Of the directions and retrogradaciōs of the. 5. planets the. 4. (Book 4)
AFterwardes doth followe vnder¦neth the saide eclipse, the time pr••¦fired of the directions and retro
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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"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 May 28, 2025.
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gradacions of the. 5. planetes, that is to saye vpon what daye they do beginne and ende their sayde Retrogradacions, and consequentelye howe often tymes Mercury shall bee retrograde the same yeare, for he by reason of the fwyft moue¦ment of his epicicle is more often retro∣grade then are ye other planets, the which you shal finde lykewyse among the mo∣uementes of the sayd planets whiche are noted in the lefte face of the said Epheme∣rides with this sillable Re. which signify∣eth the beginning of the retrogradacion and with this sillable Di. whiche betoke∣neth the beginninge of the directiō of the same planets. And furthermore the pro¦per mouement of the sayde planets wyll shewe it you, for when the mouemente doth go encreasing from daye to day the planet is directe, & when it doth decrease the planete is retrograde. We doo call the planete directe, when the line of his true mouement goeth after the order of the. 12. signes of the Zodiake, and retro∣grade, when the sayd line goeth agaynst the ordre of the sayd signes, notwithstan¦ding the moone hathe no direction, nor retrogradatiō, by reasō that his epicicle goeth contrarye to the others, and is of
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more hasty mouement: But she hath on∣ly swiftnes, or slownes, & is called hasty or slowe.