The sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English poem with annotations and an astronomical appendix / by Edward Sherburne, Esquire.

ASTRONOMERS after our SAVIOUR's Nativity.

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MODERATUS COLUMELLA, De Re Rustica, hath left an Astrolo∣gical* 1.2 Calendar; with Prognosticks.

THRASYLLUS, Native of Mendes, a City of Egypt, multarum Artium scienti∣am* 1.3 professus (sayes the old Scholiast of Iuvenal) prostremò se dedit Platonicae Sectae, ac deinde Mathesi, quâ praecipuè viguit apud Tiberium. By Mathesi, is to be under∣stood chiefly Astronomy, or rather Astrology, according to the Doctrine of the Chal∣d•…•…ns, in which he instructed Tiberius. He wrote likewise Of Musick; out of which Porphyry, upon Ptolemy's Harmonica, and Theon Smyrnaeus cite some Pieces. See more of him in Paganinus Gaudentius, De Philosophia apud Romanos, cap. 54. and V•…•…ssius de Histor. Graec. l 4. c. 16.

TIBERIUS CAESAR, the Emperour, was skilful in Astronomy and* 1.4 Astrology, instructed therein by Thrasyllus, quem ut Sapientiae Professorem contuber∣nio adm•…•…verat, sayes Suetenius, especially during his recess or exile at Rhodes. He had the luck to predict many future Events, particularly to foretel, by inspecting Galba's Nativity, that he should one day be Emperour; which he declared (Galba being then but a Youth) in these words, Et tu, Galba, quandoque degustabis Imperi∣um, as Tacitus relates it, though Suetonius and others apply it to Augustus. He is also reported to have had always by him the Genitures of all his Nobility, and that according as he found his own or the Kingdom's Horoscope to be well or ill looked upon by theirs, so he let them stand, or cut them off by Legislative Astrology; to use the ex∣pression of the famous M^r. Gregory.

GERMANICUS CAESAR, that excellent Prince, translated 〈◊〉〈◊〉 h•…•…* 1.5 Phaenomena into Latine Verse yet extant.* 1.6

CHAEREMON, a Philosopher of the Stoical Sect, by birth an Egypti•…•….* 1.7 Master to Dionysius Alexandrinus; wrote of the Egyptian Astrology, as we find by the mention made of him in Iamblichus, De Mysteriis, Aegypt. although both the Latine Translatours mistook his Name. He wrote also De Cometis, as Origen and Seneca testifie, the latter of whom calls him Charimander, and not Chaeremon, which G. Vossius conceives to be a mistake in the Text. He is mentioned by Strabo (•…•…ib. 17.) to have attended Aelius Gallus in a Voyage from Alexandria up into Egypt, whence we may conclude him to have flourished, about the latter end of Augustus, or beginning of Tiberius's Reign.

DIONYSIUS AREOPAGITA may justly be admitted into the num∣ber* 1.8 of Astronomers, since it is reported of him, that, at Helipolis in Egypt, toge∣ther with Apollophanes, he observed that miraculous Defection of the Sun, at the time of our Saviour's Passion: Whereupon he broke out into this Exclamation, Aut Deus Naturae patitur, aut Mundi machina dissolvitur. He was afterwards con∣verted to the Christian Faith, for which he died a Venerable Martyr, being aged a∣bove one hundred years.

JULIUS HYGINUS, whom some would have to be the Freed-man of* 1.9 Augustus, others, with more probability, of Severus and Antoninus, or of Iulia Severa the Empress, wrote the Astronomicum Poeticum, De Mundi & Sphaerae par∣tibus, and the Fables of the several Asterisms, yet extant.

SENECA, the Philosopher, occasionally intermingles in divers of his Writ∣ings* 1.10 several Astronomical Dissertations, and, in the seventh Book of his Natural Questions, hath expresly written of Comets.

ANDROMACHUS CRETENSIS was Physician to Nero, and about* 1.11 the latter end of his Reign wrote (as it is affirmed by Lucas Gauricus, and Clavius, in Sacroboscum) the first of any touching the Theory of the Planets; His Writing•…•… are much commended by Galen.

PLINY the Elder, in the second Book of his Natural History, hath written ma∣ny* 1.12 things touching the Celestial Bodies.

JARCHAS Prince of the Brachmannes was a famous Astronomer according* 1.13 to the Testimony of St. Ierome ad Paulinum, whose Words are These, Apoll•…•… (whether the Magician as vulgarly reputed, or the Philosopher according to the Tr•…•…∣dition of the Pythagoreans) went to the Brachmannes that he might hear Jarchas fit∣ting on a Throne of Gold, and discoursing of the daily Revolution and Motion of the Stars. Damis likewise reports that the said Iarchas gave to Apollonius seven Rings inscribed with the Names of the seven Planets, which he was to wear successively every Day One. See Rantzov. in Catalog. Astrol.

APOLLONIUS TYANAEUS wrote four Books, de Divinatione Astro∣logica,* 1.14 as Philostratus relates in his Life, though none of them be now extant.

PLUTARCHUS CHAERONENSIS, in his Book, De facie in Or•…•…e* 1.15 Lunae, and in his Work, De Placitis Philosophorum, hath shown himself studious and skilful in Astronomy.

MENELAUS, a most eminent Mathematician and Astronomer, was an Ob∣server* 1.16 of the Stars for a long time, both at Rhodes and at Rome. He hath left Three* 1.17 Books Sphaericorum, published by Mersennus, in his Synopsis Mathemat.

AGRIPPA, the Mathematician, observed (as it is reported by Ptolemy 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.)* 1.18 the Conjunction of the Moon with the Pleiades, happening Anno Nabonassar. 840. Nov. 29.

ASCLETARION was an Astrologer in the time of Domitian, whose* 1.19 fate he had predicted; for which being questioned and avowing the Prediction, he was asked by the Emperour what his own fate would be? To which he confi∣dently reply'd, that he should be torn in pieces by Dogs. Whereupon Domitian com∣manded that he should be immediately slain, and carefully buried, that the vanity of his Art might appear: But a sudden and violent tempest happening at the en∣terment of him, his body was deserted, and the Dogs came and tore it in pieces. See Sueton. in Domit.

HADRIANUS the Emperour was singularly well skill'd in Astronomy, and* 1.20 particularly in Judiciary Astrology, according to the Testimony of Aelius Spartia∣nus in his Life, who affirms that he used yearly in the Evening of the Calends of Ianuary to calculate what ever should happen to him for the whole year following. And in the Life of Verus, His Successour, he gives us this further Testimony, which take in his own Words: Fuisse Adrianum peritum Matheseôs, Marius Maximus usque adeò demonstrat, ut eum dicat cuncta de se scîsse, sic, ut omnium dierum usque ad horam mortis futuros actus antè perscripserit.

AQUILA PONTICUS was a learned Mathematician of Synope, first a* 1.21 Christian, but afterwards, by the Church, for his too great adherence to Judiciary Astrology, excommunicated; whereupon he became a Iewish Proselyte, and transla∣ted the Old Testament (though not very sincerely) into Greek.

THEON ALEXANDRINUS Senior (whom some would have to be* 1.22 the same with that Theon Smyrnaeus, who wrote in Mathematica Platonis, published by Bulialdus) made several Observations of the Planet Venus in the sixteenth year of the Emperour Hadrian, mentioned by Ptolemy cap. 10. Almagest. In the Library at Ausbourg, there is extant a Tractate of his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

PHLEGON TRALLIANUS, the Freed-man of Hadrian the Emperour,* 1.23 among other his Works, wrote De Olympiadibus, in which, according to the testi∣monies of Origen and Eusebius, he made a Chronological remark on the obscurati∣on of the Sun, which happened at the time of our Saviour's Passion.

CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS a Native of Pelusium, descended as some* 1.24 would have it of the Royal Race of the Ptolemies Kings of Egypt; The Prince in his Time of Astronomers, Geographers, and Astrologers; His Principal Works being eight Books of Geography, thirteen Books, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, commonly called Almagestum; 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, seu Quadripartita Syntaxis de judiciis Astro∣rum; And Parapegma de Apparentiis & Significationibus Inerrantium Stellarum, de Analemmate, &c. there are likewise ascribed to him 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. e. faciles & expediti, upon which Theon Alexandrinus Iun. is reported to have commented, or ra∣ther (as Golius in Alferganum from the Authority of Keusian Gilaeus notes) to have composed himself, and to have given them the Title of Canones Ptolemaici, because computed according to the Hypotheses of Ptolemy.

SEXTUS EMPIRICUS, Nephew to Plutarch the Philosopher, in his* 1.25 Hypotyp. Pyrrhon. writes sharply against Iudiciary Astrology.* 1.26

HEPHAESTION THEBANUS wrote de Configurationibus Stellarum,* 1.27 as cited by Salmasius, De Annis Climactericis, and others. Of whom divers Excerpta, De duodecim Zodiaci Signis & eorum Effectibus, are published by Camerarius, in Greek and Latine, amongst his Astrological Collections Printed at Norimberg. Of this Authour also three Books 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 are, by Simler, affirmed to be yet extant, in Bibliotheca Strozzae.

CLAUDIUS GALENUS Native of Pergamus in Asia, the most famous* 1.28 Physician of his time, in which Function he served three Roman Emperours, Adri∣anus, Lucius Verus, and Antoninus Pius. That he was learned in Astronomy and Astrology appears by his Books, de Diebus Decretoriis, his Epid. and his Mathemat. His Father likewise being well skilled therein, for thus (according to the Testimony of Antonius Fumanellus cited by Rantzovius in Catalog. Astronom.) he writes of Him. Pater Meus Optimus fuit Mathematicus, Exercitatus quandoque in Geometria, Arithmetica, Architectura, & Astronomia.

APULEIUS (if the Piece bearing his name be genuine) wrote De Sphaera,* 1.29 now extant, with other Astronomical Tractates, amongst the Manuscripts in the Li∣brary at Westminster, and in that of Nicholaus Trivisanus of Padua, as cited by Thomasinus in Bibliothec. Patavin. under this Title, Sphaera Apuleii Platonici.

LUCIAN the Philosopher, a Native of Samosata (at this Day Scempsat) a* 1.30 City in Syria, in the Province of Comagene, the facete Authour of the Ingenious Dialogues, wrote a Particular Treatise of Astrology, or Astronomy, setting forth it's Original, Antiquity, and Excellency. In which Dissertation, and in his Satur∣nalia, Bourdelotius affirms he hath inserted many things taken from our Manilius.

ANDRUZAGAR, an Arabian Astrologer, is said to have flourished about* 1.31 this time, by Iunctinus, in his Catalogue.

CENSORINUS, in his Book de Die Natali, hath written divers things* 1.32 touching the Harmonical Systeme of the Heavens.

ANATOLIUS ALEXANDRINUS, Bishop of Laodicea, in Syria, is* 1.33 mentioned by St. Hierome in his Book De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, to have been well skilled in Astronomy.

RABBI ADDA, about the end of Dioclesian's, or beginning of Constanti∣us's* 1.34 Reign, composed an Hebrew Calendar, and Rules for finding out the Tekupha's, or revolution of the Equinoxes.

JULIUS MATERNUS FIRMICUS, a Sicilian, about this time* 1.35 wrote eight Books Astronomicôn, containing Astrological Precepts, which, like an ungrateful Plagiary, he transcribed for the most part out of Manilius, without making the least mention of his name.

VETTIUS VALENS, of Antioch, by some called Vestius Valens, a famous* 1.36 Astronomer, or rather Astrologer of the same time, who calculated, for Constantine the Great, the fate of New Rome's Foundation, as L. Taruntius had done that of Old Rome; by G. Vossius conceived to be the same with him, of whose Works some Pieces are published by Ioachimus Camerarius, In Astrologicis Veterum opuscu∣lis,

Edit. Norimberg. Anno 1532. His Anthologia is now intended for the Press, at* 1.37 Paris, by the care, as I am informed, of Mons. Huetius.

PORPHYRIUS, a famous Platonist, but bitter Enemy to Christianity, wrote* 1.38 an Isagoge of Astronomy in three Books, as Suidas testifies. His Isagoge to Ptolemy's Apotelesmatice, is also here to be mentioned; Printed at Basil.

MARIUS VICTORINUS AFER, Master to St. Ierome, among many* 1.39 other Works translated Porphyrius his Astronomical Isagoge, into Latine, yet ex∣tant with the Comment of Boetius thereupon, as Gesner affirms.

THEON ALEXANDRINUS Iunior, a Philosopher, contemporary to* 1.40 Pappus, and an excellent Mathematician. He observed an Eclipse of the Sun in the year of Nabonassar 1112. and besides other Mathematical Tractates, wrote (ac∣cording to Suidas) De ortu Caniculae, Canonem expeditum in Ptolemaeum, a Com∣mentary in parvum Astrolabium, and upon Ptolemy's Almagest, in eleven Books first published at Basile, by Ioachimus Camerarius, according to the Greek Manu∣script, brought into Italy by Cardinal Bessarion, and from thence into Germany, by Regiomontanus; as also upon Aratus's Phaenomena, this last lately Printed at the Theater in Oxford; but upon no account so famous, as that of being Father to the excellent HYPATIA.

ABYDAS ASTRONOMUS is mentioned by Epiphanius; against whom* 1.41 Bardesanes the Syrian (in his Book de fato) writ, who flourished in the time of Antoninus Verus.

PAULUS ALEXANDRINUS wrote an Astronomical Isagoge, or In∣troduction;* 1.42 perhaps the same whom G. Vossius calls Paulus the Philosopher, who wrote likewise Apotelesmatica, sive, de Effectibus Syderum, Published by Rantzovius.

MACROBIUS-AMBROSIUS-AURELIUS-THEODOSIUS,* 1.43 Consul of Rome, born at Parma, contemporary with Symmachus, wrote two Books, De Somnio Scipion•…•…s, wherein he handles divers Astronomical Arguments, as he does likewise in his Saturnalia.

CLEOMEDES, a learned Astronomer and Philosopher of the Stoical Sect,* 1.44 wrote two Books 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. e. De Contemplatione Orbium Coelestium, first published, in Greek, by Conradus Neobarius, afterwards translated into Latine, by 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Valla, and commented upon by Robertus Balforeus, Printed at Bourde∣•…•… •…•…05.4^o.

SEXTUS AVIENUS RUFUS, an elegant Poet, by birth a Spaniard,* 1.45 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Phaenomena of Aratus into Latine Heroick Verse, and likewise para∣phrased Dionysius Afer, De Situ Orbis, and wrote, in Iambicks, De Oris Maritimis.

FLAVIUS MANLIUS, or MANLIUS THEODORUS, Consul* 1.46 of Rome is celebrated for his great Erudition, having written several Pieces both in Philosophy and Mathematicks, particularly in Astronomy, as may appear by that elegant Panegyrick Poem written in praise of him, by Claudian; whence we have taken these following Verses to shew his Indeavours on that Subject.

—Elementa doces, sempérque fluentis Materiae causas; quae vis animaverit Astra, Implêritque choros: quo vivit Machina Motu.

Sidera cur septem retrò nitantur in Ortus* 1.47 Obluctata Polo, variisque meatibus idem Arbiter, an geminae convertant Aethera Mentes.

But the Injury of Time hath not left us any Remains of these his curious and learn∣ed Labours.

PAPPUS ALEXANDRINUS, besides other his Mathematical* 1.48 Works, wrote a Comment upon Ptolemy's Almagest, and in his sixth Book of Ma∣thematical Collections hath left some Explications, In Aristarchum Samium, De Magnitudinibus & Distantiis Solis & Lunae, yet extant, and translated by Comman∣dinus; published at Pesaro, 1572. and likewise to be found in M^r. Foster's Mis∣cellanies.

HYPATIA, Daughter to Theon Alexandrinus Iunior, and Wife to Isidorus* 1.49 the Philosopher, which name she her self more justly merited, as being eminently learned in the Mathematicks and Philosophy, which she publickly professed and taught, till by the barbarous Christians, or Monsters rather, of Alexandria, out of meer envy for her admirable skill in Astronomy, and other Mathematical Learning, she was most inhumanely murthered and torn to pieces, in the very Cathedral Church. She wrote (besides a Comment upon Diophantus, and another upon Apol∣lonius's Conicks) an Astronomical Canon, as both Hesychius and Suidas affirm.

About this Time flourished two Aegyptian Monks; ANIANUS, who, after* 1.50 the Example of Eusebius, writ a Chronological Work; and PANODORUS, who to his skill in Chronology added the Knowledge of Astronomy. Out of the Fragments of which last Syncellus hath excerpted many things, as Scaliger likewise, in his Eusebian Animadversions.

SYNESIUS, first a Heathen Philosopher, afterwards a Christian, and Bishop of* 1.51 Cyrene, writ, among other his Works, De Instrumentis Astronomicis, being a Dis∣course occasioned by his presenting Paeonius with an Astrolabe, and is extant in his Majesty's Library at St. Iames's. There are also extant divers Epistles of his to the before mentioned Hypatia, with this direction, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

AETIUS AMIDENUS (Comes & Medicus, sayes Ricciolus) wrote He∣merologium,* 1.52 De Significationibus Stellarum, translated first out of Greek into Latine, by Cornarius, and since published by Petavius, Uranolog. pag. 421.

S. CYRILLUS, Bishop of Alexandria; besides other Works of his, wrote* 1.53 De Cyclo Paschali, mentioned by Sigebertus Gemblacensis, in Chron.

BACHARIUS MACCAEUS, a Britain, Disciple of St. Patrick, Publi∣shed* 1.54 a Book, De Prognosticis Nativitatum, according to Balaeus.

S. PROSPER AQUITANUS, Bishop of Rhegium, composed a Paschal* 1.55 Cycle, consisting of 532. years.

VICTORINUS AQUITANUS, whom G. Vossius conceives to be more* 1.56 truly called Victorius, composed a Paschal Cycle, being by Pope Hilarius, for his eminent skill in Astronomy, invited to Rome, to undertake the correction of the Calendar. Yet his Paschal Cycle seems to have been not long after reformed by Victor, Bishop of Capua, who likewise wrote on the same Subject.

THEODORET, Bishop of Cyrus, is by Iunctinus, in his Catalogue, put* 1.57 into the number of Astronomers, as also by Ricciolus, in Chron. part. 2.* 1.58

MAUGANTIUS, a Britain by extraction, a famous Philosopher, and Mathe∣matician,* 1.59 in the time of Vortigerne, to whom he was principal Physician, as Geoffry of Monmouth reports. He studied in the City of Chester, in which at that time Astronomy, and all other Arts flourished, and, from the diligent observation of the course of the Stars, and Planets, became more eminently learned in Astrology, than any of his time. He calculated the prodigious conception of Merlin, and wrote De Magia Naturali.

AMBROSIUS MERLINUS, a Britain, in the time of King Vortigern,* 1.60 was famous for his admirable skill in Astronomy and Astrology, of whom Balaeus thus writes; Merlinus in Urbe Legionum (Caerlleon) studiis diligenter in•…•…ubuit, & eruditis Artibus & literis operam dedit, Magiae potissimùm Naturali. Unde Astrono∣miae tandem peritissimus futura praedixit multa, quibus sequenti saeculo mirabilem se praebuit. He wrote a particular Treatise of a certain Comet, which appeared in his time, as Balaeus testifies, and a Book of obscure Predictions translated into Latine by Geoffry Monmouth, as Gesner affirms.

CARPUS ANTIOCHENUS wrote 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. e. Rei Astronomicae* 1.61 libros; of which Proclus, in primum Euclidis, mak•…•…s mention. To him Mr. Selden ascribes the Books commonly entituled Ptolemaei Centiloqutum. Vid. Selden. de Diis Syr. Syntagm. 1. seu de Teraphim.

CASSIODORUS, a Person of Consular dignity, and honoured with the* 1.62 most eminent Charges of State in the time of Anastasius the Emperour and Theodo∣ricus King of the Goths, afterwards a Recluse in the Monastery of Cassina, wrote, amongst other things, Of Astronomy, & De Computo Ecclesiastico.

SIMPLICIUS, a Native of Phrygia, an eminent Platonick Philosopher, and* 1.63 excellent Commentator upon Aristotle, De Coelo, merits to be here mentioned.

MARIANUS, Marci Causidici F. wrote a Metaphrasis of Aratus, in MCCCXL.* 1.64 Iambicks. He lived in the time of Anastasius the Emperour. See Simler in Bibl. Gesner.

THIUS ATHENIENSIS wrote seven Books of Observations of the* 1.65 mean Motions of the Stars, so much the more acceptable (sayes G. Vossius de Scient. Mathem.) in regard that from Ptolemy's time unto that of Albategnius, there are not any Observations of the Celestial motions extant. These, transcribed from a Manu∣script in the King of France's Library, were first published by Bulialdus, at Paris, Anno 1645.

PROCLUS LYCIUS, a Platonick Philosopher, surnamed DIADO∣CHUS,* 1.66 Disciple to Magnus Syrianus, taught for a long time at Athens, and writ a Comment upon the first Book of Euclid; Of the Sphere, (being for the most part an Epitome of Geminus;) Of the Astrolabe and Astronomical Hypotheses, (being a Compendium of Ptolemy's Almagest.) There was another Proclus surnamed Siccen∣sis, who was Master, or Tutor, to M. Antoninus the Emperour, confounded by some with this Proclus Diadochus; but without all reason. For Diadochus flourished not till the Reign of Anastasius, being 300. years after Siccensis. Ricciolus conceives this Proclus Diadochus to be the same with Proclus the famous Mathematician, who as Zonaras (part. 3. Annal.) reports, made, in imitation of Archimedes, Burning-Glasses,

with which he fired Vitalianus his Fleet, at the Siege of Constantinople, and* 1.67 was employed by Anastasius the Emperour, as Interpreter of his Dreams.

MARINUS NEAPOLITANUS, Disciple to Proclus Diadochus, wrote,* 1.68 Praevia ad Phaenomena, and Phaenoménôn Librum singularem, sayes Voss. de Scient. Math. p 166. who yet doubteth whether this be not another Marinus, who writ 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, ad Euclidem.

JOANNNES LAURENTIUS PHILADELPHENSIS LY∣DUS,* 1.69 wrote in the time of Iustinian the Emperour, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, de Mensibus, with other Mathematical Tractates, mentioned by Photius, and Suidas, yet extant in MS. in the Library of my honoured and most learned Friend, M^r. Isaac Vossius.

DIODORUS MONACHUS, Bishop of Tarsus in Cilicia, wrote (ac∣cording* 1.70 to Suidas) contra Astrologos & Fatum; he put forth likewise a Book de Sphaera, & septem Zonis, of the Annual Progress of the Stars, and of the Sphere of Hipparchus.

DIONYSIUS EXIGUUS, by birth a Scythian, but a Roman Abbot,* 1.71 wrote a Paschal Cycle, or rather corrected that of Victorinus, or Victorius, as Victo∣rius had done that of Theophilus, and he, that of Cyrillus. This Computus, or Cycle was observed by the Latine Church, until the correction of the Calendar by Pope Gregory XIII. From this Dionysius, the Christians first learnt to reckon their years, from the Nativity of our Saviour, thence called Aera Dionysiana; whereas before, they reckoned, from the Persecution of Dioclesian.

TRIBONIANUS SIDETES, a Civil Lawyer in the time of Iustinian* 1.72 the Emperour, wrote a Comment upon Ptolemy's Canon, in Verse. He published likewise Concentum Mundanae & Harmonicae Dispositionis; and another Book, de Planetarum domiciliis, as likewise de Mensium Permutatione, and some other Pieces; of which Suidas.

PHILIPPUS MEDMAEUS, so called from Medme, a Town of Italy, by* 1.73 Stephanus, in Voce Medme, stil'd 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, which G. Vossius conceives ought to be read, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. for he wrote de Ventis, as they are foreseen or predicted, from the Position of the Stars, or Constitution of the Heavens. He also flourished in the time of Iustinian the Emperour.

PHILOPONUS, surnamed Grammaticus, deserves here to be recorded for his* 1.74 Comment in Astrolabium planum, sive de usu Astrolabii, written in Greek, yet ex∣tant in New Colledge, Oxford, and (as Simler in Bibl. Gesner. adds) in the French King's Library.

BUZUR-GIUMHUR, an ancient Persian Authour, being one of the Coun∣sellours* 1.75 and Courtiers of Nushirvân King of Persia (in the 42. year of whose Reign Mahomet the false Prophet was born) wrote De Quaestionibus Astrologicis.

MARTIANUS FELIX MINAEUS CAPELLA, in his Work,* 1.76 entituled, De Nuptiis Mercurii cum Philologiâ, wrote of Geometry, Arithmetick, Musick, and Astronomy.

ISIDORUS, Bishop of Hispalis, or Sevit, in Spain, Son to Severianus, Duke* 1.77 of Carthage, in his Book, De Originibus, hath inserted a Compendium, or Epitome of all the Mathematicks; and in his Book, De Mundo; with the like brevity treated of

the Sphere. The Astronomical Poem, (of which the Fragment is published by Pythaeus* 1.78 among the Ancient Latine Poets by him set forth) under the Name of Fulgentius, is by Pythaeus conceiv'd to belong to Isidore, at the End of whose Works it is com∣monly inserted without any other Name to it; if yet (as Pythaeus adds from the Conjecture of a certain Learned Person) it may not rather be ascribed to Varro Atacinus.

HEMOALDUS, an English man, surnamed PROVIDUS, between* 1.79 whom and Venerable Bede there was great familiarity, to whom he addressed his Book De Rebus Mathematicis, yet extant, as Bede, on the other side, did an Epistle to him, De Ratione Quadrantis Anni, sive, de Bissexto.

THEODORUS MELITENIOTAS, Magnus Sacellarius Magnae* 1.80 Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae, wrote of Astronomy, and particularly upon Ptolemy's Astronomical Syntaxis, or Almagest; the Proem of which Work from a MS. out of the Library of Mr. Isaac Vossius, Bulialdus lately published, at the end of his learned Comment, upon Ptolemy's 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

BEDA, commonly called Venerable Bede, was renouned for his knowledge and* 1.81 study of Astronomy, amongst whose Works there is yet extant, De Argumentis Lunae, De Ephemeride, De Embolismis, De Circulo Decennovennuali, De Cyclo Pas∣chali, De Circulis Sphaerae & Polis, De Planetis & Signis Coelestibus, De Astrolabio, & De Aequinoctio Vernali.

ADELMUS DUROTELLUS, seu BLADUNIUS (i. e. MAL∣MESBURIENSIS)* 1.82 Son of Kenred, and Grandchild of Ina, King of the West-Saxons. Bishop of Sherburne, (now translated to Salisbury) wrote De Cyclo Paschali, contra Britannos, and De Astrologia, as Balaeus affirms.

FLACCUS ALBINUS, sive ALCUINUS, an English-man, born in* 1.83 York shire, Scholar to Venerable Bede, and Tutour to Charlemaigne, to whom he was sent upon an Embassie by Off a King of the Mercians, and, for his exquisite Learning, invited by Charlemaigne, to continue with him in France; which he did; per∣swading that Prince to erect the University of Paris. He was excellently well skilled in all the Parts of the Mathematicks, which he publickly taught; and wrote De Septem Artibus Liberalibus, and De Astrologia, as Vossius, De Scient. Mathemat. testifies.

CHARLEMAIGNE, King of France, and Emperour, instructed by Alcui∣nus* 1.84 aforesaid, became excellently well skilled in the Mathematicks, particularly in Astronomy, insomuch that he wrote Ephemerides, and was extremely delighted in making observations of the Stars. He gave names to the Moneths of the Year, and to the Winds, in High-Dutch, which continue to this Day. He was, by a King of Persia his Contemporary, upon the knowledge he had of his affection to Astrono∣mical Studies, presented with a Piece of Clock-work, showing the motion of •…•…he Planets; which the Emperour being then at Paderborne, in Westphalia, received with no less admiration than pleasure. Vid. Voss. De Scient. Mathem. c. 35.

JOHANNES CAMATERUS, Chamberlain to the Emperour Porphy∣rogeneta,* 1.85 writ De Genethliis, & Syderum positione, & Astrologiam Chaldaicam, in Verse, now in the Possession of my Learned Friend Mr. Tho. Gale.

ALMAEON, whom some call ALMAMON, the deservedly renouned* 1.86 Califfe of Babylon, (as Mr. Graves stiles him in his Pyramidograph.) fifty years be∣fore

the time of Albategnius, observed the greatest Declination of the Sun to have* 1.87 been 23°. (according to Elancanus and Herigone) or 23°. and 35′. (according to Ricciolus, from the authority of Alfraganus.) He first commanded Ptolemy's 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 to be translated into Arabick; which Translation gave that Work the corrupt, but now common name of Almagest. He found by observation and mea∣suring in the Plains of Singar, that one Degree of a great Circle on the Earth is equal to 56. miles. His Astronomical Designs were so acceptable to the Genius of that Nation, that in the Times succeeding, no less than Thirty Kings are said to have emulated his Example; as is observed by Golius (notis in Alfergan.)

EGMUNDUS, surnamed ASTROLOGUS, is by Ricciolus put also in∣to* 1.88 the Catalogue of Astronomers about this Time.

MESSHALA ARABS, sive MESSAHULACH, signalized his Name* 1.89 by his Book De Receptionibus, & De Conjunctionibus Planetarum, & De Revolutio∣nibus Annorum Mundi. He wrote likewise, De Elementis & Orbibus Coelestibus; a third Book, De Ratione Circuli & Stellarum Operationibus; and another, De Com∣positione & Utilitate Astrolabii: The first Printed at Venice, Anno 1493. with P•…•…o∣lemy's Quadripartitum; The second, at Norimberg, by Montanus and Neuberus; The third, at Basil, by Hervagius, Anno 1533. And the fourth and last, by Henricus Petri, in Appendice Margaritae Philosophicae.

LEO PHILOSOPHUS writ something in Astrology, yet extant in the* 1.90 French King's Library, as Labbeé testifies, in Catal. MS.

ALBATEGNIUS or trulier ALBATTANIUS ARACENSIS,* 1.91 called likewise MAHUMETES TINEU, vel MAHUMETES ARA∣CENSIS, or (but mistakenly) ARACTENSIS, from the City of Arrac, com∣monly, but corruptly, called Aracta, in Syria, Son of Geber Auchan, Son of Cruen, Prince of Syria, made diligent observations of the Stars, both at Arrac and Antioch: And finding that Ptolemy's Canons in his time dissented much from the course of the Heavens, he made new Tables of his own. He wrote a Book De Scientia Stel∣larum, first translated out of Arabick into Latine, by Plato Tiburtinus, and illustra∣ted with Annotations, by Io. Regiomontanus. He observed the Sun's greatest De∣clination to be 23°. 35′. and the first Star of Aries to be 18°. 2′. in Longitude from the Equinoctial Point. His Observations were Printed at Norimberg. His Book De Numeris & Scientia Stellarum, according to a Transcript thereof, taken by Lucas Valerius (Publick Professour of Mathematicks at Rome) out of the Vati•…•…an Library, was reprinted more correctly in Latine at Bologna in the year 1645. and dedicated by Bernardinus Ugulottus to Ferdinand the second Grand Duke of Tuscany.

ACHILLES TATIUS wrote a Book De Sphaera, as Suidas affirms, part of* 1.92 which G. Vossius conceives to be his Commentary in Aratum, Published in Greek and Latine, by Petavius, in Uranolog.

MOHAMMED IBN ZACHARIAE AL RAZI wrote many* 1.93 Books in several Sciences, and among the rest, a Particular Astronomical Treatise, as I find it mentioned in the Catalogue of Golius his Manuscripts. He died in the year of the Hegira 320. of Christ 932.

ABDORRAHMAN AL-SUPHI, commonly (but corruptly) called* 1.94 AZOPHI, or ELZUPHI, or EBENNOZOPHIM, an Arabian Astro∣nomer, Authour of the Persian Tables, in which, sayes ricciolus, Stellarum Sche∣mata & loca ordinata sunt. The Work transcribed by his Son, with the Delinea∣tion

of the Celestial Signs in Miniature by the same hand, is extant among the* 1.95 Manuscripts of Iacobus Golius.

ALFRAGANUS MAHUMEDES, or AMETUS, or AHEMED,* 1.96 or MUHAMED, the Son of Amet, called Alfraganus, or rather Alferganus, from the City Fergana, in the Province of Sogdiana. He wrote Elementa Astrono∣mica, compiled chiefly out of Ptolemy, which by Rabbi Iacob Antolius were turned into Hebrew, and by Iohannes Hispalensis, in the year 1142 translated out of Ara∣bick into Latine, but lately published in Arabick and Latine, by the famous Iacobus Golius, with learned Notes, which yet he lived not to compleat. He writ likewise de Astrolabii Descriptione & Usu, and a Book of Dialing, as Golius in his Notes asserts. G. Pastregicus mentions another Treatise of Alfraganus, entitled De Aggre∣gationibus Stellarum. V. Simler. Bibl. Gesner.

HALI BEN RAGEL is about this time, by Ricciolus, inserted into the* 1.97 number of Astronomers.

ARZAHEL ALA BEN writ Tables and Canons of the Motions of the* 1.98 Celestial Bodies, preserved in MS. in the Library of Merton Colledge in Oxford, and in that of Caius and Gonvil in Cambridge, according to Iamesius Eclog. Oxon. Cant. Whether the same with Arzahel Hispanus (of whom in the next Century) we leave to be considered.

ALI IBNO'L HOZEIN, a Persian, wrote of the Theory of the Planets,* 1.99 as Abul Pharagius in Hist. Dynast. witnesses, and De Demonstratione Planisphaerii, as Hottinger, in Smegm. Orient.

ALFARABIUS Arabs, stiled by Blancanus, Astronomus celebris, called like∣wise* 1.100 ABUNASR, according to Abul Pharagius, in Histor. Dynast. under whose Name Simler, in Bibl. Gesner. affirms, there is extant a Piece entitled de Compositione Astrolabii.

ETHEL WOLDUS WENTANUS, of the Race of the West-Saxon* 1.101 Kings, sometime Abbot of Abington, afterwards Bishop of Winchester, wrote, among other Works of different Subjects, a Treatise de Planetis, & de Climatibus Mundi, as Balaeus affirms.

MUHAMMED IB'N AHMED ALBIROUNI, a Persian Astro∣nomer,* 1.102 wrote De modo mensurandi Altitudinem Stellarum; as also an Explication of the use of the Astrolabe, extant amongst the Manuscripts of Iacobus Golius.

IB'N JUNES, or JOUNIS, an Egyptian, wrote Astronomical Tables, to∣gether* 1.103 with a History of Various Observations, and the reason of Calculating the Celestial Motions; which he dedicated to Hakein, perhaps Elhacain King of Egypt, who flourished about the year 373. of the Hegira, of Christ, 996.

ABBO FLORIACENSIS, so called as being Abbot of the Monastery* 1.104 of Fleury, in Burgundy, a French man, Native of Orleans, among other Works, wrote De Motibus Stellarum, De Planetarum cursu, & Demonstrationes Astronomicae.

CAMPANUS NOVARIENSIS, an eminent Astrologer and Astrono∣mer.* 1.105 He found a peculiar way of erecting a Celestial Scheme, by division of the prime vertical Circle, which way Gazulus followed. He wrote, besides Theoricas Planetarum, De Sphaera, & De Computo; Another Piece, de Compositione Astrolabii;

and a Calendar. Simler mentions another Piece of his entitled Breviloquium duo∣decim* 1.106 Signorum Zodiaci, which he sayes in his Time was extant, apud M. Dresse∣rum in MS.

ABU-ALI-IBN SINA, commonly called AVICENNA, a famous Phy∣sician,* 1.107 whose life is exactly written and prefixed to Plempius's Translation of the second Books of Avicen's Canon Medicinae, and of whom an excellent account is given in Abul Pharagius his History of the Dynasties. He writ De Astronomia & Chronologia, mentioned amongst the Manuscripts of Iacobus Golius. He was born in the year of the Hegira 370. and died in the year 428. which are the years of Christ, 980. and 1036.

IB'N HAITEM wrote touching the motion of the Center of the Moon's* 1.108 Epicycle; Of the difference of the Solar and Lunar Year; Of the Dimensions of the Earth, Sun, and Moon; And De Motu Circulari: As also touching the exact method of taking the Elevation of the Pole. He died at Grand-Cairo about the Year of Christ, 1038.

HERMANNUS CONTRACTUS a Monk, but of noble Extraction,* 1.109 as being Son of Wolferad, Earl of Varinge in Suaben, (which Surname of Contractus he gained à membrorum contractione, as G. Vossius affirms) wrote three Books De Com∣positione Astrolabii, and one De Utilitate Astrolabii. He wrote likewise another De Eclipsibus, and translated the Works of several Arabian Astronomers into Latine.

ISAACIUS ARGYRUS MONACHUS wrote de Cyclis Solis &* 1.110 Lunae, and de Computo Ecclesiastico; which last Petavius hath published in Greek and Latine, in Uranolog. His Astronomical Tractates are said to be kept in MS. in the Library at Auspurg; and what other Mathematical Pieces he wrote, will appear in Simler's Epitome of Gesner's Bibliotheca.

OLIVERIUS MALMESBURIENSIS, by some called ELME∣RUS,* 1.111 wrote Astrologorum Dogmata quaedam, and another Book, De Signis Planeta∣rum; as Balaeus testifies.

GULIELMUS, Abbas Coenobii Hirsaugiensis, in the Diocess of Spires, com∣posed* 1.112 Three Books Rerum Philosophicarum, & Astronomicarum; Printed at Basile, 1431.

ARZACHEL HISPANUS, an Arabian by extraction, 190. years after* 1.113 Albategnius, observed the greatest Declination of the Sun to be 23°. 34′. Some make him a Native of Toledo, being called likewise Abraham Elzara Keel. Georgius Ioachimus Rheticus, in the Preface to his Ephemerides, makes him to be the Au∣thour Toletanarum Tabularum, and that he left 402. Observations, touching the Sun's Apogaeum. Vid. Ricciol. in Chronol. Astron.

ROBERTUS LORRAINE, so called by the English, by reason he was* 1.114 Originally a Lorrainer, Profest and taught both in the Schools of France and Bel∣gia, Philosophy, Rhetorick, and Mathematicks, for which Reason he was well esteemed by William the Conquerour, and advanced to the Bishoprick of Here∣ford; He wrote de Stellarum Motibus, Tabulae Mathematicae, & de Lunari Computo. See Balaeus.

ALHAZEN ARABS, wrote, besides seven Books of Opticks, one De Cre∣pusculis,* 1.115 in which, sayes Blancanus, Aeris suprema maltitudinem acutissimè rimatur.

Fredericus Risner published and illustrated his Works with a Comment and Sculps,* 1.116 and makes mention of three other Signal Arabians of the same name, as Ricciolus (Chronic. Astron.) affirms.

GEBER HISPALENSIS ARABS, explained Ptolemy's Almagest, in* 1.117 nine Books, first Printed at Norimberg by Petreius, Anno 1533. together with Pe∣trus Apianus, his Scheme or Instrument of the Primum mobile. In the beginning of which Work he treats of Spherical Triangles, as far as requisite to Astronomical Cal∣culations; from whence, (sayes Mersennus, in Synops. Mathemat.) Purbacchius and Regiomontanus excerpted many things in their Epitome of Ptolemy's Almagest. His chief study was to amend what he found defective in Ptolemy. However Coperni∣cus stiles him Ptolemaei Calumniatorem.

ALKINDUS, a Philosopher and Astrologer, wrote, much about this time, a* 1.118 Piece entitled, De Temporum mutationibus: And about the Year 1235. Iacobus Alkindus wrote, among other things, De Radiis Stellarum, yet extant in France. See Labbeé's Bibliotheca.

RABBI ABRAHAM wrote de Sphaera, sayes Blancanus, from the Au∣thority* 1.119 of Christmannus in Alfraganum.

ATHELARDUS, Bathoniensis Coenobii Monachus, Philosophus, Astronomus,* 1.120 Rhetor, ac Poeta non vulgariter eruditus (sayes Balaeus Cent. 2.) leaving England, out of a desire to enrich himself by the Acquisition of Forreign (especially the Eastern) Learning, travelled into the Oriental Parts, and having made a Peregrina∣tion through Egypt and Arabia, and in a great measure satisfied his curious and learned Appetite, he returned into his own Country, and published, among other Works of his, a Treatise of Ezychiafarim, of the seven Planets, by him translated out of Arabick; he wrote likewise a Book de septem Artibus Liberalibus, and ano∣ther, de Astrolabio.

RICHARDUS, Monachus Eboracensis, wrote upon Arzahel's Tables, now* 1.121 extant in the Publick Library at Oxford.

ALMAEON ALMANSORIUS, in the year 1140. observed the greatest* 1.122 Declination of the Sun to be 23°. 33′. His Aphorisms, Propositions, or Astrolo∣gical Sentences, Hervagius published in the year 1530. together with Iulius Fir∣micus. This Almaeon, Vossius conceives to be different from Almaeon King of the Arabs, of whom before.

JOANNES HISPALENSIS first translated into Latine, Alfraganus, as* 1.123 Blancanus, from Christmannus, and from them both Vossius, de Scient. Mathem. c. 35. affirm. He likewise translated Alcabicius his Isagoge ad Magisterium Iudiciorum Astron. He writ likewise Epitome totius Astrologiae, first Printed at Norimberg 1548. with Ioachimus Hellerus his Preface, contra Astrologiae Adversarios, as Simler. Bibl. Gesner. hath noted.

RODOLPHUS BRUGENSIS, a Mathematician of Tholouze, transla∣ted* 1.124 into Latine, and Published Ptolemy's Planisphere, which he dedicated to his Ma∣ster, Theodoricus Platonicus, (as Gesner testifies) Printed together with Aratus, by Valderus, at Bafile, 1536.

ALPETRAGIUS, an Astronomer of Marocco, as Ricciolus affirms. He* 1.125 wrote Theorica Physica, translated out of Latine by Calo Calonymus Parthenopaeus,

and likewise, De Astrologia, sayes Vossius, who conceives him to be the same with* 1.126 him mentioned in Summa Alberti Magni. He observed the Declination of the Sun to be the same with that of Almaeon.

ABRAHAM ABEN-EZRA, or, according to others, AVEN-HESRE,* 1.127 a great Astronomer and Philosopher, wrote a Book entitled Mispatho Hamazzaloth, i. e. De Iudiciis Signorum; and another, called Ta•…•…min, i. e. Rationum Astronomi∣carum; and a third, De Luminaribus & Diebus Criticis, sayes Ricciolus. This last was revised and published at Rome by Angelus Blondus, as Vossius, in Addend ad L. de Scient. Mathemat. affirms. There is likewise extant under his name, a Book, a∣mongst the Manuscripts of Iacobus Golius, entitled, De Anni magnitudine, and Indorum Astronomia.

MANUEL COMNENUS, Emperour of Constantinople, wrote several* 1.128 Astronomical Tractates, yet preserved in the Vatican Library; as Simler. in Bibl. Gesner. testifies.

JOHANNES DE HEXHAM, so called from the place of his Nativity;* 1.129 a Town in-the Bishoprick of Durham, a Benedictine Monk, wrote, among other things, De Signis. & Cometis.

RABBI MOSES BEN-MAIMON, commonly, from the initial Letters* 1.130 of his Name, called Rambam, among many other Works, writ De Astrologia, sive Siderum Viribus & Effectis, first published in Hebrew, afterwards translated into Latine, by Ioannes Isaac Levita Germanus, Professour of the Hebrew Tongue in the University of Colen, and there Printed by Maternus Cholinus, in the Year 1555.

AVERROES, an Arabian Physician of Corduba, for his diligence in com∣menting* 1.131 upon all the Works of Aristotle, called Commentator Magnus, and simply Commentator, reduced Ptolemy's Almagest into an Epitome.

SIMEON, Monk of Durham, wrote De Cometa, & Combustione London, &* 1.132 aliis injuriis, as I find it cited by Iames's Eclog. Oxon. Cant. who affirms the same to be extant in Benet▪Colledge Library in Cambridge. Balaeus sayes of him, that he was Vir suo saeculo in multis Scientiis eleganter instructus, praesertim Mathematicis.

ALBUMAZAR, otherwise called ABU-ASSAR, and JAPHAR, wrote* 1.133 Eight Books De Magnis Conjunctionibus, & Annorum Revolutionibus, and is report∣ed to have observed a Comet, in his time, to have been above the Orb of Venus. He wrote likewise Introductio in Astronomiam, Printed in the Year 1489.

ROGERUS HEREFORDIENSIS, of whom Balaeus sayes, That he* 1.134 was, Astrorum Peritus, & Metallorum Indagator Maximus, wrote In Artem Iudicia∣riam; Theoricam Planetarum; De Ortu & Occasu Signorum, and Collectaneum Anno∣rum Planet.

CLEMENS LANTHONIENSIS, so called from the Town of Lan∣thony* 1.135 near Gloucester, an Augustine Fryer, wrote, among other things, De Orbibus Astrologicis, and flourished about the same time.

HUMENIUS AEGYPTIUS, about this time, wrote Astronomical Tables,* 1.136 which Christmannus, in Alferganum, affirms to be yet extant in the Palatine (now the Vaticane) Library, as also in the Publick Library at Oxford.

DANIEL MORLEY, so named from the place of his birth, a Town in* 1.137 Norfolk, out of his great inclination to promote and advance Mathematical Learn∣ing,* 1.138 having sometime studied in the University of Oxon, travelled to Toledo, in Spain, to instruct himself in the Language and Learning of the Arabians, which there chiefly flourished, and, after his return home, wrote De Inferiori Mundo, One Book; Another, De Superiori Mundo; and a Third, entitled, Principia Mathema∣tices.

OMAR ASTROLOGUS, or HOAMAR or HOMAR, Son of* 1.139 Belnal Fargardian, a Native of Tyberias, wrote Three Books Of Nativities, pub∣lished by Hervagius, together with Firmicus, 1532.

HALY ABEN RODOHAM, an Arabian, or according to G. Vossius,* 1.140 an Egyptian, wrote a Commentary upon Ptolemy's Centiloquium and Quadriparti∣tum, Published by Octavianus Scotus, at Venice, together with other Arabian Astro∣logers. He wrote likewise De Radiorum Projectionibus, and Three Nativities, whereof one his own, annexed to his other Works. This very Year he observed a Comet in the fifteenth Degree of Scorpio; of which more in the History of Comets.

LEOPOLDUS DE AUSTRIA, Son of the Duke of Austria, Episco∣pus* 1.141 Frisingensis, writ Ten Tracts, De Astrorum Scientia, Printed at Augsbourg, 1489.

GILBERTUS LEGLEY, Philosophus & Mathematicus suae Aetatis non* 1.142 vulgaris (sayes Balaeus) wrote Compendium in Astronomia, & in Prognostica Hippo∣cratis. He was Physician in Ordinary to Hubert, Archbishop of Canterbury.

JOANNES AEGIDIUS, vel de SANCTO AEGIDIO, born at St.* 1.143 Albans, Philosophus Summus, Physician to Philip King of France, Professour of Physick and Philosophy, both in the University of Paris and Montpelier; He wrote Prognostica Futurorum, and another Book, de Materia Coeli. Balaeus, de Scriptor Brit.

ALEXANDER DE VILLLA DEI, Dolensis, wrote of the Sphere.* 1.144 He published likewise a Book of Arithmetick, and Computum Ecclesiasticum; as G. Vossius, De Scient Math. affirms.

GEORGIUS MEDICUS CHRYSOCOCCA, writ De Inventione* 1.145 Feriae, and an Exposition Syntaxeos Persarum, with several Tables Mediorum Motu∣um, published by Bulialdus, at the end of his Astronomia Philolaica.

RABBI IASAAC HAZAN, i. e. Cantor, as being Chaunter to the Iewish* 1.146 Synagogue at Toledo, was one of the Principal Compilers of the Alphonsine Tables.

ALBERTUS MAGNUS, Bishop of Ratisbon, one of the most learned* 1.147 Persons of his Age, among other the various Monuments of his Wit and Learning, wrote De Sphaera, De Astris, De Astronomia, and Speculum Astronomicum; as Simler. in Bibl. Gesner.

ROBERTUS LINCOLNIENSIS, Bishop of Lincoln, commonly* 1.148 called Grossa Testa, in English, Grouthead, writ a Compendium of the Sphere, Pub∣lished first by Lucas Gauricus, 1531. He wrote likewise De Coelo & Mundo, De Sphaera Coelesti, Theoricam Planetarum, and In Astrologiam, as Balaeus affirms.

ROGERUS BACON, a Franciscan Fryer of Oxford, a most acute Philo∣sopher* 1.149

and admirable Mathematician, insomuch that he was reputed, but falsely, a* 1.150 Necromancer. Out of whose vast number of Books written upon several subjects, by which he hath eternized his name, we shall select only what is proper to our pur∣pose, as they are enumerated by Balaeus. He wrote a particular Treatise, De Utili∣tate Astronomiae; Introductio in Astrologiam; De Coelo & Mundo; De Cosmographia; De Radiis Solaribus; De Locis Stellarum; De Aspectibus Lunae; Et Prognostica ex Siderum cursu, with other Pieces of Opticks very considerable in that Age.

ALBUASSIN, or ALBOAZEN HALY, Son of Aben Ragel, wrote* 1.151 De Stellarum Fixarum motu ac locis (according to Ricciolus, Chron. Astron.) as also De Iudiciis & Fatis Astrorum, translated at the command of Alphonsus King of Castile, out of Arabick into Spanish, by Iudas Ben Musce, and out of Spanish into Latine, by Aegidius de Thebaldis, of Parma, Printed at Basile 1550. He writ likewise another Book Signalium Astronomiae, as Simler. in Bibl. Gesner. affirms.

JOHANNES DE SACRO BOSCO, an English man, born at Halli∣fax,* 1.152 anciently called Holy-wood, from which he took his name. After some time of study at Oxford, he became a Doctour of the University of Paris, and compiled, out of Ptolemy, Albategnius, Alfraganus, and others of the Ancients; his Four Books De Sphaera, commented upon by Vinetus, Iunctinus, Clavius, Barocius, and divers others. And though Barocius hath detected and published no less than 84. Errours in that Work of Sacroboscus, yet it still keeps up its credit in the Schools, as a Classick Piece.

ALPHONSUS x. King of Castile and Leon, having sent for the most learned* 1.153 among the Moors, Arabs, and Iews, began the Instauration of Astronomical Tables, which in the Year 1252. he first published, having, in Books, Instruments, and other Necessaries, relating to that Work, expended no less than four hundred thousand Crowns. These Tables, from his Name called Alphonsine, being defective, ground∣ed partly upon Cabalistick Figments, he afterwards (viz. Anno 1256.) Published more correct. He observed in the Year 1250. the first Star of Aries, to have been distant from the Equinoctial Point 23°. 40′. as Blancanus reports. Ricciolus affirms, that Egnatius Dantes, in the fourth Part of his Astrolabe, reports, that he saw a Book of all the Alphonsine Instruments, translated out of Arabick into Spanish, and thence into Latine.

PROFATIUS, a Iew, about this time, applyed his study to the Observation* 1.154 of the Stars. He writ Tables of the Motion of the Eighth Sphere, as Balaeus affirms, and found the Sun's greatest Declination to be 23°. 32′. His Almanack Perpetuum is now extant in several of our Libraries.

JOHANNES PECKHAM, a Franciscan Fryer, and Archbishop of Can∣terbury,* 1.155 wrote among other learned Works of his, De Sphaera, and Theoricam Plane∣tarum.

VITELLIO THURINGO-POLONUS, an excellent Mathematician,* 1.156 wrote Ten Books 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. e. of the nature, reason, and projection of Visual rayes, &c. commonly called Perspective; Printed first at Norimberg by Petreius, Anno 1535. and afterwards reprinted, and adorned with Figures, by Frederick Ris∣ner, at Basile, 1572. a Work subservient to Astronomy.

—ODINTON, a Benedictine Monk in the Abbey of Evesham, and* 1.157 an English man, Scholar to Profatius the Iew and of Iewish Extraction, endeavoured to vindicate his Name from Oblivion by his Book, De Motibus Planetarum, and De Mutatione Aeris; as Balaeus affirms.

COGIA▪ NASIR EDDIN. TUSAEUS, wrote Astronomical Tables,* 1.158 which he dedicated to Ile-Chan, Prince of the Tartars, and a Treatise of the Astro∣labe,* 1.159 in twenty Chapters, as I find mentioned in the Catalogue of Golius's Manu∣scripts. He died in the year of the Hegira 675. of Christ, 1276.

KOTBODDINUS SHIRAZITA, wrote a Book entitled Donum Re∣gium* 1.160 seu Universae Astronomiae Syntagma. He was contemporary with Nasir Eddin Tusaeus.

THEBIT BEN CHORA, i. e. the Son of Chora, by Profession a Iew, and* 1.161 according to •…•…eland, born in England, though others make him a Native of Spain, first introduced the motion of Trepidation in the Eighth Sphere (by some called Motus Accessus & Recessus) from North to South; and observed the Sun's greatest Declination to be 23°. 33′. He wrote likewise De significationibus Planetarum; De Capite & Cauda Draconis; Demonstrationes in Almagestum, and Additiones in Sphaerica Menelai, as they are particularized by Balaeus. There are mentioned like∣wise other Treatises of his Writing, as Practica Planetarum; Ganones Astronomici, and De Prognosticatione Temporum, said to be extant in his Majesties Library at St. Iames's.

GUIDO BONATUS FORO-JULIENSIS, wrote Theoricae Plane∣tarum,* 1.162 Published at Venice, 1506. He wrote likewise, De Astrologia Iudiciaria.

HENRICUS BATEN of Mechlin, Dr. in Theology, Chancellour of the* 1.163 University of Paris, and Chaunter and Canon of Liege, Published a Book, De Er∣roribus Tabularum Alphonsinarum, as Ricciolus affirms, in Catal. Astronom.

MICHAEL SCOTUS, surnamed Mathematicus, for his eminent skill in* 1.164 that kind of Learning, by Balaeus stiled, Eximius Physicorum Motuum, Cursúsque Siderei Indagator, Published a Comment, super Authorem Sphaerae; Four Books, De Constitutione Mundi; Two Books, De Coelo & Mundo; Imagines Astronomicae; And Dogmata Astrologorum; De Signis Planetarum, l. 1. De Natura Solis & Lunae, l. 1. Printed at Venice 1546. He wrote likewise other Opera Astrologica, of which the MS. is extant in the Bodleian Library.* 1.165

GULIELMUS DE SANCTO GODIALDO gained about this time the honour and repute of an able Astronomer, that is, as G. Vossius notes, twenty years and more after the Publication of the Alphonsine Tables.* 1.166

PETRUS DACIUS, or DE DACIA, as G. Vossius, from the Autho∣rity of Trithemius, calls him, Published Astronomical Tables, extant in MS. in the Library of Benet-Colledge in Cambridge. He wrote likewise, De Calculo, sive Com∣puto; and set forth a Calendar.* 1.167

ISAAC ISRAELITA, wrote a Book entitled Iessod Holam, i. e. De Fun∣damento Mundi; in which he often takes occasion to treat of the Motion of the Eighth Sphere.* 1.168

PETRUS▪ DE APONO, called likewise CONCILIATOR, Ob Li∣brum, quo Veterum Medicorum Scripta conciliat, (sayes G. Vossius, de Scient. Mathe∣mat.) wrote De Astrolabio Plano, Published at Venice, 1502.* 1.169

NICHOLAUS TRIVET, a Dominican Frier, Son of Sir Thomas Trivet Knight, one of the Judges of the Courts of Common Law in Edward

the Third's time, among other learned Works, wrote De Astronomia.* 1.170

JOHANNES BACONTHORP, a Carmel•…•…e Fryer in the Monastery* 1.171 of Blackney, in Norfolk, reputed one of the most learned of his time, stiled Doctor Resolutus, wrote four Books, De Coelo & Mundo; One, De Sphaera Iudiciali; and another, De Astrorum Scientiis.

NICHOLAUS OCKHAM, a Franciscan Fryer, in Coenobia Oxoniensi,* 1.172 Praelector Publicus (sayes Balaeus) wrote, De Latitudine Oppositionum, and another Book, entitled, Astrologi Iudicium.

ISMAEL ABULFEDA, Sultan of Syria, Assyria, and Persia, an illustri∣ous* 1.173 Cosmographer, and Geographer, whose Tables the learned Mr. Graves pub∣lished in the year 1650. in Arabick and Latine.

CICHUS ASCULANUS, Dr. of Physick, Philosopher, and Publick* 1.174 Professour of Astronomy at Bologna, was accused for a Necromancer, and burnt at Florence (being LXX. years of age) Anno 1328.

RICHARDUS WALLINGFORD, so called from the Town of* 1.175 Wallingford, where he was born; Son of a Blacksmith; after some time of Study in Oxford, betook himself to a Monastick life, in the Abby of St. Alban, whereof he had the Honour to be Abbot. He was excellently well skilled in Arithme∣tick, Astronomy, and Geometry. He caused to be made a famous Clock or Horo∣loge, for the use of the Monastery, being (according to the Words of Leland) a miraculous Fabrick, sive quis Cursum Solis seu Lunae, seu fixa Sidera notet, sive ite∣rum Maris Incrementa & Decrementa, seu Lineas unà cum figuris ac Demonstrationi∣bus, ad infinitum penè variis, consideret. For the better Explanation of which Cu∣rious Piece, and the orderly regulating thereof; he published Canons or Rules, in a particular Treatise, which he entitled Albion. Alluding something to the Name of the Monastery; But thereby chiefly expressing this sence or meaning, in English, All by One, i. e. Omnia per Unum, as Balaeus reports. He wrote besides his fore∣mentioned Canones in Albionem; a Book; De Iudiciis Astronomicis; and another, De Rebus Astronomicis.

JOHANNES DANK, a Native of Saxony, writ Canones Eclipsales, Cano∣nes* 1.176 Tabularum, & De Astrolabio, as Gesner testifies.

GUALTERUS CATTON, an English Fryer in the Convent of Corde∣liers* 1.177 at Norwich, a learned Theologue and Philosopher, published a Treatise Adver∣sus Astrologos.

RABBI LEVI, eminent in all kind of Learning, and particularly in Astro∣nomy,* 1.178 wrote a Book called Milhamot-Hessem, i. e. Defensionem Dei.

JOHANNES BARWICK, by some (but corruptly) called* 1.179 BRENLANTIUS, surnamed likewise BRITANNUS, a learned English Franciscan Fryer, published several Books, De Astrologorum Praenotionibus; in which he impugnes Judiciary Astrology.

ROBERTUS HOLCOTH, a Dominican Fryer, of Northampton, of* 1.180 whom Balaeus sayes, that he was penè infinitae lectionis Homo, atque ingenii solidissi∣mi, wrote De Effectibus Stellarum; and another Treatise, De Motibus Stellarum, as G. Vossius affirms, out of Possevinus.

GAUFREDUS DE MELDIS, published a Treatise, entitled Iudici∣um* 1.181 Stellae Comatae Anno Dom. 1330. and of two other Comets, which appeared in* 1.182 the years 1337. and 1338. preserved yet in Manuscripts in the Library of Pembroke Colledge in Cambridge. See Iames, Eclog. Oxon. Cant.

RABBI DAVID ABUDERKEM, writ a Treatise, entitled, Ordo In∣tercalationis.* 1.183

JOHANNES MANDOVICH, sometime Fellow of Merton Colledge* 1.184 in Oxford, a learned Physician and Astronomer, published Astronomical Tables.

JOANNES ESTWOOD, or ESTWED, or ESCHU•…•…D of* 1.185 Ashenden, sometimes Fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford, highly com∣mended by Io. Picus Count of Mirandula, wrote a Book, which he en∣titled Iudiciale Astronomicum, sive Summa Iudicialis. He published likewise Elucidarium Planetarum, Tabulae Planetarum, and Canons of their Utility and Practice; of the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in Cancer 1357. and of the Conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter, & de Signis Conjunctionum. His Iudiciale Astronomicum sive Summa Anglicana, or Iudicialis, vel de Accidentibus Mundi (for those several Titles it bears) was Printed at Venice in the year 1442. and is yet ex∣tant in MS. in the Publick Library at Oxford, and in that of Oriel Colledge. It was afterward Printed at Venice in the year 1489. and elegantly for that Age, at the Charge of a Patrician, for the Honour of whose Name (because Noblemen in those Dayes would be at the charge of Printing of good Books) I will subscribe what follows, as I received it from my very deserving and ingenious Friend, Mr. Francis Bernard, in whose Possession the said Book (among other curious ones with which he is stored) now is. Summa Anglicana Iohannis Eschuid, Opus factum est tum Diligentiâ, tum Impensâ Francisci Bolani Patritii Veneti, Viri certè bonarum Ar∣tium studiosi, Clarissimi quondam Oratoris Candiani; Nec defuit Impressoris Iohan∣nis Lucilii Santritter Herbronensis Germani maxima Lucubratio, maximus Labor, & Diligentia.

NICHOLAUS CABASILAS, a Grecian, Archbishop of Thessalonica,* 1.186 wrote a Comment upon Ptolemy's Almagest.

JOANNES ELIGERUS of Gondersleven, a German, writ de Compositi∣one* 1.187 Astrolabii; de Utilitate Astrolabii; de Utilitate Quadrantis; Two Books de Magnete, and One de Astrogemetro; and several other Pieces, as Simler in Bibl. Ges∣ner. affirms.

JOHANNES DE SAXONIA, and JOHANNES DE LIGNE∣RIIS,* 1.188 both Germane Astronomers, and Contemporaries. The latter put forth Canones Primi Mobilis, together with Tables, and a Book De Sphaera. He is recko∣ned by Petrus Cirvellus Daiocensis, in his Preface in Sphaeram Mundi, to have been one of the four most celebrious Astronomers, that had flourished between the times of Alphonsus and Purbacchius; as cited by Vossius in Addend. ad Scient. Mathemat.

GUILELMUS GRIZAUNT, an English man, Fellow of Merton Col∣ledge* 1.189 in Oxford, and Dr. of Physick, leaving England, setled at Marseilles in France, where he dyed in much Esteem for his Knowledge and Practice in Physick, leaving behind him a Son of his own Name; who was first Abbot of the Canons Regular at Marseilles, afterward Pope of Rome, by the Name of Urban the Fifth: Of the Issue of his Brain, I find these following, mentioned by Balaeus, relating to our Pur∣pose.

Speculum Astrologiae; De Magnitudine Solis; De Qualitatibus Astrorum;* 1.190 De Significationibus Eorundem.

JOHANNES KILLINGWORTH, Fellow of Merton Colledge in* 1.191 Oxford; wrote De Iudicio Astronomiae; Canones & Tabulae Astronomicae; De Cre∣pusculis; & De Nubium Ascensionibus.

NICEPHORUS GREGORAS writ De Astrolabio, extant in the King's* 1.192 Library at St. Iames's. Gesner mentions another Piece of his, De Calumniatoribus Astronomi•…•…, & De Astronomia. Andreas Cellarius, in Praeloquio Harmon. Macrocosm. reports that in the 27^th year of his Age he applied himself to Andronicus Palaeolo∣gus, Emperour of Constantinople, offering to him Reasons for the Emendation of the Roman Calendar.

LUDOVICUS CAERLION, so called from the Town of Caerlion in* 1.193 Wales, where he was born, a learned Theologue and Physician, wrote De Eclipsi Solis & Lunae; Tabulae Eclipsium Solis & Lunae, secundum Diametros Richardi Walling∣fordi, now extant in his Majesty's Library at St. Iames's; Canones Eclipsium; De Tabulis Umbrarum; and Fragmenta Astronomica.

IB'N SHATER DAMASCENUS, stiled by Mr. Graves, Sedulus Coeli* 1.194 Siderúmque Inspector, by many Observations made at Damascus, found the Obliqui∣ty of the Zodiack to be 23°. 31′. He wrote likewise Canons, and universal Pre∣cepts of Astronomy, and Of Astronomical Instruments, and their use; as likewise De extruendis Coeli Thematibus, as cited by Hottinger, Smegm. Orient. His Tables are extant in the Publick Library, at Oxford.

JOHANNES BOCCACIUS is about this time numbred among Astro∣nomers* 1.195 by Gualterus, in Chronico, as cited by Ricciolus, in Catalog. Astron.

THEOPHRASTUS PARACELSUS, besides his many other Works* 1.196 in Physick and Chymistry, hath left some Astronomical and Astrological Fragments, published by Gerardus Dornus, together with his Book, De Meteoris & Tribus Prin∣cipiis: He writ De Astronomia Magna, & Astronomiae Magnae Compendium, Printed in the year 1584.

RICHARDUS LAVINGHAM, of Suffolk, Professour of Mathema∣ticks,* 1.197 Philosophy, and Theology in the University of Oxford, composed a Book, De Planetarum Distantia; Compendium Meteororum, in four Books, and two Books, De Coelo & Mundo. He was killed in that Popular Tumult; wherein Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury, was murthered.

SIMON BREDON, or BRIDON, alias BIRIDANIUS, born at* 1.198 Winchcomb in Gloucester-shire; Fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford, Dr. of Phy∣sick, and Professour of Astronomy, wrote, according to Balaeus, Two Books In De∣monstrationes Almagesti; One, In quaedam Capita Ptolemaei; De Rebus Astronomi∣cis; Aequationes Planetarum; De Latitudine Planetarum; Super Introductorio Al∣cabitii; Astronomia Calculatoria; and Astronomia Iudiciaria. His Book De Aequationibus Planetarum, is yet extant in Manuscript, in the Library of Peter-House in Cambridge.

NICHOLAUS DE LYNN, so named from the Town where he was* 1.199 born, in Norfolk, a Carmelite Fryer, Astrologorum sui Temporis in Anglia celeberri∣mus ac maximus, sayes Balaeus: He wrote Canones Tabularum; De Natura Zodiaci;

De Planetarum Domibus; De Sphaera Iudiciali; Astrologorum Dogmata; De Fi∣guris* 1.200 & Signis; De Mundi Revolutione; De Usu Astrolabii, De Eclipsi Solis; De Astrorum Iudiciis; & de Variis Genituris.

BLASIUS PELACANIS, or (as the Italians write him) BIAGIO* 1.201 PELACANO, of Parma, by Alberto Leandro (in Descript. Ital.) stiled an Ex∣cellent Philosopher and Astronomer; left (sayes Simler from the Authority of Iovius) Quaestiones Subtilissimae, in Astronomia & Optica. He taught at Pavy under Io. Galeazzo first Duke of Millain; His Book being yet extant in MS▪ in the Medicean Library.

LEO Emperour of Constantinople, Son of Basilius Macedo was very learned in* 1.202 Mathematicks. His Tactica, sive de Acie ordinanda, are yet extant, Printed at Basile, 1554. And some MSS. of his are in the French King's Library, entitled Logarica (an Obsolete Word instead of Logistica) and are supposed to contain some Astrono∣mical Computations, and an Exercise upon Diophantus.

HENRICUS DE HASSIA, a Germane, Professour of Theology and* 1.203 Astronomy at Vienna, having shewn his Knowledge in the latter, in his Comment upon Genesis, lib. 1. and in Theoricis Planetarum, as Ricciolus affirms.

JOHANNES CHYLMARK, Fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford,* 1.204 Mathematicus insigniter doctus, as Balaeus characters him, published a small Treatise, De Accidentiis Planetarum.

JOHANNES SOMER, a Franciscan Fryer, in the Convent of that Order* 1.205 at Bridgewater, wrote Calendarii Castigationes; Tertium Calendarii; Astrorum Cano∣nes; and De Quantitate Anni.

RICHARD the Second, King of England, wrote something in Astronomy* 1.206 or Astrology, now extant in his Majesty's Library at St. Iames's.

JOANNES DE LINERIIS, or DE LINARIIS, Siculus, wrote* 1.207 Canones primi Mobilis, of which mention is made by Zacutus in his Tables. He wrote likewise Canones Quadrantis compositivi & operativi; which Pieces of his are extant in MS. in the Library of Nicholaus Trivisanus of Padua, as I find in Thomasinus his Bibliothec. Patavin.

GERARDUS CREMONENSIS translated Geber, out of Arabick in∣to* 1.208 Latine, and put forth Theoricae Planetarum; but such as are severely censured by Io. Regiomontanus.

JOHANNES DE EGMUNDA, Professour of Astronomy at Vienna,* 1.209 Published Tables, De Motibus Planetarum, & de Luminarium Eclipsibus, calculated for the Meridian of Vienna. He wrote likewise De Astrolabio, together with other Works, which are said to be yet extant in the Library at Vienna.

GALFRIDUS CHAUCER, a learned Knight, and Prince of English* 1.210 Poets, Cui Veneres debet Patria lingua suas, to use Leland's Encomium of him, me∣rits a place in this Catalogue, for his Book of the Astrolabe, which he composed for the use and instruction of his Son.

JOHANNES WALTERUS, Scholar, at first, in the Colledge of Win∣chester,* 1.211 afterwards, Fellow of New-Colledge in Oxford, where he chiefly applied

himself to Mathematical Studies, and published Tabulae Aequationis Domorum, and* 1.212 Tabulae Ascensionum Universalium, as they are cited by Balaeus.

GULIELMUS BATECUMB, alias BADECON, Professour of* 1.213 Mathematicks in the University of Oxford, wrote De Sphaera Concava; De fabri∣ca & usu ejusdem; De operatione Astrolabit, and D•…•… Sphaera Solida. He is said to have flourished in the Reign of King Henry V. by G. Vossius; and by Balaeus he is ranged among the Authours of this time.

PETRUS ALIACENSIS, Cardinal and Bishop of Cambray, and Chan∣cellour* 1.214 of the University of Paris, wrote, besides his other Theological Works, Quaestiones in Sphaeram Sacrobosci; De Reformatione Calendarii; and another Tra∣ctate, entitled, Concordia Theologiae & Astronomiae.

JOHANNES GERSON, Chancellour of the University of Paris, put* 1.215 forth at Lyons, Trilogium Astrologiae Theologizatae; or as G. Vossius mends the Ti∣tle, Trilogium Astrologiae ad Theologiae Trutinam expensae.

PROSDOCIMUS DE BELDEMANDO of Padua, some time be∣fore* 1.216 Io. Baptista Capuanus, Published a Comment in Sphaeram Sacrobosci, which Lu∣cas Gauricus caused to be Printed in the year 1531. He writ likewise Canones Ope∣rativi & Compositivi Astrolabii, and Canones de Motibus corporum Coelestium, written in the year 1434. Whereof a MS. transcribed by Candus Master of Arts and Do∣ctour of Physick, Nephew to the said Beldemandus, is extant in Bibliotheca Cando∣rum, as Thomasinus affirms in Bibliothe•…•…. Patavin.

GEORGIUS TRAPEZUNTIUS, born in Creet, but taking his name* 1.217 from Trapezond, a City in Cappadocia, translated into Latine, Ptolemy's Almagest; to which he added, of his own, an Isagoge, together with a Comment. He commen∣ted likewise upon Ptolemy's Centiloquium, and wrote a Book, De Antisciis; and an∣other with this Title, Cur Astrologorum judicia plerunque fallant? as Voss. de Sci∣ent. Mathemat. affirms.

ULUGH BEIG, Nephew to the Great Tamerlane, put forth most exact* 1.218 Astronomical Tables in Arabick, of the Longitude, and Latitude of the Fixed Stars, calculated for the Meridian of Samarcand. To which were added the Com∣mentary of Ali▪Cushgi. But the said Tables, collated with Three Persian Manu∣scripts in the Bodleian Library, about the year 1665. were translated into Latine, and Printed with the Arabick at Oxford, by Doctour Hyde, Keeper of the said Li∣brary, to which he added his own most learned Commentary, together with Moham∣medes Tizinus his Tables, of the Declination and Ascension of the Fixed Stars, in Arabick and Latine.

ALI CUSHGI wrote Astronomica, extant among the Manuscripts of Iaco∣bus* 1.219 Golius: He flourished in the time of Ulugh Beig, to whom he was assistant in composing his Tables.

KADI ZADA, or as the Persians pronounce it, KAZI ZADE, whose* 1.220 name more fully expressed is MULANA SALAH EDDIN MUSA, sur∣named Cadi-Zadi Rumaeus, was one of the Assistants to Ulugh Beig, in calculating his Astronomical Tables.

MULANA GIJATH EDDIN GIEMSHID Published a Piece,* 1.221 by him entitled Scala Coeli; or Of the Distances and Magnitudes of the Cele∣stia•…•…

Bodies. He was likewise an Assistant to Ulugh Beig.* 1.222

JOHANNES GAZULUS, of Ragusa, a great Astronomer and Astrolo∣ger,* 1.223 flourished about this time; of him Simler writes, that Nescio quid Astronomi∣cum scripsit; He is named by Ioannes Regiomontanus, in his Tables of Directions; and what he writ was a Method of the erecting a Celestial Figure or Scheme, which is now called the Way of Campanus and Gazulus.

HUMPHREY, Duke of Gloucester, surnamed The Good, Son of Henry the* 1.224 Fourth, King of England, Nobilitatis omnis, atque Eruditionis Phoenix planè Unicus, as he is stiled by Balaeus, was a great Lover of Astronomical and Astrological Learn∣ing, and set forth Tables of Directions, of his own Composing.

GEORGIUS THEMISTUS PLETHO CONSTANTINO∣POLITANUS* 1.225 composed a Book, entitled, De Mensium ac Annorum Ordine•…•… Dierúmque Recensione.

NICHOLAUS CUSANUS, born at Cusa, a Town seated upon the* 1.226 Moselle, in the Diocess of Treves, known by the title of Cardinal of St. Peter's ad Vincula, a most subtile Divine, Philosopher and Mathematician, wrote (besides other his Works, not relating to our Subject) De emendatione Calendarii; and De Stellarum Fixarum Canone.

GEORGIUS PURBACCHIUS, so called from the Town of Peurbach* 1.227 (the Place of his birth) in the Confines of Bavaria and Austria, was publick Pro∣fessour of Mathematicks both at Ferrara and Vienna, and a great Instauratour of Astronomy. His first Essayes were several Tractates of Dyalling, with Tables fitted for the variety of Climates; a Small Piece, with a Table thereto, of the Sun's Altitude; Astrolabial Canons (as Gassendus terms them) with a Table of Paral∣lels, proportioned to every Degree of the Equinoctial. The making and use of So∣lid Spheres, or Globes, especially the Celestial, to which he added a New Table of all the Fixed Stars▪ with their augmentation of Longitude, from Ptolemy's time, to his own. But his chiefest Work (after his Theory of the Planets, and Tables of Eclipses) by which he intended to signalize his Name, was the Reducing of Ptole∣my's Almagest into a correct Epitome, or Compendium, being chiefly encouraged thereunto by Cardinal Bessarion, which he lived not to complete, but left the same, by Testament, to be fulfilled by his Scholar Iohannes Regiomontanus.

JOHANNES FUSOR, or FUSORIUS, contemporary with Purbacchi∣us,* 1.228 published Tables of Sines and Chords; and by command of Charles VII. King of France, made Observations for the better composing of new Tables of the Cele∣stial Motions, as Gassendus, in the Life of Purbacchius, testifies, extant in MS. in the Library of Nicholaus Trivisanus of Padua, as Thomasinus in Bibliothec. Patavin. affirms.

GUILELMUS BOTONER, an English Knight, noble by Extraction,* 1.229 but much more ennobled by his Learning, as well in History, Physick, as Mathema∣ticks, Published with other Works, upon several Subjects, a Book, De Astrologiae Valore.

JOHANNES JOVIANUS PONTANUS, a Neapolitane, acquired* 1.230 no little honour and esteem, by his Astronomical Studies and Writings. He trans∣lated into Latine, Ptolemy's Centiloquium, and published it with an Exposition or Comment thereupon, and wrote XIV. Books, De Rebus Coelestibus, and Five others,

in elegant Latine Verse, entitled, Urania, sive, De Stellis; and One other, in* 1.231 Verse, De Meteoris.

MICHAEL SCOTUS, a diligent Observer of the Stars, at the desire of* 1.232 the Emperour Frederick the Third, put forth, (about this Time) Quaestiones in Sphaeram Ioh. de Sacro Bosco, as Ricciolus, Chronol. Astronom. affirms; which certain∣ly is a great mistake: for Frederick the Third came to the Empire much earlier, and was deposed in the year 1323. Scotus flourishing according to Balaeus in the year 1290. about which time the Reader will find him already inserted in this Catalogue.

JOHANNES MULLERUS, commonly called JOHANNES RE∣GIOMONTANUS,* 1.233 or DE MONTE REGIO; from Cunisberg a Town in Franconia, where he was born, Disciple to Purbacchius, finished the Epi∣tome (begun by his Master) of Ptolemy's Almagest. He published likewise Tables of Directions and Eclipses, and first of all in that Age set forth Astronomical E∣phemerides, of many years duration, Printed at Augsburg 1488. He wrote likewise De Theoricis Planetarum, & De Cometis, and published a Treatise De Triangulis, Printed at Basile in folio, by Daniel Santbech, and is still a Book of good accompt, as containing in it divers extraordinary Cases about plain Triangles. He assisted Sixtus IV. (by whom he was honourably to that end invited) in the emendation of the Iulian Calendar, though he lived not to perfect what he had begun. He dedi∣cated his Tables of the Primum Mobile, to Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, who not only rewarded him with 800. Hungarian Crowns, but also made him his dayly Guest, for some time, at his Table, justly deserving to be honoured by Poste∣rity, as the great Advancer of all Mathematical Learning, especially of Astrono∣my, as well by his own Labours, as the publishing in Print, at Norimberg, the most eminent Authours among the Ancients in that Science; particularly our Manilius, Ptolemy, Theon, Proclus, Menelaus, Theodorus, Firmicus, Hyginus, and others, to the number of Thirty at least. He observed the Sun's greatest Declination to be 23°. 30′. He died, as some write, at the 33^d. or, as others, at the 40^th. year of his Age, not without the suspicion of being poysoned by the Sons of Georgius Trape∣zuntius, the envious opposers of his merits, and lies buried at Rome, in the Panthe∣on. See more of him in Gassendus, who writ his Life.

JOHANNES BLANCHINUS, was, as Blancanus affirms, of Ferrara,* 1.234 but more truly, as Ricciolus, of Bologna, and composed Astronomical Tables, which he dedicated to the Emperour Frederick the Third, to whom he was both well known and acceptable. These Tables, with new ones of his own, and more cor∣rect Canons, and several Additions, were by Lucas Gauricus published at Venice, 1526.

EBERHARDUS SCHLUSINGERUS of Gasmanstorfe in Franco∣nia,* 1.235 Doctour of Physick at Zurick, writ a Treatise of Comets, and of their Signi∣fications; particularly of a Comet which appeared at Zurick in the year 1472. He writ likewise an Introduction to Astrology, chiefly relating to Medical Elections.

BESSARION, by birth a Grecian, Cardinal of the Roman Church, and Pa∣triarck* 1.236 of Constantinople, a great Favourer of Astronomical Studies: He left (among other his various and learned Works) a small Tractate, whereof the Manuscript is extant in the Emperour's Library at Vienna, entitled Methodus cognoscendi quot ho∣ris, singulis Noctibus Luna fulgeat; as the same is cited by Simler in Biblioth, Gesner.

ABRAHAM ZAGUT, or ZACUTI, was first publick Professour of* 1.237

Astronomy at Carthage, afterwards at Salamanca, of whom Ricciolus affirms, that* 1.238 he was Astronomiae consultissimus. Vossius sayes he was Astrologer to Emanuel King of Portugal. He wrote Fasti, sive Almanach perpetuum omnium coeli Motuum, Print∣ed at Venice 1502. In the Preface of which Work he makes mention of Abenverga, a Iew, his Astronomical Tables, but without giving any account of the Time where∣in he flourished. In the year 1474. he observed the Star called Spica Virginis to be in the 17°. 10′. of Libra, as Ricciolus from the Authority of Augustinus Riccius af∣firms. His Almanach Perpetuum sive Ephemerides were calculated for Salamanca, the Radix they began from was the year 1472. but the Places of the Planets were taken from Regiomontanus his Ephemerides; his first part (which whether ever Printed is uncertain) beginning from that year. He writ the Preface to the Bishop of Salamanca, (who he was doth not appear) Ioannes Michael Germanus made the Problems before it, Alphonsus de Corduba Hispalensis made a Canon of the Equation of Venus, and discourses a little of the Errours of Zacutus. In the same Book one Octavius Sfortiades Episcopus Aretinus, sayes, that Marcus Antonius Grimanus Patricius Venetus, Iuntae Calcographiae imprimendam tradidit Novam Tabellam, ut∣pote Supplementum Aequationis Veneris in 30 Revolutionibus, quam suae Celsitudini Abraham Zacutus ex Damasco destinaverat paululum antequam Diem clauderet Novis∣simum. Gauricus (being but a young Man) corrected and put out the Book at Venice Anno 1515.

JOANNES ODDI, of Padua, by Ia. Phil. Thomasinus (in Bibl. Patav.)* 1.239 stiled Physicus, & Astronomus (upon the Score of which last, We give him place in this Catalogue) wrote a Book which he dedicated to Frederick Duke of Urbine, de Impressionibus Elementorum, de Copia rerum, & Pretio, de Bello, de Religione, de Principibus, de Civitatibus; which I conceive to be some Astrological Discourse, or Prognostick, extant in MS. in the Library of Hippolytus Oddi of Padua Knight of St. Mark.

JOHANNES BAPTISTA CAPUANUS SIPONTINUS, De* 1.240 Manfredonia, and as Ricciolus affirms, Canon Regular of the Church of Lateran, while he was a secular Person▪ his name was Franciscus Capuanus, and he was pub∣lick Professour of Astronomy at Padua, at which time he wrote an Exposition, In Sphaeram Sacrobosci. Being afterwards made a Bishop he revised it, and dedicated it to his Fellow-Canons, sometime his Auditours. He wrote likewise In Theoricas Purbacchii, Computus Ecclesiasticus, and a Book, De Compositione Quadrantis.

ANDALO of Genua, a most excellent Mathematician, wrote of the Astrolabe,* 1.241 Printed at Ferrara 1475.

THEODORUS GAZA wrote in Greek, De Mensibus, & De Anno, in* 1.242 which sayes Ricciolus, Astronomiae non inscium se ostendit; Published by Petavius, in Uranolog.

CHRISTIANUS MOLITOR, of Clagenfurt, was, as Ricciolus affirms,* 1.243 Astronomus insignis, and wrote, at Vienna, Opuscula Astrologica, which, according to the testimony of Vossius, apud Doctos in magno pretio habentur.

NICHOLAUS ORESMIUS wrote a particular Treatise, by way of* 1.244 Commentary, against the Superstition of Iudiciary Astrology. He is cited by Io∣hannes Picus Mirandula, by the name of Nicholaus Orem, to have written a Book, De Proportionibus Proportionum, as Simler in Biblioth. Gesner attests.

ALEXANDER ACHILLINUS, of Bologna, Professour of Philoso∣phy,* 1.245 wrote De Orbibus Coelestibus.

ALCHABITIUS, or ALCABITIUS, called likewise ABDILA∣ZUS,* 1.246 an Arabian, composed an Isagoge, or Introduction, Ad scrutanda Astrorum* 1.247 judicia, and writ De Planetarum Conjunctionibus. Ricciolus affirms he wrote four Tractates, in which he comprized the Elements of Astrology, commented upon by Naiboda. Iohannes Hispalensis first translated him into Latine, Printed at Venice in the year 1491. and 1521. together with the exposition of Ioannes de Saxonia, and the Emendations of Antonius de Fantis, Doctour of Physick at Trevigi in Italy. He wrote likewise of Opticks, of which see Vossius, De Scient. Mathemat. There is a MS. Treatise in the Bodleian Library, entitled Introductio ad Iudicia Astronom. under the Name of Algabicus; I know not whether mistaken for Alchabitius.

MARCILIUS FICINUS, an eminent Florentine Physician, Philosopher,* 1.248 and Astronomer, who both in his Notes In Timaeum Platonis, and other his Dia∣logues, discourses learnedly, as occasion requires, upon several Astronomical Sub∣jects, having likewise put forth an Apology, De Medicina Astrologiae▪ jungenda; a Disputation Contra Iudicia Astrologorum; and a Book, De Sole & Lumine. In his Book, De vita coelitùs comparanda, he shews himself very Learned in Astrology, though he writ against the Astrologasters.

JOHANNES KENT, alias KAYLEG, Native of Caermarden in South-Wales,* 1.249 a Great Philosopher, Botanist, and Mathematician, of which Studies he was Professour in the University of Cambridge, put forth Astronomical Tables.

JOANNES ANGELUS put forth Opus Astrolabii Plani cum Tabulis,* 1.250 Printed August. Vindel. 1488.

JOHANNES ERGHOM, of York, an Augustine Fryar, having, at Ox∣ford,* 1.251 professed Logick, Natural Philosophy and Theology, gained to himself the re∣pute of an eminent Scholar, and put forth a Book of Astrological Calculations.

JOHANNES PICUS, Count of Mirandula, Ingeniorum Phoenix, as some* 1.252 have stiled him, besides other Works of exquisite and profound Learning, wrote Twelve Books Against Iudiciary Astrology.

NICHOLAUS COMES DE COMITIBUS, a Noble Italian,* 1.253 wrote a Tractate, De Motu & Recessu Octavae Sphaerae, extant in MS. among those of Nicholaus Trivisanus of Padua, recorded by Iac. Phil. Thomasinus in Bibliothec. Patavin.

PONTICUS VIRMIUS, alias VIRUNNIUS, Native of Trevigi* 1.254 in Italy, Professour of Philosophy, writ, besides many other Works upon different Subjects, a Commentary In Sphaeram Iohannis Sacrobosci.

JACOBUS SCHONHEINTZ, Professour of Mathematicks and Phi∣losophy,* 1.255 in Academia Herbipoli, writ an Apology in vindication of Astrology, a∣gainst Io. Picus Count of Mirandula.

DOMINICUS MARIA NOVARAS FERRARIENSIS, Pro∣fessour* 1.256 of Astronomy in Bologna, and Master to Copernicus, is said to have observed the Sun's greatest Declination to have been 23°. 29′. He was a great Promoter of Astronomical Observations, both by his teaching and practice.

BERNARDUS WALTHERUS, of Norimberg, Disciple to Regiomon∣tanus,* 1.257 and a Continuatour of his Observations, wh•…•…ch with his own were published,

first at Norimberg; afterwards together with the Hassian and Tychonick, by Wille∣brodus* 1.258 Snellius. He was a great Observer of the Stars, and partly from the Autho∣rity of Alhazen and Vitellio, partly by his own experience, made it appear of how great moment the Doctrine of Refractions is, in relation to the Stars, when near the Horizon.

HERMOLAUS BARBARUS, a Noble Patrician of Venice, and Patriarch* 1.259 of Aquileia, besides his other eminent Works, both in Historical and Critical Learn∣ing, writ a Book, De convenientia Astronomiae & Medicinae.

CHRISTOPHORUS COLUMBUS, a Native of Genua, by Blancanus* 1.260 stiled Argonautarum Princeps, trusting to his skill in Astronomy and Geography, by a high and daring, yet a happy and successful undertaking, discovered, to the Old, a New World.

JOHANNES ABIOSUS, of Naples, Doctour of Physick, and Professour* 1.261 of Mathematicks, writ Dialogues in defence of Iudiciary Astrology, in which he predicts many Schismes and future Changes to happen in the Church. He dedica∣ted his Books to Alphonsus King of Sicily.

JOANNES LUCILIUS SANTRITTER HEILBRON∣NENSIS,* 1.262 reduced the Alphonsine Tables into a most easie Order and Method, to which he added Tables of his own, with Rules or Canons▪ thereunto. He writ like∣wise a Book of the Judgements of Nativities, Printed at his own Shop in Venice, 1494.

JOANNES ANGELUS BAVARUS, of Aichen, put forth a Cor∣rection* 1.263 of the Romane Calendar, a Plain Astrolabe, a Treatise of Nativities, and of unequal Hours in each Climate of the World, as also Ephemerides, and various Prognosticks, Printed at Venice in the year 1494. He died in the year 1512. at which time he was about finishing Purbacchius's Table, of the Equations of the Planets Motions.

LAURENTIUS BONINCONTRIUS MINIATENSIS, writ* 1.264 Three Books, De Rebus Coelestibus, in Heroick Verse, Printed by Robert Winter, at Basile, in the year 1540. with the accession of divers Observations of the Eclip∣ses of the Sun and Moon, made by Philippus Melancthon, Iohannes Stigelius, M. A∣contius, Ioachimus Camerarius, and Georgius Aemilius. He was the first that wrote a Comment upon Manilius's Astronomica, Printed both at Bologna, and at Basile.

JACOBUS FABER, besides his Arithmetical Epitome of Boetius, and* 1.265 his Comment upon Iordanus Nemorarius, wrote also a Commentary, In Sphaeram Sacrobosci.

RAPHAEL VOLATERRANUS, a Chronologer and Cosmographer,* 1.266 who in the third Tome of his XXXVIII. Books Urbanorum Commentariorum, col∣lected (as himself affirms) out of more than a thousand Greek and Latine Authours, hath written, De Philologia, sive Artium Rudimentis, in which those of Astronomy are included.

LUCIUS BELLANTIUS, of Siena, wrote Twenty Questions touching* 1.267 the truth of Astrology, and Twelve Books in defence of Astrology, against Picus Mirandula, Printed at Florence and Basile. To which are annexed the Dialogues of Gabriel Pirovanus, De Veritate Astrologiae.

CONRADUS COCUS WIMPINAE DE BUCHONIA, Pro∣fessour* 1.268 of Theology at Francfort, and Leipsick, writ, among divers other Tractates,* 1.269 six Books De Corporibus Coelestibus, as Simler testifies.

STEPHANUS ROSINUS of Ausbourg, Professour of Philosophy,* 1.270 Batchelour of Divinity, and Canon, at Vienna, taught Astronomy there, and published Tables of the Declinations of the fixed Stars, with Prognosticks.

JOHANNES MANTZ, of Plabeim, a famous Theologue, and Astrono∣mer,* 1.271 in his time, wrote Prognostica ex Stellis.

ANDREAS STIBORIUS, a Bohemian, Canon and Professour of Ma∣thematicks* 1.272 at Vienna, a most acute Astronomer. He composed an Epitome of Pto∣lomy's Almagest, Albategnius, and Geber; wrote five Books touching Shadows; a Book of Astronomical Instruments, of the first and second Mobile, with his own Canons, and those of the Ancients; an Introduction in sensilem Astronomiam; a Book of Mathematical Authours; and of the Primum Mobile divided into four parts, and handled Geometricè, Arithmeticè, Exemplariter, & Instrumentaliter. See more of him in Vossius, de Scient. Mathemat.

MARCUS BENEVENTANUS, a Celestine-Monk, wrote upon Thebit,* 1.273 De Octava Sphaera. He likewise corrected Ptolemy's Planisphere, and together with Iohannes Cota of Verona, Scipio Carteromachus, of Pistoia, and Cornelius Be∣nig•…•…us, of Viterbo, sedulam navavit operam in Geographia Ptolemaei corrigenda, sayes G. Voss. De Scient. Mathemat.

BARTHOLOMAEUS VESPUCIUS, a Florentine, publick Professour* 1.274 of Astronomy in the University of Padua, where he drew many into admiration of his Learning. He commented in Sphaeram Sacrobosci, and put forth an Oration, in Laudem Quadrivii, sive, Quatuor Disciplinarum Mathematicarum, chiefly of Astrology.

JOHANNES GANIVETUS, of the Order of Minime Fryars at Vi∣enna,* 1.275 put forth a small Astronomical Treatise, beginning with these words, Quod Coeli enarrant, &c. To which he added an Abbreviation of Aben-Ezra, De Lumi∣naribus & Diebus Criticis, with the Astrology of Hippocrates, as Gesner affirms, Printed at Lyons, in the year 1508.

JOHANNES EZLER, of Mentz, published a Piece entitled Speculum* 1.276 Astronomicum, in which he treats of the Causes of the Errours in Astrology pro∣ceeding from the neglect of the Equation of Time. He put forth likewise the Theory of the Planets, and of the Eighth Sphere; Printed at Basil, by Henricus Petri, 1509. Unà cum Theoricis Purbacchii.

JACOBUS LOCHER, PHILOMUSUS GERMANUS, wrote* 1.277 among other things, a Treatise De Cometa, mentioned by Simler. in Bibl. Gesner.

AUGUSTINUS RICCIUS, of Casal, wrote a learned Treatise, Of the* 1.278 Motion of the Eighth Sphere, in which he professes to have learnt Astronomy of Abraham Zaguti, at Carthage and Salamanca. He wrote likewise an Epistle touch∣ing the Authours of Astronomy, wherein he shews the same to have come originally from the Hebrews. In which Work of his (sayes Simler. in Bibl. Gesner.) are con∣tained Platonica quaedam & antiqua Magiae Dogmata.

JOHANNES VERNERUS, of Norimberg, Successour to Ioh. Regio∣montanus,* 1.279 and Bernardus Walterus, commented upon Ptolemy's Geography, wrote* 1.280 De motu Octavae Sphaerae, and published Astronomical Tables. In the year 1514. he observed the Sun's greatest Declination to have been 23°. 28′. and the distance of the first Star in Aries, from the Equinoctial Point, 26°.

LUDOVICUS VITALIS, a Bolognian Astronomer, flourished about* 1.281 this time, as Ricciolus (Chronolog. Astronom.) affirms, though without any menti∣on of his Works.

JOHANNES HEREMITA, of Ferrara, is by Ricciolus in Chronic.* 1.282 Astronom. stiled Geometra & Astronomus non vulgaris, but he gives no particular account of his Works or Writings.

PAULUS MIDDLEBURGENSIS, Bishop of Fossombrone, or Forum* 1.283 Sempronii, wrote XIV. Books of the Emendation of the Calendar and Observation of Easter, in which Work he not only treats of the Romane Account, but also of the Iewish, Egyptian, and Arabian Years, having therein designed the exact Do∣ctrine of all Times. He wrote likewise XIX. Books of the Year and Day of our Saviour's Nativity and Passion, and other Pieces of like Argument, Voss. de Scient. Mathemat. He writ Prognosticon ostendens Anno Dom. 1524. Nullum neque Univer∣sale neque Particulare Diluvium futurum. Forum Sempronii 1523.

JOANNES STOEFLERUS JUSTINGENSIS, Professour of* 1.284 Mathematicks at Tubingue, wrote a Treatise De fabrica & usu Astrolabii. He like∣wise composed Ephemerides, Calendarium Romanum Magnum, dedicated to Maximi∣lian the Emperour, and Astronomical Tables, and wrote a large Commentary in Sphaeram Procli. His Death, or the occasion thereof at least, was very remark∣able (if the Story be true.) Having found by calculation, that upon a certain Day his life was like to be endangered by some ruinous accident, and the day being come, to divert his thoughts from the apprehension of the danger threatning him, he in∣vites some Friends of his into his Study, where, after discourse, entring into some dispute, he, to decide the controversie reaches for a Book, but the Shelf on which it stood being loose came down with all the Books upon him, and with its fall so bruised him, that he died soon after of the hurt, Voss. in Addend. ad Scient. Mathe∣mat. But the whole Story of his Death, of which some make Calvisius the Au∣thour, is false by the Testimony of Io. Rudolphus Camerarius Genitur. 69. Centur. 2. who had it from Andreas Ruttellius his Auditour; for he died of the Plague at Blabira Febr. 16. 1531. in the 78^th year of his Age, happening (according to Cal∣culation if you will believe it) from the Direction of ☉ to ♂.

ALBERTUS PIGHIUS, besides his other learned Historical Works,* 1.285 wrote of the Observation of the Solstices and Equinoxes; Of the Restitution, or Emendation of the Calendar, and a Defence of Astrology, against some Prognostica∣tours of his Time, particularly an Apology against the New Astronomy of Marcus Beneventanus, a Celestine-Monk, traducing the Opinions of all Modern Astrono∣mers, touching the motion of the Eighth Sphere.

JOHANNES HASFURT VIRDUNGUS, a Germane Astrono∣mer,* 1.286 set forth Tables, (by him entitled Tabulae Resolutae) for supputation of the Celestial Motions, Printed at Norimberg by Iohannes Petreius, in the year 1542. He published likewise in the year 1521. Prognosticon, upon the stupendious Conjunction of the Planets, which was to happen in the year 1524. following; with some other Prognosticks of his, written in High-Dutch, as Gesner. affirms. He

writ likewise Novam Medicinae Methodum quâ ex Mathematica ratione curandi ratio∣nem* 1.287 ostendit, Printed Helingae & Hagenoae 1532. and set out afterwards with a Com∣mentary by Ioannes Paulus Galluccius Venet. 1580:

GEORGIUS COLLIMITIUS TANNESLETTERUS was* 1.288 Scholar to Andreas Stiborius, as Gesner affirms. He writ De Applicatione Astrologiae ad Medicinam; De Natura & Proprietatibus Planetarum, out of Haly, Firmicus, and Alchabitius, and some other Tracts upon those Arguments, Printed at Basil, 1524.

MOHAMMED IBNO'L ATTAR, published Astronomical Tables* 1.289 of the Motions of the Planets, calculated for the Longitude of Damascus; written in the year of the Hegira 930. and of Christ 1523. and preserved in Manuscript in the Publick Library at Oxford.

ALBERTUS BRUDZEVIUS, Professour of Mathematicks in the* 1.290 University of Cracovia, was the first Master and Instructour of Copernicus in Astro∣nomy, as we find it mentioned by Gassendus, in the life of Copernicus.

PETRUS APPIANUS, of Leipsick, called in the Germane Tongue, Bine∣wilt,* 1.291 Professour of Mathematicks at Ingolstadt, (in intimate favour with the Empe∣rour Charles the Fifth, who not only invited him to his Court, but also honoured him with Knighthood) wrote a Book of Cosmography, revised and augmented by Gemma Frisius, together with Observations of several Eclipses. He put forth like∣wise an Instrument, or Table of the Primum Mobile, with 100 Problems thereupon; and another Piece entituled Opus Caesareum, in which, to use Ricciolus's Expression, Rotulis & Automatis ingeniosissimis docet expedire omnia ferè Problemata Astronomi∣ca. Of his several other Works, not proper to this place, see Vossius, De Scient. Mathemat.

FRANCISCUS SARZOSUS of Xelsa in Arragon, wrote two Books* 1.292 in Aequator•…•…m Planetarum Alphonsinae Hypothesi superstructum, as Ricciol. affirms, Chron. Astronom. Part. 2.

JOHANNES VOGELLINUS was Disciple to Ioh. Regiomontanus,* 1.293 and made Observations on the Comets appearing in the years 1527. and 1532.

PETRUS CIRVELLUS, besides his Cursus Mathem. Artium, Published* 1.294 a Treatise De Correctione Calendarii, Printed Compl. 1528.

HENRICUS BAERSIUS, alias, VEKENSTYL, a Mathematician* 1.295 and Printer to the University of Lovaine, put forth, but not under his own Name, Tabulae perpetuae Longitudinum & Latitudinum Planetarum, calculated for the Me∣ridian of Lovaine. And under his own name he likewise set forth a Book, De Compositione & Usu Decretorii Planetarum; and another, De Compositione & Usu Quadrantis.

OTHO BRUNFELSIUS, Doctour of Physick at Mentz, totius 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉,* 1.296 cultor, a great Student likewise in Divinity and the Sacred Scriptures, out of which he endeavoured to refute Iudiciary Astrology. He prefixed likewise to the Edition of Firmicus, Printed by Hervagius, and dedicated to him by Nicholaus Prucnerus, a small Treatise not unuseful to young Beginners, De Definitionibus & Terminis Astrologiae.

JOANNES FERNELIUS of Ambois, a famous French Physician, and* 1.297 as eminent a Geometrician and Astronomer, wrote besides other his Learned* 1.298 Works, a particular Treatise, entituled, Cosmotheoria, in which he explains the Motions, Site, Magnitude and Theory of the Celestial Bodies; and another Piece, called Monalosphaerium.

JOHANNES CARIO, besides his Chronological Work, left, as Vossius* 1.299 terms them, Practicas Astrologicas, nec non Ephemerides, beginning with the year 1536, and ending in the year 1550.

JACOBUS MILICHIUS, Professour of Mathematicks at Wittemberg,* 1.300 and Tutour to Erasmus Reinholdus, wrote a Commentary upon the Second Book of Plinius Secundus, the Subject whereof is chiefly Astronomical.

ORONTIUS FINAEUS, of Dauphiné, Regius Professor of Mathema∣ticks* 1.301 at Paris, wrote De Sphaera; Of Cosmography; Of the Theory of the Planets; Astronomical Canons, or Problems of the Primum Mobile; Of the difference of Lon∣gitude, to be found by the Moon; and several other Pieces; which (as Blancanus ad∣vises) ought to be read cum Antidoto Petri Nonnii de Erroribus Orontii.

HIERONYMUS FRACASTORIUS, a Native of Verona, an ex∣cellent* 1.302 Poet, Physician, Philosopher, and Astronomer, Published a Book De Orbibus Excentricis & Homocentricis, which he dedicated to Pope Paul III.

SEBASTIANUS MUNSTERUS was famous for two things, as Vossi∣us* 1.303 affirms, to wit, Hebraeis Literis, & Mathesi. As to what concerns our purpose, he wrote Notes, In Geographiam Ptolemaei, & Universalem Cosmographiam, and of Dyalling; as also Organum Uranicum, wherein the Theories of the Planets, and their Motions were computed for an hundred years and more. He was also Authour of the Canones super novo Luminarium Instrumento.

JOACHIMUS FORTIUS RINGELBERGIUS of Antwerp, writ* 1.304 De Horoscopo, De Tempore, De Cosmographia, and Three Books of Astrological In∣stitutions.

JOHANNES ROBINUS, in English, Robins, was a great Astrologer, and* 1.305 put forth a Book, De Portentosis Cometis, dedicated by him to King Henry VIII. which Balaeus calls, Opus valde Lucidum, now extant in Manuscript, in the hands of Mr. Thomas Gale.

SIMON GRYNAEUS, Native of Viring, a Town in Suevia, or Suaben,* 1.306 merited eminently in all kind of Learning, particularly by publishing, in Greek, the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 of Ptolemy, to which he added a Preface of his own touching the use thereof, Dedicated to King Henry the Eighth of England, Printed at Basil, 1538.

HENRICUS GLAREANUS, a Geographer, Chronologer, Musician,* 1.307 and Physician, Native of Glarona, commonly called Glarys, a Town in Swisserland, put forth a Book De Geographia, induced chiefly thereunto, as he pretends in his Preface, because he found the Sphere of Proclus to be too concise, and only fitted to the Horizon of Greece, and erroneous, as to the Description of some Circles; and Sacroboscus in his Parallels and Climates, mutilous and defective. He published likewise other Pieces, both in Astrology and Cosmography, being (according to the testimony of G. Vossius) Vir undequaque doctissimus.

ACHILLES P. GASSARUS of Lindaw, by Gesner stiled Medicus &* 1.308 Mathematicus praestantissimus, put forth a Chronology from the beginning of the* 1.309 World to the year of Christ 1532. He published likewise a Mathematical Table, entituled, Sciaterion Pedarium, Printed at Zurick.

JODOCUS CLITCHTHOVEUS NEOPORTICENSIS,* 1.310 writ a Comment upon Iacobus Faber his Theory of the Planets.

GEORGIUS PRUCNER, of Ruspach, left behind him (sayes Simler in* 1.311 Bibl. Gesner.) very fair and exquisite Astronomical Instruments, and several Books collected by him, in Astrorum Scientia, yet preserved at Vienna, in Bibliotheca Fa∣cultatis Artium.

JACOBUS CEPORINUS of Zurick, eminently learned in the He∣brew,* 1.312 Greek, and Latine Languages, put forth a Commentary upon Dionysius his Periegesis, and Aratus his Astronomicon, Printed at Basil, by Wolphius, in the year before mentioned, as Gesner testifies.

LUDOVICUS DE RIGIIS, published Astrological Aphorisms, addressed* 1.313 to the Patriarch of Constantinople, Printed at Norimberg, in the year 1535. together with Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos.

JOHANNES STIGELIUS, Native of Gota, a City in the Province of* 1.314 Thuringen, in Germany, an ingenious Poet and Mathematician, Professour at Wittem∣berg and Iena, put forth Prognosticks upon the Eclipse of the Moon happening in the year 1536, as likewise others upon one of the Sun in the year following, and upon one of the Moon, and another of the Sun, in the year 1551.

JACOBUS KAEBELIUS, besides an Arithmetical Treatise, Published* 1.315 another of the Astrolabe, in High-Dutch, which was Printed afterwards in Latine, at Paris.

JACOBUS ZIGLERUS, of Landaw, a City in the Province of Vasgow,* 1.316 in the lower Alsatia, set forth Constructionem Solidae Sphaerae, Printed at Basil, by Valderus, together with Aratus and his Scholiast, in the year 1536. He wrote like∣wise Scholia in Procli Lycii Sphaeram; and De Canonica per Sphaeram operatione; and De Hemicyclio Berosi, mentioned by Vitruvius, l. 9. c. 9. He published likewise a Comment upon the Second Book of Pliny's Natural History; in which he explains the most obscure, especially Astronomical, Places therein.

NICHOLAUS COPERNICUS, by Bulialdus, not without reason,* 1.317 stiled Vir absolutae subtilitatis, a Native of Thorne in Prussia, and Canon of the Church of Frawenburg, the Cathedral of Warmerlandt, Scholar to Dominicus Ma∣ria, of Ferrara, to whom he was Assistant in making his Astronomical Observati∣ons at Bologna; and Professour of the Mathematicks at Rome, honoured at his Pub∣lick Lectures with the Assembly of the most Illustrious Persons in that City, whence returning into his own Country, he wholly applyed himself to the study and in∣stauration of Astronomy, finding the Sun's greatest Declination to be 23°. 28′. The year before his Death, at the instance of the Cardinals, Schomberg, and Ghisi, he published his Noble Work, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, in Six Books, in which he not only revived, but most happily united, and formed into an Hypo∣thesis of his own, the several Opinions of Philolaus, Heraclides Ponticus, and Ecphantus Pythagoreus. For according to the opinion of Philolaus, he made the Earth to move about the Sun, as the Center, whence its Annual Motion.; And with

Heraclides and Ecphantus, he likewise gave it a Motion like that of a Wheel about* 1.318 its own Axis, whence its Diurnal Motion; an Hypothesis so near the Truth, that like that when persecuted, maugre all Opposition,

Per damna, per caedes, ab ipso Sumit opes animúmque ferro;

As Ricciolus (though a Dissenter from it) observes.

ANDREAS OSIANDER took not only care in publishing the first Edi∣tion* 1.319 of Copernicus his Book De Revolutionibus, but condescended to be Overseer of the Press, while it was Printing, to which he added a brief Preface of his own, there∣in chiefly endeavouring, because of the seeming Novelty of the Opinion, to per∣swade the Reader, to look upon it as an assumed Hypothesis, rather than an asserted Tenet. To which purpose, about that time was published this Distich,

Quid tum si mihi Terra movetur, Solque quiescit Et Coelum? Constat Calculus inde Mihi.

Of which Gassendus, in Vitâ Copernici.

JOHANNES SCHONERUS, a Native of Carolostadt, Professour of Ma∣thematicks* 1.320 at Norimberg, put forth Astronomical Tables for their perspicuity called Resolutae, and a Book De usu Globi Stelliferi, De Compositione Clobi Coelestis, De Usu Globi Terrestris & de Compositione Ejusdem; as also another Piece, called Aequatori∣um Astronomicum; Libellus de Distantiis Locorum per Instrumentum & numeros in∣vestigandis; De Compositione Torqueti; In Constructionem & Usum Rectanguli sive Radii Astronomici Annotationes; Horarii Cylindri Canones; Planisphaerium seu Me∣teoroscopium; Organum Uranicum; Instrumentum Impedimentorum Lunae. All Printed at Norimberg in fol. 1551.

GEORGIUS VALLA, an Italian, Native of Piacenza; among other his* 1.321 Learned Works, wrote a Treatise in four Books De tota Astrologia, In which, Fa∣brica Ususque Astrolabii exaratur, & quae Signorum in exhibendis Medicaminibus sit habenda Observatio. He writ likewise a Commentary in Almagestum & Quadripar∣titum Ptolemaei, and translated out of Greek into Latine, Proclus Diadochus his Hypotyposes Astronomicarum Positionum, and Cleomedes de Contemplatione Orbium Coelestium. V. Simler. in Biblioth. Gesner.

JOHANNES BAPTISTA AMICUS COSENTINUS, wrote* 1.322 De motu Coelestium, juxta Principia Peripatetica, Published in the year 1532.

PETRUS PITATUS, of Verona, wrote Isagogen ad Ephemerides, and De* 1.323 novo Calendario instituendo, which he addressed to Pope Paul III. He wrote like∣wise an Explication of the Rising and Setting, of the Fixed Stars, Printed at Basil, 1568.

JOHANNES LUCIDUS SAMOSATHEUS, about this time* 1.324 put forth his learned Chronological Labours, non sine Eruditae Caveae Applausu, sayes G. Vossius; in which are contained Emendationes Temporum ab Orbe condito, with Canons in perpetuam Temporum Tabulam; Of the true Day of our Saviour's Passion; And an Epitome of the Emendation of the Romane Calendar, Printed at Venice by Iunta, 1537.

BONETTUS a Iew, put forth a small Treatise De Annulo sive Instrumento* 1.325 Astronomico, Printed at Marpurg 1537.* 1.326

SYMPHORIANUS CAMPEGIUS (alias CHAMPERIUS)* 1.327 Eques Auratus Lugdunensis, a French-man, among other Learned Works of his in Physick and Philosophy, put forth several Mathematical Treatises, and particularly One of Astronomy, Printed by Henricus Petrus, at Basil 1537.

JOHANNES GIGAS STAINFORTENSIS, Published Enchiridi∣on* 1.328 Sphaericum, seu Systema Cosmographicum compendiosum. He wrote likewise, ac∣cording to the Testimony of Simler in Bibl. Gesner, an Elegy upon two notable Eclipses of the Moon, which happened in the year 1538. Whereof the former was on the fourteenth of May, the latter on the sixth of November. His Enchiridion Sphaericum was Printed at Oxford in the year 1664.

MAURUS FLORENTINUS, first, a Monk, of the Order of the Hu∣miliati,* 1.329 afterwards, of the Fraternity of the Servants of the Blessed Virgin, of whom Gerardus Vossius sayes, That he was most learned in the Latine, Greek, and Hebrew Tongues, and excellently well skilled in Cosmography, and other Sciences, Published in his own Language (the Italian) divers Pieces, as his Annotations in Sphaeram Sacrobosci; and (besides his Sphaera Theologica & Christiana) Sphaera Pla∣tonica, which he dedicated to Cosmo de Medicis. He wrote likewise De Arte Na∣vigatoria; and an Epitome of Musick.

GASPAR BORNERUS, Professour of Phylosophy at Leipsick, among* 1.330 other Tractates, put forth a Book, De Stellis.

JOHANNES PENA, a French-man, Regius Professor of Mathematicks in* 1.331 the University of Paris, translated Euclid's Opticks into Latine; to which he prefixed an Encomium of Opticks, wherein (to use Gesner's Words) there are Iucundissimae Disceptationes & imprimis arduae, touching the Epicycles, Excen∣tricks, Apsides, Apogaeums, and Perigaeum's of the Planets, as likewise of their Pa∣rallaxes; together with ingenious Arguments concerning the Earths Rest or Mo∣tion, drawn from the Principles of that Art. He first maintained the Heavens to consist of no other Substance than that diffused through the Aery Region, and discovered some Comets to have been above the Moon; as Gassendus, in the life of Tycho, observes.

JOHANNES PIERIUS VALERIANUS, the noble Authour of* 1.332 Hieroglyphicks, wrote and dedicated to Cardinal Alexander Farneze, being but yet young and much addicted to Astronomical Studies, an elegant Compendium Of the Sphere.

PETRUS CATENA a Venetian, Doctour in Theology and Professour of* 1.333 Mathematicks at Padua, about the same time with Pierius, wrote upon the same Sub∣ject of the Sphere; and other Mathematical Peeces.

JULIANUS RISTORIUS DE PRATO, a Carmelite Fryar, Do∣ctour* 1.334 in Theology, and an eminent Astronomer, Tutour to Iunctinus, by whom, in his Preface to his Tabulae Resolutae, he is reported to have observed the Planets for several years, viz. from the year 1536. to 1542.

PAULUS CRUSIUS published a Treatise, wherein he sets forth the* 1.335 Doctrine of the Sun's Revolutions, and Tables of the mean Conversions of

•…•…ime, and of the Sun's motion, in Annis Tropicis & Sideriis.* 1.336

ANGELUS FORTIUS Doctour of Physick, is by Gesner, in Biblioth.* 1.337 reckoned as an eminent Astrologer.

ANTONIUS DE MONTULMO, Doctour of Arts and Physick,* 1.338 published a Book De judiciis Nativitatum, illustrated with the additions of Io. Monteregi•…•…s; Printed at Norimberg, 1540.

JOHANNES MASSAEUS, put forth twenty Books of Chronology, from* 1.339 the beginning of the World to the year now mentioned, to which he prefixed a fourfold Calendar, to wit, the Egyptian, Hebrew, Macedonick, and Roman. Voss. De Scient. Mathemat.

FRANCISCUS MAUROLYCUS, Abbot of Messena in Sicily, whom* 1.340 Ricciolus calls Siciliae Lumen clarissimum, wrote three Books of Cosmography, in∣tended as a Comment upon Ptolemy's Almagest. To him we are beholding for Theodosius's Sphaerica, and those of Menelaus, which he first of all published. He put forth a Piece, De Lineis Horariis, Fabricam Astrolabii, and divers other Works, mentioned in the beginning of his Cosmography. He was the first that wrote of Secant Lines, as Blancanus affirms. He left likewise behind him a Posthume Work, entituled, De Lumine & Umbra, and many Treatises unprinted, as appears at the End of his Opus•…•…ula, and though it be beside our Argument, yet in regard it is not well known, we think fit to mention that Alphonsus Borellius published in Sicily about 1656. the Comment of Maurolycus on the first four Books of Apollonius his Conicks, with two more of the said Authours, of which if there were Copies they would be grateful to Students, and more acceptable than that of Commandinus, in which the Text and Comment lie dispersed, which Inconvenience is avoyded in that of Maurolycus; the said Borellius is likewise now about publishing Maurolycus his Archimedes at Rome.

JOHANNES ANTONIUS DELPHINUS, of Casal, Provincial* 1.341 of the Franciscan Order, wrote, and dedicated to Camillus Palaeottus, a Senator of Bologna; a Book, De Caelestibus Globis, & Motibus, full of Erudition, as Ricciolus affirms.

PHILIPPUS MELANCTHON, among other the numerous Volumes* 1.342 by him published, set forth Tabula de Mensibus Graecorum, & Descriptiones Eclip∣sium Solis & Lunae, annis jam aliquot visarum, usque ad Annum 1540. and transla∣ted out of Greek into Latine, Ptolemy's four Books, De Syderum effectionibus. V. Simler.

AUGUSTINUS NIPHUS PHILOTHEUS SUESSANUS,* 1.343 who by his great Learning gained to himself the Title of Philosophus Magnus, among other the various Works by him published, writ (as to our purpose) a parti∣cular Treatise, De figuris Stellarum Helionoricis, in two Books; Another, De Die∣bus Criticis, seu Decretoriis; a third, De falsa Diluvii Prognosticatione quae ex con∣ventu omnium Planetarum (qui in Piscibus contingeret anno 1524.) divulgata est, in three Books, addressed to the Emperour Charles the Fifth. He wrote likewise E∣ruditiones in Apotelesmata Ptolemaei, & Annotationes in Librum secundum Ejusdem Quadripartiti, mentioned, wi•…•…h the rest, by Simler, in Bibl. Gesner.

JACOBUS PELETARIUS, a French man, besides his Geometrical* 1.344 Works, wrote De Constitutione Horoscopi. He published likewise Astronomical Ta∣bles,

•…•…and a Compendium of Astronomical Fractions; as also of the Sun's place, and▪* 1.345 that of the Moon, in the Zodiack.

ERASMUS OSWALDUS SKREKENFUSIUS, of Austria, Dis∣ciple,* 1.346 according to Ricciolus, to Henricus Glareanus, according to Vossius, to Se•…•…∣stianus Munsterus, Professor, at Freiburg in Brisgaw, of the Hebrew Tongue and Mathematicks, wrote a Comment in Sphaeram Sacrobosci, Annotations on 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Almagest, put forth a Book De Primo Mobili, and of the Theory of the Plan•…•…▪ Another De Gentium Calendariis, and translated, out of Hebrew into Latine, the Sphere of Rabbi Abraham Cai.

JOACHINUS CAMERARIUS, of Bamberg, a Town in Franconia,* 1.347 put forth, at Norimberg, in the year 1532. several Greek Astrological Authours, by him translated into Latine, as 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, sive, Rationem Orbis Solaris; likewise, Excerpta ex Hephaestione Thebano, De Duodecim Signis & eorum effectis, also 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. e. Quid Stellae Erraticae, sive Quinque Planetae, in unoquoque Zodiaci Signo significent. These Pieces he set forth in Greek and Latine. And in Latine only, he published a Fragment of the first Book of Vettius Valens, his Florida; and in Greek only Mercurius Irismegistus his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. e. Medicationes rationibus Astrologicis convenientes. In the year 1535▪ he set forth, at Norimberg, in Verse, Tùm Phaenomena, sive Siderum ac Stellarum Histori∣olam, tùm Prognostica. And in the year 1541. he published the two first Books of Ptolemy, De Iudiciis Astrologicis, by him translated into Latine, and illustrated with Annotations. We are obliged to him likewise, for the first publication of Theon Alexandrinus, his eleven Books of Commentaries upon Ptolemy's Almagest, which he caused to be Printed at Basil, by Walderus, from a MS. of Cardinal Bessarion's, brought into Germany by Regiomontanus. See more of this eminently learned Person, in G. Vossius, L. de Scient. Mathemat.

RAINERUS GEMMA FRIZIUS, Physician and Professor of Ma∣thematicks* 1.348 at Lovaine, put forth a Book of the use of the Globe, and the Astrono∣mical Ring; De Principiis Astronomiae & Cosmographiae; De Astrolabio Catholico, &c▪ He left his Son Cornelius Gemma, his Successour in the Professor's Place.

JOANNES GUIDO wrote, De Observat. Temporis Astrorum, Printed at* 1.349 Paris 1543.

CLAUDIUS MARIUS ARETIUS a Patrician of Syracuse, and* 1.350 Historiographer to the King of Spain, wrote a Comment, by way of Dialogue, upon this Verse of Virgil's.

Defectus Lunae varios, Solisque labores.

BUCHARDUS MITHOBIUS, wrote a Piece entituled Compositi•…•… •…•…∣li* 1.351 Astronomici, Printed together with the Treatise of Iohannes Driander, De Annul•…•… Astronomicis; as Simler affirms.

MICHAEL ANGELUS BLONDUS, Doctour of Physick, w•…•…ote* 1.352 and dedicated to Pope Paul III. a Book De Diebus Criticis; and to Rudolphus Cardinal of Carpegna another, De Anticipatione Stellarum fixarum cu•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉 significationibus.

COELIUS CALCAGNINUS, among the various Works by him pub∣lished,* 1.353 set forth a Paraphrase on the three Books of Aristotle's Meteors; A Com∣mentation,

Quod Coelum stet, Terra moveatur; De Mensibus, & De Re Nautica▪* 1.354 See more of him in Simler. Bibl. Gesner.

GEORGIUS PILANDER published a Book De Annulo Astronomico,* 1.355 aut Sphaerico.

POMPILIUS AZALUS writ De omnibus Rebus naturalibus quae continen∣tur* 1.356 in Mundo, viz. De Coelestibus, de Terrestribus, & Mathematicis, Printed at Venice in Folio; as Simler in Bibl. Gesner. testifies.

JOHANNES STADIUS, Professour of the Mathematicks and History,* 1.357 first, at Paris, afterwards at Lovaine, put forth among other his Mathematical Works, Ephemerides, which he entituled Tabulae Bergenses, in honour of Robertus à Bergis, Bishop of Liege. He put forth likewise other Ephemerides, from the year 1654. to the year 1606. with an Isagoge in Astronomiam & Astrologiam. He left Tabulas aequabilis & apparentis Motus Coelestium Corporum, as G. Vossius stiles them, and Prognostica Stellarum fixarum, cum Tabulis, in the beginning whereof he hath prefixed the History of Astronomy.

NICHOLAUS SOPHIANUS CORCYRAEUS, wrote in Greek* 1.358 of the Astrolabe, and by Gesner is said to have flourished about this Time.

VICTORINUS STRIGELIUS of Kaufbeurn, a Town in Suaben,* 1.359 published, at Wittemberg, an Epitome of the Doctrine of the Primum Mobile, illustrated with Demonstrations. He was Scholar to Melancthon.

AUGERIUS FERRERIUS of Tholouse, Doctor of Physick, whom* 1.360 Scaliger the Father entirely loved and consulted in all his learned Designs, writ, as I find mentioned in Gesner Castigationes Practicae, & De Diebus Decretoriis secun∣dum Pithagoricam Observationem.

JOHANNES MERCURIUS MORSHEIMERUS, put forth at* 1.361 Heidelberg, a Dissertation of the Name of Astronomy, it's Division and Causes; to which he adjoyned a Table of the Species of •…•…ontinued Quantity, serving only for the use of young Beginners. He professes himself to have been Scholar to Me∣lancthon.

JOACHIMUS HELLERUS corrected and published several Astrologi∣cal* 1.362 Authors, before which he prefixed Prefaces of his own, at Norimberg.

ANDREAS GERARDUS HYPERIUS, Professor of Divinity in* 1.363 the University of Marpurg, writ, besides other various Tractates, Geometrica, Optica, Cosmographica quaedam, as Simler affirms, in Bibl. Gesner.

ERASMUS REYNOLDUS, Native of Salfieldt, a Town in Thuringe, a* 1.364 Province in the Upper Saxony, Son to Iohannes Reynoldus, and Scholar to Iacobus Milichius, was Professor of Mathematicks in the University at Wittemberg, and wrote a most learned Commentary on Purbacchius's Theory of the Planets. He compo∣sed likewise, and dedicated to Albert, Marquess of Brandeburg, and Duke of Prussia, Astronomical Tables, according to the Hypothesis of Copernicus, which he called Prutenick Tables, in honour of the said Prince, as also Tables of Directions. He endeavoured likewise to illustrate and establish Chronology from the Eclipses of the Luminaries, and the great Conjunctions of the Planets; but his Death prevented the finishing of that Work. He had also a Son, called after his own Name, an

eminent Mathematician and Physician, who wrote upon the new Star in Cassiopaea,* 1.365 as Tycho Brahe testifies; Progymnasm. Tom. 1.

ARIEL BICHARDUS put forth a Collection of Questions, In Sphaeram* 1.366 Iohannis De Sacro Bosco, which he dedicated to his Godfather, Antonius Mullerus, sayes Ricciolus, in Part. 2. Chronic. Astronom.

JOHANNES ROIAS wrote, and dedicated to the Emperour Charles the* 1.367 Fifth, certain Commentaries upon the Astrolabe or Planisphere.

JOHANNES MARIA TOLOSAS, of the Order of the Predicants,* 1.368 wrote something of the Sun's greatest Declination. He published likewise a short Correction of the Roman Calendar, touching the due celebration of Easter.

JOHANNES BAVARUS, Medicus & Mathematicus, put forth Ephe∣merides,* 1.369 beginning in the year 1551. and ending in the year 1560. This Bavarus, is different from Iohannes Angelus Bavarus, mentioned in the year 1494.

GEORGIUS JOACHIMUS RHETICUS, Disciple to Copernicus,* 1.370 and Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Wittemberg, where he inter∣preted and explained Alfraganus. But hearing of the new Hypothesis of Coperni∣cus, he quitted his Professor's place, and went to Copernicus, whom he ceased not to exhort to perfect his Work, De Revolutionibus, which after his death he made pub∣lick, illustrating his Hypothesis by a particular narration, which he dedicated to Io∣hannes Schonerus, published by Maestlinus, and annexed to Kepler his Mysterium Cos∣mographicum, in the year 1621. He likewise set forth Ephemerides, according to the Doctrine of Copernicus, until the year 1551. What other Astronomical or Astrological Works he had either perfected or designed, will appear by his Epistle written to Petrus Ramus.

LUCAS GAURICUS, a Neopolitan, first, Professor of Mathematicks at* 1.371 Ferrara, afterwards Bishop of Civita Reale, corrected the▪ Alphonsine Tables, as also those of Regiomontanus, and Blanchinus, and published Tables of his own of the Primum Mobile, commonly called Tables of Directions, and Laurentius Bonincontri∣u▪s his Book, De Rebus Coelestibus, and Zacutus his Tables, together with Astrologi∣cal Precepts and Problems. He illustrated with Annotations Ptolemy's Almagest, put forth a learned Dissertation touching the miraculous Defect of the Sun at the time of our Saviour's Passion, and composed a new Ecclesiastical Calendar, compiled out of the Sacred Scriptures, and Ancient Synods, which last was Printed at Venice 1552. at which time like wise he published at Venice a Book called Tractatus Astrolo∣gicus, wherein are many Astrological Judgments on the Nativities of the most emi∣nent Persons of his Time. V. Simler. Bibl. Gesner.

TOBIAS MARMORARIUS, a Florentine, and Monk of the Cistertian* 1.372 Order, Vir Mathesios studiis egregiè excultus, as Vossius sayes of him, wrote yearly Prognosticks, of the Seasons of the year, and future Events.

ANTONIUS MYZALDUS writ Phaenomena, sive, Tempestatum Signa,* 1.373 quatuor Aphorismorum Sectiunculis Methodicè concinnata; Cometographia; Aescula∣pii & Uraniae Conjugium; Planetologia; Three Books of the Sphere, illustrated with Figures and Demonstrations; Zodi•…•…cus, sive duodecim Signorum Coeli Hortu∣lus, Libris tribus concinnatus; Planetarum Collegium, and some other Tractates of like Argument, as Simler, in Bibl▪ Gesner.

JACOBUS HOMELIUS is, about this time, reckoned, by Ricciolus,* 1.374 in the Catalogue of Astronomers, but without any mention of his Works. There* 1.375 was also one Iohannes Homelius, who wrote concerning the New Star in Cassiopea, and is mentioned by Ticho Brahe, in Progymn. Tom. 1.

JOANNES STABIUS, of Austria, Poet Laureat, Cosmographer, and* 1.376 Historiographer, to the Emperour Maximilian the First, Professor of Mathematicks at Vienna, wrote a Piece entituled Horoscopicum Universale; and several other Works, mentioned by his Scholar Georgius Collimitius, in Gesner's Bibliotheca, Tom. 1.

PAULUS EBERUS KYTZINGENSIS, put forth Calendarium Hi∣storicum,* 1.377 in the Preface to which he treats, De ejus Utilitate, & de Mensium apud diversas Gentes varietate. See more of him in Gesner's Bibliotheca.

GASPAR PEUCERUS, Son-in-Law to Philip Melancthon, wrote of the* 1.378 Doctrine of the Celestial Circles, and the Primum Mobile, and De praecipuis Divi∣nationum generibus, and among them, De Praedictionibus Astronomicis, as it is affirm∣ed by Vossius, De Scient. Mathemat. He wrote also Hypotheses Astronomicas, seu The∣orias Planetarum, ex Ptolem•…•…i & aliorum Veterum Doctrinâ, ad Observationes Coper∣nici, & Canones Motuum ab eo conditos, accommodatas, Printed, as Draudius affirms, at Wittemberg, 1572.

JOHANNES SCHRAETERUS VINARIENSIS, published, at* 1.379 Vienna in Austria, Astrological Tables, designing to gain himself, a repute by his predictions; of whom see Gesner's Biblioth.

HIEREMIAS BROTHEIEL, put forth various Prognosticks mentio∣ned* 1.380 by Simler. in Addit. Bibl. Gesner.

ANDREAS PERLACHIUS of Stiria, Doctor of Physick and Profes∣sor* 1.381 of Mathematicks in the University at Vienna, set forth, as Gesner stiles them, G•…•…mentaria Ephemeridum, ita conscripta, ut quisque absque Praeceptore, ex sola Le∣ctione integram inde Artem consequi possit, Printed by Aegidius Aquila at Vienna 1551.

FRANCISCUS RAPALDUS, Doctor of Physick at Bruges in Flan∣ders,* 1.382 wrote against Astrology as altogether useless to a Physician, to whom Petrus Haschardus, of Lisle, a Chirurgeon, replied in a Discourse by him entituled, Clipe∣um Astrologicum.

ROBERTUS RECORD, a Learned Doctor of Physick, and an excel∣lent* 1.383 Mathematician, descended of a generous Family in Wales, illustrated by his learned Labours, Cosmography, Geometry, Musick and Astronomy. He published Cosmographiae Isagogen, wrote a Book, De Arte faciendi Horologium; and another, De usu Globorum, & de statu Temporum. All which with several others he writ in the English Tongue.

PETRUS NONIUS, a Portuguez, Professor of Mathematicks in the Col∣ledge* 1.384 at Conimbra, wrote 'De Crepusculis; De Erratis Orontii; Astronomical Pro∣blems, and Rules for Observation, together with Annotations in Theoricas Purbacchii, commendable, sayes Vossius, not only for their Acumen and Perspicuity, but for discovering divers things omitted, and detecting several Errors committed by others.

HIERONYMUS CARDANUS, a Native of Milan, Professor of Phy∣sick* 1.385

and Mathematicks at Bologna, commented upon Ptolemy's Quadripartitum, De* 1.386 Iudiciis Astrorum, and put forth several other Tracts, as 1. De Supplimento Al∣manach. 2. De Restitutione Temporum, & Motuum Coelestium. 3. De Iudiciis Genitu∣rarum. 4. De Revolutionibus. 5. De Exemplis Centum Geniturarum. Aphorismi Astronomici: Not to mention his many other Works, not relating to our purpose.

LEVINUS LEMNIUS, Medicus Zirizaeus, writ three elegant Tractates,* 1.387 in the first whereof he treats of Astrology, shewing the verity or falsity of that Art, in which, sayes Gesner, multae amoenissimaeque causae explicantur, and particularly the Original of the Proverb, Quartâ Lunânati.

MICHAEL NOSTRADAMUS, Physician to Henry II. Francis II. and* 1.388 Charles IX. Kings of France, is famous for the several Centuries of Prophetical Prognostications extant under his Name (lately Englished with large Annotations) which in his Epistle Dedicatory of some part of them to Henry II. he affirms to have calculated by Astronomical Doctrine. But whether he were a greater Trifler or Astronomer, is by some questioned; but especially by Iodelé an ingenious French Poet, who hath bestowed on him this Distich;

NOSTRA DAMUS cum falsa damus, nam fallere nostrum est, Et cum falsa damus, nil nisi NOSTRA DAMUS.

NICHOLAUS SIMUS, Professor of Mathematicks in the Univertsiy of* 1.389 Bologna, set forth the Theories of the Planets, reduced to a Compendium, illustrated with divers Sculps and Figures. He put forth likewise Ephemerides for 15. years, calculated for the Meridian of Bologna, with Canons expounding the use of the said Ephemerides.

MARCUS FRITSCHIUS LAUBANUS HEXAPOLENSIS,* 1.390 wrote a Book De Meteoris, with a Catalogue of Prodigies and Ostents; Printed at Norimberg, 1555. as Gesner attests.

ANDREAS SCHONERUS, Son of Iohannes Schonerus of Carolostadt,* 1.391 published Tables of the Primum Mobile, according to the Fundamentals of Regio∣montanus.

HADRIANUS JUNIUS HORNANUS, for his Learning merited* 1.392 to be stiled, Alterum ab Erasmo Hollandiae Lumen. He published a Commentary, De Anno & Mensibus, likewise Fastorum Liber sive 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, rerum Memorabilium qualibet Anni die actarum apud Hebraeos, Graecos, Romanos, gentesque exteras, also Ca∣lendarium Syllabicum, so called, because the dayes of the year, Vocabulorum Syllabis respondeant; besides these he put forth Fasti Caesariani & Calendarium. These as he writ them were from hand to hand presented to Edward the Sixth King of Eng∣land, afterwards being enlarged and corrected, dedicated to his Sister Queen Mary. See more of him in Meursius in Athen. Batav. and G. Vossius de Scient. Mathemat. p. 398.

JOANNES GARCAEUS, a Brandeburgher wrote a Piece entituled Metho∣dus* 1.393 Astrologiae, illustrated with 400. Genitures, as Ricciolus affirms. To which Vossius adds, that he put forth, at Wittemberg, a Commentary consisting of XXII. Propositions, in which he comprizes the Doctrine of erecting a Celestial Scheme, and computing the Motions of the Planets. Draudius sayes, he put forth a small Treatise, De Tempore, sive De Ortu & Occasu Stellarum, & De usu Globi Coelestis, Printed at Wittemberg 1565. He was Scholar to Gaspar Peucerus.

JOSEPHUS ZARLINUS, a Native of Fossa Clodia (commonly called* 1.394 da Chioggia) an excellent Musician, who in his Institutioni Harmoniche, published* 1.395 in Italian, treats likewise of the Harmonick System of the Spheres.

RODOLPHUS BATTINGIUS, a Friezlander, published Methodum* 1.396 Astrolabii, according to Vossius, De Scient. Math.

CORNELIUS VALERIUS VETERAQUINAS, Successor to* 1.397 Petrus Nonnius at Lovaine, in Collegio Trilingui, put forth an Encyclopaedia, in which he treats of the Sphere, and the Elements of Astronomy, and Geography, suc∣cinctly and elegantly.

JEAN PIERRE DE MESMES, a French Gentleman, writ in his own* 1.398 Language, Astronomical Institutions, Printed at Paris, in folio, 1557.

CONRADUS DASYPODIUS, Professor of Mathematicks at Stras∣bourg,* 1.399 put forth Astronomical Precepts, and wrote a brief Treatise of Comets and their Effects, famous for being Author of the Astronomical Horologe set up in the Great Church at Strasbourg, the Description whereof he published in the year 1578.

GULIELMUS XYLANDER, Successour to Iacobus Mycillus in the* 1.400 Greek Professor's place at Heidelberg, a Person of good repute for his Philosophical and Mathematical Studies, among other Tractates of the later kind, put forth a small Treatise, De usu Globi & Planisperii, Printed at Heidelberg.

DANIEL BARBARUS, a noble Venetian, and Patriarch of Aquileia,* 1.401 hath sufficiently manifested his excellent knowledge in all Parts of the Mathema∣ticks, and particularly in Astronomy, by his learned Commentary upon Vitruvius his ninth and tenth Books.

JOHANNES TEMPORARIUS wrote an Astronomical Treatise,* 1.402 which he entituled Organum Astronomicum, grounded upon the Prutenick Tables, in which the whole Work of Astronomical Calculation is contracted to two Operati∣ons, to wit, only Addition and Substraction. All Proportional Scruples are laid aside, in the search after which much time is fruitlesly spent. The true Precession of the Equinox, which by the Alphonsine Astronomers is called the Motion of the Auges of the fixed Stars, is exposed to view for some Ages to come. The places as well of the Planets as the fixed Stars are with little or no trouble found for any time given. The Conjunctions and Defects of the Luminaries, with their Quantities and Durations, are most exquisitely defined, not only •…•…n one Climate, but in any Parallel whatsoever. The Parallaxes, whose invention gives trouble to the most ex∣perienced Artists, are by a wonderful compendious way found out and cleared, as to Latitude and Longitude, without the trouble of Calculation. Whence any one may frame to himself Ephemerides without any pains or labour. The Original Ma∣nuscript of which Work is at present in the possession of my worthy Friend, George Wharton Esquire.

PHILIPPUS FANTONIUS, a Florentine Monk, afterwards Abbot of* 1.403 Camaldolat, published a Book in Italian, of the reason of reducing the Year, to its true Form and Measure; of whom G. Vossius sayes, that he was Matheseos Scientia egregius, which he publickly professed in the Academy at Pisa. See more of him in Simler. Bibl. Gesner.

CYPRIANUS LEOVITIUS, of the Leonitian Family in Bohemia,* 1.404

Mathematician to Otho-Henry, Prince Palatine of the Rhine, put forth Astronomical* 1.405 Observations, with Astrological Prognosticks, upon the new Star in Cassiopaea. He likewise accurately described (to render Vossius's words) several Eclipses from the year 1556. to the year 1606. and published Ephemerides, and several other Works, mentioned by Simlerus, in his Bibliotheca Gesneriana, among the rest, Brevis & perspicua Ratio judicandi Genituras ex Physicis Causis & vera Experientia extracta, &c. to which is prefixed Admonitio de vero & licito Astrologiae usu per Hierony∣mum Wolphium, Printed at London 1558. Of Him Tycho Brahe (in Progymnasm. l. 1.) writes at large, adding withall, that, Pleraque ipsius Manuscripta opera, ad supputationes Astronomicas, praesertim primi Mobilis Tabulas copiosiores & faciliores reddendas facientia; Augustae in Fuggeorum Bibliotheca non sine harum A•…•…ium pro∣movendarum Incommodo, detinentur.

JOHANNES DRIANDER, Doctor of Physick, and Professor of Ma∣thematicks,* 1.406 which he illustrated by his learned Writings, particularly by his Book of the various Composition of Sun-Dyals; by his Description of a nocturnal In∣strument, for taking the hour of the Night from the inspection of the Stars; Astro∣labial Canons, and the Explication of the Quadrant; with several other Astrono∣mical Inventions; as it is testified by the excellent Thuanus, and Draudius in Bibl▪ Classica.

GEORGIUS BUCHANANUS, that learned Scotch-man, hath written* 1.407 Five Books of the Sphere, in a Latine Poem; to which Iohannes Pincierus hath ad∣ded a Supplement of the fourth and fifth Books, and Arguments to them all.

RABBI ORI, filius Simeonis, a Iew of Palaestine, put forth Calendarium* 1.408 Palaestinorum, & omnium Iudaeorum, computed for forty years, first Printed at Ve∣nice, in Hebrew, afterwards translated into Latine, and illustrated with Annotations by Iacobus Christmannus; and published at Francfort, 1594.

FEDERICUS COMMANDINUS of Urbino, optimè meritus, si quis∣quam* 1.409 alius, de Mathematicis, sayes Blancanus. For besides the many other excel∣lent Monuments of Greek Learning, which we owe to his happy Traduction, we are beholding to him for Aristarchus Samius, De Magnitudinibus & Distantiis Solis a•…•… Lunae, which he illustrated by a Comment of his own. He put forth likewise Ptole∣my's Analemma, and wrote De Lineis Horariis.

MICHAEL BEUTHERUS, Native of Carolostadt in Westphalia, not* 1.410 far distant from Wurstburgh, Scholar to Erasmus Reinholdus, afterwards Professor of Poetry, History, and Mathematicks; in the University of Gripswaldt, in the Dukedom of Pomerania, read at Paris publick Lectures, De Annorum Supputatione. He wrote De Globo Astronomico; De Circulis; Of the Correction of the Gregorian Calendar; Of the seventy weeks in Daniel; Of the time of the World's Creation, and the day of our Saviour's Passion. He was Library-Keeper to Otho-Henry, Prince Pa∣latine of the Rhine, and of his Council in Ecclesiastical Affairs, and restored to the same Charges afterwards by Frederick the Third.

ELIAS VINETUS, Professor at Bourdeaux, besides his Notes on Pomponius* 1.411 Mela, De situ Orbis, wrote a Commentary in Sphaeram Sacrobosci; for which he just∣ly merits a room in this Astronomical Catalogue.

JOHANNES HONTERUS CORONENSIS, of Cronstadt (in* 1.412 Transylvania) anciently called Zarmigethusa, writ Four Books, in Verse, De Ru∣dimentis Cosmographiae, which he adorned with several Land-Tables or Maps. To

which he adjoyned, in Prose, a Treatise of the Principles of Astronomy and Geo∣graphy.* 1.413

PETRUS RAMUS, first Disciple to Orontius Finaeus, afterwards Regius* 1.414 Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Paris, besides his Two Books of Arithmetick, and XXVII. of Geometry, put forth XXXII. Scholarum Mathemati∣carum, in the first of which he treats of many things relating to the Rise and Ad∣vancement of Astronomy.

MICHAEL NEANDER, è valle Ioachimica, put forth Elementa Doctri∣nae* 1.415 Sphaericae, & Materiam Computi Astronomici, as Ricciolus affirms in Chronolog. Astron.

DANIEL SANTBECH, of Nimmeghen, put forth, according to Riccio∣lus,* 1.416 Praeclara Problemata Astronomica & Geometrica, in VII. Sectiones distributa: In the first whereof he treats of several Observations of the Phaenomena of the Sun, Moon, and fixed Stars; In the second, he exhibits Canons of the Primum Mobile, extracted from the Tables of Regiomontanus; The third is of the Reasons of Gno∣mons and Shadows. The other Four are upon Geometrical Subjects.

JOSEPHUS MOLETIUS Professor of Mathematicks at Padua, besides* 1.417 his Comment upon Ptolemy's Geography, composed out of the Prutenick Tables, others, which he called Tabulae Gregorianae; for which by the Senate of Venice, he was rewarded with 200. Ducats, and promised by Pope Gregory XIII. for the con∣tinuation of them 300. Crowns more. He published likewise Introductio ad Ephemerides, Printed together with the Ephemerides of Iosephus Scala, of Sicily, in the year 1589.

LUCILLUS PHILALTHAEUS, Doctor of Physick, wrote as Ricciolus* 1.418 terms them, Luculentos Commentarios, upon Aristotle, De Coelo.

LEONARDUS DIGGES, of a generous Family in Kent, besides his* 1.419 Stratiotices, and his Mathematical Discourse of Geometrical Solids, wrote an Astro∣nomical Prognostication, then Printed.

ALEXANDER PICOLOMINAEUS, of Siena, wrote Four Books,* 1.420 De Sphaera Mundi; as also a Treatise of the Fixed Stars in Italian, in which Lan∣guage he likewise published another, of the Theory of the Planets, and dedicated the same to Cosmus de Medicis; and farther another, De Magnitudine Terrae & Aquae; all rendred into Latine by Nicholaus Stupanus, and Printed at Basil, 1568.

SAMUEL SYDEROCRATES wrote De usu Partium Coeli, in Com∣mendationem* 1.421 Astronomiae, Printed at Strasbourg, as Draudius affirms, 1567.

TITUS à POPMA, a Friezlander, wrote Tabellas in Sphaeram, & Elemen∣ta* 1.422 Astronomiae.

EDO HILDERICUS writ a small Treatise entituled Logistice Astronomi∣ca,* 1.423 Printed at Wittenberg 1568. mentioned by Simler, in Bibl. Gesner.

CHRISTIANUS VURSTISIUS, of Basil, Professor of Mathematicks* 1.424 in the University of Zurich, wrote learned Questions in Theoricas Purbacchii; whereto he prefixed an Introduction of his own, Printed at Basil, by Henricus Petri, 1586.

ABRAHAMUS ORTELIUS, of Antwerp, Geographer to Philip II▪* 1.425 King of Spain, most deservedly challenges a place in this Catalogue, especially for* 1.426 that great Work of his, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, with it's Parergon, and his Thesau∣rus Geographicus.

GERARDUS MERCATOR, a Native of Rupelmonde in Flanders,* 1.427 made several Mathematical Instruments for the Emperour Charles the Fifth, particu∣larly a Globe, in which was comprized the Constitution of the Planets, and the Celestial Signs and Constellations. He likewise made for the said Emperour two other Globes; the one Celestial of Chrystal, the other Terrestrial, of Wood. He put forth a Cronology from the beginning of the World to the year 1568. exactly composed and calculated, as well from Eclipses, and other Astronomical Observations of all Times, as from the Sacred Scriptures, and other Authentick Authors, highly com∣mended by Onuphrius Panvinius. Not to mention his other Geographical Works.

HUGO, sive HUO HELTILIUS, of Groeningen, in Friezland, wrote* 1.428 in Spanish of the Planisphere.

HENRICUS BRUCAEUS of Alost in Flanders, Doctor of Physick and* 1.429 Professor of Mathematicks at Rome and Rostoch, put forth Three Books of the Pri∣mum Mobile, and the Institutions of the Sphere, of whom Vossius, De Scient. Math. gives an ample Account.

FRANCISCUS BAROCCIUS, a Patrician of Venice, wrote (besides* 1.430 his other Works in Mechanicks and Geometry) Four Books of Cosmography, in the Preface to which he detects no less than LXXXIV. Errors of Io. de Sacrobosco, and his Followers.

JOANNES LALAMANTIUS, of Antun in Burgundy, a Physician pub∣lished* 1.431 a Tractate entituled, Collatio Rationis Anni exterarum ferè Omnium & Prae∣cipuarum Gentium cum Romano Anno, Printed at Geneva apud Crispinum 1571. 8^o.

ADAMUS URSINUS, of Norimberg, wrote Prognosticks upon the new* 1.432 Star in Cassiopaea, touching which, see Tycho, Progymn. Tom. 1.

ANDREAS NOLTHIUS, of Embeck, wrote concerning the Star in* 1.433 Cassiopaea about the same time as the Landtgrave of Hesse, as is likewise noted by Tycho, Progymnas. Tom. 1.

BARTHOLOMAEUS RASACHERUS, Professor of Mathematicks* 1.434 at Vienna, wrote also touching the Star in Cassiopaea.

CORNELIUS GEMMA, of Lovaine, wrote likewise upon the same* 1.435 Subject: So also did

CORNELIUS FRANGIPANUS, whose Censure see in Tycho Brahe,* 1.436 Progymnas. Tom. 1.

HIERONYMUS MUNOSIUS, Professor of the Hebrew Tongue and* 1.437 Mathematicks in the University of Valentia, and Physician to the Emperor Maxi∣milian the Second, put forth his Observations upon the New Star in Cassiopaea.

ELIAS CAMERARIUS, Professor of Mathematicks at Francfort, upon* 1.438 Oder, wrote De Nova Stella Cassiopaeae.

GUL•…•…ELMUS POSTELLUS, Native of Barenton, a Town in Norman∣dy,* 1.439 about this time put forth his Cosmography, sive, De Universitate, and wrote,* 1.440 De Nova Stella Cassiopaeae.

JOHANNES DEE, Doctor of Physick and an excellent Mathematician* 1.441 (besides other his learned Works, whereby he hath honoured our Nation, not per∣tinent to our present purpose) wrote, upon occasion of the New Star in Cassiopaea, a small Treatise, by him entituled Parallacticae Commentationis & Praxeos nucleus, highly commended by Tycho Brahe, in Progymnasm. Tom. 1. He published in the year 1558. a Treatise entituled, De Praestantioribus quibusdam Naturae Virtutibus, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, containing several curious Astronomical and Astrological Aphorisms; In the Preface to which Piece, he makes mention of the several Astro∣nomical Tractates following, by him intended for the Publick, but whether ever yet Printed is uncertain; as first, De Planetarum, inerrantium Stellarum, Nubiumque à Centro Terrae Distantiis, & Stellarum omnium veris inveniendis Magnitudinibus in two Books, De praecipua Perspectivae Parte, quae de Radiorum Fractione tractat, in three Books, De Caelestis Globi amplissimis Commoditatibus, in two Books, De Nova Navigationum Ratione, in two Books, and one Book, De Annuli Astronomici multi∣plici usu, divided into a hundred Chapters, besides some other Mathematical Pieces, among which, his Apology for Fryar Bacon. A farther Account of the Works and Writings of this Stupendious Person the Reader may happily e're long meet with in his Life; intended to be written (if Providence second his Design) by my wor∣thy Friend Elias Ashmole Esquire, whose singular Affection to Astronomical and Astrological Studies may justly entitle him to a Place in this Catalogue.

PAULUS HAINZELIUS, Consul of Ausbourg, diligently observed, at* 1.442 Gegginge, near the City of Ausbourg aforesaid, the motions of the Stars and Pla∣nets, using in his Observations a Quadrant of fourteen Cubits, as Ricciolus, in Chro∣nol. Astron. affirms. His Prayses and Commendations may be seen in Tycho Brahe, Progymn. Tom. 1.

PAULUS FABRITIUS, a Mathematician and Physician to the Empe∣rour* 1.443 of Germany, wrote De Nova Stella Cassiopaeae 1572.

THEODORUS GRAMINEUS, Professor of Mathematicks at Colen,* 1.444 published a Prolix and tedious Commentary, or (as Tycho more truly terms it) Com∣mentum, upon the New Star in Cassiopaea.

MICHAEL MAESTLINUS GOEPINGENSIS, at first Parish-Priest,* 1.445 or Curate of a little Town called Bachnang, afterwards Professor of Mathe∣maticks in the Universities of Heidelberg, and Tubinge, and Master or Tutor to Kepler, wrote De Stella Nova Cassiopaeae, and of the Comet which appeared in the year 1576. as also Ephemerides according to the Prutenick Tables, and Additions to the first Narration of Rheticus, with an Appendix; De Dimensionibus Orbium Coele∣stium, according to the Opinion of Copernicus. He published likewise Theses De Eclipsibus, and an Epitome of Astronomy, and wrote against the Gregorian Calendar, in which he was opposed by Clavius; yet happy in this, that he was not only Ma∣ster to the learned Kepler, but first Motor to the famous Galilaeo (addicted before that time entirely to Aristotle and Ptolemy) of his embracing the Copernican Hypo∣thesis, perswaded thereunto by the force of his Arguments, which in a Publick Le∣cture upon that Subject he used at the time of his being in Italy.

GELLIUS SASSERIDES, a Dane, of Copenhagen, was one of those* 1.446 who assisted the noble Tycho Brahe in his Celestial Observations; some of whose Epistles are extant in Maginus, De Directionibus.

JOHANNES HECKIUS, of Daventer, Doctor of Physick, wrote a small* 1.447 Treatise upon the New Star in Cassiopaea, termed by Ricciolus, Opus non inelegans.* 1.448

TYCHO BRAHE, descended of an illustrious Family among the Danes,* 1.449 as being eldest Son to Otto Brahe, Lord of Knudsthorp, in the Island Schonen, not far from Elzinbourg, who was Son of another Tycho, Son of Axilius Brahe, Lord of the said Place; the Hipparchus of his Age, who even from his Childhood being addicted to Astronomical Studies, though diverted from them by the Advice of his Friends and morose humour of his Tutour, grew by his own Ingenuity and Indu∣stry without any Instructor, so great a Proficient therein, that in the time of his Mi∣nority, and without the help of other Instruments, than a small Globe little bigger than a Man's Fist, and a large pair of Compasses, with which by applying his Eye to the Head of the Compasses, and opening the shanks thereof, he used by stealth to take the Distances of the Stars, he made a shift to detect divers considerable Errors, both in the Alphonsine and Prutenick Tables. At length by his Studies and Travels, having consummated his Knowledge in Astronomy. He was by Frederick the Se∣cond King of Denmark (at what time he resolved to make his Retreat into Switzer∣land, the better to apply himself entirely to the Contemplation of the Stars) invi∣ted to fix his Studies at Home, and to honour his own Country with his Learned La∣bours and Observations. To which end the King gave him the Island Huena, com∣monly called Ween, between Scania and Zeland, in the Baltick Sound, as a Place for his Retirement and Studies. Where causing to be built a Stately Pallace, to which he gave the Name of Uranoburgum, procuring most costly and exquisite Instruments for observing, and calling to his Assistance the most learned Astronomers of that Age, he happily began and made his glorious Progress in the Instauration of Astronomy. In which Work he is said to have expended no less than two hundred thousand Crowns. And as Copernicus had corrected many things in Ptolemy, so did Tycho no less in Copernicus. So that from thence the Learned World began to look upon on∣ly three chief Sects of Astronomers, whereof the Tychonick was the mean and mid∣dle between the Pythagorean or Copernican, and the Aristolean or Ptolemaick. Of his Works there are published Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata, in three Parts; whereof the first treats of the Restitution of the Sun's Motion, as also of the Moon's, and the fixed Stars; chiefly of the new Star which appeared in the Constellation of Cassiopaea, 1572. The second of several new Phaenomena's of the Aetherial World, more particularly of the Comet which appeared in the year 1577. The third and last contains his Astronomical Epistles to divers Persons. There is extant likewise a Book of his entituled Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica, dedicated by him to the Empe∣ror Rudolphus the Second, describing the several stupendious and costly Instruments, by him used in his Astronomical Instauration. To these is to be added his Historia Coelestis, being a Collection of twenty years Observations preserved in MS. by three mighty Emperors, Rudolph the Second, Ferdinand the Second, and Ferdinand the Third, and lately by Command of his Imperial Majesty Leopold, made publick at Ausburg. Which said Observations are ushered by a Liber Prolegomen•…•…, compen∣diously representing the Observations made from the time of the Infancy of Astro∣nomy unto that of it's Restauration by the Illustrous Tycho, reduced into 7. Class. containing the Babylonian Observations, the Grecian, the Alexandrian, the Syro-Persian, the Norimbergian, the Borussian, and mixt Observations from the year 1529. to the year 1582. After which begin the Tychonick Observations in twen∣ty Books, containing as many Annual Observations ending in the year 1601. which was the last of Tycho's life: A correct Copy of these Observations (transcribed from the Original, by Erasmus Bartholinus) being now likewise in the Press at Pa∣ris. See more of him, in his life, written by the excellent Gassendus, in six Books.

PETRUS BEAUSARDUS, Doctor of Physick, and Regius Professor of* 1.450

Mathematicks in the University of Lovain, wrote of the Astronomical Ring, or the* 1.451 Armilla.

THADDAEUS HAGGECIUS of Haic, Disciple to Ioachimus Came∣rarius,* 1.452 and Physician to the Emperour Maximilian the Second, put forth a Piece, entituled Dialexis, touching the New Star in Cassiopaea, whose several Arguments see reported and examined by Tycho, Progymn. Tom. 1.

JOHANNES RASEH, at Munichen, wrote De Cometarum Significationi∣bus,* 1.453 about the year 1573. About the same time

GEORGIUS BUSCHIUS, Pictor & Astronomus Erfordiensis, as Riccio∣lus* 1.454 stiles him, wrote of the Star which appeared in Cassiopaea. And

ANTONIUS SANTUTIUS, Professor of Mathematicks at Pisa, wrote* 1.455 De Cometis, in which he treats of the same Star.

WOLFANGUS SCHULERUS, Professor of Mathematicks in the U∣niversity* 1.456 of Wittemberg, wrote upon the same Subject, in answer to Caspar Peucerus, the Younger, his Proposals touching the said New Star.

FRANCISCUS BORDINUS, of Correggio, Doctor of Arts and Phy∣sick,* 1.457 and Publick Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Bologna, published Chilias Quaestionum & Responsorum Mathematicorum ad cognitionem Universi perti∣nentium, divided into three Parts; the first treating of Geometry, the second of Geography, and the last in a more ample manner of Astronomy, Printed at Bologna.

JACOBUS SCHOL, of Strasbourg, Doctor of Physick, set forth a Book,* 1.458 wherein he reduces Theses aliquot rei Medicae simplicioris, Integritati Astronomicae. He published likewise a Book, De brevi applicatione Astrologiae ad Medicinam; with Canons of their conveniency and agreement; Extant in the King's Library at St. Iames's.

JOHANNES FRANCISCUS OFFUSIUS, wrote De Divina Astro∣rum* 1.459 Facultate, in Larvatam Astrologiam, Printed at Paris, in the year 1574.

HERMANNUS WITTEKINDUS, Professor of Mathematicks at* 1.460 Heidelberg, published a small Tractate, De Sphera Mundi, & Temporis Ratione apud Christianos, Printed at Newstadt, in the year 1590. He put forth also a Piece enti∣tuled, Conformatio Horologiorum in superficiebus planis utcunque sitis; with a Ho∣rological Quadrant, Printed at Heidelberg.

ADAMUS à BODENSTEIN, Son of Andreas, Doctor of Physick, at* 1.461 Basil, writ De Herbis duodecim Zodiaci signis dicatis, as Simler affirms, in Bibl. Gesner.

LUDOVICUS LAVATERUS, of Zurich, besides his Book, De Spe∣ctris,* 1.462 Lemuribus, & magnis atque insolitis fragoribus, variisque Praesagitionibus, quae plerunque Hominum magnas clades, mutationésque Imperiorum praecedunt, wrote a large Catalogue of Comets, published at Zurich, by Gesner.

ANDREAS ROSA SINGFURDENSIS MEDICUS, in his* 1.463 Prognostick, published 1574. made some Observations upon the Star in Cassiopaea.

JOSIAS SIMLERUS, Author of the Epitome of Gesner's Bibliotheca,* 1.464 put forth two Books, De Principiis Astronomiae.* 1.465

FRANCISCUS JUNCTINUS, a Florentine, Doctor in Theology, Pro∣fessor* 1.466 of Philosophy and Astronomy, put forth Speculum Astrologicum, Tabulis Astronomicis, & multiplici eruditione refertum, according to the Judgement of Ricciolus; and wrote accurate Commentaries in Sphaeram Sacrobosci, as Vossius calls them. He left likewise two Treatises, Ad judicandum De Revolutionibus Astrorum; and a large Commentary upon Ptolemy's Quadripartite, with a Catalogue of the most famous Persons of his Time, and some Ages before him, Printed together in folio.

GODESCALCUS EBERBACHIUS, wrote of the Eclipse of the* 1.467 Moon, which happened in December 1573. with a brief Prognostick thereupon according to the Doctrine of Ptolemy. He published likewise the Reason of ano∣ther Eclipse of the Moon, which happened in the year 1576. demonstrated Geo∣metrically, and Printed at Erford, as Draudius affirms.

SIXTUS SENENSIS, of the Order of Preaching Fryars, put forth, by* 1.468 way of Comment, upon the Scripture, one Book of Geographical; another of Astronomical Questions.

EGNATIUS DANTES, of Perugio, a Dominican, and publick Profes∣sor* 1.469 of Mathematicks in the University of Bologna, wrote of the use of the Astro∣labe, and the making of Astronomical Instruments, and reduced Astronomy, with other Mathematical Sciences, into a Compendium. He erected a Gnomon, in the Church of St. Petronio at Bologna, for observing the Sun's Declination, and Equi∣noctial Armillae in the Church-wall of St. Maria Novella at Florence, for the obser∣vation of the Equinox. He first published the Optick Fragments of Heliodorus La∣rissaeus in Italian, in which there is something Astronomical; of which, another E∣dition hath been published in Greek and Latine, at Paris in 1657. by Erasmus Bar∣tholinus in 4^o. and lately at Cambridge another in 8^o. Greek and Latine, ad Hetrus•…•…i Codicis fidem, ex Bibliotheca Fr. Lindenbrogii, Printed at the end of the Opucsula Mythologica Ethica & Physica, set forth by Mr. Tho. Gale, 1670.

THOMAS BLEBELIUS, wrote of the Sphere, and of the first Rudi∣ments* 1.470 of Astronomy, Printed at Wittemberg in the year 1576.

BARTHOLOMAEUS SCULTETUS GORLICIENSIS, wrote* 1.471 of the Comet which appeared in the year 1557. Astronomicè & Astrologicè; of which see Tycho's censure, lib. 2. p. 175.

JOHANNES MARIA FIORNOVELLUS, of Ferrara, upon oc∣casion* 1.472 of the Comet appearing in the year 1577. Published a small, but learned Treatise, De Cometis.

GUID' UBALDUS, or GUIDUS UBALDUS, a Noble Italian* 1.473 Marquess, of the Family DE MONTE, besides other Signal Monuments of his great Skill in Mathematicks, especially in Mechanicks, set forth a Treatise of the Astrolabe and Perspective, and left behind him (being a Posthume Work) divers Astronomical Problems, as Ricciolus in Catalog. Astron. and Vossius, De Scient. Mathemat. testifie.

NICHOLAUS WINKLERUS of Hall, or Hala, in Suabe, commonly* 1.474

called Schwabishe Hall, to distinguish it from a Town of the same Name in Saxony,* 1.475 wrote a small Piece, wherein he proposes to demonstrate the Parallax and distance of the former Comet from the Center of the Earth; but censured by Tycho, to be a work full of enormous absurdities.

JOHANNES PRAETORIUS JOACHIMICUS, wrote likewise* 1.476 upon the Comet appearing 1577. and occasionally upon the New Star in Cassiopaea happening not long before; of which Tycho, in Progymnas. Tom. 1.

HELIZAEUS ROESLINUS, Published a Treatise entituled Theoria Coe∣lestium* 1.477 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, in which (sayes Draudius in Bibl. Classica) from the Phaenomena of divers Comets, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, quaedam afferuntur de Novis cujusdam Miraculi Tertiae Sphaerae Circulis, Polis, & Axi; Printed at Strasbourg 1578. He assumed to him∣self, as Raimarus Dithmarsus had done, the Invention of the Tychonick System, to which he added the (exploded) Solidity of the Celestial Orbs, as Gassendus, in vita Tychon. testifies.

PAULUS CRUSIUS COBURGENSIS, put forth a Treatise, De* 1.478 Doctrina Revolutionum Solis, cum Tabulis Mediarum Conversionum Temporis, & Motuum Solis in Annis Tropicis & Sidereis, Printed at Iena 1567. and another, De Epochis seu Aeris, Printed at Basil in 8^o. 1578.

GEORGIUS CAESIUS, put forth a Catalogue, according to the Series of* 1.479 Time, of all the Comets which appeared from the Flood, until the year 1579. Printed at Norimberg the same year.

ANDREAS DUDITIUS, wrote a small Comment, De Cometarum signi∣ficationibus;* 1.480 to which is adjoyned the Opinion of Thomas Erastus, Printed at Basil 1579.

ALKAS CURIACUS, in the year of Hegira 950. and of Christ 1580.* 1.481 writ Tables, or Computus Astronomicus, now extant in the Publick Library at Oxford.

VALENTINUS NAIBODA, Professor of Mathematicks at Colen and* 1.482 Padua, wrote Three Books of Astronomical Institutions, and put forth an enarration of the Elements of Astrology, collected out of Alchabitius, and other Authors. He was found dead in his House, at Padua transfixed with many wounds, having pre∣dicted that he should die by the Sword. Vide Ricciol. in Append. ad Tom. prim. Al∣magest. Nov. & Campanellae Astrolog.

MARCUS ALBERTUS LONICERUS, wrote of the Theory of* 1.483 the Celestial Motions, according to the Hypothesis of Copernicus, Printed at Colen, 1583.

JOHANNES BAPTISTA CARELLUS, of Piacenza, wrote Ephe∣merides,* 1.484 together with a Treatise or Introduction to Astrology; as Ricciol. in Astron. Chron. affirms.

MAURITIUS BRESSIUS, put forth Four Books, Metrices Astronomi∣cae,* 1.485 Printed at Paris, 1581.

MATTHAEUS RICCIUS, Native of Macerata, a Town in Italy, a Iesuit,* 1.486 famous as well for his Travels into the East-Indies and China, as for his eminent Skill in the Mathematicks. To ingratiate himself with the Chineses, he is said to

have Composed a Cosmographical Map, of an Oval Form, in which he or∣dered* 1.487 the Kingdom of China to be placed at large in the midst, and the other Kingdoms and Territories about the skirts thereof in little, the better to humour that proud conceited Nation. He wrote likewise, in the Chinese Tongue, a Cosmo∣graphical Table, which he illustrated with a Comment, together with Cosmographi∣cal and Astrological Rules, and divers other things for the benefit of that Nation.

ALOYSIUS LILIUS; of Verona, Doctor of Physick, by Blancanus stiled,* 1.488 Alter nostri aevi Sosigenes, whose assistance Gregory XIII. made use of in correcting and reforming the Iulian Calendar. He invented a perpetual Cycle of the Moon, and established the immutable and fixed seats of the Aequinoxes.

THOMAS ERASTUS, an eminent Philosopher and Physician, writ some* 1.489 thing upon the Subject of Astrology, or rather against the Iudiciary Part, Quam va∣lidis Argumentis confutavit, sayes the excellent Thuanus, in Histor. ad Ann. 1583.▪

SIXTUS ab HEMINGA, called likewise by Vossius, Simon ab Heminga, a* 1.490 Native of Friezland, of a Noble Family, Doctor of Physick, and an excellent Astrono∣mer, in his Youth much addicted to Judiciary Astrology, but afterwards having de∣tected the falsity of that vain Study by his inspection into the Genitures of thirty most eminent Persons, he put forth a Book in confutation thereof; wherein he chiefly oppugns Cyprianus Leovitius, Hieronymus Cardanus, and Lucas Gauricus.

JOHANNES PADUANUS, wrote of the various Composition and use* 1.491 of Sun-Dials, together with a Method, or Tables for supputation of the Hours, according to the several Regions of the World, and distinguishing the Places of the Stars; Printed at Venice and Verona, in the years 1582. and 1583. as Draudius affirms.

ALBERTUS LEONINUS, sive LEUWIUS, a Groenwood, Native of* 1.492 Utrecht, of a generous Family, Doctor of the Civil Law, and eminently learned in the Mathematicks, put forth the Theory of the Celestial Motions, according to the Doctrine of Copernicus. In which he likewise treats of the true Quantity of the Tropical year, and of the Reason of the Reformation, or Restitution of the Civil year. In the same Work likewise he gives an Introduction to Astronomy, Geogra∣phy, and Horography. He wrote also against Judiciary Astrology.

REMBERTUS DODONAEUS, Published a Cosmographical Instituti∣on* 1.493 of the Sphere, comprehending the Principles of Astronomy and Geography; Printed at Antwerp, 1584.

JOANNES BAPTISTA BENEDICTUS, a Noble Venetian, invi∣ted* 1.494 from Parma to Turin, by the Duke of Savoy, in the year 1566. to answer se∣veral Questions proposed in Arithmetick, Geometry, Astronomy, Opticks, and Mu∣sick, to which he endeavoured to give satisfaction and solution, by his learned Epi∣stles, published in the year 1585. He was an Excellent Geometer and▪ Tutor to Clavius.

NICHODEMUS FRISCHLINUS, wrote Five Books, De Astronomi∣cae* 1.495 Artis cum Doctrinâ Coelesti, & Naturali Philosophiâ congruentiâ, Printed at Franc∣fori, in the year 1586.

SALOMON PLEPPIUS, wrote a new Explication of the Motion of the* 1.496 utmost Heaven, called the Prime Mover, Printed in the year 1587.

HENRICUS DECIMATOR, put forth a small Treatise, as well of the* 1.497 Fixed Stars as Planets, serving not only for the use of Astronomers, but also Poets;* 1.498 Printed at Magdeburg, 1587.

JOSEPHUS SCALA, a Sicilian, composed Ephemerides, continuing from* 1.499 the year of Christ, 1589. to the year 1600.

JOSEPHUS AURIA, a Neopolitane, whom Blancanus commends, as if he* 1.500 were another Commandinus, for his learned Labours, in translating divers of the Ancient Greek Mathematicians, in particular (and to our purpose) Autolycus De Sphaera Mobili, Euclidis Phaenomena, & Theodosius Tripolita, De Habitationibus, & De Diebus & Noctibus.

CHRISTOPHORUS ROTHMANNUS, was Mathematician to the* 1.501 Illustrious William, Landtgrave of Hesse. He made his Celestial Observations at Cassels, at the same time, as Tycho did his at Uranoburg; and besides his accurate Piece upon the Comet which appeared in the year 1585. There are extant in the first Tome of Tycho Brahe's Epistles, divers Letters of his to Tycho, with Tycho Brahe's Answers to him, touching several Controversies in Astronomy.

SIMON STEVINUS, of Bruges, Mathematician to Maurice▪ Prince of* 1.502 Aurange, put forth, among other Works of his, Theories of the Planets, and Tables of the Celestial Motions, in Three Books.

DAVID WOLKENSTEIN VRATISLAVIENSIS, a Silesian,* 1.503 writ an accurate Description of the Astronomical Horologe at Strasbourg, where he was Professor of Mathematicks, extant in Manuscript in the hands of my worthy Friend, Mr. Thomas Gale,

JACOBUS CHRISTMANNUS, Publick Professor of Mathematicks,* 1.504 and the learned Languages at Heidelberg, translated into Latine, out of a Manuscript in the Elector Palatine's Library, Alfraganus's Chronological and Astronomical Elements, which he supplied and illustrated with various Scholia; to which he an∣nexed a Comment, wherein he explained the Roman, Egyptian, Arabian, Persian, Syriac, and Hebrew Calendar. He put forth likewise divers Solar Observations, therein explicating the true Motion of the Sun in the Zodiack, accommodating the Doctrine of Triangles to the apparent motion of the Heavens. He wrote likewise of the Theory of the Moon, grounded upon a new Hypothesis, for finding out the Moon's true place in the Zodiack; and several other Pieces, as well in Astronomy and Chronology, as in Geometry.

JOHANNES BAPTISTA PORTA, a Noble Neapolitane, published* 1.505 an Interpretation of the first Book of Ptolemy's Almagest with the Commentary of Theon thereupon; not to mention his twenty Books of Natural Magick, Printed in most of the Europaean Languages. He writ also an Excellent Book of Opticks, and of Celestial Physiognomy.

FRANCISCUS VIETA, a French-man, Native of Fontenay, whom Ric∣ciolus* 1.506 entitles Gallicanae Matheseos insigne decus, besides his many other excellent Works in Geometry, and other Parts of the Mathematicks. He exhibited to Pope Clement VIII. a new form of the Gregorian Calendar, to which he added perpetual Canons, and an Explication thereof against Clavius, whom he accused to have Deformed the true Lilian Reformation, by not rightly understanding the Reason of it; touching which Controversie Thuanus, in the 129^th Book of his History,

writes more particularly. But the Work of his chiefly pertinent to our Subject,* 1.507 and whose Loss cannot be sufficiently deplored, was his Harmonicon Coeleste, which being communicated to Mersennus, was, by some perfidious Acquaintance of that honest-minded Person, surreptitiously taken from him, and irrecoverably lost or suppressed, to the unspeakable detriment of the Letter'd World. Vide Buliald. Pro∣legom. in Astron. Phil. The learned Golius had it, and Sir Alexander Hume from hence imparted another Copy; both which, 'tis feared, are lost, there being no Impression made thereof, and Golius being since dead, his Collections (whereof he had many in Arabick) are said to be dispersed, and (which is to be pitied) carried back by a Iew into Turkey.

JANUS DOUZA, the Learned Son of as Learned a Father, sometim•…•… Tu∣tor* 1.508 to Henry Frederick, Prince of Orange, and the first Keeper of the Publick Li∣brary in the University of Leyden. Published among other his Writings, Rerum Coelestium Libri, & De Umbra, sive Umbrae Encomium, Printed at Leiden apud Ra∣phelengium 1590. 8^o.

JOHANNES BUSAEUS NOVIOMA GENSIS, of the Society of* 1.509 Iesus, wrote an Apologetical Disputation in behalf of the Gregorian Calendar, a∣gainst Iacobus Herbrandus, a Divine of Tubingue; of whom more in Ribadeneira, lib. De Scriptor. Soc. Iesu.

GULIELMUS ADOLPHUS SCRIBONIUS, wrote a Spherical In∣stitution,* 1.510 published together with Zacharias Parthenius his Notes, at Francfort, 1591.

PETRUS RYFF, wrote concerning the Sphere, as also touching the Prin∣ciples* 1.511 of Astronomy and Geography, Published in the year 1591.

THOMAS DIGGES, Son of Leonard Digges, before mentioned, of* 1.512 whom Tycho Brahe (Progymnasm. l. 1.) gives this Elogy, that he was (•…•…nerosi Stemmatis Vir, & Eximius Mathematicus; wrote a Book entituled, Alae & S•…•…alae Mathematicae, being a Treatise about calculating Parallaxes, Printed 1573. He pub∣lished likewise his Pantometria, and some other Mathematical Tractates in the year 1591.

ANTONIUS LUPICINUS, an Italian, writ (in that Language) D•…•…lle* 1.513 Verghe Astronomiche, Printed at Florence 1591.

GEORGIUS BACHMANNUS, put forth an Epitome of the Do∣ctrine* 1.514 of the Primum Mobile; comprehending a brief exposition of all the Celestial Circles and Appearances; to which is added a small Treatise, De Doctrina Sphaeri∣ca, Printed at Wittemberg, 1591.

HENRICUS RANTZOVIUS, a Noble Dane, and Viceroy in the* 1.515 Dutchy of Schleswick, Holsatia, and Ditmars, put forth Calendarium, Romanum, Oeconomicum, Ecclesiasticum, Astronomicum, & fere perpetuum; and an Astrologi∣cal Treatise, collected out of the most ancient and best Authors of Judiciary Astro∣logy; Printed at Francfort, by Wechelius; also Locorum Hylegi•…•…lium ad quodvis Tempus datum Directiones. He writ also a Catalogue of Emperours, Princes, and other Illustrious Persons, who had either affected, promoted, or studied Astrology; A Treatise, De Veritate Astrologica, and another, De Annis Climactericis, &c. Printed at Leipsick 1584.

JOANNES PAULUS GALLUCIUS, Published Theatrum Mundi* 1.516 & Temporis, Printed at Venice 1589. Likewise Speculum Uranicum, there Printed in* 1.517 the year 1593. And Della Fabrica & Uso di diversi Stromenti di Astronomia & Cosmographia, Printed in the year 1597. Also, De Figura Coelesti erigenda, with some other Tractates of like Nature.

FEDERICUS BONAVENTURA, wrote, De Affectionibus Meteoro∣logicis;* 1.518 De vero Ortu & Occasu Siderum; De Stellarum significationibus, &c. Printed at Venice, 1594. He hath written also upon Theophrastus De Ventis, and up∣on Ptolemy De Siderum Ortu & Occasu, and in his Book, De Octomestri Partu, shews himself not ill affected to Astrology.

GULIELMUS HARTGILL, an English-man put forth Tabulae Astrono∣micae* 1.519 Universales, Printed at London 1594 and Reprinted 16 with Additions by Iohn Gadbury of London.

BERNARDINUS BALDUS, Disciple to Federicus Commandinus, of* 1.520 whom Vossius gives this Charecter, that he was Vir non solum Mathesios universae pe∣ritissimus, sed etiam, (ut Germanicam, Gallicam, & Slavonicam Linguam omittam) Latinè, Graecè, Hebraicè, Chaldaicè, & Arabicè Doctissimus. Not to mention his many curious Works in other Parts of the Mathematicks, well known to the Learned; We shall only insist on what more nearly relates to our present Subject; as his five Books, Novae Gnomonices, Horologium universale, & de Firmamento. He writ likewise upon the Phaenomena of Aratus; and hath composed a History of the Lives of all the famous Mathematicians from Thales Milesius to Commandinus, with a Chronology of the Times wherein they flourished, and their several Eulogies. Of which, if we may judge (as of Hercules by his Foot) by that Life he hath written of Hero, already published with his Belopoica. We cannot but conclude them wor∣thy of that Honour which they yet want, that is, a speedy Publication to the view of the Learned World. And if the Manuscript now in possession of some of his Family, or a Copy thereof may be obtained; we may have then hopes that er'e long the Work will be communicated to the Curious of this Nation.

GERARDUS RUPELMUND ANUS, set forth a Book, which he* 1.521 entituled Atlas, or Cosmographical Meditations, De fabrica Mundi, & fabricati figu∣ra; Printed at Duisberg, in the year 1595. according to Draudius, whom I con∣ceive to be the same with Mercator.

JOSEPHUS ACOSTA, in the year 1597. published the use of an Instru∣ment,* 1.522 called a Cylinder, together with Astronomical Tables; Printed at Colen.

GULIELMUS, Landtgrave of Hassia, merits an Elogium beyond what can* 1.523 be here given, for his assiduous Observations for many years of the Celestial Bo∣dies; to which end, at Cassells, he erected an Observatory, with excellent Instru∣ments, calling to his assistance two eminent Artists, Christophorus Rothmannus, and Iustus Byrgius. His Observations were published at Leyden, in the year 1618. by Willebrodus Snellius, and are in part mentioned by Tycho, as well in his Epistles, as in the second Tome of his Progymnasm. A signal example to all Princely and Hero∣ick Minds, to undertake the promoting and advancing of this truly Noble and Ce∣lestial Science.

NICHOLAUS RAIMARUS DITHMARSUS URSUS, one* 1.524 of Tycho Brahe's Scholars, published a Piece under the Title of Astronomical Hypo∣theses, with a Defence thereof, Printed at Prague, 1597. In which he endeavours

to prove himself Author, or at least first Reviver of the pretended Brahean Hypo∣thesis,* 1.525 which he will have to be ancient, ascribing the same to Apollonius Pergaeus, as its first Inventor, ingratefully seeking to deprive Tycho of the due honour there∣of. But he is answered by Tycho, who hath vindicated and asserted his own right.

JOSEPHUS SCALIGER, the Great Prince or Monarch of Univer∣sal* 1.526 Learning. As to what concerns our present Subject, his elaborate Work, De Emendatione Temporum, his exquisite Animadversions on Eusebius, with his Canon Isagogicus Chronologiae, and his accurate Comment upon Manilius's Astronomicks, sufficiently evidence his admirable knowledge, as well in Astronomy, as in other the Mathematical Learning of the Ancients; whom, if we may trust the Judgment of the incomparable Vieta, he alone, above all others, perfectly understood, as the same is reported by the Learned Casaubon, Epist. 586. He wrote likewise Cyclometrica, Et Diatriba De Aequinoctiorum Anticipatione.

FEDERICUS SAMINIATUS, published Astronomical Tables, at An∣werp,* 1.527 in the year 1599. 4^o.

CHRISTOPHORUS FEMILLUS, put forth Synoptical Tables, for* 1.528 finding out the true place of the Planets, derived from the Prutenick Tables; to∣gether with the Investigation of the Festival Dayes of either Calendar, Printed at Wittemberg, 1599.

MELCHIOR JOESTELIUS, published Observations of an Eclipse* 1.529 of the Moon, happening in the year 1599. for his Skill in Astronomy well esteem∣ed by Tycho Brahe, with whom he lived sometime a Domestick, and to whom he was an Assistant in his Astronomical Observations.

SIBRANDUS à SICCAMA, wrote, De Veteri Anno Romano Antitheses,* 1.530 and Fasti Calendar.

Notes

• * 1.1

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.2

  10.
• * 1.3

  14.
• * 1.4

  14.
• * 1.5

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.6

  15.
• * 1.7

  25.
• * 1.8

  34.
• * 1.9

  34.
• * 1.10

  50.
• * 1.11

  60.
• * 1.12

  80.
• * 1.13

  90.
• * 1.14

  90.
• * 1.15

  90.
• * 1.16

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.17

  91.
• * 1.18

  92.
• * 1.19

  95.
• * 1.20

  120.
• * 1.21

  130.
• * 1.22

  132.
• * 1.23

  134.
• * 1.24

  135.
• * 1.25

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.26

  135.
• * 1.27

  140.
• * 1.28

  140.
• * 1.29

  160.
• * 1.30

  171.
• * 1.31

  230.
• * 1.32

  238.
• * 1.33

  283.
• * 1.34

  298.
• * 1.35

  314.
• * 1.36

  320.
• * 1.37

  〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉
• * 1.38

  325.
• * 1.39

  340.
• * 1.40

  36•…•….
• * 1.41

  375.
• * 1.42

  378.
• * 1.43

  390.
• * 1.44

  390.
• * 1.45

  395.
• * 1.46

  •…•…99.
• * 1.47

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.48

  400.
• * 1.49

  400.
• * 1.50

  400.
• * 1.51

  410.
• * 1.52

  434.
• * 1.53

  437.
• * 1.54

  460.
• * 1.55

  466.
• * 1.56

  467.
• * 1.57

  ANNI POS•…•… CHRISTUM.
• * 1.58

  469.
• * 1.59

  470.
• * 1.60

  480.
• * 1.61

  490.
• * 1.62

  490.
• * 1.63

  500.
• * 1.64

  500.
• * 1.65

  500.
• * 1.66

  500.
• * 1.67

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.68

  500.
• * 1.69

  500.
• * 1.70

  520.
• * 1.71

  526.
• * 1.72

  550.
• * 1.73

  550.
• * 1.74

  574.
• * 1.75

  580.
• * 1.76

  600.
• * 1.77

  636.
• * 1.78

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM
• * 1.79

  640.
• * 1.80

  680.
• * 1.81

  700.
• * 1.82

  709.
• * 1.83

  770.
• * 1.84

  770.
• * 1.85

  790.
• * 1.86

  827.
• * 1.87

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.88

  446.
• * 1.89

  860.
• * 1.90

  879.
• * 1.91

  880.
• * 1.92

  890.
• * 1.93

  930.
• * 1.94

  936.
• * 1.95

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.96

  950.
• * 1.97

  956.
• * 1.98

  970.
• * 1.99

  980.
• * 1.100

  980.
• * 1.101

  984.
• * 1.102

  995.
• * 1.103

  996.
• * 1.104

  1004.
• * 1.105

  1030.
• * 1.106

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.107

  1032.
• * 1.108

  1035.
• * 1.109

  1050.
• * 1.110

  1050.
• * 1.111

  1060.
• * 1.112

  1070.
• * 1.113

  1070.
• * 1.114

  1071.
• * 1.115

  1072.
• * 1.116

  A•…•…I 〈◊〉〈◊〉 CHRISTUM.
• * 1.117

  1090.
• * 1.118

  1100.
• * 1.119

  1115.
• * 1.120

  1130.
• * 1.121

  1132.
• * 1.122

  1140.
• * 1.123

  1142.
• * 1.124

  1144.
• * 1.125

  1149.
• * 1.126

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.127

  1150.
• * 1.128

  1150.
• * 1.129

  1160.
• * 1.130

  1160.
• * 1.131

  1160.
• * 1.132

  1164.
• * 1.133

  1166.
• * 1.134

  1170.
• * 1.135

  1170.
• * 1.136

  1170.
• * 1.137

  ANNI POST CH•…•…ISTUM.
• * 1.138

  1190.
• * 1.139

  1199.
• * 1.140

  1200.
• * 1.141

  1200.
• * 1.142

  1210.
• * 1.143

  1224.
• * 1.144

  1240.
• * 1.145

  1240.
• * 1.146

  1252.
• * 1.147

  1252.
• * 1.148

  1253.
• * 1.149

  1255.
• * 1.150

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.151

  1255.
• * 1.152

  1256.
• * 1.153

  1256.
• * 1.154

  1260.
• * 1.155

  1260.
• * 1.156

  1269.
• * 1.157

  1270.
• * 1.158

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.159

  1272.
• * 1.160

  1272.
• * 1.161

  1275.
• * 1.162

  1282.
• * 1.163

  1290.
• * 1.164

  1290.
• * 1.165

  1293.
• * 1.166

  1300.
• * 1.167

  1310.
• * 1.168

  1320.
• * 1.169

  1320.
• * 1.170

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.171

  1320.
• * 1.172

  1320.
• * 1.173

  1322.
• * 1.174

  1322.
• * 1.175

  1326.
• * 1.176

  1330.
• * 1.177

  1330.
• * 1.178

  1335.
• * 1.179

  1340.
• * 1.180

  1340.
• * 1.181

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 POST CH•…•…ISTUM.
• * 1.182

  1340.
• * 1.183

  1341.
• * 1.184

  1342.
• * 1.185

  1347.
• * 1.186

  1350.
• * 1.187

  1350.
• * 1.188

  1350.
• * 1.189

  1350.
• * 1.190

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.191

  1360.
• * 1.192

  1360.
• * 1.193

  1360.
• * 1.194

  1363.
• * 1.195

  1370.
• * 1.196

  1370.
• * 1.197

  1370.
• * 1.198

  1370.
• * 1.199

  1370.
• * 1.200

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.201

  1378.
• * 1.202

  1385.
• * 1.203

  1390.
• * 1.204

  1390.
• * 1.205

  1390.
• * 1.206

  1390.
• * 1.207

  1396.
• * 1.208

  1400.
• * 1.209

  1400.
• * 1.210

  1402.
• * 1.211

  1410.
• * 1.212

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.213

  1410.
• * 1.214

  1410.
• * 1.215

  1419.
• * 1.216

  1434.
• * 1.217

  1436.
• * 1.218

  1437.
• * 1.219

  1437.
• * 1.220

  1437.
• * 1.221

  1437.
• * 1.222

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.223

  1438.
• * 1.224

  1440.
• * 1.225

  1440.
• * 1.226

  1440.
• * 1.227

  1450.
• * 1.228

  1450.
• * 1.229

  1460.
• * 1.230

  1460.
• * 1.231

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.232

  1460.
• * 1.233

  1460.
• * 1.234

  1462.
• * 1.235

  1470.
• * 1.236

  1473.
• * 1.237

  1474.
• * 1.238

  〈…〉〈…〉
• * 1.239

  1475.
• * 1.240

  1475.
• * 1.241

  1475.
• * 1.242

  1478.
• * 1.243

  1480.
• * 1.244

  1480.
• * 1.245

  1480.
• * 1.246

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.247

  1480.
• * 1.248

  1480.
• * 1.249

  1482.
• * 1.250

  1488.
• * 1.251

  1490.
• * 1.252

  1490.
• * 1.253

  1490.
• * 1.254

  1490.
• * 1.255

  1490.
• * 1.256

  1490.
• * 1.257

  1491.
• * 1.258

  ANNI POST. CHRISTUM
• * 1.259

  1492.
• * 1.260

  1493.
• * 1.261

  1494.
• * 1.262

  1494.
• * 1.263

  1494.
• * 1.264

  1494.
• * 1.265

  1495.
• * 1.266

  1495.
• * 1.267

  1495.
• * 1.268

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.269

  1497.
• * 1.270

  1500.
• * 1.271

  1500.
• * 1.272

  1500.
• * 1.273

  1507.
• * 1.274

  1507.
• * 1.275

  1508.
• * 1.276

  1509.
• * 1.277

  1510.
• * 1.278

  1513.
• * 1.279

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.280

  1514.
• * 1.281

  1514.
• * 1.282

  1515.
• * 1.283

  1515.
• * 1.284

  1516.
• * 1.285

  1518.
• * 1.286

  1521.
• * 1.287

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.288

  1522.
• * 1.289

  1523.
• * 1.290

  1524.
• * 1.291

  1524.
• * 1.292

  1525.
• * 1.293

  1527.
• * 1.294

  1528.
• * 1.295

  1528.
• * 1.296

  1528.
• * 1.297

  ANNI POST, CHRISTUM
• * 1.298

  1528.
• * 1.299

  1530.
• * 1.300

  1530.
• * 1.301

  1530.
• * 1.302

  1530.
• * 1.303

  1530.
• * 1.304

  1530.
• * 1.305

  1530.
• * 1.306

  1530.
• * 1.307

  1531.
• * 1.308

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.309

  1532.
• * 1.310

  1533.
• * 1.311

  1533.
• * 1.312

  1534.
• * 1.313

  1535.
• * 1.314

  1535.
• * 1.315

  1536.
• * 1.316

  1536.
• * 1.317

  1536.
• * 1.318

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.319

  1536.
• * 1.320

  1536.
• * 1.321

  1536.
• * 1.322

  1537.
• * 1.323

  1537.
• * 1.324

  1537.
• * 1.325

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.326

  1537.
• * 1.327

  1537.
• * 1.328

  1538.
• * 1.329

  1538.
• * 1.330

  1539.
• * 1.331

  1540.
• * 1.332

  1540.
• * 1.333

  1540.
• * 1.334

  1540.
• * 1.335

  1540.
• * 1.336

  〈…〉〈…〉
• * 1.337

  1540.
• * 1.338

  1540.
• * 1.339

  1540.
• * 1.340

  1540.
• * 1.341

  1540.
• * 1.342

  1540.
• * 1.343

  1540.
• * 1.344

  1540.
• * 1.345

  ANXI POST CHRISTUM▪
• * 1.346

  1541.
• * 1.347

  1541..
• * 1.348

  1542.
• * 1.349

  1543.
• * 1.350

  1544.
• * 1.351

  1544.
• * 1.352

  1544.
• * 1.353

  1544.
• * 1.354

  ANNI POST 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• * 1.355

  1544.
• * 1.356

  1544.
• * 1.357

  1545.
• * 1.358

  1548.
• * 1.359

  1548.
• * 1.360

  1548.
• * 1.361

  1548.
• * 1.362

  1548.
• * 1.363

  1548.
• * 1.364

  1549.
• * 1.365

  〈…〉〈…〉
• * 1.366

  1549.
• * 1.367

  1550.
• * 1.368

  1550.
• * 1.369

  1550.
• * 1.370

  1550.
• * 1.371

  1550.
• * 1.372

  1550.
• * 1.373

  1550.
• * 1.374

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 POST CHRISTUM
• * 1.375

  1550.
• * 1.376

  1550.
• * 1.377

  1550.
• * 1.378

  1551.
• * 1.379

  1551.
• * 1.380

  1551.
• * 1.381

  1551.
• * 1.382

  1552.
• * 1.383

  1552.
• * 1.384

  1552.
• * 1.385

  1553.
• * 1.386

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM
• * 1.387

  1554.
• * 1.388

  1555.
• * 1.389

  1555.
• * 1.390

  1555.
• * 1.391

  1556.
• * 1.392

  1556.
• * 1.393

  1556.
• * 1.394

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.395

  1557.
• * 1.396

  1557.
• * 1.397

  1557.
• * 1.398

  1557.
• * 1.399

  1557.
• * 1.400

  1558.
• * 1.401

  1559.
• * 1.402

  1560.
• * 1.403

  1560.
• * 1.404

  1•…•…60.
• * 1.405

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.406

  1560.
• * 1.407

  1560.
• * 1.408

  1560.
• * 1.409

  1560.
• * 1.410

  1560.
• * 1.411

  1560.
• * 1.412

  1560.
• * 1.413

  ANNI POST. CHRISTUM
• * 1.414

  1560.
• * 1.415

  1561.
• * 1.416

  1561.
• * 1.417

  1562.
• * 1.418

  1563.
• * 1.419

  1564.
• * 1.420

  1565.
• * 1.421

  1567.
• * 1.422

  1568.
• * 1.423

  1568.
• * 1.424

  1568.
• * 1.425

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.426

  1570.
• * 1.427

  1570.
• * 1.428

  1570.
• * 1.429

  1570.
• * 1.430

  1570.
• * 1.431

  1571.
• * 1.432

  1572.
• * 1.433

  1572.
• * 1.434

  1572.
• * 1.435

  1572.
• * 1.436

  1572.
• * 1.437

  1572.
• * 1.438

  1572.
• * 1.439

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM▪
• * 1.440

  1572.
• * 1.441

  1572.
• * 1.442

  1572.
• * 1.443

  1572.
• * 1.444

  1572.
• * 1.445

  1572.
• * 1.446

  1572.
• * 1.447

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.448

  1572.
• * 1.449

  1572.
• * 1.450

  1573.
• * 1.451

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.452

  1573.
• * 1.453

  1573.
• * 1.454

  1573.
• * 1.455

  1573.
• * 1.456

  1573.
• * 1.457

  1573.
• * 1.458

  1573.
• * 1.459

  1574.
• * 1.460

  1574.
• * 1.461

  1574.
• * 1.462

  1574.
• * 1.463

  1574.
• * 1.464

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.465

  1574.
• * 1.466

  1574.
• * 1.467

  1576.
• * 1.468

  1576.
• * 1.469

  1576.
• * 1.470

  1576.
• * 1.471

  1577.
• * 1.472

  1577.
• * 1.473

  1577.
• * 1.474

  1577.
• * 1.475

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.476

  1577.
• * 1.477

  1578.
• * 1.478

  1578.
• * 1.479

  1579.
• * 1.480

  1579.
• * 1.481

  1580.
• * 1.482

  1580.
• * 1.483

  1580.
• * 1.484

  1580.
• * 1.485

  1581.
• * 1.486

  1532.
• * 1.487

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.488

  1582.
• * 1.489

  1583.
• * 1.490

  1583.
• * 1.491

  1583.
• * 1.492

  1583.
• * 1.493

  1584.
• * 1.494

  1585.
• * 1.495

  1586.
• * 1.496

  1587.
• * 1.497

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.498

  1587.
• * 1.499

  1589.
• * 1.500

  1590.
• * 1.501

  1590.
• * 1.502

  1590.
• * 1.503

  1590.
• * 1.504

  1590.
• * 1.505

  1590.
• * 1.506

  1590.
• * 1.507

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.508

  1590.
• * 1.509

  1590.
• * 1.510

  1591.
• * 1.511

  1591.
• * 1.512

  1591.
• * 1.513

  1591.
• * 1.514

  1592.
• * 1.515

  1593.
• * 1.516

  ANNI POST. CHRISTUM.
• * 1.517

  1593.
• * 1.518

  1594.
• * 1.519

  1594.
• * 1.520

  1595.
• * 1.521

  1595.
• * 1.522

  1597.
• * 1.523

  1597.
• * 1.524

  1597.
• * 1.525

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.526

  1598.
• * 1.527

  1599.
• * 1.528

  1599.
• * 1.529

  1599.
• * 1.530

  1599.