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.
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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.
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Fine, Oronce, 1494-1555.
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[Imprinted at London :: In Fletestrete nere to S. Dunstons church by Thomas Marshe,
[1558?]]
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Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Ephemerides -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00750.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 3, 2025.
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For to knowe the quantitie of the said eclipses. 3. Rule. (Book 3)
IN the eclipse then of the moone, if the eclipticke pointes bee lesse then. 12. the eclipse shalbe particuler (as the same of the sunne) accordynge vnto the propor¦tion of the saide pointes vnto. 12., and if the sayde pointes be presisely. 12. the sayd eclipse shalbe vniuersall without during that is to saye that she shall sodenlye be∣gynne to recouer her lyghte, but if the saide pointes bee more then. 12. it betoke∣neth that the moone shall be wholy eclip¦sed by some space of time, and soo muche the more, as the saide pointes are, or shal be in greatest nombre.
And to knowe then howe longetyme the moone shalbe wholy depreued of her lighte, you shall take the saide eclipticke pointes, and the mynutes if there be any (for euery pointe is deuided into. 60. mi∣nutes) the whiche you shall fynde in the Ephemerides, and you shall seeke theim at the lefte hande of the table entitulid. Ta∣bula more Lune in tenebris, tempore totalis
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••••••••sdem defectionis. For at the ryghte hande you shall fynde the howers and minutes, or the minutes only, of the said fatall obscuration. And if you fynde not the mynutes of the saide poyntes eclyp∣ticke precisely in the saide table, you shal then take the moste nearest, and it shall suffice.
Example.
AS is of the firste vniuersall eclipse of the mone, that came in the yere 1551. you woulde knowe howe longe time the moone was in darcknes depreued totallye of her lyghte, you shall take the poyntes ecliptycke of the sayde eclipse, whiche are. 14. and. 12. minutes and those shall you finde in the aboue named table (in takynge the. 10. minutes for. 12.) and at the ryghte hande ioininge to those. 14. pointes and. 10. minutes, you shal se one hower and. ••. minutes so long tyme was the mone in full darknes.
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