§ 25. On the view of this Table the choisest difficulty is this, How the
later Quadrate can be appointed for the warmer Aspect, when as it gives
Evidence for stormy Winds more than the Former; since we have pretended
in the precedent Chapter that the Full ☽ is more stormy than the New,
because it is somewhat the cooler Aspect.
§ 26. Resp. Besides, that, I no where say 'tis the only cause I reckon at present
that there are various degrees of cold in stormy weather, wherefore if the
blustering under the later □ be warmer, than either the blusteing under
the Full, or the First □, the difficulty is solved: Stormy winds generally are
warm, even those, they which bring Hail excepted, which happen in the Night;
therefore I did not say cold must be Predominant wherever there is stormy
winds; or that it was Predominant in the Plenilunium; I do confess to re∣member
some ruffling blasts that have brought Frost with them, but even
those rarer Flaws were not stormy, because Chill in an Intense degree, but
because as chill as the exhalation was, it was Over-master'd by a warm one
(positively) or warmer (Comparatively) though to us perhaps not so
sensible.
§ 27. Now that the Later is warmer hath been made out, concerning
which we have more to Add, to countervail some suspicions which may arise
to the contrary from the Styles of Warmth, Wind, West-Wind, &c. which
found in the Column belonging to the First □, seem to surpass those of
the 2d. as in warmth 37. surpasses 33. and in Wind 83. outgoes 37. and
lastly, 58. in the Western point of the Winds outgoes 42. but the Excess is
scarce valuable in the two first; and the later will vanish, or at least be
swallowed up, we may see, by the South-west wind, which appearing but 73. in
the first, shews 103. in the later Quadrate. And to Confirm you that the
later is more tepid then the former, remember I pray, where the ☽
is in this later □ at Mid night, When the Natural day begins, it rises: At
Sun rise, when the Artificial day commences, 'tis aloft in the South point.
Now, it stands to reason that the Air should be warmer, when there is a
lower degree of Warmth premis'd to a greater which follows.
§ 28. Now if this warmth is not perceptible to us, it may be sufficient
'tis perceptible in consort, when the Sun and all the rest are risen. I cannot
perceive the strength of one Horse to the draught of ten thousand pound weight,
Bring the rest of the Team and I shall perceive it. That will be believe ra∣tional,
when you observe that warm is the day when the Sun, the chief rises
last, because in the Case we suppose, all the Rest have risen before, and tem∣per'd
and prepar'd the Air for that measure of warmth which succeeds.
§ 29. Verily the ☽ is Vice-Roy to the Sun, and keeps her Court, and mounts
her Throne, and makes her way as well as the best, when she is Aspected,
she is commission'd to act such and such things in such a Post, and for her
own part seldom fails.
§ 30. Again, is not the Western Angle, according to the Doctrine of the An∣tients,
a warmer corner than the Eastern? Let the Favonii, the Tepid we∣stern
Winds witness that, with their warmer fruitful showres, while the un∣gentle
East-Wind is accompanyed with unkindly Drought, with unwelcom
Appearances of Fogs, and Frosts, and blastings. A little meditation will
give us the reason à priori, Whatsoever Efficacy lyeth in the Horizon, (which
Efficacy must be supposed without dispute) from the East the Stars every
moment forsake that advantage more and more, as it were in hast toward
another Post, while the same Stars, be they more or less, having pass'd the
Midheaven, every moment draw nearer and nearer to the Horizon, and so
proportionably, the contrary whereof is found in the Eastern; the West,
I say, filleth, by what the East Emptyeth; the West being the Receiver,
while the East is but the Conveyance. Now the ☽ in the last Quartile pos∣sesses.