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A69046	A prognostication euerlasting of right good effect fruitfully augmented by the author, containing plaine, briefe, pleasant, chosen rules to iudge the weather by the sunne, moone, starres, comets, rainbow, thunder, clowdes, with other extraordinary tokens, not omitting the aspects of planets, with a briefe iudgement for euer, of plentie, lacke, sicknes, dearth, warres, &c. opening also many naturall causes worthie to be knowne. To these and other now at the last, are ioyned diuers generall, pleasant tables, with many compendious rules, easie to be had in memorie, manifold wayes profitable to all men of vnderstanding. Published by Leonard Digges Gentleman. Lately corrected and augmented by Thomas Digges his sonne.; Prognostication of right good effect	Digges, Leonard, d. 1571?; Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543. De revolutionibus orbium caelestium. Part 1. English. Selections.; Digges, Thomas, d. 1595.	1605 (1605)	STC 435.59; ESTC S115715	61,188	112

A Prognostication euerlasting of right good effect fruitfully augmented by the Author containing plaine briefe pleasant chosen rules to iudge the weather by the Sunne Moone Starres Comets Rainbow Thunder Clowdes with other extraordinary tokens not omitting the Aspects of Planets with a briefe iudgement foreuer of Plentie Lacke Sicknes Dearth Warres c. opening also many naturall causes worthie to be knowne To these and other now at the last are ioyned diuers generall pleasant Tables with many compendious Rules easie to be had in memorie manifold wayes profitable to all men of vnderstanding Published by Leonard Digges Gentleman Lately corrected and augmented by Thomas Digges his sonne ♈ ♉ ♋ ♍ ♏ ♑ ♓ ♒ ♐ ♎ ♌ ♊ Imprinted at London by Felix Kyngstone 1605. To the Honorable Sir Edward Fines Earle of Lincolne Baron of Clinton and Say Knight of the noble order of the Garter Lord high Admirall of England Ireland and Wales and the Dominions and Iles thereof of the towne of Calice and marches of the same Normandie Gascoigne and Guian and Captaine generall of the Queenes Maiesties Seas and Nauie royall RIght Honorable hauing of long time sundrie waies found your Lordships great fauour not only toward my father in his life time but also toward his most bountifully continued sithence his death I haue carefully thought which way I might some way yeeld a testimonie of a greatefull mind And perusing of late a Book of my fathers to your Lordship dedicated by negligence or ignorance of Correctors many wayes depraued I determinde both to amend the faults and with some additions to amplifie the same briefely also to touch and discouer certaine errors touching matters of Nauigation transferred into our language And although I haue in a peculiar volume for that purpose prepared to entreat at large deliuering new Rules and Methods hitherto in no language published nor to my knowledge of any forraine Nation practised not onely in demonstration void of all error but also in practise feazible Yet in the meane least further boldnes by ignorance should encrease to deriue vs mo erros from other nations whereof our Seamen haue learned too many already I thought good at the end of this booke to note some of the most vsed and esteemed and among that faction held for Oracles whereby indeede they haue been and are in all nauigations so misled that were they not by sight of the coast and soundings better directed then by any troth in their Art many mo vessels should daily perish This present token therefore of dutifull goodwill I shall humbly desire your Lordship in good part to accept meaning hereafter God sparing life to honor your Lordship and profit my countrey with matters more rare And in the meane while I humblie take my leaue At your Lordship commandement Thomas Digges To the Reader TO auoyd gentle Reader the yearely care trauailes and paines of other with the confusions repugnances and manifold errors partly by negligence and oft through ignorance committed I haue againe briefly set foorth a Prognostication generall for euer to take effect adioyning thereto diuers profitable collections and many pleasant conclusions easie of all willing ingenious to be perceiued Here note Reader whereas the eleuate Pole and Meridian should be considered in this worke it is performed for London because I wish this Meridian situation or clime the exact truth of things If any yearely practises in like matters agree not with my calculations bee assured they are false or at the least for other Eleuations or Meridians supputated and therefore little seruing thy purpose And that the late rude inuentions and grosse deuises of some this yeare and two yeares past published might be of them perceiued then filed and to serue to some profit I haue purposed euen now to put forth a booke named Panauges wel seruing their turne and so generally most exactly al Europe pleasant and profitable to the learned and no small delight to all manner of men Another booke is also already come to thy hands entituled Tectonicon a treasure vnto the Masons Carpenters Land-meaters correcting their olde errors wrongfully reckoned of them as infallible grounds teaching faithfully sufficiently and very briefly the true mensuration of all manner land timber stone boord glasse c. And at the end contayning an Instrument Geometricall appointed to their vse Take in good worth these labours louing Reader and looke shortly for the plesant fruites Mathematicall euen such as haue been promised by my friends and partly by me Neither shall my desire to profite here stay but intendeth further to procede if these seeme accepted As the good will of Printers not had kept the foresayd from you so I trust the willing minde and excellencie of Thomas Gemini shall bring them shortly vnto you Certes my hope is while life remaineth not to bee vnfruitfull to this common wealth with studie and practise Against the reprouers of Astronomie and Sciences Mathematicall I Am diuersly occasioned louing Reader somewhat to write in the commendation of the Mathematicals which neede not but onely to open the foolish rashnes and rash foolishnes of such which of late haue in writing dispraised these goodly arts It is an old sayd sawe and true Scientia non habet inimicum nisi ignorantem But to auoyd tediousnesse and chiefly for the more satisfying I referre all of that sort which haue tasted any learning the rest not regarded to the first part of famous Guido Bonatus de vtilitate Astronamiae in communi where he writeth contra illos qui dicunt quòd scientia Stellarum non potest sciri ab aliquo contra illos qui dixerunt quòd scientia Stellarum non est vtilis sed potiùs damnosa c. contra illos qui contra dicunt iudicijs Astronomiae qui reprehendunt eam nescientes dignitatem eius cò quòd non est lucratiua Also for breuitie I appoynt all nice Diuines or as Melancthon termeth them Epicurei Theologi to his hie commendations touching Astronomie vttered in his epistles to Simon Grineus to Schonerus to the peroration of Cardanus 5. bookes where he sheweth how farre wide they alleage the Scriptures against the Astronomer which make wholy with the Astronomer Melancthon writeth and affirmeth Arrogantiam esse cum summa stultitia coniunctam venari choragium aliquod gloria ex insectatione artium quae sunt graui autoritate doctorum prudentium receptae he calleth it manifestum insaniae genus declaring quòd magis opus habent Medicis quàm Geometris aduising the learned not to giue care vnto their follie Sinamus ait vnàcum Epicuro ineptire Which counsell ●o I follow Now therefore yee enemies of all good doctrine either giue an ouerthrow and that with your pen or let famous Guido or learned Melancthon satisfie If neither certes I will shortly God sparing life take some paine in publishing the wonderfull vnknowne pleasant profits of these dispraised high knowledges and by that meanes to inforce silence Now in