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A45116	Annotations on Milton's Paradise lost wherein the texts of sacred writ, relating to the poem, are quoted, the parallel places and imitations of the most excellent Homer and Virgil, cited and compared, all the obscure parts by P.H. ...	Hume, Patrick, fl. 1695.	1695 (1695)	Wing H3663; ESTC R12702	483,195	324

of Stars of the first Magnitude each of which are bigger than the Earth 108 times as they could be placed it could not contain more than 71209600 of ' em Perr Comment in Gen. Lib. 2. Quaest. 8. V. 566. Nigh-hand seem'd other Worlds Following the Opinion of divers Philosophers who thought not only the Moon to be such an Inhabitable World as this Terrestrial of ours is and by turns enlightened by it But the Stars especially those of the first size to be shining Orbs possest by the Souls of departed Heroes and Spirits pure and sublimed above sense accounting it absurd to imagine that so many Illustrious Bodies of so much Beauty and such Immense Magnitude and Motions incredible and almost Spiritual should be made to no other end than to dart and center their Innumerable Beams of Light in this dark opaque spot of Earth a vast Inestimable Tribute paid by so many Glorious Attendants on a dull heavy unactive Clod. V. 568. Like those Hesperian Gardens So call'd of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vesper because placed in the West under the Evening Star Those famous Gardens were the Isles about Cape Verd in Affrica whose most Western Point is still call'd Hesperium Cornu Others will have 'em the Canaries The Poets tell us Hesperus the Brother of Atlas had three Daughters AEgle Aretheusa Hesperethusa to whose keeping and that of a watchful Dragon these Gardens and their Golden Fruit were committed Fuit aurea silva Divitiisque graves fulvo germine rami Virgineusque chorus nitidi custodia luci Et nunquam somno damnatus Lumina Serpens Robora complexus rutilo curvata Metallo Luc. Lib. 9. Oceani finem juxta solemque Cadentem Ultimus AEthiopum locus est Ubi maximus Atlas c. Hesperidum templi custos epulasque Draconi Quae dabat sacros servabat in arbore ramos AEn 4. Both these describe the Golden Fruit to hang on the Trees of these Gardens and yet Interpreters are not agreed in the matter because Mala signifies Apples they being probably no other than Mala Citrea vel Aurantia Lemons and Oranges is so near to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for Sheep having finer Fleeces than those of other Countries V. 573. Allur'd his Eye The Sun in his Glorious Majesty most nearly resembling Heaven the Habitation of his Maker drew him to behold it Allur'd of allicere to entice V. 574. Through the calm Firmament Thro' the quiet Air as V. 564. Through the pure Marble Air Aura AEtherea as Tycho calls it that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tho' by the LXX translated 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and by the Vulgar Latin Firmamentum signifies Extension the pure Expanse of Heaven the Air of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to extend or stretch out And that the Solidity by the Ancient Philosophers and Astronomers attributed to the Heavens and the Coelestial Orbs has incumber'd all their Machines and Motions with innumerable Inconveniences in so much that they have been forc'd to Hammer out of their Heads for the Sun three distinct Orbs five for the Moon and for the Planets 36 so scribbled over with Centrick Concentrick and Excentrick Cicles and Epicicles c. is so well known that to assert the Heavens in which the Stars seem to move to be liquid like the Air is an Opinion most probable as not being liable to so many Inconveniences Confusions and Crowds of Errours and the most easie to discover the Motions Distances Altitudes Aspects c. of the Stars and to give the clearest Account of the Generation Agitation and decay of Comets and the Appearances of New Stars and to solve all other Difficulties V. 575. By Center or Excentrick hard to tell Hard to tell how Satan took his course towards the Sun of whose course though continued so many thousand Years Mankind is so ignorant The Astronomers observing so great Varieties in the Motions of the Planets and that the Sun himself in passing through the Zodiack kept not an equal pace making 187 Days Journeys in travelling through his six Northern Inns and spending only 178 in the six other Southern Signs were forc'd to fancy new Orbs in which sometimes both they and he their great King and Governour moved from and deviated Excentrically to the Center of the Earth Centrum Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Mathematical word importing the middle point in a round or circular Body from which the Circumference is on all sides equally distant V. 576. Or Longitude The Longitude of the Sun or a Star is an Arch of the Ecliptick intercepted between the beginning of Aries and the Point where the Circle of Latitude cuts the Ecliptick Longitudo Lat. length Ibid. The Great Luminary The vast Light the Sun so call'd by Moses Gen. 1. 16. And God made two great Lights the greater Light to rule the Day Various have been the Opinions of the most learned of Mankind concerning the Magnitude of the Sun Anaximander thought it as big as the Earth and its Orb 27 times bigger Anaxagoras esteem'd it greater than Peloponesus Heraclitus and Epicurus somewhat bigger than it seems But by comparing the Suns Diameter with that of the Earth that is the Globe of Earth and Water Ptolemy and his Followers affirm the Sun to be greater than the Earth 167 times Tycho Brahee 139 and Copernicus 434 't is hard to determine which of 'em is the best Coelestial Surveyor Constellatio Lat. properly an Assembly of Stars V. 579. Dispenses Light from far Sends far and near his chearful Light Despendere Lat. to bestow to lay out V. 580. In number that compute Days Months and Years Days are of two sorts one consisting of the time in which the Sun is carried about the Earth called Natural 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the other accounted by his Duration above the Horizon named the Artificial Day A Solar Month is the time the Sun is in passing through the twelfth part of the Zodiack and a Year that in which he entirely runs through all the Twelve Signs of that Circle so named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vos O Clarissima Mundi Lumina labentem Coelo quae ducitis annum Georg. Lib. 1. Tuus jam regnat Apollo Et incipient Magni procedere Menses Ecl. 4. Interea Magnum Sol circumvolvitur Annum AEn 3. A dextrâ laevâque dies Mensis Annus Saeculaque positae spatiis aequalibus horae Meta. Lib. 2. The reason of all which is from the Motion of the Sun the Measure of Time V. 583. By his Magnetick Beam Or are turn'd towards him by his Attractive Rays that draw 'em to him Magnetick of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Loadstone that draws Iron to it with such eager embraces that the force whereby they are separated is very perceptible so call'd from the Name of its first Finder an Indian Shepherd Philosophers having observ'd a Central Virtue in