Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	day_n	earth_n	firmament_n	2,551	5	11.8366	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85918	The first lecture, of an introduction to cosmographie, (vvhich is a description of all the world) / read publickly at Sr. Balthazar Gerbier his academy, at Bednall-Greene.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1649 (1649)	Wing G557; Thomason E573_5; ESTC R206200	7,181	15

which makes the light things to ascend and the heavy ones to descend and this is inviolable and all obeyeth unto it Now let us come to Man made by God as well as the other Elements and all things and wherefore Is it not to be a beholder of his greatnesse and to adore him That is the end He hath made him to his resemblance given him a Soule with a reasonable taste To what can it be more fitly applyed then to follow in all things the design and intent of his Maker from the beginning to the end and it s without doubt the true reason and the true vocation of man and thence it is man ought no more to depart from it then the Stones to descend and the Fire to ascend God hath created thee O man to this effect and it is his purpose but if thou doest not follow him to what serves thy intelligence knowledge and thy will but to harden thy self against the will of God and more then all inanimate things and to hinder the effect of his purpose in thee O man think on this and hold it for certain that if thou dost imploy that Talent which thou hast to render more honour to vice and to thy wilfull unruled sences then to God thou art unworthy to be put beneath the insensible things and that instead thou was created for an eternall blisse to the contrary thou doest deserve to endure eternall torments Whereof God in mercy preserve us all and grant unto us that true reason which may preserve in us his true workmanship and enable us to destroy our own Dele quod fecisti ut Deus salvet quod fecit saith the great Augustin Now let us enter into some particulars concerning this World and for our present use disposing our selves to contemplate the same from above with more security We shall begin with the Spheare What the Spheare is THe doctrine of the Spheare is the knowledge of the World The World is the assembling and the order of all that God hath created it is the composed of Heaven and Earth or of the Celestiall region and of the Elementall region Therefore it is called Vniverse and for to have a more perfect intelligence of this science there hath been made an artificiall Spheare this instrument is of a round form composed of circles by the which though imaginary the motion of the Heavens is shewed the reason of the changing of seasons that of the difference of dayes and nights according to the places of the earth in effect the order of the World to the resemblance of which this instrument hath been made What Heaven is AS we have not a designe to make a building in the Ayre but to prove all that which we shall say it is necessary to prove that there is a Heaven before we come to its qualities but it is a thing very easie because that nature suffering no emptinesse it must of necessity be that that space which is from the Firmament and imperiall unto the lowermost of the Planets which is the Moone be filled of some matter now this matter is called Heaven which is simple solide fixt shining transparent incorruptible and exempted from changing Of the qualities of Heaven ALL Naturall things have two principles God first then Nature to the which he hath given full power to work by a certain universall spirit which he hath inclosed in her The Naturall things are corporall essences which subsist of themselves and issue of the union of the matter and of the forme Now then nature consists in these two points in the matter of the which the naturall bodies are ingendred and in the forme which causeth them to be th●t which they are but the matter is susceptible of divers formes and hath not so soon lost one but it takes another and for as much that it cannot receive any before it be deprived of the Precedent The Phylosophers have established three Principles the Matter the Forme and the Privation Now there is two sorts of naturall Bodies some simple and some mixt The simple are the Heavens and the Elements because they are simple in their creation and can never be changed in divers formes the mixt to the contrary are those which draw their composition from the Elementall Qualities and are susceptible of divers formes The Matter of the Heaven is then simple it is also solid and fixe because that the Starres which from the beginning of the world untill this present move and turne have never changed nor varied their figures nor the distances which they have the one with the other and this order could not have been conserved without some solid thing which constrained them thereunto which can be no other thing then the solid and fixt matter of the Heaven Likewise it 's the opinion of the most sensed and the most approved which is authorized of the ancient Astronomers Which have writen that the Starres are of the same matter that Heaven is but more thicke because they stop the light of the Sunne and not the Heaven as we shall show hereafter and said that the Stars were in Heaven as the knurre in boards others will have the Sarres and Planets to be in a continued aire like as Birds in the aire but there ought to be many particular properties to maintaine them all in an order so Permanent and unchangeable against the violent swiftnesse of so many contrary motions I doe also let passe that opinion with the Flight of their Birds The matter of Heaven is of an aboundant shining since that the Sunne the Moone the Starres are so which are of the same matter but to say better the matter of Heaven is Transparent and the Sun and the Stars are not that the Heaven is transparent its easie to prove it and the experience doth to much manifest it unto us for if the Heaven of the Moon were duskie it would hinder to see the Sun and the other Stars which are above it For the Sun the Moon and the Stars that they are dusky their eclipses do give it us to understand This matter is also incorruptible and consequently exempt of changing since it is simple and in its quarters the generation findes no employment Of the Celestiall Region THE Celestiall Region is the assembling of all the Heavens it wholy comprehends it we shall see the order and the course in its place Their mater as we have proved is solid of the which are the Stars and the Planets but more compacted together that is to say that the matter is more gathered and as Polished bodies receive and cause the light which they borrow of the Sun to reverberate as we shall prove hereafter for the Heaven it is transparent There is two sorts of Stars Fixe and Errants the Fixed are those which never change their figures and have all one the same Motion which is that of the Firmament The Errants are the Planets which have all different motions with that of the

Firmament they are seven to the which the ancient have given the names of their Deities for the power of their influences viz. Saturne Jupiter Mars the Sun Mercury Venus and the Moon Duskie Matter is that which gives no passage to the Light as the Wood the Stone Solid and Fixed Matter is that which suffers not easily penetration as the Glasse the Chrystall Penetrable Matter is that which suffers with facility Penetration as the Aire the Water and the Fire Transparent Matter is that which gives passage to the Light as the Glasse and the Christall The Matter of Heaven is then Solid Fixe Impenetrable and Transparent That there are many Heavens IT s proved that there are many Heavens by the diversity of the motions in this manner Since the matter of Heaven is solid two Planets having different motions cannot be in the same Heaven by the same reason it ought to be noted that it s not the Planet which moves but its Heaven otherwise they would penetrate the matter which is solid But the Sun and the Moon have different motions For the Sun atchieves its course in a year and the Moon in a month then the Sun and the Moon cannot be in the same Heaven by this reason there being not two of all theseven Planets which have the same motion there shall require seven Heavens for the seven Planets the matter of Heaven being fixe and impenetrable There can be said against this that there may be one onely Heaven of an impenetrable matter in the which many spaces are imagined by the which the Planets having different motions can make their courses but this comes alwayes to the point viz. That there must alwayes be seven spaces for the seven Planets which must be filled with seven bodyes which are called Heavens which are joyned the one to the other Of the Firmament or eigth Heaven WEE have proved that there are seven Heavens for the seven Planets we will shew yet that there must be another Heaven for all the fixed Stars different from the seven others For the antient Astronomers having observed that the motion of the Stars was very slow and did not advance but from a hundred to a hundred years a degree It hath then been necessary to admit an eigth Heaven In the which are all the fixed Stars which doe not vary their situation distance nor figure and this Heaven is called Firmament If the Stars are infinite and how the Astronomers divide them FOr the fixed Stars we hold them to be infinite as the holy Scripture testifies it it s to say that besides the great infinite number which are seen there is yet an infinite of others little which are not seen as hath been known by certain Prospective glasses which have been made in Italy That though the Antients have not marked more then 1022. its not that they would say that there were no more but that they have onely observed the very chiefest for to serve to their observations Those 1022. Stars are divided into 48 constellations or Figures of animals which the antients have imagined for to discern the one from the others and have seperated them in three rancks Septentrionals Zodiacks and Meridionals If the Stars are shining of themselves and Transparent ALL the Stars have no proper light of themselves but in this manner all the Stars and Planets are of the same nature but the Moon hath no other light then that which shee borrows of the Sun nor then any other Starre That if it s said that the Moon looseth not its light quite when she eclipses in the shadow of the Earth because there appeareth a rednesse in the eclipsed party and that such rednesse can be her naturall light I doe answer that it cannot be naturall because that if it were so shee would never quit it But when shee increaseth or that shee is in the first quarter The part of the Moon which is not illuminated of the Sun ought to be provided of that rednes which is not so as the experience giveth us to understand Then all rednesse is not naturall to the Moon That if it bee asked from whence it proceeded it s from the reflection of the light which is incountred in the shadow of the Earth for as the Moon is a polished body and that the shaddow of the Earth is never destituted of some little light which causes that rednesse in her Of all before said its clear seen that the Sun is the principle of light God having adorned her with such an eminent quality Furthermore we say that the Stars are not transparent as the Heaven as can be seen in the Moon and Mercuri when they are interposed between our eyes and the Sun and that they Eclipse her but that they are thick That the Heavens are round and that they turn the one in the others from the Orient to the Occident VVEE have proved that there are eight Heavens Now we must prove that they are round and that they turn the one in the other from the Orient to the Occident the which manifestly appears For we see that the Sun the other Planets and all the Stars doe rise first in the Orient on the Horison then by little and little advance to the South set to the Occident and next day rise again in the Orient let us fasten our selves but to the Suns it must be the same Sun or another it cannot be another for there would require every day a new one If it is the same it must have passed over it within it or underneath the earth It cannot have passed over it forasmuch that there would be no night the presence of the Sun causing the day It cannot have passed within since it is greater as we shall shew hereafter it remains then that it is passed underneath and consequently its Heaven turns also about the Earth and so likewise all the other Heavens are round since they turn the one in the other about the Earth and that from Orient to Occident It is also proved that the Heaven is round because being the part most Noble of the world and which containes all the rest it is necessary that it should have the round form since its the most capable and the most perfect If the Heavens had another figure or forme those which are inferiour to the others could not carry their Planets from Occident to Orient because of their angles or else the one must penetrate the others and then there would bee penetration in the matter of the Heaven which hath been proved solid and fixe