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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69471	Another collection of philosophical conferences of the French virtuosi upon questions of all sorts for the improving of natural knowledg made in the assembly of the Beaux Esprits at Paris by the most ingenious persons of that nation / render'd into English by G. Havers, Gent. & J. Davies ..., Gent.; Recueil général des questions traitées és conférences du Bureau d'adresse. 101-240. English	Bureau d'adresse et de rencontre (Paris, France); Havers, G. (George); Davies, John, 1625-1693.; Renaudot, Théophraste, 1586-1653.; Renaudot, Eusèbe, 1613-1679.	1665 (1665)	Wing A3254; ESTC R17011	498,158	520

't is fed by Exhalations plentifully supply'd from the Earth whence they are attracted and fired by the Stars in this place For if this Milky-way were of the nature of Comets or other lucid Meteors it could not always subsist but only while its matter lasted which besides would be more copious in some seasons then in others as in Spring and Autumn then in the droughts of Summer or frosts of Winter which closes the pores of the earth and so it would not have the same permanent position and figure no more then density rarity latitude and equality of its parts so constant that on the side of Cassiopaea it always appears alike winding and likewise in other places though we should grant the earth capable to supply fumes enough for feeding this so spacious circle which yet the disproportion of this point of the World compar'd to the vast extent of that circumference palpably prov'd to be in the Firmament allows not For besides that the diversity of Parallaxes would represent it under several Stars to the Inhabitants of several places if it were in the air as it happens to Comets and other aerious impressions and yet 't is always seen in the same place and equally distant from the fix'd Stars its proper motion from West to East whereby it moves one degree in a hundred years demonstrats that 't is in the eighth Sphere whose particular motion is the same And Galileo's Glasses which have discover'd abundance of Stars in this part convincingly manifest that 't is nothing but an assembly of almost innumerable small Stars which not being great enough to transmit their light to us distinctly the same is confounded and united together as 't is proper to all qualities and so of Light to associate it self to other light and thus produces that whiteness which is a weak and imperfect light For 't is not enough that an object be luminous it must be great and large or else near the eye to be visible the Stars as well as all other natural agents having a sphere of activity beyond which their action is not sensible hence the Planets and of them the Moon as nearest us seem greater than the fix'd Stars whose rayes being weakned by their distance cannot come directly to us as those of the Planets do but twinkle and sparkle Now though Astrologers make but six sorts of fix'd Stars according to their six different magnitudes those of the first being 170 times greater then the Earth and those of the last and sixt 18 times yet Tycho Brahe Americus Vesputius and divers others have discover'd some much less and less luminous then these last Nor are they to be credited who have limited their number to 1022 which the Scripture saith is infinite and known to God alone to whom the Prophet attributes it as a prerogative to number them and call them by their names The Third said There are two sorts of Milky-ways one in the Air and the other in the Heaven The first of which alone Aristotle spoke is a light produc'd by exhalations either fired or irradiated as in Comets from which this milky way differs only upon account of its great extent caus'd by the plenty of Exhalations attracted by a great number of Stars which are neer Cassiopaea and the Poles where also this Way is brighter then in other places The other Milky Way is part of the Heaven or Firmament equally dividing the same in two as other Circles do although 't is rather a Zone or Space then a Circle as well as the Zodiack with whom it agrees in that it hath breadth as that hath and is oblique to the Aequinoctial having other Poles than those of the World but differs in that 't is not so broad the Zodiack having sixteen degrees and this commonly between eight and ten for 't is neither equally broad nor luminous in all its parts and its obliquity is much greater than that of the Zodiack the middle of which recedes not from the Aequinoctial above 23 degrees and a half but this about 56 degrees and a half towards the North and neer 63 degrees towards the South It differs also from all the great Circles in that it changes position according to the motion of the Firmament so that 't is mov'd with two Motions namely that of the First Mover from East to West upon the Poles of the World making an intire revolution in one day and another proper to it self from West to East upon the Poles of the Ecliptick in the same time with the Firmament which motion the other Circles have not being either not mov'd at all as the Horizon and Meridian or only by the motion of the First Mover as the Aequinoctial Ecliptick Tropicks and Colures Upon the Second Point it was said That the Earth produces Metals to be imployed for several uses in order to humane Commerce and Society which being founded upon Hope and Fear Reward and Punishment Gold and Iron the two most powerful Metals are highly instrumental to the establishing of the same Gold which an Ancient call'd the Sun of the Earth being the Star which gives light to our hope and the sweet influences of Reward And Iron by its obscure and livid colour being the dark Star of our fear and of death whereof 't is the most usual Instrument But as Fear is without comparison stronger than Hope for the one tends to the preservation of Being the other only to Well-being so Iron the Instrument of Terror must likewise have more powerful effects than Gold which is only the object of Hope Moreover the Law relieves such as the Just Fear of Iron may have constrain'd to any thing as being the greatest violence in the World but not those whom the desire of Gold or hope of Gain hath engaged to any Affair And indeed all Earthly Powers are measured only by the point of the Sword Arms and Iron seem to be the share of Kings and all the Nobility as Gold that of Merchants and the Vulgar from whom all Sovereigns know how to get it when they think fit Besides since Gold hath need of Iron not only for the digging of it out of the entrails of the Earth but also for defending and preserving it an evidence of its weakness it may be said the prey of him who knows how to manage Iron best And Solon had reason to contemn the vanity of Croesus who made a shew of his riches as of his greatest power foretelling him that it would become the booty of him that should have a sharper sword And Philip of Macedon never conquer'd so many places by trucket with Mules laden with Gold as his Son did whole Kingdoms by the Sword But what power can we give to Gold which weakens and enervates its possessors as appears by the Lacedemonians who were masters of Greece whilst Iron alone was in use with them and were corrupted by the Gold which Lysander brought thither The Captain in Tacitus had reason to believe

of the Days comprehended in half a year And the obliquity of the Horizon is the cause that these parallels are cut by it unequally Otherwise if these parallels were not different from the Equator or although different if they were cut equally by the Horizon as it happens in a Right Sphere the Horizon which is a great Circle passing by the Poles of these parallels which are the same with those of the World both the Days and Nights would be equal so that where the Sphere is not inclin'd as in the Right and Parallel Spheres there is no inequality of Days nor consequently of Climate so call'd from its Inclination but only in the oblique Sphere 'T is defin'd a Region of Earth comprehended between two circles parallel to the Equator in which there is the difference of half an hour in the longest days of the year It encompasses the Terrestrial Globe from East to West as a Zone doth which differs from it only as the Zone is broader whence there are many Climats in the same Zone The Ancients having regard only to so much of the Earth as they believ'd inhabited made but seven Climats which they extended not beyond the places where the longest days are 16 hours and denominated from the most remarkable places by which they made them pass as the first Northern Climat was call'd Dia Meroes hy Meroe which they began at 12 deg 43 min. from the Aequinoctial where the longest day hath 12 hours three quarters and which at present is the end of our first Climat and beginning of the second This first Climat passes by Malaca a City of the East-Indies and begins at 4 deg 18 min. Its middle from which all Climats are reckon'd hath 8 deg 34 min. and its end 12 deg 43 min. The other six Climats of the Ancients pass'd by Siene Alexandria Rhodes Rome Pontus Euxinus and the River Boristhenes Ptolomy reckons twenty one as far as the Island Thule which lies in 63 deg of Northern Latitude Our modern Astronomers make twenty four from the Aequinoctial to the Polar Circles in each of which Climats the longest day of Summer encreases half an hour above twelve according as they approach nearer those Circles beyond which to the Poles of the World they place six more not distinguish'd by the variation of half an hour but of 30 days So that there is in all sixty Climats 30 Northern and as many Southern each comprehended by two Parallels which Climats are easily found by doubling the excess whereby the longest day surpasses twelve hours the Product being the Climat of the place As if you know the longest Summer day at Paris to be 16 hours double 4 the excess above 12 and you will have 8 which is the Climat of Paris and so of others And though there be the same reason of Seasons and other variations in the Southern and Northern Climats yet since experience shews us that those of the South are not inhabited beyond the 8th which is about the Cape of Good Hope at the farthest point of Africa beyond which no Inhabitants are as yet discover'd it may seem that the diversity of Climats is not alone sufficient for long or short life but there are other causes concurring thereunto The Second said That since a thing is preserv'd by that which produces it the Sun and Stars which concur to the generation of all living Creatures must also contribute to their preservation and continuance in life which being maintain'd by use of the same things variety and change though delightful yet being the most manifest cause of brevity of life that Climat which is most constant and least variable will be the properest for longaevity and so much the more if it suits with our nature such is the first Climat next the Aequinoctial where things being almost always alike bodies accustom'd thereunto receive less inconvenience thereby then under others whose inequalities and irregularities produce most diseases The natural purity of the Air promoted by the breath of a gentle East Wind there reigning continually and the want of vapours and humidities which commonly infect our Air conduce greatly to the health of the Inhabitants also when the dryness and coldness of their temper makes longer-liv'd as appears by Ravens and Elephants the most melancholy of all Animals which are common in these parts where they live above 300 years Moreover Homer testifies that Memnon King of Aethiopia liv'd 500 years which by the report of Xenophon was the common age of most men of the same Country where Francis Alvarez affirms in our time that he saw lusty men at 150 years of age and that in Aegypt which lies near it there are more old men then in any place of the World and that women are so fruitful there that they bring forth three or four children at a time rather through the goodness of the Climat then any nitrous vertue that is in the waters of Nilus Hence possibly most Doctors place the Terrestial Paradise under the Aequinoctial and the cause of our first Fathers longaevity who having been created under this Climat seem to have lost of its duration proportionably as they remov'd from the same Northwards whence all evil comes and towards the Zones wrongfully call'd Temperate since more subject to alteration then that call'd Torrid by the Ancients who thought it unhabitable by reason of extream heat although the continual Flowers and Fruits wherewith the always verdant Trees are laden testifie the contrary The Third said Since Heaven is immutable and always like to it self the Earth and Elements alone subject to change the length and shortness of Life seems not to depend on Heaven but on Earth and the several dispositions of our Bodies and the whole World being Man's Country there is no place in it but is equally proper for his habitation provided he be born there because the Air he breathes and the Food he eats from his Nativity altering his Body at length make his temper suitable to that of the place of his Education which therefore he loves above any other The Fourth said That Heaven remaining it self immutable is nevertheless the cause of motions and mutations here below its light producing different effects in the Earth according as it is receiv'd the most sensible whereof are heat dryness and other qualities which diversifie the Seasons and Zones of which the two temperate especially the Northern seems most habitable and proper for longaevity 'T is also the most populous and its Natives are not only the most healthy and lusty but also the most refin'd and civiliz'd of all others Now of the Climats of this Zone the eighth wherein Paris lyes seems to me the healthiest of all as well for pureness of Air as all other Causes The Fifth said That the goodness of Climats depends not so much upon Heaven as the situation of each place in reference to the Winds of which the Southern being the most unhealthy therefore Towns defended by