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A51768	The sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English poem with annotations and an astronomical appendix / by Edward Sherburne, Esquire.; Astronomicon. Liber 1. English	Manilius, Marcus.; Sherburne, Edward, Sir, 1618-1702.	1675 (1675)	Wing M432; ESTC R8811	496,818	336

Head shaven on one side and long Hair on the other By the first intimating the time of the Winter Solstice cum velut abrasis Incrementis angustâ manente Exstantiâ ad Minimum Diei Sol pervenerit Spatium By the later the Summer Solstice or his full grown Splendour to which he arrives by Degrees emerging from those straits of Light in his abode in this Winter Tropick or to express it in Macrobius his own Words Ex quibus latebris vel Angustiis rursus emergens ad aestivum Hemisphaerium enascens in Augmenta porrigitur niggard Light By a short Course but long o're Those He stays Whose Lands are warm'd by his directer Rays The z Of this We have given the reason and explication in the Note upon the Tropick of Cancer and shall here only add that the Antient Aegyptians when they would express the Course of the Sun in his Solstice signified the same by the Hieroglyphick of two feet fasined together as represented by Pierius l. 5. c. 41. and Casalius de Veter Aegypt rit c. 20. Intimating thereby the slowness of his Motion or rather Stationary Condition to which I know not whether our Authour in this place may allude when he says Vixque dies transit As if the feet of the Day were fetter'd slow-pac'd Day there hardly passing round This from th' Aequator four Degrees is found One Circle more yet rests whose a The Antartick Polas Circle Site inclines Tow'rd the South Pole and Southern Bears confines Rang'd from the Winter Tropick five Degrees And near its Pole as the North's far from his Thus Heaven in two divided Pole from Pole Does by that double Summ measure the Whole f The Antartick or Southern Polar Circle which is describ'd a smaller Circle Parallel to the Aequator passing about the Axis of the World by the Southern Pole of the Ecliptick comprehending the frigid Southern Zone and terminating the temperate and is call'd the Antartick Polar Circle in opposition to the Artick before describ'd to which it is equal And by b The four Parallel lesser Circles before described that is to say the two Tropicks and two Polar Circles mark out the Heavens into five Zones which by the Latines are called Fasciae Cinguli Plagae and by Cicero Maculae and Orae That included between the two Tropicks is called the Torrid Zone which Polybius divided into two parted by the Aequator but he is not followed therein by any The two included between the Tropicks and the Polar Circles are called the temperate the other two included within the Polar Circles are call'd the Frigid Zones Of these Thales is said to have been the Inventor though Posidonius cited by Strabo without ground ascribes it to Parmenides five Bounds distinguish'd into c The Distinction of the Zones not sufficing the Antients to mark out the various Position and Situation of several Regions on either side of the Aequator They added divers other Parallel Circles which they called Climates A Climate being a little Zone included between two Circles parallel to the Aequator or between the Aequator and one Circle parallel thereunto mutually distant from one another by the Arch of a Meridian answerable to an half hours difference by which the longest day of the Year under one Parallel varies from the longest Day of the Year under another They are call'd Climata quasi Inclinamenta as it were deflexious from a right Position of Sphere or so many st●…ps and degrees mounting from the Aequator towards the Poles The Antients reckon'd only seven which they distinguish'd by the Names of the Places over o●… through which they passed Viz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. i. e. Per Meroen●…per Syenen●…per Alexandriam per Rhodum per Romam per Pontum per Boristhenem But Modern Astronomers and Geographers reckon 48. that is to say from the Aequator on each side to either of the Polar Circles 24. At which the Climates end the longest day there exceeding the ordinary Horary Measure unless by a kind of Analogy We reckon Moneths and half Moneths for hours and half hours Those Climates are again by the Moderns subdivided by drawing in the Middle of each Climate another Parallel Line dividing the same into two smaller Zones which by a Peculiar name are term'd Parallels Of which the more remote from the Aequator hath the longest Day of the Year differing from that nearer to it by the space of ¼ of an hour These are in number double to the Climates Vide Weigel Method Sphaeric l. 1. Sect. 1. Cap. 3. Climes Marks out the Difference of Place and Times Which Parallels One Course with Heaven partake And equal Rise with that and Setting make Since in th' Aethereal Texture they observe Their stated Distance and thence never swerve Passing a-cross by either Pole d These are the Coluri which are two great Circles cutting each other at right Angles in the Poles of the World Whereof one passes by the Aequinoctial the other by the Solstitial Points of the Zodiack They are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Mutili because in our oblique Position of Sphere they never entirely appear above the Horizon either at once or by Successive Conversion two more There are which intersect all Those before And themselves too concurring in th' Extreams Of the Worlds Axis at right-angled Scheams Which mark the Seasons out and Heaven beside Into four Quarters equally divide Of these through highest Heaven its Course e The Colurus Aequinoctiorum is describ'd a great Circle of the Sphere passing by the Poles of the World and cutting the Aequator at right Angles in the two Equinoctial Points or first Degrees of Aries and Libra whose Poles are in the first Points of Cancer and Capricorn or otherwise whose Poles are 90 Degrees distant from the first Points of Aries and Libra one steers Colurus Aequinoctiorum Parting the Serpents Tayl and undrench'd Bears And Tips of Scorpio's Claws born through Mid-skies Of Hydra cutting the Extremities And Middle of the Southern Centaur then Concurring in the Adverse Pole agen Returns by the huge Whale whose Scaly Chine Bright Trigon and the Bounds the Ram confine It marks then by Cepheïs Waste doth run Her Mothers Head and ends where it begun By th' midst of this the Worlds Extremitie And the Fore-feet and Neck of Helice Colurus Solstitiocum Which first of all when Sol withdraws his Light With seven fair Stars illuminates the Night The f The Colurus 〈◊〉 is a great Circle passing by the Poles of the World and Poles of the Zodiack cutting both the Aequator and Ecliptick at right Angles in the So●…al Points or first Degrees of Cancer and Capricorn and hath its proper Poles in the first Degrees of Aries and Libra To these two Circles are to be applyed this Vulgar Dis●…ch Haec duo Solstitium faciunt Cancer Capricornus Sed N●…ies ae●…uant Aries Libra Diebus

Beasts Pliny ascribes to the Delphians Cicero de divin to one Tage●… who appearing suddainly out of the Ground to the H●…trurians as they were plowing is said to have instructed them therein 〈◊〉 yet re●…ers the Invention thereof to Prometheus The Divination was made from the Site Colour and Marks of the Entrails The Parts inspected were the Heart Lungs Liver and Gall. That of the Heart not practic'd by the Romans until the 123 Olympiad That of the Liver most antient and usual The Parts of this Inspected were the Fi●…rae Fissum and Caput Of which see particularly Brissonius de formulis l. 1. Yet this kind of Divination seems by the Romans themselves in the time of their Greatness to have been despis'd as may appear by Tacitus and Quintus Curtius The later of whom condemns Alexander the Great for being addicted to those Superstitions which he terms Humanarum Mentium Ludibri●… c. n The Charming of Serpents even from the Testimony of Scripture it self Psalm 58. ver 5. Ierem. 8. ver 17. Eccles. 10. ●…er 11. appears to have been frequent with the Antients To which we may add the farther Testimony of Virgil. Eclog. 8. Frigidus in Pratis cantando rumpitur Anguis And Ovid l. Metam 7. in whom Mede●… boasts of her self Vipereas rumpo verbis carmine fauce●… As likewise Nemesianus Eclog. 4. Cantavit quod Luna timet quo rumpitur anguis See Pliny l. 8. c. 16. and l. 28. c. 2. where treating of the power of Enchantments he writes Figlinarum opera multi credunt rumpi tali m●…do N●…n pauci etiam Serpentes Upon which place Turnebus notes That Serpents if aware of the Charmer have the faculty recanere i. e. retorquere dissolvere Incantationem to dissolve the Charme Pliny loco citato asserting hunc unum esse illis intellectum The people most notorious for these kind of Incantations were the Psylli a people of Africa and the Marsi a People of Italy of which later thus Lucilius in Satyr Iam disrumpetur medius jam ut Marsus Colubras Disrumpit cantu venas cum extenderit omnes Horace likewise in Ca●…id Caputque Marsae dissilire Naenia And Ovid de Medicamine faci●…i Et mediae Marsis findantur cantibus Angues The Aegyptians were likewise of old famous for the charming of Serpents as at this Day the Indians Negros and those of Peru Vide B●…art in Praefat. ad Hieroz o In this many of the Antients vainly gloried So Empedocles in Laertius l. 8. boasts he could teach the Art by which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Extinctumque Hominem nigra revocabis ab Orco So Canidia in Horace Epod. ult Possum crematos excitare mortuos And Tibullus of a certain Witch Haec cantu finditque solum Manesque Sepulchri●… Elicit So the Nurse in Seneca his Hercul Oct. Mea jussi prece M●…nes loquuntur And Alecto in Claudian in Ruffin Condita funera traxi Carminibus victura meir See Delrius Disquis Magic l. 8. quaest 26. and particularly Leo Allatius refuting this Diabolical Vanity in his Learned Syntagma de Engastrimytho p So in Seneca Medea boasts she had Heavens Laws invert●…d shown the World the Light Of Sun and Stars at once Mundus Lege confusa Aetheris Et Solem Astra vidit But this is more than M●…gick can perform Divine Providence not permitting the Divel or his Agents to interrupt or disturb the Course and Motion of the Heavens or Stars or confound the Order of the Universe however by Poetical Licence 't is allowed Hence the Tragoedian Seneca in Hercule furente Nox media Solem vidit Noctem Dies And Petronius Trepidusque furentes Fl●…ctere Phoe●…us Equos revoluto cogitur Orbe Tantum dicta valent So likewise A●…eius l. 2. de Au●… Asin. speaking of a certain Witch Omnem istam Lucem Mundi siderali●… imis Tartari in V●…tustum Cha●…s submergere no●…it q Anaximander and Metrodorus supposed Thunder to be a Wind conceiv'd and inclos'd within a thick Cloud which breaking forth with violence makes a crack the Lightning being caused by the breaking of the Cloud as is illustrated by Anaximenes his Comparison of the Sea which being broken with Oares sparkles and shines Anaxagoras held it to be a portion of ardent matter quencht in a moist Cloud which makes a noise as red hot Iron dipt in water The Stoicks believ'd it to be a Noise occasioned by the Collision of two hollow Clouds Lightning proceeding from their attrition Descartes not much differing from them conceives Thunder to be occasioned when divers ●…at Clouds Tabulatorum instar like so many Floores or Scaffolds are driven with violence the higher upon the lower and clatter one upon another the Lightning proceeding from the Nature of the Exhalations included in the Interstiti●… or spaces between the Clouds which by them falling one upon another is violently crusht out Our Countrey-man Mr. Hobbs will have it to be the breaking of a Cloud congeal'd to Ice by the strugling of inclosed Air which he borrowed from Lucretius l. 6. Denique saepe geli multus fragor atque Ruina Grandinis in magnis sonitum dat nubibus ●…lte But much more consonant to Truth is the Opinion of those who hold Thunder to be an Exhalation hot and dry of a Sulph●…reous and Nitrous matter contracted within a cold and moist Cloud from which striving to get out it kindles by Agitation and violently breaks through its Prison r Pliny l. 17. c. 2. calls Snow the Foam of Coelestial Waters Aristotle and from him most Modern Philosophers describe it to be begotten of a moist but rare and thin Cloud which being condensed by a sharp cold falling down parts that it may the easilier divide the Air into Flakes like Fleeces of Wool to which the Psalmist alludes Qui dat Nivem sicut Lanam Though Bodin in Theatro Naturae conceives the Psalmist resembles Snow to Wool for the warmth it affords to Plants and Vegetables in the cold time of Winter as Woollen Vestments do to men rather than for its Fleece-like Similitude It s whiteness though Anaxagoras maintain'd it to be black and in Armenia it is found of a ruddy colour by reason the Terrestrial Particles or Atoms of that soil which abounds in Minium mixing with those of the Air tinge it and give it that hue as Eustath in Iliad 2. is derived from its Efficient cause Cold and the copious mixture of Aerial Spirits Of the Admirable Contexture and Figure of its Parts which are said to be always Sexangular See Kepler in his particular Tract upon that Subject s Hail is nothing else but Rain congeal'd in its fall and this Concretion or Congelation happens not far from the Earth as is Manifest by high Mountains on which Snow is often found but never Hail The nearer to the Earth it hath its fall the more Triangular or Pyramidal is its Figure the higher its fall the rounder Those Angles or Inequalities being worn