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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45203	Demonstration of astrology, or, A brief discourse, proving the influence of the sun, moon, stars, over this terraqueous globe grounded on the fundamental rules of the Copernican system and philosophy, and verified by practical examples and experience : illustrated by diagrams : whereby the art is rendered almost mathematically demonstrable : to which is added, an astrological and philosophical appendix, or second part, treating of this summer's effects, both in the macrocosm as well as microcosm : wherein we have great cause to fear, that the sword, pestilence, and famine will annoy our European territories this ensuing summer / by William Hunt, a lover of the mathematics and natural philosophy.	Hunt, William, lover of the mathematics and natural philosophy.	1696 (1696)	Wing H3762; ESTC R7694	25,280	47

Vniversalis also Arca●am Specificatum Catharticum also several Acid Spirits dulcified and volatilized as Spir. Vitrioli Volatilae also a very good Medicine to cure the French Pox without sluxing or much confinement also a good Balsamick Pain-easing Pill exceeding that called Matthews Pill or many more of that kind also the Golden or Purging Spirit of Scurvy-Grass and the Plain and several other Chymical Preparations too tedious to mention here all with printed Directions To his Ingenious Friend Mr. William Hunt on his Demonstration of Astrology ASTROLOGY on the old System grounded Of Ptolomy like lofty Building founded On a Foundation ruinous decay'd Sunk in Repute with Rubbish overlaid Till like bold Hercules advent'rous Man To cleanse the Augean Stable you began And build it new on Frame Copernican And Principles Cartesian whose bright Conjunction adds new Lustre to the Light Whose Monarch from his Throne how he dispenses By Vice-Roy Planets various Influences And by the sevenfold Cord of th' Heavenly Ball Tuneth each Change by Force Mechanical Heat Cold Fruit Famine War Peace Life and Death Whence come enlivening Blasts whence poisonous Breath Whence Meteors above Earthquakes below Their hidden Causes thou dost clearly show Go on till solidly thy Pen has given The Frame and Workings of the Fluid Heavens Go on with Lucky Planets till thou be Within our Vortex the fam'd Mercury Go on these hidden Wonders to explain Till greater than thy self none doth remain Ita Precatur Thom. Gery Sid. S. Col. Alumnus N. B. The Reader is desired to take notice that the third Diagram in Pag. 27. is by Mistake turn'd to one side DEMONSTRATION OF ASTROLOGY CHAP. I. FOR the Instruction of the unskilled in the Art and that they may the better understand our following Discourse it 's necessary that I explain the Characters of the 12 Signs and the Planets and Aspects as followeth The Characters of the Six Northern Signs Six Southern Signs Planets Aspects ♈ Aries ♎ Libra ♄ Saturn ☌ Conjunction     ♃ Jupiter   ♉ Taurus ♏ Scorpio ♂ Mars ⚹ Sextile ♊ Gemini ♐ Sagittary ☉ Sun   ♋ Cancer ♑ Capricorn ♁ Earth △ Trine     ♀ Venus □ Quartile ♌ Leo ♒ Aquary ☿ Mercury   ♍ Virgo ♓ Pisces ☽ Luna ☍ Opposition And for the sake of young Artists which are not furnished with the Globes and do not understand these following Circles c. of the Heavens I say for their Instruction I have drawn two Projections or Diagrams which I shall explain as followeth that they may be the more capable to understand my following Essays the Circles are these which follow The Horizon Meridian the Zenith and Nadir which are Poles to the Horizon These alter according to the Place in which you live The Equinoctial Ecliptick two Tropicks and the North and South Poles These are always supposed fixed in the Heaven live where you will The Horizon is a great Circle dividing the uppermost or visible part of the Heaven from the Invisible As suppose your self at Sea or upon an high Hill and looking round you you imagine that the Sky touched the Earth or Water Now that Line of Separation of the Sky and Earth or Water is the visible Horizon and such a Circle is supposed to be in the Heavens And when the Sun Moon and Stars either rise or set they are then said to be upon the Horizon And note that this Circle is moveable because that it altereth according to the Place of your aboad To this Circle there are assigned Poles which are also moveable as the Circle it self is these Poles are called the Zenith and Nadir The Zenith is that Point just perpendicular over your Head in the Heavens and is every way equidistant from the Horizon 90 Degrees The Nadir is that Point in the Heavens opposite to it being also 90 Degrees in distance from the Horizon on the nether side thereof The Meridian is a great Circle passing through the Poles of the World and Zenith and Nadir and crosseth the Horizon at Right Angles in the North and South Points The Sun Moon and Stars when they are full South as the Sun is every Day at Noon then are they said to be upon the Meridian The Circle altereth according to the place of Longitude in which you live The Equinoctial is a great Circle and crosseth the Meridian at Right-Angles and crosseth the Horizon in the East and West Points thereof thereby with the Meridian dividing the Horizon into four equal Parts each Part containing 90 Degrees So that the whole Circle contains four times 90 or 360 Degrees as all other Celestial Circles are supposed to contain the same Number This Circle is drawn through the midst of the Heavens exactly between the two Poles of the World being equidistant from each Pole 90 Degrees and is known by the Way or Course of the Sun every Year about the 10th day of March and 12th of September The Ecliptick is a great Circle and crosseth the Equinoctial it Oblique Angels in the East and West Points thereof This Circle is the Way of the Sun or Earth in the Zodiack and is divided into twelve Signs viz. ♈ ♉ ♊ c. Each Sign is also again subdivided into Degrees containing each 30 Degrees making thereby the whole Circle to contain 360 Degrees And by reason of the Obliquity of this Circle it constitutes Breadth to the Zodiack extending to 23½ Degrees on each side the Equinoctial the boundary Limits whereof are the North and South Tropicks The North Tropick being the greatest Northern Declination of the Sun who chalks out this Circle by his apparent Diurnal Course every Year about the 11th day of June The South is the greatest Southern Declination of the Sun and is chalked out by his apparent Diurnal Circuit each Year about December the 12th day But for the better understanding of these Circles I have drawn two Projections of the Sphere one upon the Plane of the Horizon of those who live under the Equinoctial Line and the other being the second is projected upon the Horizon of 52 Degrees 21 minutes the Latitude of Allconbury North. Now by the first Projection or Diagram you may see by the Ecliptick crossing the Equinoctial Line obliquely that there are these six Signs ♈ ♉ ♊ ♋ ♌ ♍ on the North Side the Equinoctial-Line and also the other six Signs ♎ ♏ ♐ ♑ ♒ ♓ on the South side of the Equinoctial-Line So that the Sun always to appearance moving in this Circle he thereby becomes sometimes near to us who live in that Point where the Latitude of Allconbury being 52 deg 21 min. North crosses the Meridian for when in ♈ upon the Equinoctial-Line he marches through ♉ and ♊ and comes to our North Tropick and then is our Summer and then he passeth back through ♋ ♌ and ♍ and comes to the Equinox again ♎ and then marches southward through ♎ ♏ and ♐ to the Southern Tropick in which place he is farthest from

Saturn rising South-East in Opposition to Mercury setting North-West and beholding Jupiter and Mars with a Benevolent Trine they being near the West and if you rise the next Morning before the Sun rises you may see the Moon in Sextile of Saturn and in Quartile to the Rising Sun And so much shall suffice at present concerning the Aspects CHAP. V. Treateth of the Nature of the Planets THE Natures of the Planets were first found out by the diligent Observation and Experience of the Antients amongst whom Ptolomy was the chief who left us their Natures and Affections and wrote the whole Body of Astrology and left it to Postority he being called the Prince of Astrologers It 's pity his Foundation was laid upon the Sands for if he had built it upon the Philolaian or Copernican Hypothesis which was invented by Philolaus before Ptolomy's Time he would by his Observations and Industry have done Wonders and Astrology by this time might have been much approved But Learning as well as other things is subject to Changes and Vicissitudes according as it doth please God to reveal himself to Man for tho some Men in any Age be never so wise and do leave their Aphorisms and Arcana's to Posterity yet by several Accidents they may be lost for either the Genius of that Age may not be fit or capable to receive them or they may be lost by Fires or the Subversion and Alteration of Governments c. Is it not great pity that the Works of that most wise Man Solomon should be lost who wrote of all things under the Sun from the Cedar of Lebanon to the Hysop that grows upon the Wall Wisdom of Solomon Chap. 7. But to our purpose Ptolomy and all Astrologers after him Dr. Goad excepted define the Nature of the Planets as followeth Saturn cold and dry Jupiter hot and moist Mars hot dry and burning the Sun hot and dry more temperate than Mars Venus cold and moist Mercury cold and dry the Moon cold and moist This is their brief Account of the Natures of them They tell you also why they retain those Natures too tedious here to insert because I think it not material being their Opinion is grounded upon a false Supposition Dr. Goad a late Author denies the Account and makes Jupiter to be a cold Planet yea colder than Saturn How shall we agree these Opinions Truly I think they are both mistaken being both upon a wrong and false Foundation for Dr. Goad treads in Ptolomy's steps in all things except in this viz. about the Nature of the Planets Now I shall lay down my Judgment of their Natures which I presume will hold the Test of Experience which is the only Refiner of Truth Saturn I believe to be as well as the rest an Opake Body and as saith Ptolomy of a cold and dry Nature especially by Accident for we are always sensible of his chill Influence when he is in Perigaeon or in Heliocentrick ☌ with the Earth and for Demonstration view the fifth Diagram where you 'l see Saturn in Perigaeon or in conjunction with the Earth which was the principal Cause of the last cold Summer I could bring several Examples and Reasons to prove my Assertion two or three Instances we have had in our late cold Summers which were always cold when Saturn was in Perigaeon Mars all agree to be hot dry and burning yea hotter than the Sun himself Which seems a Contradiction that a reflected Light should be hotter than the Fountain from whence it proceeds To which I answer that it may be by Accident As for Instance The reflex burning Glass which receiving the Sun's Rays and contracting and uniting them they become hotter than the Sun's Rays and being darted upon any combustible Matter it sets it on fire And such is the Nature of Mars who when in Perigaeon or near the Earth doth make us sensible of his Heat View the sixth Diagram where Mars is in conjunction with the Earth which at the same time caused a very warm Season And now I come to Jupiter concerning whom there hath been much Controversy Ptolomy making him warm and Dr. Goad contrarily making him a cold Planet and gives very probable Arguments to prove his Assertions How shall I reconcile these two Opinions for they both plead Reason and Experience for their so doing Ptolomy thinks him warm because when simply in opposition with the Sun he produceth a warm Season and when joined with Mars he often produces great Heat and Thunder And Dr. Goad maketh him a cold Planet because that when joined with Saturn he augments Cold yea and in Winter when joined with Mars he hath a hand in many hard Frosts he being the Parent of the North Wind and Serenity both great Friends to a cold Constitution with many more Reasons of the like Nature Now my Opinion of Jupiter is that he is a Planet composed of Nitrous Particles which like Gunpowder or Nitre when it meets with Cold it actuates it And when it meets with Fire or Heat it actuates that and breaketh forth into Combustions Jupiter being a Planet full of Nitre doth as the Cartesians say six the Particles of the Atmosphere thereby stopping or hindering Motion and then Cold followeth of course which is an Essential Quality and was in being before the World was created for in the beginning this Vortex was a Chaos or confused Lump the Air Earth and Water being congealed or mixed together But when God created the Sun Moon and Planets by putting them in Motion this Motion was the Original of Heat as may be proved by the violent Motion of any thing as suppose a Mill which will cause Heat to that Degree that she will fire if not prevented Now when this Motion is hindred by the Nitrous Particles of Jupiter then Cold the prime Quality takes place As is proved by mixing of Salt or Nitre with Snow it will freeze and cause Ice by the Fire-side But if this Nitre or Gunpowder be joined with hot and sulphurous Planets then it causeth Combustions in the Atmosphere as Heat with Thunder and Coruscations c. So that I define Jupiter to be of a Nitro-sulphurious Nature like to Gunpowder and is either Hot or Cold by Accident but rather a favourer of Cold if simply considered Which aforesaid Definition I shall prove by Examples The Nature of the Sun needs no Definition it being vulgarly known to every Plow-boy all the World being sensible of his Warmth nothing being hid from the Heat thereof But as for the Natures of the Inferiors viz. Venus Mercury and the Moon I shall at present rest with the Opinion of the Antients for brevity-sake they not having so great Influence in the general Constitution of the Seasons But it may be expected in some succeeding Book where I treat of the daily Vicissitudes of the Air and shall say no more here having cleared the great Point between Ptolomy and Dr. Goad CHAP. VI. IN this Chapter I shall