Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.

Of double mouing of the Pla∣nets. chap. 22.

ALL the Planettes moue by double mouing, by their owne kinde, moo∣uing out of the West into the East, a∣gainst the moouing of the firmament: And by other mouing out of the East into the West. And that by rauishing of the Firmament. By violence of the fir∣mament they bée rauished euerye daye out of the East into the West. And by theyr kinde moouing, by the which they labour to moue against the Firmament, some of them fulfilleth theyr course in shorter time, and some in longer time.

And that is for theyr course bee some more and some lesse. For Saturnus aby∣deth in euery signe thirtie moneths, and full endeth his course in thirtie yeare. Iupiter dwelleth in euery signe one yere, and full endeth his course in .12. yeare. Mars abideth in euery signe .45. dayes, and full endeth his course in two yeres. The Sunne abideth in euery each signe 30. dayes and .10. houres and Semis, and ful endeth his course in .CCClxv. daies, and sixe houres. Mercurius abideth in euery signe. 28. dayes and sixe houres, & full endeth his course in .CCCxxxviii. dayes. Venus abideth in euerye signe ••••. daies, and full endeth his course in CCCxlviii•• dayes. The Moone abideth in euery signe two daies and an halfe, & sixe houres, and one bisse lesse: and ful en∣deth his course from point to point, in 27. dayes and eight hours. And by ente∣ring and out passing of these .7. starres, into the .12 signes, and out thereof, all thing that is bread and corrupt in this neather worlde is varyed and disposed: and therefore in the Philosophers booke, Misalath. chap. 1. it is read in this man∣ner. The highest made the world to the lykenesse of a sphere, and made the high∣est circle aboue it moueable in the earth, pight and stedfast in the middle thereof: not withdrawing towarde the left side, nor toward the right side, and sette the other Elementes moueable, and made them moue by the moouing of seauen Planets, and all other starres helpe the Planettes in their working and kinde. And therefore the working of the Pla∣nettes is lyke to the stone Magnas, an Adamant, and to Yron. For as Yron is drawne to that stone, so euery creature vpon earth, hath a manner inclination by the mouing of the Planets. Couenable sitting, and destruction commeth by moo∣uing and working of Planettes: the working of them varieth and is diuerse by diuersitie of Climas and Countryes.

For they work one manner thing about the land of bliew men, and another a∣bout the land and countrey of Slauens: and therefore as he saith Caput. quarto. Take héede of coniunction of Planets in these signes. For if many Planettes bée coniunct in watry signes, in the space of the yeares, it betokeneth much raine: And if they bée coniunct in firie signes, it betokeneth drinesse and hunger, that commeth of passing heat and drinesse: and if such a coniunction be in signes that be ayrie, it betokeneth much winde: And in the signes that be colde, it betokeneth heauinesse of colde, & of temporatenesse of heate. And yet in the same booke. ca. 8. it is said, that gifts of signes increase in theyr working by coniunctions of the Planets in good or in euil. For if the pla∣nettes bée good, they betoken good, and if they bée euill, they betoken euill. For as bee sayth, Some Planets bée male, euill day signes, heauie, colde and drye: as Saturnus. And some bée good, male, a day Planet, temporate, hotte, and moyst: as Iupiter. Mars is male, a night Pla∣net, and bréedeth heate and drynesse. Venus is female, a night Planette, meane, betweene hot and colde, and moi∣sture. And Mercurius is of temporate kinde, a day Planet, nowe male, nowe female. Therefore he tourneth himselfe soone to the kinde of the Planet, that bée is coniunct with. And so with good Planettes hée is good, and with euill he is euill, and with meane hée is meone. Also the Moone is a female Planet, and a night Planet, colde, and passing moyst. Therefore Astronomers meane, that some Planets in their doing and effects be good, as Iupiter and Venus: for they greeue nothing, but helpe and saue both their owne, and the things that bee not theyr owne, as farre forth as they maye. Other Planettes bée euill, as Mars and Saturnus, not for that they gréeue alway theyr owne, but they helpe onelye their owne. And some moue as the Sunne, the Moone, and Mercuryus. For they helpe theyr owne, and bée nowe good and now euill to other: and namely, as they bée conioyned in diuerse houses of signes, with Planets good or euill. For with good they bée good, and with euill they bée euill. As these seauen Planettes oft worke, they haue might and power in ofte generation of men, and of other heastes. For as Astronomers meane, and Galen, and other wise Phisitions, Saturnus with his coldnesse and dry∣nesse, congeleth the matter that is concei∣ued in the mother, and maketh it thicke: And in the seconde moneth Iupiter gi∣ueth spirits and members: In the third moneth Mars maketh the bloud thinne, and humours thicke, and ordeineth and compowneth. In the fourth moneth the Sunne giueth spirituall lyfe to the liuer and to the heart. In the fifth moneth Venus maketh perfect and disposeth the members and limmes of féeling, and of office, as the eares, nose, and other such. In the sixt moneth Mercurius com∣powneth all the holes and holow mem∣bers, and tongue, and nosethrilles. In the seauenth moneth the Moone departeth and distempereth members in their owne place and stéed, and therefore then a child is borne profitable and healthfull, and if the childe put off the birth, euen to the eight moneth, then the childe dieth. For then the might and vertue of Sa∣turnus commeth yet againe, for with his either qualitie, colde and dry, he bindeth and slayeth the childe. And in the ninth month Iupiters vertue commeth againe: for he nourisheth and kéepeth the childe with his temporate heat, therfore a child that is borne that time, shall liue, and also the child that is borne in the begin∣ning of the tenth moneth, maye haue help and life, for then againe Mars reig∣neth, and by his heate and drinesse, the childes members bée strengthened, and therfore the child by benefit of heate and of drynesse, commeth out: mightie and strong Planettes haue those workings, and many other generall and speciall in the neather bodyes, and namelye when they haue Lordship and mastery in theyr owne home and house, for euerye Planet hath his owne house as Albumasar say∣eth.

For Saturnus his owne first house is Capricornus, and also Aquarius: Iupi∣ters house is Pisces & Sagittarius: Mars

house is Aries, Libra, & Taurus, Mer∣curius house is Virgo, Libra, & Gemini, the Suns house is Leo, the Moones house is Cancer. In these .12. houses & signes, the 7. Planets be Lordes and Masters, and passe & mooue therein by diuers moo∣uings: and now be in exaltation & are∣ring, and now falling and abating. And in these signes the Planettes moue and abate with double moouing, and mooue by accidentall mouing and rauishing of the Firmament, out of the East into the West: and by kind moouing, the which kinde moouing is double, the first and the second. The first moouing is the round mouing, that a Planet maketh in his owne circle, and passeth neuer the marks and bounds of the circle. The se∣conde moouing is that he maketh vnder the Zodiacus, hauing aspect to the same circle, & passeth alwaye lyke great space in a like space of time. And the first moo∣uing of a Planet is made in his owne circle that is called Ecentricus, & is called so, for the earth is not the middle therof, as it is the middle of the circle that is called Zodiacus, & therfore the circle of a Planet is called Ecentricus, if the vtter roundnesse thereof passeth about y^e mid∣dle point of the earth, and departeth the earth euen a twaine, and his middle point of the earth: but his middle point is without the middle point of the earth. And this circle Ecentricus is double, that is to wit, difference and equance. For to the Planets are assigned thrée circles, as sayth Ptho. That is to wit, equance, dif∣ference, and Epiciclus. The circle that is called Difference, is the circle of a Planet, in whose roundnesse alway moo∣ueth Epiciclus of the same Planet, and is called therefore difference, because it bereth y^e circle Epiciclus. Circulus equans is called that circle, about whose middle point moueth the point of Epiciclus, that Planet mooueth euen about, and is cal∣led Equans, euening, for therein the Pla∣net holdeth euen by his course: Epici∣clus is a little circle that a Planet de∣scribeth and goeth aboute therein by the moouing of his bodye, and the body of the Planet goeth about the round∣nesse thereof: and so in the ouer side of that circle that is called Epiciclus, a Pla∣net moueth from the West, Eastwarde. And in the nether part therof he moueth from the East, Westward. And therfore it sheweth that the Sun & other Planets moue in theyr owne circles: and first lyke swift, though they moue diuerslye in diuerse circles. Also in these circles thrée manner mouing of Planets is full wisery found of Astronomers, that bée called Motus directus, Stacionarius, and Retrogradus. Motus directus is with right moouing, when a Planet mooueth streight from the beginning of a signe, towarde the ende thereof, and Motus Retrogradus, againeward, that is moo∣uing backwarde, when a Planet moo∣ueth backwarde frontwarde the ende of a signe, toward the beginning. Stacio∣narius is when it séemeth that a Planet standeth and abideth as it were in the middle: So that it séemeth that it moo∣ueth not vpwarde nor downewarde, to∣ward the beginning, neither toward the ende of the signe, and alwaye Directo, forth right moouing is in the ouer parte of the circle that is called Epicicli:. And alway Retrogradation, moouing back∣ward, is in the neather part: And Stacio, stinting and abiding or hoouing, is in the middle. The diuersitie whereof Phi∣losophers assigne in many manner wise. But this Retrogradation, backwarde mouing, hath place only in fiue Planets, and not in the Sunne nor in the Moone, for the Sun & the Moone haue no back∣ward mouing, though they moue in the circles Epicicl•• and that is as some men meane, the Sunne beames: for the ver∣tue of the Sun beames because of back∣ward mouing. For the vertue of the Sun beames doe otherwhile put off Planets, and make them moue backwarde, and sometime draweth them, and maketh them as it were standing and abiding, as Alphtagoranus saith. Other causes y^t cōmentor assigneth: but these suffice at this time. Then consider thou héereof, y^e planets be stars Erratice, mouing diuers∣ly, & distinguished by .7. circles & round∣nes, as in place & vertue, so in effect they be diuers & sundry, as Beda saith in li. de naturis rerū. These stars work & change

the elements, and bréede all that is bred, and corrupseth al that is corrupt, and al∣so with their contrary moouing they tar∣ry the swift moouing of the body of hea∣uen, and be cause of tempest, & of cléere wether, and of plenteousnesse & of bar∣re••••e••••e, and flowing and of ebbing of tho sea, & parseth euerye each with other of quality & of vertue. For as Beda saith: when any of the planets commeth into others ••••••cle, hée departeth with him of qualitie and of vertue: and also by aspect that euery each hath to other, & by Con∣iunction, they chaunge their qualities and effects For the goodnes of a goodly starre, chaungeth and abateth the presence of an euill star; & againward, the mallice of a malitious star is tempered & abated by the partened of a goodly starre, as Albu∣mat•••• saith, and Ptholomeus. Also by or∣dinate eleuations, and rising and aba∣ting of them in their circles and round∣nesse, and by meeting of their circles, they be arose of ther king, of noise, & harmo∣ny, as it is said in ••i ••ro do quimque sub∣stantsis. And as Macrobius saith, be∣twéene the sphere of Saturnus and of the Moone, all the consonancie and accord of musicke i•• sound. And they shining with the Sun, hide his light, and receiue per∣fection of the vertue of the Sunne. And the higher circles they haue, in longer time they fulfill their course.

Notes

• Contrary mouing.
• C: genera¦tion cau∣ses super∣naturall, naturail.
• This is a fallax, of ••erfortie daies, the feature in perfect. except he mea∣neth the povver of euery sēce