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A43489	An astrological discourse with mathematical demonstrations proving the powerful and harmonical influence of the planets and fixed stars upon elementary bodies in justification of the validity of astrology : together with an astrological judgment upon the great conjunction of Saturn & Jupiter, 1603 / written by that worthy, learned gentleman, Sir Christopher Heydon, Knight ; and now published by Nicholas Fiske ...	Heydon, Christopher, Sir, d. 1623.; Fiske, Nicholas.	1650 (1650)	Wing H1663; ESTC R16056	46,071	129

impossible to restore Heat again by the return of the Sun or any other natural means as to give life to a dead man For a privatione ad habitum nullus est regressus As for their simile or example it will do them small service For seeing that betwixt twelve and two in the afternoon the Sun continueth his action still without interruption their own reason will teach them that this is not ad idem For we speak of the intended qualities of the Seasons where by intercourse of the nights they must needs confess an intermission of the Suns appearation which alone as we read serveth greatly to qualifie the Suns order to them that dwell under the Aequinoctial Wherefore to conclude this Point also forasmuch as Cold is the opposite quality to Heat which of it self is by Kepler and Cardane confessed to have a real existence in Nature They must also be driven to acknowledge Cold to be more then a meer Negation and Privation because it is impossible that that which is not habituall can be actually contrary to a particular Nature in Being CHAP. X. The first Qualities originally from Heaven not from the Elements HAving therefore as I take it sufficiently proved Cold to be a positive quality the next thing which in order offereth it self to be decided is whereunto we shall originally refer the same with the rest of the first qualities And forasmuch as the whole Systeme of the world is distinguished into two parts Celestial or Elementary we must of necessity primarily derive them from the one or the other But I will prove That they are only by accident and not essentially in the Elements wherefore of consequence originally to be ascribed to the heavenly Bodies I know they are commonly placed in the definition of the Elements and therefore they define Air to be hot and moist Water cold and moist Earth cold and dry But if it be better considered we may more truly say with Roslinus That the Elements rather essentially differ one from another in other qualities which are as it were the off-spring of these as in rariety density levity gravity liquidness softness transparancy opacity For so is the Earth an heavy thick dark firm and stable Element The Water likewise soft flowing and navigable The Air light rare liquid and permeable and so tempered one to another in proportion that as the Air in the rarity and liquidness thereof is to the softness and flowing nature of the Water so is the like constitution of the Water unto the density and firmness of the Earth neither thin nor thick in extremity but of a middle temperature between both And in a word they are all proportioned to the heavenly Bodies but as the matter of things meerly passive not having their first qualities essentially in themselves but by accident from Heaven Thus teacheth Aristotle himself and thus says his Expositors Zabarella Toletus Scaliger and others Neither do I rest upon their authority alone but upon their firm and evident Reasons For were these the essential forms of the Elements they could not be intended and remitted because it is against the principle which denyeth form to admit intension and remission But these qualities are sometimes more or less in the Elements wherefore neither can they be affirmed their essential forms neither can the Elements themselves be said the first subjects of Heat Cold Moisture and Siccity considering that both Experience and Sence teacheth us that they be neither hot nor cold but indifferently disposed to the receiving of all the qualities and not more capable of the one then the other For example to them in a right sphere the Air is always hot by reason of the perpendicularity of the Sun beams To us it is variable sometimes hot sometimes cold sometimes moist and sometimes dry And to them nearer the North Pole for the most part cold Nay which is more absurd were these qualities formally in the Elements we should of necessity be driven to constitute two forms in every Element answerable to the two first qualities ascribed to every one of them and those not differing secundum magis minus but in the highest degree of perfection and that in such sort also as they might not be reputed of the same special kind but to vary one from another For if the moisture of the Air should not differ from the moisture of the Water confusion would follow and so no distinction at all of the Elements And yet if these qualities be admitted of a divers species instead of four we must constitute eight first qualities Wherefore I take it very clear that seeing the first four qualities cannot originally be derived from the Elements necessity will infer by consequence that their first inherence is in the inward forms of the heavenly Bodies from whence by accident as Aristotle teacheth and not otherwise they are conveyed into the Elements CHAP. XI The scruple of alteration in Heaven which made the Peripateticks Picus Cardane c. to ascribe the first Qualities to the Elements taken away WHich being true it will not be labour lost after these grounds thus laid to borrow a little more patience for examination of the Reason why Picus Cardane Kepler with others frankly confessing heat to descend with the light of the Stars are nevertheless so nice to subscribe to the derivation of the rest of the qualities from Heaven The consideration whereof will also something explain unto us the differing maner between their inherence in the Stars and in the Elements And surely I find none other Reason of their doubt in this Point but that they fear if contrary qualities should originally be found in Heaven we must withall induce action and passion between the heavenly Bodies and so by consequence generation and corruption whereof the Peripateticks may not abide to hear Which Objection may diversly be answered For first whatsoever the Peripateticks have held we know the world to have had a beginning and therefore even by their own doctrine it shall have an end And the experience of latter times hath sufficiently proved Heaven subject to alteration as is evident by that Spot which in the time of Charls the Great continued 8. or 9. days in the Sun being by Historiographers though ignorantly reputed to be Mercury For Copernicus after supputation findeth it not to be Mercury but a prodigious Meteor which could not happen but in the Sphaere of the Sun considering it accompanied the Sun it self so long time together The like Buntingus Gemma Frisius and others report of that strange and bloody obscurity which Anno 1547. did so darken the Sun three whole days together as the stars for the most part were seen at high noon But what need I run to forraign Testimonies when all London can bear me witness of the like Blot which in the year 1604. 11. and 12. of Octob. appeared first a little above the South-East Periphery of the Sun

them more lifted up above the superficies of the Earth then 236. perches Wherefore admitting G F which is the part of the Perpendicular line that penetrateth the gross Air to be three miles and F C the semidiamiter of the Earth to be 3436 miles and the Summer and Winter heights as before it will be manifest by supputation that whereas K F shall pierce but four miles or thereabouts M F shall pass twelve and somewhat more So that the opposition and impediment which the Sun-beams do suffer in Winter is triple to that which they feel in their Summer passage and doth therefore weaken the Suns force in that preparation And being added to the rest of the causes before specified doth demonstratively prove all together considered that the heat in Summer excelleth that which we receive in Winter in proportion as 144. is to 1. In explaining whereof I have been the more curious because that which is here demonstrated concerning the Suns apparition is likewise to be applyed to the rest of the Planets which moving under the same Circle that the Sun doth shall receive the like addition or abatement of force and therefore of singular moment to be observed in all Judgments CHAP. VI Why the ending of July and beginning of August is the hottest time of Summer and so likewise the ending of January and beginning of February the coldest time of Winter BUt we must further consider that although these four causes are most evident upon the very Solstitial days yet it is not always of necessity that upon them we always feel the greatest heat or cold But there is yet another general cause to be added which in respect of it self doth commonly aggravate the bitterness of Winter about the beginning of February The Reason whereof Kepler doth resolutely ascribe to Privation onely with Cardan further denying Cold to be a positive quality and with him Picus that any specifical vertue doth descend unto us from Heaven besides Light and Heat and therefore saith that the Air Water and Earth being naturally destitute of Heat as they are material and thick Bodies are neither ●uddenly warmed nor suddenly cold but conceiving Heat in June when the ●un is at the highest do accumulate it ●nto the Heat of July and August after the same manner and for the same Rea●on that the heat of the day in the after●oon is greater then at high noon until the Sun after his declining by degrees ●rom us doth also by little little withdraw his heat from these Elements which ●hen return to their former Nature and ●o necessarily admit Cold in the absence ●f Heat which still prevaileth more and more by the Suns long discontinuance ●rom us until after February be past ●e begin to recover some part of his ●orce again CHAP. VII The method set down which is observed in refelling Kepler WHereunto because it concerneth the very Foundation of Astrologie I must crave leave to answer not doubting but if I can demonstrate that both Cold and all the rest of the first qualities do proceed essentially from Heaven and are onely to be found by accident in the Elements that this will give the Reader who before stood in doubt good satisfaction And the better to clear this point I will first shew that Heat is neither essential to the Light nor so inseparably united unto it but that they are and may be severed as diverse in Nature whereby it will likewise follow that the rest of the qualities may concur with Light as well as Heat This done I will secondly make it plain that Cold is no privation but a positive quality and that neither it nor the rest of the qualities can originally be referred to the Elements but of consequence to Heaven yea and that without any incongruity in Philosophy whatsoever the Peripateticks and their followers have heretofore thought Which thus premised the Reader shall be the better prepared to believe both that this common Intension in February is to be ascribed as Astrologie teacheth partly to those parts of Heaven which the Sun doth then pass by partly to such Constellations as do then rise and set and also the better to conceive how the Intensions Remissions of every season may grow by the particular passions of the Planets and the rest of the Stars and not from naked Privation as Kepler would have it CHAP. VIII Other qualities concomitate Light as well as Heat ANd now to prosecute these things in order First I affirm That although we see Heat and Light to descend joyntly with the Beams of the Sun yet it doth not concomitate the light of all the Stars for that heat is neither the substance of the light for assertion whereof Scaliger justly reprehendeth Cardane nor more to be confounded with light then sight then sight is to be confounded with touch whereof Light and Heat are proper Objects For as we cannot feel the Light nor see the Heat so those Senses which are not always joyntly exercised together as we see and not feel and feel and not see do teach us that Light and Heat are divers qualities and both in reason and nature may be conceived to subsist the one without the other This will best appear by the diffinition of both which evermore expresseth the nature of the thing in question Forasmuch therefore as Heat is that quality which doth congregate homogeneal things and separate those that are heterogeneal which agreeeth not to the property of the Light which is brought unto us by the Beams of the Stars the same being defined according to Alhazen and Vitellio to be only The Species or Image of the inherent Light of the Sun or Star from whence it is sent There is nothing more evident then that that Heat which is conveyed unto us with the beams of the Sun is of a divers nature from the light thereof For both Sence and Experience do prove That Heat is no Image or similitude but a real and active quality which how it should subsist in an Image as in the subject or how Light should subsist in Heat being likewise an accidental quality are difficulties which in my judgment will not easily be answered except we can prove that one accident may be the subject of another which is against all Philosophy This then alone although it doth sufficiently prove that Light and Heat are two divers qualities yet to make it more apparent dayly observation doth shew That one may be and remain in the absence of the other as we see in Attrition where Heat is excited without Light and so we may exclude the Light when nevertheless the heat of the Sun shall remain And though the Earth and the rest of the Elements retein the impression of the former day yet doth neither the Earth Air or Water shine after the Sun is set Wherefore if Heat may thus exist and be separated from the light and it be also true as before hath been shewed