ASTRO-METEOROLOGICA OR APHORISM'S AND DISCOURSES OF THE Bodies Coelestial THEIR NATURES and INFLUENCES DISCOVERED From the Variety of the Alterations of the Air Tempeperate or Intemperate as to Heat or Cold Frost Snow Hail Fog Rain Wind Storm Lightnings Thunder Blasting Hurricane Tuffon Whirlwind Iris Chasme Parelij Comets their Original and Duration Earthquakes Vulcano's Inundations Sickness Epidemical Maculae Solis and other Secrets of Nature Collected from the Observation at leisure times of above Thirty years by J. GOAD The Lord Reigneth Clouds and Darkness are round about Him A Fire goeth before him His Lightnings enlightned the World the Earth saw and TREMBLED the Hills melted like Wax at the Presence of the Lord. Psal CXVII Seek ye the Lord who maketh the Seven Stars and Orion That calleth for the Waters of the Sea and poureth them out on the Face of the Earth Amos V. Who removes the Mountains and they know not Who shakes the Earth out of his place Who commandeth the Sun and Seals up the Stars Who maketh Arcturus and Orion and the Pleiades and the Chambers of the Southern Constellations Who doth GREAT things past finding out yea and WONDERS without number Job IX 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psal 19. LONDON Printed by J. Rawlins for Obadiah Blagrave at the Black Bear in St. Pauls Church-Yard over against the Little North-door 1686. To the Most Potent and Heroick Prince JAMES the II. OF Great Britain France and Ireland KING Defender of the Faith c. Most DREAD Soveraign AFTER Your Majesties Miraculous Access to the Imperial Crown of these Realms in Peace and Awful Silence After your Glorious Endeavours to Illustrate your Crown and Kingdom and make the English NAME Legible to all our Gazing Friends and Neighbour Nations it needs an Apology to interrupt your Great Tendencies and Designs with a Piece of Paper-Skill of any pretended Treatises of Science But Great SIR our Argument is as High as the Outward Courts of Heaven and Noble withal since the Greatest Princes Coats of Arms are emblazoned by our Planets These Papers like your Majesties Royal Mind are not confin'd within the Limits of the Britannick Shore but to shew their Usefulness they are bound for the East for the West for the South and for the Frozen Sea They aim at the account of a Fair Wind and a Storm a Thundring Tempest and a Resistless Hurricane and this all the World over They inquire into the Nature of Vulcano's Flaming Mountains which being accompanyed often with Earthquakes are as so many Sea-Marks to warn the Mariner that he comes not Ashore So the Subject may not be Unworthy of your Majesties Able Commanders that they may bring and re-bring their Cargo's safe to their desired Port. Specially since we adventure to search the Nature of Currents at Sea that they may be no longer Impediments un-accounted for When the deluded Vessel shall find she 's stolen back so many Leagues of her Voyage maugre a stiff Gale at her Stern What tends to Navigation leads to Empire or to Fame at least and Remark in case your Undaunted Royal Spirit shall be content with the Hereditary Dominions of your Crown This I reflect on with Comfort that this Essay I cannot say bask'd in the Sunshine but when time was it had the Glorious Fate to be enlivened by a Glance at least of your Royal Brother of most happpy Memory Nor can I be diffident of your Majesties Sweetness and good Liking when according to my Low Station under and with your Royal Scepter I aim at the Publick Good Praying the God of Heaven whom you Religiously and Devoutly Worship to impart the Blessings of Heaven the Blessings of Earth and the Blessings of the Deep on your State and Dignity Temporal and after a Long and Happy Reign amongst your Loyal Subjects who only understand the Blessings of Monarchy to re-Crown your Royal Head in the Temple not made with Hands his Eternal Kingdom So Prayeth your Majesties most Humbly Devoted Subject and Daily Orator J. GOAD TO THE Favourable Reader PHILOSOPHY I hope will never be out of date neither Natural nor Moral because they are Lights that lead us the one to admire the Divine Nature the other to follow it In Natural Philosophy the Planets and the Meteors teach their part in Letters writ in Light brighter than Gold as more Noble and therefore visible to the Vulgar who all believe a Celestial Power because they see it This being admitted They are fairly invited to give heed to the other more Spiritual Light which sheweth Good and Evil in their Colours I never found but that Contemplation of the Heavens conduced to the First and therefore must manuduce to the Second A Showre of Rain and a Fruitful Season is a good Proof for a Good God and a Pealing Storm of Thunder is a Sermon from Heaven the Voice of God and not of Man Such a rowsing Lesson may shake even an Epicurean into a Religious Horror much more the plainer Vulgar who are happy in this that they have no blind acquired Biass to counter-sway them from the belief of a Deity The Holy Text is full of what I say The Poetick and the Prophetick Books ring of Astrology and the Doctrine of the Sphere I could have filled my Title-Page with Testimonies The Verses of the Holy Arab are a Compendium of these Papers I confess I had a Fancy for these Contemplations from my Youth but I hope I should not have followed them Recreations though they were but that the Holy Text enflamed me thereto For I always had 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Love for Holy Writ The Alteration of the Air comes home to our Doors and the Causes sometimes shine in at our Windows If an Influence of Sol Mercury Mars and Saturn c. were as commonly known to the Husbandman or Seaman as the Noviâ— and Plenilunar Influence how familiar would our Resentments be of God's good Providence how frequent would be the occasions of Discourse thereon what Advantages to Religion in its Devotional part from the Terrible Meteors in its Love Gratitude Admiration from the more Blessed Constitution But the unlucky Principle of Mechanism amongst the Learned and of Nature in the Brutish Notion amongst the Vulgar hinders our Wish But I hope this our Principle is so much the more prizable that it clearly â—vacuates that Intrigue And is it not pity that a Forein Mode of Philosophy though transient with the Age should debauch the present Generations defraud us of Arguments for God's Illustrious Providence urged so many Thousands Years ago and unhinge us from the Knowledge of the Creator who is Visible and Palpable to us every 24 Hours Wellfare therefore those Philosophers of our Age who made it their business to appear against Cartesius Dr. H. More Dr. S. Parker and Others to whom in my poor Opinion Religion and the knowledg of the Creator is indebted We are Superstitious forsooth if we are troubled at a Comet because 't is Natural
Many Carcases here Floating which we heard not in the former the Maes in one Night swelling thirty Foot and the Rhine thirty nine § 58. And did I not say deservedly that these are GREAT Aspects For I hope the Reader is almost convinced by this time Are they not GREAT Bodies and as Great CAUSES that move over our Heads The effects of them are such that we should not believe them though we saw them as the Poet said of Troy Victamque quamvis videat haud credit sibi potuisse vinci So Dire so Amazing that our Infidel-Will begins to question the Maker of All as if he could not find in his Heart to be so extremely severe with his Sinful Creatures It preaches to me a Religious sence of him that makes the Seven Stars and Orion yea ♄ and ♃ also and calleth for the Waters of the Sea and poureth them out upon the Face of the Earth as the Prophet seasonably preacheth if Flouds be meant I am concerned for my Neighbours of the Low-Countreys I have offered some Items before to take heed to the Heavens over their Head For 't is Childish to call a Noble Science Superstition if it leads you to the Knowledge of the Creator The Saints and Prophets of Old were not so peevish We may safely go as far as they Suppose they knew not the Niceties of the Microscope and therein come short of us They knew the Glories of the Fixed and the Erratique and therein they went beyond us § 59. The next we meet in princ ♠A o 1603. Here we gladly see that we find some respite Except we shall go far toward East-Indies as the Bay of Antongil where Sir J. Laurence and his Fleet Wintering found A o 1601. c. much Rain and great Flouds overflowing the Country Purch Tom. 1. p. 101. To the drinking of which Waters he imputes the Flux that troubled his men being not wholsom as in most places saith he in those hot Countries ♄ and ♃ are entred for Jan. and Febr. 1602. though ♃ falls back afterward It makes no noise to meet a high Tide one or two about this Winter with us But will not a Spout be considerable Aug. 17. a Whirlwind taking up the Sea Purch 2. p. 813. A Great Spout powring out of the Heavens in the Island of Malaca Or a Tide higher than in 40 years before Childrey in the Transactions pag. 2065. These are some Symptoms of our Dead-doing Influence and we are glad we have no more to produce This was the Conjunction § 60. But the ☠in ♓ and ♠A o 1613. cannot wipe her Mouth she is guilty on Record of what she cannot wash away since in Thuringia chiefly yea and Bohemia Saxony Austria and France the Corn was lost by Hail and Lightning and many Inhabitants together with their Houses were lost Calvis This happened on May 29. while ♄ and ♃ were 15. grad distant § 61. This is for Europe and A o 1613. But the East-Indies A o 1614. in the Month of Aug. a greater Floud than has been seen in 29 years which drave away Salt Hills and Towns saith Purchas and many 1000 of men and Cattle The place is call'd Narsa par Peta while a Neighbouring Town had about 4000 Houses wash'd away the Stone-Bridges as finely built as Rochester-Bridge which were three Fathome high above Water proved three Foot under Tom. 1. p. 326. Hath ♄ and ♃ nothing to do in Flouds when 29 years ago which must be 1585. there was a Floud and a Congress of our great Celestials and this years August she ☠lay but at XII grad distance § 62. I have not been so punctual in describing Earthquakes because I love not whatsoever the Reader may miscollect I delight not in the Raven-Notes that do befal Recitements at large of those Subjects which I am engaged to treat of for Who desires to be reckoned a oaleful inauspicious Bird Only here in Flouds I am the more particular if by any means can I procure an awful Esteem and not a slight contempt of the Divine Hand yea and if I might consult the Interest of Mankind so far as these Papers will reach to give them some little Glimpse or Insight into eminent Dangers for though every Patient cannot be his own Physician yet nothing hinders but that a Nurse by some Notes attentively hearkned to may get some Skill in Medicine § 63. I am weary of multiplying of Instances and yet my Journeys end being in prospect I cannot sit down We have not heard much of the Diaries of our Century Let us bring the Floud home to our Doors Threescore years ago then Kepler tells us of two Inundations of Danow within one Week of 1622. with the Bridge broke and the same force 〈◊〉 in June anni ejusd where Kepler recurs to his Subterranean Cause thereby forsaking his better Principle In June he refers it mostly 〈◊〉 the Appultes of the ☽ Five Lunar Oppositions happening within 24 hours How manifestly doth he own the Planets Situate in a Posture easie to be irritated Five of them within 20 degrees All in ♋ amongst them as Supream ♄ and ♃ gr 15. Lo what a shift the poor man is put into by his dis-favour to our Solid Principle He found the whole year violent and for the Solution of that Grand Problem he is forced to bespeak his Subterranean Cause without which and that must last as long as he hath need of it viz. the whole year point blank he tells us the Constellations of Heaven could not effect so much What a great Man had he bin too great if he had not stumbled at this in his way Oh! that I understood the Constellations as well as he did the Motions c. But he proceeds Nihil hinc situm in Natura Signi There 's nothing in the Sign no not in the Sign ♋ Let any man Judge who hath attended to the mention of the Sign If it comes in our way we will again remember the Reader In the mean time will not our Cause assigned which persevereth the whole year throughout in the Sight of all Men an swer better than a Cause in Hugger-Mugger of which no man shall ever hope to give an account I hope it will But I must not dwell here for 64. The ☠A o 1633. in ♠and ♊ scapes not Kyriander helps us here April 24. 1633. Grosse Gewasser saith the Dutch But higher than that in the beginning of October Gewaltige Spring-flutên Ergiessungen in Holland and Zealand In the former year is grad 6. distant In the next grad 24. distant and withal ♃ in ♋ There we have met with Kepler already who made us believe there was nothing in the Sign toward a Found when the the very next Instance tells us that there is Gevaltige Spring fluten We have but 3. or 4 more and we have done 65. What does 1642. the ☌ in ♓ A man would wish ♄ and ♃ far enough and they are of the farthest
an Earthy Exhalation The Air considered All Meteors reducible to Heat and Cold as their Efficient the Nicety of their Degrees An account of the Natural Prognosticks of Weather they all prove that Heat is the cause of Rain and the Heavens Dominion over Moisture Concerning Hail Snow Mist Lightning Comet Blasting No phaenomena casual Wind its cause is not rarefaction or condensation but celestial Impulse The Body of the Heaven as distinguished from the Stars signifies nothing § 1. MEteors Real whether Aerial or Subterrranean as to their Cause Material consist of Water Earth Simple or Compound Fire and their Expirations these in the depth of the Earth those in the heights of the Air as far as the reach of the Atmosphere § 2. For that the Earth also is resolved into Exhalation is evinced from the Thunderbolt yea from the Nitrous and Sulphureous Ingredients into the wild-fires Celestial Lightnings Add the forementioned Rains of Stones Ashes Corn c. nay every Fog is so fuliginous as to bear witness a Fog which sometimes casts it self into Threds or Ropes and by the warmth of the Sun furls up into Gossamere § 3. The Body of the Air seems not to be the Resolution of Terrestrial or Watry Exhalations but is rather distinguished from Both as their Subject or medium even as the Water is distinguishable from its Impurities or from the saline Spirit that inhabits the Ocean § 4. For the whole Expansion Aerial and Aethereal is one homogeneous Body differing only in Warmth or Cold Purity or Impurity according as it is nearer or remoter from the Earth and Water § 5. Of it self as it seems neither hot nor moist nor cold c. but capable of all § 6. So distinguished is the Air from the Water that Neither can be converted into the Other the four Elements vulgarly called being as I deem Incorruptible in as much as although God the Creator was pleased as Moses seems to say to make the Air out of Water yet it may be true notwithstanding that no Natural Agent can turn it back into the same § 7. Meteors Real as to their Efficient Cause are naturally reducible to Heat or Cold and their Activities Frost Snow Hail to the later Lightning Rain Clouds to the former § 8. Winds also have no other Aeolus § 9. Here it is to be remembred that degrees of Heat and Cold are of a minute and nice disquisition our grosser Sensories being not always competent Judges for we see Rivers in depth of hardest Winters reserve some Heat where Fish subsist and scalding Liquors admit some degree of Cold as when their Aestuation is calmed by a little cold Infusion and yet remain scalding still § 10. As nice also may be the consideration of Dryth and Moisture for as the Coals of dry Fewel taken from the Furnace burn quick and bright so from moist Fewel they glow obscurely as if they were not as yet rid of their pristine though adventitious Moisture § 11. Warmth is the instrumental Productive of Cloud and Rain This is witnessed by the Southern Winds which bring Both by Thaws in Winter which are always cloudy seldom dry by the ingrateful Savors most hot against moist Seasons beside the convincing testimony of the Thermoscope § 12. The Survey of the usual Prognosticks of Rain from Fire Water Animates Inanimates do all argue the same Original of Rain viz. Heat Celestial and its Consequent Moisture with the secret Impressions of Both on the Creature § 13. In Animals the usual Noises observed against weather as in the Raven the Crow Cock Goose Owl Peacock the Pimlico in the Hist of Virginia a Bird so called from her note too sure a Prophet saith Captain Smith of Wind and Weather Swine Frog c. their crowing screaming croaking c. argue not any miraculous Divination in the Creature but only protest the sensible disquiet and alterations that are felt by them at such times Haud equidem credo quia sit Divinitùs illis Ingenium aut rerum fato Prudentia major Verùm ubi Tempestas c. Vertuntur speciès animorum the Poet himself was so cunning Georgic 1. § 14. Further arguments of such Alterations are the Water-fowls leaving the Element flocking together or betaking themselves farther into the Country the poor Earth-worm creeping from his bed the flying or springing of the Loligo the Cuttle-fish they speak of the playing of the Dolphins in the waters all not brooking their own Element That and their Bodies being alike disturbed § 15. To say little of their Stomachs or Appetites extraordinary Birds coming late from Feed yea the contemptible Fleas or Flies more notably stinging i. e. biting or sucking are hence reckon'd for Presages § 16. The forced motions and postures of Creatures argue the same as when Cattel are seen skipping odly up and down indecorâ lasciviâ as Pliny calls it as if twitch'd or pricked by some shooting or ach in their Limbs as vexed by some pain tearing their Litter § 17. Which pains some Creatures endeavour to help the Beast licking the Hoof or against the Hair the Bird picking and pruning its Feathers some perfusing themselves with water or flying so neer the Swallow and Sea-mew 'till they dew their Wings point the House-cat washing her Head with her moistned Foot the Oxe snuffing aloft into the Air all as it were for refrigeration-sake of their Bloud or Spirits cooling the little Feavers perceived therein § 18. The poor Ant hiding himself or removing his Eggs the Shelfish sticking close to the Rocks or ballasting it self with Sand shew a kind of natural Prudence but no Prophetick Divination in as much as first they find the Alteration of their bodies before their Instinct teacheth them to provide for the consequent § 19. And as to Presages from the Water whatsoever the Ancients speak of the murmuring of the Sea at hand or the noise on the Shore side the bubbling or swelling of the Sea without noise witnessed by all Sea-faring men the appearance of the Froth broken or divided these all betray the Dominion of the Heavens on the Water and a disturbance rais'd by the Celestial Warmth § 20. Verily the Dominion on the Water is as large as that seen in the Air the Prognosticks from Animals being grounded principally on the Alterations of their Natural Moisture And if any Presages are drawn from Plants as the Bristling of the Trefoil c. hither it may be reduced § 21. I do not mention the Sweating of Wals or Glass which may arise from the continual Appulse of the moist Atome floating neer the chill superficies but Plinie's Instance from the Larder when a Dish which hath been used at Table leaves a Sweat on the place whereon it was reposited argues some consent of the Ambient's moisture with the moisture of the Esculent on which account also Wood swels Wainscot cracks Viol-strings snap asunder and we also as other Animals no better nor worse are disquieted with the Excrescencies of our
Hail you shall seldom hear of two though little Distances of place that will agree in its Admission § 3. We acknowledg this Variety is admirable when God Himself hath pleas'd to give it as a remarque of his Power that He causes it to rain on one City and not on another that which our Eyes in a beautiful prospect are sometimes witness of But sober Philosophy is not confounded at the Contemplation of this wonder as the Astrologer Himself was who observing once at Tubing some Heat and a little Rain onely but elsewhere lower in the Countrey Tonitrua horrida breaks out into this self-killing Conclusion frustrà istas Meteororum formationes à positu Astrorum exigas Kepler Ephem Anni 1625 ad mens Jun. Philosophy is rather excited to give some account of the Divine Power and Wisdom which though invisible in themselves are and in all Ages of the world have been discoverable by such contemplation and scrutiny § 4. Wiser therefore was the Conclusion of the same good man who upon the like collation of the various Constitution of the Heaven at Lusatia first observing only black Clouds and at Glogaw scarce a days journey from thence having had intelligence of terrible Thunder spake like Himself in Wonderment but not Confusion Ecce quid Coelum quid Terra quid Loca possunt Kepl. ad mens Sept. Anni 1629. § 5. For without all peradventure this variety of the Airs Constitutions whether permanent or transient must be referr'd to the Heavens above and their Difference hereafter to be consider'd joyn'd with the Situation of the Place together with the Parts adjacent and the manifold Differences there also to be alledged By reason of which Thebes differs from Athens Rome from Tibur Athenis tenue Coelum crassum Thebis Thus the Mountains Acroceraunii in Epire famous of old for frequent Thunders as the Sierra Leona in Africk witnessed to this day by the Portuguez Mariners who hear as much at 50 Miles distance Thus in Rome and Campania Winter-Thunders are heard sometimes in other parts of Italy never as Pliny hath noted II. 50. The instance from Peru is notable though far fetch'd where Acosta tells us that in the Plains ten Leagues bredth from the Sea coast it never Rains nor Thunders upon the Sierra's and Andes two ridges of Hills at 50 Leagues distance running parallel to each other it rains sufficiently on the first from September to April on the latter almost continually But nearer home the Cities of Heidelberg in the Palatinate and the Ancient Triers in Germany from the Heavens disposition to Rain have it seems a like slabby character so the German City is by some call'd saith D r Heylin the common Sewer of the Planets Cloaca Planetarum § 6. This Diversity say I must be referr'd to the Quality and Site of the Place whether it be neer the River Lake Sea whether it be Hill or Dale Sands Clay Mine and some say Forrest which All contribute to the Individual Constitution of Hot Cold Fresh Pure Dry Gross Moist Foggy by way of Cause Material or reduced to the Efficient § 7. First for the Sea 't is a granted case the Maritim places are more subject to Fog Rain and Winds witness the East part of Lincolnshire by reason of the Fens and certainly all the prodigious Tempests of this our Island noted by our Ancestors are found to lay their Scene in our Maritim Countreys as Lancaster Somerset Dorset Hampton in the West Lincoln York to the North-east but especially the Counties of Essex Kent Suffolk Norfolk Cambridge § 8. So gloriously true is That which God Himself taught us long ago by the mouth of his Holy Prophet that He gathers the Waters from the Sea and poureth them on the face of the Earth § 9. The Sea ministers Matter not only for Rain and Wind but for Thunder also if Nitre and Sulphur be ingredients thereto As for Hail we know that it falls at its season in most places but note it for certain that all Prodigious Hailstones whose ambit reaches five six seven Inches is found to have faln on places at no great distance from the Sea the Cause is obvious § 10. Rivers then must bear their proportion as Fogs so Dashes of Rain are the sorer by how much the nearer to them The Showre the Seamen say observes the River and flows along with it as in its own alveus The Greater Rivers make the moister Air as the Air of Austria because of the Danow Kepler ad Sept. Anno 1627. Upon which account London I observe hath her share in Chronicle for Tempest because of her Thames and the Southern-side of the City hath complain'd most as the Tower Bow-Church poor S. Pauls now Tempest-free I wis Westminster because of their vicinity to the River when what I have seen my self tall Spires of Churches have rock'd to and fro as if they were at liberty and strong Iron Bars have hung the head like a broken Stalk by meer stress of weather § 11. Next the Nature of the Soil Kepler hath admonished us of a certain place neer Vlm in Suâ—via often struck with Thunder the Reason he rightly guesses from the Slate-Quarrâ—es and other Minerals there about which are discerned by the Mineral-waters there in use ad mens Maii Anno 1627. Those about Bath should inform us of this matter which if I misremember not is perform'd in the Transactions Philosophical For my part I always suspected that Horrible Thunderbolt which came into the Church of Wells Anno 1596 to have ow'd somewhat of its Extraction to the Place This we shall find that All places more subject to Lightning are also subject to Earthquakes but Earthquakes we know proceed from Mineral Sulphur c. incensed Rome and Campania which were noted but now for â—inter-thunders I am sure are Tracts not exempted from Earthquake § 12. This is so certain that in those uncouth showres of Milk and Bloud it becomes probable that the Mines of Chalk and Vermilion contribute also at least to the distinction of their borrowed Tincture § 13. The difference of the Hill and Vale is as conspicuous the Hill contributing more Cold than the Vale yeilding therefore for the most part a later Herbage In the Mountains of Bohemia the Corn at S. James tide was blowing when in the Plains of Lusatia it was ready for Harvest saith our constant Kepler Here note that in respect of the Heaven Lusatia lies the more Northward of the two therefore the Difference arises from the difformity of the parts of the Earth amongst themselves of Hault or Bate How cold the Tops of the Alps are is not unknown of whom 't is noted that the Snow melts first at the foot of the Hill § 14. In observation of Weather the Hill many times puts bounds and limits to the moisture of the Vale. Instance of This I have had the hap to observe what I have also heard from the Chiltern Hills in the County of
to raise Tempests Without fooling it hath an unexpected undreamt of Influence towards Tempests whether of Lightning in the capable Months or of Winds Furious Ragings Hurricanes which sometimes are felt without the Tropiques even in our Septentrional parts This being somewhat Novel or near Paradox must yea hath been demonstrated § 20. But then what should be the Latent Spring of this Energy can any Man tell If the Musical Fancy doth not please we have assigned a Right Angle in the Quadrate Aspect for the Seat of its strength if a Man may say it before ever we Read the more Learned Ofhusius Verily if we rightly consider it the same Angle may be found under the Trine in as much as by reason of the Obliquity of the Ecliptique we see it fall out that one of the two Planets so Aspected may lie just under the Meridian when the other is on the Limb of the Horizon § 21. Thus Bring me ♋ and ♑ Solstitial Signs to the Meridian and there you shall find but 3 Signs appearing which make an absolute Quadrate But reduce ♠♓ ♈ either of them to the Meridian and in the Oriental part of Heaven you shall observe IV. Signs a perfect Trine emers'd above the Horizon The Equator is uniform shews it 90 grades constantly on the Eastern and Western side the Ecliptique is not tyed to that constant Equality it is unequally divided sometimes with 4 Signs of one side of the Meridian and only 2 Signs on the other And this is not all Let us consider the Occidental Mediety of Heaven let us depress ♊ ♋ ♌ ♠to the Horizon and we shall find neer IV. Signs compriz'd in the Arch from the Horizon to the Meridian as before you found it from the Meridian to the Horizon So then if in all these Cases a right Angle is discerned the Efficacy of the Aspect may be founded thereon § 22. Now whether these Trines as it seems according to this Doctrine owe all their Influence to these Critical Coincidences with Meridian Circle or Horizontal may be referred to its proper Chapter or may be solved by what proposed in the □ It remains only to enquire why a Trine is more Turbulent than a Quadrate Aspect And that will be assoiled by considering the measure of the Angle by the length of the Subtensa reaching 4 Signs or 120 grades for upon this account is the Quadrate more strong than the Sextile in the same manner as the Trine is more Operative than the Quadrate With a barr notwithstanding put in against the Quincunx because of its vicinity to its principal viz. the ☠And perhaps because a Quincunx as Semisextile also are never found of so large an Expansion as to possess the two Circles of Horizon and Meridian at the same Moment which yet we shall see a Sextile doth But first let us admit the Trine Interest and view its Books the rather because I seem to advance a Paradox For though the Antiens hold the △ to be very perfect above the Square or Opposition so that I had thought they had favoured our Plea Escuid Tract 2. dist 12. Cap. 1. Yet I dare not alledge them least they speak in relation to Genitures rather than the Change of the Air So that we must wholly appeal to the experience of our Table though not extant here But if the Antient Arabs mean the Change of the Air also well and good then I am free from the guilt of a Paradox CHAP. XVII ⚹ ☉ ☽ § 1. The ⚹ the first Lunar Phasis of the Creation 2. The secondary Light discernible in the dark side of the Lunar Discus whence 3. The Aspect operates 5 6. Keeps touch at the Hour 7. The Moons part seems to lye in the Complement of an Effect 8. 9. This Aspect need not be ashamed to appear among her Kindred 't is as stormy as one of the Squares and as dashing 10. A Table declarative of their Influence 12. Second ⚹ seems to out-do them all 13. In stormy Weather of more frequency but less danger 15. The Full ☽ brings less moisture than any of its fellow Aspects 17. Aspects compared as to dashing Rains 18. This Aspect takes place in fits of Rain returning after frequent intermission 19 20 21. This demonstrated 22. Of infallible success as to Rain how far the Table produced 24. Inclination for Wind. 26. Search into the reason of its Influence whether there be any thing of a right Angle Some equality in all Aspects The ⚹ is critical with the Physitians not without reason 29. Gassendus his why-not's answered 13. Suffrage of the Seaman from our great Verulam § 1. THe Sextile two Signs distant from the ☌ though the last for Dignity is the first Aspect in order and makes some shew 3 or 4 days after the Prime enlightning about 3 digits of the ☽ 's disk the rest being Opaque and dark The First Phasis of the ☽ wherein she appeared to the World in the day of her Creation not in ☌ and ☠but about the Sextile Aspect The First ☌ of ☽ being imaginary 2 days before 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Jews most probably reckon An Aspect call'd by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon a vulgar account unless they should have some respect to the Tradition The Latines call it Cava Luna because it tends to Orbicular the Inner Area being dark and shady save that in the Craepusculum we may discern a weaker diffusion of Light in the whole disk not unpleasant to behold § 2. Especially since we may wonder how it gets thither The Copernicaus perswade that it owes the Original to her Sister Earth whose illuminate part makes it Reflexion thither Yea Galileo most ingeniously solves the Phoenomenon why in the Mornings Later Sextile this Lustre appears somewhat brighter than in the Evening wherefore but because supposing that the Earth and Solid Bodies reflect stronger than Water or Fluids There is more Land then Water the vast compass of Asia Eastward of Europe and more Sea than Land Westward The truth is if Wit will do it the Copernican Hypothesis must be accepted but whether it comes from the Earths reflexion or from the Other Celestial lucid Bodies to which whatsoever Galileo hath observed to the contrary I should as readily incline the Astrologer is not obliged to determine § 3. Our engagement lies rather to assert what Galileo doubts of that the Celestial Bodies operate upon the Inferiour if I have leave to call the Earth inferiour by Light and Motion At present that the ☽ operates in her Sextile Radiation § 4. Now whereas we have observed in the Trine Aspect one day of the Triduum often Lights in common with the Neighbour Quartile and that toward the exit or Introit we confess so doth the Sextile also But in answer as before that this is no visible prejudice to either Aspect their Characters being raised from their visible Efficacy those common days if need be not
Winds in these Circumstances as Iris is a messenger upon a more Visible account Some good Learning may be produced to back this Fancy but we pass it and take notice that if ♃ ☉ and ☿ raise Storms wet or dry besure ♃ ☉ ♀ and ☿ will raise their Tumult A o 1539. Dec. 17. 1541. Feb. 19. A o 1555. 163. Dec. 6. bis in Jan. 17. 1671. ♃ ☉ and ☿ § 5. out-does the rest you see and the next is ♃ ♀ in § 2. § 7. Further ♃ ☉ ♀ ☿ and ☽ Five of the Planetary Consort cannot be wanting to disturb the Air as A o 1502. 1576. Sept. 7. 1589. Aug. 17. 1639. Dec. 24. Nay they would do more than any Congress yet mentioned but that Reason tells us that Four or Five can't agree to meet so easily as Two or Three can § 8. Other Mixtures there are which must not be thrown away as ♃ ☿ ☽ 1629. June 14. ♃ ♀ ☽ 1596 ♃ ♀ ☿ 1636. July 30. Sept. 7. bis 1656. Oct. 16. ♃ ☉ ☿ ☽ 1599. Aug. 10. ♃ ♀ ☿ ☽ 1549. 1567. Sept. 7. § 9. Now seeing we have allotted the Preeminence where 't is due we may consider the Aspects promiscuously since they all agree in Turbulency and Storm Here blowing Men overbord breaking their Fore-yards Main yards and in dispersing Fleets which too often never meet Storms that throw down Spires of lofty Towers A o 1529. Tempest that Roots up Trees Sept. 7. 1567. and demolishes Houses a Kingdom throughout 1627. That makes poor Mariners yield themselves to Mercy when they ly a Try as they call it a drift I think they mean not able to maintain a Sail 1609. Tempests threatning a Resolution of the Universe into the Old Chaos 1639. such things will be notwithstanding ☿ 's dwarf Stature and the others Smooth face sometimes take place § 10. There is a Hurricane or two would not be passed over One French Three English A o 1567. Sept. 7. 1576. 1601. and the Lambeth Hurricane For the First we have heard of it before in ♄ ☉ now in ♃ ♀ not without ☿ For the 2d we shall find it in ♄ ♂ which then it seems could do nothing without ♃ ♀ March 7. 1576. The Poor Miller which in the 3d. Hurricane had ♃ ♀ with ☉ and ♂ to Divorce his Millstones Febr. 1601. Add that dreadful one in Bohemia A o 1627. Dec 27. § 11. But the Ominous Tempest at Lambeth A o 1639. was the first that convinced me that there may be Hurracanes even in England I have trepass'd against some learned Men who will admit of no such Heathen Trumpery as an Omen But I speak the Sence of the Learned Reporter who was an excellent Historian and may be made as much use of it as another Yet our business is to assign the Cause which we say as far as it is to be discoursed of here was ♄ and ☿ super-added to ♃ and ♀ No other Conjunctions are near A great Instance of the Imperfection of that Astrology which reduceth all to Partile Aspects when the Lunar excepted there is not a Partile Conjunction or Opposition within 3 Weeks on either side But according to our Hypothesis if there can be no Storm of the most inferiour rate without a meeting besides ☉ and ☿ for they are ready at all times I was going to say of the Superiors one or more either with themselves or with the Inferiours within Thirty degrees You may guess that an Astrologer has enough to do in a Large and Noble Field such as to Prophesie for once joyned with good Literature in after Ages may be valued If this be an excursion let it be pardoned Proviso that we remember that our Planets have the great hand in this remarkable Tempest as will infallibly appear by the Moons place where But in Opposition to them Both. In what Signs In ♊ and ♠And have I not desired our Gentle Objectors but lately to study the Sign ♊ Doth not the more gentle Reader remember those Arch Birds have been often brought before him for Riot and Tumult § 12. As to the Rains and Flouds which appear we impute them as we do the Winds to our Aspects not simply but under such Circumstances met 1. Such as A o 1551. May 17. before Whitsunday at Kitting Chesenfort Rottolsee c. Lyc. 613. ♊ 23 ♀ ♋ 3 ♃ Jan. 13. 1569. at Lovain ♃ ☿ Tropic 2. A o 1599. May 27. Whitsunday Great Rain and High Winds How 's ♋ 9. ♀ 20. ♃ 3. A o 1636. Jan. fine the Dutch have it Gross Wasser Fluch Kyr Fromond speaks of one in Spain in Febr. ♓ 1 ♀ ♠1. ♃ So Sept. 1. 1577. in East Frisland c. § 13. But Oh the Spouts the Cataracts 1591 April 17. 1627. May 21. Aug. 14. the Dutch call them Wolkenbrucks What groveling Philosophy can give an account of them Who dares venture on them 'T is enough to make a Peripatetick confess the shortness of his Notions enough to break a Novelist especially in those at Sea where the Water is seen to run up in a Body through an Airy Cylinder as if it were one of Archimedes's Engines Who says 't is done With a Whirlwind may speak Truth but doth not cease to wonder I hope For if a profound Vortex of Air by its Force though not by its Density can prop up a Lake of Waters in the Atmosphere how can it insinuate it self into the Profundity of the Sea to bear up such a quantity into its unnatural place But I answer 't is an Immane Force for so we read at home as well as in France that Whirlwinds have torn up Trees nay and removed them twisted the Trunks so torn and folded up the Leaden Coverings of Churchos Is all this Natural Who knows but it may if it be Celestial Now A o 1591. April 17. our Planets are opposed so are-hey again June 26. 1640. not without ♄ and ♂ as the Table Confesses § 14. This puts in mind to run over our Thunders and here we find ♃ and ☿ to bring us about IX years viz. 1586. 1627. 1629. 1641. 1645. 1646. 1660. 1964. 1678. Then ♃ ☉ and ☿ do exceed a little and bring us XI 1528. 1519. bis 1590. 1627. 1628. 1630 1646. 1664. 1670. 1675. While ♃ ♀ odds though it be Two to Three bring XXII wiz 1521. 1526. 1535. 1537. 1548. 1596. 1617. bis 1618. 1636. turbulent years and so on in the Table But the reason of this Excess we have given because ♃ and ♀ meet oftner than ♃ ☉ and ☿ can please you to see the other mixtures of ♃ ☉ ☽ that brings us some murmurs A o 1627. 1681. ♃ ☉ ♀ bring us III. ☿ is always so near at hand when ☉ ♀ meet ♃ ☉ ☿ bring us XI ♃ ☉ ♀ ☽ as many ♃ ☉ ♀ ☿ IV. Wee 'l tell you but one Story from Hakluit of which our Diary is silent Sept. 18. 1591 of a Clap of Thunder at Sea that
take the same notice of Dayes extraordinary Dies quidam apud Belgas our Neighbours of Brabant pluviarum atri infames sunt saith Fromond Meteor lib. 5. and he names us one viz. IV or July which he saith they call S t Martin the Dripper quem S. Martini bullientis aut pluvii appellant This Day I find not in every Kalendar but in our English only and not without the Inclination specified Fromond would have pleasured us therefore if he had named the Rest § 6. But the old Verses help us June VIII S. Medard's day Humida Medardi pluvias lux usque minatur And such dayes amongst us are St. John Baptist June XXIV St. Peter's Eve XXVIII Mary Magdal July XXII who is therefore said in the homely Country Proverb to wash S. James ' s Shift while dripping S. James himself saith the same Dialect Christens the Fruit. Add such are St. Bartholmew August XXIV St. Simon and Jude Oct. XXVIII with the day following XXIX the Powder-Treason Novemb. V. c. § 7. All which Dayes being Festival or notable for the Annex of some Mart Fair or other Solemnity could not chuse but come under notice with their Character § 8. Nor have our Ancestors given us days obnoxious to Moisture only we find other Constitutions also noted St. Mark 's day April XXV with his Neighbour St. Walburg's April XXVII and St. Philip and James are marked with an Obelisk for dangerous times of nipping Winds and Blasting Nunc caret aura fide nunc est obnoxia ventis saith one Verse and again Si friget segetes subeunt plerumque perîclum St. Margaret July the XX noted for Thunder Reboat mugitibus Aether St. Matthias for uncertain Air in this remarkable Distich Matthiae glaciem frangit si invenerit illam Ni frangat glaciem tum mihi crede facit As the Satyr thought it strange that a man should with the same breath blow hot and cold so the character of this Day seems as strange § 9. Yea the returns of Constitutions are not always confin'd to single dayes but to series of Dayes whence it comes to pass that some peculiar Dayes in this affair pass into Critical enabling to pronounce somewhat concerning the future Harvest Vintage or Winter for what have we to do with the frivolous Observation of the XII dayes in Christmass as if they were a compendious representation of the Months in the Year or with the Prognosticks on St. Paul's day sure no one Day can give crisis for a whole Year but for a month or a week a shorter term it may Four dayes then there are whose serenity gives fair hopes of a Vintage Vineent Apr. V. Vrban May XXV Assumption Aug. XV. and what Origanus interposes St. Bartholmew Aug. XXIV For Winter Purification Feb. II. and Cathed Petri Feb XXII are also Critical If it be fair on the former of these Major erit glacies post festum is in every bodies mouth if in the latter it freezeth the same constitution holds a Fortnight Again Rain on Mid-summer day speaks fears of a wet Harvest if on July II. Visit B. Virg. wet must be expected for a Month saith Origanus though the old Verse speaks more cautelous Si pluit haud poter is coelum spectare serenum Transivêre aliquot ni prius antè Dies If on St. Swithun's day the cry of England is it rains 40 dayes after if on St. Martin's day in Novemb. XI a wet winter is portended saith the Verse vid. Alsted Vranom p. 490. yea there is one critical Day recorded in Aetius the Physician 's time and that must be many hundred years ago concerning the then first day of Decemb. on which if it rained for the most part 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it held on for 37 dayes Petav. Vranolog p. 421. § 10. Some that shoot without aim may abandon these Observes for superstitious as that of St. Swithuns in Mr. Parkinson's judgment is but where there is Experience and innocent Reason there is no ground for superstitious conceits § 11. For the Experience we have said the most of these dayes were Festival and so observable for the annex of some Solemnity and thence came in the publick Experience for the reason we shall give it in due place in the mean while asserting the truth of St. Swithun's crisis for some dayes after more or less which the Vulgar made a shift to call fourty to hold good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Greek Kalendars have it and That 's enough CHAP. V. The Sun the great â—ight justly admired Notwithstanding alone He is not the absolute cause of Heat no not of the Seasons of the Year or the Constitution of the Day Chance excluded An Objection solved § 1. THis is enough for Demonstration of the Fixed Returns of the Weather and those Returns father'd on the Heavens by reason and consent universal Now in the Heavens what but the SUN can produce these Effects in their respective Periods the Sun being so regular a Mover that some have scrupled to call him a Planet § 2. And who goes to debar the Sun of his due let not us that contemplate the Heavens be guilty of it Let Theologie it self teach us that the Sun is a great Minister the Light and Life of the World without it no difference of Clime or Season no Spring no Summer no Autumn All Time would be Winter Horrid Winter the Sea a Mountain of Ice the Land a Flint and Darkness would usurp his old Dominion over both But sure God hath amongst thousand of other Stars made the Sun appear and commanded him to run an eternal Race in his great Olympiques This Commission as if conscious of the Infinite God he jollily executes and Nothing in the Universe is hid from His Heat At his Rise the Morning-Cloud vanishes the Fog dissolves and the Dew gently exhales Toward Mid-day he bringhteth the Air into a chearful Saphir and guildeth the Borders of the very Clouds with a costly limbus All the Earth basketh in his Light while the Clay is calcin'd by his Heat When he pleaseth he imprinteth his Face on the Roscid Cloud and decircinates the Iris with his Pencil He draweth the Waters as through an Alembick and gageth the Depth with his Beam The Current of the Seas observe his Tekupha's and flock All to the place of his Residence Where he keepeth Court is the greatest conflux the Stream makes hast to kiss his feet He raiseth Thunders in his vertical strength and gives fire to the Priming of his Clouds He raiseth a gentle Brise in the Aestival Morn and fanneth the Husbandman in the cool of the Evening When he mounteth he banisheth the Frost and confineth it as by the power of his Spell to the Ends of the Earth The Flowers of the field open for his Entertainment and the Birds of the Air observe his Night-watches they give a signal as from their Watch tower and chaunt their Reveille to the Sons of the Night All the
Definitions have excluded and therefore are to be corrected but who understanding himself can exclude it the Ancients did not Pliny discoursing of the Tides puts the Sun in the first place and Ptolemy acknowledgeth the Sun as more absolute in all the productions ascribed whether to the Moon or any other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I. 2. § 9. For the very Nature of the Moon which is a Reflexion supposes the same the Moon being but a Sun reflex'd as they say of others also whose Full and the Change being the observable Phases are nothing else but eminent Relations to the Sun A Relation must include both its Terms the Sun therefore cannot be excluded the Author demonstrates the Sea would have such motion supposing there were no Moon but he may be pleased to enquire and he may find that the Moon cannot be spared spared I say as to that warmth which the Sun it self imparts for by Her the Warmth is modified temper'd increased remitted according to the variety of her Phases by Her this warmth is made so kindly so suitable to the humid Element that without it it cannot be governed Warmth will rarifie Water this Author hath excellently taught us and that the Moon hath a kind of warmth quatenus Lucid he justly defines so there is not much betwixt us every warmth Celestial we shall see hath Influence on the Waters § 10. We have as good Demonstration that the Ebbs and Flows depend on the Moon as that she borrows her Light from the Sun the diversity of the Phases according to her access and recess shew the one the suitable Increase and Decrease of the Tides according to those very Phases shew the other § 11. At the Quarters the Tides are lowest Neap tides at the Change and Full they are higher Spring-tides in the one the Moon is conjoin'd with the Sun in Diameter-line making no Angle in the Other making a Quadrate the utmost distance from the Conjunction and Opposition § 12. The 〈…〉 or supposing viz. that the Tides are lowest at the Quarters endeavours to shew how they come to spring against the Change and much truth without question he delivers but how comes it that Neap-tides happen just at the Quarters if the Moon have no Causality they might happen at the Full as well as at the Quarters and if those Low-Tides might have run through all phases of the Moon and a Fortnight after had boil'd into Spring-tides then I should have hearkned to the Demonstration so far as to exclude the Planet but when the Low-tide is confin'd to the Quadrate That creates Suspicion We that say the Moon communicates a greater yet still kindly warmth to the Air at the Change Full and a less at the Quarters may easily see why God at first ordered the Abatement of the Waters to the One and the Increase to the Other if it be true that the Sea works and purges every full Moon as at other set Times of the Year which accrue to the Sun's account § 13. 'T is an Illustrious Instance that is drawn from the Exuberance of the Tides at or neer the Aequinoctial Lunations taken notice of even by the Inhabitants on the Thames side below the Bridge at least yea of an elder Observation as to the Ocean in Strabo and Tacitus 'T is pretended that in our River they are observed in February and October rather than on the precise Months of March and September This Objection is not confident the very Neighbourhood of the Months February to March and October to September creates a Suspicion of some Truth in the Instance for That Difference is easily accounted for considering that Fall of Wet makes some addition and that This is notorious in February the Close of Winter nor unusual in October the Prologue thereto Let March or September put on the wet Masque of either of these Months and the Effect will be the same Secondly who knows not that the Tides swell not on the precise day of the Lunation but two or three dayes also before and after remembring then the motion of the Moon supposing it hath no Latitude 't is odds but within two dayes after after I say the Lunation in February the Moon will be found in the Equinoctial Sign ♈ as in October two dayes before it is found in ♎ But if Latitude as reason is may be observed the Moon may be found situate on the Aequator in either Month by a Southern Latitude in the One and a Northern in the other For 't is the whole Circle Aequinoctial not the Intersection only that is considerable in this Affair adding withall that the Aequinox Physically considered hath some Latitude as every Centre hath within which bounds the Effect proves even the same As therefore the Spring-Tides in general happening two dayes before and after are justly imputed to the Lunation in general so the aforesaid Equinoctial Exuberancies in February and October are with the same justice ascrib'd to the Equinox for if we calculate rightly the Interval between them is not as it seems a whole Month but only two dayes difference in as much as the Sun in a whole Months time gets no more ground than the Moon acquits in Two dayes where the Moon overtakes her Leader § 14. But the Retardation of the Tide parallel to the Moon 's coming to the South about 48 minutes later the only common motion as is acknowledged to the Planet and the Element is such an Argument For that Two motions from the Creation to This day should just jump together to so nice a Calculation of time and yet the Bodies moved have no dependance one on the other is not easily digested especially when one of the Bodies is fluid easily moved and as easily interrupted disturb'd by Inundations fury of Winds Droughts Frosts Earth-quakes Natural Motion we know once disorder'd will run false like the Index of a Watch 'till some good hand replace it Sometimes the Tides fail sometimes they pay us with superfoetation who restores Nature in this case the Sun keeps its course differing little from it self and its own Elevations a day or two after and yet the Water returns to its wont and forgets its disorder composing its self according to its measure warrantable by the Age of the Moon Here will it not suffice to say the Moon is an Index seeing it may be so and yet a Cause too as Excessive Heat of the Body is a Token of a Feaver or a Southern Sun an Index of Noon An Index of the Tides so may the Tides vice versa be Indices of the Lunar motion and Both be equally causes one of the other if the Moon be a meer Index i. e. not a Cause But the Moon is a warm Mover and That Influence reacheth yea penetrateth the Element insomuch that if the Sun be constituted the Motor of the Seas the Moon her History being attended can scarce without violence be excluded § 15. There is a Notion of Lunacy abroad in
several Texture of Matter Density Rarity c. we must carefully distinguish between Them and their Privations the rather because the Philosopher saith rightly that the same Sense is Judge of both for t is no reason to look for a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Privative Beings but only of Positive Thus it will be vain to look for a Prime Recipient of Siccity the Fire being dry and the Earth also and neither owing that Quality one to the other because being a bare carentia and Absence of Humidity all Bodies so deprived must aequè primò rejoice in that Denomination Thus I take it is Rarity nothing but a Privation of Density Softness of Hardness Smoothness of Asperity Fluor of Solidity Friability of Viscosity Leanness of Fatness total or partial Privations For the Prime Recipient though it be commonly a certain species yet 't is not always so § 54. There are Properties which follow the Genus as All men must confess such are the known Properties of Quantity Figure Place Motion Time Gravity Colour Sound Figure I say for if Quantity be such a Property then Figure must also however it be called Quality or otherwise a Property of Corpus solidum Then Motion for be the principle of Motion what it will Matter or Form or Finiteness of Nature 't is plain 't is a common Generical Attribute to which it is annexed we may call it corpus or if you will substantia finita Then for Gravity we have a General Recipient for That whether in the new Philosophy which reckons All Elements to be Gravia as tending to their Centre Fire it self seeming to tend upward only on this account or in the more stale Philosopby which makes Earth Water Air Gravia in comparison of Fire I say according to the one the Prime Recipient of Gravity is corpus Homogeneum supposing the Heavy substance out of its place and corpus Opacum according to the other understanding it here as opposed to Luâ—id in which sense Air Water Earth are opacons and therefore Gravitating as being destitute of That Spirit which tendeth upward We say the same of Colour that corpus opacum but as distinguish'd to pellucid or Diaphanous is the Prime Recipient of it Colour being nothing else but a nice mixture of Light and Opacity Yea for Sound it self we give a prime Subject and That is corpus Spirituosum it being the Spirit that is the Subject and Vehicle of the Sound § 55. These things being premised I say that All Qualities truly so called positive Beings not privative have necessarily their Prime Recipient in the Species or the Genus at least Heat Cold Humectation Tast Odour All Sensible Qualities have their Prime Recipient it being hard to find Humectation where there is no Water Cold where no Earth Tast where no Salt Odour where no Oyl Light and Heat where no Fiery Spirit And what do we say of the Second Tactile Qualities Crassitude Solidity Density Hardness Roughness The Earth no doubt is the Prime Receiver of them All so that where there is Solidity and Density there is Earth as Plato saith even in the Stars themselves For Viscosity unless we say 't is a Compound Complicate Quality ex pingui arido and so get off from the necessity of assigning a Prime Recipient as there is no Prime Recipient of Tepor and mixt Colours so otherwise we may nominate a Gluten to supply That place with the same liberty as the Chymists name Sulfur and Salt for if it be said that there is no such species in which this quality inheres no more is there any species of Salt and Sulfur the Prime Recipient of Savours and Odours they are Generical Natures common to all Sapid and Odorate Bodies § 56. Surely unless some Recipient be admitted both in Active and Passive Qualities the Family of Nature will be at a loss The several Tribes of Hot Cool Sapid Odorate how manifold soever in their Natural Colonies must needs depend on some prime Propagator as all Families do § 57. I will not say this is in imitation of God himself and his Communications Nature being nothing else but a Sciagraphy of Divinity who being a Creator hath ordained a Generant communicating Essence and Gifts and Graces Himself being of them All the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 § 58. And truly when upon a just Induction made we may find a prime Subject for all the Active Qualities truly stated as Light Heat Cold Humidity c. why we should not seek for prime Subjects for All the rest which are absolute perfections of the Subject in which they dwell I see not seeing the Fabrick of this Great Universe though it be abstruse yet it is such as doth incourage Enquiry not discourage it by the Mutual dependance of Causes the Second on the First and the Third on Both the Creator being admirable not only in the Number but in the Order of his Creatures To find Fire in Fish-bones Rotten wood Tasts in Dews as well as Plants and Minerals Stenches in Mists as well as Puddles and All through the communication of the same prime Subject incourages a Modest Enquirer and brings him to the knowledge of a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the prime Cause of All. § 59. Neither is the prime Generical Recipient to be thought an Empty Notion as if Universal Natures subsisted only by the Operation of the Intellect and did not exist à parte rei for certainly They are guilty of the Empty Notion that make a Nature not We that find it Surely the Individual borrows all its Reality from the Species unless his Essence be a fiction and the Species in part from the Genus the One is a Modification of his Vniversal the Other a Difference and thus far for the second Enquiry § 60. Now thirdly what Relation a Body Celestial may have to Cold if Cold be a Terrestrial Emanation is the next Enquiry seeing Reason as Cardan confesses makes them All without difference warm even ♄ it self if he be Luminous Resp The Nature of the Planet is to be estimated not from his Magnitude only and Distance and Light and Colour but much if not chiefly from its Consistence and Spirit if any there be that inhabits it § 61. Their Bodies of their own nature are Opacous but they are Pervious too This is known for certain as to the ☽ it is full of Cells and Concavities of a vast Penetration for otherwise neither It nor the Rest could so visibly so potently reflect the Solar Incidences As to the Spirit all that believe the Sun to be of an Igneous Nature as 't is high time we should come so far do resolve that there are Mines of Sulfur in the Sun which minister an Eternal Pabulum to the Flame as the Mines do to our Hot Baths This is so certain that the Assertors of the Maculae Solares know not what else to define them but Sulphureous Fumid Exhalations issuing from it § 62. Again all that are Curious
Observers of the. ☽ do aver not only Mountains but Waters also placed there which cover all the darkish parts of the Lunar Globe and why may not God fill the Rest of the Celestial Bodies with a suitable Spirit The different Colours both of Planets and Fixed Stars do more than probably argue a difference of Spirit lodged in them 'T is not impossible but some of the Heavenly Bodies may partake of the Cold Spirit in common with the Earth as the Subterranean specus partakes of the Warm Spirit the Fires that rage there in common with the Heavens § 63. What Mines of Sulphur may be lodged in ♂ what Treasure of Nitre or Camphire or Quick-silver may be in ♀ or ♃ the Expiration of Camphire even flaming cools a Room Who can refell this with any better Argument than a Smile What know we their Internal Constitution Where were we in the day of their Creation that we should pronounce of their Natures but by their Effects If thus it should be how facile how explicate is the Solution of this great Question Celestial Bodies though Lucid though Fiery may have some of them a cold Emanation and at their opportunity they may cause a Winterly Weather not only by their chill Emanation from above but by the consequent Attraction of the Cold here below as all Homogeneous Bodies naturally observe one another § 64. Verily we seem to flutter neer some Truth when the Scripture it self seems to teach us so monstrous things as Waters above the Heavens placed there wot you what but for the tempering of Celestial Heat or some worse because unknown reason Ger Voss de Idololatr II. 39. and our own Learned Gregory beside the Jew and Ancient Christian what may there not be contain'd in the Celestial Bodies Seas or Mines if there may be Elementary Bodies in the utmost Circumference of the Heaven Our narrow Imaginations cramp the Planets as far as the Distance diminishes them to sight not daring to look into the vast Continent of those unknown Orbs which it may be are as little Homogeneous as the Globe of the Earth which seems a Globe of Dust and similar Mold to those that have not descended into the heart of it to those that have not viewed the Fossiles the Minerals Metals concrete Juices Subterranean Fires c. 'T is clear that the Planets are not made only for Reflexion but also for Modification of Light and Heat And Light if there be any Connate Spirit in the Lucid Body is apt to convey the Radiation as the painted Glass transmutes its Colour along with the Beam that shoots through it the variety of the Colour we must say again doth argue a difference of Spirit and Confistence as in the Yolk and White of an Egg is manifest § 65. But ♃ may be cold as the ☽ is moist no Waters no Lakes no Seas supposed by extrinsecal Denomination We say 2 ly then who knows but that Light and Cold may have kindness one for the other T is a great Speculation that is before us When I was arrived in Philosophy so far as to hearken to the discourse of the Spirits of Natural Bodies to which by Assent and Experience Universal all Activity belongs and finding that what they call Spirits were for the most nothing but igneous parts of the Compound I justly cry'd up Avicen the Physician who owns the Elements Actual Existence in the Composition as the Existence of Fire among the rest but when I was advertised from so great Authority as my L d Verulam who somewhere tells us that amongst Natural Bodies there is found a Cold Spirit I confess I was at some Loss as to the stating the Question Affirmative every Spirit being the Actuous part of the Body Attending farther therefore to what was proposed concerning Heterogeneous Mixtures found in the same Body by reason of which the same Vegetable or Mineral may be qualified sundry wayes as in Salt Pepper Opium c. consisting of a Hot and also Crude Spirit subtilty weaved together I began to admit of a cold Spirit or rather having admitted it to guess the Reason or its Activity as borrowed from the vicinage of the warmer Corpuscles as if a Spirit were nothing else but the Igneous Particle incrusted in the Body as if the Spirit were Active upon one account and seemed Cold upon the other For Cold it self at least in comparison of Heat is but a dull and slow Quality that it may be a great question whether setting aside its Figure and Gravity it hath any pure Activity of Influx or Emanation or no for the Pressure it makes by reason of its Gravity or Figure is not Activity of Emanation such as is found in Fire This it owes to Warmth perhaps So that if God should annihilate the Celestial Warmth there would be no Elevation or Emanation of a Cold Spirit all would sink and lye flat upon the Surface of its Cold Earth as in a most unlively Chaos Hence it may be before God was pleased to make the Light or Heat Celestial the Spirit of God is expresly said to move on the Face of the Waters to keep them in their serviceable and therefore Natural Fluidity which otherwise would be sullen and put on their Icie unpliant and unserviceable Rigor For the Subterranean Fires too much made of by some cannot so much as considerably supply the want of the Celestial since 't is notorious that on the top of Aetna itself there lies all the year a continual Snow § 66. The Heat then of Celestial Bodies may be such a friend to the Activity of the Cold Spirit as to raise it from its Centre and keep it up in suspense as under the Poles it doth toward the generation of Wind Snow Mists Clouds c. what the Northern Voyages sufficiently testifie testifie I mean concerning the Heat that is many times felt there amidst the very Mountains of Ice In this case Cold first acts by Corporeal Contact and Gravitation of Those Bodies that wade in the Atmosphere That 's one way § 67. But again the same Agent that raises that Exhalation may if it be incouraged hurry and drive the Cold Atome and impart a forced Activity to it as in the generation of Hail may be seen and in all cold Winds and especially on those signal times when Frost and Ice is found on the ground the Sky having been Cloudy by the piercing of a sharp Wind busling all the Night before That 's a second § 68 But sure Cold appears not always under a forced sometimes with a proper and Natural Activity being quick and agile penetrative and pungent like the Fiery Atome entring the Body and following the Leading Atome with a vehement Nisus into the same not by Gravitation only because then there would be but little Frost within doors where there is little Gravitation yea all Congelation would begin at the top only when as in Vessels of Wood and Metal the side and bottom of
as I remember is happily observ'd by Ofhusius But if this will not be admitted as sufficient and responsible for some violent Effects shewing themselves what if I should observe that in a manner all Aspects seem to be equal whether Diametral or Angular Wherefore as in the ☌ there is an imaginary or rather a Virtual Opposition since the Heaven is Circular and shews an opposite point affected so that you have no single Aspect then contra an ☠is a virtual Conjunction So is it in the Rest Bring in a Square of ☉ and ♀ One of them to the Meridian and the Square is doubled For there is a Quadrate Oriental and Occidental ♀ posited on the Meridian makes a right Angle with the Sun in the Horizon and another with the point in oppositio Solis Doth not then our Sextile Oriental suppose by the same Reason make a △ occidental and back again a △ in the East constitute a Sextile in the West § 27. For what pains and indispositions we had noted with their Obelisk here also as in the Quadrate how duly I had noted them I cannot speak but how truly they are noted I can So the Sextile is a Critical Aspect I see as well though not perhaps as much as the Quartile And what should hinder us to assert an Antient Truth and so witnessed by the Learned Physitians who tell us that in Critical Days Quartus est Index Septimi Now as the Seventh day is the One so the Fourth Day is the other even our very Sextile I know there are other Irritations of Aches and Pains in our querulous Bodies besides these Lunar Aspects viz. the Rises and Obits c. of the Planets so posited co-incident with these Aspects which I am not certain the Physitian will allow though they exert their smart Influence at a minute howbeit if they like not to admit of that I am bound nevertheless to witness to the Truth which they deliver § 28. We close up this Chapter with an Answer to Gassendus who though he dar'd not deny an Efficacy to the Sun and Moon consider'd as Luminaries yea though he acknowledged it rational to believe that their Efficacy is advanced or abated according to the increase or decrease of their Light yet he hath no kindness for these Luminaries so united and confederated by Aspect for saith he why should not the same be said of ♀ who we know now by the Telescope runs through the Series of the same Phasis as the ☽ doth ⚹ □ △ For answer I could tell him 't is enough for a Mortal Astrologer if he make use of all that is visible I say all that is presented by the Natural though non-arm'd Eye The Spectators of the Heavens are rightly entertain'd by what appears on the Theatre without prying into the attiring Room No man speaks against a curious inquisitor into Nature by Telescope or Microscope I applaud the invention but there may be ill use made of it when we search after hidden in the neglect of Obvious Truths Secondly though I could ask whether Gassendus hath calculated these Aspects and found them void or unactive or decipher'd them only for us that we might spend our Verdict Besides that the Quadrates of ♀ are consider'd under another Name viz. when she is enlongated from the Sun by the same token that she contributes to Warmth Yet where is the Angle we speak of Alass Her furthest Elongation never sets her upon the Meridian while the Sun is on the Horizon A Semisextile is her utmost Aspect as to us When ♀ descends as low as the ☽ in Orb as vast as the ☽ or ♀ Orb then Gassendus shall see what we will say till then the Influence of her Phasis is not so considerable but what a just Science may overlook as Anatomy doth a Capillary Vein or Glandule which is not necessary in the subsistence of the Body and therefore may be spared its consideration § 29. He tells us more that if the ☽ hath Influence upon the Earth so may the Earth on the ☽ Will it not then be time to consider that when we remove into that Colony No man pretends to prognosticate the State of the Air for the Man in the ☽ be the ☽ never so habitable 't is less than the Earth and so 't is fitting the Earth should be considered before it The plain enquiry with us is whether the Fire warms the Hands Now to perplex this Question by a more curious Problem whether Fire works on Fire is a new way of Philosophy Nor can I justly infer that Fire was not made for that use because perhaps it was made for some other Service in Nature If the Earth hath Influence on the ☽ how much more the ☽ on the Earth If it hath no Influence on the ☽ it makes not against us For the Rain which makes the Meadows green and the Corn-Fields fruitful makes not the Wilderness fruitful nor doth it sweeten the Waters of the Sea § 30. This rub being out of the way it may not be amiss to remind us that great Enquirers bear Testimony in other terms to this Aspect For where is it that I read that the Fifth Day of the ☽ after long observation is feared by Mariners for stormy Verulam hist of Wind art 32. par 17. So saith He. The Fourth rising of the ☽ ibid. Now one if not both these are the Sextile Aspect And if what I pretend of the Later Sextile holds its own then the Seamen may observe together with the Fourth and the Fifth the twenty fifth day of the ☽ 's age especially those who are resolved to learn no further Better is it to observe the ☽ alone than to abandon all Astrology Who knows but the small ☽ touch'd at before by Linscoten and Drake may belong to this Aspect more properly rather than to the Change CHAP. XVIII Comparison of Lunar Aspects § 1. The Synoptical Table of the Lunar Aspects compared 3. The greater warmth of the Later □ △ ⚹ apparently infer a Lunar Warmth 4. More Frosty days in the Former than the Later □ △ ⚹ 5. So more morning Frosts on the same ground 6. Astrology demonstrates 7 8. New Moon brings more hot days than the Full. So the Second Quadrate and Sextile a probable reason why the Trine doth not the like The Later Sextile brings more hot days than all 9. Difficulty and Charge in perpetual observation of Trajections Second Sextile brisk as any Aspects seem not wholly devested of Influence though under Hatches 10. For Lightning c. Second Trine is a busling Aspect The Sextiles favour Corruscations 11. Lightning may sometimes flash in greater or lesser Arches of the Skie according to the different extent of the Lunar Aspect 12. Aetna not unjustly imagined in the Lunar Globe 13. Full ☽ and △ most stormy 14. ☠and △ shifters of Wind. 15. The Changes shift not Wind so oft as the Full or First Quadrate 16. For Rains and excesses of
Quadrate and the rest of the Aspects proportionately if the One be up the other is down If one be in the South the other is in the West or East which holds in the Opposition also where manifestly One of the Opposites are in the East while his Opponent is in the West One is in the South the other is in the North which makes the Full ☽ change her Winds as often as any but our fore-noted Former Quartile § 15. It will be time now to speak of Rain and its excesses which we have not without Reason consider'd apart The New and the Full we have said carry the Name but here you see all the lesser noted Aspects exceed them Both The two Squares both the Sextiles and at last the Later △ For those yield 130. and 140. the Later △ 160. speaking of round Numbers when the ☌ and ☠yield but 100. 'T is so in Excesses of Rain also e 〈…〉 ll'd for the most part if not outdone The New ☽ and one of the Sextiles bring the rarest Instances for violent Rain the Full and the other Aspects add twenty Instances and the First Sextile is found with double the number of the New ☽ which is much if duly consider'd The Consideration of Rain Morning Noon and Even c. We reserve to the proper Chapter of the Horizon and Meridian Howbeit we desire this may keep their portion in the Table while their turn comes The like we say of other Hours with some curiosity observ'd by us in all the Tables though all you see had not leave to be produced § 16. For Snow what the New ☽ brings aboue 5. you see is doubled or trebled by all the rest Two Aspects there be which are most frequent of the Squares the First Of the Trines the Last The New ☽ brings but 5. while they bring 15. or 16. I believe we may find nay we have hinted some Reason Or is it nauseous to repeat I am content to ease both my self and Reader Hail brings yet the smaller sum of which the Highest is but VIII and belongs to the Full ☽ § 17. Rainbows complain of a defective Observation I do acknowledge the received Doctrine which saith they are the Sun's Embroidery on a Rorid Cloud but we shall find that there is some Collateral Assistance from the ☽ and others many times to make them more Florid and to draw them in a greater Arch As we met with one here which appeared more than Semicircular § 18. For Halo's 't is pretty to observe that the △ 's have the greatest vogue That the Later Quadrate and Sextile accuse us for want of Zeal or early rising But we have a good Excuse why none are noted under the New ☽ because Nemo tenetur ad impossible § 19. The Misty Sums we have not omitted but yet we shall not reach to them here because the City where those observations grew is seldom absolutely free what with vapid Exhalations from the River and the Smother of the Fewel besides the general Constitution of our Northerly Island so that in all this time I have remarked not above 14 days wherein the Horizon was clear and Limpid of which VIII are found under the former □ and △ § 20. The grosser Fog therefore only consider'd the New ☽ claims her Birth-right she brings most viz. 38. Only the Later ⚹ brings as often Now do I fancy I could offer a Reason why more Fog on the New ☽ than at the Full while the Sun and ☽ are both at one Post rather than when they are at two For 't is with Mist as with Darkness it is triumphant at Night all the Hemisphere is its own and it Flows in from all parts of the Sphere the East and North especially but the Full ☽ is as a Sentinel set in the other Hemisphere by which Aspect the Mist is curb'd at Even and by its Meridian height at Midnight the ☉ and ☽ in ☌ being remote Southerly in Winter time but in ☠the ☽ in her Septentrional approaches visits the Northern Cardo and lays an interdict upon Mists as before in Frosts that they presume not too much in her presence This I take to be a Rule arising from the ☌ and ☠compared That a Planet by how much it is remote from its Consort the more is he adverse to Mist or Fog whereas the Sextile which is not so remote may be suspected a great Trader in Mist for we see One of them the Later brings as many Items as the ☌ For who knows but if the Hour were curiously observed when the Mists fell the Mists under the Quadrates and Trines might mostly happen within the Sextile Observation the Sextile Aspect bordering upon each Surely the Trines both First and Last bring the fewest Instances because more remote and more approaching to the Opposition And before we stir from hence I flatter my self that I can demonstrate a likely Property of the ☽ from the consideration of the Excess in the Later ⚹ Later △ and it may be not impossible the Later Quartile also For who can warrant a Table of this Nature not guilty of the least Omission Thus then if the Aspects Lunar where the Sun rises first bring the fewer Fogs while Those where the ☽ gets up first bring them more frequently then the ☽ is more inclinable to Fog than the Sun and the Truth is the Conclusion speaks its own probability without any premises § 21. Mists ought the rather to be observed because he who can give account thereof may give an account also of dark and gloomy days which commonly are Misty unless when a full-swoln martial menacing Cloud makes the Heaven to mourn He may give an account also of a Red-angry Sun Sol Rutilus in Kepler which others call Sanguineous unless they mean some more terrifying Spectacle § 22. Next the rarer Phoenomena of the Fila the Thrids like Cobwebs found on the Hedges and Herbs of the Ground together with whiter Strings of seeming Lawn that fly so leisurely in the Autumnal Air Gossamere I remember they call it which is nothing else but the viscous misty vapour furled up by the warm alteration of the Air while the mist is removing or most part withdrawn I have a few remarks by me of a Fog appearing on the Ground like Water of which if occasion shall be elsewhere § 23. There remains now little else to trouble the Reader with except the account of the Winds Consult your Table you will find that the Change of the ☽ brings East West North Winds almost indifferently viz. as 45. 44. 40 Accordingly N E. and N W. winds indifferently as 30 31. The South and South-East according to the best of my observation more rare as 18. 16. but most of all toward the South-West point viz. 58. and let this be remembred as a supply to the Character that for the most part it favours the South-West § 24. The Full ☽ is not indifferent to East-Wind or North
a Fortnights experience at first Introduction Their Latitude above Gardefeu Again anonother Captain Sept. 21. nearer the time of ☌ ☉ ♂ which happened Sept. 27. ♎ 13. For 6 days together the Wind against our will forced us to the Leeward toward Shore with a Strong Current Lib. 3. Cap. 12. § 1. p. 278. After we had got clear of these dangers we found the Current to carry us to the Northwards Thirty Leagues when we thought we had pass'd but Fifteen Ib. Oct. 10 11 12. we found our selves to lose more and more every day by the Current Ib. Latitude by Judgement 70 Leagues above the Mozambique Third Captain near Madagascar or St. Laurence Isle Sept. 10. Lat. South gr 17. A strong Current setting South-West having a stiff Gale we could not but have run these 24 Hours 24 Leagues but in the Evening we made to the Island about 4 Leagues off Sept. 11. We were carried by the force of a Current to the Southward almost a degree Southward Sept. 13. The Current very strong against us Sept. 19. We steered North-East but by the extremity of the Current we were carryed to the Southward so that we were 10 days and could not get to the Northward notwithstanding we had a reasonable stiff Gale Lib. 4 p. 335. Sept. 21. The Current did set exceeding strongly to the South-West by West c. Sept. 22 23. We laboured to get rid of the Current Octob. 3. We came to an Anchor after much Trouble by Currents p. 336. That the Cause is from over-head the Seamen themselves suspect some have said it is the Full ☽ Purch p. 192. Others have said at times it is the New ☽ And they who expect to get clear of them by Alteration of the Latitude the depression of the Pole-Star and the like I can make it very probable that here at this year in this Latitude considering in what Sign our ☌ is celebrated in an Equinoctial Sign of ♎ and this over an Equinoctial Latitude that our ☌ of ☉ and ♂ doth trouble the Waters Especially when the Tables furnish us with the like Evidence at the same ☌ ☉ and ♂ in a different Month and different Latitude Anno 1612. Add a Third Testimony from a ☌ in January in another difference of Latitude we felt a great Stream saith the Seaman And a 4th Anno 1620. May 9. the ☌ being found May 16. 'T is out of road to pursue it further here If it proves thus it will become our Seamen to be no Strangers to Conjunctions to know a New ♂ as well as ☽ and the ☌ of ♂ and ☉ with them Yet let no man think I appropriate it to a Martial Aspect but I look upon ♂ as one of the Celestials which moves the Sea And if so then by Galilaeos his favour there will be no need of moving the Earth for the Flux of the Waters To the ☉ ☽ and Stars it belongs which seems to be proved from hence For if a part of the Heaven move a part of the Sea a Current then the Whole moves the whole § 49. And let no man object ♂ his unreasonable distance in my first Instance viz. of gr 14. for that Four Nights time terminates nearer to gr 12. 10. which we proclaim aloud to be a Legitimate distance such as doth strengthen rather than invalidate the Influence of the Application as we have said before before ever we dream't of such use to be made of it But then secondly we have nearer applications of ♂ to ☉ in the other 3 years yea in the very same No let us rather see by this how the Celestial Bodies irritate the Waters Beside the additions of moisture which they lend the Waters they put them into a Heat and a Ferment and make them run over as I suppose Both Tide and Current which are aloof from Shore Ordinary and extraordinary come to pass by a Fermentation see something of this Feb. 11. 1680. III. Tides in 5 hours on our Home River § 50. To conclude as the Heavenly Bodies operate on the Elements so do they one upon another to all seeming I mean as the Sun seems to be eclipsed Histories note and Astronomers also take notice that the Sun it self suffers labours and looks pale Nec prosunt Domino saith the Heathen Much ado hath been made from before in Heathen time with the Maculae Solis nay Spots are observed now with a delicate curiosity in the other Planets The Learned Ricciolus bids us be gone with our Astrology as if all the Changes of the Air were to be imputed to the ☉ alone with such Maculae or without Injuriously and Unhappily The First because 't is plain or may be plain that the Sun alone or ☽ cannot be the Causes of the Changes of the Air or Seasons of the year The Second because these Spots are the Products I speak probably again of those very Conjunctions and other Aspects which He with others proscribes This the kind Reader will give me further time if need be to make out § 51. Take we with the Character of the Aspect ☌ ☉ ♂ is apt to Heat and sometimes even in these Northern Climes to Dryth but more frequently to Lowr Bluster Rain gentle or dashing sometimes to Hail which though it be rare is more frequent under the Martial Aspect than in other Aspects In a weaker Condition it admits against its will a Frosty Season 'T is apt to colour the Clouds rising or setting with the Sun It is voic'd and truly for some malignity of Influence upon our Bodies whether which is to be noted it be Summer or Winter Hot or Cold as to Frosty Seasons with a little Help it uses to cause some Relent or to bring Snow CHAP. V. Opposition of Mars Sol. § 1. The Opposition and its Diary 2. The Breviate of the Diary 3. ☠☉ ♂ more cold than ☌ ♂ ☉ 4. Because ☠in general is cooler 5. Because the ☠☉ ♂ is shorter liv'd 6. ♂ in Perigee helps to smart Influence yet he is but solitary and therefore not so brisk 7. His Thunders in Summer do not hold in Winter 8. Ninety one days of 118. either Rain or Wind or Heat In frosty Seasons ♂ sits uneasie 9. Fog and hazy Air. 10. A Tempest given a Philosopher may know the Hour of the day 11. Forreign Table 12. ☌ and ☠of a like Influence for the Main 13. Maculae Solis 14. Thames stows thrice in 9 Hours 15. Suddain motion of the Mercury in the Barometer 16. The Dismal dark Sunday 17. Frosts are not to be ensured under ☉ ♂ 18. Why ♀ in Perigee is sometimes seen § 1. Conjunctions we have consider'd but this is the First Opposition which comes in our way the Lunar excepted We will present its Table because of its use yea because it is short and not clogging ☠♂ ☉ ad intervall hinc inde grad 5. 1653. ♠8. 25. May 6. III. Cloudy windy S W. IV. Showry windy S
1517. ☠circa March 4. ♓ ♠Febr. 23. Foul Weather Hakl Edit 1. Very great Storm Hakl p. 224. Edit 1. Marca 1. Storm at N. continued 3 or 4 days Mr. Cavendish Voyage 1593. ☠circa Aug. 30. ♠♓ Comet July 01. ad August 21. Hevel Quere in ☠♂ ☿ 1595. ☠circa octob 31. ♠♌ Octob. 26. Storm separated the Fleet Sir Francis Drake apud Hakl 1600. ☠Circa June 16. ♒ ♋ Starr in Cygni pectore in ♒ 18. Lat. 55. N. Kepler de N. Stella Jan. 20. The Thames almost froze in Seven-nights Howes Stormy Purch 1. 75. Jan. 2. ad 8. continual Rains Id. pag. 73. 1602. Febr. 13 14. St. Vet. Terrae Motus W. High Winds Transact 2065. ☠cum ☌ ♀ ☿ 1604. ☠circa March 27. ♈ ♎ April 4. 1608. ☠circa July 22. ♌ ♒ July 26. Great Thunder Lightning Rain Calvis cum ☠♄ ♀ 1640. ☠circa October 6. ♎ ♈ Sept. 26. Winds drive us to the shelter of a Rock The Tramontana from the Black Sea brings often with it such Storms Sept. 10 ad Oct. 10. Current Purch ☠♂ ♀ ☿ ☉ which Aspects being spent the Currents were lost 1612. ☠circa Nov. 28. ♠♊ Nov. mens Terrae motus in Westphalia per. integr mens Calv. I. Nov. Dec. Continual Flouds and Rains at Siam Purch 322. cum ☠♄ ♃ 1615. ☠circa Jan. 7. ♑ ♋ fine Jan. 18. Lat. S. 8. degr Violent Current set us an hundred Leagues back Purch p. 1. 525. Jan. 1. In Thuringia when other places were frozen Storms Lightning Thunder Calvis 1617. ☠circa Febr. 7. ♒ ♌ Febr. 6. much Foul Weather in the Downs Purch 631. Jan 29. Tonitu Fulgur Terrae Motus Kepl. A Steeple rent with Thunder at Spelhurst Strasburg Tower at the same time Kepl. 6621. ☠circa April 24. ♉ ♠April 22. Pluit tonuit in Suevia Kepl. where he commends some of his poor Aspects whereas our ♂ lies within 2 days of it Febr. 7. March Very foul Weather Purch 1. 655. 1623. June 23. Formidable Tempest at Strasburg Fired their Magazin of Powder Calvis Kyrian June 24. 1625. ☠circa Sept. 12. ♌ ♑ 1625. Chasma Kyr 1629. ☠circa Nov. ♠♊ Nov. 14. Heimlichen Erdheben Kyriander 1629. ☠circa Dec. 22. ♑ ♋ Jan. 1. 1630. Here began exceeding wet M. S. 1632. ☠circa Jan. 26. ♒ ♌ The American Fleet routed by Tempests 1636. ☠circa April 7. ♈ ♎ April 7. Heat Rain Thunder Lightning Kyr June 11. Thunder and Earthquake in Culabria 1637. May 28. Much Thunder and dashing Kyr 1640. Aug. 11. ♌ ♒ Heat vesp Thunder Kyr 1642. ☠circa Jan 22. ♈ ♉ Octob. 15. Iris Matutina Kyriander 1647. ☠circa Jan. 13. ♌ ♒ 7. St. Vet. Comme toute la nuit it plu tonte la pour avec tourmente gresle esclaiers Moncon Voyage d' Egypte p 151. so die 8 9. 1649. ☠circa Febr. 15. ♓ ♠Febr. 10. Ignes Cadentes at Bristol Hitherto do I conceive the Earthquake at Messina the Flouds at Riga and the Flames of Vesuvius in Calvisias are to be reckoned May 10. Terrible Storm at N E. 1659. ☠circ Nov. 31. ♠♊ Nov. 17. Sad dark rainy day 1674. ☠circa Febr. 3. ♒ ♌ 24. Febr. 11. Lightning Thunder 1666. ☠circa March 8. ⚹ ♠March 3. Maculae in the Body of ♂ by Mr. Hook Trans p. 240. 1670. July 12. Great Thunder and Rain dashing 3 m. 1674. ☠circa Nov. 3. ♠♉ 21. Mercury in the Baroscope fell an inch me inspectante circa hor. 5. 1679. Jan. 20. Terrae Motus according to prediction which happenned in Guelderland throughout cum Fulmine Tonitru Lond. Gazet numb 138. Jan. 12. A dismal dark Sunday morning Jan. 29. Terrae motus at Fort Saint-George C. W. Limbry 1681. ☠circa Febr. 22. ♓ ♠14. Febr. 25. Another Comet seen at London from South-East ab 8. ad p. broader than the last Febr. 7. Terrae motus at Mentz Francfort according to Prediction Lond. Gazet. March 3. Cometa iterum Hagae eodem fere loco § 12. As the Full ☽ and New agree in Influence so do our ☠and ☌ of ☉ ♂ Did the ☌ raise Storms separating Fleets So doth the ☠Doth the ☌ contribute to a Fiery Meteor So doth the ☠Is there a Comet hovering about the ☌ So also an ☠helps to such an Impression Inundations I do not find break in upon us so much but Comets and Earthquakes are frequent enough to gain the Readers Opinion Bate now the New Star in Cygni pectore I am not yet ripe for that One or Two exceptions will not spoil a Rule Yet our Currents also at Sea do correspond in some measure it may be not so often as in the ☌ § 13. Our Maculae do begin to bring in their Witness For that Spot in the Body of ♂ observed by Worthy Mr. Hook falls in under the Verge of our ☌ § 14. As to our Currents see them brought home to our Very Doors when the Thames flowed thrice in 9 Hours Dec. 17. 1550. Will I say you then offer to ascribe that Prodigious appearance to our ☠I think I may safely especially if we met any such like accident under our ☌ before as Feb. I. 1680. For what though it be prodigious as acknowledged by Fromond and others Prodigious Events have natural Causes is as much confessed And I am jealous there is much in the Sign which whether it prove or not must be considered in due place seeing there are no instances abroad of thu same Nature § 15. To draw to a Conclusion I have taken notice of a pretty accident Anno 1674. concerning the quick motion of the ☿ in the Barometer which at such an hour of the day fell while I looked on hor 5. an Inch of the Sudden Fell I say in the Tube but rose in the Curveture the Air being of a sudden levitated to such a measure Let the Learned bear with me in my Folly we have adventured on the Currents Marine I have found a Current in the Air proportionable to that in the Water For the Currents in the Sea as all Tides are made by Levitation of the Humid Body made by way of Tumour which is always Lighter and more puffy than when the Humour subsides unfermented From whence having received the Notion of the Air gravitating I am by this petty appearance confirmed in the opinion Learning withall that it is the Celestial Bodies which according to their various positions do ferment or flatten the Air gaining also into the bargain that the Air is of the same Lineage cognate to Water and though in the day of its Creation it was rarified so far as 1000 times they say as that no natural cause shall reduce it again yet still it hath a common Nature and Affection with it § 16. I would take notice of the Obscurity of the Heavens sometimes appearing more than others and that
II. Warm wet 3 p. N E. III. Warm close mist Field and City N E. IV. Close m. p. some wet 4 p. Nly Iterum ♋ 15. May 21. ♀ R. V. Drisle once or twice cool N E. VI. Drisle 6 p. cool day some wind N V V. VII Very cold m. Nly VIII Rain 10 m. brisk wd N E. IX Coasting showr 8 p. N E. X. Some wet overcast N. XI Clouds clearing some Rain or Hail 2 p. N. XII Gentle rain 1 p. 5 p. 7 p. very cold night XIII Wet p. m. tot S V V. clouds ride Nly XIV Wetting m. offer p. m. Nly XV. Showry 3 p. 5 p. N E. XVI Rain m. brisk wind XVII Brisk wind N E. XIX Temperate blew mist N. XX. Windy offering mist taken up S W. Parelii at Womondham in agro Leicest XXI some showrs 9 m. S W. XXII s showrs at o. and vesp Sly XXIII Showrs coasting and towards midnight XXIV Showr ante 1 m. 4 m. smart at o. dash at 2 p. N W. XXV Windy wetting ante 9 m. Thunder at Warwick Lightning Rain in the S W. at ♃ rise showrs ♀ South S W. XXVI Showring 10 m. offer p. m. windy S W. June 24. 1625. ☠circa Sept. 12. ♌ ♑ 1625. Chasma Kyr 1629. ☠circa Nov. ♠♊ Nov. 14. Heimlichen Erdheben Kyriander 1629. ☠circa Dec. 22. ♑ ♋ Jan. 1. 1630. Here began exceeding wet M. S. 1632. ☠circa Jan. 26. ♒ ♌ The American Fleet routed by Tempests 1636. ☠circa April 7. ♈ ♎ April 7. Heat Rain Thunder Lightning Kyr June 11. Thunder and Earthquake in Culabria 1637. May 28. Much Thunder and dashing Kyr 1640. Aug. 11. ♌ ♒ Heat vesp Thunder Kyr 1642. ☠circa Jan 22. ♈ ♉ Octob. 15. Iris Matutina Kyriander 1647. ☠circa Jan. 13. ♌ ♒ 7. St. Vet. Comme toute la nuit it plu tonte la pour avec tourmente gresle esclaiers Moncon Voyage d' Egypte p 151. so die 8 9. 1649. ☠circa Febr. 15. ♓ ♠Febr. 10. Ignes Cadentes at Bristol Hitherto do I conceive the Earthquake at Messina the Flouds at Riga and the Flames of Vesuvius in Calvisias are to be reckoned May 10. Terrible Storm at N E. 1659. ☠circa Nov. 31. ♠♊ Nov. 17. Sad dark rainy day 1674. ☠circa Febr. 3. ♒ ♌ 24. Febr. 11. Lightning Thunder 1666. ☠circa March 8. ⚹ ♠March 3. Maculae in the Body of ♂ by Mr. Hook Trans p. 240. 1670. July 12. Great Thunder and Rain dashing 3 m. 1674. ☠circa Nov. 3. ♠♉ 21. Mercury in the Baroscope fell an inch me inspectante circa hor. 5. 1679. Jan. 20. Terrae Motus according to prediction which happenned in Guelderland throughout cum Fulmine Tonitru Lond. Gaze numb 138. Jan. 12. A dismal dark Sunday morning Jan. 29. Terrae motus at Fort Saint-George C. W. Limbry 1681. ☠circa Febr. 22. ♓ ♠14. Febr. 25. Another Comet seen at London from South-East ab 8. ad p. broader than the last Febr. 7. Terrae motus at Mentz Francfort according to Prediction Lond. Gazet. March 3. Cometa iterum Hagae eodem fere loco § 12. As the Full ☽ and New agree in Influence so do our ☠and ☌ of ☉ ♂ Did the ☌ raise Storms separating Fleets So doth the ☠Doth the ☌ contribute to a Fiery Meteor So doth the ☠Is there a Comet hovering about the ☠So also an ☠helps to such an Impression Inundations I do not find break in upon us so much but Comets and Earthquakes are frequent enough to gain the Readers Opinion Bate now the New Star in Cygni pectore I am not yet ripe for that One or Two exceptions will not spoil a Rule Yet our Currents also at Sea do correspond in some measure it may be not so often as in the ☌ § 13. Our Maculae do begin to bring in their Witness For that Spot in the Body of ♂ observed by Worthy Mr. Hook falls in under the Verge of our ☌ § 14. As to our Currents see them brought home to our Very Doors when the Thames flowed thrice in 9 Hours Dec. 17. 1550. Will I say you then offer to ascribe that Prodigious appearance to our ☠I think I may safely especially if we met any such like accident under our ☌ before as Feb. I. 1680. For what though it be prodigious as acknowledged by Fromond and others Prodigious Events have natural Causes is as much confessed And I am jealous there is much in the Sign which whether it prove or not must be considered in due place seeing there are no instances abroad of thu same Nature § 15. To draw to a Conclusion I have taken notice of a pretty accident Anno 1674. concerning the quick motion of the ☿ in the Barometer which at such an hour of the day fell while I looked on hor 5. an Inch of the Sudden Fell I say in the Tube but rose in the Curveture the Air being of a sudden levitated to such a measure Let the Learned bear with me in my Folly we have adventured on the Currents Marine I have found a Current in the Air proportionable to that in the Water For the Currents in the Sea as all Tides are made by Levitation of the Humid Body made by way of Tumour which is always Lighter and more puffy than when the Humour subsides unfermented From whence having received the Notion of the Air gravitating I am by this petty appearance confirmed in the opinion Learning withall that it is the Celestial Bodies which according to their various positions do ferment or flatten the Air gaining also into the bargain that the Air is of the same Lineage cognate to Water and though in the day of its Creation it was rarified so far as 1000 times they say as that no natural cause shall reduce it again yet still it hath a common Nature and Affection with it § 16. I would take notice of the Obscurity of the Heavens sometimes appearing more than others and that in Martial Aspects It may be the dark and dismal Sunday in the Morning is not yet forgotten It happen'd not far from an ☠☉ ♂ whatsoever else frown'd at that time upon us § 17. To speak of the Cold upon occasion of the years 76. 13. is not needdful specially if we remember that ♂ as we have said sits uneasie so that the state of the Air stands upon a ticklish point when ♂ and ☉ are with one and the other in a Frosty Season and conclude to bring in a Thaw as Dec. 21. in the year 1676. as is noted in the Diary For though an ☠be chill of Nature as touched before and weaker Signs must be debilitudes yet ♠♑ ♒ ♓ are very mutable from one extream to the other when they are conscious they have a Friend at the other Hemisphere in the opposite Sign For this is mysterious as in the Chess-board An Aspect bare and naked may do little but alass
such appearances as may be seen by his note of Iris Inversa circa solem ad Febr. 4. Anno 1662. Nay by Halo and Parelia expressly noted April 25. Anno 1625. Remembring also that the inversed Iris is a praelude of the Parelium The Truth is He mentions no other Sights but what we have pointed at I have reason to think that ♂ hath a great stroke and ♀ too though not always under this determinate Aspect appealing to his Diary of 1623. Or rather for our Aspects sake to that 1622. Where besides what we have seen within two Degrees Phasmata Parelia Jan 25. Styl Vet. We meet with them a Second and Third time at a further distance both before and after the Partile Aspect at 7 gr distance and 11 degrees Jan. 3 4 5. S. N. Now least any should at a venture tell us that gr 11. is too unreasonable a distance he will be put to the Blush when he shall be told that the next Parelii noted in Keplers Diary are found once again when ♂ and ♀ are at the same Distance of gr 11. Mart. XXII 1622. § 18. Of Meteors Coruscations and Thunders we shall speake in our Larger Diary we will put some up here and reckon them Meteors 17. Lightning 12. Thunders 13. Genuine Off-springs of ♂ and ♀ In Aestival Months understand and I add and in Aestival Postures In such a case ♀ is a Fire ♀ is a Vulcan an Ignivomous Globe scattering Flames through the Aether a Fury as well as a Beauty § 19. Suppose then we add no more the Character of the Aspect will shine from the surface of this little Diary For if the Premises have any Force in them we shall find in about 280 days near upon 240. that carry a manifest Signature of ♂ in them If Heat if Wind if Rain Snow Hail and Lightning and Meteors if thick Fog for Martial Fogs are more Gross and Dense than some others if Iris and Halo be fruits of ♂ his configuration Then here we see them Rain with Flouds and Lightning with Blite Heat with a Sickly time now all is out we cannot eat our Words Then ♂ and ♀ in ☌ are not to be slighted For Flouds Blite and Sickness are hinted even in this Table more largely and more sensibly to be seen in the Following Diary which I have collected with some Diligence and presented to the Reader The Larger Foreign Table of ☌ ♂ ♀ of Stormy Winds and Rains in order to the asserting of the Aspect and the Platic Capacity Anno 1500. ♋ 23. May 29. Brasile 23. Storms suddain sunk four of Admiral Capralis Ship Purch 1. ☌ gr 11. soon after another Tempest Ib. gr 3. Anno 1520. ♈ 22. May 13. Barua in Aethiopia June Great Rain and Tempest being their Winter Purch 1. 1047. 15. Great Rain and Thunder at Night ☌ gr 15. Anno 1524. ♓ 18. Febr. 15. Lovain January yea and Febr. Stormy Gemma cosmocrit 1 192. Anno 1626. ♊ 13. May 23. Ormuz 11. 12. Storm lasting several days Purch 11. 1014. ♂ ♀ gr 11. ♂ ☿ gr 2. â™ 6. Sept. 22. Afric Octob. 15. Snow for 2 or 3 Days burying Men and Carriages Leo Afric apud Purch ☌ ♂ ♀ gr 10. Anno 1549. ♎ 9. Sept. 10. China 15. Prodigious Tuffon Purch III. 197. Anno 1551. â™ 27. Aug. 3. July 24. Barasque or Whirlwind Purch 1. 876. gr 4. Anno 1556. ♓ 25. Feb. 19. 17. 18. Tornado Foul W. day and night Towerson's Voyage Haâ—l gr 1. 20. Fowl Weather great change of Winds gr 1. 27. Great Tornado with much Rain gr 4 March 1. Tornado Towerson R. 11. gr 8. S. Domingo Hither add Jan 24. Storm lasting 11 days with great Mist dispersed 8 Ships Tomson's Voyage Hakl Edit 1. 582. ♂ ♀ a gr 13. ad gr 8. Anno 1558. ♓ 13. Jan. 12. Dover 9. Tempest Hollinshed gr 1. 21. Foul Weather Hakl Edit 1. 12 gr 9. Iterum ♊ 7. May 8. Caspian Sea 13. Dangerous Tempest for 44 Hours gr 6. Tertio ♑ 9. Sept. 29. Octob. 5. Weather very foul Towersons Voyage Third Hakl gr 3. English Coast 16. Great Storms at Night we lost Foresail continued 3 days ♂ ♀ gr 9. Anno 1562. ♌ 11. July 9. Caspian Sea 22. Stiff Gale forced us to Anchor Jenkinson's Voyage Hakl ☌ ♂ ☿ gr 7. ☌ ♀ ☿ Anno 1570. â™ 11. Octob. 15. 5. Terrible Wind and Rain with great Shipwrack c. Stow gr 5. Anno 1573. ♋ 1. Jun. 20. Tocester 7. Tempests and Hailstones 6 Inches about Rain c. Howes ♂ gr 7. Anno 1577. ♌ 8. July 10. N. L. 61. Inter July 8. 16. Cold Storms Steerage broke Masts blown overboard Frobishers 2 Voyage v. Hakl gr 2. Friezland 17. 18. Cruel Tempest at Night in the frozen Sea Hakl gr 8. Anno 1579. ♎ 29. Octob. 24. ☿ circ â™ 2. Die 29. West-Indies Nov. princip Rough Weather Acosta Lib. 3. gr 5. Anno 1583. ♈ 1 Febr. 21. Rain and Thunder Welshes Voyage Hakl Anno 1590. ♓ 17. Jan. 14. A Jan. ad March 15. No fair Weather but Stormy Purch 11. 1674. Febr. gr 10. 12. Two great Storms in Jan. die 5. ibid. gr 8. Iterum â™ 14. Octob. princip Oct. 1. Storms Hakluit gr 10. In September Month saith Stow in his Summary Thunder and Snows Anno 1592. â™ o. Aug. 21 London Sept. 6. Boisterous Wind driving out the Water of the Thames Howes ♂ ♀ gr 9. Anno 1594. ♌ 16. July 12. North Sea 10. Storm out of the West Purch III. 475. gr o. London Rain continually through June and July every Night Howes July 26. 27. Rain extreme Ibid. gr 10. Anno 1596. ♌ 7. June 7. May 12. Storm in which was lost our Barks company Sir W. Raleigh Hakl Edit 2. gr 12. S. Domingo May 13. Unwholsome Rain Purch IV. 1167. gr 11. Cadiz June 20. Storm Earl of Essex his Expedition Hakl Purch gr 8. Iterum ♎ 12. Sept. 17. N. L. 32. North Sea Sept. 8. Most terrible Storm at Even Purch II. 1175. Waves as high as the Top-mast gr 8. Sept. 27. Blows hard and freezes hard gr 15. Anno 1599. ♑ 17. Jan. 8. Wind hindred we could not double the Cape of Bonsperanz Purch I. 118. Anno 1602. â™ 15. Octob. 17. Streights of Malaca Octob. 17. S. N. Grand Spouts powring out of the Heaven Hakl gr 17. Cauchin South Lat. Inter Octob. 3. 31. Tempest Purch I. 913. Nov. 4. No end of Storms Rain Hail gr 6. Anno 1605. ♋ 5. June 23. Die 19. Wind at Bedtide force us a shore gr 1. Jun. 11. Snow Hail Sea High by reason of a mighty Current Purch p. 816. gr 6. Anno 1609. ♌ 2. June 26. N. Lat. 48. 8. Stormy variable with Wind and Rain gr 11. 14. 15. Stormy spent our Foremast overboard Hudsons Voyage 3. ♂ ♀ gr 8. Iterum â™ 15. Dec. 3. Nov. 29. Hard gale of Wind proved stormy c. Purch I. 104. gr 2. Dec. 3. In Bohemia Pluit In Voitlandia Ninxit Die 4.
sometimes are at a Platique distance and thereupon seem to have less Interest seeing we know not but nay it begins to appear now I imagine that a 10 12. gr distance or thereabouts are requisite to a more potent Influence than on the Partile Howbeit let it be divided amongst them and let the Platique be Equal in great Motions at least of Air and Earth Here I should say something to the paleness of the Solar Body those Changes which are counted prodigious and prove the Heavens Subject to Generation and Corruption but we are only upon a hot Sent of this Arcanum it may be we shall come to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Have we not said something before also § 39. A Word or two about Currents as before in the preceding Aspects some Experience we have met with in this Quarter and are willing to present the Reader Anno 1605. June 1. Mighty Current violently brought us among the Mountains of Ice Hall's Voyage Purch p. 816. June 11. Fresh gale made the Seas high by reason of a Mighty Current which sets through the Straits Ib. ☌ ♂ with ☉ ♀ c. Anno 1609. June 3. Currents held us strong out of S W. North Lat. 58. Hudsons 3d Voyage to Nova Zembla Purch 582. gr 12. June 11 Current from the Northward deceived us 10 Leagues of our account N. Lat. 51. gr 10. cum ☌ ☉ ☿ Anno 1611. Oct. 10 11 12. a Current Downton's Voyage neer Zacotora cum ☉ ♂ gr 8. Purch p. 278. Oct. 22. Current Westward Ib. gr 2. Nov. 1. Afternoon we met with a Current C. Guarda de Fuy gr 3. cum ☉ ☿ 5. Current put us short 60 Leagues Purch 280. gr 5. cum ☉ ♀ and ☿ An. 1662. Dec. 29. Great Current to the Southward C. Limbery's Diary N. Lat ' 36. gr 7. cum ☉ ♂ Anno 1663. Jan. 9. Hindrance by a Current N. Lat ' 28. gr ' 1. cum ♂ ☉ die 14. Hindrance by a Current N. Lat ' 21. Id. ☉ being near the Zenith 18. Hindrance by a Current gr 3. cum ♂ ☿ Anno 1665. July 18 19. Help of a Strong Current Lat ' S. 22. near the Tropique gr 1. ♀ Stationary Aug ' 11. Great Current to the Southward Lat ' 37. Southward 12. 13 15 Currents 17. A Current deceived us by 73 Miles Lat ' 37. Southward 23. A Current deceived us 109. Miles since Aug. 18. ♂ ♀ gr 2. 24. A Current 25. Current of 18 Miles 26. Current of 34 Miles 27. Current set West by North South Lat ' 34. Sept. 1 2 3 4 5 Currents These are Currrents with a Witness § 40. Mr. Fournier in a particular Chapter concerning those Currents enquiring into the Cause tells us it is a very hard thing to assign it And as others before him refers it to the ☽ This we get by discarding Astrolology and the Influence of the other V. and yet stand dayly in need of them I do not commend these Disputants who when they could not find out an Aetherial Cause for some wondrous Effects in our visible Heaven refer'd them to the Empyreum But I confess I wonder that the Learned thought it bootless to overlook the Visible part of Heaven the Planets and their Configurations Men shall never give an account of these Great Questions if they deny our Influences no more than they can of the Magnet denying it efflux the Question is so gravelling And I hope Copernican's will not undertake it suposing the Motion of the Earth could give account of the Flux and Reflux Which Mr. Fournier hath shewn is not done yet by Galileo There is no medling wtth the Solution of this Phaenomenon by such a Principle The Currents are not Uniform nor perpetual as I am informed by my knowing Friends and I am glad on 't Glad of any occasion to make men enquire into a True though disgraced Principle The Motion of a Trough cannot make the Water boyl and swell in the Free Ocean The ☽ answers to all the variety of the Tide and the Planets to all the Variety of the Current How comes there a great Current Dec. 21. 1662. I will point you First to ♂ ♀ but 7 gr distance to ☉ and ♂ but 1 gr distant I will point to ☽ entring upon its Change her meeting with the Sun yea and ♂ also The ☽ will be allowed us especially if a New ☽ But why then a Strong Current Aug. 23. 1665. Will a Square of ☽ do it alone No ☌ ♂ ♀ within 2 degrees We have noted the Causes in the Diary all along ☉ ♂ ♀ ☿ ☉ in the Zenith ♀ Stationary § 41. And Let me note here some Diversity of the Platique and Partile Aspect here it may be the Later conduces most forcible to this Effect when as the former may contribute to the Change of the Air I mean those which are accompanyed with Turbulency because such State of Air is more universal and unconfin'd then a Current seems to be The one is ty'd to a certain Elevation the other may reach from one Pole unto the other But I define nothing § 42. We are to treat next of Flouds whose Praediction if it may be reached is a matter of moment to the Publique He that makes inquest into the Cause may consider that they do not all arise on the same Spring some are Subitaneous the Product of 24 Hours or a less matter others rise by degrees and Steal upon the Land they invade by additional Portions And some I may call mixed such whose appearance is sudden and yet were gradual in their production I mean those which upon a sudden Thaw of much Snow successively fallen on the Days precedent render a large quantity at once in Water In this case the Enquirer is not to consider the precise day of the Overflow but to look back some Weeks more or less that he may if he can determine or at least take in the Time in which it fell Beside that some Flouds are caused they say in maritime Countryes by the Swelling of the Sea and by tempestuous Winds driving the rarified Brine over its Banks Such were those of Oct. 14. 1579. c. Surely in that of 1608. there are no gluts of Rain mentioned by Cambden And our Wonder may be confirmed when as we shall meet with Flouds which are said to have happened without any apparent Cause as if Overflows were to be distinguished some whereof had some again had no Cause apparent But the distinction must on no hand pass for having made some Diligent search into all that I could raed of 100. in number I found that they all admirably agree with the same Celestial Cause with very little variety of the Species from whence I am ascertain'd there is seldom an apparent Floud without an apparent Rain somewhere though not a drop falls perhaps in our Division for who knows not there are Topical Rains as well as Winds which will descend Secundo Flumine and betray the Injury
which was first done in a distant place § 43. I have met with Flouds accompanying Earthquakes and subterraneous Streams issuing from an Hiatus of a convulsive Mountain But I am not obliged to speak to those German or Indian Rarities When Seas may be sucked up in a Subterranean as well as an Aerial Spout or when a River may be expell'd his Channel by the Ruine of a Neighbour Mountain we will allow no Rain in the case For howbeit that Cause which make an Earthquake we have found is apt to make a Storm where the place and the Clime is capable for the most part Yet the more ordinary Floods whether of the Sea or of the River especially the River is never produced without its Proportion of Rain though the Sea perhaps may rise and even visit its interiour Shore when no Land-flouds may increase it Mariners say and truly that it swells against every Storm and therefore all the Time throughout the Tempest Yea the Thames doth not seldom I believe shew us such exuberant Tides where the fall of Moisture hath bin sparing or none at all You will say at the New ☽ or at the Full. Right These Aspects raise the Waters by impregnation but not only these but other Aspects also with them or without them since Flouds do not always happen at those more frequent Lunar Revolutions have a like Influence with the ☉ and ☽ as we have said already of ☿ which doth ferment rarifie and raise the Waters to an Exundancy Notwithstanding most commonly there is some fall of Rain and more perhaps than comes under notice at or about this Ebullition of the Sea or River I mean those Rivers which by participation from the Ocean partake of Flux and Reflux One of these Causes is our present Aspect for its quantity of Rain you have heard and for its tumefying Influence you may think fit to grant it because tumefaction is inseparable from a troubled Sea whether by dry winds or Moist 't is all a case § 44. Now whereas Eichstad hath given away this Influence from our Present Aspect to ♂ ☿ I have made the more careful search and the result is according to the Antient Astrologers that ♂ ♀ have the Preeminence and well they may in all those Flouds especially which grow upon us by degrees the Continuance of our Planets Aspected being of a greater date than the other will be more responsible to the Gradual Increase of the Waters § 45. That we may put our Hand toward the deciding of this little Controversie we will first produce our Testimony for ♂ ☿ and we confess readily that ♂ ☿ are Sea-swelling Aspects so far that Flouds as Eichstad hath begun ought to be reckoned amongst their Influence For First we have the Memorable Floud 1. Anno 1530. Octob. 8. At Holland yea and Rome also on the same day Mizaldus and others ☌ ♂ ☿ gr 9. ☉ ♂ gr 7. distant 2. Anno 1532. In November In Holland again Mizaldus Die 15. ☌ gr 1. 3. Anno 1547. August 12. Cataracts and Flouds in Tustany Thuanus ☌ gr 1 4. Anno 1552. Jan. 12. In Holland Inundation incredible Stadius Tab. Gemma ☌ gr 4. ☉ ☿ gr 1. 5. Anno 1571. Feb. 5. Inundation at Lovain Gemma ☌ gr o. 6. Anno 1594. Sept. Mense at Cambridge Ware c. High Waters ☌ gr 6. Stow. 7. Anno 1643. Decemb ' 3. In Thuringia ☌ gr ' 4. Kyriander 8. Anno 1658. August 22. At Feversham High Tides Childres ☌ gr ' 2. 9. Anno 1660. Nov ' 11. Thames overflows Westminster Kingstreet Transact ' ☌ gr ' 2. § 46. Enough to denominate this Conjunction for a Watry Aspect but not to award it from ♂ ♀ For here First we meet with 1. Anno 1547. Wet and floating Months in Tuscany obliging aversed Parties to a Truce Appetente Hyeme Thuanus ☌ ♂ ♀ is in being per Octobr. tot max. part Novembr not without ☌ ♂ ☿ some while mixed with it 2. Anno 1565. Febr. 2. At Lovain ☌ ♂ ♀ gr 6. dist ♃ ☿ oppos 3. Anno 1570. Octob. 5. England Several Travellers lost by the Waters c. Stow ♂ ♀ gr 5. dist ' ☉ ♄ 4. Anno eod ' Novemb. 1. In Holland Calvis A Foot higher than that of 1530. 5. Anno 1571. In Flanders ab Aug ' 15. ad 23. irreparabili Clade Gemma ♂ ♀ gr ' 8. dist die 19. 6. Anno 1573. July princ In Holland c. Gemma ☌ gr ' 4. ♂ ♀ gr ' 11. 7. Anno 1579. Octob ' 14. Memorable swelling of the Sea vide Stow ☌ gr ' 7. ☉ ☿ gr ' 1. 8. Anno 1594. June and July Rain and Flouds Stow ♂ ♀ gr ' 2. July 15. 9. Anno 1596. The whole Summer Flouds Howes In the midst of June for its part ♂ ♀ gr ' 3. 10. Anno 1602. Octob ' 17. Streights of Malaca great Spouts c. Hakl ♂ ♀ gr ' o. 11. Anno 1609. Dec ' 4. In Germany Nives plurimae viae inexplicabiles No discerning of the Rodes so real Flouds though not in its Formalities Kepler apud Eichstad ♂ ♀ gr ' o. 12. Anno 1623. Febr ' 12. 18. Danow overflows Kepl. ♂ ♀ gr ' 8. Again Mart. 17. Danub ' ♂ ♀ gr ' o. 13. Anno 1661. Febr ' 21. In Kent High Waters ☌ gr ' 2. 14. Anno 1666. Octobr ' 14. and 16. Rain and Flouds ☌ gr ' 5. 15. Anno 1678. June 21. Middlesex sudden Cataracts turned High-Ways into Seas and Floated all Cellarage in the City ♂ ♀ cum Pleiad Lastly Anno 1682. Much Rain Hail and Flouds throughout England April sequent ☌ ♂ ♀ ☉ ♂ § 47. We have not leave to say here All that is to be said in a Tractate of Flouds a Worthy Topique The Truth I hope may be pick'd out from the scatter'd parts of this discourse At present we are for our Clients the Aspects of ♂ ♀ ☿ And the First we see that of ♂ ♀ is the Greatest over Flouds though oft-times they operate in sight one of another as First in that All-wasting Deluge of Holland Anno 1570. beside Anno 1573. and elsewhere § 48. Howbeit the precedence of our Aspect is confirmed from hence that we find not the ☌ only but the ☠of ♂ ♀ to call for a Floud as on June 13. Anno 1529. A Floud at Basil so memorable that it was engraven on a Brass Monument as Lycostenes witnesseth Add that of March 29. 1606. where Shipwrack was universal and the Seas over-topp'd the Land as Stow tells us That at Prague and Auspurg in July mentioned in Norimberg Diary A Third in Dresden Anno 1642. Sept. 23. A Fourth in Oxfordshire Anno 1649. Jan. 17. A Fifth 1645. whereas at an ☠♂ ☿ we more rarely meet with Floud Not that they are of a dry Influence but because they are more Flitting and inconstant while ♂ and ♀ abide by their Proposition § 90. And what shall I say Must I pass the Tyde observed in
Conjunction 'T is not to be denyed though that ♂ ☿ are Shakers as in that at Rome A o 1624. noted by Kepler ☉ and ♂ are gr 10 distant while ♂ and ☿ are upon the very Spot of ♌ 6. Yea before he tells us of the like observed at Lima he names not the day of the Month But happen when it will it falls within the tedder of ♂ and ☿ being stretched but 10 degrees Just now we remember a Second Comet happened at the return of ♂ and ☿ Here we meet with a Second Earthquake happened at the same time and within a Months space in both That of A o 1643. lasting for 5 days we were willing to make much of though ☉ and ☿ be 7 degrees distant so ☿ from ♂ is but twice 7 degrees distant those 5 days in which he abates that Distance Thrt at Thuringen A o 1645. Sept. 12. has appeared under the ☌ ♂ ♀ Yet ♂ and ☿ are but 4 degrees distant That of A o 1667. shews ♃ and ☉ indeed at 7 degrees distance and ♂ and ☿ at 6 gr distance A o 1676. follows with that in Worcestershire ♂ and ☿ are within 6 degrees while ♃ and ☿ 't is true are nearer Next A o 1680. Vesuvius Flames which are tokens and Earnest of T. M. thereabouts is noted within the First 20 days of March that year and within the Mid-way viz. die 11 is noted ☌ ♂ ☿ Lastly that at Doncaster A o 1682. adds to a ☌ ☉ ♂ gr 7. ☌ ♂ ☿ gr 11. distant § 30. I do not add the Legend of Two Grampisces stranded or taken at Greenwich though I have own'd that there is some reason to believe that such Novel Appearances do give notice of some disturbance of the Earth and its Concomitant Waters which the Fish would avoid but I impute it rather to the Dreadful Thunders which are noted thereabouts which is known to disturb all Brutes by Sea or Land into which piece of Philosophy the Psalmist hath long ago entred us For who hath excepted the Fishes of the Sea from Celestial Distempers § 31. This I observe that Fishes do sometimes appear in Sholes when Celestial Causes are visible moving thereto So say the Journals for 10 days together ab Octob. 25. Nov. 5. 1662 returning from Java Nov. 22. All under this Aspect § 32. Here again we see the convenience of enlarging the Sheets of our Aspect the Account may be given at least abroad for let it be thankfully acknowledged Earthq continue not long with us They say 't is ordinary to continue 40 days yea and Aristotle himself agrees to it then the enlarging of an Earth-shaking Aspect as before so here to 30. or 40 Days hath its use and ground in Nature especially where Two Conjunctions meet So that when One ceases the Second begins thereby continuing yea and as it happens encreasing the Puissance of the Aspect § 33. The Next trouble is with Currents I have somewhat more perhaps to produce then they came to Yet because they are also of some Consequence I note First after a violent Storm of Wind in Lat. N. 42. March 31. April 1. A o 1665. A Current April 2 or 3. ♂ ☿ in ☌ on the Equinox with the ☽ on the Tropique But again April 11. A Current while the ☽ comes to the Equinox and opposes ♂ ☿ in ☌ on the other side In like manner April 4. 1665. the Ship London in her return from Surat Lat. N. 7. was found to be 22. miles more Northerly than by account and 22 more Westerly Days 5 and 6. 17. and 18 miles more to the Southward Die 7. Eleven more ♂ ☿ gr 9. distant in ♈ are united by the ☽ intervening Die 4. The same Planets with the ☽ applying to the Sun are found in the 3 days following The next that comes homeward A o 1680. March 11. in the Ship Sampson Lat. N. 30. A Stream Southward of 10 Miles Our Aspect is found on the precise day And another greater Die 16. of 27 miles alteration ♂ is as far from ☿ as ☿ is from the ☉ Note that I find a like Current in the Golden Fleece at far different Latitude near the Line about the time of the Aspect which I mention to perswade that this is no Error or Fault as may be pretended In the mean while we omitted Currents and those extream A o 1611. Sept. 12. mentioned by Purchas where the ☽ opposes ♂ ☿ and ☉ also as happened before § 34. Now that which I have look'd upon as a greater Arcanum is the shifting of the Tydes When the Thames for example shall Ebb and Flow twice or thrice in the space of a few Hours so we find it remarked to us by our Annals for Prodigious Such was that of A o 1550. Dec. 18. A o 1564. Jan. 26. 27 28. A o 1574. Nov. 6. A o 1609. Febr. 19. A o 1693. Jan. 3. A o 1654. Febr. 2. A o 1656. Oct. 3. and Two or Three in our Diary since § 35. 'T is no small enquiry since it is taken for a Prodigy concerning which point I am not engaged at present to say the Ingenious Author of Britannia Baconica pag. 93. makes it nothing but the Tyde at Ebb Leisurely preceding toward the Sea onward and beaten back again by a North-west-wind To this purpose he observes that these Tydes most part happened when the waters were at Lowest about the Quarters of the ☽ Yea and when so curious is he she was in Apogaeo a Circumstance which he saith with Reason helps to abate the highest Water And I would all hard Questions could be so easily solved For the Truth is the Wind blew from the North-West A o 1654. Febr. 2. and A o 1656. say I Octob. 3. a North-East at least which shall break no squares and the Wind blew hard also The like again March 22. 1682. Add May 31. News came from Lime the Sea-Coast There 't is said how a Storm of Wind with Rain and Thunder caused several Ebbings and Flowings in the Water in half an Hours time So that it must be granted that the Winds and the Northerly Winds are Instrumental in the case § 36. But to deal ingeniously I believe there is somewhat more in it which this Good Man would have hearkned to viz. some less obvious Cause than a Stiff North-Wind falling in with those Circumstances First because neither is the Neap-tide nor the North-Wind perpetual That of A o 1564. Jan. 26 27 28. was within a day or two of the Full and that 's no single Instance and besides that by his Confession the Apogaeum fails twice I add and a 3d. or 4th time March 12. May 31. 1682. but chiefly because we are by this Hypothesis engaged to find One every year since there is scarce a year passes but will find us one North-Wind brisk and blowing at Neap-tide Next that we seldom find any such Tyde but a Notable Aspect of ☉ ♂ ☉ ☿ ♄ ♃ ♂ ♃ is
the Fields a Windmill broke Stow. ☠♃ ♀ in ♓ â™ Aug. 14 24. Impetuous Winds Whirlwind sink ships Purch 1604. ♃ ☿ in Aequator ☉ in ♠♂ ♀ in ♋ Aug. 29. Sept. 8. T. M. Celeberrimus From ♃ ☿ ☉ propè Aequatorem 1606. Jan. 11. Hot Weather 19 Whales and Porpoises ♃ ☉ ☿ in â™’ ♄ ☽ opp in Trop Aug. 4. Wind Rain very high Seas ♃ opp ☉ ☿ in ♌ ♄ opp ♀ in Trop 1607. Aug. 12 13 14 Rain without Intermission Purch 1. 796. ☠♃ ♀ ☉ ♂ ☽ in ♌ â–¡ ♄ ♃ 1608. March 15. Current ♃ ☉ ☿ in ♈ add ♄ ♂ in ♑ June 2 3 4. Thunders and Rain felt by the Discoverers of Virginia so that they called the Isles Limbo Capt. Smith pag. 56. ♃ ♀ ☿ in ♉ add ♄ ♂ in â™’ 1609. May 3. St. No. At Nera very great T. M not unusual there but yet never comes without its Commission Purch 717. ♃ ☉ ☿ ☽ in ♉ add ♂ ♀ in ♊ Die 13. Very much Ice stiff Gale ib. ♃ ☉ in princ ♊ Die 26. A Great Storm we were not able to maintain a Sail ib. 3. 581. ♃ ☉ ☿ in ♊ add ♂ ♀ in ♋ June 12. T. M. in Nera insula iterùm Arthusius ☌ ♃ ☿ Nov. 29. Hard Gale all day it proved a Storm at Night Purch 1. 204 ♃ in ♊ opp ☉ ☿ in â™ Dec. 3. St. N. Glacies ubi nullus aspectus saith Kepler apud Eichstad ♃ in ♊ opp ☉ ☿ in â™ there is Aspect enough 1616. Jan 16 26. Flying Storm out of the West Wind high and blew Water Lat. N. 55. Purch 1. 91. ♃ ♀ in â™ fine 1617. Hyems tepida Kepler ♃ ☉ ♀ in ♑ VI. of the Planets lie in this order in Capricorn Three in Aquary One Pisces one and this Last in a growing Opposition of ♂ in â™ Stationary So little need is there of Keplers occult Causes if he had marked the Tepor die 19. where he would have seen the ☽ in ♋ covering the Three in ♑ Jan. St. Vet. 6 7 8. Neb. continua ♃ ☿ ☉ in ♑ May 26. St. V. Tonitru Imber K. ♃ in â™’ princ opp ♀ in ♋ fine June 5. 15. Tempestas Horrida Fulgura Tonitrua continua Let any one note it Friend or Foe ♃ ♀ Both Stationary in Opposition in ♌ â™’ princ More of the like nature die 12 13 c. ♃ ♀ ☿ in opp June 23. July 3. Pertonuit imbres ♃ ☉ ♀ June 29. July 9. Tonuit imbres ♃ ☉ ♀ July 1. 11. Tonuit Tempestuosum Id. Die 16. Squalor Chasma Id. Die 7 8. 17 18. Tonitru imbres ♃ ☉ ☽ ♀ Die 10 20. Pluvia Copiosiss ♃ ☉ ♀ Aug. 19. Iris ♃ ♑ opp ♀ in princ ♌ Aug. 25. The Water of the Sea seemed almost as white as Milk and so continued till day 30. Note No Ground could be found in that Water C. Pring Purch 1. 631. ♑ 22. ♃ ♋ 27. ♀ ♂ in princ Add ♄ with the Pleiades ♉ 24. ♂ princ â™ 1618. March 7. Meteor near the Pallace at Paris Howes â™’ 24 ♃ ♓ 9 ♀ stat 13. ♀ 28. ♂ July 14. 24. Two days after we were horribly toss'd Trigaut 1619. ♃ ♓ 6. opp ♀ ♌ 21. Aug. 15. ad Sept. 15. Famous Comet while ☿ is near as ♀ is far ♃ opp ☉ ☿ in princ ♠♀ in fine Die 16. Comet Hevel ♃ in ♓ opp ♀ ☉ ☿ 1620. Novemb. intra dies 14. Diluviuum in monte Ferratensi quo pagi integri hominesque non pauci aqua submersi Calvis ♃ in ♉ opp ☉ ☽ ☿ in princ â™ Die 26. At New-England Rain 6 or 7 hours nocte Capt. Smith ♎ 27. ♀ ☿ 12. ♃ Add ☉ ☿ in ♠♄ in ♋ Die 27 28 29. Comet in New-England with Frosts Thames was froze with us ☠♃ ♀ intra gr 14. 1621. May 21. In Burgundia T. M. which Kepler saith was the Product of ♄ ♂ but we also find ♊ 5. ♃ ☿ 27. ♀ but 8 gr distance 1626. March 29. Pluvia Aestus fulgura ♃ opp ☉ ♀ ☿ April 25 26. 28 29. Tonitru venti Fulgur Imbres ♃ opp ☉ ♀ ☿ in ♈ Circa diem 28. T. M. in Calabria you heard of it before in ☉ ♀ but you may give ♃ leave to oppose them from ♎ 23. they lying in ♉ 16. Sept. 4. Iris ante Sun ort Kepl. ♀ a ♃ gr 5. dist Add ♄ ♂ in â™ Sept. 5. Ventus Decumanus Kepl. ♃ ♀ intra gr 4. ☿ gr 12. 1627. June 27. Iris Kyr ♃ 23. ♠♉ 2. ♀ ♃ ♊ o. Stationary ☿ Dec. 17. Ventus Horribilis Strages dedit Sylvarum Aedificiorum per Bohemiam Kepl. ☉ gr 18. ☿ gr 23. distant from ♃ 1628. June 8. Tempestuos Tonitrua Kepl. ♃ opp ☉ ☿ in ♊ June 16. T. M. at St. Michaels and a New Island Olear ♃ ☽ in fine â™ opp ☿ ☉ in ♊ This is the Month wherein Kepler confesses the Influence of Tempestuous Fixed Stars with an occult Subterranean Cause beside For it seems there was so much wet throughout the Month that it hindred the Harvest in Bohemia These occult Causes is a skulking Principle Dec. 13. Aâ—ra Pluvia ♃ ☉ ☿ in ♑ 1629. June 14. Saeva Tempestas â™’ 5. ♃ ♋ 11. ☿ cum opp ☽ in ♌ June 23. July 3. Tonitrua Crebra ☠♃ ☿ add ☠♄ ♂ c. Die 28. July 8. Tonitrua Grando ♃ ☽ opp ☉ ♀ ☿ Die 30. July 10. Iris ☠♃ ☿ July 12 14 15. Tonitru imbres ☠♃ ☉ ♀ ☿ Die 24. Aug. 3. Fulminati Homines ♃ ☽ opp ☉ ♀ in ♌ Aug. Perscribitur ex Alpibus Rhetiis montem Shua terrae motu utique fissum agros laté ruinis texisse ♑ 29. ♃ ♌ 18. ☉ 26. ♀ The very day on which Kepler notes Men were slain with Thunder As in the former Earthquake I spake of the same Hand notes Globes of Fire Such are the Created Powers above 1630. Jan. 25. St. Vet. Chasma terribile seu ardens Coelum ♃ ☉ ☿ in â™’ 1636. Jan. 27. Much Rain and Floud Norimberg Kyr ♃ princ â™ opp ♀ prine ♓ Die 30. Rain Snow Thunder and T. M. Kyr ♃ opp ♀ c. Feb. Mense Baetis inundans cum magna strage Fromond ♃ opp ♀ imò ☉ ☿ May 30. Heat black Rain Thunder Lightning ♃ ♀ in ♌ Add ☉ ☿ in ♊ June 8 9 10. Heat Thunder Lightning Rain ♃ ♀ in ♌ Die 15. Night Thunder and great Rain So die 25. ♃ ♀ intra gr 12. July 1 2. Rain and Thunder ♃ ♀ in princ â™ Die 5 7 8 10. Much Rain and Storms of Wind ♃ ♀ ut supra Die 20. Much Rain and great ☿ ♃ ♀ Die 30. Tempest at Petsora Olear ☿ ♃ ♀ in â™ Aug. 7. Tempest forced us to cast Anchor ☉ ☿ in fin ♌ ♃ princ â™ Die 11. Current forced the Ship to the Shore Olear â™ 11. ♃ ♎ 4. ♀ stat Die 27. Much Rain ♃ ☉ circa med â™ Sept. 7. ad 9. Tempest
20. ☿ 21. ♃ ♑ 7. ☉ ♌ 17. ☽ December is a Tropical Month as March is an Equinoctial accordingly we have ☉ ☿ ♃ Tropical ♀ in the Equivalent about ♠21. If 3 △ s of of the ☽ conduce any thing let others Enquire Howbeit ♄ ♂ are but 6 degrees distant from an Opposition § 66. But hath not the Learned Author of the Treatise de motu Mar. Ventorum opened our Eyes in the Doctrine of Currents and solved them all without recourse had to Aspects or Influences the Sun excepted Resp To do that Author right I must acknowledge it is a Great Piece shewing the Diligence the Sagacity the Judgement of an excellent Pen. A Work that will make him great to all Posterity who shall have any thing to do with Philosophy or Commerce He who shall find the so much desired Longitude shall not oblige the World more than he hath done And what Returns his Countrymen have made him I know not I do envy them the use that They make of his Work the manifold Advantages in Navigation that thereby accrue to those who will learn what he hath pleased to Dictate not only to them but to the World Though I do believe therefore that the Ocean under the Torrid Zone in its Diurnal Motion moves from East to West round the World with some Inclination Northward or Southward according to the Suns Declination Though I do believe a 3d. Motion contrary to those viz. from North to East to make restitution at the same time for the Stream which hath forsaken his Shore by his Western Progress and thank Him for it I do believe further that this Back sliding Motion is that which gives Life and Being to though he scorn to take notice of it what is vulgarly called the Current But I cannot hear him when he excludes the ☽ or as in his Epistle the Starry Influences The Motion of the Sea would be such as it is Situation of Land consider'd whether there were ☽ Starry Influences or no saith he For how rash is that Hypothesis to make the Sun alone sufficient without the Starry Assistance When the Sun in incircled with so many Stars when the Stars are so many Suns more or at least Reflexions of that Solitary Agent If Reflexions from below the Earth it self contribute to Tempests c. Why not Reflexions from above The Sun may carry the Credit of it as we have said in a Conquest the General is cryed up but if you enquire more minutely into the Affair Many a Brave Officer doth his part And this hath in part appeared not only in Tempests and somewhat else but also in the Motions of Tides Some what hath bin spoken of a Moon of a Mercury c. § 67. 'T is the Sun assisted with the Stars which makes the Sea to move 'T is by their Influence that he spreads the most of its Motive Power on the Equinox and 40 degrees on either side of it And if we speak of Vegetation and Animal Life 40 degrees yet further even to the Frozen Zone What 's a little Glimmering To save Nature's Credit there must be some more abstruse Virtue then what is obvious to the First Sensation more abstruse and of more Moment Shall I say that Nature hath made Wine only to warm the Tongue yea 't is made to little purpose unless it chears the Heart also The very Piss-bed a Star though it be in its kind is made to little Purpose if it only resembles our Heavenly Body Beside This therefore 't is known to have a greater Virtue as the Endive and Succory to be refrigerant But the Number the Vastness the Mystical Order of the Stars I am amazed at a World of Wonder arising thence Why on the Equinoctial Why on each side of it Why on the Tropick Why on the Arctick and Arctarctique Circles Why near the Poles 'T is acknowledged that the Sun can do much posited on the Equinox Cap. 28. Doth the Sun arrive thither alone The Author knows that ♀ and ☿ cannot be far from him Besides that are there no Stars there He acknowledges it to hold rather in the Autumnal Equinox He may please to observe that there are more of the Fixed in the Autumnal Equinox then in the Vernal There is the Asterism in ♌ of one side and ♠on the other When in the other Hemisphere ♓ and ♈ are more naked Signs The Motion of the Winds and Motion of the Sea are Consequent one to the other Let it be so so the Motion of the Heavens be antecedent in Nature and Co-incident in time Which on the Sea's part he seems to grant Cap. 21. Notwithstanding elsewhere He ascribes the Turbulencies of the Air to the turning of the Ocean which Nature then labours with In like manner the Navigators Ascribe those Turbulencies to the shifting of the Monsoons those Winds which with the Waters turn an oblique Course toward the Sun neither of which do I understand Collision of Seas or Winds instigated by different or Contrary Causes I grant may make some Bustle as in the Tornado is evident where the Winds blow from all parts of the Compass But here is no Collision here no contrariety the Sun is not contrary to its self A Conversion there is and a Change of the Stream But a Gradual Change may be performed in Tranquility for all that I know i. e. if the Sun in the Tropic Cause the greatest Inclination of the Stream the nearer he comes to the Equinox the more should he incline to an Indifferency to be determined to one part according to the Solar recess from it § 68. To the Stars therefore in the Plural Those Motions of Seas and Winds will be imputed which he will find himself obliged to believe if we shall produce Reasons from the Asterism of Heaven and shew the very Causes the true primary Causes of all those brave Enquiries which he by his Principle resolves Why Hurricanes are perceived yearly almost near the Coasts of America Why again in that Sea which flows between the Northern part of China and Japan c. I could add why the time of the year is Stormy in any part of the Ocean Why it rains so constantly and excessively as to find the great Nilus and its overflowing Why Magellanus was becalmed 70 days together The Reasons and Causes of which being seen will be the very Light speak the Truth of our Assertion and the Ineffable Glory of the Creator § 69. Currents then may be distinguished into Substance and Circumstance as they are Streams distinct and severed from the General Waters or as they run with such a degree of Swiftness as is more than Ordinary with Noise or without Noise deceiving the Mariner sometimes 20 Leagues in 24 Hours or keeping him back with a Stream insuperable when if they cannot stem the Tide though under a stiff Gale the former is to be imputed to the Heavens in its ordinary Constitution or to speak with the
them Then the great execution of Lightnings too often which proceeds from no mild Causes but great and angry Instruments of a Divine Power The Singularities which I mean are beside the Parelia and Irides the last thing we treated of The White Waters and shining Sea which I would fain attain to the Cause of if it can appear to be Celestial The Disturbance of the Creatures Marine Whales and other Monsters I do impute I do not say 't is perpetual to our Aspect the Reader must be Judge of all that is offer'd Thus then A o 1574. July 9. A Monstrous Fish I hear of at the Isle of Thanet shot himself a-shore Stow ☌ ♠18. ♂ ♠2. ♄ A o 1607. June 11. VII Whales ☠♑ 16. ♄ ♋ 10. ♂ A o 1608. April 20. ☌ ♑ 25. ♂ ♒ o. ♄ May 15. 7 Whales and a Mermaid ☌ ♒ o. ♄ ♒ 7. ♂ A o 1615. Sept. 25. Great Fish struck his Horn into the Ship c. ☠♈ 24. ♄ ♠8. ♂ A o 1626. Aug. 13. Grampass at Woolwich ☌ ♌ 10. ♂ 16. ♄ A o 1639. April 2 Whales ☠♒ 1. ♂ ♌ 25. ♄ § 81. I reckon that Fish are disturbed when they swim visibly above the Water they find themselves ill at ease in the Element and seek ease elsewhere All Animals labour under the secret Influence of a not secret Cause § 82. The Mermaid I take it as I find it I will not dispute whether it were a Reality or a Spectre I can prove Spectres are seen at Sea sometimes and I can believe also that there are such Mockages of Humane Nature by Sea as an Ape is on the Mountain There were Whales seen with it and that 's sufficient And Thus much for the great Superiors Saturn and Mars CHAP. II. Aspect of JOVE and MARS § 1. An Aspect to be heeded with a sober Observation as the Precedent 2. Great on divers accounts 3. 4. What Influence it hath on Cold. 5. The Hyemal part of its Diary 6. It has a great Hand in Monstrous Frosts particularly in that never to be out-done of 1684. The Arabs consent in the Case 7. Some Frost even in Aestival Mornings 8. Cold Weather not always Wholsom 9. The ☠oftimes Turbulent even in the Winter 10. Whether so in Summer 11. What Influence upon Dryth 12. Maginus's Note concerning Heat if our Aspect haps in eadem Quarta with ☉ justified 13. Maginus's difference of the Aspect when ♃ prevails and when ♂ prevails not so clear 14. Whether this Aspect conduces to Fires and Configurations 15. To Sickly Seasons it does conduce 16. God having made all things Good hinders not the Malevolency of the Creature against Sinners 17. Sicknesses of the Season depend upon the Season it self 18. Instance in Catarrhs Note on the Universal Tussis in Octob. 1675. 19. A determinate prognosis of a Distemper aimed at 20. The Aestival part of the Diary 21. Fog belongs to this Aspect Not always proceeding from a declining Sun some Curiosities about Fog 22. Monstrous Hail 23. This Aspect is a Cooler 24. Some Instance from abroad 25. More abundant Instances from Kepler's and Kyriander's Diary to which the Reader is referr'd 26. This Aspect brings Cold in March April and sometimes May. 27. Yet our Aspect as to Cold is a false and uncertain Configuration 28. ♃ and ♂ no welcome Aspects How we are to be afraid of the Signs of Heaven 29. The Character of the Aspect 30. Zeal for a well-founded Astrology 31. Ancient Times must be reviewed 32. Forien Table of Tempest c. 33. Aspects of the Superiors more Signal than the pure Inferiors 34. No amazing Extremity without the Superiors 35. Two or Three days Weather is nothing under a Superiour Aspect 36. They often bring Two Three Months disturbance 37. Some Dire Inundations may happen under this Aspects 28. An honest Monitum for the Low-Countries about Inundations 39. Another for Rome 40. A List of Flouds found under this Aspect 41. 42. Dire Inundations admonish those who may be concerned to consult Astrology That Consultation will not be fruitless 43. In Inundations Waters are rarified as well as augmented 44. No clashing with the Premises ♃ and ♂ in their private Capacities are one thing in their publick another 45. Catalogue of ♃ ♂ 's Lightning 46. The Aspect in a Rampant Estate knows no moderation 47. Some monstrous Instances of Lightning 48. Thunder all Summer long No Thunder without an Aspect 49. Comets Planetary Original proved 50. Three of the four Comets in 1618. belong to our Aspect 51. 52. The Comet Anni 1531. 53. c. An Account of the following Comets 62. New Star in Serpentarius Thuanus and That Age make it of Planetary Original 63. Summary of the Comets under ♃ and ♂ 64 65. Earthquakes and Vulcans under ♃ ♂ their Table with Remarks Van Helmont's arguments against the Earthq Planetary Original answered 66. The baleful Circumstances of Earthquakes not mentioned 67. Firing of Cole-Mines Analogous to Vulcan's Earthquakes lye deep 68. Diseases under ♃ ♂ with Remarks 60. Something of Currents 70. Parelia Halo's Irides enumerated 71. And spoken to 72. Claritas Septentrionalis 73. Sol Pallidus 74. Maculae Solis from Sheiner Hevelius accounted for 75. Prodigious Rains Sanguinis Frumenti 76. Droughts Plagues of Locusts and Mice c. § 1. AS the Aspect of ♄ to ♂ were to be regarded because they are Leagues and Alliances of Superiour Planets upon the same account are these Habitudes of ♃ and ♂ to be heeded with a sober and composed Observation For Astrologers justly crack of great things proceeding from their Supeoiours though not every moment falling out yet recorded abroad and some of them comprehended within the Memory of Man yea it may be hapning every 7 years as in ♄ and ♂ hath bin observed § 2. The Aspect of ♃ and ♂ we suspected to be Great even before the knowledge of any Influence only because it visits us but seldom once in two years A ☌ or ☠will make us wait so long till they return in specie again For such is the Interim of 2 Conjunctions or Oppositions In this later there is some Variety or Design rather in Nature for if ☠haps to be Retrogade these Two Superiours will face one another twice or thrice before they come off so a great part of the year will be sometimes engag'd according to Us in one considerable Aspect There 's a certain Law in the Heavens we have said which none but Astronomers contemplate none but Astrologers make use of The First look on it as a perplexed business The other a Wise and Powerful Oeconomy But why of all Mathemetical Diagrams should the Celestial Scheme be least useful He who looks upon Architecture and Fortification to be only Trangunims is a Wise Man of great Experience and He who thinks the Distance and the Motions of the Planets with all their Variety either as to themselves or to the rest is only
the distance of gr 33. but a Fortnight after on which account this very later end of Octob. shews 100 of the Plague though in Nov. it slept because ♄ ♂ are even unhing'd 1607. We have said before of this year and the Month of June how ♄ ♂ were domineering there but note that June this year was not to be compared to September and October where ♃ ♂ are opposed in Equinoctial Signs and the Totals though the Plague be moderate is three to one Now what Live Coal is it which continues the Pestilence from Nov. 1. the preceding year where ♄ ♂ fell off to the Spring of this Instant year What but our Aspect of ♃ ♂ which held 4 Months to bring that along thither through the Winter Months of Novemb. Dec. Jan. Febr. when Serpents themselves can scarce sting Any further we do not enlarge 1609. ♄ ♂ grasp all but hath ♃ ♂ nothing in this year Yes as much as the 4 first Months come to They are but Winter Months but we speak of a glowing Coal in Winter an ☠♃ ♂ in Febr. 18. on which every Week by some means or other secondary Agents the Total appears 40. in the Plague Mr. Bell's Account 1610. Now if the Pestilence continues as to our fore-cited Account till this year be expired all of a piece with the former our Aspect takes place in Dec. past and Jan. and Febr. of this instant and that in Tropical Signs We find 't is true no Master-Pestilence but the Total is higher in that very January under ♃ ♂ than in April under ♄ and ♂ 1617. At Rome and Naples a Murrain of Cattle Kirch § 1. Cap. 9. ♄ ♃ all along and ♃ ♂ in March April May. In June July August September I confess 't is ♃ ☿ and ♀ which by their Pace seem to be ♂ 's Substitutes according as we have hinted before though in Sept. Octob. ♄ ♂ inches in and they will challenge those Seasons 'T is between them and Writ as I say in Capital Letters to those who read the Alphabet of Nature and is to much purpose taken into our consideration because there is some Affinity between the make of the Bodies of Brutes and us wherefore there must be some Affinity in our Maladies Sure I am that Kircher notes a death of Infants at the same time 1618. Plague at Norway saith C. Grant and sickly year in England For the Spring and Summer May June July we have own'd ♄ ♂ before For August we have ♃ opposing ☉ ♀ ☿ which will do no good when ♂ lies perdieu for an opposal in â™’ and ♌ in the following Months 1619. At Grand Cairo 72500 swept away in X Weeks C. Grant A Dismal Effect of a dire Cause for I have learn'd to tremble at the Aspects of the Superiours as they may be set high or low Now suppose as Story saith that the Plague with them in Aegypt ceases when the Sun enters into ♌ 'T is a Secret but I observe our ☠♃ ♂ was dire and high-set above 10 Weeks before the ☉ 's entrance into ♌ Dire I say and high set in slow but sure Motions and Equinoctial Signs 1620. Sickly England C. Grant The Astrologer Answers if the Spring were Sickly you have ♃ and ♂ in Equinoctial ♈ if the Summer we have noted before 1622. Another Grant in New England Capt Smith ♄ ♃ ♂ 1625. For this 1625. we must consult ♄ ♃ yet we can scarce honestly refer you thither without wrong to ♃ ♂ the Weekly Bill will inform us Buryed saith the Bill of all Diseases 5205. the Highest Week ending Aug. 18. and where are our Planets Read and Judge On Aug. 18. One of our destroyers is in ♎ 3. and the other in ♈ 1. They differ 2 degrees from Diametrical Opposition and that in the commanding part of Heaven the Circulus Maxemius which we have often call'd the Equator or Equinoctial Circle and is famous with us Superstitious People for Remarks of Nature Here I note and forget not that this was the 2d Instance which convinc'd me 1627. At Amsterdam Grant the ☠♄ is acknowledged in its proper Table which tells us of another Superiour joyn'd with ♂ this year and that is ♃ in August we know its ☠in ♉ and â™ 'T is easie by the way to note Amsterdam to be none of the best Air in the World because of its frequent Infections The Truth is no Town or City seated near the Brackish Waters of the Sea can be pure and agreeable For the Air must have its ill disposition from the Waters as the one not Potable so the other not Potable also for the Lungs and Spirits do draw as well as the Stomach I would it were as easie for Them to observe the Aspect of the Superiour Planets that they may be cautious under them and learn to fear not the Planets but the Divine Rod which will we nil we hangs over Populous Cities 1630. Some Pestilence at London and at Cambridge above 1000. dyed that year if the Saturnine Aspect with ♂ in the former Table comes to close in the year viz. in Sept. 27. as it doth not then see how you will like our ☠in July and August in ♓ â™ This is clear that the Highest Week in July 29. was nearer our Jovial than the Saturnine Aspect 1636. We find it in our other Table but withall we find ♃ in the highest which is within 3 gr of ♀ But what is that to ♂ Yes ♀ Stationary is Tantamount a new lesson at first but now an old one 1637. Some little Pestiferous year 3000 in all the highest Week was June 29. near the Aspect of ♄ we would deal impartially yet nothing hinders but we may note withal â–¡ ♃ ♂ in Cardinal Signs 1641. Is found in ♄ before but as the year exhibits an Aspect of ♄ in August it premises an Aspect of ♃ with ♂ in July 's beginning and what time it increased 5 in the Total and 50 Parishes more infected 'T is true the height appeared not 703 till Sept. 2. at what time we find ☠♄ ♂ at large or which is as Potent ♄ and ☿ when ☿ is Retrograde Yea ♂ ♃ ♀ exact in the beginning of ♌ and â™’ whose Influence we cannot as yet discourse of 1644. A little Visitation not much above a 1000 Total the highest Week ended Octob. 3. ☌ ♃ ♂ â—â—receded in ♊ and was not expired at the Height of the Distemper 1646. We noted â—he ☌ of ♄ to have endured till the end of July or the first Week in August and then we pretended another Aspect of the Superiours entred That 's our present Aspect where I flatter my self that 't is not unworthy consideration that whereas the one Aspect according to us seems expired Aug. 4. the other this of ♃ and ♂ enters about Aug. 13. so careful are the Heavenly Host in their Watches to relieve one another when in a State of Hostility toward us In the highest week Sept.
remote of all the Planets if it be true what the Diary says that on November 14. November is a Flouding Month Umb diese zeit in Hispanien am Fluss Ebro ein grosser regen und ergiessung einkommen daruber an die 4000. Soldaten elendiglich ersoffen And about the end of November from the River Poo a terrible Inundation of Waters wherein many Thousands of Men were drown'd in Italy Kyr This Kyriander acknowledges to be from ☌ ♄ ♃ in ♓ so far he is an Astrologer But what shall he do The Partile ☌ comes not till February next year Oh! but it is an Anticipation of ♄ and ♃ which Philosophy I have pityed already not derided for he who reads these Stories can be in no laughing Vein My Heart aked for fear I should meet more of these uneasie Narratives and I Divine I think I should find the like in the Netherlands Jan. 4 1642. where the Diary tells us that such a Flouding time hath not been observed as men judge for many 100 years before whereby I believe they note the monstrousness of the Phaenomenon shall I call it rather than consult the Universal History of the World I have reason to believe our Reports to be as true and may be as great some of them and how great in the mean while is the Cause the Cause from whence they Spring So that now our Heart is hardned and we can take notice of a Grosse Wasser yet again in December 1643. § 66. That ☠in the next decade 1653. brings no Flouds with it unless you will reckon that in Glocestershire at Dodminton June 20. mention'd by Dr. Childrey p. 66. for the Truth is Those were dry Years in which nothing hinders but there may be an Anomalous Floud or Glut of Wet in some places and I am glad of it § 67. For all as I see the ☌ of 1663. is the like I meet with Violences of Fiery Meteors c. but no Flouds can I set Eyes on if there be any 't is our Gain If not Admire with me the all wise disposition of the Heavenly Motions which are made not only to Punish at the time appointed but sometimes to give us respite 'T is the Divine goodness to send no Flouds where he pleases to order a Pestilence In wrath he remembers Mercy Howbeit my Diary upon perusal informs me that even there A o 1663. May 5. There arose Flouds at Northampton A place it seems more apt for such Waters then others And see Febr. 28. 1673. we had News of great Flouds at Thoren Thuringia in Germany on the breaking up the Ice But not only so But in Summer beside a Spout seen to break at Harwich near Land-guard-Fort Jan. 24. 1673. Flouds for certain in Oxfordshire and Bristol not the like for many years with great Loss say my Observations There remains but of That 1682. for whose sake we waded so far or else we had let down our Sluces § 68. The ☌ of 1682. The First is from Iceland Great Flouds in most parts This is Sept. 29. ♄ and ♃ grad 7. distant ♃ in ♋ 17. to meet again with good Kepler who was wiser From Waymouth such a Floud that the Waves were scarce possable Nov. 2. ♃ is where he was Dec. 18. at Dinnot in France Before that from the Hagâ—e 〈◊〉 by a strong Wind broke the Banks and laid 2400 Acres of Land under Water Dec. 10. and from Copenhagen the Sea by reason of a Storm rose so high that it is the Wonder of the Age saith my Intelligence and hath done great Harm But this year being expired I would the Aspect would be satisfied with this Hearken to the French Account From Bruxels This is but t'other day Jan. 27. St. Vet. Vingt cinq des principaux Villages de Flandre aut estè sumbergez From Amsterdam Des dommages extraordinaires que les vents les de hordemen des eaux ont causez en Flandre dans le Brabant en Hollande Zealand Quelques Uns asseurent que ces dommages à nostre ègard montent a plus de cinquante Millions We can see only the Steeple le Clocher de la Ville de Tolen de la ville de Bommene c. c'est le plus triste spectacie qui se soit vû de puis plusieurs siècles Where is ♃ but in ♋ higher than he was before nearer the Tropical Height in ♋ 11. before he was in ♋ 17. In May our Domestique Intelligence tells us the Country is so floated there is no Travelling no access to London Travelling Coaches perished At Deal the Sea overwhelmed the Banks Drowned much Cattle May 16. 1682. News also from Scicily of Torrents breaking down Trees Villages destroyed by the Flouds May 28. Gazet 1742. July 7. with us at Shropshire much Dammage at a Village 7 Mile from Boudley the Floud run in from Jan. 30. to July 4. the like not within Memory Floud also 6 Mile from Coventry In Aug. 18. there was a Water-Spout near Harwich in the Shape of the Monument at London-Bridge mounting up in the Air then fell down with a most incredible force made the Sea smoke Thompson's Intelligence Yea all the time of the Dreadful Adamant Frost Remember and Jan. 1683. 84. 'T is for certain by Merchants Letters that there were great Rains and Flouds in the Guadalquivir the River in Andalusia § 69. We shall now have done for A o 1684 Sept. 10. we hear of Flouds in Leopol Russia In Nov. 9. St. N. A Floud neer the Isles of Oberon Rhee Broage beyond Memory of Man as we have it in the extraordinary Relation from Germany I acknowledge that there were strong Aspects heretofore noted mix'd with our great ☌ in some parts of this Drowning Season but the Astrological Reader must do right and with me acknowledge the Line of the ☌ stretch'd over these 3 or 4 years Those Countries therefore which shall think it worth the while must watch these great ☌ s and their Mixtures Nor would it be an unwise part if amongst other Learned Professors at the University of Leyden or elsewhere there were a meet maintainance order'd for a Professor of Astronomy mixed with Astrology if any should fancy such an Union of Science to give some it may be more than probable warning of such Infandous Cataclysmes Pictures and Assurances of Noah's Floud that at least the life of Thousands may be saved For as I remember we had an account of twenty thousand Carcases Wreck's of Mortality Floating on the Remorsless Deep Upon which account if it be Feasible 't is worth the while but I must leave it to discretion These Papers shew I hope that our Speculation is not a Vanity since the Flouds hold on and keep pace from Month to Month and from year to year with our violent Conjunctions Mark that They hold and keep pace starting out at their Opportunities in the Winters yea in the Summers I do acknowledge there may be Flouds when our Aspect