The rules and righte ample documentes, touchinge the vse and practise of the common almanackes, which are named ephemerides A briefe and shorte introduction vpon the iudiciall astrologie, for to prognosticate of thinges to come, by the helpe of the sayde ephemerides. With a treatise added hereunto, touchinge the coniunction of the planets, in euery one of the. 12. signes, and of their prognostications and reuolutions of yeres. The hole faithfully, and clerely translated into Englyshe by Humfrey Baker.

¶ Howe to erecte and distyngue the. 12. houses of heauen, after the order of the sayd Ephemerides. 18. rule (Book 18)

TO erect thē or caculate the. 12. hou¦ses of heauen is no other thinge but to finde the pointes of the Zo∣diacke, which are noted and distingued by the sixe circles abouesaid: the whiche you shall do by the tables of the Ephemeri¦des thus as foloweth. You must thē first note, y^• there are in the sayde Ephemerides

5. tables perticulers, sufficiente for all Europe, calculated for the latitude or eleuation of the poole of. 42. 45. 48. 51. and. 54. degrees. And althoughe that there be difference of. 2. degrees, betwen euerye of the saide eleuations or lati∣tudes: yet can there folowe no notable erroure of the same. If for the degrees left out you do vse of the table whiche is calculated for the next degre. For the ta∣ble of. 45. degrees shal serue principally for the sayde. 45. degrees: and without any notable errour for. 44. and. 46. and the same of. 48. shall serue for. 47. and. 49. degrees and, so of the other. Com∣ming then to the effect, you must consy∣dre the time, at the which you will erect he said houses of heauen, to knowe if it be precisely at none, eyther before or af∣ter.

¶ The firste parte or difference, when the time is precisely at noone

LEt it be proposed that you woulde erect the sayde houses at the houre of noone, preciselye, you shall then take the true place and mouement of the

sunne at the sayd houre of none by your Ephemerides. Then you shal take the signe in the which is the sunne aboue the head of the sayd table of the houses whiche is made, or may serue most commodiously for your latitude or eleuation of the pole and the degree at the left hād of the sayd table: in the columne or line of the aboue sayd tenth house, for y^e degre is the begin¦ning of the 10 house. Right with the whi¦che degre, in drawing toward the ryght hand, you shal finde incontinent the de∣grees orderly of the. 11. 12. 1. 2. &. 3, house at the said houre of noone. The whyche degrees are of the signes, whose charac¦ters are nerest noted aboue them. And if it happen that the true place & mouemēt of the sunne haue anye nombre of minu¦tes as most often it doth happē then may you leaue those minutes if they be lesse then. 30. or els adde one degree, if the said nombre of minutes do excede. 30. with∣out any errour, or notable interest.

¶ The maner how to proportionate the sayde houses when the true place of the sunne hath minutes.

ANd if you wil haue the sayd hou¦ses more curiously: you shall doo thus. Take righte agaynste the

whole degrees of the sunne, whiche are before the minutes, the houses whiche you shal finde at the right hand as I said before. And at the left hande of the sayde houses, take the time, that is to saye the houres and minutes, whiche you shall finde vnder this title Tempus a meridie.

Then take the difference of the said time next ensuing (in substraing the lesser frō the greater, and note the same a part vn¦der the same time, Lykewise take the dif¦ference of euery of the sayd houses alre∣dy noted & of the next houses folowing, and note euery difference vnder his pro¦pre house. After this done, entre into the table entituled Tabula proportionū ad 60. mi¦nuta celi domicilus fabricandis satisfaciens.

And take at the lefte side of the sayde table the minutes of the true place of the sunne whiche are ouer and besides the degrees, and at the head of the same table take the nombre of the minutes of the sayd difference of time, and you shal finde right with those minutes, the par∣tes proportional of the sayd difference in secondes, or elles in minutes and secon∣des together. The which part proportio∣nall, or the nearest to the same, you shall take at the left side of the table folowing

the abouesayd, which is intituled Tabu∣la quatuor minutorum temporis and the diffe∣rence of euery house (the one after the o∣ther) at the heade of the sayde table: and youshall finde righte againste the sayde nombre the minutes, or the degrees and minutes together, the whiche you must adde vnto the degrees of the house, out of the whiche was taken the sayde diffe∣rence, and there as the sayd houses haue not the difference, you muste adde no∣thinge vnto theym. By this meanes you shal haue the precise iustification of the sayd houses more curious then neces¦sary. Example. And for to haue of all more easier vnderstanding, I haue here giuen you an example, calculated for the middaye of the laste of Jnue. 1540. and for the latitude of. 48. degrees, as is the same of Paris. At the which tyme I did finde the sunne to be in the. 17. degres and. 40. minutes of Cancer. And then I did execute and folowe the rest, as aboue hath bene saide, and I haue taken in the sayd table proportionall at the left hand the. 40. minutes of the true place, & the 4. minutes of the difference of time at the heade of the sayde table, and right a∣gainst those I found. ••. minutes and. 40

secondes: whiche is the parte proporcio∣nall of the said difference of time, whiche was founde of the. 4. minutes, vnder su∣che reason as haue the. 40. minutes vnto 60. minutes of one hole houre. Afterwar¦des I did take in the said table quatuor mi¦nutorum temporis, the said. 2. minutes and 40. secondes at the right syde, and the dif¦ference of the howses (whiche is but of one degree, at the head of the saide table: and I did finde right with them. 40. mi¦nutes to be added vnto euery house aun∣swering vnto the 17 degrees of the sūne: The which 40 minutes haue suche rea∣son vnto one degree (whiche are worthe 60 minutes) as haue the 2 minutes and 40 secondes, vnto the aboue sayde 4 mi∣nutes of the difference of time), and by this meanes you do anoide a multiplica∣tion and diuision by the saide table pro∣portionall, and as muche by the table quatuor minutorum temporis, besides the re¦ductions whiche shoulde be made.

The reste is cleare ynoughe by the dis∣cours, and supputation of the said exam∣ple proposed▪ of the which here foloweth the true description.

The order of the sixe houses orientall.
The time frō m today	10	11	12	1	2	3
♋	♌	♍	♎	♏	♐
hou.	m.	••	g	m	g	m	g	m	g	m	g	m	g	m
7	14	0	17	0	24	••	••••	0	14	0	7	••	8	••
The houses aunswering vnto 17 degrees.
	4	0	••	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	••
The differences.
7	18	0	8	0	25	••	22	0	14	••	••	0	8	••
The houses aunswering vnto 18 degrees.
	2	40	••	40	0	4••	••	40	0	0	••	••••	••	••
The partes proportionals.
			17	4••	24	••0	21	4••	14		7	4••	8	••
The houses iustified.

¶ The seconde parte or difference, when the time proposed is after none.

ANd yf the time proposed be after none▪ you shall take the signe and degree that the sunne is in, by the eight rule, and you shall enter into the ta¦ble of the houses of your region, as before hath ben sayde, taking the degree of the sunne vnder the signe in the columne of the tenth house, and note apart the hou∣res and minutes of the time, whiche you

shall finde at the lefte side of the sayd de∣gre. And if there be minutes besydes the degrees, you shall take the difference of the sayde time, and of the time next folo∣winge, and the parte proportional of the same difference, by the abouesaid table, intituled, tabula proportionum ad 60 minut••. &c. with the sayd difference, and the mi∣nutes of the sunne. The whiche part pro¦portionall you shall adde vnto the sayde time which was taken right against the degree of the sudne. Then afterward vn¦to y^• time so iustified, you shall adde your time which is past after none, the minu¦tes with the minutes, & the houres with the houres, in addinge for 60 minutes one houre vnto the sayd houres, the whi¦che houres if they do passe 24, you muste substra them, and note the rest. Likewise as many times as you shall haue 6 hou∣res after noone, you shall adde vnto the saide time one minute, by this meanes you shall haue the time iusti••ied for to fynde youre houses. Then take the sayde tyme at the lefte syde of the table of the houses, vnder the title, tempus a meridie, or the moost nearest vnto it (yf you fynd not the same precisely) and you shall finde at the right hand of y^• said time the 6 houses

orientalles aboue sayd, as you may se by the example whiche foloweth, calculated for 8 houres after none of the saide laste daye of June 1540, and for the aboue said latitude of 48 degrees, the sunne beynge then in the 17 degree and 59 minutes of Cancer.

The houses aunswe¦ringe to the sayde time proposed.

	hour	mi.	10	11	12	1	2	3
The time aun¦••ring vnto the ••e of the sunne	7	18	♏	♐	♐	♑	♓	♈
••e time after ••e	8	0	gr	gr	gr	gr	gr	gr
••e time iusti∣••••••••.	15	19	22	9	25	21	11	28

¶ The thirde parte or difference when the time proposed is before none.

IF the time proposed be before none, there shall be no difference or other difficultie to calculate, ex¦cept that you must substra the time that you do adde when it is after none. Then after that you shall haue taken the true place of the sunne, and haue proportio∣ned the time aunsweringe vnto the de∣gree of the sunne, as before hath ben said

you shall substra from the saide time, the distaunce of the time proposed vntyll none, and as many minutes as the sayde distaunce shall haue of times 6 howres, (in puttinge therunto 24 houres, yf the sayde substraction cannot otherwise be made) and with that whiche shall reste of the sayde time, you shall finde the sayde houses by your table in the fashion and maner as hath bene sayde before of the time after none. And if you do not pre∣cisely finde the sayde time, you shal then take the most nerest, or elles if ye will be so curious that you will haue the extreme certaintie, you shall take the houses whi∣che are right with the time that is nexte lesser then yours, and then with the mi∣nutes whiche do reste, and the difference of euerye house, you shall take the parte proportionall in minutes, or in degrees and minutes, by the aboue sayde table quatuor minutorum temporis, as it hath ben declared and done of the time of the iuste none. The whiche partes proportionals you shall adde vnto the saide houses, for to haue them more precisely. And for the more better vnderstanding, you may ex∣amine the example whiche foloweth, cal∣culated for 8 houres in the morninge, which are foure before none of the aboue

sayde last day of June 1540, and for the saide latitude of 48 degrees, the sunne beinge then in the 17 degree and 21 mi∣nutes of the signe of Cancer.

hou.	mi.	The sixe houses orientals.
The time aunswering vnto the degrees. of the sunne.
17	15	10	11	12	1	2	3
The distannce of the time proposed vntyll none.
••	••	♓	♈	♊	♋	♌	♌
The time iustified which resteth.
2••	14	g	m	g	m	g	m	g	m	g	m	g	m
The lesser time most nerest.
23	12	17	0	2••	0	1••	0	14	0	5	0	23	0
The difference.
	2	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0
The parte proportionall.
		0	30	1	0	0	30	0	30	0	30	0	30
The sixe houses iustified.
		17	30	26	0	13	30	14	30	5	30	23	30

¶ Of the sixe houses occidentals, oppo∣sites, or contrarye vnto the sixe goinge before.

VUhan you haue the sixe honses ori¦entals aboue said, by one of the thre rules or differences aforesayd, you shall haue then forthwith the sixe houses

occidentalles, by the signes and degrees opposites, for because that euerye greate circle deuideth in the sphere all other great circles, into two halues, or equall partes. As if the .x. house beginne at the xvii. degree of Pisces, the fourth house (whiche is his opposite, and deuided by a lyke circle) shall beginne at the. xvii, de∣gre of Uirgo, whiche is opposite vnto the saide signe of Pisces, and so it is to be vn¦derstand of all others, by meanes wher•• of no man doth describe in the tables a∣ny other but the sixe houses orientalles. For it suffiseth to take the partes opposi∣tes for the sixe houses occidentalles, as we haue saide here aboue. The houses and signes opposites be heare noted to thende you may haue the more easye vn¦derstanding & vse of y^• thinges aboue said.

The signes sep∣tentrionalles.	♈	♉	♊	♋	♌	♍
The signes me∣ridionals oppos.	♎	♏	♐	♑	♒	♓
The sixe houses orientales.	10	11	12	1	2	3
Sixe houses oc¦cidētals opposi.	4	5	6	7	8	9

These thinges thus declared, you shal make the figure of the. xii houses at the houre proposed, and you shall put at the be∣ouer

all humayne membres, are such as do here folowe.

Triplicite cholerike.

Aries	Are hoate and drye, of the nature of the fi¦er, masculines, of the daye; orientalles, and of the humayne mem¦bers they do rule,	the heade
Leo	the backe and sydes.
Sagittar.	the thighes▪

Triplicite sanguine.

gemini▪	Are hote and moyst, of the nature of the ayre, masculines, of the daye, and occi∣dentales, and of the humayne members they do rule.	The shoulders armes & hādes
Libra	the nauell & lo¦wer parte of the belly.
Aquar.	the legges.

Triplicitie flewmatike.

Cancer	Are colde moiste, and watery, femenins, of the night, septentrio∣nales, and of the hu¦mayne mēbers they do gouerne.	the breste, sto¦mack, & loūgs
Scorpio	the priuie par¦tes.
Pisces	the fete.

Triplicite melancholike▪

Taurus	Are colde and drye, of the earth, femenines, and of the nighte, me ridionals, and of the humayne members they do rule.	the necke▪
virgo	the belly & in ward parts
Capricor	the knees.

Lykewise the sayde signes haue other affections, and accidentall natures, seruinge to the mutati¦on of the ayre, for

Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricornus	are	moueable,
Taurus, Leo, Scorpius, Aquarius,	fyxed,
Gemini, Virgo, Sagietarius, Pisces,	cômune, or meane,