To what the motion of the Heavens serveth, Met. Lib.
Whether if the motion of the Heavens should ceasea while, all things would instantly perish? and whether this assertion doth not make the frame of sublunary things to hold too loose a dependency upon the first and conserving cause? at least impute too much unto the motion of the heavens, whose eminent activities are by heat, light and influence, the motion it self being barren, or chiefly serving for the due application of celestial virtues unto sublunary bodies asCabeushath learnedly observed?
Whether Comets or blazing Stars be generally of such terrible effects, as elder times have conceived them; for since it is found that many, from whence these predictions are drawn, have been above the Moon; why they may not be qualified from their positions, and aspects which they hold with stars of favourable natures; or why since they may be conceived to arise from the effluviums of other Stars, they may not retain the benignity of their Originals; or since the natures of the fixed Stars are astrologically differenced by the Planets, and are esteemed Martial or Jovial, according to the colours whereby they answer these Planets; why although the red Comets do carry the portensions of Mars, the brightly-white should not be of the Influence of Jupiter or Venus, answerably untoCor Scorpiiand Arcturus, is not absurd to doubt.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE:Contemporary spellings are variable (e.g., than/then, there/their, current/currant) and are retained. See p. 90: "were ever commended fortherenote".The modern ‘itself’ and ‘myself’, etc. were printed as separate words (e.g, "our selves" on p. 132.) This is retained.The original of the seating chart for the "feast of Perpenna" onp. 218can be seenhere.The following table summarized those errors that have been corrected, as well as several instances which have been allowed to stand (denoted with ‘sic;’.p. 25(ut scribit Aristoteles[)]added ‘)’p. 57Why some lamps include[d] in those bodiesadded ‘d’p. 70the teeth of [Narhwales]sicp. 148the information of reason or [f/s]enceisolated instance ‘s’ as ‘f’ — changed.p. 220[by/but] this only roastedcorrected per parallel structurep. 256Dolia [magna/nudi] non ardent Cynici;sic: appears to be based on Juvenal’sSatires, around line 305:‘Dolia *nudi* non ardent Cynici’p. 272Dion.Ep. 7. ... in vit. [3/S] Dionys.The marginal note was misplaced. The numeral ‘3’ is also a misprint for 'S'.p. 290in [the] 730 of theJulianperiodsicp. 376lo[n]gitudine‘n’ added
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE:
Contemporary spellings are variable (e.g., than/then, there/their, current/currant) and are retained. See p. 90: "were ever commended fortherenote".
The modern ‘itself’ and ‘myself’, etc. were printed as separate words (e.g, "our selves" on p. 132.) This is retained.
The original of the seating chart for the "feast of Perpenna" onp. 218can be seenhere.
The following table summarized those errors that have been corrected, as well as several instances which have been allowed to stand (denoted with ‘sic;’.