rhine put forth Astronomical Observations with Astrological Prognosticks upon the new Star in Cassiopaea He likewise accurately described to render Vossius's words several Eclipses from the year 1556. to the year 1606. and published Ephemerides and several other Works mentioned by Simlerus in his Bibliotheca Gesneriana among the rest Brevis perspicua Ratio judicandi Genituras ex Physicis Causis vera Experientia extracta c. to which is prefixed Admonitio de vero licito Astrologiae usu per Hieronymum Wolphium Printed at London 1558. Of Him Tycho Brahe in Progymnasm l. 1. writes at large adding withall that Pleraque ipsius Manuscripta opera ad supputationes Astronomicas praesertim primi Mobilis Tabulas copiosiores faciliores reddendas facientia Augustae in Fuggeorum Bibliotheca non sine harum Aâ—…ium promovendarum Incommodo detinentur JOHANNES DRIANDER Doctor of Physick and Professor of Mathematicks which he illustrated by his learned Writings particularly by his Book of the various Composition of Sun-Dyals by his Description of a nocturnal Instrument for taking the hour of the Night from the inspection of the Stars Astrolabial Canons and the Explication of the Quadrant with several other Astronomical Inventions as it is testified by the excellent Thuanus and Draudius in Bibl Classica GEORGIUS BUCHANANUS that learned Scotch-man hath written Five Books of the Sphere in a Latine Poem to which Iohannes Pincierus hath added a Supplement of the fourth and fifth Books and Arguments to them all RABBI ORI filius Simeonis a Iew of Palaestine put forth Calendarium Palaestinorum omnium Iudaeorum computed for forty years first Printed at Venice in Hebrew afterwards translated into Latine and illustrated with Annotations by Iacobus Christmannus and published at Francfort 1594. FEDERICUS COMMANDINUS of Urbino optimè meritus si quisquam alius de Mathematicis sayes Blancanus For besides the many other excellent Monuments of Greek Learning which we owe to his happy Traduction we are beholding to him for Aristarchus Samius De Magnitudinibus Distantiis Solis aâ—… Lunae which he illustrated by a Comment of his own He put forth likewise Ptolemy's Analemma and wrote De Lineis Horariis MICHAEL BEUTHERUS Native of Carolostadt in Westphalia not far distant from Wurstburgh Scholar to Erasmus Reinholdus afterwards Professor of Poetry History and Mathematicks in the University of Gripswaldt in the Dukedom of Pomerania read at Paris publick Lectures De Annorum Supputatione He wrote De Globo Astronomico De Circulis Of the Correction of the Gregorian Calendar Of the seventy weeks in Daniel Of the time of the World's Creation and the day of our Saviour's Passion He was Library-Keeper to Otho-Henry Prince Palatine of the Rhine and of his Council in Ecclesiastical Affairs and restored to the same Charges afterwards by Frederick the Third ELIAS VINETUS Professor at Bourdeaux besides his Notes on Pomponius Mela De situ Orbis wrote a Commentary in Sphaeram Sacrobosci for which he justly merits a room in this Astronomical Catalogue JOHANNES HONTERUS CORONENSIS of Cronstadt in Transylvania anciently called Zarmigethusa writ Four Books in Verse De Rudimentis Cosmographiae which he adorned with several Land-Tables or Maps To which he adjoyned in Prose a Treatise of the Principles of Astronomy and Geography PETRUS RAMUS first Disciple to Orontius Finaeus afterwards Regius Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Paris besides his Two Books of Arithmetick and XXVII of Geometry put forth XXXII Scholarum Mathematicarum in the first of which he treats of many things relating to the Rise and Advancement of Astronomy MICHAEL NEANDER è valle Ioachimica put forth Elementa Doctrinae Sphaericae Materiam Computi Astronomici as Ricciolus affirms in Chronolog Astron. DANIEL SANTBECH of Nimmeghen put forth according to Ricciolus Praeclara Problemata Astronomica Geometrica in VII Sectiones distributa In the first whereof he treats of several Observations of the Phaenomena of the Sun Moon and fixed Stars In the second he exhibits Canons of the Primum Mobile extracted from the Tables of Regiomontanus The third is of the Reasons of Gnomons and Shadows The other Four are upon Geometrical Subjects JOSEPHUS MOLETIUS Professor of Mathematicks at Padua besides his Comment upon Ptolemy's Geography composed out of the Prutenick Tables others which he called Tabulae Gregorianae for which by the Senate of Venice he was rewarded with 200. Ducats and promised by Pope Gregory XIII for the continuation of them 300. Crowns more He published likewise Introductio ad Ephemerides Printed together with the Ephemerides of Iosephus Scala of Sicily in the year 1589. LUCILLUS PHILALTHAEUS Doctor of Physick wrote as Ricciolus terms them Luculentos Commentarios upon Aristotle De Coelo LEONARDUS DIGGES of a generous Family in Kent besides his Stratiotices and his Mathematical Discourse of Geometrical Solids wrote an Astronomical Prognostication then Printed ALEXANDER PICOLOMINAEUS of Siena wrote Four Books De Sphaera Mundi as also a Treatise of the Fixed Stars in Italian in which Language he likewise published another of the Theory of the Planets and dedicated the same to Cosmus de Medicis and farther another De Magnitudine Terrae Aquae all rendred into Latine by Nicholaus Stupanus and Printed at Basil 1568. SAMUEL SYDEROCRATES wrote De usu Partium Coeli in Commendationem Astronomiae Printed at Strasbourg as Draudius affirms 1567. TITUS à POPMA a Friezlander wrote Tabellas in Sphaeram Elementa Astronomiae EDO HILDERICUS writ a small Treatise entituled Logistice Astronomica Printed at Wittenberg 1568. mentioned by Simler in Bibl. Gesner CHRISTIANUS VURSTISIUS of Basil Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Zurich wrote learned Questions in Theoricas Purbacchii whereto he prefixed an Introduction of his own Printed at Basil by Henricus Petri 1586. ABRAHAMUS ORTELIUS of Antwerp Geographer to Philip II King of Spain most deservedly challenges a place in this Catalogue especially for that great Work of his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum with it's Parergon and his Thesaurus Geographicus GERARDUS MERCATOR a Native of Rupelmonde in Flanders made several Mathematical Instruments for the Emperour Charles the Fifth particularly a Globe in which was comprized the Constitution of the Planets and the Celestial Signs and Constellations He likewise made for the said Emperour two other Globes the one Celestial of Chrystal the other
Terrestrial of Wood. He put forth a Cronology from the beginning of the World to the year 1568. exactly composed and calculated as well from Eclipses and other Astronomical Observations of all Times as from the Sacred Scriptures and other Authentick Authors highly commended by Onuphrius Panvinius Not to mention his other Geographical Works HUGO sive HUO HELTILIUS of Groeningen in Friezland wrote in Spanish of the Planisphere HENRICUS BRUCAEUS of Alost in Flanders Doctor of Physick and Professor of Mathematicks at Rome and Rostoch put forth Three Books of the Primum Mobile and the Institutions of the Sphere of whom Vossius De Scient Math. gives an ample Account FRANCISCUS BAROCCIUS a Patrician of Venice wrote besides his other Works in Mechanicks and Geometry Four Books of Cosmography in the Preface to which he detects no less than LXXXIV Errors of Io. de Sacrobosco and his Followers JOANNES LALAMANTIUS of Antun in Burgundy a Physician published a Tractate entituled Collatio Rationis Anni exterarum ferè Omnium Praecipuarum Gentium cum Romano Anno Printed at Geneva apud Crispinum 1571. 8 o. ADAMUS URSINUS of Norimberg wrote Prognosticks upon the new Star in Cassiopaea touching which see Tycho Progymn Tom. 1. ANDREAS NOLTHIUS of Embeck wrote concerning the Star in Cassiopaea about the same time as the Landtgrave of Hesse as is likewise noted by Tycho Progymnas Tom. 1. BARTHOLOMAEUS RASACHERUS Professor of Mathematicks at Vienna wrote also touching the Star in Cassiopaea CORNELIUS GEMMA of Lovaine wrote likewise upon the same Subject So also did CORNELIUS FRANGIPANUS whose Censure see in Tycho Brahe Progymnas Tom. 1. HIERONYMUS MUNOSIUS Professor of the Hebrew Tongue and Mathematicks in the University of Valentia and Physician to the Emperor Maximilian the Second put forth his Observations upon the New Star in Cassiopaea ELIAS CAMERARIUS Professor of Mathematicks at Francfort upon Oder wrote De Nova Stella Cassiopaeae GULâ—…ELMUS POSTELLUS Native of Barenton a Town in Normandy about this time put forth his Cosmography sive De Universitate and wrote De Nova Stella Cassiopaeae JOHANNES d ee Doctor of Physick and an excellent Mathematician besides other his learned Works whereby he hath honoured our Nation not pertinent to our present purpose wrote upon occasion of the New Star in Cassiopaea a small Treatise by him entituled Parallacticae Commentationis Praxeos nucleus highly commended by Tycho Brahe in Progymnasm Tom. 1. He published in the year 1558. a Treatise entituled De Praestantioribus quibusdam Naturae Virtutibus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 containing several curious Astronomical and Astrological Aphorisms In the Preface to which Piece he makes mention of the several Astronomical Tractates following by him intended for the Publick but whether ever yet Printed is uncertain as first De Planetarum inerrantium Stellarum Nubiumque à Centro Terrae Distantiis Stellarum omnium veris inveniendis Magnitudinibus in two Books De praecipua Perspectivae Parte quae de Radiorum Fractione tractat in three Books De Caelestis Globi amplissimis Commoditatibus in two Books De Nova Navigationum Ratione in two Books and one Book De Annuli Astronomici multiplici usu divided into a hundred Chapters besides some other Mathematical Pieces among which his Apology for Fryar Bacon A farther Account of the Works and Writings of this Stupendious Person the Reader may happily e're long meet with in his Life intended to be written if Providence second his Design by my worthy Friend Elias Ashmole Esquire whose singular Affection to Astronomical and Astrological Studies may justly entitle him to a Place in this Catalogue PAULUS HAINZELIUS Consul of Ausbourg diligently observed at Gegginge near the City of Ausbourg aforesaid the motions of the Stars and Planets using in his Observations a Quadrant of fourteen Cubits as Ricciolus in Chronol Astron. affirms His Prayses and Commendations may be seen in Tycho Brahe Progymn Tom. 1. PAULUS FABRITIUS a Mathematician and Physician to the Emperour of Germany wrote De Nova Stella Cassiopaeae 1572. THEODORUS GRAMINEUS Professor of Mathematicks at Colen published a Prolix and tedious Commentary or as Tycho more truly terms it Commentum upon the New Star in Cassiopaea MICHAEL MAESTLINUS GOEPINGENSIS at first Parish-Priest or Curate of a little Town called Bachnang afterwards Professor of Mathematicks in the Universities of Heidelberg and Tubinge and Master or Tutor to Kepler wrote De Stella Nova Cassiopaeae and of the Comet which appeared in the year 1576. as also Ephemerides according to the Prutenick Tables and Additions to the first Narration of Rheticus with an Appendix De Dimensionibus Orbium Coelestium according to the Opinion of Copernicus He published likewise Theses De Eclipsibus and an Epitome of Astronomy and wrote against the Gregorian Calendar in which he was opposed by Clavius yet happy in this that he was not only Master to the learned Kepler but first Motor to the famous Galilaeo addicted before that time entirely to Aristotle and Ptolemy of his embracing the Copernican Hypothesis perswaded thereunto by the force of his Arguments which in a Publick Lecture upon that Subject he used at the time of his being in Italy GELLIUS SASSERIDES a Dane of Copenhagen was one of those who assisted the noble Tycho Brahe in his Celestial Observations some of whose Epistles are extant in Maginus De Directionibus JOHANNES HECKIUS of Daventer Doctor of Physick wrote a small Treatise upon the New Star in Cassiopaea termed by Ricciolus Opus non inelegans TYCHO BRAHE descended of an illustrious Family among the Danes as being eldest Son to Otto Brahe Lord of Knudsthorp in the Island Schonen not far from Elzinbourg who was Son of another Tycho Son of Axilius Brahe Lord of the said Place the Hipparchus of his Age who even from his Childhood being addicted to Astronomical Studies though diverted from them by the Advice of his Friends and morose humour of his Tutour grew by his own Ingenuity and Industry without any Instructor so great a Proficient therein that in the time of his Minority and without the help of other Instruments than a small Globe little bigger than a Man's Fist and a large pair of Compasses with which by applying his Eye to the Head of the Compasses and opening the shanks thereof he used by stealth to take the Distances of the Stars he made a shift to detect divers considerable Errors both in the Alphonsine and Prutenick Tables At length by his Studies and Travels having consummated his Knowledge in Astronomy He was by Frederick the Second King of Denmark at what time he resolved to make his Retreat into Switzerland the better to apply himself entirely to the Contemplation of the Stars invited to fix his Studies at Home and to honour his own Country with his Learned Labours and Observations To which end the King
not only for the use of Astronomers but also Poets Printed at Magdeburg 1587. JOSEPHUS SCALA a Sicilian composed Ephemerides continuing from the year of Christ 1589. to the year 1600. JOSEPHUS AURIA a Neopolitane whom Blancanus commends as if he were another Commandinus for his learned Labours in translating divers of the Ancient Greek Mathematicians in particular and to our purpose Autolycus De Sphaera Mobili Euclidis Phaenomena Theodosius Tripolita De Habitationibus De Diebus Noctibus CHRISTOPHORUS ROTHMANNUS was Mathematician to the Illustrious William Landtgrave of Hesse He made his Celestial Observations at Cassels at the same time as Tycho did his at Uranoburg and besides his accurate Piece upon the Comet which appeared in the year 1585. There are extant in the first Tome of Tycho Brahe's Epistles divers Letters of his to Tycho with Tycho Brahe's Answers to him touching several Controversies in Astronomy SIMON STEVINUS of Bruges Mathematician to Maurice Prince of Aurange put forth among other Works of his Theories of the Planets and Tables of the Celestial Motions in Three Books DAVID WOLKENSTEIN VRATISLAVIENSIS a Silesian writ an accurate Description of the Astronomical Horologe at Strasbourg where he was Professor of Mathematicks extant in Manuscript in the hands of my worthy Friend Mr. Thomas Gale JACOBUS CHRISTMANNUS Publick Professor of Mathematicks and the learned Languages at Heidelberg translated into Latine out of a Manuscript in the Elector Palatine's Library Alfraganus's Chronological and Astronomical Elements which he supplied and illustrated with various Scholia to which he annexed a Comment wherein he explained the Roman Egyptian Arabian Persian Syriac and Hebrew Calendar He put forth likewise divers Solar Observations therein explicating the true Motion of the Sun in the Zodiack accommodating the Doctrine of Triangles to the apparent motion of the Heavens He wrote likewise of the Theory of the Moon grounded upon a new Hypothesis for finding out the Moon 's true place in the Zodiack and several other Pieces as well in Astronomy and Chronology as in Geometry JOHANNES BAPTISTA PORTA a Noble Neapolitane published an Interpretation of the first Book of Ptolemy's Almagest with the Commentary of Theon thereupon not to mention his twenty Books of Natural Magick Printed in most of the Europaean Languages He writ also an Excellent Book of Opticks and of Celestial Physiognomy FRANCISCUS VIETA a French-man Native of Fontenay whom Ricciolus entitles Gallicanae Matheseos insigne decus besides his many other excellent Works in Geometry and other Parts of the Mathematicks He exhibited to Pope Clement VIII a new form of the Gregorian Calendar to which he added perpetual Canons and an Explication thereof against Clavius whom he accused to have Deformed the true Lilian Reformation by not rightly understanding the Reason of it touching which Controversie Thuanus in the 129 th Book of his History writes more particularly But the Work of his chiefly pertinent to our Subject and whose Loss cannot be sufficiently deplored was his Harmonicon Coeleste which being communicated to Mersennus was by some perfidious Acquaintance of that honest-minded Person surreptitiously taken from him and irrecoverably lost or suppressed to the unspeakable detriment of the Letter'd World Vide Buliald Prolegom in Astron. Phil. The learned Golius had it and Sir Alexander Hume from hence imparted another Copy both which 't is feared are lost there being no Impression made thereof and Golius being since dead his Collections whereof he had many in Arabick are said to be dispersed and which is to be pitied carried back by a Iew into Turkey JANUS DOUZA the Learned Son of as Learned a Father sometimâ—… Tutor to Henry Frederick Prince of Orange and the first Keeper of the Publick Library in the University of Leyden Published among other his Writings Rerum Coelestium Libri De Umbra sive Umbrae Encomium Printed at Leiden apud Raphelengium 1590. 8 o. JOHANNES BUSAEUS NOVIOMA GENSIS of the Society of Iesus wrote an Apologetical Disputation in behalf of the Gregorian Calendar against Iacobus Herbrandus a Divine of Tubingue of whom more in Ribadeneira lib. De Scriptor Soc. Iesu. GULIELMUS ADOLPHUS SCRIBONIUS wrote a Spherical Institution published together with Zacharias Parthenius his Notes at Francfort 1591. PETRUS RYFF wrote concerning the Sphere as also touching the Principles of Astronomy and Geography Published in the year 1591. THOMAS DIGGES Son of Leonard Digges before mentioned of whom Tycho Brahe Progymnasm l. 1. gives this Elogy that he was â—…nerosi Stemmatis Vir Eximius Mathematicus wrote a Book entituled Alae Sâ—…alae Mathematicae being a Treatise about calculating Parallaxes Printed 1573. He published likewise his Pantometria and some other Mathematical Tractates in the year 1591. ANTONIUS LUPICINUS an Italian writ in that Language Dâ—…lle Verghe Astronomiche Printed at Florence 1591. GEORGIUS BACHMANNUS put forth an Epitome of the Doctrine of the Primum Mobile comprehending a brief exposition of all the Celestial Circles and Appearances to which is added a small Treatise De Doctrina Sphaerica Printed at Wittemberg 1591. HENRICUS RANTZOVIUS a Noble Dane and Viceroy in the Dutchy of Schleswick Holsatia and Ditmars put forth Calendarium Romanum Oeconomicum Ecclesiasticum Astronomicum fere perpetuum and an Astrological Treatise collected out of the most ancient and best Authors of Judiciary Astrology Printed at Francfort by Wechelius also Locorum Hylegiâ—…lium ad quodvis Tempus datum Directiones He writ also a Catalogue of Emperours Princes and other Illustrious Persons who had either affected promoted or studied Astrology A Treatise De Veritate Astrologica and another De Annis Climactericis c. Printed at Leipsick 1584. JOANNES PAULUS GALLUCIUS Published Theatrum Mundi Temporis Printed at Venice 1589. Likewise Speculum Uranicum there Printed in the year 1593. And Della Fabrica Uso di diversi Stromenti di Astronomia Cosmographia Printed in the year 1597. Also De Figura Coelesti erigenda with some other Tractates of like Nature FEDERICUS BONAVENTURA wrote De Affectionibus Meteorologicis De vero Ortu Occasu Siderum De Stellarum significationibus c. Printed at Venice 1594. He hath written also upon Theophrastus De Ventis and upon Ptolemy De Siderum Ortu Occasu and in his Book De Octomestri Partu shews himself not ill affected to Astrology GULIELMUS HARTGILL an English-man put forth Tabulae Astronomicae Universales Printed at London 1594 and Reprinted 16 with Additions by Iohn Gadbury of London BERNARDINUS BALDUS Disciple to Federicus Commandinus of whom Vossius gives this Charecter that he was Vir non solum Mathesios universae peritissimus sed etiam ut Germanicam Gallicam Slavonicam Linguam omittam Latinè Graecè Hebraicè Chaldaicè Arabicè Doctissimus Not to mention his many curious Works in other Parts of the Mathematicks well
Bede was renouned for his knowledge and study of Astronomy amongst whose Works there is yet extant De Argumentis Lunae De Ephemeride De Embolismis De Circulo Decennovennuali De Cyclo Paschali De Circulis Sphaerae Polis De Planetis Signis Coelestibus De Astrolabio De Aequinoctio Vernali ADELMUS DUROTELLUS seu BLADUNIUS i. e. MALMESBURIENSIS Son of Kenred and Grandchild of Ina King of the West-Saxons Bishop of Sherburne now translated to Salisbury wrote De Cyclo Paschali contra Britannos and De Astrologia as Balaeus affirms FLACCUS ALBINUS sive ALCUINUS an English-man born in York shire Scholar to Venerable Bede and Tutour to Charlemaigne to whom he was sent upon an Embassie by Off a King of the Mercians and for his exquisite Learning invited by Charlemaigne to continue with him in France which he did perswading that Prince to erect the University of Paris He was excellently well skilled in all the Parts of the Mathematicks which he publickly taught and wrote De Septem Artibus Liberalibus and De Astrologia as Vossius De Scient Mathemat testifies CHARLEMAIGNE King of France and Emperour instructed by Alcuinus aforesaid became excellently well skilled in the Mathematicks particularly in Astronomy insomuch that he wrote Ephemerides and was extremely delighted in making observations of the Stars He gave names to the Moneths of the Year and to the Winds in High-Dutch which continue to this Day He was by a King of Persia his Contemporary upon the knowledge he had of his affection to Astronomical Studies presented with a Piece of Clock-work showing the motion of â—…he Planets which the Emperour being then at Paderborne in Westphalia received with no less admiration than pleasure Vid. Voss. De Scient Mathem c. 35. JOHANNES CAMATERUS Chamberlain to the Emperour Porphyrogeneta writ De Genethliis Syderum positione Astrologiam Chaldaicam in Verse now in the Possession of my Learned Friend Mr. Tho. Gale ALMAEON whom some call ALMAMON the deservedly renouned Califfe of Babylon as Mr. Graves stiles him in his Pyramidograph fifty years before the time of Albategnius observed the greatest Declination of the Sun to have been 23° according to Elancanus and Herigone or 23° and 35′ according to Ricciolus from the authority of Alfraganus He first commanded Ptolemy's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be translated into Arabick which Translation gave that Work the corrupt but now common name of Almagest He found by observation and measuring in the Plains of Singar that one Degree of a great Circle on the Earth is equal to 56. miles His Astronomical Designs were so acceptable to the Genius of that Nation that in the Times succeeding no less than Thirty Kings are said to have emulated his Example as is observed by Golius notis in Alfergan EGMUNDUS surnamed ASTROLOGUS is by Ricciolus put also into the Catalogue of Astronomers about this Time MESSHALA ARABS sive MESSAHULACH signalized his Name by his Book De Receptionibus De Conjunctionibus Planetarum De Revolutionibus Annorum Mundi He wrote likewise De Elementis Orbibus Coelestibus a third Book De Ratione Circuli Stellarum Operationibus and another De Compositione Utilitate Astrolabii The first Printed at Venice Anno 1493. with Pâ—…olemy's Quadripartitum The second at Norimberg by Montanus and Neuberus The third at Basil by Hervagius Anno 1533. And the fourth and last by Henricus Petri in Appendice Margaritae Philosophicae LEO PHILOSOPHUS writ something in Astrology yet extant in the French King's Library as Labbeé testifies in Catal. MS. ALBATEGNIUS or trulier ALBATTANIUS ARACENSIS called likewise MAHUMETES TINEU vel MAHUMETES ARACENSIS or but mistakenly ARACTENSIS from the City of Arrac commonly but corruptly called Aracta in Syria Son of Geber Auchan Son of Cruen Prince of Syria made diligent observations of the Stars both at Arrac and Antioch And finding that Ptolemy's Canons in his time dissented much from the course of the Heavens he made new Tables of his own He wrote a Book De Scientia Stellarum first translated out of Arabick into Latine by Plato Tiburtinus and illustrated with Annotations by Io. Regiomontanus He observed the Sun's greatest Declination to be 23° 35′ and the first Star of Aries to be 18° 2′ in Longitude from the Equinoctial Point His Observations were Printed at Norimberg His Book De Numeris Scientia Stellarum according to a Transcript thereof taken by Lucas Valerius Publick Professour of Mathematicks at Rome out of the Vatiâ—…an Library was reprinted more correctly in Latine at Bologna in the year 1645. and dedicated by Bernardinus Ugulottus to Ferdinand the second Grand Duke of Tuscany ACHILLES TATIUS wrote a Book De Sphaera as Suidas affirms part of which G. Vossius conceives to be his Commentary in Aratum Published in Greek and Latine by Petavius in Uranolog MOHAMMED IBN ZACHARIAE AL RAZI wrote many Books in several Sciences and among the rest a Particular Astronomical Treatise as I find it mentioned in the Catalogue of Golius his Manuscripts He died in the year of the Hegira 320. of Christ 932. ABDORRAHMAN AL-SUPHI commonly but corruptly called AZOPHI or ELZUPHI or EBENNOZOPHIM an Arabian Astronomer Authour of the Persian Tables in which sayes ricciolus Stellarum Schemata loca ordinata sunt The Work transcribed by his Son with the Delineation of the Celestial Signs in Miniature by the same hand is extant among the Manuscripts of Iacobus Golius ALFRAGANUS MAHUMEDES or AMETUS or AHEMED or MUHAMED the Son of Amet called Alfraganus or rather Alferganus from the City Fergana in the Province of Sogdiana He wrote Elementa Astronomica compiled chiefly out of Ptolemy which by Rabbi Iacob Antolius were turned into Hebrew and by Iohannes Hispalensis in the year 1142 translated out of Arabick into Latine but lately published in Arabick and Latine by the famous Iacobus Golius with learned Notes which yet he lived not to compleat He writ likewise de Astrolabii Descriptione Usu and a Book of Dialing as Golius in his Notes asserts G. Pastregicus mentions another Treatise of Alfraganus entitled De Aggregationibus Stellarum V. Simler Bibl. Gesner HALI BEN RAGEL is about this time by Ricciolus inserted into the number of Astronomers ARZAHEL ALA BEN writ Tables and Canons of the Motions of the Celestial Bodies preserved in MS. in the Library of Merton Colledge in Oxford and in that of Caius and Gonvil in Cambridge according to Iamesius Eclog. Oxon. Cant. Whether the same with Arzahel Hispanus of whom in the next Century we leave to be considered ALI IBNO'L HOZEIN a Persian wrote of the Theory of the Planets as Abul Pharagius in Hist. Dynast witnesses and De Demonstratione Planisphaerii as Hottinger in Smegm Orient ALFARABIUS Arabs stiled by Blancanus Astronomus celebris called likewise ABUNASR according to Abul Pharagius in Histor.
Earle of Cumberland in his Expedition to the Azores in the year 1589. on purpose to add the Practice of Navigation to the Theory and in the year 1599. he published his Book called the Errors in Navigation A most excellent Work for the true describing a Sea-Chart which Invention of his Gerardus Mercator published without owning the Author Before the Publication of this Work in the year 1594 1595 and 1596. He by a large Quadrant of six foot Radius made Observation of the Sun's Meridian Altitude and thereby not only left the best Theory of the Sun's Motion at that Time but new made exquisite Tables for the Sun's Declination He held Intelligence with the most Able Artists abroad and being chosen Tutor in the Mathematicks to Prince Henry he by the help of some German Workmen caused to be made for that hopeful Prince a large Sphere with curious Movements which by the help of Spring-Work not only represented the Motion of the whole Celestial Sphere but shewed likewise the Particular Systems of the Sun and Moon and their Circular Motions together with their Places and possibilities of eclipsing each other There is in it a Work by Wheel and Pinion for a Motion of 17100 years certainly effected if the Sphere should be so long kept in Motion This Sphere though thus made at a great Expence of Mony and ingenious Industry was in the late Times of Devastation cast aside among other Rubbidge and had been utterly lost and destroyed had it not in the year 1646. been found out by Sir Ionas Moore Knight my worthy Friend and at his great cost and charge restored to its Pristine Perfection remaining now at his House in the Tower among other Mathematical Instruments and Curiosities in his Possession Besides the Book of the Errors in Navigation before mentioned the said Mr. Wright writ a Book of the Use of the Sphere a Piece of Dialling and a Book of Navigation called the Haven finding Art in all which he hath shewn himself not only a Sedulous but a Knowing Astronomer MARTINUS HORTENSIUS of Delpht in Holland Professor of Mathematicks at Amsterdam Companion and Adjutor to Philippus Lansbergius in his Astronomical Studies and no mean Observator of the Stars undertook to answer something which Kepler had inserted in the Preface to his Ephemerides and put forth a Dissertation De Mercurio sub Sole viso Venere invisâ which he addressed to Gassendus who had written upon the same Subject ROBERTUS HUGHES Professor of Mathematicks in Gresham-Colledge London set forth a Treatise of the Use of the Celestial and Terrestial Globes illustrated with Figures and Annotations by Iohannes Isaac Pontanus Professor of Philosophy at Harderwick in Gelderland ANDREAS ZERGOL Native of Sancta Cruce in Carniola a Iesuit Professor of Mathematicks and Theology at Gratz in Styria put forth Chronological Theorems of the year of our Saviour's Nativity and Passion CAROLUS ANTONIUS MANZINUS Professor of Philosophy at Bologna a learned Mathematician put forth Tables of the Primum Mobile cum nova Arte dirigendi with a compendious Method of Directions He writ likewise of the Theory of the Planets and was at the time Ricciolus published his Almagest a diligent Observer of the Celestial Motions D. HENRION Professor of Mathematicks at Paris put forth in French the Problems of Regiomontanus touching the Use and Practise of his Tables of Directions to which he added large Annotations and Explications of his own together with Regiomontanus his Tables by him corrected and augmented In the Preface to which Work he hath laid down the Doctrine of Spherical Triangles He set forth in French Theodosius his Sphericks published a Treatise of the Use of the Globes and Compass of Proportion of Cosmography and a Canon Manuel des Sinus c. besides his Mathematical Collections and Euclid's Elements JULIUS SCHILLERIUS of Ausburg Dr. of the Laws put forth Coelum Stellatum Christianum reducing the fabulous Morphoses of the several Constellations and changing their Profane Names into those of Christian Saints and Martyrs Bayerus adding thereto a new and more accurate Uranometria ALBERTUS CURTIUS a Iesuit Native of Munichen in Bavaria proposed in the year 1627. a New System of Heaven to be disputed on at Dining whose ingenuity in the Theory of the Moon his Aemulator Kepler not only admired but commended in his Rudolphine Tables c. 25. ADRIANUS ULACK of Gouda challenges a place in this Catalogue for his Chiliads of Logarithms resolving by an admirable Compendium Astronomical Geometrical and Arithmetical Problems JACOBUS ROSIUS BIBERACENSIS put forth Ephemerides or a General Calendar Astronomical and Astrological in which the rising and setting of the Stars with their several Effects for every Day of the Moneth are set forth A Work collected out of Ancient and Modern Authors with no mean Industry as G. Vossius sayes of it He stiles himself Mathematician and Publick Imperial Notary which Office he executed at Biennae or Biel a Town in Switzerland GULIELMUS JANSONSIUS CAESIUS alias BLAEU of Amsterdam an Excellent Artist as well for his Geographical Tables as his Celestial Globes and Spheres whereof he was the first Composer according to the Copernican System of which G. Vossius affirms the World not to have seen the like since Archimedes's time He likewise put forth a twofold Astronomical Institution according to the Ptolemaick and Copernican Hypothesis which being written in his own Language was translated into Latin by Martinus Hortenâ—…ius JACOBUS BARTSCHIUS of Lauban a City in the upper Lusaâ—…ia oâ—… Lausnitz a Province adjoyning to Bohemia now under the Dominion of the Duke of Saxe Doctor of Physick and Son-in-Law to the famous Kepler set forth Uranâ—…burgum Strasburgicum sive Motuum Coelestium Ephemeris Printed at â—… eipsick in the year 1629. He published likewise Planisphaerium Stellatum seu vice-globus Coelestis in Plano Delineatus He wrote also another Treatise De Indice Astronomico cum seâ—…tem Rotulis Planetarum aliisque figuris imprimis Phases Lunares Eclipses apparentes Planetarum Magnitudâ—…es adumbrantes Printed at Norimberg in 4 o 1661. CAROLUS MALAPERTIUS a Flemming of Montz and a Iesuit Professor of Mathematicks at Doway among other his Mathematical Works put forth a small Piece De Maculis Solaribus which he stiled Sidera Austriaca LE SIEUR BOULENGER a French-man Reader in Ordinary to the late King of France hath written a Treatise in his own Language of the Sphere in four Books to which he hath added a fifth touching the use thereof the third Edition whereof was Printed at Paris 1648. CHRISTOPHORUS SCHEINERUS of the Society of Iesus a Native of Mundeilhen in Swaben Professor sometime of the Hebrew Tongue and Mathematicks at Fribourg and Ingolstadt afterwards Rector of the Colledge of Nisse or Nissa in Silesia observed about the same time with Galilaeo the Spots in the Sun The most Eminent Pieces by which he hath signalized his
Manchester in Lancashire was a diligent Observer of the Stars as appears by his Observations printed by Doctor Wallis 1673. in the Edition of Mr Horrox his Works which amount not to the tenth part of what he had made He converted Kepler's Rudolphine Tables into Decimals for his own use whereof there is now a MS. Copy remaining with the said Sir Ionas Moore Mr. Horrox and this Mr. Crabtree died in the year 1641. having about a year before had the happy accquaintance of the most incomparable and ingenious Gentleman WILLIAM GASCOYGNE of Middleton in the County of York Esquire who for some years before had taken much pains in Astronomical Observations and invented wayes to grind Glasses He was the first that used two convex Glasses had at that time a Tube that drew out fifteen foot in length of his own working The Object-glass was a Meniscus He invented wayes to measure small Angles by the Prospect-Glass to a second and had he lived he had certainly brought great perfection to Telescopes Mr. Crabtree taking a Journey into York shire in the year 1639. writ thence to Mr. Horrox as followeth The first thing Mr. Gascoygne shewed me was a large Telescope amplified and adorned with new Inventions of his own whereby he can take the Diameters of the Sun or Moon or any small Angle in the Heavens or upon the Earth most exactly through the Glass to a second A device much desired but little expected c. In the year 1641. Mr. Gascoygne writ to Mr. Crab-tree that he questioned not to provide an Instrument to take at once the Distances of three Points in the Periphery of the Earth's shade of the Moon the Diameters of the Planets c. But he and all his excellent Inventions and Labours were lost by his Death which was in his late Majesty's Service in the Fight at Marston Moore These Four were Lights of the first Magnitude in the Northern Hemisphere who were happily brought to the Acquaintance of one another by the means of Christopher Townley of Carr in Lancoshire Esquire who stuck not for any cost oâ—… labour to promote as well Astronomical as other Mathematical Studies by a diligent Correspondence kept and maintained with the learned Professors in those Sciences upon which Account he was very dear to All the Four and for which Reason as for the Particular respect I owe him he merits to be named in thiâ—… Catalògue The others that follow though they were not so conspicuous as the former were yet of considerable Lustre and afforded no mean Influence towards carrying on the Work of Astronomy in those Parts In the first Place Sir JONAS MOORE Knight Surveyor General of His Majesty's Ordnance my Worthy Friend and Collegue born at Whitebee in Lancashire by his diligent endeavours contributed not a little to the advancement of the Astronomical Design so well begun and prosecuted by the much deserving Persons before mentioned He turned Bulialdus his Tables into Decimals after Mr. Milbourn's Method and writ of the Sphere and its several Projections which Work he hath now by him though it were to be wished he would rather by the publication thereof afford the ingenious Lovers of these Studies an opportunity at once of witnessing and receiving the benefit of his Labours GEORGE WHARTON Esquire born at Kirby-Kendal in the County of Westmerland my ancient kind Friend and now Treasurer and Pay-master to the Office of His Majesty's Ordnance complying with the incitements of the said Mr. William Milbourn addicted himself very assiduously to the Calculation and Observation of the Celestial Motions till the late Rebellious Times deprived him of his Liberty and since that the frequent Accesses of the Gout have taken from him the opportunity of prosecuting those Studies with that Assiduity as formerly Mr. JEREMIAH SHACKERLEY a great Pains-taker in calculating and comparing several Observations he writ Tabulae Britannicae grounded chiefly upon the Theories and Observations of Mr. Horrox which were Printed in 8 o. about the year 1647. he dyed in the East-Indies Mr. NATHAN PIGHELLS a very diligent Observer c. to whom may be added some others which for Brevities sake I here omit All which Examples may serve as very inducive Arguments to perswade the learned Doctor Wallis to be of another Opinion than that which I presume through want of due Information he declared in his Preface to Mr. Horrox his Works where he saith â—…atendum est paucissimos tunc Dierum in Anglia partibus saltem Borealibus Studiis illis Animum sedulo applicuisse when as it is more than probable that if some of the Persons before mentioned had not been overtaken by too untimely Death others of them by the fatal Calamities of the late horrid Rebellion Astronomy had by their Labours been most considerably advanced And I question whether so many Able Artists were to be met with again at the same time in any one Province in England beside FRANCISCUS MONTEBRUNUS a Noble Genouese and Doctor of the Civil and Canon Laws composed out of Lansbergius's Tables Ephemerides calculated for the Meridian of Bologna commencing in the year 1641. and ending in the year 1660. JOHANNES GEORGIUS HERVARTUS of Howenburgh Doctor in the Laws set forth a new kind of Chronology grounded upon the Calculation of Eclipses which yet both Petavius and Ricciolus have undertaken to refute EMANUEL PORTUS set forth a Treatise entituled Dipluranologia giving an account of the going back of the Sun in the time of Hezekias and of the standing still of the Luminaries in the time of Ioshua Printed at Padua in the year 1642. ANTONIUS DEUSINGIUS writ a Dissertation De vero Systemate Mundi Printed at Amsterdam in the year 1643. In which the Copernican System is reformed and those numberless Orbs in that of Ptolemy by which human Apprehension is so distracted are quite taken away GEORGIUS FOURNERIUS a Iesuit Professor of Mathematicks at Paris published about this time his famed Piece of Hydrography out of which saies Ricciolus Doctrina profundior hauritur quà m Mare ipsum quod Monumento adeo nobili illustravit Of his skill in observing the Celestial Phoenomena especially Eclipses Ricciolus gives ample testimony PETRUS HERIGONUS Professor of Mathematicks at Paris wrote a Cursus Mathematicus in several Tomes in the Fourth of which he treats De Sphaera Mundi and De usu Mappae Geographicâ—… and in the Fifth of the Theory of the Planets JOHANNES SELDENUS sometime the Great Dictator of Learning in this Nation besides his other Works of admirable value hath gained no mean Esteem by his Dissertation De Anno Civili Calendario Veteris Ecclesiae seu Reipublicae Iudaicae Printed at London by Richard Bishop 1644. 4 o. MICHAEL FLORENTIUS LANGRENUS Cosmographer and Mathematician to Philip IV. King of Spain wrote a Treatise of the Observation of the Longitude by Sea and Land from the Obscuration or Illumination of
Modus observandi Parallaxes His Selenographia his Industrious and Select Observations of the Motions of the Moons Spots and his Detection of Hevelius his double Error touching the Moon 's Libration All which with several others are mentioned in the first Tome of Ricciolus his Almagest He writ likewise a Treatise De Lumine Coloribus Iride mentioned in the Iournal des Scavans Tom. 3. p. 175. JOHANNES WENDELINUS writ De Hora Passionis Triduo Mortis Christi Printed at Leipick in the year 1651. HONORATUS DE MEYNIER a French-man besides his Paradoxes wherein he maintains that Experience ought to precede Science and Theorical Learning to be acquired by Practice put forth a small Treatise of the Sphere PETRUS COURCIER a French Iesuit put forth a Treatise entituled Astronomia Practica containing Practical Observations of the Celestial Motions by certain Astrolabes by which the Places and Motions of any Star may easily at any time be known DANIEL LIPSTORPIUS Professor of Philosophy and the Liberal Sciences at Lubeck put forth a Treatise entituled Copernicus Redivivus seu de vero Systemate Mundi wherein his Design is not by new Astronomical Calculations or Geometrical Demonstrations to confirm and establish the Copernican Hypothesis but by rational explanatory and Physico-Astronomical Arguments to lead the Lovers of Truth to an easie and clear understanding of what is delivered by Copernicus Galilaeo Longomontanus Kepler Bulialdus in their more diffusive Writings answering all the Objections of the Adversary Party and clearing what ever may seem difficult in the Doctrine proposed by the Assertors of that Hypothesis and that chiefly to this End to use his own Words Ut Stabilitâ suppositâ Nova hac Mundi Dispositione Copernicanâ Verissimâ Solidissimâ Omnes promiscuè ad veram Philosophandi Rationem Nobilissima Cartesiana Monumenta legenda invitentur Of which he gives the Specimina in a particular Tractate explained 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Philosophandi Ratione whereunto is annexed an Appendix in which there are divers Arguments relating to Astronomical Hypotheses of no vulgar strain MONSIEUR P. PETIT Surintendant of the Fortifications of his most Christian Majesty Lewis XIV published in his own Language a Dissertation touching Comets and particular Observations of the Comets appearing in the year 1654. c. And upon the Eclipse of the Sun which happened in the same year 1654. Of the Exact Method of taking the Diameters of the Planets in a Letter to Monsieur Auzout mentioned in the Iournal des Scavants The Reverend Doctor SETH WARD sometime Savilian Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford afterwards Bishop of Excester and at present Lord Bishop of Salisbury and Chancellour of the most noble Order of the Garter hath honoured and illustrated Astronomy by his learned Labours having published first his Prelection De Cometis wherein the Nature of Comets is discoursed of a new Theory of them proposed and the History of a late Comet which appeared between the 19 th and the 30 th of December 1652. declared He put forth likewise a brief Inquision into the Grounds of Bulialdus his Philolaical Astronomy wherein is detected Bulialdus's Error in the Method of the Calculating the double Inequality of the Planets Motion Geometrically evinced But the Work by which he hath chiefly on this Subject signalized his Name is his Astronomia Geometrica wherein a Method is proposed of Geometrically resolving the Astronomy of the Primary Planets either Elliptical or Circular And having mentioned this learned Prelate we cannot but here subjoyn his worthy Friend Sir PAUL NEILE Knight one of the Gentlemen Ushers of His Majesty's Privy Chamber who by his Liberal Expences great Ingenuity vigilant Observations excellent Erudition and Indefatigable Study for I cannot speak him better than by repeating this Signal Character already given him hath exceedingly contributed toward the Advancement of Astronomy To which may be added his exquisite Skill in fitting and ordering of Glasses for Telescopes thereby discovering many new Phaenomena hitherto unknown to others his not contenting himself with the exact Knowledge of the ancient Systems and Hypotheses but indeavouring a Plus ultrae by moulding and framing New Ones of his own for the future Benefit as is hoped and Improvement of Astronomy if at least he shall be pleased by the Publication of these and other his worthy Indeavours in this kind to do himself that Honour which cannot be given him by this Imperfect Commemoration LEONARDUS DU LIRIS a French-man and a Recollect-Fryar put forth in the year 1655. in his own Language a Treatise entituled Ephemeride Maritime calculated for the Observation of the Latitude and Longitude at Sea with a new Method of perpetuating the Ephemeris of the Sun by which at all times his Declination may be exactly found To which is added the Invention of an Instrument termed La Spire Solaire for finding out at any hour of the day by the Sun-beams the Height of the Equator and the Elevation of the Pole Doctor JOHN PELL sometime Professor of Mathematicks in the Colledge at Breda and before that in the Colledge at Amsterdam where his learned Collegue Ger. Io. Vossius as he testifies De Scientiis Matth. c. 10. heard him with Admiration read his Publick Lectures upon Diophantus by whom likewise he is stiled a Person of various Erudition and a most acute Mathematician published his Refutation of Longomontanus his Quadratures of the Circle in which he hath a Digression or Exercise showing the Errors or Failings of the greatest Part of Astronomers for want of better Knowledge in Geometry He published likewise a little Anonymous Exercitation concerning Easter And he would further extreamly oblige the Learned World by making good what he propounds in his Idea of Mathematicks viz. by laying down such a Method as by that in an orderly way to deduce not only all that ever is to be found in our Antecessors Writings and whatsoever they may seem to have thought on but also all the Mathematical Inventions Theorems Problems or Precepts that it is possible for the working Wits of our Successors to light upon and that in one certain unchanged Order from the first Seeds of Mathematicks to their highest and noblest Applications as well as to the meanest and most Ordinary See his Idea of Mathematicks Printed at the end of Durie's and Hartlib's Reformed School in 12 o. JOHANNES CARAMUEL LOBKOWITZ Bishop of Campagna and Satrianum in the Kingdom of Naples hath written largely through the whole course of the Mathematicks particularly as to our purpose the several Tractates following Pandoxium Physico-Ethicum in three Tomes in the second whereof besides Philosophy Physick and the Law he treats of Astronomy Solis Artis Adulteria in which he treats of Dialling Coelestes Metamorphoses wherein he resolves the Circular Theories of the Planets into other Forms Mathesis Biceps Vetus Nova in two Volumes fol. wherein among other various Mathematical
after Negotiator add In which Sence by the Arabs he is called Otared monente Almakrizio sayes Doctor Pocock Ibidem Line 55. after cited add He is also called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the bright and quick Vibration of his Rayes Ibidem Line 58. after videt add for which Reason by the Arabian Astrologers he is called Menapheck i. e. Hypocrita vel Simulator teste Alkaswini vid. D. Pocock ut supra Page 62. Line 40. Annot. after Motion add the Learned Doctor Isaac Vossius in his Book De Natura Lucis reduces them to the only means of Constipation and Attrition of solid Matter for that of Propagation or kindling Fire by Fire or by contraction of Radii in Burning-Glasses is not properly generating of Fire but multiplying and propagating it already actually existing In the APPENDIX Page 10. Line 3. after Astronomy add In which he was more particularly instructed by Sonches chief Prophet of the Egyptians as Clem. Alex. Stromat l. 1. testifies Page 11. Line 7. after Priests add especially Senchnouphis the Heliopolitan Ibidem Line 38 after there add particularly of Konouphis as Clem. Alexandr Stromat l. 1. attests Page 12. Line 42. after Aratus add and found that Spica Virginis then preceded the Autumnal Equinoctial Point eight Degrees Page 23. Line 8. after Explications add In Theodosii Sphaerica c. Page 29. Line 4. after Avicenna add whom some will have to be a Spaniard descended of the Race of the Moores but others make him to be a Native of Bucara a Town in Persia upon the Confines of Tartary and Son of a Chinese as his Name imports vide Perronian p. 23. Page 29. Line 20. after into add very good Latine as appears from the Astronomical Pieces extant in the Bodleian Library under his Name Page 30. Line 15. after in France add and at Oxford Erasmius Bartholinus in his Learned Animadversions upon Heliodorus Larissaeus his Opticks reports that he saw in Bulialdus his Library a MS. of Alkindus De Aspectibus which I conceive to be the same with that De Radiis Stellarum Ibidem Line 17. after Alfraganum add and of the Disposition of the Celestial Orbs and Motion of the Stars conceived to be the same with Aben Ezra of whom hereafter Page 31. Line 11. after Astronomia add which is likewise to be found in Latine in the Bodleian Library Page 33. Line 7. after that Age add many of his Works are preserved in the Bodleian and other the Oxonian Libraries and also as I am informed in that of Mr. Theyer of Gloucestershire Page 34. Line 4. after Manuscripts add As also an Institution of Astronomy extant in the Oxonian Libraries both in Persian and Arabick Page 35. Line 1. after De Astronomia add and Canones de Conjunctionibus Oppositionibus Eclipsibus Solis Lunae as they are cited by Pitsaeus Ibidem Line 10. after Geographer add a Specimen of c. Ibidem Line 11. after Latine add The whole Work hath been essayed or promised by many Learned Men as Schikardus Erpinnius Hornius the learned Mr. Clerk of Oxford and the ingenious Monsieur Thevenote Ibidem Line 29. after Astronomicis add His Tables and Astronomical Pieces are yet preserved in the Libraries of Oxford Ibidem Line 35. after Defensionem Dei add In the fifth Tractate of which Book he affirms the Stars Spica Virginis and Regulus to have been in the same Places in the Heavens in his Time as they ought to have been in according to Albategnius as Riccius reports in his Treatise De Octava Sphaera Page 36. Line 28. after Diligentia add His Observations of the change of the Weather at Oxford for several years together are in MS. in the Bodleian Library Page 37. Line 40. after Iudiciaria add Part whereof are in Print and c. Page 39. Line 29. and 33. for Arabick read Persian Page 46. after Line 42. add 1520. NICHOLAUS KRATZERUS Native of Munichen in Bavaria and Fellow of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford read there by Command of Henry the Eighth Lectures upon the Sphere of Io. Sacroboscus and wrote De Compositione Astrolabii in Geograph Ptolemaei likewise Canones horopti Page 48. Line 29. after Robinus add sometime Fellow of All-Souls Colledge in Oxford add likewise ibidem Line 32. he wrote likewise De Culminatione fixarum Stellarum and De Ortu Occasu fixarum Stellarum as also Annotationes Astrologicae in three Books All which are yet extant in MS. in the Bodleian Library as I find in the Oxford Antiquities l. 2. p. 178. Page 50. Line 38. after 1568. add He writ also a Treatise De Anno Die Passionis Christi as Onuphrius Panvinius l. 6. Antiqu Veronens affirms Page 51. Line 32. after observes add He put forth likewise Theodosius his Sphaerica in Greek and Latine with Explanations and Notes Printed at Paris 1558. 4 o. Page 56. Line 34. after Wales add and sometimes Fellow of All-Souls Colledge in Oxford Ibidem Line 39. after Portuguez add an Eminent Professor and Line 40. after Conimbra add who besides his Algebra Page 57. post Line ult add 1556. JOANNES MARTINUS POBLACION put forth a small Treatise entituled Compendium de Usu Astrolabii Schematibus commodissimis illustratum Printed at Paris in the year 1556. 8 o. Page 60. Line 27. after Astronomical add perpetual and after Printed add afterwards corrected and augmented with an accurate Description of the Copernican System and reprinted in the Year 1592. Page 66. Line 28. after Authors add he wrote a very large Comment upon Ptolemie's Quadripartite in Latine which remains in a fair MS. in St. Iohn's Library Oxford together with the Scheme of his Nativity and a remarkable Narration concerning his Death Page 74. Line 23. after Cambridge add and published at Paris in Greek and Latine by Erasmius Bartholinus with his Learned Animadversions thereon 1657. 4 o. Page 76. Line 18. after Work add and also Commandinus in his Excellent Edition of the Ptolemaick Planisphere Page 77. Line 4. after Oxford add He died in the year 1385 as I since find in the Author of the Oxford Antiquities l. 2. p. 87. Page 78. add 1600. THOMAS ALLEN sometime of Trinity Colledge in Oxford afterward of Glocester-Hall in the same University a Learned Antiquary Philosopher Mythologist and Mathematician In which last Concern he was by some conceived to be Equal to the Famous Roger Bacon being stiled not only Princops Coryphaeus sed ipsa Anima Sol omnium sui Aevi Mathematicorum as Burton sometimes his Fellow-Collegiate in his Funeral Sermon sayes of him Whose Learned Collections and Observations Astronomical besides his other Mathematical and Philosophical Labours at this Day enrich the private Libraries of several Curious Persons The greatest Part falling to the share of the Noble Sir Kenelm Digby His Exposition on the second and third Book of Ptolemy De Astrorum Iudiciis being at this Day preserved in MS. in the Hands of my worthy Friend Elias Ashmole