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A45203	Demonstration of astrology, or, A brief discourse, proving the influence of the sun, moon, stars, over this terraqueous globe grounded on the fundamental rules of the Copernican system and philosophy, and verified by practical examples and experience : illustrated by diagrams : whereby the art is rendered almost mathematically demonstrable : to which is added, an astrological and philosophical appendix, or second part, treating of this summer's effects, both in the macrocosm as well as microcosm : wherein we have great cause to fear, that the sword, pestilence, and famine will annoy our European territories this ensuing summer / by William Hunt, a lover of the mathematics and natural philosophy.	Hunt, William, lover of the mathematics and natural philosophy.	1696 (1696)	Wing H3762; ESTC R7694	25,280	47

Saturn rising South-East in Opposition to Mercury setting North-West and beholding Jupiter and Mars with a Benevolent Trine they being near the West and if you rise the next Morning before the Sun rises you may see the Moon in Sextile of Saturn and in Quartile to the Rising Sun And so much shall suffice at present concerning the Aspects CHAP. V. Treateth of the Nature of the Planets THE Natures of the Planets were first found out by the diligent Observation and Experience of the Antients amongst whom Ptolomy was the chief who left us their Natures and Affections and wrote the whole Body of Astrology and left it to Postority he being called the Prince of Astrologers It 's pity his Foundation was laid upon the Sands for if he had built it upon the Philolaian or Copernican Hypothesis which was invented by Philolaus before Ptolomy's Time he would by his Observations and Industry have done Wonders and Astrology by this time might have been much approved But Learning as well as other things is subject to Changes and Vicissitudes according as it doth please God to reveal himself to Man for tho some Men in any Age be never so wise and do leave their Aphorisms and Arcana's to Posterity yet by several Accidents they may be lost for either the Genius of that Age may not be fit or capable to receive them or they may be lost by Fires or the Subversion and Alteration of Governments c. Is it not great pity that the Works of that most wise Man Solomon should be lost who wrote of all things under the Sun from the Cedar of Lebanon to the Hysop that grows upon the Wall Wisdom of Solomon Chap. 7. But to our purpose Ptolomy and all Astrologers after him Dr. Goad excepted define the Nature of the Planets as followeth Saturn cold and dry Jupiter hot and moist Mars hot dry and burning the Sun hot and dry more temperate than Mars Venus cold and moist Mercury cold and dry the Moon cold and moist This is their brief Account of the Natures of them They tell you also why they retain those Natures too tedious here to insert because I think it not material being their Opinion is grounded upon a false Supposition Dr. Goad a late Author denies the Account and makes Jupiter to be a cold Planet yea colder than Saturn How shall we agree these Opinions Truly I think they are both mistaken being both upon a wrong and false Foundation for Dr. Goad treads in Ptolomy's steps in all things except in this viz. about the Nature of the Planets Now I shall lay down my Judgment of their Natures which I presume will hold the Test of Experience which is the only Refiner of Truth Saturn I believe to be as well as the rest an Opake Body and as saith Ptolomy of a cold and dry Nature especially by Accident for we are always sensible of his chill Influence when he is in Perigaeon or in Heliocentrick ☌ with the Earth and for Demonstration view the fifth Diagram where you 'l see Saturn in Perigaeon or in conjunction with the Earth which was the principal Cause of the last cold Summer I could bring several Examples and Reasons to prove my Assertion two or three Instances we have had in our late cold Summers which were always cold when Saturn was in Perigaeon Mars all agree to be hot dry and burning yea hotter than the Sun himself Which seems a Contradiction that a reflected Light should be hotter than the Fountain from whence it proceeds To which I answer that it may be by Accident As for Instance The reflex burning Glass which receiving the Sun's Rays and contracting and uniting them they become hotter than the Sun's Rays and being darted upon any combustible Matter it sets it on fire And such is the Nature of Mars who when in Perigaeon or near the Earth doth make us sensible of his Heat View the sixth Diagram where Mars is in conjunction with the Earth which at the same time caused a very warm Season And now I come to Jupiter concerning whom there hath been much Controversy Ptolomy making him warm and Dr. Goad contrarily making him a cold Planet and gives very probable Arguments to prove his Assertions How shall I reconcile these two Opinions for they both plead Reason and Experience for their so doing Ptolomy thinks him warm because when simply in opposition with the Sun he produceth a warm Season and when joined with Mars he often produces great Heat and Thunder And Dr. Goad maketh him a cold Planet because that when joined with Saturn he augments Cold yea and in Winter when joined with Mars he hath a hand in many hard Frosts he being the Parent of the North Wind and Serenity both great Friends to a cold Constitution with many more Reasons of the like Nature Now my Opinion of Jupiter is that he is a Planet composed of Nitrous Particles which like Gunpowder or Nitre when it meets with Cold it actuates it And when it meets with Fire or Heat it actuates that and breaketh forth into Combustions Jupiter being a Planet full of Nitre doth as the Cartesians say six the Particles of the Atmosphere thereby stopping or hindering Motion and then Cold followeth of course which is an Essential Quality and was in being before the World was created for in the beginning this Vortex was a Chaos or confused Lump the Air Earth and Water being congealed or mixed together But when God created the Sun Moon and Planets by putting them in Motion this Motion was the Original of Heat as may be proved by the violent Motion of any thing as suppose a Mill which will cause Heat to that Degree that she will fire if not prevented Now when this Motion is hindred by the Nitrous Particles of Jupiter then Cold the prime Quality takes place As is proved by mixing of Salt or Nitre with Snow it will freeze and cause Ice by the Fire-side But if this Nitre or Gunpowder be joined with hot and sulphurous Planets then it causeth Combustions in the Atmosphere as Heat with Thunder and Coruscations c. So that I define Jupiter to be of a Nitro-sulphurious Nature like to Gunpowder and is either Hot or Cold by Accident but rather a favourer of Cold if simply considered Which aforesaid Definition I shall prove by Examples The Nature of the Sun needs no Definition it being vulgarly known to every Plow-boy all the World being sensible of his Warmth nothing being hid from the Heat thereof But as for the Natures of the Inferiors viz. Venus Mercury and the Moon I shall at present rest with the Opinion of the Antients for brevity-sake they not having so great Influence in the general Constitution of the Seasons But it may be expected in some succeeding Book where I treat of the daily Vicissitudes of the Air and shall say no more here having cleared the great Point between Ptolomy and Dr. Goad CHAP. VI. IN this Chapter I shall

who live on the South-side of the Equator therefore this Position will certainly produce us cold Mornings and frosty most part of April very prejudicial to our too forward Spring Mercury is at his greatest Elongation from the Sun and may be seen to rise before him about the tenth day for several Mornings May comes next in order in which Month on the 6th day the Moon suffers a total Eclipse and happens just at Midnight upon the Meridian and in their Zenith who live upon the Equator in the same Longitude with us At which time ♄ is in △ with ☉ and ♃ is separated from a △ of the Sun Mars is gotten in □ with ☉ and is upon the Meridian every Evening about Sun-set to them who live under the Equinox in which Position he being upon their Zenith he hath great force also ♃ applies to a ☌ of ♂ and also to a □ of Sol. I fear by this Eclipse and other Positions attending it that we shall have but little Fruit it also threatens a Rot of Sheep and a sickly Season for the Atmosphere is full of Pestilential Vapours A violent and active Season both in the Macroeosm as well as Microcosm The Weather at the beginning of the Month will be wet and I doubt holds longer than it 's welcome About the middle we shall have great Heat by sits and tempestuous high Winds This or the next Month should produce plenty of Earthquakes and violent Eruptions of the burning Mountains with divers strange Phenomena's in the Heavens sure no Comet There will be very violent Thunders and harmful Lightning in this and the next Month firing many Houses in more Southern Countries if not here in England And now I come to treat of the Tropical Month of June about the 11th day whereof the Sun enters into our Northern Tropick ♋ for which time I have drawn the Copernican Projection viz. the third Figure or Diagram which is a violent Position which I shall explain as followeth Saturn in the said Diagram is in Perigaeon and in ☍ with ♀ both being in Tropical Signs Jupiter and Mars are in ☌ near the end of ♍ an Equinoctial Position and will be seen South-west in the eighth House the House of Death within a Span's breadth of one another A beautiful Sight to behold but as saith the Learned Dr. Goad they will be like the Cannon in the Camp tho beautiful yet terrible All the rest of the Planets are in Cardinal Signs the Moon being at the said time in ☍ of ♃ and ♂ these are active and violent Positions and will as certainly be attended with as violent Effects The Weather will be variable Saturn's nearness to the Earth makes a cold Air but ☌ ♃ ♂ in ♍ an Estival Sign and near a □ of ☉ will cause very hot Weather by fits violent Thunders and harmful Lightnings and great Hail caused by the Chymistry of the Heavens for Saturn fills the Atmosphere with Nitre and the nitrous and sulphurious Particles being fired by the ☌ ♃ ♂ will undoubtedly cause violent Combustions c. By whose poisonous and sulphurious Fumes our Air will be infected producing thereby contagious and infectious Diseases with prejudicial and unkind Blasts and Mildews damnifying the Corn this Month being the principal Season for the flowring and blossoming of all manner of European Corn as Wheat Barley Beans Rye c. It being a certain and true Maxim in Philosophy that all manner of Vegetables are most tender and subject to be hurt when in blossom or flowring which may be compared to teeming Animals who are in more danger of Abortion presently after Conception than when long gone with young So that this ☌ ♃ ♂ falling at the time of the blossoming and flowring of our Corn will by its poisonous Quality much damnify it by Mildews and Blites and I fear that this will be generally throughout Europe and especially in the more Southern Countries and particularly in France As far as I can see it threatens Scarcity and Famine of which I shall treat more particularly in the next Chapter And shall now treat of the Nature of July about the middle whereof Saturn is in ☌ with the Earth or in Perigaeon and Jupiter and Mars are in abject places this Position denotes another cold July and slow and dull Hay-weather cold cloudy and moist Season with South-Wind often but more often the North East our Harvest ripens slowly But I shall say the less of this and the next Month because I design in my next Book to treat more particularly thereof they being our Harvest Months August will be cold and dull Weather for the Reasons aforesaid with much South-Winds and cloudy and moist too I fear especially the latter half thereof But for the Particulars I beg your Patience until my next appears certainly it will be a sickly Season and so shall conclude this Chapter But I shall fore-stall my next Book so much as to let you know that we shall certainly have a very early and sharp Winter fore-warn'd fore-arm'd CHAP. II. I Having in the last Chapter hinted of a turbulent and violent Summer both in the Macrocosm as well as Microcosm wherein I fear a general Sickness and blasting Season as also that the Sword will be more mortal and deadly this Summer than it hath been since the War began therefore I shall say something thereof in this Chapter more particularly and consider what Countries will be most passive and how it will terminate We are still under the malevolent Effects of the grand ☌ ♄ ♃ and of the dire Effects those Comets presaged which appeared in the Years 1680 and 1682 which was the Prodromus of these European Wars And in the Years 1692 and 1693 the said Superiours ♄ and ♃ were in Opposition which produced several Earthquakes These Earth-quakes by their Nitro-sulphurious and mineral Vapours and Arsenitical and Mercurial Fumes have poisoned our Air and rendred our Vegetables c. corruptive and unwholsome for the Air was first infected by those aforesaid Fumes and Vapours which over-powered and poisoned the true saline and nitrous Particles conducing to Vegetation and Health so that our Vegetables did not come to their Maturity for wanting that saline Vigor which should conduce to their Perfection they remained crude and not fit for Aliment so that we feeding on these Vegetables and Animals whose Flesh not being fed with healthful Aliment wanting its true Balsamick Virtue and Nourishment and also by breathing and sucking in the aforesaid poisonous Vapours we do become unhealthy and our Bodies for want of the aforesaid saline Vigor and true Balsamick Temper do become infectious and corruptive Also it 's a general Rule amongst Physicians and Philosophers that when we have our Seasons irregular and out of order viz. Winterly Summers and Summerly Winters and when instead of a wholsome North Wind we have an unwholsome South Wind most part of the Winter then do they foresee a Sickness generally to ensue