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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34603	Ouranoskopia, or, The contemplation of the heavens, in a perpetual speculum, or general prognostication for ever wherein is succinctly demonstrated the names and natures of the signs, planets and aspects, terms of art, order of the spheres, the colours, magnitudes, motions, solid proportions and distances of the seven planets from the earth ... / by Iames Corss ...	Corss, James.	1662 (1662)	Wing C6347; ESTC R32521	53,179	98

URANOSCOPIA SIR could I dictate to Apollo's lyre His sacred Anthems were my fancy high'r Then wit Meridianiz'd could feign yet I Should justly fear my insufficiency In this endeavour for he who would praise Thee wel must first court bright Vrania's rayes Dazling yet dear Vrania O that I Could once but taste thy sweetnesse e're I dy But cease fond confidence wave those endeavors For blessed Corss ingrosseth all her favors He 's her Adonis she to him imparts Her sacred Secrets her abstruser Arts By which he raises Monuments of Fame Perpetuates his thrise ingenious Name And thou fam'd * The Citie of Glasgow Town whose occidentall Towers Exults in his Production when the powers Of rigid Fates Illustrious Cities dooms To be intomb'd within their ashy wombs Thou needs not fear that black oblivion shall Triumph upon thy glories Funerall For while bright Titans Chariot doth run Thy Corss shall prove thy fam'd Mausolium Tho. Wood. Upon my Ingenious and much honoured Friend Mr. James Corss his URANOSCOPIA GReat Glasgow's glory Oh that I could raise A Monument might magnifie thy praise But that 's an Herculean task yet thine Own Works have done it thus thy praises shine Best from thine own Atchievements but lest I Shadow thy praise with my obscurity I will be silent Let who list aspire To speak thy praise I rather will admire Thy matchless Arts that makes thee soar so high To know the language of the spangled sky Observ'st their order what news their thou hears Thou tells us all the wonders of the Spheres Thy boundlesse skill with such unmated glory Hath crown'd thy name that it's a living story Of thy great worth which may be well enrol'd Not into Paper but rich leaves of Gold Tho. Mackconvy Upon my honoured Friend Mr. James Corss his URANOSCOPIA LEt heaven and earth and all their hosts conjoyn Their lights together all in one light let shine To shew the glory is in astrall Art That God and Nature doth to man impart Which doth expresse a Divine Dialect Whose beams from earth to heaven it doth reflect From worldling wit such knowledge is abstract But this our Author in Art is exact In sublime manner manifests his skill To Mathematicks he doth shew good will The knowledge whereof could not be the worss That every village had but such a Corss Alex. Auchmuty Philom A Crostick to my Ingenious Friend Mr. Iames Corss his URANOSCOPIA Ingenious soul great sounds of fame sets forth A name to thee but far below thy worth My lines may derogate thy works doe praise Enough thy skil and pains for which the bayes Shall on thy head be set in glorious rayes Continue then in this thy astrall strain O'r looking what this Orb can give for gain Resume thy works in honour of thy Nation So when thou dies hes remov'd thy Nation Scotland wil say thou' rt turn'd a constelation J. Hamilton a lover of the Mathemat VRANOSCOPIA CHAPTER I. Of the Names and Natures of the Signs Planets and Aspects HE that resolves to be an ingenious Student or would attain any knowledge in the Sacred Coelestial Sciences of Astronomy and Astrology must first necessarily know that there be twelve Signs in the Zodiack whose Names and Natures are as followeth Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagitary Capricorny Aquary and Pisces The nature of Taurus Virgo Capricorny is cold and dry Earthly The nature of Gemini Libra Aquary is hot and moist Airy The nature of Aries Leo Sagitary is hot and dry Fiery The nature of Cancer Scorpio Pisces is cold and moist Watry The twelve signs are divided into Moveable Common Fixed Masculine and Faeminine Aries Cancer Libra are moveable signs Taurus Leo Scorpio are fixed signs Gemini Virgo Sagitary Pisces are common signs Masculine signs be Aries Gemini Leo Libra Sagitary Aquary Foeinine signs be Taurus Cancer Virgo Scorpio Capricorny Pisces Every one of these twelve signs is said and found true by experience to rule certain distinct Members of Mans Body as Aries rules the Head Taurus the Neck Gemini the Shoulders Cancer the Breast and Ribs Leo the Heart Virgo the Belly and Bowels Libra the Reins Loyns and Kidneys Scorpio the secrets of both Sexes t is not fitting for me to name them Sagitary the thighs Capricorn the Knees and Hams and Pisces the Feet In the twelve signs of the Zodiack are constantly moving according to nature seven Planets which by reason of their different and various motions from that of the 8 Sphere in which the fixed Stars move are called wandring or erant Stars whose Names and Natures are these following viz. Saturn Jupiter Mars Sol Venus Mercurius and the Moon Of these 7 Planets two viz. the Sun and Moon are most perspicuous and universally known by every vulgar eye but the other five are carefully observed only by the Sons of Wisdom in all ages throughout the earth The seven Planets are of different Natures for Saturn is cold and dry and hath Capricorny and Aquary for his houses Jupiter is hot and moist and hath Sagitary and Pisces for his houses Mars is hot and dry and hath Aries and Scorpio for his houses Sol is hot and dry and hath only Leo for his house Venus is cold and moist and hath Taurus and Libra for her houses Mercury is convertible in nature and hath Gemini and Virgo for his house Luna is cold and moist and hath only Cancer for her house These seven Planets moving in the twelve signs do make several Angles and mutual Aspects from whose influence the generation and corruption of all Sublunaries are caused and they are five especially whose Names and Natures are these following viz. A Conjunction is either good or bad A Sextile is an aspect of imperfect friendship A Quartile is imperfect enmity A Trine signifies perfect amity A Opposition signifies nothing but mischief c. And thus much shall serve for the Names and Natures of the Signs Planets and Aspects CHAP. II. Of several Terms of Art necessary for all Students to understand BEsides the Names and Natures of the Signs Planets and Aspects which I shewed you before there are some other Terms of Art used by Astronomers which seem difficult to be understood unlesse first explained as Applications Separations Prohibitions Peregrinations Retrogradations Combustions c. of the Planets 1. The Aspects of the Planets are either partile or platique A partile Aspect is when Planets behold one another directly to the same degree and minut be it either Sextile Quartile Trine or Opposition But a platique Aspect is when Planets are within the mediety of others Orbs which Orbs are as followeth The Orbs of Saturn are 10 deg 00 min. Jupiter are 12 deg 00 min. Mars are 7 deg 30 min. Sol are 17 deg 00 min. Venus are 8 deg 00 min. Mercurius are 7 deg 00 min. Luna are 12 deg 00 min. 2. Their 's Application of Planets and that 3 wayes