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abstraEled parts of tbe matbematicks. Evenfucb quadrants, aflro-labes, and otbev 'matbematical Instruments oftbeir ancestars, as ba-ve escaped tbe injuries oftime , are looked upon ratber as curiofities ,//W consulted as afefull inventions. Bestdes fcveral of thefe qua-drants , depgned chiefly for t a hing altitudes, i once fam one atTozer in, rvbat me caU Ougbtreds projeQion , zzW/ executed,. andof a fout radius. We are also fometimesfavouredmitb a figbt oftbeir Kalendars , (ali of tbem likemife tbe morks of former ages)rvherein tbe funs place, tbe femidiurnal and noBurnal avcb, tbelengtbof tbe Tmiligbt, mitb tbe Jeveral bours ofprayer,for eacbdayin tbe montb, are calculated to a minute and beantis dly infer,ted in proper columns; but thefe again are as little consulted, astbe instruments.
Ad CAP. XIV' post. §. 122. A. 1586. Vaniburgi 4. eliasolai, Cimber, Tychoni in astronomicis exercitiis inseruiens, uul-gauit, & Christiano Principi Regio dedicavit. Diarium astrologi-cum & 1 meteorologicum anni ij$6, cui additur, de cometa quodamrotundo , cauda destituto , qui ann. ij85 m. oSlobri ?jf nouembri confpe-Eius fuit, ex obseruationibus certis defumta consideratio astrologica.Cometa Vraniburgi primum die 18 octobris (Castellis uero aRoth-manno d. 8- oct.) conspectus, & usque in d. 15 Nou. obscruatusfuit, cuius longitudo & latitudo, cum ascensione recta 6c declinatio-ne, abOlao indicantur, deque eius effectibus coniecturae astrologi-cae fubiiciuntur. In diario uero, sine calendario latino, quotidiepraeter loca solis & lunae, aspectus planetarum, ortus & occasusstellarum praecipuarum, una cum divinatione meteorologica uni-versali & particulari, nec non figurae astrologicae pro singulismensium lunarium quadrantibus, leguntur.
CAP. XV. post §. 32. A. 1620. Paris. 4. prodierunt Borbo-via fider a, id est, planetae, qui solis lumina circumuohtunt , motuproprio ac regulari, falso baElenus ab beliofcopis maculae solis nun-cupati, ex nduis obseruationibus ioannis tarde, Canonici 7 beo-logi eccleßae Catbedralis Sarlati in Aquitania. Primum auctordisputat contra eos, qui maculas pro praestigiis oculorum aut dio-ptrae ludificationibus habuerunt: cap. 2. nec non contra Galileum,
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