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.

Of the Eclipes of the sunne and mone second Rule. (Book 2)

COnsequentlye are noted and figu∣red the eclypses of the sunne, and of the moone, whyche shall appere the same yeare, and fyrste is wrytten the monthe, daye, hower, and mynute, of the mydle time of the sayde eclypses, that is to saye, when the sunne or the moone, shall come into the moste obscuration, or darckenes that maye then happen vnto theym, afterwardes is noted the halfe of the tyme that the sayed eclipses shall en∣dure, or continewe, that is to saye from the begynnynge vnto the greatest obscu∣ration abouesayde, or from that darknes vnto the ende: thirdlye are noted the par∣tes of the sunne, or of the moone, whych shalbe eclypsed, and they are called eclip∣ty••••e poyntes, as well in the perticuler eclipses, as in the vniuersall, and it is cō∣ueniente to ymagen that the Diametre vysuall of the sunne, and of the moone, (that is to saye, taken and ymagened ac∣cording

to the iudgement of the sight (is deuided into. 12. egall partes, the whych are brought backe into the moone, in re∣tournynge towardes the begynnynge of theym, and they doo make the nombre of. 24.

And it is to be noted y^• the sunne can ne¦uer be eclipsed vniuersallye throughe all places of y^e earth, nor yet of one like sort, quātitie, or disposition, by reson of divers aspectes of the inhabitāts, and although the sunne do appeare at some times who¦ly eclipsed, it cānot be ouer al places, nor by any notable space of time, by cause the eclipse of the sunne dothe come by the in∣terposition of the moone, betwene the sunne and vs, and that the moone is of a more sodaine and swifter mouement thē is the sunne, and is more nearer vnto vs and also lesser then all the earthe, and the moone, and the earth are both much lesse then is the sunne, and for to say the truth the sunne neuer loseth his light, as doth the moone entringe into the shaddow of the earthe, when she is Diametrally op∣posite vnto the sunne for the sayde shad¦dowe doth then depriue the moone of her lighte (which she receyueth of the sunne. By the Interposition of the sayde earthe

whyche is then betwene the moone and the sunne.