Selected quad for the lemma: sense_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	speak_v	visible_a	zone_n	19	3	14.9315	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51768	The sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English poem with annotations and an astronomical appendix / by Edward Sherburne, Esquire.; Astronomicon. Liber 1. English	Manilius, Marcus.; Sherburne, Edward, Sir, 1618-1702.	1675 (1675)	Wing M432; ESTC R8811	496,818	336

which the uppermost is the least This though in respect to any one particular place it be immoveable yet generally it is to be conceiv'd mutable forasmuch as when we change any Place upon the Earth we likewise change the Horizon others Bound if thou desir'st to know The Horizon Look round about far as thy sight will go What e're Earths Surface with Heavens Verge doth close And the divided Hemispheres compose Couches in Seas the Stars and thence doth send Rounding the travers'd Earth with a slight Bend That shifting Place about the World still flies Now more and more unto the South applies Now to the North again as much inclines Now runs against now with the n The Latine hath Mota sub Astra Which Salmasius in Plin. Exercitat p. 661 Criticizing upon this Place will needs read muta sub Astra Interpreting muta Astra 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. not apparent and by those words conceives our Authour implies the Antartick Pole to us invisible But as Petavius says mutum esse praestat quàm talia dicere for M●…nilius by Mota sub Astra means only the shifting of the Horizon East or West either against or with the Course of the Stars as Petavius rightly expounds those Words Per Mota Astra says he Orientem atque Occidentem breviter elegantérque designat Manilius Vide illum Uranolog l. 7. c. 14. moved Signs But wheresoe're its wandring Course it steers As now to this then to that Part it bears It changes still a new Arch always making For leaving now this Heav'n then that forsaking One half 't will still disclose or hide and sign With varying Limits which the Sight confine This is terrestrial 'cause the Earth it rounds And call'd Horizon 'cause the sight it bounds To these two others add obliquely born Whereof the o That is the Zodiack by Ptolomy call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Circulus Animalium because parted into 12. Signs resembling men and other living Creatures The Iewish Astronomers give it several other Denominations as Galgal Hammazzaloth i. e. Orbis Signorum and Ighul Hammatzaloth i. e. Circulus Signorum and Ophun Hammazzaloth i. e. Rota Signorum and Ezor Hammazzaloth ie Zona Signorum The Syrians call it Chudronûtho de Malûshe i. e. Circulus Signorum and the Arabs Phelek Al Burugi i. e. Orbis Signorum By the Latines it is call'd Signifer and by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is describ'd ●… Circle or rather a Fascia or Zone obliquely passing from East to West by the Aequinoctial and Solstitial Points parted in the midst by the Ecliptick which divides it into two Parts the one Northern the other Southern which are terminated by the Circumferences of two imaginary Circles less than one of the great Ones distant so far from the Ecliptick as is the greatest Latitude of any Planet from then●…e The Invention of this Circle is by some ascrib'd to Pythagoras by others to Oenopides the Chian by some again to Anaximander the Milesian Vide Plutarch de Placit Philosoph Plin. l. 2. c. 8. one twelve radiant Signs adorn The Zodi●…k Through which the Sun runs his Career of Light And the Moon follows in her Coach of Night And five Stars more 'gainst Heavens swift Course advance Their p Meaning the Primary and proper Motion of the Planets from the West to East for their Secundary or Diurnal Motion from East to West is not their own but that of the Primum Mobile by which they are violently carried about contrary to their own Course Which double Motion of the Planets is elegantly thus describ'd by Germanicus in Arataeis Omnibus his gemini Motus quorum alter ab ipsis N●…scitur proprios ostendit sydere Nisus Tunc Mundum subeunt lentopede concitus Alter Invi●…os rapit Coeli circumrotat Orbem All these have double Motions one their own By which their proper Tendency is shown That 's a slow March th' other 's swift and bears Them running Counter back with the rapt Spheres oppositely Nature-guided Dance On whose Top Cancer Base the Goat resides Twice through th' Aequator runs it twice divides At Libra and the Ram whose sloping Bend Obliquely by three Circles does extend Not hid nor as the rest discern'd alone By mental view q Though our Authour here speaking Poetically make the Zodrack a visible Circle because the 12 Signs moving in it are visible yet properly speaking as it is taken for a Fascia or Zone it is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 perceivable only by Reason And therefore Geminus in Isagog says rightly that of all the Circles in the Heavens only the via Lactea is perceivable by sense the rest being no otherwise discernible than by the Eye of Reason to mental view is shown But shines a glittering r Hence by the Arabs call'd Al Mintaca and Nitac i. e. Baltheus and by the Iewish Astrologers Ch●…hebh Ephadath Haggalgal i. e. Opus Phrygionarium or Limbus Textilis according to Scaliger Why this Circle above any of the rest is called Baltheus seu Cingulum from the like denomination of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 given to it by the Greeks take from Ulitius in Nemes p. 341. Ideo veteres Zodiacum Baltheum dixerunt Astrologi quia obliquus Meridianum secat And before him Balforeus in Libr. 1. Cleomed Zodiacus Appellationem Bal●…hei quem etiamnum b●…die transversum gestamus apud Manilium meruit Et omnino haec forma Balthei à dextro humero ad latus sinistrum per medium Corpus obliquè ducti Zodiaci Situm optimè exprimit Belt with bright Stars grac'd And girdles with its golden Fires Heavens Waste Degrees three hundred and thrice twenty counts Its Circles Round its Breadth to s Sacroboscus says Rieciolus Tom. 1. l. 1. p. 19. in Schol. and Clavius upon him give to the Zodiack 12 Degrees of Latitude because for the most part the Planets recede not from the Ecliptick above 6 Degrees on either side But Regiomontanus extends the Latitude thereof to 16. others otherwise For Kepler gives 7 Degrees of Northern Latitude to Mars to Venus in her greatest Evagation 10 or according to Argol Pandos Sphaer c. 29 9 degr 3′ So that the Total Latitude of the Zodiack according to Modern Observation is extended to no less than 20 Degrees twelve amounts Within which measur'd Limits is confin'd The Planet's Motion variously inclin'd The t The Galaxie or Milky way by the Greeks call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Latines Circulus lacteus and Orbis lacteus By the Arabs according to Scaliger Tarick Al lubbana i. e. Via lactea according to Kirker Almegiret or rather Magierra i. e. Tractatrix and Tarick Al Tibn i. e. Via straminis and to the same sence by the Aethiopians Chasara ' tsamangadu Isis according to the Aegyptian Fable in her flight from Typhon scattering bundles of fired