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heaven_n	east_n	motion_n	west_n	1,864	5	9.5519	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72146	Of the advancement and proficience of learning; or, The partitions of sciences· Nine books. Written in Latin by the most eminent, illustrious, and famous Lord Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam, Vicount St. Alban, Councellor of Estate, and Lord Chancellor of England. Interpreted by Gilbert Watts.; De augmentis scientiarum. English	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Watts, Gilbert, d. 1657.	1640 (1640)	STC 1167.7; ESTC S124505	372,640	654

the rapture of the first Moveable Hypothises imaginariae that all parts of the firmament are turned about by perfect circles that there are Eccentriques and Epicycles to save the constancy of Motion by perfect circles vide digress that the Moone hath no force or influence upon a body superior to it and the like And the absurdity of these suppositions hath cast men upon that opinions of the Diurnall Motion of the Earth an opinion which we can demonstrate to be most false But scarce any man can be found who hath made enquiry of the Naturall Causes of the substance of the heavens as well Stellare as Jnter-stellare so of the swiftnesse and slownesse of heavenly bodies refer'd one to another also of the various incitation of Motion in the same Planet likewise of the perpetuated course of Motion from East to West and the contrary Lastly of Progressions stations and Retrogradations of the Elevation and Declination of Motions by the Apogée or middle point and Perigée or lowest point of heauen so of the oblique windings of Motions either by flexuous Spires weaving and unweaving themselves as they make their approach or recesse from the Tropiques or by serpentine sinuations which they call Dragons so of the fixt Poles of Rotations or wheeling motions why they should be placed in such a point of the heavens rather than in any other so of the alligation of some Planets at a certain distance from the Sunne I say an inquiry of this kind hath scarce bin attempted save that some labour hath bin taken therein only in Mathematicall observations and Demonstrations But these observations only shew how wittily all these motions may be contrived and cleered from opposition not how they may truly subsist in Nature and represent only seeming Motions and their fictitious Fabrique and framed at pleasure not their causes and the reall truth of Things wherefore Astronomie such as now it is made may well be counted in the number of Mathematicall Arts not without great diminution of the Dignity thereof seeing it ought rather if it would maintaine its own right be constitute a branch that most principall of Naturall Philosophy For who ever shall reject the fained Divorces of superlunary and sublunary bodies and shall intentively observe the appetencies of Matter and the most universall Passions which in either Globe are exceeding Potent and transverberate the universall nature of things he shall receive cleere information concerning celestiall matters from the things seen here with us and contrariwise from those motions which are practised in heaven he shall learne many observations which now are latent touching the motions of bodies here below not only so farre as these inferiour motions are moderated by superiour but in regard they have a mutuall intercourse by passions common to them both Wherefore this part of Astronomie which is naturall we set downe as DEFICIENT And this we will call Liveing Astronomy ✿ to distinguish it from Prometheus Oxe stuft with straw which was an Oxe in outward shape only § But Astrologie is corrupted with much superstition so as there is hardly to be found any sound part therein Yet in our judgement it should rather be purged than clean cast away But if any contend that this science is not grounded upon reason and Physicall contemplations but in blind experience and the observation of many Ages and therefore reject a triall by naturall Arguments which the Chaldee Astrologers boasted he may by the same reason revoke Auguries Divination and Predictions from beasts entralls and swallow downe all kind of Fables for all these superstitious vanities were avoucht as the Dictates of long experience and of Discipline delivered over by tradition But we doe both accept Astrologie as a Portion of Naturall Philosophy and yet attribute unto it no more credit than reason and the evidence of Particulars doe evince setting aside superstitions and fictions And that we may a litle more seriously consider the matter § First what a vaine fancy is this that every Planet should raigne for certain houres by turne so as in the space of twentyfoure howers they should resume their Dominions thrice over three supernumerary howers reserved Yet this conceit brought forth unto us the Division of the week a computation very ancient and generally received as from the interchangeable course of daies most manifestly it appears when in the begining of the day immediatly succeeding the fourth Planet from the Planet of the first day enters upon his Goverment by reason of the three supernumerary howres whereof we have spoken § Again we are confident to reject as an idle fiction the doctrine of Genethliacall Positures of the heavens to precise points of time with the Distribution of the Howses those same darlings in Astrologie which have made such madde work in the Heavens nor can I sufficiently wonder that many excellent men and for Astrology of Principall note should ground themselves upon so slight reasons to avouch such opinions For they say seeing that experience it selfe discovers as much that Solstices Aequinoctialls new Moone full Moones and the like greater revolutions of starres doe manifestly and notably work upon naturall Bodies it must needs be that the more exact and subtile aspect and posture of the starres should produce effects more exquisite and occult But they should first except the Sunnes operations by manifest heat and likewise the magnetique influence of the Moone upon the increase of Tides every halfe Moone for the daily Fluxe and Refluxe of the Sea is another thing But these set aside the other powers of the Planets upon naturall bodies so farre as they are confirmed by experience is slender and weak and which they shall finde latent in the greater Revolutions Wherefore they should rather argue the other way namely that seeing those greater Revolutions have so small influence those exact and minute differences of Positures have no force at all § Thirdly Those Fatalities that the hower of Nativity or conception governs the Birth The hower of inception the fortune of the thing begunne the hower of Question the fortune of the thing enquired and in a word the science of Nativities Elections Questions and such like levities in our judgement have no certainty or solidity in them and may by naturall reasons be plainly redargued and evinced The point to be spoken of rather is what that is which we retaine and allow of in Astrologie and in that which we doe allow what is deficient for for this end that is for the observation of Deficients we undertook this work not intending as we have often said matter of censure And indeed amongst the receiv'd parts of Astrologie the Doctrines of Revolutions wee judge to have more soundnesse in them than the rest But it may be to good purpose to set downe and prescribe certain Rules by the scale and square whereof Astrologicall Observations may be examined that what is fruitfull may be retain'd what is frivolous rejected § The first Precept