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A64764	A brief natural history intermixed with variety of philosophical discourses and refutations of such vulgar errours as our modern authors have hitherto omitted / by Eugenius Philalethes.	Vaughan, Thomas, 1622-1666.	1669 (1669)	Wing V145; ESTC R1446	49,654	136

qualities dispencing themselves by even turnes and just measures For as the Circle of the Year is distinguished by four quarters one succeeding another the time running about by equal distances In like manner the Four Elements of the VVorld by a reciprocal vicissitude exceed one another and which a man would think to be incredible while they seem to dye as Philo writes they become Immortal running the same race and instantly traveling up and down by the same path From the Earth the way riseth upward it dissolving into VVater the VVater vapours forth into the Air the Air is rarified into Fire and again they descend downward the same way the Fire by quenching being turned into Air the Air thickned itto VVater and the Water into Earth Hitherto Philo wherein after his usual manner he Platonizes the same being in effect to be found in Plato's Timaeus as also in Aristotles Book De Mundo if it be his in Damascen and Gregory Nyssen And most elegantly in the wittiest of Poets Ovid Met. 15. Resolutaque tellus In liquidas rarescit aqu●s tenuatur in auras Aeraque humor habit dempto qucque pondere rursus In superos aer tenuissimus emicat ignes Inde retro redeunt idemqne retexitur ord● Ignis enim densum spissatus in Aera transit Hinc in aquas tellus glomerata cogitur unda The Earth resolved is turned into streames Water to Air the purer Air to Flames From whence they back return the fiery flakes Are turned to Air the Air thickned takes The Liquid form of Water that Earth makes The Four Elements herein resembling an Instrument of Musick with four strings which may be tuned diverse wayes and yet the harmony still remains sweet and so are they compared in the Book of Wisdom Cap. 19. v. 17. The Elements agreed amongst themselves in this change as when one tune is changed upon an Instrumont of Musick and the Melody still remaineth Utque novis facilis signatur cera figuri● N●● manet ut fucrat nec formam servat candem Sed tame● ipsa cadem est They are the Verses of Ovid in the 15 Met. touching which several Prints stamped upon one and the same lump of Wax Bartas curiously dilates in one of his weeks Our next subject will be to discourse of Comets and Blazing Starrs he uncertainty of the Predictions of them Some took the Comet to have been a Star Ordained and Created from the first b●ginning of the World but appearing only by times and by turnes of this mind was Sen●cae Cardan likewise in latter times harp's much if not upon the same yet the like string But Aristotle in his Natur. Quest. Lib. 7. Cap. 21. 23. whose weighty reasons and deep judgment I much reverence conceiveth the Matter of the Comet to be a very hot and dry exhalation which being lifted up by the force and vertue of the Sun into the highest Region of the Air is there inflamed partly by the Elements of Fire upon which it bordereth and partly by the motions of the Heavens which hurleth it about so that there is in the same manner of an Earth-quake the Wind the Lightning and a Comet if it be imprisoned in the bowels of the Earth it causeth an Earthquake if it ascend to the Middle Region of the Air and be from thence beaten back Wind if it enter that Region ' and be there environed with a thick Cloud Lightning if it pass that Region a Comet or some other fiery Meteor in case the matter be not sufficiently capable thereof The common Opinion hath been that Comets either as Signes or Causes or both have always Prognosticated some dreadful mishaps to the World as out-ragious Winds extraordinary Drought Dea●th Pestilence Warrs the death of Princes and the like Nunquam futilibus excanduit ignibus aether Nere did the Heavens with idle blazes Flame So Manelius hath it But the Lord Privy Seal Earl of Northampton in his Defensative against the Poyson of supposed Prophesies hath so strongly incountered this Opinion that for my own part● must profess he hath perswaded me that there is no certainty of those Predictions in as much as Comets do not always fore run such events neither do these events always follow upon the appearing of Comets Some instances he produceth of Comets which brought with them such abundance of all things and abated their prises to so low an Ebbe as stories have recorded it for Monuments and Miracles to posterity and the like saith he could I say of others Anno Dom. 1555. 1556. 1557. 1558. After all which years nothing chanced that should drive a man to seek out any cause above the common reach and therefore I do allow of the diligence of Gemma-Frisius in taking notice of as many good as bad effects which have succeeded after Comets Moreover he tells us that Peucer a great Mathematician of Germany Prognosticated upon the last Comet before the writing of his Defensative that Mens bodies should be parched and burned up with heat But how fell it out Forsooth saith he we had not a more unkindly Summer for many years in respect of extraordinary cold never less inclination to War No Prince deceased in that time and the Plague in Lombardy as God would have it ceased at the rising of the Comet Besides all this he reports of his own experience as an Eye witness that when divers persons upon greater scrupulosity then cause went about to disswade Queen Elizabeth lying then at Richmond from looking on the Comet which then appeared with a courage answerable to the greatness of her State she caused the Window to be set open and cast out this Word Jacta est alea the Dice are thrown thereby shewing that her st●dfast hope and confidence was too firmly planted in the good pleasure and Providence of God as not to be blasted or affrighted with those beams which either had a ground in Nature whereupon to rise or at least-wise no warrant in Scripture to portend the misfortune of Princes Neither have I heard of any Comet that appeared before her Death as at her entrance there did nor that of Prince Henry nor of Henry the Great of France the one being a most peerless Queen the other a most incomparable Prince and the third for Prudence and Valour a matchless King Therefore as Seneca truly notes Natural is magis nova quam magna mirari It is natural unto us to be inquis●ived and curious rather about things new and strange than those which are in their own nature truly great yet even amongst the Ancients Charlemaine professed that he feared not the signe of the Blazing-Star but the Great and Potent Creator thereof And Vespasian as Dion reports when the apparition of a Comet was thought to portend his Death replied merrily No said he this bushy Star notes not me but the Parthian King Ipse enim Cometus est ego vero calvus sum for he wares bushy Locks but I am bald Lastly some Comets have been the