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A69046	A prognostication euerlasting of right good effect fruitfully augmented by the author, containing plaine, briefe, pleasant, chosen rules to iudge the weather by the sunne, moone, starres, comets, rainbow, thunder, clowdes, with other extraordinary tokens, not omitting the aspects of planets, with a briefe iudgement for euer, of plentie, lacke, sicknes, dearth, warres, &c. opening also many naturall causes worthie to be knowne. To these and other now at the last, are ioyned diuers generall, pleasant tables, with many compendious rules, easie to be had in memorie, manifold wayes profitable to all men of vnderstanding. Published by Leonard Digges Gentleman. Lately corrected and augmented by Thomas Digges his sonne.; Prognostication of right good effect	Digges, Leonard, d. 1571?; Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543. De revolutionibus orbium caelestium. Part 1. English. Selections.; Digges, Thomas, d. 1595.	1605 (1605)	STC 435.59; ESTC S115715	61,188	112

period The second is ♃ who in twelue yéeres performeth his circuit Mars in two yéeres runneth his circular race Then followeth the great Orbe wherein the Globe of mortalitie inclosed in the Moones Orbe as an Epicicle and holding the earth as a Centre by his owne waight resting alway permanent in the middest of the aire is carried round once in a yéere In the fift place is Venus making her reuolutiō in 9. moneths In the sixt is ☿ who passeth his circuit in 80. daies In the middest of all is the Sunne For in so stately a Temple as this who would desire to set his lampe in any other better or more conuenient place than this from whence vniformely it might distribute light to all for not vnfitly it is of some called the Lampe or light of the world of others the minde of others the Ruler of the world Ad cuius numeros dii moueantur Orbes Accipiant leges praescriptáque foedera seruent Trisinegistus calleth him the visible God Thus doth the Sun like a King sitting in his throne gouerne his Courts of inferiour powers neither is the Earth defrauded of the seruice of the Moone but Aristotle saith of all other the Moone with the Earth hath nighest alliance so heere they are matched accordingly In this forme or frame may we behold such a wonderfull Symmetry of motions and situations as in no other can be proponed The times whereby wee the inhabitants of the Earth are directed are constituted by the reuolutions of the Earth the circulation of her Centre causeth the yéere the conuersion of her circumference maketh the naturall day and the reuolution of the ☽ produceth the moneth By the onely view of this Theorick the cause and reason is apparant why in ♃ the progressions and Retrogradations are greater than in ♄ and lesse than in ♂ why also in Venus they are more than in ☿ and why such changes from direct to retrograde Stationarie c. happeneth notwithstanding more risely in ♄ than in ♃ and yet more rarely in ♂ why in Venus not so commonly as in ☿ Also why ♃ and ♂ are nigher the earth in their Acronicall than in their Cosmicall or Heliacall rising especially ♂ who rising at the Sunne set sheweth in his ruddie fierie colour equall in quantitie with ♃ and contrariwise setting little after the Sunne is scarcely to be discerned from a starre of the second light All which alterations apparantly follow vpon the Earths motion And that none of these doe happen in the fixed starres it plainly argueth this huge distance and immeasurable altitude in respect whereof this great Orbe wherein the Earth is carried is but a point and vtterly without sensib●e proportion being compared to that Heauen For as it is in perspectiue demonstrate euery quantitie hath a certaine proportionable distance whereunto it may be discerned and beyond the same it may not be seene This distance therefore of the immoueable Heauen is so excéeding great that the whole O●bis magnus vanisheth away if it be conferred to that Heauen Herein can wee neuer sufficiently admire this wonderfull and incomprehensible huge frame of Gods worke proponed to our senses seeing first this ball of the Earth wherein wee moue to the common sort seemeth great and that in respect of the Moones Orbe is very small but compared with Orbis magnus wherein it is carried it scarcely retaineth any sensible proportion so marueilously is that Orbe of annuall motion greater than this little darke Starre wherein wée liue But that Orbis magnus being as is be●ore declared but as a poynt in respect of the immensitie of the immoueable Heauen we may easily consider what little portion of Gods frame our Elementare corruptible world is but neuer sufficiently be able to admire the immensitie of the rest especially of that fixed Orbe garnished with lights innumerable and reaching vp in Sphericall Altitude without ende Of which lights Celestiall it is to be thought that we onely behold such as are in the inferiour parts of the same Orbe as they are higher so seeme they of lesse and lesser quantitie euen till our sight being not able f●rther to reach or conceiue the greatest part of the rest by reason of their wonderfull distance inuisible vnto vs. And this may well bee thought of vs to bée the glorious Court of the great God whose vnsearchable works inuisible we may partly by these his visible coniecture to whose infinite power and Maiestie such an infinite place surmounting all other both in quantitie and qualitie only is conuenient But because the world hath so long a time beene carried with an opinion of the Earths stabilitie as the contrarie cannot but be now very imperswasible I haue thought good out of Copernicus also to giue a taste of Reasons Philosophicall alleaged for the Earths stabilitie and their solutions that such as are not able with Geometricall eyes to beholde the secret perfection of Copernicus Theorick may yet by these familiar and natural reasons be induced to search farther and not rashly to condemne for phantasticall so ancient doctrine reuiued and by Copernicus so demonstratiuely approued What reasons moued Aristotle and others that followed him to thinke the earth to rest immoueable as a Centre to the whole world THe most effectuall reasons that they produce to prooue the Earths stabilitie in the middle or lowest part of the world is that of Grauitie and Leuitie For of all other the Element of the earth say they is most heauie and all ponderous things are carried vnto it striuing as it were to sway euen downe to the inmost part thereof For the earth being round into the which all waightie things on euery side fall making right angles on the superficies passe to the Centre seeing euery right line that falleth perpendicularly vpon the Horizon in that place where it toucheth the earth must needes passe by the Centre And those things that are carried toward that Medium it is likely that there also they would rest So much therefore the rather shall the earth rest in the middle and receiuing all things into it selfe that fall by his owne waight shall bee most immoueable Againe they seeke to prooue it by reason of motion and his nature for of one and the same simple bodie the motion must also be simple saith Aristotle Of simple motions there are two kindes Right and Circular Right are either vp or downe so that euery simple motion is either downward toward the Centre or vpward from the Centre or Circular about the Centre Now vnto the earth and water in respect of their waight the motion downward is conuenient to seeke the Centre to Aire and Fire in regard of their lightnesse vpward and from the Centre So is it méete to these Elements to attribute the right or straight motion and to the Heauens onely it is proper circularly about this meane or Centre to be turned round Thus much Aristotle If therefore saith Ptolomie of Alexandria the Earth should

sudden death of cattell ON Saturday a meane Winter Summer very hot a late Haruest good cheape garden hearbs much burning plenty of Hempe Flaxe and honey Olde folke shall dye in most places Feuers and Tercians shall grieue many people great muttering of warres murthers shall be suddenly committed in many places for light matters NOw that I haue opened diuers waies both for the learned and vnlearned how weather to come at all times may be well iudged and knowne c. I thought it méete for further knowledge therein not to omit here the naturall causes of such and so many alterations of ayre Lo therefore orderly they follow Naturall causes conducing to all the aforesayd and first of the Rainebow THe Rainbow is the shining and rebounding of beames of light that turne to the contrarie vapour againe in the cloude It declareth sometime raine and many times fayre weather when the one and how the other is before opened Of Raine RAine is a cold vapour an earthly humour or fumosities out of waters or earth drawne vp by the vertue of the Sunne to the neather part of the middle space of the ayre there through cold thicked then dissolued Thus engendred falleth on the earth Here I leaue to speake of miraculous raines as Milke Blood Flesh Yron Wooll c. For more satisfying in these reade Plinius in the second booke 58. chapter Of Frost and Dew A Cold moyst vapour a little way drawne vp in the day thorow faint heate of the Sunne descendeth in the night dissolued on the earth there congelated or resolued into water the one called Frost the other Dew The last is a signe of fayre weather in the Spring or Haruest Of Snow IT is a moist vapour drawne vp to the middle region of the ayre then thicked and frozen into the bodie of a clowde So congelated descendeth Of Hayle A Clowde resolued into water in the fall congelated maketh Hayle The higher it commeth from aboue and the longer it tarieth in the ayre the rounder hayle Of Windes WInde is a multitude of drie exhalations drawne vp from the earth and aboue the earth enforced here and there Of Earthquakes in the most quiet time PLentie of windes entred into holes cones or caues of the earth which absent from aboue the earth causeth quietnesse the violent brusting out of them the earth closed againe is the Earthquake Signum est futurorum bellorum Tokens of Earthquakes to come A Firie clowde appearing in the element like a little pillar is a token of Earthquakes to come The obscurity or darkenes of the Sunne without clowdes and strangely coloured bloodie or otherwise is a token of Earthquakes Also when Well water and others are troubled or salt or infected by sauour c. A great quietnes of ayre by land and sea and chiefly the long absence of winds Also strange noyses heard as clamours of men rushing of harnesse mournings lamentations c. All these haue been obserued to signifie Earthquakes at hand Of thunders and lightnings THunder is the quenching of fire in a clowde Or thunder is an exhalation hote and dry mixt with moysture carried vp to the middle region there thicked and wrapped into a clowde of this hote matter coupled with moystnes closed in the clowde groweth a strife the heate beating and breaking out the sides of the clowde with a thundring noyse the fire then dispersed is the lightning Thus for the learned Tonitruum soni●us est qui ed●●r quando nubem rumpit halitus Fulmen fl●mma vel repentinus est ignis qui ex collisio●● nubium aut ruptura nascitur Aristotle affirmeth the lightning after thunder but the fire doth first appeare in that the sight is before the hearing If this satisfie not reade the second of his Met●oron Here followeth a note of lightnings There be three kinds of Lightnings drie moyst and cleare DRie doe not burne but cleaue part or diuide Moyst burne not but alter colour The cleare are of marueilous natures Full barrels by it are emptied It melteth money in the purse it breaketh the sword the purse and scabberd not perished yea waxe in them vnmolten Of the Comets or flames in the night A Comet is a flame working in a drie hote slimie exhalation drawne vp to the highest part of the ayre His matter or substance after it is burnt and dispersed prouoketh windes The naturall cause of the Sunne cclipsed NOthing else is the Eclipse of the Sunne but the direct putting the body of the Moone between the Sun and the earth or betweene our fight and the Sunne which chaunce onely at the chaunge A Corollarie BY this gather the darkenesse at Christs death no to stande by naturall eclipticall cause but by supernaturall or myracle For it was at the full Moone Scriptures witnesse which enforced Dionisius Arcopagita at the time of his passion to speake thus Aut Deus naturae patitur aut mundi machina dissoluitur The cause of the Moone eclipsed THe Sunne being in the contrarie poynt to the ful Moone enforceth the shadow of the earth then directly put between the Sunnes and the Moone toward the Moone hiding more or lesse of the Moone as she differeth from the Eclipticall Some obserue pestilent plagues sudden battell great dearth to ensue th●se Eclipses which all I desire God to a●ert from his chosen Many other things by these Eclipses are gathered as Longitudes of Countreyes the Quantitie of the Sunne containing the bignesse of the Earth 162. tymes the compasse of the earth 21600. miles whose thicknesse according to Archimedes rule is 6872. miles and eight eleuenths of a mile The quantitie of the Moone is the 43. part of the earth The Sunne contayneth the Globe of the Moone 7000. times Saturnus comprehendeth the bignes of the earth 91. times Iupiter 65. times Mars once and ten sixteenths Venus the 37. part Mercurius one 32000. part of the earth Note here that Alfraganus affirmeth the least fixed Starre perfectly seene is bigge as the whole earth HAec non erunt admirationi si globi capacitatem ex longitudine diametri quaesieris Continet enim solis dimetiens terrae dimetientem quinquies semissem Estque proportio diametri Solis ad terrae dimetientem quae est numeri vndecim ad duo quintupla sesquialtera Cubus solis mille tercentum vnam triginta partes tales continet cuiusmodi terrae cubus octonas complectitur Cubus enim numeri vndecim est mille tercentum vnum triginta Cubus verò binarij qui est terrae octo Subducto quoties id fieri potest minore cubo qui est terrae à maiore qui est solis cognoscitur cubi ad cubum proportio quanto Sol maior terra sit Inuenimus ergo octo centies sexagies sexies in mille tercentum vno triginta Terrae Diametros Lunae dimetiens complectitur ter duas eius

diametri portiones quintas estque ea proportio dimetientis terrae ad Lunae diametrum quae est septendecim ad quinque tripla superbi partiens quintas Cubus numeri septendecim est quater mille nonagenta terdecim Cubus numeri quinque est centum viginti quinque Maiore cubo per minorem distributo reperimus numerum certum viginti quinque tricies nouies in quater mille nonagentis terdecim quod paululum à superioribus obseruationibus differt The quantities or rather true proportion of all the Planets vnto the earth ocularly demonstrated by figure following Mercurie is but a poynt in respect of these quantities BY these fiue Globes are represented the true magnitudes of the seuen planets One Globe or like magnitude appointed for Saturne and Iupiter Euen so for the Moone and Venus the rest haue seuerall Globes as ye may see according to their quantities The nature course colour and placing of these seauen Planets according to Ptolomie SAturne is the highest and slowest in proper motion colde drie and pale like vnto Lead colour requiring thirtie yeares to end his course Di. 9. ad 2. IVpiter is next vnder Saturne temperate faire and bright his course is performed in 12 yeares Di. 32. ad 7. MArs is hot and drie of fierie colour in two yeares endeth his course Di. 7. ad 6. THe Sunne is placed in the middle of all the Planets most cleere and bright the well of pure light euery yeare finishing his course Di 11. ad 2. VEnus is next to the Sunne colde moyst and cleere yea more bright then Iupiter her course is like vnto the Sunnes neuer aboue 48. degrees from the Sunne called the morning starre when she goeth before the Sunne comming after the Sunne she is named the euening starre Di. 3. ad 10. MErcurie is next vnder Venus somewhat shining but not very bright neuer aboue 29. degrees from the Sun his course is like to Venus or the Sunnes motion   THe Moone is lowest of al the seauen running ouer the whole Zodiake in 27. dayes and eight houres and somewhat more Di. 5. ad 7. For more plainnesse of that which is opened now shall follow a figure by the which ye may perceiue how the O●be of the one Planet compasseth the other Also how these Planets are placed in the heauen yea which Planets is highest from the earth and which neerest vnto vs. Consider wel this figure so needeth no farther declaration Ye may here behold first th Elementall part subiect vnto alteration consisting of the foure Elements first Earth and Water whereon we are then Ayre and fire The other Etheriall part which the Philosophers cal quinte essence containeth the tenne Orbes the bigger compasseth the next lesser as the figure before sheweth It beginneth at the Moone then Mercurie Uenus c. in height more and more As the figure declareth Saturne to bee the highest Planet so is the Moone lowest The distance or miles that the Moone is from the Earth and euery Planet from other AS some haue published it is from the Earth to the Moone 1570. miles From the Moone to Mercurie is 12812. miles From Mercurie to Uenus as many miles From Uenus to the Sunne is 23437. miles and a halfe From the Sunne to Mars is 157●5 miles From Mars to Iupiter is 18721. miles From Iupiter to Saturne as many miles From Saturne to the firmament 120485. miles The whole summe from the Earth to the Firmament is 358463 miles and a halfe Here Demonstration might bee made of the distance of these Orbes but that passeth the capacitie of the common sort The naturall operations of these Planets by coniunction opposition c. ensueth but more largely of me opened in a pleasant booke shortly to bee published First here will I end the naturall causes of many Sunnes and Moones then of the Planets by coniunction The naturall causes of many Sunnes or Moones THese come to passe when a thicker clowde is gathered toward the side of ●he Sun or Moone in the which the broken beames of the Sunne do leaue the fashion and very forme of that Sunne Thus as followeth sayth Plinius in his second booke of the historie of Nature and 31. chapter No moe Sunnes are perceiued in our time then three and they are neuer seene either aboue or beneath the Sunne but on the sides neuer in the night but onely at the Sunne rising or going downe What is to be chosen or auoyded vnder euery aspect of the Moone with her signification in the 12. signes touching the same THe Coniunction Quadrature or Opposition of Saturne with the Moone causeth an euill vnluckie day for all maters Leaue therefore to haue to doe any manner way nothing shall prosper or come well to passe then attempted Yet the Sextile or Trine of Saturne with the Moone declareth a conuenient time to til delue or digge to sow to lay foundations to erect or repayre houses yea a meete time to obtaine suites of fatherly farmers The Moone in Capricornus or Aquarius bringeth this latter effect of the Sextile and Trine The Coniunction Sextile Trine Quadrature or Opposition of Iupiter with the Moone sheweth a fortunate day chiefly to obtaine suites of Kings noble Princes Prelates of Lawyers and Religious persons and a meete time to studie to iourney to take an honest matter in hand The Moone in Taurus in Leo or Sagittarius sheweth the same The Coniunction Sextile Trine Quadrature or Opposition of Mars with the Moone warneth thee not to match thy selfe that day with warriours notwithstanding very good and most meete to finish all maner firie works naught to iourney yet most conuenient for valiant Captaines to worke their feate to leade encourage or stomacke their souldiers most vnmeete to treate peace to take seruants or to seeke friendship The Coniunction Quadrature or Opposition of the Sunne with the Moone declareth a very vnhappie day for all matters therefore attempt nothing ne any manner suite neither plant build ne iourney Yet the Sextile and Trine are very fortunate specially to obtaine suite of Kings Princes and other Nobles The Moone in Aries enforceth the effect of this latter part The Coniunction Sextile Trine Quadrature or Opposition of Venus with the Moone causeth a day most apt to obtaine all suites of women good i● woo to attempt mariage and to follow al manner of pleasures and pleasant pastimes not vnmeet to hire seruants to let blood c. The Moone in Libra or Pisces prouoketh the like The Coniunction Sextile Trine Quadrature or Opposition of Mercurie with the Moone promiseth a fortunate happie day to buy and sell very good to enter children in liberall Arts an apt time for the Uersifier good to vse Merchandise to iourney to send embassage to giue accounts and such like The Moone in Gemini Cancer or Virgo enclineth euen to the same aforesayd The Moone with the Dragons head