and the Moon in Conjunction Quartile or Opposition alters the quality of the air according to the signs they possesse but generally a temperate season 14. Mars and the Sun in Conjunction Quartile or Opposition in fiery signs portends heat and drynesse In the watry hail thunders and lightning in the airy clouds and in the earthly violent winds c. 15. Mars and Venus in Conjunction Quartile or Opposition in or from moyst signs argueth abundance of if not too much rain especially in Spring and Autumn In Summer showres in Winter remission of cold and snow if Saturn behold them 16. Mars and Mercurius in Conjunction Quartile or Opposition in Winter and Spring argueth snow in Summer hail and thunder in Autumn great winds in fiery and dry signs excessive drowth and winds 17. Mars and the Moon in Conjunction Quartile or Opposition in moist signs rain in fiery drynesse red clouds and sometimes rain in Summer hail lightning and coruscations 18. The Sun and Venus in Conjunction commonly produceth moisture in Spring and Autumn rain in Summer showres and thunder 19. The Sun and Mercury in Conjunction in the airy signs produce winds in the watry rains in the fiery warm winds 20. The Sun and the Moon in Conjunction Quartile or Opposition in moist signs portends rain in fiery fair weather but generally it alters the air according to the nature of the season and ruling Planet 21. When the Sun shall enter the 18 degree of Scorpio if Venus be then in a moist place it 's a sign of rain 22. In Winter if Venus be direct and Oriental it signifies but little rain at the beginning but more at the end 23. When Venus applieth to Mars in Scorpio it brings rain immediatly 24. When the Sun and the Moon Venus and Mercury shall be all conjoyned together it argueth continuall showres that day 25. At the time of the Conjunction or Opposition of the Luminaries if Venus shall be in an Angle it 's a certain sign of rain 26. The Lord of the Ascendant in Conjunction or Opposition of the Luminaries a moist sign produceth rain 27. When the Moon shall come to the sign ascending of her Quartile Conjunction or Opposition the time shall be changed according to the quality and nature of the sign and Asterism 28. A special regard must be had to the nature of the earth and air you live in or write for I mean peculiar to your Horizon because that in all places they are not of alike nature neither do the winds blow alike in all Horizons some being Tropical and peculiar to one place others Chronical which come at a certain time of the year c. CHAP. XVII Vulgar Observations of the changes of the Weather IN the preceeding Chapters I have given you the choicest Aphorisms for giving judgement upon the weather and I am confident that he which understands them which I fear will not be many may not only give a probable conjecture of the weather for one but many years to come But because the preceeding Aphorisms may happen to some to be of difficult understanding to the illiterate I shall therefore shew even the most rural how to foretell the changes of the weather if he have but the eyes of sense and understanding in his head and for his greater facility I shall Marshal the method in these seven Devisions 1. Signs of fair weather 2. Signs of rain 3. Signs of wind 4. Signs of hot weather 5. Signs of drought 6. Signs of cold weather 7. Sings of frosts continuance This is the method now to the matter 1. Signs of fair weather 1. The Sun rising and setting clear 2. The Moon clear three dayes after the Change or before the Full 3. Spots appearing in a Full Moon 4. Clouds with golden edges towards Sun setting 5. A cloudy sky clearing against the wind 6. The Rain bow appearing only Red and Yellow 7. A Red Evening or a Gray Morning 2. Signs of rain 1. When the Sun in his rising is hidden with a black cloud 2. When the Moon within three or four days after the Change is blunt on both horns 3. The Rainbow appearing in a fair day the greener the more rain 4. The extraordinary chattering of the Pyets 5. Cattell licking their hoofs behind 6. When the greatest Stars only appear and that misty 7. Lute or Viol-strings breaking untouched 3. Signs of wind 1. Red clouds in a morning 2. Often shooting of Stars 3. Clouds flying swiftly in a clear air 4. The Rain-bow red 5. Black circles with red strakes about the Sun or Moon 6. Stars dimn and fiery it 's a sign of winde and showres when the Sun beams appear before he riseth 7. If the Sun sets pale or be enclosed with a black circle when he is near the time of his setting 4. Signs of hot weather 1. Many Bats flying abroad sooner then ordinary 2. A white mist rising out of Moores and Waters before the Sun rise 3. The Kyts or Gleds flying high in the air 4. Crowes or Ravens gaping against the Sun 5. Great store of Flyes and Midges playing in the Sun-shine towards night 5. Signs of drought Stars seeming dimn or fiery red signifies both drought and wind Signs of cold weather As frost snow or hail 1. Clouds flying low seeming to touch the tops of hills 2. Great flocks of small Birds gathered together 3. If in the Winter the Sun shine clear towards night 4. The extraordinary twinkling of the Stars 5. Clouds upon heaps like Rocks 6. An obscure circle about the Sun or Moon 7. Signs of frosts continuance Snow falling small in the beginning of a frost but if the snow fall bigg viz. in great flakes then it 's like to thaw very suddenly especially if the Southwind blow CHAP. XVIII Of the Winds their Names and Natures DAyly experience sheweth that the disposition of the Air is much varied by the Scituation of Winds for according to their different beaâ—ing is the Season much inclined sometime to Wind Rain and Snow and sometime to fair weather The wind it self is nothing else but an exhalation or earthly humor passing over the Superficies of the Earth or it is an Elisian or drawing forth of the Air out of a cold Region The four principal or Cardinal Winds which comes from the four Angles of the World are called the East West North and South the Latins calls them Septentrio Auster Favonius and Subsolanus Septentrio the North wind is cold and dry is very wholsome bringing serenity preservating all things from corruption albeit it be hurtful and pernicious to Flowers young and tender Plants by reason of its excessive coldnesse Auster the South wind is warm and moist sultry hurtfull and dangerous hurts the sight stuffes the head makes men slothfull engenders Diseases putrid Feavers Plurisies Inflamations of the Lungs and when this wind produceth serenity it 's with great heat Favonius the West wind called Zephyrus is moist and watry begetting Rain and Thunder but
28 Chapter preceeding to show you both a Demonstration of and also by Examples how to Calculate the Paralaxis Altitudinis of the Planets for any time Assign'd And I am now come to perform what I there promised with as much brevity and facility as I can Which take as followeth In this Figure Z B A I H represents the Meridian K C G the Orbe of the Sun or any other Planet D the Center of the Earth E F the Superficies thereof Z the Zenith E I the Horizon C the place of the Sun or any other Planet in his Orbe The Line D C B represents the planets true place from the Center of the Earth in the Meridian at B. The Line E C A his apparent place as it appeareth from us at E. The Angle of the Paralax of Altitude is A C B which is equal to E C D. The Angle A E I is the Angle of the apparent Altitude of the Planet above the Horizon which in this Example we suppose to be 27 degr 40 min. whose Complement is Z E A 62 deg 20 min. Here you may see that the apparent Altitude of the Planets is lesse from the Superficies or place of Observation at E then from the Center of the Earth at D from which place the Planet in his Orb appears higher in the Meridian at B then he doth from E in the Meridian at A so that the Angle of the Planets Paralaxis Altitudinis is nothing else but the difference between the true and apparent Altitude in the Meridian or Circle of Altitude Here note that the nearer a Planet is to the Horizon and Center of the Earth the greater is the Paralax thereof And hence it is that the Moon because of her Vicinity to the Earth hath the greatest Paralax of all the other Planets And that 's a main reason why we have so few Solar Eclipses and those few have so little obscurity Because frequently her Southern Paralax exceeds her Northern Latitude the greatest Eclipses happening alwayes when they are equal and least when her Latitude is South c. These things being premised I come next to practice And for Illustration I shall add an Example of either of the Luminaries for to find their Paralaxis Altitudinis at any time Assign'd First an Example in the Sun Suppose the Altitude of the Sun to be by observation 27 deg 40 min. and his distance from the Earth by calculation 101798 parts I demand how much will his Paralax of Altitude then be To resolve this and all such like Questions I return to this annexed Diagram for Demonstrations sake where In the Triangle C D E we have known 1 E C the distance of the Sun from the Earth 101798. 2 E D the Semidiamiter of the Earth 68 1 2. 3 The Triangle C E D 117 d. 40 m. which bisected gives 58 deg 50 min. the half sum of the opposite Angles unknown Hence to find the Paralax of Altitude A C B. Say by this Analagy As the sum is to the difference so is the Tangent of the half sum of the opposite Angles unknown To the Tangent of an Arch whose difference is the Paralaxis Altitudinis required The Operation E C. 101798 0-0 E D. 68 1-2     Logarithm Sum of E C and E D. 101866 1-2  5 008244 Difference 101729 1-2  5 007658 So is the Tangent of   58 d. 50 m. 00 s 10 218369     15 226027 To the Tangent of   58. 47. 56. 10 217783 Whose difference 2. 4. is the Angle A C B or the Suns Paralax of Altitude as was required The second Example is of the Moon Suppose the Altitude of the Moon were found by Observation to be as before 27 deg 40 min. and her distance from the Earth by Calculation 3879. I demand what or how much will her Paralax of Altitude be at the time of the Observation In the Triangle C D E the Line C E represents the distance of the Moon from the Earth 3879. the sid◠E D and Triangle C D E being the same as before The Operation is as followeth E C 3879 0-0   E D 68 1-2   Sum of E C and E D 3957 1-2  3,596322 Difference 3810 1-2  3 580982 So is the Tangent of   58 d. 50 m. 00 s 10 218369     13 799351 To the Tangent of   57. 55. 47. 10 203029 Whose difference 54. 13. is the Angle A C B or Paralaxis Altitudinis of the Moon at the time of the Observation as was required CHAP. XXXII To find the Lord of the hour for any time assign'd FIrst find the time of the Suns rising for that day wherein you would know the Lord of the Hour according to the 24 Chapter Betwixt which and the Question propounded or assign'd Find the Intervall of hours and minuts which for your greater facility in operation you may reduce into minuts by multiplying your hours by 60. the product shall be your dividend Secondly Enter the Table following with your Month on the Margent and the 5 10 15 20 25 or 30 day on the top taking that day which is neerest and in the common angle you will find the length of the Planetary hour that day which is your Divisor by which you are to divide the dividend aforesaid the Quotient shal shew you how many Planets compleatly have ruled and the remainder if there be any is the Planet instantly ruling at the time of the Question propounded or assign'd Which to denominate consider the day of the week in which the Question is propounded And If the day be Sunday give the first hour to the Sun the 2 to Venus the 3 to Mercury the 4 to the Moon c. If the day be Munday give the first hour to the Moon the 2 to Saturn the 3 to Jupiter the 4 to Mars c. If the day be Tuesday give the first hour to Mars the 2. to the Sun the 3 to Venus the 4 to Mercury c. If the day be Wednesday give the first hour to Mercury the 2 to the Moon the 3 to Saturn the 4 to Jupiter c. If the day be Thursday give the first hour to Jupiter the 2 to Mars the 3 to the Sun the 4 to Venus c. If the day be Friday give the first hour to Venus the 2 to Mercury the 3 to the Moon the 4 to Saturn c. If the day be Saturnday give the first hour to Saturn the 2 to Jupiter the 3 to Mars the 4 to the Sun c. and so you wil easily find that Planet who is Lord of the hour at the time assign'd For illustration of the Premises I shall propound an Example with variety of operations that you may choose the easiest Example I demand what Planet rules the 5 of August the day of the week being Saturnday at 45. min. past 9 in the morning
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or The contemplation of the Heavens in a perpetual Speculum or general Prognostication for ever Wherein is succinctly demonstrated the Names and Natures of the Signs Planets and Aspects Terms of Art order of the Spheres the Colours Magnitudes Motions Solid Proportions and Distances of the seven Planets from the earth The natural Causes and Significations of the Eclipses of the Luminaries Earth-quakes Thunders Lightnings and Comets c. Amplified with such Precepts and Examples and Operations that any of ordinary capacity by their own endustry may be enabled to resolve most propositions in Astronomy the right and oblique ascensions and descensions of all the Planets and fixed Stars To calculate the Diameters Circumferences Solidity and Superficies of all Globs and Spheres The Dominicall Letters Golden-numbers Epacts Moveable feasts and ages of the Moon c. for any time past present or to come By IAMES CORSS Philomath EDINBVRGH Printed by a Society of Stationers 1662. To the truely Noble most Worthy and Singular Patronage of Vertue my honoured Friend THOMAS WOOD The Author in Testimony of his endeared affection and gratitude for civilities received humbly presents his VRANOSCOPIA Iames Corss To the as much singular for Vertue as eminent for Honour the Magnificent and Illustrious Lord William Earle of Glencairn Lord Kilmars and Finlaystoun Cuninghame Lord High Chancellor of Scotland c. Most Illustrious Lord I Have brought forth to breath the Common Air this small Tract at the desire and command of several ingenious Gentlemen whose high merits straightly requires at my hands a devoutly-obedient strict and sudden performance of their imperious and not to be questioned commands If the Rayes of your Transcendant Magnitude had not given it life I was without any hope after I had conceived it ever to see it breath And now I am constrained to dedicate it unto your Lordship before whom it ought to have appeared as richly endued with Ornaments as you are with Vertues Vouchsafe I beseech you to accept in excuse of my boldnesse the necessity of my obedience by receiving this Infant into your high and gracious protection Being now delivered from the Presse I am humbly bold to present it unto your Lordships Patronage at no lesse a distance then the Center can be supposed from the Circumference not questioning but your high candour and courtesie will acquit me of the presumption Great Lord I do it not as if I hereby thought to add the least Atome to your Transcendant Magnitude and Merit a thing impossible to your inferiours but to set the better Lustre upon my Labours that their passage through the world may be the more current as having the impresse of your High and Illustrious Name and Authority upon them Besides your exquisite skill in and affection to all Mathematical Arts and Sciences is sufficient to entitle you Mecoenas to a Piece of far greater worth and Learning then this I present you with But the meridian of my glory is this That the Pilot of my poor Vessel is a Person most Illustrious and Excellent in whose breast the sublimity of all vertues are concentred I hope your Lordship will excuse the meannesse of the present seeing the smallest Penny is stamped with His Majesties Impresse as well as the greatest Jacobus for Princes cannot expect from their Inferiours Presents proportionable to their high magnitude and merit And though I cannot now by this affectionatly-bold attempt avoid the censure of rashnesse yet this is my comfort that I have but assayed to do that whereunto I was wholly oblieged by your High-meriting favours and that with the greatest affection and submission imaginable that the world may know how much I am My LORD Your most humble and most devoted servant JAMES CORSS To the Reader I Have oftentimes lamented with my self to see so many Learned Mathematicians to arise in sundry parts of the world and so few to appear in our Native Country In other things we are parallel with I shall not say in a superlative degree far above other Nations but in Arts and Sciences Mathematical all exceed us And had not that thrice Noble and Illustrious Lord viz. John Lord Nepper Barron of Marchiston c. preserved the honour of our Nation by his admirable and more then mortal invention of Logarithms we should have been buried in oblivion in the memories of Forraign Nations but his famous Works and admirable Skill in sublime Sciences together with his unparalled Invention aforesaid makes us co-equal to the most subtile Nations in the Vniverse Certainly the good Angels of God in an extraordinary Revelation made known to this Illistrious divine Lord the grand Secret of Numbers perfection which all the world had been searching for but in vain untill this great Lord and Luminary the Generalissimo of all wise men made the light thereof to shine not only in Britains Horizon but over all the Vniverss who now are enabled by the divine beams of his sacred mind to see into the bottom of Numbers Mystery c. He was a mighty Moecenas to all Mathematicall Studies but who will imitate him now I know not O Noble Lord Naper Baron of Marchiston c. my Genius is too dull to commend thee or to give thy sacred wisdom the thousand part of thy due praise c. But to return the only thing that produceth so few Mathematicians in this famous and ancient Kingdom is first lack of encouragement There 's no man of eminency takes notice of an Artist in order to encouragement None will stand up to interceed in his behalf though he had all Arts and Sciences lodged within the Circumference of his brain or capacity and all Qualifications requisit in a Gentleman for any employment publick or private Martial or Civil yet another of inferiour parts c. shall be had in far more estimation sought unto enquired for c. The second cause is the super-abounding ignorance and prejudicate opinion of some persons Literate and illiterate of all Functions who know nothing as they should know and the knowledge which they cannot imitate they hate Nemo enim Arti inimici nisi ignorans are born lives and dies ignorant of all sublime Sciences from such no encouragement is or can be expected Therefore I humbly entreat You noble Lords and Gentlemen who reads this Treatise and moves in superiour Sphers that as the Almighty hath made you Patrons of Honour so You would be pleased to make Your selves also Patronages of Vertue in cherishing countenancing and encouraging of Mathematicians assigning them to such stations as necessarily falls within the limits of and cannot otherwise be managed nor duly execute but by a subtile Artist For the utility and benefit of the Mathematicks is of such importance that without the assistance thereof we can scarce live much lesse preserve our selves from danger or hinder the irruption of a Forreign or Domestick Enemy And if an effectual course be taken with Artists in order to encouragement you
shall have plurality of qualified and well skil'd Mathematicians ready to serve you upon all occasions or designes Martial or Civil Publick or Private by Sea or Land who will not only give you a true account of the Distances Magnitudes and Motions of the Coelestial Orbs and eclipses of the Luminaries The probability of the Heroick Hypothesis of Copernicus concerning the Earths motion and solving the various conjectures of the Ancients concerning its species c. but also to Measure Plot and give the true Simitry Scituation and Content of your Land To search out all kinds of Longitudes Latitudes Profundities and Altitudes accessible or inaccessible to fabricate your Cities Towns Castles Forts Palaces and all manner of Edificis To plant your Canons conduct your Mines which rents the Rocks and tares the Earth to the utter ruine and destruction of an Enemy To trace the way of the Sun upon the Earth and by the shadow of an Axis to point out unto us those atoms of Time unto which our artificial Day is Artificially divided c. I think there is no Gentlman who deserves that denomination that will not only desire to learn and know these Arts and Sciences but also confesse that they are most requisite in all Nations especially in this most ancient Kingdom but alas they are wanting not because of any imbicility or defect that 's in our Intellectuals for no Nation under Heaven can parallel us for the subtilty of Sciences sagacity of apprehension c. but our only silence and unwillingness to these Studies that we do not professe them in publique as other Nations generally do is because we want encouragement Certainly there is no noble liberal or free mind of Civil or Military Profession high or low degree of whatsoever Function or Station but will take great delight in the Arts and Sciences Mathematical to see how by Art a man can calculate the places of all the Planets fixed Stars and Eclipses of the Luminaries and that for anY â—imâ— past present or to come To erect Coelestial scems upon Nativities framing of Astrological Speculums Revolutions Transits Directions c. To measure the distances of places remote and far asunder without approaching nigh them c. these things are absolutely and perfectly prodigious to vulgar heads whose dimmer eyes cannot penetrate the astral Spheres c. In all preceding ages from the Creation the Mathematicks hath found respect and entertainment amongst the greatest Princes and Potentates insomuch that History reports that the noble sons of Seth were the first propagators of it others that Atlas King of Mauritania was the first that discovered the motions of the Sun Moon and Stars and put his Invention into Writing and afterwards committed the same to his Scholer Hercules who as some Histories relate first brought the Sphere into grace whereupon arose that fable Antlantem Hercules auxilio Coelum sustinere humeris but Josephus lib. 1. cap. 3. de Antiq. Jud. attributes it to the sons of Seth but be the Inventers of it who will a Princely study it is and we find many admirable men even Kings and Princes in all ages to be famous therein Neverthelesse this last age is to be wondered at as producing more admirable and rare discoveries in the admired frame and machina of the visible world then any before had done c. But to return to my task in hand the ensuing Treatise which I have entituled URANOSCOPIA I seriously recommend to the perusal of all ingenuous Gentlemen who of all others can best determine the worth thereof not doubting but it will as much delight the wise to whose ingenious censure I freely offer it as offend the foolish humour of the ignorant and malicious whose approbation or exprobation I value not studying to approve my self to God in a good Conscience It 's my ardent affection and ambition to be a servant to my Dread Soveraign and to my native Countrey-men and friends which puts the pen into my hands else I should have buried my Conceptions when they first budded Besides I tremble to think what became of that servant who hid his Lords money in a Napkin and did not improve it in such labours as might have been for his Lords glory profitable to himself and others I confesse God hath endewed me with a little knowledge especially in his works of Creation that thereby I have endeavoured in contemplation of his works with a Sacred-secret delight to know himself so that whatsoever I seek on Earth and wants with indifferency is all and only to be found in Heaven where it 's a honour to be a Grandee in Gods Court to sit on Christs Throne there 's glory to shine as the Sun to be a brother to Saints a peer to all Angels a spouse of the Son of God with whom there 's honour without envie glory without vanity and state without change I do not call those gifts little or few which God hath bestowed upon me for that would argue if not blasphemy yet extream ingratitude but comparatively in respect of that which shortly shall be revealed to the sons of men To conclude if this small Tract find thy candid acceptation it will encourage me to publish other things both profitable and pleasant In the interim if thou be desirous of wisdom ask it of God who gives it freely be diligent and studioas and though thou mayest perhaps be a person of honour that reads this Tract yet it will not detract a grain from thy glory nor diminish thy due respect to be a Student in the Sacred Coelestial Sciences And although that most men seek how they may profite and advance themselves making Earth their principal aim that they may excell others out of their blind and depraved judements thinks that time and labour lost that is spent upon the Princely Arts and Sciences Mathematical yet there is some select Gentlemen whose inclination to vertue makes them capable of that denomination whom I know in this Countrey that are of more solid principles and considering seriously the incredible profit and excellency of the Mathematicks have applyed their minds accordingly with fixed resolutions to the Study of these noble Arts and Sciences and are now become notable proficients There may haply be many others in this Nation eminently gifted in all liberal Sciences though they obscure it but it s my unhappinesse I know them not or if I do they are persons inaccessible of such magnitude and altitude that admits not of any inferiour accesse c. Wherefore I shall now humbly take my leave not questioning but thy Courtesie will freely accept what I have here communicated having other matters shortly ready to publish that may witnesse to the World how much am a real Friend and Servant to all honest Ingenious men and Arts JAMES CORSS From my House in the head of Robertsons closs neer to Lady Yesters Church in Edinb April 3. 1662. To my singularly honoured Friend Mr. Iames Corss upon his Treatise entituled
like I have Typified all the Eclipses that wil be Visible in Great Britain during these seven years the greatest Eclipse of the Sun that happens within the time aforesaid is upon May the 15 day 1668. The Type whereof as it will appear in the Heavens in the Meridian of the City of Glasgow take as followeth EAST NORTH WEST SOUTH The Explanation of the Figure is this H I L representeth the Ecliptique wherein the Sun continually moves I is the Center of the Sun A the Center of the Moon at the beginning of the Eclipse V is her Center and true Place at the Visible Conjunction At which time so much of the dark Body of the Moon as covereth the Sun in this Figure so much of the Suns Body in the Heavens will be covered by the Inrerposition of the Moons dark Body between the Sun and the Citizens of Glasgow E is the place of the Moon at the end of the Eclipse when the utter Circles of the two Luminaries lastly touch one another The Line A V E represents the way of the Moon during the time of the Eclipse but for further satisfaction in the Premises I refer you to the Book it self which will be ere long Printed and Published If you desire to behold an Eclipse of the Sun without damage to the Eyes THen take a Burning-glasse such as men use to light Tobacco with the Sun or a Spectacle-glasse that is thick in the midle such as is for the eldest sight and hold this Glasse in the Sun as if you would burn through it a Pastboard of White-paper-book or such like and draw the Glassâ—â—â—om the Board or Book twice so far as you do to burn with it so by direct holding it nearer or further as you shall see best you may behold upon your Board Paper or Book the round body of the Sun and how the Moon passeth between the Glasse and the Sun during the whole time of the Eclipse This mayest thou practise before the time of an Eclipse wherein thou shalt discern any Cloud passing under the Sun or by another putting or holding a Bullet on his fingers end betwixt the Sun and the Glasse at such time the Sun shining as thou holdest the Glasse as before thou art taught CHAP. V. To find how long the Effects of an Eclipse continues and when they begin and end QVot horas durat Eclipsis Solaris tot annorum duratoris effectus praenunciat Quot horas durat Lunaris ut mensem How many hours the Sun is Eclipsed so many years will the effects continue but if it be a Lunar Eclipse so many Months Now to find the time when the effects of some Eclipse begins and ends observe if the Eclipse falls in the Eastern Horizon the effects thereof will manifest themselves about the next four Months following the Eclipse and will more strongly operate in the first third part of its whole Duration But if it fall in the Mid-heaven the Events thereof will begin to appear in the 4th Moneth next following but most apparent will the effects be in the middle most third part of its whole Duration But if it happen in the West part of the Horizon the effects shall not begin untill about the last four Moneths and its greatest Operation will be in the last third part of its whole Duration Therefore we are to observe at the midle of the Eclipse how far the Luminary eclipsed is distant from the rising and how long it continueth above the Horizon which known reduce them into minuts for facility of Operation and then say by the Golden Rule if the time of the whole continuance of the Luminary eclipsed above the Horizon give 365 dayes or a whole year What shall the time of the rising give Multiply and Divide and the Quotient will yeeld your desire As for example in the Eclipse of the Moon that is to happen the 27 of July 1664. in the Meridian of the Honourable and Famous City of Glasgow at a 11 hours 12 min. 12 seconds The Moons Nocturnal Arch is 8 hours 30 min. reduced into minuts is 510. The Sun sets in the Latitude of 56 deg at 45 min. past 7. which in this case may serve for the time of the Moons rising so that the distance of the Moon at the greatest Obscuration is 3 hours 37 min. which reduced as aforesaid into minuts is 217. Now 365 the dayes in a Common Year multiplied by 217. the product 79205. divided by 510. the Quotient is 155. 31 102. Or you may perform the Operation with more facility and greater expedition by the Logarithmes which was first invented by the thrice noble and Illistruous Lord viz. John Lord Nepper Barron of Marchiston c. in Scotland whose Name and Fame will never Terminate until the general Dissolution The Operations by his Lagarithmes is this  Logarith Length of the night 8 h. 30 m. or 510 m. 2 707570 The Common Year hath 365 dayes 2 562293 Distance of the greatest obscuration 3 h. 37 m. or 217 m. 2 336459  4 898752 Dayes or the Effects begin 155. 2 161182 And so many dayes it will be before the Effects begin to operate and therefore from the day of the Eclipse viz. the 27 of July 1664. I number 155 dayes and it points out the 29. of December following on which day the Eclipse begins to Operate And because the Duration of the saids Eclipse is 4 h. 1 m. 8 s according to my Doctrine of Eclipses therefore the Effects will last 4 Months from the 29 of December 1664. as aforesaid Moreover Ptolomy saith that how many hours the Sun is distant from the Horoscope or ascendant all 's one at the time of his Eclipse so many years will it be ere the Effects begin to Operate so that if the Eclipse be in or near the West Angle it may be 12 whole years before the Effects take place But I rather consent to Origanus who saith they Inchoate at the very day of the Eclipse Consentem namque est Eclipses statim operari effectus suos aliquasque extendere Orig. par 3. cap. 2. de effectibus Thus having shown you how to find the time of the beginning and ending of the Effects of the Eclipses and time of continuance I come next to shew in what Kingdoms and Countreys the Effects will principally manifest themselves CHAP. VI. The Names of the Regions Cities and Towns subject to the Signs and Planets THe Effects of Eclipses are most felt in those Regions and places that are under the eclipsed Sign and in such places where they are visible Nil nocet Eclipsis illis Regionibus in quibus non videtur They operate more efficaciously in such places where they are Vertical or where the chief Significator shall passe by their Zenith in the time of the Eclipse As also upon those men whose Nativities agreeth with the Eclipse that is to say upon them in whose Nativity or Revolution have the place of the Horoscope some