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an Acception sometimes of any Part of a Day or Night, for a whole Nytth?*mcron , in the Civil Law, much mend the Matter: Here seems to be needof an Astronomer, who thus possibly may explain it. — While there wa smade by the Motion of the Sun, a Day and two Nights in the Hemisphereof Judæa, at the same Time in the contrary Hemisphere was made a Nigh*and two Days; join these together, you have three Days and three Nights!for Chris suffer'd-not for Judæa alone, but for the whole World, and in R e 'spect of all the Inhabitants of the Earth conjitnBim, he rested three Da)’ sand three Nights, tho’ in Respect of Judæa , or any particular Horizon,one Day and two Nights.
Who but the Astronomer shall explain to us how many hundred Timet, of*of the great Luminaries exceeds the other, which yet is but one of soi^Thousands as great as itself, or bigger ? Who can better magnify the As 1 ®that expanded the Heavens, than he who tells you, that Seven thousand Mh £Swill fall ssiort of the Diameter of this Earth, and yet that this Diameterpeated a thousand Time?, will not reach the Sun ; or this Distance between st*Sun and us, repeated a thousand Times, reach the nearest fix’d Star? And yet J|1probability some are infinitely more remote than others. — Certainly as Secs £ 'taries of Princes are they only, from whom true Histories of those Princesto be expected j so he only can truly describe the World, whose Skill 111Astronomy hath given him Right to the glorious Title of Hipparchus , to ^conciliorum naturæ particeps & interpres.
But not to in large in extending the Dition of Astronomy to the Empyræutf 1 ’her Influence is great over sublunary Sciences; among which, should I $that even Physick hath its Use of Astronomy, I might seem to patron^the ungrounded Fancies of that Sort of astrological Medicasters, who do ^thing without the Favour of their ^ Irchæus , and intitle one Planet or otherevery Herb, or Drug, which they suppose invalid, unless mystically tiltswith this or that Aspect; ceremoniously numbering the critical Days, ^considering that neither Time or Number hath any reality extra intellecthumanum. But, tho’ with Contempt of these Follies, let me seriously $the most rational philosophical Enquirer into Medicine, whether those Aph^risms, wherein Hippocrates hath marshal’d Diseases under the Seasons of stYear, and the several Winds, and the Varieties of Weathers, have not jmuch of the Aphorism in them, as the rest ; and were not as diligently c °lected from the Brafen-Tables , from Experiments deriv’d in Succession st jhis aged Preceptors before him, and from his own unerring Industry, 3the rest ? But it may be objected, that these astrological Aphorisms la v ^much of the Chaldæan and Syrian , from whom it appears the Grœciarii (C 'ceiv’d much of their Art of healing, as they did almost all their other lÆing: And indeed we find by Herodotus , that the Knowledge of Physick bway of Aphorism was proper to the Babylonians , who recorded publk ^the History of the Disease, and Method of Cure of every particularthat recover’d, to which Records others resorted in difficult Cases, that k*the like Diseases, and the great Learning of these Nations being AstrolEwe may imagine that they made good Observations of epidemical cfrom the Distempers of the Air, from the cœlestial Influxes, which anow either wholly lost, or deprav’d, or useless, as not suited to our C\i^ 'What other Subject those medicinal Books of the Friend and Contemp^ 1 ^of Hippocrates , Democritus riEPl AKAlPIslN KAI x'niKAlPiuN, reckonsthe Catalogue of his Works by Laertius , should contain, I know not,
I am, that if we dissected Animals of the same Species, in various Changs^Weather, we should find great Difference in the Brain, as to Dryish , jS
Moisture, and Weight j and in the Viscera, and Mass of Blood, as to .
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