The sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English poem with annotations and an astronomical appendix / by Edward Sherburne, Esquire.

A CATALOGUE Of the most Eminent ASTRONOMERS, Ancient & Modern.

ASTRONOMERS before our SAVIOUR's Nativity.* 1.1

ADAM, the first Authour of Astronomy, as of all* 1.2 other Arts and Sciences, according to Suidas; 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Hujus sunt omnia in∣venta omnésque Doctrinae. That he particularly in∣structed Seth in this Astral Science, and that by writing, is the opinion of the Iewish and Arabian Doctours, and, among them, expressly of Gelaldi∣nus Arabs, cited by Kircher in Obelisc. Pamphil. pag. 5. the Book which goes under the title of Liber Creationis, being own'd for his, and com∣mented upon, as such, by Rabbi Abraham, and Rabbi Ioseph Ben Uziel; but how far to be credited, see Bangus, Exercit. Literar. pag. 4.

SETH, the son of Adam, inscrib'd on two Pillars, one of Brick, the other of* 1.3 Stone, the Theory of this Celestial Science, received from his Father, and after∣wards by that means perpetuated by Cainan, Mahaliel, Iared, &c. unto Enoch.

ENOCH, the seventh from Adam, wrote of Astronomy, and particularly of* 1.4 the Number and Names of the Stars, and their secret Vertues; the Book reported to be yet extant in the Territories of the Queen of Sheba, as Vossius, De Scientiis Mathemat. affirms.

CHAM, the son of Noah, by some conceived the same with the first Zoroaster,* 1.5 by others taken for Menes, or Osyris the first King of Egypt, is famed for his skill

in Astronomy, which yet he is said to have contaminated by the addition of divers* 1.6 Magical arts.

NEBROCH, or NEMBROTH, or NIMROD, the son of Ch•…•…, the* 1.7 son of Cham, and the first King of Babylon, is reported to have writ some things in Astronomy and Astrology, as Simler affirms in Biblioth. Gesner.

BELUS the Assyrian, King of Babylon, by Pliny (l. 6. c. 26.) stiled The In∣ventor* 1.8 of the Science of the Stars, to whom Semiramis his Daughter erected a Tem∣ple in the middle of Babylon, of an exceeding Height, by the Help whereof the Chaldeans, who addicted themselves there to Contemplation of the Stars, did ex∣actly observe their risings and settings: of which Diodor. Sicul. l. 2.

ABRAHAM the Patriarch, instructed by the Posterity of Noah, (from whom* 1.9 he was the tenth, as Noah was from Adam) taught this Knowledge to the Phoeni∣cians and Egyptians, as Eusebius attests. He is said to have inscribed on two Pillars (as Seth before had done) whatever related to the Astronomical Science, as Ranzo∣vius from the Authority of Marianus Scotus affirms in Catalog. Astronom.

ZOROASTER, called PERSO-MEDUS, the first of the Magi, and a* 1.10 most knowing Astrologer, besides four Books, De Naturâ, left five others of Pre∣dictions, Ex inspectione Stellarum, as Suidas testifies in Voce 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, which yet by G. Vossius are supposed not to be authentick, De Scient. Mathemat. p. 371.

COELUS, the most ancient of the Ethnick Gods, by the Greeks called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉,* 1.11 which name he acquired by his continual Observations of the Heavenly Bodies. His sons were Saturn, Hyperion, Iapetus, &c.

HYPERION, the son of Coelus, is said to have demonstrated the Course of the* 1.12 Sun and Moon, and thence the people took occasion to call his Son, Helius, and his Daughter, Selene, as Diod. Sicul. l. 3. affirms.

MOSES, by Extraction a Chaldean, by Birth and Education an Egyptian, the* 1.13 Great Legislator of the Iews, and first truly Divine Philosopher, is not to be omit∣ted in this Catalogue of Astronomers; for Philo Iudaeus, in his life (l. 1.) affirms, That he received from the Assyrians the Chaldaick Learning of the Stars, and Know∣ledge of the Heavens; In which likewise he improved himself from the Doctrines of the Egyptians, chiefly addicted to Mathematical Studies.

ATLAS, King of Mauritania, inventor of the Sphere, and therefore by the* 1.14 Poets feigned to have supported Heaven.

PROMETHEUS, Brother to Atlas, instructed the Assyrians in Astronomy,* 1.15 making his Observations on Mount Caucasus, with that assiduous care and sollici∣tous study, as gave occasion to the Fable of his being tortured by a Vultur feeding on his Liver.

HERMES, called likewise THEUT or THOTH, and MERCURI∣US* 1.16 TRISMEGISTUS, a great Propagator of Astronomy among the Egyp∣tians. Something bearing his name was printed at Norimberg 1532. His Books called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 did treat 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, as we find in Eusebius; and Iambli∣cus, (out of Chaeremon) speaks of other his Writings upon the same subject.

ENDYMION, a curious Observer of the Moon's motion: which on Mount* 1.17

Latmus he used to contemplate, and for that cause was fabled to have been her Para∣mour.* 1.18

BELLEROPHON, Son of Glaucus, Prince of Corinth, who is fabled to* 1.19 have backed Pegasus the winged Horse, and soared up to Heaven, is by Lucian, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, reputed a great Astronomer; for thus he writes of him. I believe not at all (says he) the Story of his winged Horse. But this I conceive of him, that he being much addicted to Astronomical Contemplations, and conversant in the Observa∣tion of the Stars (〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉) was carried up to Heaven not by a Horse, but by his Mind.

CEPHEUS, King of Ethiopia, a Royal Promoter, and Advancer of Astrono∣mical* 1.20 Studies, of whom we have already made mention in our Notes upon the Con∣stellations.

HERCULES, called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or Musarum ductor, to distinguish him from* 1.21 the other Hercules, was so well learned in the Doctrine of the Sphere, that he is therefore feigned to have eased Atlas of his burthen; whence Ovid,

Hercule supposito Sydera fulsit Atlas.

ATREUS, Brother to Thyestes, King of the Argives was, according to the* 1.22 testimomy of Lucian, (〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉) an excellent Astronomer. For when the Argives by publick consent had decreed, That the Kingdom should be given to him of the two who should manifest himself the most learned in the knowledge of the Heavens; Thyestes is thereupon said to have made known to them the Constella∣tion in the Zodiack called Aries. But Atreus discovered to them the course of the Sun, with his various rising and setting, demonstrating his Motion to be contrary to that of the Heavens; Whereupon they elected him to be their King.

PALAMEDES found out many Observables concerning the Stars, their* 1.23 Measures, Distances, and Motions, as we find exprest in Sophocles.

SOLOMON, King of Israel, besides his other divinely infused knowledge,* 1.24 was excellently skilled in the course of the Heavens, and order of the Stars, as it is said of him, Wisdom, chap. 7. v. 19.

NUMA POMPILIUS, second King of the Romans, first Authour of the* 1.25 Roman year, which he so disposed (to the end the Lunar might agree with the Solar year that every four years there was an Intercalation of 45 Days, which he divided and adjusted after this manner, adding to the first 2 years 22 Days, and inserting in the latter 2 years 23 Days. Vid. G. Voss. de Scient. Math.

NECEPSO, though but a petty Prince of some part of the lower Egypt, was* 1.26 one of the greatest Instauratours of Astronomy in that Nation, and brought into practice and publick use, whatever Thoth, or the first Mercury had invented, or Siphoas, Son of Vulcan, the second Mercury had deposited in writing in the private Archives of their Temples. In which Writings of Mercury were contained (besides Hieroglyphicks and other sacred Ceremonies) Cosmography, Geography, the course of the Sun and Moon, and of the other five Planets; as Clem. Alex. Strom. l. 6. testifies.

PETOSYRIS, an Egyptian Priest, and Philosopher, wrote, according to the* 1.27 testimony of Suidas, of Astrology, collected out of the Sacred Books of the

Egyptians, which he dedicated to Necepso, one of the Egyptian Kings immediately* 1.28 before mentioned, yet extant (as Simler, in Biblioth. Gesneriana, affirms) in Biblioth. Carpensi & Sancti Angeli.

PHOCUS SAMIUS wrote de Astrologia Nautica, as Diog. Laertius testifies.* 1.29 This Phocus is conceived to be the same to whom Solon inscribed a Poem, as Plutarch writes.

THALES, the Milesian, one of the Greek Sages, first Introducer of Astronomy* 1.30 among the Greeks. He first observed the apparent Diameter of the Sun to be the 7•…•…0^th part of the Orb in which he moves; first found out, or at least denominated the Constellation of the Lesser Bear, and first foretold Eclipses, particularly that memorable one, happening in the time of the Battle between Halyaties King of Lydia, and Astyages King of Media, recorded by Herodotus. He first divided the Celestial Sphere into five Zones, and composed two Treatises, the one of the Tre∣picks, the other of the Aequinoctials, therein asserting the obliquity of the Zodiack, and distinguishing the Seasons of the year; and measured the height of the Egypti∣an Pyramids by their shadows.

OENOPIDES, the Chian, is highly commended by Plato, Proclus, and Theon* 1.31 Smyrnaeus, for his eminent Knowledge in Astronomy; Eudemus asserting him to have first found out the Obliquity of the Zodiack. Aelian, in his Various Histories (lib. 10. c. 7.) reports, that he set up a Brass-Table at the Olympicks, having written thereon the Astronomy of LIX. years; within which Term or space he comprized the Great Year, or the Annus magnus vertens.

ANAXIMANDER, Country man, Companion, Kinsman, and Disciple to* 1.32 Thales, first asserted the Moon to receive light from the Sun, yet withall affirming that she hath a light of her own, but very thin. He first erected a Gnomon at Sparta, to discover by the shadow of the Sun the times of the Solstices and Equinoxes. The invention of the Zodiack's Obliquity, is likewise attributed to him.

HYSTASPES Son of Arsames, or Arsa•…•…es, King of Persia, and Father of* 1.33 Darius; of whom thus, Ammianus Marcellinus; (l. 24.) Hystaspes was a most Wise Person, who boldly penetrating into the Inner Parts of upper India, came to a woody Desert, whose calm Silence was possest by those high 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Brach 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Of these he learnt the Discordant Concord of the Motions of the St•…•…rs, and •…•…f Heaven▪ and of pure Rites of Sacrifice, which, returning into Persia, he contributed as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Addition and complement to Magick.

CLEOSTRATUS, the Tenedian, is said first to have studied the Parts, or* 1.34 Division of the Zodiack, and noted the Commencement of the Sign Aries and Sagittary. He invented a Luni-Solar Cycle, consisting of eight Solar years, thence called Octaëteris, in lieu of the Tetraëteris, which the Greeks before used, touching which see Ricciolus Almagest. l. 4. c. 19.

ANAXIMENES of Miletus, Friend, Disciple, and Successour to Anaximan∣der,* 1.35 first demonstrated the Eclipse of the Moon to be by the Earth's Interposition between Her and the Sun, and maintained the Stars to move, not only above, but about the Earth.

HARPALUS corrected the Octaëteris of Cleostratus, according to whose opi∣nion,* 1.36 at the expiration of every ninth year, the New Moon returned again at the same hour, unto the same point of the Heavens, in which it was nine years before▪

But this Cycle, proving erroneous, was afterwards corrected by Me•…•…on.* 1.37

PYTHAGORAS, the Samian, travelled into Egypt and Chaldaea, to improve* 1.38 himself in the study of Philosophy and Astronomy. He first discovered, that Lu∣cifer and Hesperus (believed before to be two several Stars) were but one and the same, being the Planet Venus. The invention of the Zodiack's Obliquity is like∣wise ascribed to him. He first gave to the World the name 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, from the order and beauty of all things comprehended in it; asserting the same to be made ac∣cording to musical proportion; and the seven Planets to have an harmonious mo∣tion and Intervals correspondent to musical Diastemes. He held the Sun (by him and his followers termed the fiery Globe of Unity) to be seated in the midst of the Universe, and the Earth to move about it.

ALCMAEON, of Crotona, son of Perithus, Disciple to Pythagoras, a Physician* 1.39 and Physiologist, asserted that the Planets held an opposite course to that of the fixed Stars, as Plutarch affirms, Plac. Philosoph. l. 2. c. 16.

ANAXAGORAS CLAZOMENIUS, Disciple to Anaximenes, held* 1.40 the Moon to be a dark Body enlightned by the Sun, and to be habitable, having Plains, Hills, and Waters, as the Earth hath.

DEMOCRITUS, of Abdera, Disciple to Anaxagoras & Leucippus, wrote* 1.41 of the Sun and the Moon and the other Planets, of the Annus Magnus, and Astro∣nomical Prognosticks. Of which Pliny, Hist. Nat. lib. 18. cap. 35. and the Scholiast upon Apollonii Argon. lib. 2. cites him 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Laertius mentions his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, sive 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

EMPEDOCLES, who studied under Parmenides, Pythagoras, & Anaxago∣ras,* 1.42 wrote (besides his other Pieces of Philosophy) of the Sphere, in Verse, yet extant; though the same, by some, be ascribed, not to him, but to Demetrius Triclinius.

TIMAEUS LOCRUS, a Pythagorean Philosopher, wrote de Naturâ Mun•…•…▪* 1.43 from which Piece Plato borrowed the greatest part of his Dialogue entituled 〈◊〉〈◊〉, in the beginning whereof he commends Timaeus, as most knowing and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Astronomy.

METON, an Athenian Astronomer, observed, with Euctemon, the Solstices,* 1.44 and instead of Cleostratus's Octaeteris, introduced a Novendecennial Cycle, called Meton's Cycle, or the Golden Number.

HIPPOCRATES wrote of judging of Diseases by the Rules of Astrono∣my,* 1.45 which by Gesner is said to have been published by Ioannes Ganivettus, at Lyons, in the year 1508. an imperfect MS. Copy whereof is now extant in Gonvil and Caius College in Cambridge.

EUCTEMON observed, at Athens, the Solstices 108 years before the death* 1.46 of▪ Alexander the Great; see more of him in Pliny, Hist. lib. 18.

PHILOLAUS, of Croton, a Pythagorean Philosopher, maintained the opini∣on* 1.47 of the Earth's motion about the Sun. Of which sentiment was likewise Seleu∣cus, Cleanthes Samius, Leucippus, and Ecphantus, as also

HERACLIDES PONTICUS; who wrote (as we find it cited by* 1.48

Chalcidius, in Timaeum) of the Planetary Spheres, or Circles, conceived by M•…•…ur∣sius,* 1.49 to be that Piece of his, which bears the Title 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, which he inscrib∣ed to Democritus, as Laertius affirms in his Life. There is also another 〈◊〉〈◊〉 mentioned by the same Laertius, who writ De Astrologia.

PLATO, the Divine Athenian Philosopher, travelled into Egypt, under pr•…•…∣tence* 1.50 of selling Oyl, but indeed to fetch from thence a far more noble Merchan∣dise, Astronomy; informing himself by their Priests of the Celestial motions; and hath, in his Timaeus, Epinomis, and other his Dialogues, left sufficient testimonies of his improved knowledge, treating therein of several Parts of Astronomy, and particularly of the Celestial System.

THEAETETUS ATHENIENSIS, Disciple to Socrates, and a familiar* 1.51 Friend of Plato's, a Philosopher and Astrologer, as Suidas affirms, who yet gives us no account of any Writings of his in Astronomy.

HERMES AEGYPTIUS, Disciple to Plato, writ De Sole; De Imaginibus* 1.52 Martis; De Imaginibus Iovis; De Imaginibus Saturni; De Septem Annulis Pla∣netarum; De Medicinis & Conjunctionibus Planetarum. To him likewise is attri∣buted the Book, De duodecim Herbis duodecim Signis attributis, & aliis her•…•…is septem Stellis dicatis; as Simler. in Biblioth. Gesner.

ARCHYTAS TARENTINUS, a noble Pythagorean Philosopher, Ma∣thematician,* 1.53 and Cosmographer, whom Horace calls

—Maris ac Terrae, numeróque carentis Arenae Mensorem.—

He wrote several Works (though none of them have been so happy as to escape the injury of Time) both Physical, Moral, and Mathematical; particularly (to instance only what is pertinent to our subject) a Tractate, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, De Univer∣so, cited by Simplicius in Aristot. Categ. as noted by Meursius, in Hesych. De viris illustribus.

HELICON CYZICENUS, a familiar Friend of Plato's, and an eminent* 1.54 Astronomer, who having foretold to Dionysius the Tyrant an Eclipse of the Sun (which hapned at Athens 3⁰ Sept. feria 6^ta hora 9.^¼ post mediam Noctem) was, for that, rewarded by him with a Talent of Silver.

PHILOSOPHUS, one of Plato's Disciples, so called by his proper name,* 1.55 wrote of Eclipses, of the distance and magnitude of the Sun, Moon, the Earth, and the other Planets, as also of Lightnings, and several other Pieces, mentioned by Suidas. Gesner is of opinion, his name might be corrupted, and that it ought to be read Philippus Opuntius.

EUDOXUS CNIDIUS, the Son of Aeschines, instructed by Archytas, in* 1.56 Geometry; in Physick, by Philistio, the Sicilian; in Philosophy, by Plato; tra∣velled into Egypt, and of the Priests there learned the proper motions of the Pla∣nets, which he first communicated to his Countrymen the Greeks. He wrote De Mundo, De Coelestibus, De Phaenomenis, Astrological Fasti, with Prognosticks. He reformed the Octa•…•…teris of Harpalus, and introduced a new one of his own; of which yet others make Dositheus the Authour. He wrote likewise an Astronomi∣cal Poem, as Suidas affirms. But his two most celebrated Pieces were his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 seu Speculum, & 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, sive Apparentium, as Hipparchus (in Arataeis▪) witnes∣sess.

He is reported to have been so greatly enflamed with the love of Astronomy,* 1.57 that he usually professed he would willingly (as the Poets fable of Phaeton) perish by the scorching beams of the Sun, provided he might first approach so near it, as clearly to discern its Figure and Magnitude. G. Voss.

XENOCRATES CHALCEDONIUS, a Platonick Philosopher, writ,* 1.58 among divers other Works, one Book, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, De Intervallis, and six Books, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, De his quae circa Astrologiam versantur, as Laertius in his Life. There is likewise a Piece under h is Name, De Influentia Planetarum in Corpora; mentioned by Iac. Phil. Thomasinus among the MS. of Io. Rhodius (in Bibliothec. Patavin.)

DEMOPHILUS, son of Ephorus, according to Gesner, writ certain Pieces,* 1.59 called Astronomica; And his Apotelesmata, as Labbeé reports, are in the French King's Library.

CALIPPUS CYZICENUS, an eminent Philosopher, of whose Systeme* 1.60 of the Celestial Sphere Aristotle makes mention, in his Metaphysicks. He was Au∣thour of a Luni-Solar Cycle of LXXVI. years, consisting of four Metonick Cycles reformed.

ARISTOTLE, besides his other learned Works in Philosophy, hath left* 1.61 several testimonies of his study in Astronomy, particularly in his Book De Coelo. He left likewise a Book entitled 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, as Diog. Laertius testifies in his life. There is likewise a Treatise under his Name, De Astrologia Navali, extant in MS. in Biblio∣thec. Sancti Ioannis in Viridario Patav. as Thomasinus in Bibliothec. Patavin. attests.

THEOPHRASTUS, of Evessus in Lesbos, a great Philosopher, Disciple* 1.62 and Successour to Aristotle in the Lycaeum, wrote six Books of Astrological History, and particularly of Democritus's Astrology.

EUDEMUS of Rhodes, one of Aristotle's Disciples, in emulation of Theo∣phrastus,* 1.63 wrote likewise some Astrological Histories, in which he described the Lives and Inventions of divers Astrologers and Astronomers, together with the Original and Progress of Astronomy, as Clemens Alexandrinus, and Laertius affirm; and from them Ionsius, lib. 1. cap. 15. De Script. Histor. Philosoph.

ARISTYLLUS was Contemporary with Calippus, and, together with Timo∣chares,* 1.64 observed the Declinations of the Fixed Stars mentioned by Ptolemy in Magn. Construct. as also in the Greek Prolegomena to Aratus, where we find several others of the name famous for Astronomy.

AUTOLYCHUS PRYTANAEUS, Tutour to Arcesilaus, left two* 1.65 Books, yet extant; the one, De Sphaera Mobili, the other, Of the Rising and Setting of the Fixed Stars, some parts whereof are translated by G. Valla. The former published by Mersennus according to the Translation of Maurolycus, and the Pro∣positions illustrated, in Synops. Mathemat.

TIMOCHARES the Astronomer, (as may be collected out of Ptolemy's* 1.66 Almagest. lib. 7. c. 2, & 3.) observed the Fixed Stars, and particularly, one of the eight Stars in the Constellation of Lyra; mentioned by Theon upon Aratus.

MANETHO, an Egyptian Priest at Heliopolis, and Notarius Sacrorum Pene∣tralium* 1.67 per Aegyptum, writ Physiologica Apotelesmatica, in Verse, and other Astrono∣mical

Pieces, as Suidas attests, and may be proved from this Verse of 〈◊〉〈◊〉.* 1.68

—Arati numeros, & picta Manethonis Astra.

His Apotelesmaticks are reported to be yet extant in the Florentine Library, by Simler. in Biblioth. Gesner.

ERACUS ASTRONOMUS is said to have written something in* 1.69 Astronomy, about the time of Ptolemaeus Philadelphus, as Gesner testifies.

ARISTARCHUS SAMIUS, following the Opinion of Pythagoras and* 1.70 Philolaus, maintained the Earth to move about the Sun. He wrote a particular Trea∣tise of the Distances and Magnitudes of the Sun and Moon, yet extant, translated and commented upon by Commandinus, with some Explications of Pappus Alexandrinus, and animadverted by Mr. Forster, in his Miscellanies. There is ano∣ther Piece which goes under his Name, of the Mundane Systeme, its parts, and mo∣tions, published in Latine by Robervalle, and Mersennus in his Mathematical Synopsis. But the same, by Menagius, (in Diog. Laert.) and Descartes, in his Epistles, is censured as a supposititious Piece of Robervalle's, and not the genuine Work of Aristarchus.

ARATUS SOLENSIS, at the Command of Antigonus Gonatas, turned* 1.71 into a Greek Poem the Phaenomena of Eudoxus, translated into Latine Verse by Cice∣ro, Germanicus Caesar, and Avienus, and commented upon, by the several Com∣mentatours hereafter mentioned, as they are cited at the end of the Prolegomena in the Edition of Iunta, in folio.

AGESIANAX, ALEXANDER AETOLUS, by Strabo likewise reckoned, inter Homeri Interpretes. ALEXANDER EPHESIUS, (of whom hereafter more particularly.) ANTIGONUS GRAMMATICUS, APOLLONIUS GRAMMATICUS, APOLLONIUS GEOMETRA, ARISTARCUS GRAMMATICUS, ARISTARCHUS SAMIUS, ARI∣STOPHANES, ARISTYLLUS GEOMETRA Major, ARISTYLLUS GEOMETRA Minor, ATTALUS RHODIUS, BOETHUS, CALLIMA∣CHUS CYRENAEUS, CALLISTRATUS TENEDIUS, CRATES, DIDYMUS GNIDIUS, DIDYMUS PONEROS, five Laboriosus. DIODOTUS, perhaps the same with him mentioned by Alexander Aphrodisaeus in the first Book of his Commentaries in Meteor. Aristot. by whom he is stiled a most learned Astrologer. EVAENETUS, HELIODORUS STOICUS, HERMIPPUS, NUMENIUS GRAMMATICUS, PARME∣NIDES, PARMENISCUS GRAMMATICUS, mentioned by Hyginus and Pliny. PYRRHUS MAGNESIUS, SMINTHES, THALES, TIMOTHE∣US, ZENO.

There are some few others who have likewise commented upon Aratus, the Mention of whom the Reader will find elsewhere in this Catalogue.

ERATOSTHENES, a Native of Cyrene, succeeded DEMETRIUS* 1.72 PHALEREUS in the charge of the Alexandrian Library. He wrote 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, being a Comment on the several Asterisms of Aratus, lately printed; (perhaps the same with that Piece which is cited under the Title of Astronomica, by Suidas, Plu∣tarch. de Placit. Philosoph. Hipparchus, Ptolemy, and Proclus in Timaeum) Of the Zones, and of the measure of the Terrestrial Globe. He caused likewise several Armillae, and other Mathematical Instruments to be placed in a publick Portico,

at Alexandria, for observation of the Celestial Motions. He was a most skilful* 1.73 Geometer, and writ a Treatise de Medietatibus, mentioned by Pappus in his Mathe∣matical Collections, not now extant.

BEROSUS, the Chalaean, of whom Iosephus (l. 1. Antiqu. Iudaic. c. 8. &* 1.74 in l. 1. contra Appian.) writes, that he was, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c. Most celebrious among those conversant in the study of Astronomy, and the Philosophy of the Chaldeans, of which he published Books among the Grecians. He flourished in the time of Antiochus Soter, and hath left it recorded, that, among the Chaldeans, he observed Astronomical Ephemerides of 480. years, inscribed on baked Bricks or Tyles. He is said likewise to have invented divers kinds of Sun-Dyals, and, for the certainty of his Predictions, to have been rewarded by the Athenians with a Statue, having a golden Tongue in its mouth.

APOLLONIUS MYNDIUS, by Seneca (Natur. Quaest. lib. 7.) stiled* 1.75 peritissimus inspiciendorum naturalium, travelled into Chaldea, to be instructed in Astronomy, and wrote particularly, De Cometis.

EPIGENES BYZANTINUS, Contemporary and Partner in Study and* 1.76 Travels with Apollonius, by Pliny (lib. 7. c. 56.) joyned with Berosus and Crito∣demus, and reputed to have been an Authour of equal credit with the best, hath left it recorded, that, among the Babylonians, there were found Ephemerides, con∣taining the Observation of the Stars, for the space of 780. years, inscribed in Brick and Tiles. He wrote likewise, as Seneca affirms, Of Comets.

ARCHIMEDES of Syracuse, famous, besides his other Mathematical Works,* 1.77 for his admirable artificial Sphere of Glass, wherein the Motions of the Sun, Moon, and the other Planets were represented, to the astonishment of the Beholders, celebrated by Claudian in a particular Epigram. In his Book entituled 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 (sen Arenari∣us) he examines divers Astronomical Hypotheses as to the Distances of the fixed Stars, of the Diameters of the Earth, Sun, Moon, and other Planets, according to the opinions of Aristarchus Samius, Eudoxus, and others of the Ancient Astrono∣mers, being commented upon by Paschasius Hammel, Rivaltus, and Mersennus. The Lemmata of Archimedes recovered out of the Rubbidge of Antiquity were published in M^r. Forster's Miscellanies, as likewise by Borellius at the end of the three latter Books of Apollonius.

CONON, an excellent Geometrician and Astronomer collected divers Obser∣vations* 1.78 made by the Chaldeans, of the Solar and Lunar Eclipses, wrote six Books of Astrology, (not now extant) and invented the Constellation called Coma Berenices. Celebrated he is by Pliny and Hyginus:

C. SULPITIUS GALLUS, a Roman Tribune, by his skill in Astronomy,* 1.79 much encouraged the Roman Army in the War against Perses. For when the Souldiers were terrified with the Eclipse of the Moon, by his Oration to them he made it appear, that what they apprehended as a Prodigy, was only the effect of a natural Cause, describing to them the Reasons of the Eclipse; and so animated the drooping Army with fresh courage, to the attaining of a glorious Victory.

HIPPARCHUS, (by the Arabs and Eastern Writers called Abrachys) whom* 1.80 some make a Native of Nice, a City in Bithynia; others, a Rhodian, Prince of Astronomers in his time. He wrote a Catalogue of the fixed Stars, several Obser∣vations of the Aequinoxes, mentioned by Ptolemy; of the Moon's monthly moti∣on, according to Latitude; A Collection of divers Observations of the Chaldeans,

touching Eclipses, by him examined and compared. Chalcidius, in Timaeum, cites* 1.81 a Book of his, De Secessibus atque Intervall is Solis & 〈◊〉〈◊〉; which Me•…•…rsius (Not. in Chalcid.) conceives to be the same mentioned by Poppus (in 5. Syntax. Ptol•…•….) under the title 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. e. De Magnitudinibus & Distantiis. He hath left likewise (yet extant) three Books, by way of Comment upon Aratus, in which he shows Aratus to have taken all from Eudoxus, and to have followed him even in his Errours; first published from a Manuscript in the Medicaean Library by Petrus Victorius, and since in Greek and Latine, by Dionysius Petavius in Uranolog.

NIGIDIUS FIGULUS wrote a Comment, De Sphaera Graecanica & Bar∣barica,* 1.82 mentioned by Servius, in Georg. Virgil, whence the Commentatour in Ger∣manici Arat. cites divers particulars.

L. TARUNTIUS FIRMANUS a familiar Friend of Varro's, and a* 1.83 great Astronomer. He calculated the Nativity of Romulus, and the Horoscope of Rome's foundation, and wrote, in Greek, of the Stars. He is mentioned by Cicero and Plutarch, though with some small variety in the writing of his name.

MARCUS VARRO, the most learned of his time among the Romans,* 1.84 wrote of Astronomy, of which Cassiodorus makes mention, in Mathem. Discipl.

GEMINUS, a Native of Rhodes, wrote an Isagoge in Meteora, and in Arati* 1.85 Phaenomena; out of which Proclus's Sphere is for the most part compiled, published by Petavius, in Uranolog.

POSIDONIUS APAMENSIS SYRUS, a Stoical Philosopher,* 1.86 Disciple, and Successour to Panaetius, observed, at Rhodes, the Star Canopus. He is commended by Cicero, for an Artificial Sphere, by him made, representing the mo∣tions of all the Planets. Laërtius mentions a Book of his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, De Meteo∣ris; and another 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. And Labbeé, in his Catalogue of Manuscripts, men∣tions another Piece of his, Of the Original of Comets, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, extant in the French King's Library.

M. TULLIUS CICERO translated the Phaenomena of Aratus into Latine* 1.87 Verse.

THEODOSIUS TRIPOLITA signalized his name by his three Books* 1.88 Sphaericorum, and his twelve Propositions, De Habitationibus, both published by Mersennus, in his Synopsis Mathemat. He wrote likewise De Diebus & Noctibus: and Sceptica capita Astrologica, as cited by Laertius.

JULIUS CAESAR, first of the Roman Emperours, according to the testi∣mony* 1.89 of Pliny, wrote of Astronomy in Greek; Macrobius affirming likewise, that he left several not unlearned Books of the motions of the Stars, which he derived from the Doctrine of the Egyptians.

SOSIGENES, a famous Astronomer of Alexandria, whose assistance Iulius* 1.90 Caesar made use of, in reforming the Roman year, and reducing it to the course of the Sun, which we yet retain. Of this Argument he writ three Discourses, as Pliny witnesseth, lib. 18. c. 25.

DIONYSIUS AFER, called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Geographus, wrote a Greek Poem▪* 1.91 De situ Orbis. He was sent, by Augustus, before his adopted son Caius, into the East, the better to describe to him those Regions and Provinces.

ALEXANDER EPHESIUS, surnamed LYCHNUS, wrore besides* 1.92 his Historical Pieces, an Astronomical Poem of the Heavens, and another of the* 1.93 Description of the Parts of the Earth. He is mentioned by Strabo, lib. 14. and therefore cannot be less ancient than these times. He wrote likewise a Comment, in Arati Phaenomena.

P. OVIDIUS NASO, the most Ingenious of the Latine Poets, besides that* 1.94 he translated Aratus his Phaenomena into Verse, which is lost; hath leftfix Books, De Fastis Romanorum, yet extant, being a Calendar, describing their Year, Moneths, Festival Days; together with the rising, and setting of the several Constellations, and the most noted of the fixed Stars; dedicated by him first to Augustus, afterwards revised in his Exile, and addressed to Germanicus Caesar.

STRABO, the Geographer, hath left us the Description of the World in* 1.95 seventeen Books, wherein there are divers Astronomical Disquisitions.

ARTEMIDORUS COSMOGRAPHUS was Contempora•…•…y 〈◊〉〈◊〉* 1.96 Strabo, and wrote upon the same Subject.

MARCUS MANILIUS wrote five Books of Astronomicks, (〈◊〉〈◊〉* 1.97 Heroicis non contemnendis, sayes Ricciolus, in Chron. Astronom.) which he dedicated to Augustus Caesar, wherein he comprehended as well the Astronomy, as the Astrology, of the Ancients, according to the Doctrine of the Chaldaeans and Egyptians; the first of which five Books, treating of the Sphere, is the Subject of our present Un∣dertaking.

The few following Authours, not being reducible to the certain time wherein they flourished, either before or after our Saviour's Nativity, are, for want of authentick Testimony, in this place, ambiguously inserted.

BOLUS MENDESIUS, a Pythagorean Philosopher, wrote (among other things) de Signis ex Sole & Luna, & Ursa, & Lucerna, & Arcu Coelesti, as Suidas testifies in voce 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

LASBAS BABYLONIUS wrote of Astronomy, in a Book entituled Selech, cited by Iohannes Camaterus, in Opere Astrologico, especially in the Chap∣ter De Canonibus Astrorum, & Sorte Fortunae; extant in Manuscript, in the hands of my worthy Friend, M^r. Thomas Gale.

ZEUCHRUS, or TEUCHRUS, or TEUCER BABYLONIUS, by Scaliger, in Manilium, and Salmasius, De Annis Climactericis, stiled an ancient Authour, wrote, De Decanis Signorum; some Fragments of his, according to Labbeé, being extant in the French King's Library.

ALBU-BATUR is, by Iunctinus, placed in the Catalogue of Astronomers about the 500. year before Christ; he writ De Nativitatibus, Printed at Noremberg by Iohannes Petreius, in the Year 1540, but wanting good Authority to confirm the Time wherein he flourished, We have rather inserted him in this Place.

PAPYRIUS FABIANUS, is mentioned by Pliny in several places of his Natural History, out of whose Works he has made frequent Citations, upon seve∣ral arguments and occasions, being by him stiled Astrologus & Physicus, upon which score we have given him a place in this Catalogue.

DOROTHEUS SIDONIUS wrote an Apotelesmatick Poem, as ci•…•…ed* 1.98 by Athen•…•…us, of which little or nothing is now extant, except what is pre•…•…ed in the Excerpta, mentioned in Labbeé's Bibliotheca. Simler (in Biblioth. Ges•…•…) will have Manilius to have followed aud imitated him, in his Astronomical Poem; S•…•…a∣liger, (in Manilium) and Vossius, affirming the like to have been done by Omar, Mes∣salah, and Alchabitius in their Astrological Tractates. Iulius Firmicus gives this Character of him, that he was Vir prudentissimus qui Apotelesmata veri•…•… & disertissimis versibus scripsit. I find likewise in Iames's Eclog. Oxon. Cant. a P•…•…ce under the name of Dorotheus, De esse Solis in Domibus Planetarum. But whether that Authour be the same with this Dorotheus, is altogether uncertain.

CRITON NAXIUS writ an Octaeteris, which some (sayes Suidas) will have to be that of Eudoxus. Gesner writes thus of him; Ha•…•…a dubio est Criton Astronomus, cujus Plinius meminit, lib. 18. c. 31.

ANTIMACHUS HELIOPOLITANUS Aegyptius is by Suidas said to have written 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Mundi fabricationem, in a Poem of 3780. Verses.

SPORUS NICENUS wrote a Comment upon Aratus's Phaenomena. He is mentioned in the Isagoge of Leontius Mechanicus.

LEONTIUS MECHANICUS wrote 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Printed, inter Astronomica Veterum Scripta Isagogica Graeca & Latina, Ex Officinà St. Andraeana, 1589.

DIONYSIUS CORINTHIUS writ a Treatise of Meteorologicks, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Suidas affirms.

LASUS MAGNES, in the Life of Aratus, MONOPHANTUS, by Thèon, upon Aratus, and PHILIPPUS, by Hipparchus, in his Exegesis, are mentioned for Astronomers; as is likewise MNESISTRATUS, by Censorinus.

ANTIOCHUS wrote in Greek Thesauri Apotelesmatum, distinguished into 107. Chapters, extant at Rome in the Vaticane Library, as Simler, in Bibl. Gesner▪ affirms. He is mentioned more than once by Firmicus.

DOSITHEUS ASTROLOGUS is mentioned by Pliny, lib. 18. c. 31. to have written Of the Rising and Setting of the Stars.

JULIANUS LAODICENSIS PHILOSOPHUS, wrote 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, as Gesner affirms.

BELINUS, a Greek Authour, seemeth to have written on this Argument, as the Title of his Book, De judiciis Futurorum, and De Imaginibus, imply. See Gesner, and something of him now extant in his Majesty's Library at St. Iames's.

GEZ, perhaps GESSIUS, a Greek Authour, wrote Libros Imaginum, Et De Stationibus, Et De Imaginibus Veneris, as Gesner testifies; if yet those Treatise•…•… may not be Philological, rather than Astrological.

APOMASARIS Apotelesmata, with some other Authours of that kind, are extant in the Vaticane Library, and in that of Ausburg, as Simler affirms, in Biblioth▪ Gesner.

HELICONIUS, according to the testimony of Suidas, writ 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.* 1.99 i. e. De Syderum & Tempestatum Effectis, Et De Aeris Signis.

DEMETRIUS TRICLINIUS writ De Schematismis Lunae, & Macu∣la in ejus facie, extant in the French King's Library; to whom is likewise ascribed that Greek Poem, De Sphaera, attributed to Empedocles, and for such translated into Latine, and published by Q. Sept. Florens Christianus. Simler in Bibl. Gesner. as∣c•…•…ibes to him another Work, under the Title of Inventum Astronomicum, written in Greek.

POLEMON ATHENIENSIS, supposed the same with Him who was Disciple to Xeno•…•…rates, writ a Book de Interpretatione Naturae Signorum, translated into •…•…atine by Nicholaus Petreius Cor•…•…yraeus, and Printed at Venice, apud Gryphium 1552. cum al•…•…is quibusdam, as Simler, in Epitome Bibl. Gesner. testifies.

EUTHYMIUS writ, in Greek, a Synopsis of Astronomy, or as Simler enti∣tles it, De Sphaera, extant in the French King's Library.

DION NICAENUS writ De Septem Planetis.

GIAPHAR ASTROLOGUS wrote a Book which he entituled Major Introductorius. He wrote likewise a Book of Commentaries, and another, of Ex∣periments, mentioned by Gesner.

CAUDAS ASTROLOGUS wrote Nine Books de Annulis Astronomicis, a Book de Tribus figuris Spirituum, and another de figura Almandal. as Simler, from the Authority of Guil. Pastregicus, de Originibus Rerum, affirms.

ASTRONOMERS after our SAVIOUR's Nativity.

* 1.100

MODERATUS COLUMELLA, De Re Rustica, hath left an Astrolo∣gical* 1.101 Calendar; with Prognosticks.

THRASYLLUS, Native of Mendes, a City of Egypt, multarum Artium scienti∣am* 1.102 professus (sayes the old Scholiast of Iuvenal) prostremò se dedit Platonicae Sectae, ac deinde Mathesi, quâ praecipuè viguit apud Tiberium. By Mathesi, is to be under∣stood chiefly Astronomy, or rather Astrology, according to the Doctrine of the Chal∣d•…•…ns, in which he instructed Tiberius. He wrote likewise Of Musick; out of which Porphyry, upon Ptolemy's Harmonica, and Theon Smyrnaeus cite some Pieces. See more of him in Paganinus Gaudentius, De Philosophia apud Romanos, cap. 54. and V•…•…ssius de Histor. Graec. l 4. c. 16.

TIBERIUS CAESAR, the Emperour, was skilful in Astronomy and* 1.103 Astrology, instructed therein by Thrasyllus, quem ut Sapientiae Professorem contuber∣nio adm•…•…verat, sayes Suetenius, especially during his recess or exile at Rhodes. He had the luck to predict many future Events, particularly to foretel, by inspecting Galba's Nativity, that he should one day be Emperour; which he declared (Galba being then but a Youth) in these words, Et tu, Galba, quandoque degustabis Imperi∣um, as Tacitus relates it, though Suetonius and others apply it to Augustus. He is also reported to have had always by him the Genitures of all his Nobility, and that according as he found his own or the Kingdom's Horoscope to be well or ill looked upon by theirs, so he let them stand, or cut them off by Legislative Astrology; to use the ex∣pression of the famous M^r. Gregory.

GERMANICUS CAESAR, that excellent Prince, translated 〈◊〉〈◊〉 h•…•…* 1.104 Phaenomena into Latine Verse yet extant.* 1.105

CHAEREMON, a Philosopher of the Stoical Sect, by birth an Egypti•…•….* 1.106 Master to Dionysius Alexandrinus; wrote of the Egyptian Astrology, as we find by the mention made of him in Iamblichus, De Mysteriis, Aegypt. although both the Latine Translatours mistook his Name. He wrote also De Cometis, as Origen and Seneca testifie, the latter of whom calls him Charimander, and not Chaeremon, which G. Vossius conceives to be a mistake in the Text. He is mentioned by Strabo (•…•…ib. 17.) to have attended Aelius Gallus in a Voyage from Alexandria up into Egypt, whence we may conclude him to have flourished, about the latter end of Augustus, or beginning of Tiberius's Reign.

DIONYSIUS AREOPAGITA may justly be admitted into the num∣ber* 1.107 of Astronomers, since it is reported of him, that, at Helipolis in Egypt, toge∣ther with Apollophanes, he observed that miraculous Defection of the Sun, at the time of our Saviour's Passion: Whereupon he broke out into this Exclamation, Aut Deus Naturae patitur, aut Mundi machina dissolvitur. He was afterwards con∣verted to the Christian Faith, for which he died a Venerable Martyr, being aged a∣bove one hundred years.

JULIUS HYGINUS, whom some would have to be the Freed-man of* 1.108 Augustus, others, with more probability, of Severus and Antoninus, or of Iulia Severa the Empress, wrote the Astronomicum Poeticum, De Mundi & Sphaerae par∣tibus, and the Fables of the several Asterisms, yet extant.

SENECA, the Philosopher, occasionally intermingles in divers of his Writ∣ings* 1.109 several Astronomical Dissertations, and, in the seventh Book of his Natural Questions, hath expresly written of Comets.

ANDROMACHUS CRETENSIS was Physician to Nero, and about* 1.110 the latter end of his Reign wrote (as it is affirmed by Lucas Gauricus, and Clavius, in Sacroboscum) the first of any touching the Theory of the Planets; His Writing•…•… are much commended by Galen.

PLINY the Elder, in the second Book of his Natural History, hath written ma∣ny* 1.111 things touching the Celestial Bodies.

JARCHAS Prince of the Brachmannes was a famous Astronomer according* 1.112 to the Testimony of St. Ierome ad Paulinum, whose Words are These, Apoll•…•… (whether the Magician as vulgarly reputed, or the Philosopher according to the Tr•…•…∣dition of the Pythagoreans) went to the Brachmannes that he might hear Jarchas fit∣ting on a Throne of Gold, and discoursing of the daily Revolution and Motion of the Stars. Damis likewise reports that the said Iarchas gave to Apollonius seven Rings inscribed with the Names of the seven Planets, which he was to wear successively every Day One. See Rantzov. in Catalog. Astrol.

APOLLONIUS TYANAEUS wrote four Books, de Divinatione Astro∣logica,* 1.113 as Philostratus relates in his Life, though none of them be now extant.

PLUTARCHUS CHAERONENSIS, in his Book, De facie in Or•…•…e* 1.114 Lunae, and in his Work, De Placitis Philosophorum, hath shown himself studious and skilful in Astronomy.

MENELAUS, a most eminent Mathematician and Astronomer, was an Ob∣server* 1.115 of the Stars for a long time, both at Rhodes and at Rome. He hath left Three* 1.116 Books Sphaericorum, published by Mersennus, in his Synopsis Mathemat.

AGRIPPA, the Mathematician, observed (as it is reported by Ptolemy 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.)* 1.117 the Conjunction of the Moon with the Pleiades, happening Anno Nabonassar. 840. Nov. 29.

ASCLETARION was an Astrologer in the time of Domitian, whose* 1.118 fate he had predicted; for which being questioned and avowing the Prediction, he was asked by the Emperour what his own fate would be? To which he confi∣dently reply'd, that he should be torn in pieces by Dogs. Whereupon Domitian com∣manded that he should be immediately slain, and carefully buried, that the vanity of his Art might appear: But a sudden and violent tempest happening at the en∣terment of him, his body was deserted, and the Dogs came and tore it in pieces. See Sueton. in Domit.

HADRIANUS the Emperour was singularly well skill'd in Astronomy, and* 1.119 particularly in Judiciary Astrology, according to the Testimony of Aelius Spartia∣nus in his Life, who affirms that he used yearly in the Evening of the Calends of Ianuary to calculate what ever should happen to him for the whole year following. And in the Life of Verus, His Successour, he gives us this further Testimony, which take in his own Words: Fuisse Adrianum peritum Matheseôs, Marius Maximus usque adeò demonstrat, ut eum dicat cuncta de se scîsse, sic, ut omnium dierum usque ad horam mortis futuros actus antè perscripserit.

AQUILA PONTICUS was a learned Mathematician of Synope, first a* 1.120 Christian, but afterwards, by the Church, for his too great adherence to Judiciary Astrology, excommunicated; whereupon he became a Iewish Proselyte, and transla∣ted the Old Testament (though not very sincerely) into Greek.

THEON ALEXANDRINUS Senior (whom some would have to be* 1.121 the same with that Theon Smyrnaeus, who wrote in Mathematica Platonis, published by Bulialdus) made several Observations of the Planet Venus in the sixteenth year of the Emperour Hadrian, mentioned by Ptolemy cap. 10. Almagest. In the Library at Ausbourg, there is extant a Tractate of his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

PHLEGON TRALLIANUS, the Freed-man of Hadrian the Emperour,* 1.122 among other his Works, wrote De Olympiadibus, in which, according to the testi∣monies of Origen and Eusebius, he made a Chronological remark on the obscurati∣on of the Sun, which happened at the time of our Saviour's Passion.

CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS a Native of Pelusium, descended as some* 1.123 would have it of the Royal Race of the Ptolemies Kings of Egypt; The Prince in his Time of Astronomers, Geographers, and Astrologers; His Principal Works being eight Books of Geography, thirteen Books, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, commonly called Almagestum; 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, seu Quadripartita Syntaxis de judiciis Astro∣rum; And Parapegma de Apparentiis & Significationibus Inerrantium Stellarum, de Analemmate, &c. there are likewise ascribed to him 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. e. faciles & expediti, upon which Theon Alexandrinus Iun. is reported to have commented, or ra∣ther (as Golius in Alferganum from the Authority of Keusian Gilaeus notes) to have composed himself, and to have given them the Title of Canones Ptolemaici, because computed according to the Hypotheses of Ptolemy.

SEXTUS EMPIRICUS, Nephew to Plutarch the Philosopher, in his* 1.124 Hypotyp. Pyrrhon. writes sharply against Iudiciary Astrology.* 1.125

HEPHAESTION THEBANUS wrote de Configurationibus Stellarum,* 1.126 as cited by Salmasius, De Annis Climactericis, and others. Of whom divers Excerpta, De duodecim Zodiaci Signis & eorum Effectibus, are published by Camerarius, in Greek and Latine, amongst his Astrological Collections Printed at Norimberg. Of this Authour also three Books 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 are, by Simler, affirmed to be yet extant, in Bibliotheca Strozzae.

CLAUDIUS GALENUS Native of Pergamus in Asia, the most famous* 1.127 Physician of his time, in which Function he served three Roman Emperours, Adri∣anus, Lucius Verus, and Antoninus Pius. That he was learned in Astronomy and Astrology appears by his Books, de Diebus Decretoriis, his Epid. and his Mathemat. His Father likewise being well skilled therein, for thus (according to the Testimony of Antonius Fumanellus cited by Rantzovius in Catalog. Astronom.) he writes of Him. Pater Meus Optimus fuit Mathematicus, Exercitatus quandoque in Geometria, Arithmetica, Architectura, & Astronomia.

APULEIUS (if the Piece bearing his name be genuine) wrote De Sphaera,* 1.128 now extant, with other Astronomical Tractates, amongst the Manuscripts in the Li∣brary at Westminster, and in that of Nicholaus Trivisanus of Padua, as cited by Thomasinus in Bibliothec. Patavin. under this Title, Sphaera Apuleii Platonici.

LUCIAN the Philosopher, a Native of Samosata (at this Day Scempsat) a* 1.129 City in Syria, in the Province of Comagene, the facete Authour of the Ingenious Dialogues, wrote a Particular Treatise of Astrology, or Astronomy, setting forth it's Original, Antiquity, and Excellency. In which Dissertation, and in his Satur∣nalia, Bourdelotius affirms he hath inserted many things taken from our Manilius.

ANDRUZAGAR, an Arabian Astrologer, is said to have flourished about* 1.130 this time, by Iunctinus, in his Catalogue.

CENSORINUS, in his Book de Die Natali, hath written divers things* 1.131 touching the Harmonical Systeme of the Heavens.

ANATOLIUS ALEXANDRINUS, Bishop of Laodicea, in Syria, is* 1.132 mentioned by St. Hierome in his Book De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, to have been well skilled in Astronomy.

RABBI ADDA, about the end of Dioclesian's, or beginning of Constanti∣us's* 1.133 Reign, composed an Hebrew Calendar, and Rules for finding out the Tekupha's, or revolution of the Equinoxes.

JULIUS MATERNUS FIRMICUS, a Sicilian, about this time* 1.134 wrote eight Books Astronomicôn, containing Astrological Precepts, which, like an ungrateful Plagiary, he transcribed for the most part out of Manilius, without making the least mention of his name.

VETTIUS VALENS, of Antioch, by some called Vestius Valens, a famous* 1.135 Astronomer, or rather Astrologer of the same time, who calculated, for Constantine the Great, the fate of New Rome's Foundation, as L. Taruntius had done that of Old Rome; by G. Vossius conceived to be the same with him, of whose Works some Pieces are published by Ioachimus Camerarius, In Astrologicis Veterum opuscu∣lis,

Edit. Norimberg. Anno 1532. His Anthologia is now intended for the Press, at* 1.136 Paris, by the care, as I am informed, of Mons. Huetius.

PORPHYRIUS, a famous Platonist, but bitter Enemy to Christianity, wrote* 1.137 an Isagoge of Astronomy in three Books, as Suidas testifies. His Isagoge to Ptolemy's Apotelesmatice, is also here to be mentioned; Printed at Basil.

MARIUS VICTORINUS AFER, Master to St. Ierome, among many* 1.138 other Works translated Porphyrius his Astronomical Isagoge, into Latine, yet ex∣tant with the Comment of Boetius thereupon, as Gesner affirms.

THEON ALEXANDRINUS Iunior, a Philosopher, contemporary to* 1.139 Pappus, and an excellent Mathematician. He observed an Eclipse of the Sun in the year of Nabonassar 1112. and besides other Mathematical Tractates, wrote (ac∣cording to Suidas) De ortu Caniculae, Canonem expeditum in Ptolemaeum, a Com∣mentary in parvum Astrolabium, and upon Ptolemy's Almagest, in eleven Books first published at Basile, by Ioachimus Camerarius, according to the Greek Manu∣script, brought into Italy by Cardinal Bessarion, and from thence into Germany, by Regiomontanus; as also upon Aratus's Phaenomena, this last lately Printed at the Theater in Oxford; but upon no account so famous, as that of being Father to the excellent HYPATIA.

ABYDAS ASTRONOMUS is mentioned by Epiphanius; against whom* 1.140 Bardesanes the Syrian (in his Book de fato) writ, who flourished in the time of Antoninus Verus.

PAULUS ALEXANDRINUS wrote an Astronomical Isagoge, or In∣troduction;* 1.141 perhaps the same whom G. Vossius calls Paulus the Philosopher, who wrote likewise Apotelesmatica, sive, de Effectibus Syderum, Published by Rantzovius.

MACROBIUS-AMBROSIUS-AURELIUS-THEODOSIUS,* 1.142 Consul of Rome, born at Parma, contemporary with Symmachus, wrote two Books, De Somnio Scipion•…•…s, wherein he handles divers Astronomical Arguments, as he does likewise in his Saturnalia.

CLEOMEDES, a learned Astronomer and Philosopher of the Stoical Sect,* 1.143 wrote two Books 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. e. De Contemplatione Orbium Coelestium, first published, in Greek, by Conradus Neobarius, afterwards translated into Latine, by 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Valla, and commented upon by Robertus Balforeus, Printed at Bourde∣•…•… •…•…05.4^o.

SEXTUS AVIENUS RUFUS, an elegant Poet, by birth a Spaniard,* 1.144 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Phaenomena of Aratus into Latine Heroick Verse, and likewise para∣phrased Dionysius Afer, De Situ Orbis, and wrote, in Iambicks, De Oris Maritimis.

FLAVIUS MANLIUS, or MANLIUS THEODORUS, Consul* 1.145 of Rome is celebrated for his great Erudition, having written several Pieces both in Philosophy and Mathematicks, particularly in Astronomy, as may appear by that elegant Panegyrick Poem written in praise of him, by Claudian; whence we have taken these following Verses to shew his Indeavours on that Subject.

—Elementa doces, sempérque fluentis Materiae causas; quae vis animaverit Astra, Implêritque choros: quo vivit Machina Motu.

Sidera cur septem retrò nitantur in Ortus* 1.146 Obluctata Polo, variisque meatibus idem Arbiter, an geminae convertant Aethera Mentes.

But the Injury of Time hath not left us any Remains of these his curious and learn∣ed Labours.

PAPPUS ALEXANDRINUS, besides other his Mathematical* 1.147 Works, wrote a Comment upon Ptolemy's Almagest, and in his sixth Book of Ma∣thematical Collections hath left some Explications, In Aristarchum Samium, De Magnitudinibus & Distantiis Solis & Lunae, yet extant, and translated by Comman∣dinus; published at Pesaro, 1572. and likewise to be found in M^r. Foster's Mis∣cellanies.

HYPATIA, Daughter to Theon Alexandrinus Iunior, and Wife to Isidorus* 1.148 the Philosopher, which name she her self more justly merited, as being eminently learned in the Mathematicks and Philosophy, which she publickly professed and taught, till by the barbarous Christians, or Monsters rather, of Alexandria, out of meer envy for her admirable skill in Astronomy, and other Mathematical Learning, she was most inhumanely murthered and torn to pieces, in the very Cathedral Church. She wrote (besides a Comment upon Diophantus, and another upon Apol∣lonius's Conicks) an Astronomical Canon, as both Hesychius and Suidas affirm.

About this Time flourished two Aegyptian Monks; ANIANUS, who, after* 1.149 the Example of Eusebius, writ a Chronological Work; and PANODORUS, who to his skill in Chronology added the Knowledge of Astronomy. Out of the Fragments of which last Syncellus hath excerpted many things, as Scaliger likewise, in his Eusebian Animadversions.

SYNESIUS, first a Heathen Philosopher, afterwards a Christian, and Bishop of* 1.150 Cyrene, writ, among other his Works, De Instrumentis Astronomicis, being a Dis∣course occasioned by his presenting Paeonius with an Astrolabe, and is extant in his Majesty's Library at St. Iames's. There are also extant divers Epistles of his to the before mentioned Hypatia, with this direction, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

AETIUS AMIDENUS (Comes & Medicus, sayes Ricciolus) wrote He∣merologium,* 1.151 De Significationibus Stellarum, translated first out of Greek into Latine, by Cornarius, and since published by Petavius, Uranolog. pag. 421.

S. CYRILLUS, Bishop of Alexandria; besides other Works of his, wrote* 1.152 De Cyclo Paschali, mentioned by Sigebertus Gemblacensis, in Chron.

BACHARIUS MACCAEUS, a Britain, Disciple of St. Patrick, Publi∣shed* 1.153 a Book, De Prognosticis Nativitatum, according to Balaeus.

S. PROSPER AQUITANUS, Bishop of Rhegium, composed a Paschal* 1.154 Cycle, consisting of 532. years.

VICTORINUS AQUITANUS, whom G. Vossius conceives to be more* 1.155 truly called Victorius, composed a Paschal Cycle, being by Pope Hilarius, for his eminent skill in Astronomy, invited to Rome, to undertake the correction of the Calendar. Yet his Paschal Cycle seems to have been not long after reformed by Victor, Bishop of Capua, who likewise wrote on the same Subject.

THEODORET, Bishop of Cyrus, is by Iunctinus, in his Catalogue, put* 1.156 into the number of Astronomers, as also by Ricciolus, in Chron. part. 2.* 1.157

MAUGANTIUS, a Britain by extraction, a famous Philosopher, and Mathe∣matician,* 1.158 in the time of Vortigerne, to whom he was principal Physician, as Geoffry of Monmouth reports. He studied in the City of Chester, in which at that time Astronomy, and all other Arts flourished, and, from the diligent observation of the course of the Stars, and Planets, became more eminently learned in Astrology, than any of his time. He calculated the prodigious conception of Merlin, and wrote De Magia Naturali.

AMBROSIUS MERLINUS, a Britain, in the time of King Vortigern,* 1.159 was famous for his admirable skill in Astronomy and Astrology, of whom Balaeus thus writes; Merlinus in Urbe Legionum (Caerlleon) studiis diligenter in•…•…ubuit, & eruditis Artibus & literis operam dedit, Magiae potissimùm Naturali. Unde Astrono∣miae tandem peritissimus futura praedixit multa, quibus sequenti saeculo mirabilem se praebuit. He wrote a particular Treatise of a certain Comet, which appeared in his time, as Balaeus testifies, and a Book of obscure Predictions translated into Latine by Geoffry Monmouth, as Gesner affirms.

CARPUS ANTIOCHENUS wrote 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. e. Rei Astronomicae* 1.160 libros; of which Proclus, in primum Euclidis, mak•…•…s mention. To him Mr. Selden ascribes the Books commonly entituled Ptolemaei Centiloqutum. Vid. Selden. de Diis Syr. Syntagm. 1. seu de Teraphim.

CASSIODORUS, a Person of Consular dignity, and honoured with the* 1.161 most eminent Charges of State in the time of Anastasius the Emperour and Theodo∣ricus King of the Goths, afterwards a Recluse in the Monastery of Cassina, wrote, amongst other things, Of Astronomy, & De Computo Ecclesiastico.

SIMPLICIUS, a Native of Phrygia, an eminent Platonick Philosopher, and* 1.162 excellent Commentator upon Aristotle, De Coelo, merits to be here mentioned.

MARIANUS, Marci Causidici F. wrote a Metaphrasis of Aratus, in MCCCXL.* 1.163 Iambicks. He lived in the time of Anastasius the Emperour. See Simler in Bibl. Gesner.

THIUS ATHENIENSIS wrote seven Books of Observations of the* 1.164 mean Motions of the Stars, so much the more acceptable (sayes G. Vossius de Scient. Mathem.) in regard that from Ptolemy's time unto that of Albategnius, there are not any Observations of the Celestial motions extant. These, transcribed from a Manu∣script in the King of France's Library, were first published by Bulialdus, at Paris, Anno 1645.

PROCLUS LYCIUS, a Platonick Philosopher, surnamed DIADO∣CHUS,* 1.165 Disciple to Magnus Syrianus, taught for a long time at Athens, and writ a Comment upon the first Book of Euclid; Of the Sphere, (being for the most part an Epitome of Geminus;) Of the Astrolabe and Astronomical Hypotheses, (being a Compendium of Ptolemy's Almagest.) There was another Proclus surnamed Siccen∣sis, who was Master, or Tutor, to M. Antoninus the Emperour, confounded by some with this Proclus Diadochus; but without all reason. For Diadochus flourished not till the Reign of Anastasius, being 300. years after Siccensis. Ricciolus conceives this Proclus Diadochus to be the same with Proclus the famous Mathematician, who as Zonaras (part. 3. Annal.) reports, made, in imitation of Archimedes, Burning-Glasses,

with which he fired Vitalianus his Fleet, at the Siege of Constantinople, and* 1.166 was employed by Anastasius the Emperour, as Interpreter of his Dreams.

MARINUS NEAPOLITANUS, Disciple to Proclus Diadochus, wrote,* 1.167 Praevia ad Phaenomena, and Phaenoménôn Librum singularem, sayes Voss. de Scient. Math. p 166. who yet doubteth whether this be not another Marinus, who writ 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, ad Euclidem.

JOANNNES LAURENTIUS PHILADELPHENSIS LY∣DUS,* 1.168 wrote in the time of Iustinian the Emperour, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, de Mensibus, with other Mathematical Tractates, mentioned by Photius, and Suidas, yet extant in MS. in the Library of my honoured and most learned Friend, M^r. Isaac Vossius.

DIODORUS MONACHUS, Bishop of Tarsus in Cilicia, wrote (ac∣cording* 1.169 to Suidas) contra Astrologos & Fatum; he put forth likewise a Book de Sphaera, & septem Zonis, of the Annual Progress of the Stars, and of the Sphere of Hipparchus.

DIONYSIUS EXIGUUS, by birth a Scythian, but a Roman Abbot,* 1.170 wrote a Paschal Cycle, or rather corrected that of Victorinus, or Victorius, as Victo∣rius had done that of Theophilus, and he, that of Cyrillus. This Computus, or Cycle was observed by the Latine Church, until the correction of the Calendar by Pope Gregory XIII. From this Dionysius, the Christians first learnt to reckon their years, from the Nativity of our Saviour, thence called Aera Dionysiana; whereas before, they reckoned, from the Persecution of Dioclesian.

TRIBONIANUS SIDETES, a Civil Lawyer in the time of Iustinian* 1.171 the Emperour, wrote a Comment upon Ptolemy's Canon, in Verse. He published likewise Concentum Mundanae & Harmonicae Dispositionis; and another Book, de Planetarum domiciliis, as likewise de Mensium Permutatione, and some other Pieces; of which Suidas.

PHILIPPUS MEDMAEUS, so called from Medme, a Town of Italy, by* 1.172 Stephanus, in Voce Medme, stil'd 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, which G. Vossius conceives ought to be read, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. for he wrote de Ventis, as they are foreseen or predicted, from the Position of the Stars, or Constitution of the Heavens. He also flourished in the time of Iustinian the Emperour.

PHILOPONUS, surnamed Grammaticus, deserves here to be recorded for his* 1.173 Comment in Astrolabium planum, sive de usu Astrolabii, written in Greek, yet ex∣tant in New Colledge, Oxford, and (as Simler in Bibl. Gesner. adds) in the French King's Library.

BUZUR-GIUMHUR, an ancient Persian Authour, being one of the Coun∣sellours* 1.174 and Courtiers of Nushirvân King of Persia (in the 42. year of whose Reign Mahomet the false Prophet was born) wrote De Quaestionibus Astrologicis.

MARTIANUS FELIX MINAEUS CAPELLA, in his Work,* 1.175 entituled, De Nuptiis Mercurii cum Philologiâ, wrote of Geometry, Arithmetick, Musick, and Astronomy.

ISIDORUS, Bishop of Hispalis, or Sevit, in Spain, Son to Severianus, Duke* 1.176 of Carthage, in his Book, De Originibus, hath inserted a Compendium, or Epitome of all the Mathematicks; and in his Book, De Mundo; with the like brevity treated of

the Sphere. The Astronomical Poem, (of which the Fragment is published by Pythaeus* 1.177 among the Ancient Latine Poets by him set forth) under the Name of Fulgentius, is by Pythaeus conceiv'd to belong to Isidore, at the End of whose Works it is com∣monly inserted without any other Name to it; if yet (as Pythaeus adds from the Conjecture of a certain Learned Person) it may not rather be ascribed to Varro Atacinus.

HEMOALDUS, an English man, surnamed PROVIDUS, between* 1.178 whom and Venerable Bede there was great familiarity, to whom he addressed his Book De Rebus Mathematicis, yet extant, as Bede, on the other side, did an Epistle to him, De Ratione Quadrantis Anni, sive, de Bissexto.

THEODORUS MELITENIOTAS, Magnus Sacellarius Magnae* 1.179 Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae, wrote of Astronomy, and particularly upon Ptolemy's Astronomical Syntaxis, or Almagest; the Proem of which Work from a MS. out of the Library of Mr. Isaac Vossius, Bulialdus lately published, at the end of his learned Comment, upon Ptolemy's 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

BEDA, commonly called Venerable Bede, was renouned for his knowledge and* 1.180 study of Astronomy, amongst whose Works there is yet extant, De Argumentis Lunae, De Ephemeride, De Embolismis, De Circulo Decennovennuali, De Cyclo Pas∣chali, De Circulis Sphaerae & Polis, De Planetis & Signis Coelestibus, De Astrolabio, & De Aequinoctio Vernali.

ADELMUS DUROTELLUS, seu BLADUNIUS (i. e. MAL∣MESBURIENSIS)* 1.181 Son of Kenred, and Grandchild of Ina, King of the West-Saxons. Bishop of Sherburne, (now translated to Salisbury) wrote De Cyclo Paschali, contra Britannos, and De Astrologia, as Balaeus affirms.

FLACCUS ALBINUS, sive ALCUINUS, an English-man, born in* 1.182 York shire, Scholar to Venerable Bede, and Tutour to Charlemaigne, to whom he was sent upon an Embassie by Off a King of the Mercians, and, for his exquisite Learning, invited by Charlemaigne, to continue with him in France; which he did; per∣swading that Prince to erect the University of Paris. He was excellently well skilled in all the Parts of the Mathematicks, which he publickly taught; and wrote De Septem Artibus Liberalibus, and De Astrologia, as Vossius, De Scient. Mathemat. testifies.

CHARLEMAIGNE, King of France, and Emperour, instructed by Alcui∣nus* 1.183 aforesaid, became excellently well skilled in the Mathematicks, particularly in Astronomy, insomuch that he wrote Ephemerides, and was extremely delighted in making observations of the Stars. He gave names to the Moneths of the Year, and to the Winds, in High-Dutch, which continue to this Day. He was, by a King of Persia his Contemporary, upon the knowledge he had of his affection to Astrono∣mical Studies, presented with a Piece of Clock-work, showing the motion of •…•…he Planets; which the Emperour being then at Paderborne, in Westphalia, received with no less admiration than pleasure. Vid. Voss. De Scient. Mathem. c. 35.

JOHANNES CAMATERUS, Chamberlain to the Emperour Porphy∣rogeneta,* 1.184 writ De Genethliis, & Syderum positione, & Astrologiam Chaldaicam, in Verse, now in the Possession of my Learned Friend Mr. Tho. Gale.

ALMAEON, whom some call ALMAMON, the deservedly renouned* 1.185 Califfe of Babylon, (as Mr. Graves stiles him in his Pyramidograph.) fifty years be∣fore

the time of Albategnius, observed the greatest Declination of the Sun to have* 1.186 been 23°. (according to Elancanus and Herigone) or 23°. and 35′. (according to Ricciolus, from the authority of Alfraganus.) He first commanded Ptolemy's 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 to be translated into Arabick; which Translation gave that Work the corrupt, but now common name of Almagest. He found by observation and mea∣suring in the Plains of Singar, that one Degree of a great Circle on the Earth is equal to 56. miles. His Astronomical Designs were so acceptable to the Genius of that Nation, that in the Times succeeding, no less than Thirty Kings are said to have emulated his Example; as is observed by Golius (notis in Alfergan.)

EGMUNDUS, surnamed ASTROLOGUS, is by Ricciolus put also in∣to* 1.187 the Catalogue of Astronomers about this Time.

MESSHALA ARABS, sive MESSAHULACH, signalized his Name* 1.188 by his Book De Receptionibus, & De Conjunctionibus Planetarum, & De Revolutio∣nibus Annorum Mundi. He wrote likewise, De Elementis & Orbibus Coelestibus; a third Book, De Ratione Circuli & Stellarum Operationibus; and another, De Com∣positione & Utilitate Astrolabii: The first Printed at Venice, Anno 1493. with P•…•…o∣lemy's Quadripartitum; The second, at Norimberg, by Montanus and Neuberus; The third, at Basil, by Hervagius, Anno 1533. And the fourth and last, by Henricus Petri, in Appendice Margaritae Philosophicae.

LEO PHILOSOPHUS writ something in Astrology, yet extant in the* 1.189 French King's Library, as Labbeé testifies, in Catal. MS.

ALBATEGNIUS or trulier ALBATTANIUS ARACENSIS,* 1.190 called likewise MAHUMETES TINEU, vel MAHUMETES ARA∣CENSIS, or (but mistakenly) ARACTENSIS, from the City of Arrac, com∣monly, but corruptly, called Aracta, in Syria, Son of Geber Auchan, Son of Cruen, Prince of Syria, made diligent observations of the Stars, both at Arrac and Antioch: And finding that Ptolemy's Canons in his time dissented much from the course of the Heavens, he made new Tables of his own. He wrote a Book De Scientia Stel∣larum, first translated out of Arabick into Latine, by Plato Tiburtinus, and illustra∣ted with Annotations, by Io. Regiomontanus. He observed the Sun's greatest De∣clination to be 23°. 35′. and the first Star of Aries to be 18°. 2′. in Longitude from the Equinoctial Point. His Observations were Printed at Norimberg. His Book De Numeris & Scientia Stellarum, according to a Transcript thereof, taken by Lucas Valerius (Publick Professour of Mathematicks at Rome) out of the Vati•…•…an Library, was reprinted more correctly in Latine at Bologna in the year 1645. and dedicated by Bernardinus Ugulottus to Ferdinand the second Grand Duke of Tuscany.

ACHILLES TATIUS wrote a Book De Sphaera, as Suidas affirms, part of* 1.191 which G. Vossius conceives to be his Commentary in Aratum, Published in Greek and Latine, by Petavius, in Uranolog.

MOHAMMED IBN ZACHARIAE AL RAZI wrote many* 1.192 Books in several Sciences, and among the rest, a Particular Astronomical Treatise, as I find it mentioned in the Catalogue of Golius his Manuscripts. He died in the year of the Hegira 320. of Christ 932.

ABDORRAHMAN AL-SUPHI, commonly (but corruptly) called* 1.193 AZOPHI, or ELZUPHI, or EBENNOZOPHIM, an Arabian Astro∣nomer, Authour of the Persian Tables, in which, sayes ricciolus, Stellarum Sche∣mata & loca ordinata sunt. The Work transcribed by his Son, with the Delinea∣tion

of the Celestial Signs in Miniature by the same hand, is extant among the* 1.194 Manuscripts of Iacobus Golius.

ALFRAGANUS MAHUMEDES, or AMETUS, or AHEMED,* 1.195 or MUHAMED, the Son of Amet, called Alfraganus, or rather Alferganus, from the City Fergana, in the Province of Sogdiana. He wrote Elementa Astrono∣mica, compiled chiefly out of Ptolemy, which by Rabbi Iacob Antolius were turned into Hebrew, and by Iohannes Hispalensis, in the year 1142 translated out of Ara∣bick into Latine, but lately published in Arabick and Latine, by the famous Iacobus Golius, with learned Notes, which yet he lived not to compleat. He writ likewise de Astrolabii Descriptione & Usu, and a Book of Dialing, as Golius in his Notes asserts. G. Pastregicus mentions another Treatise of Alfraganus, entitled De Aggre∣gationibus Stellarum. V. Simler. Bibl. Gesner.

HALI BEN RAGEL is about this time, by Ricciolus, inserted into the* 1.196 number of Astronomers.

ARZAHEL ALA BEN writ Tables and Canons of the Motions of the* 1.197 Celestial Bodies, preserved in MS. in the Library of Merton Colledge in Oxford, and in that of Caius and Gonvil in Cambridge, according to Iamesius Eclog. Oxon. Cant. Whether the same with Arzahel Hispanus (of whom in the next Century) we leave to be considered.

ALI IBNO'L HOZEIN, a Persian, wrote of the Theory of the Planets,* 1.198 as Abul Pharagius in Hist. Dynast. witnesses, and De Demonstratione Planisphaerii, as Hottinger, in Smegm. Orient.

ALFARABIUS Arabs, stiled by Blancanus, Astronomus celebris, called like∣wise* 1.199 ABUNASR, according to Abul Pharagius, in Histor. Dynast. under whose Name Simler, in Bibl. Gesner. affirms, there is extant a Piece entitled de Compositione Astrolabii.

ETHEL WOLDUS WENTANUS, of the Race of the West-Saxon* 1.200 Kings, sometime Abbot of Abington, afterwards Bishop of Winchester, wrote, among other Works of different Subjects, a Treatise de Planetis, & de Climatibus Mundi, as Balaeus affirms.

MUHAMMED IB'N AHMED ALBIROUNI, a Persian Astro∣nomer,* 1.201 wrote De modo mensurandi Altitudinem Stellarum; as also an Explication of the use of the Astrolabe, extant amongst the Manuscripts of Iacobus Golius.

IB'N JUNES, or JOUNIS, an Egyptian, wrote Astronomical Tables, to∣gether* 1.202 with a History of Various Observations, and the reason of Calculating the Celestial Motions; which he dedicated to Hakein, perhaps Elhacain King of Egypt, who flourished about the year 373. of the Hegira, of Christ, 996.

ABBO FLORIACENSIS, so called as being Abbot of the Monastery* 1.203 of Fleury, in Burgundy, a French man, Native of Orleans, among other Works, wrote De Motibus Stellarum, De Planetarum cursu, & Demonstrationes Astronomicae.

CAMPANUS NOVARIENSIS, an eminent Astrologer and Astrono∣mer.* 1.204 He found a peculiar way of erecting a Celestial Scheme, by division of the prime vertical Circle, which way Gazulus followed. He wrote, besides Theoricas Planetarum, De Sphaera, & De Computo; Another Piece, de Compositione Astrolabii;

and a Calendar. Simler mentions another Piece of his entitled Breviloquium duo∣decim* 1.205 Signorum Zodiaci, which he sayes in his Time was extant, apud M. Dresse∣rum in MS.

ABU-ALI-IBN SINA, commonly called AVICENNA, a famous Phy∣sician,* 1.206 whose life is exactly written and prefixed to Plempius's Translation of the second Books of Avicen's Canon Medicinae, and of whom an excellent account is given in Abul Pharagius his History of the Dynasties. He writ De Astronomia & Chronologia, mentioned amongst the Manuscripts of Iacobus Golius. He was born in the year of the Hegira 370. and died in the year 428. which are the years of Christ, 980. and 1036.

IB'N HAITEM wrote touching the motion of the Center of the Moon's* 1.207 Epicycle; Of the difference of the Solar and Lunar Year; Of the Dimensions of the Earth, Sun, and Moon; And De Motu Circulari: As also touching the exact method of taking the Elevation of the Pole. He died at Grand-Cairo about the Year of Christ, 1038.

HERMANNUS CONTRACTUS a Monk, but of noble Extraction,* 1.208 as being Son of Wolferad, Earl of Varinge in Suaben, (which Surname of Contractus he gained à membrorum contractione, as G. Vossius affirms) wrote three Books De Com∣positione Astrolabii, and one De Utilitate Astrolabii. He wrote likewise another De Eclipsibus, and translated the Works of several Arabian Astronomers into Latine.

ISAACIUS ARGYRUS MONACHUS wrote de Cyclis Solis &* 1.209 Lunae, and de Computo Ecclesiastico; which last Petavius hath published in Greek and Latine, in Uranolog. His Astronomical Tractates are said to be kept in MS. in the Library at Auspurg; and what other Mathematical Pieces he wrote, will appear in Simler's Epitome of Gesner's Bibliotheca.

OLIVERIUS MALMESBURIENSIS, by some called ELME∣RUS,* 1.210 wrote Astrologorum Dogmata quaedam, and another Book, De Signis Planeta∣rum; as Balaeus testifies.

GULIELMUS, Abbas Coenobii Hirsaugiensis, in the Diocess of Spires, com∣posed* 1.211 Three Books Rerum Philosophicarum, & Astronomicarum; Printed at Basile, 1431.

ARZACHEL HISPANUS, an Arabian by extraction, 190. years after* 1.212 Albategnius, observed the greatest Declination of the Sun to be 23°. 34′. Some make him a Native of Toledo, being called likewise Abraham Elzara Keel. Georgius Ioachimus Rheticus, in the Preface to his Ephemerides, makes him to be the Au∣thour Toletanarum Tabularum, and that he left 402. Observations, touching the Sun's Apogaeum. Vid. Ricciol. in Chronol. Astron.

ROBERTUS LORRAINE, so called by the English, by reason he was* 1.213 Originally a Lorrainer, Profest and taught both in the Schools of France and Bel∣gia, Philosophy, Rhetorick, and Mathematicks, for which Reason he was well esteemed by William the Conquerour, and advanced to the Bishoprick of Here∣ford; He wrote de Stellarum Motibus, Tabulae Mathematicae, & de Lunari Computo. See Balaeus.

ALHAZEN ARABS, wrote, besides seven Books of Opticks, one De Cre∣pusculis,* 1.214 in which, sayes Blancanus, Aeris suprema maltitudinem acutissimè rimatur.

Fredericus Risner published and illustrated his Works with a Comment and Sculps,* 1.215 and makes mention of three other Signal Arabians of the same name, as Ricciolus (Chronic. Astron.) affirms.

GEBER HISPALENSIS ARABS, explained Ptolemy's Almagest, in* 1.216 nine Books, first Printed at Norimberg by Petreius, Anno 1533. together with Pe∣trus Apianus, his Scheme or Instrument of the Primum mobile. In the beginning of which Work he treats of Spherical Triangles, as far as requisite to Astronomical Cal∣culations; from whence, (sayes Mersennus, in Synops. Mathemat.) Purbacchius and Regiomontanus excerpted many things in their Epitome of Ptolemy's Almagest. His chief study was to amend what he found defective in Ptolemy. However Coperni∣cus stiles him Ptolemaei Calumniatorem.

ALKINDUS, a Philosopher and Astrologer, wrote, much about this time, a* 1.217 Piece entitled, De Temporum mutationibus: And about the Year 1235. Iacobus Alkindus wrote, among other things, De Radiis Stellarum, yet extant in France. See Labbeé's Bibliotheca.

RABBI ABRAHAM wrote de Sphaera, sayes Blancanus, from the Au∣thority* 1.218 of Christmannus in Alfraganum.

ATHELARDUS, Bathoniensis Coenobii Monachus, Philosophus, Astronomus,* 1.219 Rhetor, ac Poeta non vulgariter eruditus (sayes Balaeus Cent. 2.) leaving England, out of a desire to enrich himself by the Acquisition of Forreign (especially the Eastern) Learning, travelled into the Oriental Parts, and having made a Peregrina∣tion through Egypt and Arabia, and in a great measure satisfied his curious and learned Appetite, he returned into his own Country, and published, among other Works of his, a Treatise of Ezychiafarim, of the seven Planets, by him translated out of Arabick; he wrote likewise a Book de septem Artibus Liberalibus, and ano∣ther, de Astrolabio.

RICHARDUS, Monachus Eboracensis, wrote upon Arzahel's Tables, now* 1.220 extant in the Publick Library at Oxford.

ALMAEON ALMANSORIUS, in the year 1140. observed the greatest* 1.221 Declination of the Sun to be 23°. 33′. His Aphorisms, Propositions, or Astrolo∣gical Sentences, Hervagius published in the year 1530. together with Iulius Fir∣micus. This Almaeon, Vossius conceives to be different from Almaeon King of the Arabs, of whom before.

JOANNES HISPALENSIS first translated into Latine, Alfraganus, as* 1.222 Blancanus, from Christmannus, and from them both Vossius, de Scient. Mathem. c. 35. affirm. He likewise translated Alcabicius his Isagoge ad Magisterium Iudiciorum Astron. He writ likewise Epitome totius Astrologiae, first Printed at Norimberg 1548. with Ioachimus Hellerus his Preface, contra Astrologiae Adversarios, as Simler. Bibl. Gesner. hath noted.

RODOLPHUS BRUGENSIS, a Mathematician of Tholouze, transla∣ted* 1.223 into Latine, and Published Ptolemy's Planisphere, which he dedicated to his Ma∣ster, Theodoricus Platonicus, (as Gesner testifies) Printed together with Aratus, by Valderus, at Bafile, 1536.

ALPETRAGIUS, an Astronomer of Marocco, as Ricciolus affirms. He* 1.224 wrote Theorica Physica, translated out of Latine by Calo Calonymus Parthenopaeus,

and likewise, De Astrologia, sayes Vossius, who conceives him to be the same with* 1.225 him mentioned in Summa Alberti Magni. He observed the Declination of the Sun to be the same with that of Almaeon.

ABRAHAM ABEN-EZRA, or, according to others, AVEN-HESRE,* 1.226 a great Astronomer and Philosopher, wrote a Book entitled Mispatho Hamazzaloth, i. e. De Iudiciis Signorum; and another, called Ta•…•…min, i. e. Rationum Astronomi∣carum; and a third, De Luminaribus & Diebus Criticis, sayes Ricciolus. This last was revised and published at Rome by Angelus Blondus, as Vossius, in Addend ad L. de Scient. Mathemat. affirms. There is likewise extant under his name, a Book, a∣mongst the Manuscripts of Iacobus Golius, entitled, De Anni magnitudine, and Indorum Astronomia.

MANUEL COMNENUS, Emperour of Constantinople, wrote several* 1.227 Astronomical Tractates, yet preserved in the Vatican Library; as Simler. in Bibl. Gesner. testifies.

JOHANNES DE HEXHAM, so called from the place of his Nativity;* 1.228 a Town in-the Bishoprick of Durham, a Benedictine Monk, wrote, among other things, De Signis. & Cometis.

RABBI MOSES BEN-MAIMON, commonly, from the initial Letters* 1.229 of his Name, called Rambam, among many other Works, writ De Astrologia, sive Siderum Viribus & Effectis, first published in Hebrew, afterwards translated into Latine, by Ioannes Isaac Levita Germanus, Professour of the Hebrew Tongue in the University of Colen, and there Printed by Maternus Cholinus, in the Year 1555.

AVERROES, an Arabian Physician of Corduba, for his diligence in com∣menting* 1.230 upon all the Works of Aristotle, called Commentator Magnus, and simply Commentator, reduced Ptolemy's Almagest into an Epitome.

SIMEON, Monk of Durham, wrote De Cometa, & Combustione London, &* 1.231 aliis injuriis, as I find it cited by Iames's Eclog. Oxon. Cant. who affirms the same to be extant in Benet▪Colledge Library in Cambridge. Balaeus sayes of him, that he was Vir suo saeculo in multis Scientiis eleganter instructus, praesertim Mathematicis.

ALBUMAZAR, otherwise called ABU-ASSAR, and JAPHAR, wrote* 1.232 Eight Books De Magnis Conjunctionibus, & Annorum Revolutionibus, and is report∣ed to have observed a Comet, in his time, to have been above the Orb of Venus. He wrote likewise Introductio in Astronomiam, Printed in the Year 1489.

ROGERUS HEREFORDIENSIS, of whom Balaeus sayes, That he* 1.233 was, Astrorum Peritus, & Metallorum Indagator Maximus, wrote In Artem Iudicia∣riam; Theoricam Planetarum; De Ortu & Occasu Signorum, and Collectaneum Anno∣rum Planet.

CLEMENS LANTHONIENSIS, so called from the Town of Lan∣thony* 1.234 near Gloucester, an Augustine Fryer, wrote, among other things, De Orbibus Astrologicis, and flourished about the same time.

HUMENIUS AEGYPTIUS, about this time, wrote Astronomical Tables,* 1.235 which Christmannus, in Alferganum, affirms to be yet extant in the Palatine (now the Vaticane) Library, as also in the Publick Library at Oxford.

DANIEL MORLEY, so named from the place of his birth, a Town in* 1.236 Norfolk, out of his great inclination to promote and advance Mathematical Learn∣ing,* 1.237 having sometime studied in the University of Oxon, travelled to Toledo, in Spain, to instruct himself in the Language and Learning of the Arabians, which there chiefly flourished, and, after his return home, wrote De Inferiori Mundo, One Book; Another, De Superiori Mundo; and a Third, entitled, Principia Mathema∣tices.

OMAR ASTROLOGUS, or HOAMAR or HOMAR, Son of* 1.238 Belnal Fargardian, a Native of Tyberias, wrote Three Books Of Nativities, pub∣lished by Hervagius, together with Firmicus, 1532.

HALY ABEN RODOHAM, an Arabian, or according to G. Vossius,* 1.239 an Egyptian, wrote a Commentary upon Ptolemy's Centiloquium and Quadriparti∣tum, Published by Octavianus Scotus, at Venice, together with other Arabian Astro∣logers. He wrote likewise De Radiorum Projectionibus, and Three Nativities, whereof one his own, annexed to his other Works. This very Year he observed a Comet in the fifteenth Degree of Scorpio; of which more in the History of Comets.

LEOPOLDUS DE AUSTRIA, Son of the Duke of Austria, Episco∣pus* 1.240 Frisingensis, writ Ten Tracts, De Astrorum Scientia, Printed at Augsbourg, 1489.

GILBERTUS LEGLEY, Philosophus & Mathematicus suae Aetatis non* 1.241 vulgaris (sayes Balaeus) wrote Compendium in Astronomia, & in Prognostica Hippo∣cratis. He was Physician in Ordinary to Hubert, Archbishop of Canterbury.

JOANNES AEGIDIUS, vel de SANCTO AEGIDIO, born at St.* 1.242 Albans, Philosophus Summus, Physician to Philip King of France, Professour of Physick and Philosophy, both in the University of Paris and Montpelier; He wrote Prognostica Futurorum, and another Book, de Materia Coeli. Balaeus, de Scriptor Brit.

ALEXANDER DE VILLLA DEI, Dolensis, wrote of the Sphere.* 1.243 He published likewise a Book of Arithmetick, and Computum Ecclesiasticum; as G. Vossius, De Scient Math. affirms.

GEORGIUS MEDICUS CHRYSOCOCCA, writ De Inventione* 1.244 Feriae, and an Exposition Syntaxeos Persarum, with several Tables Mediorum Motu∣um, published by Bulialdus, at the end of his Astronomia Philolaica.

RABBI IASAAC HAZAN, i. e. Cantor, as being Chaunter to the Iewish* 1.245 Synagogue at Toledo, was one of the Principal Compilers of the Alphonsine Tables.

ALBERTUS MAGNUS, Bishop of Ratisbon, one of the most learned* 1.246 Persons of his Age, among other the various Monuments of his Wit and Learning, wrote De Sphaera, De Astris, De Astronomia, and Speculum Astronomicum; as Simler. in Bibl. Gesner.

ROBERTUS LINCOLNIENSIS, Bishop of Lincoln, commonly* 1.247 called Grossa Testa, in English, Grouthead, writ a Compendium of the Sphere, Pub∣lished first by Lucas Gauricus, 1531. He wrote likewise De Coelo & Mundo, De Sphaera Coelesti, Theoricam Planetarum, and In Astrologiam, as Balaeus affirms.

ROGERUS BACON, a Franciscan Fryer of Oxford, a most acute Philo∣sopher* 1.248

and admirable Mathematician, insomuch that he was reputed, but falsely, a* 1.249 Necromancer. Out of whose vast number of Books written upon several subjects, by which he hath eternized his name, we shall select only what is proper to our pur∣pose, as they are enumerated by Balaeus. He wrote a particular Treatise, De Utili∣tate Astronomiae; Introductio in Astrologiam; De Coelo & Mundo; De Cosmographia; De Radiis Solaribus; De Locis Stellarum; De Aspectibus Lunae; Et Prognostica ex Siderum cursu, with other Pieces of Opticks very considerable in that Age.

ALBUASSIN, or ALBOAZEN HALY, Son of Aben Ragel, wrote* 1.250 De Stellarum Fixarum motu ac locis (according to Ricciolus, Chron. Astron.) as also De Iudiciis & Fatis Astrorum, translated at the command of Alphonsus King of Castile, out of Arabick into Spanish, by Iudas Ben Musce, and out of Spanish into Latine, by Aegidius de Thebaldis, of Parma, Printed at Basile 1550. He writ likewise another Book Signalium Astronomiae, as Simler. in Bibl. Gesner. affirms.

JOHANNES DE SACRO BOSCO, an English man, born at Halli∣fax,* 1.251 anciently called Holy-wood, from which he took his name. After some time of study at Oxford, he became a Doctour of the University of Paris, and compiled, out of Ptolemy, Albategnius, Alfraganus, and others of the Ancients; his Four Books De Sphaera, commented upon by Vinetus, Iunctinus, Clavius, Barocius, and divers others. And though Barocius hath detected and published no less than 84. Errours in that Work of Sacroboscus, yet it still keeps up its credit in the Schools, as a Classick Piece.

ALPHONSUS x. King of Castile and Leon, having sent for the most learned* 1.252 among the Moors, Arabs, and Iews, began the Instauration of Astronomical Tables, which in the Year 1252. he first published, having, in Books, Instruments, and other Necessaries, relating to that Work, expended no less than four hundred thousand Crowns. These Tables, from his Name called Alphonsine, being defective, ground∣ed partly upon Cabalistick Figments, he afterwards (viz. Anno 1256.) Published more correct. He observed in the Year 1250. the first Star of Aries, to have been distant from the Equinoctial Point 23°. 40′. as Blancanus reports. Ricciolus affirms, that Egnatius Dantes, in the fourth Part of his Astrolabe, reports, that he saw a Book of all the Alphonsine Instruments, translated out of Arabick into Spanish, and thence into Latine.

PROFATIUS, a Iew, about this time, applyed his study to the Observation* 1.253 of the Stars. He writ Tables of the Motion of the Eighth Sphere, as Balaeus affirms, and found the Sun's greatest Declination to be 23°. 32′. His Almanack Perpetuum is now extant in several of our Libraries.

JOHANNES PECKHAM, a Franciscan Fryer, and Archbishop of Can∣terbury,* 1.254 wrote among other learned Works of his, De Sphaera, and Theoricam Plane∣tarum.

VITELLIO THURINGO-POLONUS, an excellent Mathematician,* 1.255 wrote Ten Books 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. e. of the nature, reason, and projection of Visual rayes, &c. commonly called Perspective; Printed first at Norimberg by Petreius, Anno 1535. and afterwards reprinted, and adorned with Figures, by Frederick Ris∣ner, at Basile, 1572. a Work subservient to Astronomy.

—ODINTON, a Benedictine Monk in the Abbey of Evesham, and* 1.256 an English man, Scholar to Profatius the Iew and of Iewish Extraction, endeavoured to vindicate his Name from Oblivion by his Book, De Motibus Planetarum, and De Mutatione Aeris; as Balaeus affirms.

COGIA▪ NASIR EDDIN. TUSAEUS, wrote Astronomical Tables,* 1.257 which he dedicated to Ile-Chan, Prince of the Tartars, and a Treatise of the Astro∣labe,* 1.258 in twenty Chapters, as I find mentioned in the Catalogue of Golius's Manu∣scripts. He died in the year of the Hegira 675. of Christ, 1276.

KOTBODDINUS SHIRAZITA, wrote a Book entitled Donum Re∣gium* 1.259 seu Universae Astronomiae Syntagma. He was contemporary with Nasir Eddin Tusaeus.

THEBIT BEN CHORA, i. e. the Son of Chora, by Profession a Iew, and* 1.260 according to •…•…eland, born in England, though others make him a Native of Spain, first introduced the motion of Trepidation in the Eighth Sphere (by some called Motus Accessus & Recessus) from North to South; and observed the Sun's greatest Declination to be 23°. 33′. He wrote likewise De significationibus Planetarum; De Capite & Cauda Draconis; Demonstrationes in Almagestum, and Additiones in Sphaerica Menelai, as they are particularized by Balaeus. There are mentioned like∣wise other Treatises of his Writing, as Practica Planetarum; Ganones Astronomici, and De Prognosticatione Temporum, said to be extant in his Majesties Library at St. Iames's.

GUIDO BONATUS FORO-JULIENSIS, wrote Theoricae Plane∣tarum,* 1.261 Published at Venice, 1506. He wrote likewise, De Astrologia Iudiciaria.

HENRICUS BATEN of Mechlin, Dr. in Theology, Chancellour of the* 1.262 University of Paris, and Chaunter and Canon of Liege, Published a Book, De Er∣roribus Tabularum Alphonsinarum, as Ricciolus affirms, in Catal. Astronom.

MICHAEL SCOTUS, surnamed Mathematicus, for his eminent skill in* 1.263 that kind of Learning, by Balaeus stiled, Eximius Physicorum Motuum, Cursúsque Siderei Indagator, Published a Comment, super Authorem Sphaerae; Four Books, De Constitutione Mundi; Two Books, De Coelo & Mundo; Imagines Astronomicae; And Dogmata Astrologorum; De Signis Planetarum, l. 1. De Natura Solis & Lunae, l. 1. Printed at Venice 1546. He wrote likewise other Opera Astrologica, of which the MS. is extant in the Bodleian Library.* 1.264

GULIELMUS DE SANCTO GODIALDO gained about this time the honour and repute of an able Astronomer, that is, as G. Vossius notes, twenty years and more after the Publication of the Alphonsine Tables.* 1.265

PETRUS DACIUS, or DE DACIA, as G. Vossius, from the Autho∣rity of Trithemius, calls him, Published Astronomical Tables, extant in MS. in the Library of Benet-Colledge in Cambridge. He wrote likewise, De Calculo, sive Com∣puto; and set forth a Calendar.* 1.266

ISAAC ISRAELITA, wrote a Book entitled Iessod Holam, i. e. De Fun∣damento Mundi; in which he often takes occasion to treat of the Motion of the Eighth Sphere.* 1.267

PETRUS▪ DE APONO, called likewise CONCILIATOR, Ob Li∣brum, quo Veterum Medicorum Scripta conciliat, (sayes G. Vossius, de Scient. Mathe∣mat.) wrote De Astrolabio Plano, Published at Venice, 1502.* 1.268

NICHOLAUS TRIVET, a Dominican Frier, Son of Sir Thomas Trivet Knight, one of the Judges of the Courts of Common Law in Edward

the Third's time, among other learned Works, wrote De Astronomia.* 1.269

JOHANNES BACONTHORP, a Carmel•…•…e Fryer in the Monastery* 1.270 of Blackney, in Norfolk, reputed one of the most learned of his time, stiled Doctor Resolutus, wrote four Books, De Coelo & Mundo; One, De Sphaera Iudiciali; and another, De Astrorum Scientiis.

NICHOLAUS OCKHAM, a Franciscan Fryer, in Coenobia Oxoniensi,* 1.271 Praelector Publicus (sayes Balaeus) wrote, De Latitudine Oppositionum, and another Book, entitled, Astrologi Iudicium.

ISMAEL ABULFEDA, Sultan of Syria, Assyria, and Persia, an illustri∣ous* 1.272 Cosmographer, and Geographer, whose Tables the learned Mr. Graves pub∣lished in the year 1650. in Arabick and Latine.

CICHUS ASCULANUS, Dr. of Physick, Philosopher, and Publick* 1.273 Professour of Astronomy at Bologna, was accused for a Necromancer, and burnt at Florence (being LXX. years of age) Anno 1328.

RICHARDUS WALLINGFORD, so called from the Town of* 1.274 Wallingford, where he was born; Son of a Blacksmith; after some time of Study in Oxford, betook himself to a Monastick life, in the Abby of St. Alban, whereof he had the Honour to be Abbot. He was excellently well skilled in Arithme∣tick, Astronomy, and Geometry. He caused to be made a famous Clock or Horo∣loge, for the use of the Monastery, being (according to the Words of Leland) a miraculous Fabrick, sive quis Cursum Solis seu Lunae, seu fixa Sidera notet, sive ite∣rum Maris Incrementa & Decrementa, seu Lineas unà cum figuris ac Demonstrationi∣bus, ad infinitum penè variis, consideret. For the better Explanation of which Cu∣rious Piece, and the orderly regulating thereof; he published Canons or Rules, in a particular Treatise, which he entitled Albion. Alluding something to the Name of the Monastery; But thereby chiefly expressing this sence or meaning, in English, All by One, i. e. Omnia per Unum, as Balaeus reports. He wrote besides his fore∣mentioned Canones in Albionem; a Book; De Iudiciis Astronomicis; and another, De Rebus Astronomicis.

JOHANNES DANK, a Native of Saxony, writ Canones Eclipsales, Cano∣nes* 1.275 Tabularum, & De Astrolabio, as Gesner testifies.

GUALTERUS CATTON, an English Fryer in the Convent of Corde∣liers* 1.276 at Norwich, a learned Theologue and Philosopher, published a Treatise Adver∣sus Astrologos.

RABBI LEVI, eminent in all kind of Learning, and particularly in Astro∣nomy,* 1.277 wrote a Book called Milhamot-Hessem, i. e. Defensionem Dei.

JOHANNES BARWICK, by some (but corruptly) called* 1.278 BRENLANTIUS, surnamed likewise BRITANNUS, a learned English Franciscan Fryer, published several Books, De Astrologorum Praenotionibus; in which he impugnes Judiciary Astrology.

ROBERTUS HOLCOTH, a Dominican Fryer, of Northampton, of* 1.279 whom Balaeus sayes, that he was penè infinitae lectionis Homo, atque ingenii solidissi∣mi, wrote De Effectibus Stellarum; and another Treatise, De Motibus Stellarum, as G. Vossius affirms, out of Possevinus.

GAUFREDUS DE MELDIS, published a Treatise, entitled Iudici∣um* 1.280 Stellae Comatae Anno Dom. 1330. and of two other Comets, which appeared in* 1.281 the years 1337. and 1338. preserved yet in Manuscripts in the Library of Pembroke Colledge in Cambridge. See Iames, Eclog. Oxon. Cant.

RABBI DAVID ABUDERKEM, writ a Treatise, entitled, Ordo In∣tercalationis.* 1.282

JOHANNES MANDOVICH, sometime Fellow of Merton Colledge* 1.283 in Oxford, a learned Physician and Astronomer, published Astronomical Tables.

JOANNES ESTWOOD, or ESTWED, or ESCHU•…•…D of* 1.284 Ashenden, sometimes Fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford, highly com∣mended by Io. Picus Count of Mirandula, wrote a Book, which he en∣titled Iudiciale Astronomicum, sive Summa Iudicialis. He published likewise Elucidarium Planetarum, Tabulae Planetarum, and Canons of their Utility and Practice; of the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in Cancer 1357. and of the Conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter, & de Signis Conjunctionum. His Iudiciale Astronomicum sive Summa Anglicana, or Iudicialis, vel de Accidentibus Mundi (for those several Titles it bears) was Printed at Venice in the year 1442. and is yet ex∣tant in MS. in the Publick Library at Oxford, and in that of Oriel Colledge. It was afterward Printed at Venice in the year 1489. and elegantly for that Age, at the Charge of a Patrician, for the Honour of whose Name (because Noblemen in those Dayes would be at the charge of Printing of good Books) I will subscribe what follows, as I received it from my very deserving and ingenious Friend, Mr. Francis Bernard, in whose Possession the said Book (among other curious ones with which he is stored) now is. Summa Anglicana Iohannis Eschuid, Opus factum est tum Diligentiâ, tum Impensâ Francisci Bolani Patritii Veneti, Viri certè bonarum Ar∣tium studiosi, Clarissimi quondam Oratoris Candiani; Nec defuit Impressoris Iohan∣nis Lucilii Santritter Herbronensis Germani maxima Lucubratio, maximus Labor, & Diligentia.

NICHOLAUS CABASILAS, a Grecian, Archbishop of Thessalonica,* 1.285 wrote a Comment upon Ptolemy's Almagest.

JOANNES ELIGERUS of Gondersleven, a German, writ de Compositi∣one* 1.286 Astrolabii; de Utilitate Astrolabii; de Utilitate Quadrantis; Two Books de Magnete, and One de Astrogemetro; and several other Pieces, as Simler in Bibl. Ges∣ner. affirms.

JOHANNES DE SAXONIA, and JOHANNES DE LIGNE∣RIIS,* 1.287 both Germane Astronomers, and Contemporaries. The latter put forth Canones Primi Mobilis, together with Tables, and a Book De Sphaera. He is recko∣ned by Petrus Cirvellus Daiocensis, in his Preface in Sphaeram Mundi, to have been one of the four most celebrious Astronomers, that had flourished between the times of Alphonsus and Purbacchius; as cited by Vossius in Addend. ad Scient. Mathemat.

GUILELMUS GRIZAUNT, an English man, Fellow of Merton Col∣ledge* 1.288 in Oxford, and Dr. of Physick, leaving England, setled at Marseilles in France, where he dyed in much Esteem for his Knowledge and Practice in Physick, leaving behind him a Son of his own Name; who was first Abbot of the Canons Regular at Marseilles, afterward Pope of Rome, by the Name of Urban the Fifth: Of the Issue of his Brain, I find these following, mentioned by Balaeus, relating to our Pur∣pose.

Speculum Astrologiae; De Magnitudine Solis; De Qualitatibus Astrorum;* 1.289 De Significationibus Eorundem.

JOHANNES KILLINGWORTH, Fellow of Merton Colledge in* 1.290 Oxford; wrote De Iudicio Astronomiae; Canones & Tabulae Astronomicae; De Cre∣pusculis; & De Nubium Ascensionibus.

NICEPHORUS GREGORAS writ De Astrolabio, extant in the King's* 1.291 Library at St. Iames's. Gesner mentions another Piece of his, De Calumniatoribus Astronomi•…•…, & De Astronomia. Andreas Cellarius, in Praeloquio Harmon. Macrocosm. reports that in the 27^th year of his Age he applied himself to Andronicus Palaeolo∣gus, Emperour of Constantinople, offering to him Reasons for the Emendation of the Roman Calendar.

LUDOVICUS CAERLION, so called from the Town of Caerlion in* 1.292 Wales, where he was born, a learned Theologue and Physician, wrote De Eclipsi Solis & Lunae; Tabulae Eclipsium Solis & Lunae, secundum Diametros Richardi Walling∣fordi, now extant in his Majesty's Library at St. Iames's; Canones Eclipsium; De Tabulis Umbrarum; and Fragmenta Astronomica.

IB'N SHATER DAMASCENUS, stiled by Mr. Graves, Sedulus Coeli* 1.293 Siderúmque Inspector, by many Observations made at Damascus, found the Obliqui∣ty of the Zodiack to be 23°. 31′. He wrote likewise Canons, and universal Pre∣cepts of Astronomy, and Of Astronomical Instruments, and their use; as likewise De extruendis Coeli Thematibus, as cited by Hottinger, Smegm. Orient. His Tables are extant in the Publick Library, at Oxford.

JOHANNES BOCCACIUS is about this time numbred among Astro∣nomers* 1.294 by Gualterus, in Chronico, as cited by Ricciolus, in Catalog. Astron.

THEOPHRASTUS PARACELSUS, besides his many other Works* 1.295 in Physick and Chymistry, hath left some Astronomical and Astrological Fragments, published by Gerardus Dornus, together with his Book, De Meteoris & Tribus Prin∣cipiis: He writ De Astronomia Magna, & Astronomiae Magnae Compendium, Printed in the year 1584.

RICHARDUS LAVINGHAM, of Suffolk, Professour of Mathema∣ticks,* 1.296 Philosophy, and Theology in the University of Oxford, composed a Book, De Planetarum Distantia; Compendium Meteororum, in four Books, and two Books, De Coelo & Mundo. He was killed in that Popular Tumult; wherein Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury, was murthered.

SIMON BREDON, or BRIDON, alias BIRIDANIUS, born at* 1.297 Winchcomb in Gloucester-shire; Fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford, Dr. of Phy∣sick, and Professour of Astronomy, wrote, according to Balaeus, Two Books In De∣monstrationes Almagesti; One, In quaedam Capita Ptolemaei; De Rebus Astronomi∣cis; Aequationes Planetarum; De Latitudine Planetarum; Super Introductorio Al∣cabitii; Astronomia Calculatoria; and Astronomia Iudiciaria. His Book De Aequationibus Planetarum, is yet extant in Manuscript, in the Library of Peter-House in Cambridge.

NICHOLAUS DE LYNN, so named from the Town where he was* 1.298 born, in Norfolk, a Carmelite Fryer, Astrologorum sui Temporis in Anglia celeberri∣mus ac maximus, sayes Balaeus: He wrote Canones Tabularum; De Natura Zodiaci;

De Planetarum Domibus; De Sphaera Iudiciali; Astrologorum Dogmata; De Fi∣guris* 1.299 & Signis; De Mundi Revolutione; De Usu Astrolabii, De Eclipsi Solis; De Astrorum Iudiciis; & de Variis Genituris.

BLASIUS PELACANIS, or (as the Italians write him) BIAGIO* 1.300 PELACANO, of Parma, by Alberto Leandro (in Descript. Ital.) stiled an Ex∣cellent Philosopher and Astronomer; left (sayes Simler from the Authority of Iovius) Quaestiones Subtilissimae, in Astronomia & Optica. He taught at Pavy under Io. Galeazzo first Duke of Millain; His Book being yet extant in MS▪ in the Medicean Library.

LEO Emperour of Constantinople, Son of Basilius Macedo was very learned in* 1.301 Mathematicks. His Tactica, sive de Acie ordinanda, are yet extant, Printed at Basile, 1554. And some MSS. of his are in the French King's Library, entitled Logarica (an Obsolete Word instead of Logistica) and are supposed to contain some Astrono∣mical Computations, and an Exercise upon Diophantus.

HENRICUS DE HASSIA, a Germane, Professour of Theology and* 1.302 Astronomy at Vienna, having shewn his Knowledge in the latter, in his Comment upon Genesis, lib. 1. and in Theoricis Planetarum, as Ricciolus affirms.

JOHANNES CHYLMARK, Fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford,* 1.303 Mathematicus insigniter doctus, as Balaeus characters him, published a small Treatise, De Accidentiis Planetarum.

JOHANNES SOMER, a Franciscan Fryer, in the Convent of that Order* 1.304 at Bridgewater, wrote Calendarii Castigationes; Tertium Calendarii; Astrorum Cano∣nes; and De Quantitate Anni.

RICHARD the Second, King of England, wrote something in Astronomy* 1.305 or Astrology, now extant in his Majesty's Library at St. Iames's.

JOANNES DE LINERIIS, or DE LINARIIS, Siculus, wrote* 1.306 Canones primi Mobilis, of which mention is made by Zacutus in his Tables. He wrote likewise Canones Quadrantis compositivi & operativi; which Pieces of his are extant in MS. in the Library of Nicholaus Trivisanus of Padua, as I find in Thomasinus his Bibliothec. Patavin.

GERARDUS CREMONENSIS translated Geber, out of Arabick in∣to* 1.307 Latine, and put forth Theoricae Planetarum; but such as are severely censured by Io. Regiomontanus.

JOHANNES DE EGMUNDA, Professour of Astronomy at Vienna,* 1.308 Published Tables, De Motibus Planetarum, & de Luminarium Eclipsibus, calculated for the Meridian of Vienna. He wrote likewise De Astrolabio, together with other Works, which are said to be yet extant in the Library at Vienna.

GALFRIDUS CHAUCER, a learned Knight, and Prince of English* 1.309 Poets, Cui Veneres debet Patria lingua suas, to use Leland's Encomium of him, me∣rits a place in this Catalogue, for his Book of the Astrolabe, which he composed for the use and instruction of his Son.

JOHANNES WALTERUS, Scholar, at first, in the Colledge of Win∣chester,* 1.310 afterwards, Fellow of New-Colledge in Oxford, where he chiefly applied

himself to Mathematical Studies, and published Tabulae Aequationis Domorum, and* 1.311 Tabulae Ascensionum Universalium, as they are cited by Balaeus.

GULIELMUS BATECUMB, alias BADECON, Professour of* 1.312 Mathematicks in the University of Oxford, wrote De Sphaera Concava; De fabri∣ca & usu ejusdem; De operatione Astrolabit, and D•…•… Sphaera Solida. He is said to have flourished in the Reign of King Henry V. by G. Vossius; and by Balaeus he is ranged among the Authours of this time.

PETRUS ALIACENSIS, Cardinal and Bishop of Cambray, and Chan∣cellour* 1.313 of the University of Paris, wrote, besides his other Theological Works, Quaestiones in Sphaeram Sacrobosci; De Reformatione Calendarii; and another Tra∣ctate, entitled, Concordia Theologiae & Astronomiae.

JOHANNES GERSON, Chancellour of the University of Paris, put* 1.314 forth at Lyons, Trilogium Astrologiae Theologizatae; or as G. Vossius mends the Ti∣tle, Trilogium Astrologiae ad Theologiae Trutinam expensae.

PROSDOCIMUS DE BELDEMANDO of Padua, some time be∣fore* 1.315 Io. Baptista Capuanus, Published a Comment in Sphaeram Sacrobosci, which Lu∣cas Gauricus caused to be Printed in the year 1531. He writ likewise Canones Ope∣rativi & Compositivi Astrolabii, and Canones de Motibus corporum Coelestium, written in the year 1434. Whereof a MS. transcribed by Candus Master of Arts and Do∣ctour of Physick, Nephew to the said Beldemandus, is extant in Bibliotheca Cando∣rum, as Thomasinus affirms in Bibliothe•…•…. Patavin.

GEORGIUS TRAPEZUNTIUS, born in Creet, but taking his name* 1.316 from Trapezond, a City in Cappadocia, translated into Latine, Ptolemy's Almagest; to which he added, of his own, an Isagoge, together with a Comment. He commen∣ted likewise upon Ptolemy's Centiloquium, and wrote a Book, De Antisciis; and an∣other with this Title, Cur Astrologorum judicia plerunque fallant? as Voss. de Sci∣ent. Mathemat. affirms.

ULUGH BEIG, Nephew to the Great Tamerlane, put forth most exact* 1.317 Astronomical Tables in Arabick, of the Longitude, and Latitude of the Fixed Stars, calculated for the Meridian of Samarcand. To which were added the Com∣mentary of Ali▪Cushgi. But the said Tables, collated with Three Persian Manu∣scripts in the Bodleian Library, about the year 1665. were translated into Latine, and Printed with the Arabick at Oxford, by Doctour Hyde, Keeper of the said Li∣brary, to which he added his own most learned Commentary, together with Moham∣medes Tizinus his Tables, of the Declination and Ascension of the Fixed Stars, in Arabick and Latine.

ALI CUSHGI wrote Astronomica, extant among the Manuscripts of Iaco∣bus* 1.318 Golius: He flourished in the time of Ulugh Beig, to whom he was assistant in composing his Tables.

KADI ZADA, or as the Persians pronounce it, KAZI ZADE, whose* 1.319 name more fully expressed is MULANA SALAH EDDIN MUSA, sur∣named Cadi-Zadi Rumaeus, was one of the Assistants to Ulugh Beig, in calculating his Astronomical Tables.

MULANA GIJATH EDDIN GIEMSHID Published a Piece,* 1.320 by him entitled Scala Coeli; or Of the Distances and Magnitudes of the Cele∣stia•…•…

Bodies. He was likewise an Assistant to Ulugh Beig.* 1.321

JOHANNES GAZULUS, of Ragusa, a great Astronomer and Astrolo∣ger,* 1.322 flourished about this time; of him Simler writes, that Nescio quid Astronomi∣cum scripsit; He is named by Ioannes Regiomontanus, in his Tables of Directions; and what he writ was a Method of the erecting a Celestial Figure or Scheme, which is now called the Way of Campanus and Gazulus.

HUMPHREY, Duke of Gloucester, surnamed The Good, Son of Henry the* 1.323 Fourth, King of England, Nobilitatis omnis, atque Eruditionis Phoenix planè Unicus, as he is stiled by Balaeus, was a great Lover of Astronomical and Astrological Learn∣ing, and set forth Tables of Directions, of his own Composing.

GEORGIUS THEMISTUS PLETHO CONSTANTINO∣POLITANUS* 1.324 composed a Book, entitled, De Mensium ac Annorum Ordine•…•… Dierúmque Recensione.

NICHOLAUS CUSANUS, born at Cusa, a Town seated upon the* 1.325 Moselle, in the Diocess of Treves, known by the title of Cardinal of St. Peter's ad Vincula, a most subtile Divine, Philosopher and Mathematician, wrote (besides other his Works, not relating to our Subject) De emendatione Calendarii; and De Stellarum Fixarum Canone.

GEORGIUS PURBACCHIUS, so called from the Town of Peurbach* 1.326 (the Place of his birth) in the Confines of Bavaria and Austria, was publick Pro∣fessour of Mathematicks both at Ferrara and Vienna, and a great Instauratour of Astronomy. His first Essayes were several Tractates of Dyalling, with Tables fitted for the variety of Climates; a Small Piece, with a Table thereto, of the Sun's Altitude; Astrolabial Canons (as Gassendus terms them) with a Table of Paral∣lels, proportioned to every Degree of the Equinoctial. The making and use of So∣lid Spheres, or Globes, especially the Celestial, to which he added a New Table of all the Fixed Stars▪ with their augmentation of Longitude, from Ptolemy's time, to his own. But his chiefest Work (after his Theory of the Planets, and Tables of Eclipses) by which he intended to signalize his Name, was the Reducing of Ptole∣my's Almagest into a correct Epitome, or Compendium, being chiefly encouraged thereunto by Cardinal Bessarion, which he lived not to complete, but left the same, by Testament, to be fulfilled by his Scholar Iohannes Regiomontanus.

JOHANNES FUSOR, or FUSORIUS, contemporary with Purbacchi∣us,* 1.327 published Tables of Sines and Chords; and by command of Charles VII. King of France, made Observations for the better composing of new Tables of the Cele∣stial Motions, as Gassendus, in the Life of Purbacchius, testifies, extant in MS. in the Library of Nicholaus Trivisanus of Padua, as Thomasinus in Bibliothec. Patavin. affirms.

GUILELMUS BOTONER, an English Knight, noble by Extraction,* 1.328 but much more ennobled by his Learning, as well in History, Physick, as Mathema∣ticks, Published with other Works, upon several Subjects, a Book, De Astrologiae Valore.

JOHANNES JOVIANUS PONTANUS, a Neapolitane, acquired* 1.329 no little honour and esteem, by his Astronomical Studies and Writings. He trans∣lated into Latine, Ptolemy's Centiloquium, and published it with an Exposition or Comment thereupon, and wrote XIV. Books, De Rebus Coelestibus, and Five others,

in elegant Latine Verse, entitled, Urania, sive, De Stellis; and One other, in* 1.330 Verse, De Meteoris.

MICHAEL SCOTUS, a diligent Observer of the Stars, at the desire of* 1.331 the Emperour Frederick the Third, put forth, (about this Time) Quaestiones in Sphaeram Ioh. de Sacro Bosco, as Ricciolus, Chronol. Astronom. affirms; which certain∣ly is a great mistake: for Frederick the Third came to the Empire much earlier, and was deposed in the year 1323. Scotus flourishing according to Balaeus in the year 1290. about which time the Reader will find him already inserted in this Catalogue.

JOHANNES MULLERUS, commonly called JOHANNES RE∣GIOMONTANUS,* 1.332 or DE MONTE REGIO; from Cunisberg a Town in Franconia, where he was born, Disciple to Purbacchius, finished the Epi∣tome (begun by his Master) of Ptolemy's Almagest. He published likewise Tables of Directions and Eclipses, and first of all in that Age set forth Astronomical E∣phemerides, of many years duration, Printed at Augsburg 1488. He wrote likewise De Theoricis Planetarum, & De Cometis, and published a Treatise De Triangulis, Printed at Basile in folio, by Daniel Santbech, and is still a Book of good accompt, as containing in it divers extraordinary Cases about plain Triangles. He assisted Sixtus IV. (by whom he was honourably to that end invited) in the emendation of the Iulian Calendar, though he lived not to perfect what he had begun. He dedi∣cated his Tables of the Primum Mobile, to Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, who not only rewarded him with 800. Hungarian Crowns, but also made him his dayly Guest, for some time, at his Table, justly deserving to be honoured by Poste∣rity, as the great Advancer of all Mathematical Learning, especially of Astrono∣my, as well by his own Labours, as the publishing in Print, at Norimberg, the most eminent Authours among the Ancients in that Science; particularly our Manilius, Ptolemy, Theon, Proclus, Menelaus, Theodorus, Firmicus, Hyginus, and others, to the number of Thirty at least. He observed the Sun's greatest Declination to be 23°. 30′. He died, as some write, at the 33^d. or, as others, at the 40^th. year of his Age, not without the suspicion of being poysoned by the Sons of Georgius Trape∣zuntius, the envious opposers of his merits, and lies buried at Rome, in the Panthe∣on. See more of him in Gassendus, who writ his Life.

JOHANNES BLANCHINUS, was, as Blancanus affirms, of Ferrara,* 1.333 but more truly, as Ricciolus, of Bologna, and composed Astronomical Tables, which he dedicated to the Emperour Frederick the Third, to whom he was both well known and acceptable. These Tables, with new ones of his own, and more cor∣rect Canons, and several Additions, were by Lucas Gauricus published at Venice, 1526.

EBERHARDUS SCHLUSINGERUS of Gasmanstorfe in Franco∣nia,* 1.334 Doctour of Physick at Zurick, writ a Treatise of Comets, and of their Signi∣fications; particularly of a Comet which appeared at Zurick in the year 1472. He writ likewise an Introduction to Astrology, chiefly relating to Medical Elections.

BESSARION, by birth a Grecian, Cardinal of the Roman Church, and Pa∣triarck* 1.335 of Constantinople, a great Favourer of Astronomical Studies: He left (among other his various and learned Works) a small Tractate, whereof the Manuscript is extant in the Emperour's Library at Vienna, entitled Methodus cognoscendi quot ho∣ris, singulis Noctibus Luna fulgeat; as the same is cited by Simler in Biblioth, Gesner.

ABRAHAM ZAGUT, or ZACUTI, was first publick Professour of* 1.336

Astronomy at Carthage, afterwards at Salamanca, of whom Ricciolus affirms, that* 1.337 he was Astronomiae consultissimus. Vossius sayes he was Astrologer to Emanuel King of Portugal. He wrote Fasti, sive Almanach perpetuum omnium coeli Motuum, Print∣ed at Venice 1502. In the Preface of which Work he makes mention of Abenverga, a Iew, his Astronomical Tables, but without giving any account of the Time where∣in he flourished. In the year 1474. he observed the Star called Spica Virginis to be in the 17°. 10′. of Libra, as Ricciolus from the Authority of Augustinus Riccius af∣firms. His Almanach Perpetuum sive Ephemerides were calculated for Salamanca, the Radix they began from was the year 1472. but the Places of the Planets were taken from Regiomontanus his Ephemerides; his first part (which whether ever Printed is uncertain) beginning from that year. He writ the Preface to the Bishop of Salamanca, (who he was doth not appear) Ioannes Michael Germanus made the Problems before it, Alphonsus de Corduba Hispalensis made a Canon of the Equation of Venus, and discourses a little of the Errours of Zacutus. In the same Book one Octavius Sfortiades Episcopus Aretinus, sayes, that Marcus Antonius Grimanus Patricius Venetus, Iuntae Calcographiae imprimendam tradidit Novam Tabellam, ut∣pote Supplementum Aequationis Veneris in 30 Revolutionibus, quam suae Celsitudini Abraham Zacutus ex Damasco destinaverat paululum antequam Diem clauderet Novis∣simum. Gauricus (being but a young Man) corrected and put out the Book at Venice Anno 1515.

JOANNES ODDI, of Padua, by Ia. Phil. Thomasinus (in Bibl. Patav.)* 1.338 stiled Physicus, & Astronomus (upon the Score of which last, We give him place in this Catalogue) wrote a Book which he dedicated to Frederick Duke of Urbine, de Impressionibus Elementorum, de Copia rerum, & Pretio, de Bello, de Religione, de Principibus, de Civitatibus; which I conceive to be some Astrological Discourse, or Prognostick, extant in MS. in the Library of Hippolytus Oddi of Padua Knight of St. Mark.

JOHANNES BAPTISTA CAPUANUS SIPONTINUS, De* 1.339 Manfredonia, and as Ricciolus affirms, Canon Regular of the Church of Lateran, while he was a secular Person▪ his name was Franciscus Capuanus, and he was pub∣lick Professour of Astronomy at Padua, at which time he wrote an Exposition, In Sphaeram Sacrobosci. Being afterwards made a Bishop he revised it, and dedicated it to his Fellow-Canons, sometime his Auditours. He wrote likewise In Theoricas Purbacchii, Computus Ecclesiasticus, and a Book, De Compositione Quadrantis.

ANDALO of Genua, a most excellent Mathematician, wrote of the Astrolabe,* 1.340 Printed at Ferrara 1475.

THEODORUS GAZA wrote in Greek, De Mensibus, & De Anno, in* 1.341 which sayes Ricciolus, Astronomiae non inscium se ostendit; Published by Petavius, in Uranolog.

CHRISTIANUS MOLITOR, of Clagenfurt, was, as Ricciolus affirms,* 1.342 Astronomus insignis, and wrote, at Vienna, Opuscula Astrologica, which, according to the testimony of Vossius, apud Doctos in magno pretio habentur.

NICHOLAUS ORESMIUS wrote a particular Treatise, by way of* 1.343 Commentary, against the Superstition of Iudiciary Astrology. He is cited by Io∣hannes Picus Mirandula, by the name of Nicholaus Orem, to have written a Book, De Proportionibus Proportionum, as Simler in Biblioth. Gesner attests.

ALEXANDER ACHILLINUS, of Bologna, Professour of Philoso∣phy,* 1.344 wrote De Orbibus Coelestibus.

ALCHABITIUS, or ALCABITIUS, called likewise ABDILA∣ZUS,* 1.345 an Arabian, composed an Isagoge, or Introduction, Ad scrutanda Astrorum* 1.346 judicia, and writ De Planetarum Conjunctionibus. Ricciolus affirms he wrote four Tractates, in which he comprized the Elements of Astrology, commented upon by Naiboda. Iohannes Hispalensis first translated him into Latine, Printed at Venice in the year 1491. and 1521. together with the exposition of Ioannes de Saxonia, and the Emendations of Antonius de Fantis, Doctour of Physick at Trevigi in Italy. He wrote likewise of Opticks, of which see Vossius, De Scient. Mathemat. There is a MS. Treatise in the Bodleian Library, entitled Introductio ad Iudicia Astronom. under the Name of Algabicus; I know not whether mistaken for Alchabitius.

MARCILIUS FICINUS, an eminent Florentine Physician, Philosopher,* 1.347 and Astronomer, who both in his Notes In Timaeum Platonis, and other his Dia∣logues, discourses learnedly, as occasion requires, upon several Astronomical Sub∣jects, having likewise put forth an Apology, De Medicina Astrologiae▪ jungenda; a Disputation Contra Iudicia Astrologorum; and a Book, De Sole & Lumine. In his Book, De vita coelitùs comparanda, he shews himself very Learned in Astrology, though he writ against the Astrologasters.

JOHANNES KENT, alias KAYLEG, Native of Caermarden in South-Wales,* 1.348 a Great Philosopher, Botanist, and Mathematician, of which Studies he was Professour in the University of Cambridge, put forth Astronomical Tables.

JOANNES ANGELUS put forth Opus Astrolabii Plani cum Tabulis,* 1.349 Printed August. Vindel. 1488.

JOHANNES ERGHOM, of York, an Augustine Fryar, having, at Ox∣ford,* 1.350 professed Logick, Natural Philosophy and Theology, gained to himself the re∣pute of an eminent Scholar, and put forth a Book of Astrological Calculations.

JOHANNES PICUS, Count of Mirandula, Ingeniorum Phoenix, as some* 1.351 have stiled him, besides other Works of exquisite and profound Learning, wrote Twelve Books Against Iudiciary Astrology.

NICHOLAUS COMES DE COMITIBUS, a Noble Italian,* 1.352 wrote a Tractate, De Motu & Recessu Octavae Sphaerae, extant in MS. among those of Nicholaus Trivisanus of Padua, recorded by Iac. Phil. Thomasinus in Bibliothec. Patavin.

PONTICUS VIRMIUS, alias VIRUNNIUS, Native of Trevigi* 1.353 in Italy, Professour of Philosophy, writ, besides many other Works upon different Subjects, a Commentary In Sphaeram Iohannis Sacrobosci.

JACOBUS SCHONHEINTZ, Professour of Mathematicks and Phi∣losophy,* 1.354 in Academia Herbipoli, writ an Apology in vindication of Astrology, a∣gainst Io. Picus Count of Mirandula.

DOMINICUS MARIA NOVARAS FERRARIENSIS, Pro∣fessour* 1.355 of Astronomy in Bologna, and Master to Copernicus, is said to have observed the Sun's greatest Declination to have been 23°. 29′. He was a great Promoter of Astronomical Observations, both by his teaching and practice.

BERNARDUS WALTHERUS, of Norimberg, Disciple to Regiomon∣tanus,* 1.356 and a Continuatour of his Observations, wh•…•…ch with his own were published,

first at Norimberg; afterwards together with the Hassian and Tychonick, by Wille∣brodus* 1.357 Snellius. He was a great Observer of the Stars, and partly from the Autho∣rity of Alhazen and Vitellio, partly by his own experience, made it appear of how great moment the Doctrine of Refractions is, in relation to the Stars, when near the Horizon.

HERMOLAUS BARBARUS, a Noble Patrician of Venice, and Patriarch* 1.358 of Aquileia, besides his other eminent Works, both in Historical and Critical Learn∣ing, writ a Book, De convenientia Astronomiae & Medicinae.

CHRISTOPHORUS COLUMBUS, a Native of Genua, by Blancanus* 1.359 stiled Argonautarum Princeps, trusting to his skill in Astronomy and Geography, by a high and daring, yet a happy and successful undertaking, discovered, to the Old, a New World.

JOHANNES ABIOSUS, of Naples, Doctour of Physick, and Professour* 1.360 of Mathematicks, writ Dialogues in defence of Iudiciary Astrology, in which he predicts many Schismes and future Changes to happen in the Church. He dedica∣ted his Books to Alphonsus King of Sicily.

JOANNES LUCILIUS SANTRITTER HEILBRON∣NENSIS,* 1.361 reduced the Alphonsine Tables into a most easie Order and Method, to which he added Tables of his own, with Rules or Canons▪ thereunto. He writ like∣wise a Book of the Judgements of Nativities, Printed at his own Shop in Venice, 1494.

JOANNES ANGELUS BAVARUS, of Aichen, put forth a Cor∣rection* 1.362 of the Romane Calendar, a Plain Astrolabe, a Treatise of Nativities, and of unequal Hours in each Climate of the World, as also Ephemerides, and various Prognosticks, Printed at Venice in the year 1494. He died in the year 1512. at which time he was about finishing Purbacchius's Table, of the Equations of the Planets Motions.

LAURENTIUS BONINCONTRIUS MINIATENSIS, writ* 1.363 Three Books, De Rebus Coelestibus, in Heroick Verse, Printed by Robert Winter, at Basile, in the year 1540. with the accession of divers Observations of the Eclip∣ses of the Sun and Moon, made by Philippus Melancthon, Iohannes Stigelius, M. A∣contius, Ioachimus Camerarius, and Georgius Aemilius. He was the first that wrote a Comment upon Manilius's Astronomica, Printed both at Bologna, and at Basile.

JACOBUS FABER, besides his Arithmetical Epitome of Boetius, and* 1.364 his Comment upon Iordanus Nemorarius, wrote also a Commentary, In Sphaeram Sacrobosci.

RAPHAEL VOLATERRANUS, a Chronologer and Cosmographer,* 1.365 who in the third Tome of his XXXVIII. Books Urbanorum Commentariorum, col∣lected (as himself affirms) out of more than a thousand Greek and Latine Authours, hath written, De Philologia, sive Artium Rudimentis, in which those of Astronomy are included.

LUCIUS BELLANTIUS, of Siena, wrote Twenty Questions touching* 1.366 the truth of Astrology, and Twelve Books in defence of Astrology, against Picus Mirandula, Printed at Florence and Basile. To which are annexed the Dialogues of Gabriel Pirovanus, De Veritate Astrologiae.

CONRADUS COCUS WIMPINAE DE BUCHONIA, Pro∣fessour* 1.367 of Theology at Francfort, and Leipsick, writ, among divers other Tractates,* 1.368 six Books De Corporibus Coelestibus, as Simler testifies.

STEPHANUS ROSINUS of Ausbourg, Professour of Philosophy,* 1.369 Batchelour of Divinity, and Canon, at Vienna, taught Astronomy there, and published Tables of the Declinations of the fixed Stars, with Prognosticks.

JOHANNES MANTZ, of Plabeim, a famous Theologue, and Astrono∣mer,* 1.370 in his time, wrote Prognostica ex Stellis.

ANDREAS STIBORIUS, a Bohemian, Canon and Professour of Ma∣thematicks* 1.371 at Vienna, a most acute Astronomer. He composed an Epitome of Pto∣lomy's Almagest, Albategnius, and Geber; wrote five Books touching Shadows; a Book of Astronomical Instruments, of the first and second Mobile, with his own Canons, and those of the Ancients; an Introduction in sensilem Astronomiam; a Book of Mathematical Authours; and of the Primum Mobile divided into four parts, and handled Geometricè, Arithmeticè, Exemplariter, & Instrumentaliter. See more of him in Vossius, de Scient. Mathemat.

MARCUS BENEVENTANUS, a Celestine-Monk, wrote upon Thebit,* 1.372 De Octava Sphaera. He likewise corrected Ptolemy's Planisphere, and together with Iohannes Cota of Verona, Scipio Carteromachus, of Pistoia, and Cornelius Be∣nig•…•…us, of Viterbo, sedulam navavit operam in Geographia Ptolemaei corrigenda, sayes G. Voss. De Scient. Mathemat.

BARTHOLOMAEUS VESPUCIUS, a Florentine, publick Professour* 1.373 of Astronomy in the University of Padua, where he drew many into admiration of his Learning. He commented in Sphaeram Sacrobosci, and put forth an Oration, in Laudem Quadrivii, sive, Quatuor Disciplinarum Mathematicarum, chiefly of Astrology.

JOHANNES GANIVETUS, of the Order of Minime Fryars at Vi∣enna,* 1.374 put forth a small Astronomical Treatise, beginning with these words, Quod Coeli enarrant, &c. To which he added an Abbreviation of Aben-Ezra, De Lumi∣naribus & Diebus Criticis, with the Astrology of Hippocrates, as Gesner affirms, Printed at Lyons, in the year 1508.

JOHANNES EZLER, of Mentz, published a Piece entitled Speculum* 1.375 Astronomicum, in which he treats of the Causes of the Errours in Astrology pro∣ceeding from the neglect of the Equation of Time. He put forth likewise the Theory of the Planets, and of the Eighth Sphere; Printed at Basil, by Henricus Petri, 1509. Unà cum Theoricis Purbacchii.

JACOBUS LOCHER, PHILOMUSUS GERMANUS, wrote* 1.376 among other things, a Treatise De Cometa, mentioned by Simler. in Bibl. Gesner.

AUGUSTINUS RICCIUS, of Casal, wrote a learned Treatise, Of the* 1.377 Motion of the Eighth Sphere, in which he professes to have learnt Astronomy of Abraham Zaguti, at Carthage and Salamanca. He wrote likewise an Epistle touch∣ing the Authours of Astronomy, wherein he shews the same to have come originally from the Hebrews. In which Work of his (sayes Simler. in Bibl. Gesner.) are con∣tained Platonica quaedam & antiqua Magiae Dogmata.

JOHANNES VERNERUS, of Norimberg, Successour to Ioh. Regio∣montanus,* 1.378 and Bernardus Walterus, commented upon Ptolemy's Geography, wrote* 1.379 De motu Octavae Sphaerae, and published Astronomical Tables. In the year 1514. he observed the Sun's greatest Declination to have been 23°. 28′. and the distance of the first Star in Aries, from the Equinoctial Point, 26°.

LUDOVICUS VITALIS, a Bolognian Astronomer, flourished about* 1.380 this time, as Ricciolus (Chronolog. Astronom.) affirms, though without any menti∣on of his Works.

JOHANNES HEREMITA, of Ferrara, is by Ricciolus in Chronic.* 1.381 Astronom. stiled Geometra & Astronomus non vulgaris, but he gives no particular account of his Works or Writings.

PAULUS MIDDLEBURGENSIS, Bishop of Fossombrone, or Forum* 1.382 Sempronii, wrote XIV. Books of the Emendation of the Calendar and Observation of Easter, in which Work he not only treats of the Romane Account, but also of the Iewish, Egyptian, and Arabian Years, having therein designed the exact Do∣ctrine of all Times. He wrote likewise XIX. Books of the Year and Day of our Saviour's Nativity and Passion, and other Pieces of like Argument, Voss. de Scient. Mathemat. He writ Prognosticon ostendens Anno Dom. 1524. Nullum neque Univer∣sale neque Particulare Diluvium futurum. Forum Sempronii 1523.

JOANNES STOEFLERUS JUSTINGENSIS, Professour of* 1.383 Mathematicks at Tubingue, wrote a Treatise De fabrica & usu Astrolabii. He like∣wise composed Ephemerides, Calendarium Romanum Magnum, dedicated to Maximi∣lian the Emperour, and Astronomical Tables, and wrote a large Commentary in Sphaeram Procli. His Death, or the occasion thereof at least, was very remark∣able (if the Story be true.) Having found by calculation, that upon a certain Day his life was like to be endangered by some ruinous accident, and the day being come, to divert his thoughts from the apprehension of the danger threatning him, he in∣vites some Friends of his into his Study, where, after discourse, entring into some dispute, he, to decide the controversie reaches for a Book, but the Shelf on which it stood being loose came down with all the Books upon him, and with its fall so bruised him, that he died soon after of the hurt, Voss. in Addend. ad Scient. Mathe∣mat. But the whole Story of his Death, of which some make Calvisius the Au∣thour, is false by the Testimony of Io. Rudolphus Camerarius Genitur. 69. Centur. 2. who had it from Andreas Ruttellius his Auditour; for he died of the Plague at Blabira Febr. 16. 1531. in the 78^th year of his Age, happening (according to Cal∣culation if you will believe it) from the Direction of ☉ to ♂.

ALBERTUS PIGHIUS, besides his other learned Historical Works,* 1.384 wrote of the Observation of the Solstices and Equinoxes; Of the Restitution, or Emendation of the Calendar, and a Defence of Astrology, against some Prognostica∣tours of his Time, particularly an Apology against the New Astronomy of Marcus Beneventanus, a Celestine-Monk, traducing the Opinions of all Modern Astrono∣mers, touching the motion of the Eighth Sphere.

JOHANNES HASFURT VIRDUNGUS, a Germane Astrono∣mer,* 1.385 set forth Tables, (by him entitled Tabulae Resolutae) for supputation of the Celestial Motions, Printed at Norimberg by Iohannes Petreius, in the year 1542. He published likewise in the year 1521. Prognosticon, upon the stupendious Conjunction of the Planets, which was to happen in the year 1524. following; with some other Prognosticks of his, written in High-Dutch, as Gesner. affirms. He

writ likewise Novam Medicinae Methodum quâ ex Mathematica ratione curandi ratio∣nem* 1.386 ostendit, Printed Helingae & Hagenoae 1532. and set out afterwards with a Com∣mentary by Ioannes Paulus Galluccius Venet. 1580:

GEORGIUS COLLIMITIUS TANNESLETTERUS was* 1.387 Scholar to Andreas Stiborius, as Gesner affirms. He writ De Applicatione Astrologiae ad Medicinam; De Natura & Proprietatibus Planetarum, out of Haly, Firmicus, and Alchabitius, and some other Tracts upon those Arguments, Printed at Basil, 1524.

MOHAMMED IBNO'L ATTAR, published Astronomical Tables* 1.388 of the Motions of the Planets, calculated for the Longitude of Damascus; written in the year of the Hegira 930. and of Christ 1523. and preserved in Manuscript in the Publick Library at Oxford.

ALBERTUS BRUDZEVIUS, Professour of Mathematicks in the* 1.389 University of Cracovia, was the first Master and Instructour of Copernicus in Astro∣nomy, as we find it mentioned by Gassendus, in the life of Copernicus.

PETRUS APPIANUS, of Leipsick, called in the Germane Tongue, Bine∣wilt,* 1.390 Professour of Mathematicks at Ingolstadt, (in intimate favour with the Empe∣rour Charles the Fifth, who not only invited him to his Court, but also honoured him with Knighthood) wrote a Book of Cosmography, revised and augmented by Gemma Frisius, together with Observations of several Eclipses. He put forth like∣wise an Instrument, or Table of the Primum Mobile, with 100 Problems thereupon; and another Piece entituled Opus Caesareum, in which, to use Ricciolus's Expression, Rotulis & Automatis ingeniosissimis docet expedire omnia ferè Problemata Astronomi∣ca. Of his several other Works, not proper to this place, see Vossius, De Scient. Mathemat.

FRANCISCUS SARZOSUS of Xelsa in Arragon, wrote two Books* 1.391 in Aequator•…•…m Planetarum Alphonsinae Hypothesi superstructum, as Ricciol. affirms, Chron. Astronom. Part. 2.

JOHANNES VOGELLINUS was Disciple to Ioh. Regiomontanus,* 1.392 and made Observations on the Comets appearing in the years 1527. and 1532.

PETRUS CIRVELLUS, besides his Cursus Mathem. Artium, Published* 1.393 a Treatise De Correctione Calendarii, Printed Compl. 1528.

HENRICUS BAERSIUS, alias, VEKENSTYL, a Mathematician* 1.394 and Printer to the University of Lovaine, put forth, but not under his own Name, Tabulae perpetuae Longitudinum & Latitudinum Planetarum, calculated for the Me∣ridian of Lovaine. And under his own name he likewise set forth a Book, De Compositione & Usu Decretorii Planetarum; and another, De Compositione & Usu Quadrantis.

OTHO BRUNFELSIUS, Doctour of Physick at Mentz, totius 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉,* 1.395 cultor, a great Student likewise in Divinity and the Sacred Scriptures, out of which he endeavoured to refute Iudiciary Astrology. He prefixed likewise to the Edition of Firmicus, Printed by Hervagius, and dedicated to him by Nicholaus Prucnerus, a small Treatise not unuseful to young Beginners, De Definitionibus & Terminis Astrologiae.

JOANNES FERNELIUS of Ambois, a famous French Physician, and* 1.396 as eminent a Geometrician and Astronomer, wrote besides other his Learned* 1.397 Works, a particular Treatise, entituled, Cosmotheoria, in which he explains the Motions, Site, Magnitude and Theory of the Celestial Bodies; and another Piece, called Monalosphaerium.

JOHANNES CARIO, besides his Chronological Work, left, as Vossius* 1.398 terms them, Practicas Astrologicas, nec non Ephemerides, beginning with the year 1536, and ending in the year 1550.

JACOBUS MILICHIUS, Professour of Mathematicks at Wittemberg,* 1.399 and Tutour to Erasmus Reinholdus, wrote a Commentary upon the Second Book of Plinius Secundus, the Subject whereof is chiefly Astronomical.

ORONTIUS FINAEUS, of Dauphiné, Regius Professor of Mathema∣ticks* 1.400 at Paris, wrote De Sphaera; Of Cosmography; Of the Theory of the Planets; Astronomical Canons, or Problems of the Primum Mobile; Of the difference of Lon∣gitude, to be found by the Moon; and several other Pieces; which (as Blancanus ad∣vises) ought to be read cum Antidoto Petri Nonnii de Erroribus Orontii.

HIERONYMUS FRACASTORIUS, a Native of Verona, an ex∣cellent* 1.401 Poet, Physician, Philosopher, and Astronomer, Published a Book De Orbibus Excentricis & Homocentricis, which he dedicated to Pope Paul III.

SEBASTIANUS MUNSTERUS was famous for two things, as Vossi∣us* 1.402 affirms, to wit, Hebraeis Literis, & Mathesi. As to what concerns our purpose, he wrote Notes, In Geographiam Ptolemaei, & Universalem Cosmographiam, and of Dyalling; as also Organum Uranicum, wherein the Theories of the Planets, and their Motions were computed for an hundred years and more. He was also Authour of the Canones super novo Luminarium Instrumento.

JOACHIMUS FORTIUS RINGELBERGIUS of Antwerp, writ* 1.403 De Horoscopo, De Tempore, De Cosmographia, and Three Books of Astrological In∣stitutions.

JOHANNES ROBINUS, in English, Robins, was a great Astrologer, and* 1.404 put forth a Book, De Portentosis Cometis, dedicated by him to King Henry VIII. which Balaeus calls, Opus valde Lucidum, now extant in Manuscript, in the hands of Mr. Thomas Gale.

SIMON GRYNAEUS, Native of Viring, a Town in Suevia, or Suaben,* 1.405 merited eminently in all kind of Learning, particularly by publishing, in Greek, the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 of Ptolemy, to which he added a Preface of his own touching the use thereof, Dedicated to King Henry the Eighth of England, Printed at Basil, 1538.

HENRICUS GLAREANUS, a Geographer, Chronologer, Musician,* 1.406 and Physician, Native of Glarona, commonly called Glarys, a Town in Swisserland, put forth a Book De Geographia, induced chiefly thereunto, as he pretends in his Preface, because he found the Sphere of Proclus to be too concise, and only fitted to the Horizon of Greece, and erroneous, as to the Description of some Circles; and Sacroboscus in his Parallels and Climates, mutilous and defective. He published likewise other Pieces, both in Astrology and Cosmography, being (according to the testimony of G. Vossius) Vir undequaque doctissimus.

ACHILLES P. GASSARUS of Lindaw, by Gesner stiled Medicus &* 1.407 Mathematicus praestantissimus, put forth a Chronology from the beginning of the* 1.408 World to the year of Christ 1532. He published likewise a Mathematical Table, entituled, Sciaterion Pedarium, Printed at Zurick.

JODOCUS CLITCHTHOVEUS NEOPORTICENSIS,* 1.409 writ a Comment upon Iacobus Faber his Theory of the Planets.

GEORGIUS PRUCNER, of Ruspach, left behind him (sayes Simler in* 1.410 Bibl. Gesner.) very fair and exquisite Astronomical Instruments, and several Books collected by him, in Astrorum Scientia, yet preserved at Vienna, in Bibliotheca Fa∣cultatis Artium.

JACOBUS CEPORINUS of Zurick, eminently learned in the He∣brew,* 1.411 Greek, and Latine Languages, put forth a Commentary upon Dionysius his Periegesis, and Aratus his Astronomicon, Printed at Basil, by Wolphius, in the year before mentioned, as Gesner testifies.

LUDOVICUS DE RIGIIS, published Astrological Aphorisms, addressed* 1.412 to the Patriarch of Constantinople, Printed at Norimberg, in the year 1535. together with Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos.

JOHANNES STIGELIUS, Native of Gota, a City in the Province of* 1.413 Thuringen, in Germany, an ingenious Poet and Mathematician, Professour at Wittem∣berg and Iena, put forth Prognosticks upon the Eclipse of the Moon happening in the year 1536, as likewise others upon one of the Sun in the year following, and upon one of the Moon, and another of the Sun, in the year 1551.

JACOBUS KAEBELIUS, besides an Arithmetical Treatise, Published* 1.414 another of the Astrolabe, in High-Dutch, which was Printed afterwards in Latine, at Paris.

JACOBUS ZIGLERUS, of Landaw, a City in the Province of Vasgow,* 1.415 in the lower Alsatia, set forth Constructionem Solidae Sphaerae, Printed at Basil, by Valderus, together with Aratus and his Scholiast, in the year 1536. He wrote like∣wise Scholia in Procli Lycii Sphaeram; and De Canonica per Sphaeram operatione; and De Hemicyclio Berosi, mentioned by Vitruvius, l. 9. c. 9. He published likewise a Comment upon the Second Book of Pliny's Natural History; in which he explains the most obscure, especially Astronomical, Places therein.

NICHOLAUS COPERNICUS, by Bulialdus, not without reason,* 1.416 stiled Vir absolutae subtilitatis, a Native of Thorne in Prussia, and Canon of the Church of Frawenburg, the Cathedral of Warmerlandt, Scholar to Dominicus Ma∣ria, of Ferrara, to whom he was Assistant in making his Astronomical Observati∣ons at Bologna; and Professour of the Mathematicks at Rome, honoured at his Pub∣lick Lectures with the Assembly of the most Illustrious Persons in that City, whence returning into his own Country, he wholly applyed himself to the study and in∣stauration of Astronomy, finding the Sun's greatest Declination to be 23°. 28′. The year before his Death, at the instance of the Cardinals, Schomberg, and Ghisi, he published his Noble Work, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, in Six Books, in which he not only revived, but most happily united, and formed into an Hypo∣thesis of his own, the several Opinions of Philolaus, Heraclides Ponticus, and Ecphantus Pythagoreus. For according to the opinion of Philolaus, he made the Earth to move about the Sun, as the Center, whence its Annual Motion.; And with

Heraclides and Ecphantus, he likewise gave it a Motion like that of a Wheel about* 1.417 its own Axis, whence its Diurnal Motion; an Hypothesis so near the Truth, that like that when persecuted, maugre all Opposition,

Per damna, per caedes, ab ipso Sumit opes animúmque ferro;

As Ricciolus (though a Dissenter from it) observes.

ANDREAS OSIANDER took not only care in publishing the first Edi∣tion* 1.418 of Copernicus his Book De Revolutionibus, but condescended to be Overseer of the Press, while it was Printing, to which he added a brief Preface of his own, there∣in chiefly endeavouring, because of the seeming Novelty of the Opinion, to per∣swade the Reader, to look upon it as an assumed Hypothesis, rather than an asserted Tenet. To which purpose, about that time was published this Distich,

Quid tum si mihi Terra movetur, Solque quiescit Et Coelum? Constat Calculus inde Mihi.

Of which Gassendus, in Vitâ Copernici.

JOHANNES SCHONERUS, a Native of Carolostadt, Professour of Ma∣thematicks* 1.419 at Norimberg, put forth Astronomical Tables for their perspicuity called Resolutae, and a Book De usu Globi Stelliferi, De Compositione Clobi Coelestis, De Usu Globi Terrestris & de Compositione Ejusdem; as also another Piece, called Aequatori∣um Astronomicum; Libellus de Distantiis Locorum per Instrumentum & numeros in∣vestigandis; De Compositione Torqueti; In Constructionem & Usum Rectanguli sive Radii Astronomici Annotationes; Horarii Cylindri Canones; Planisphaerium seu Me∣teoroscopium; Organum Uranicum; Instrumentum Impedimentorum Lunae. All Printed at Norimberg in fol. 1551.

GEORGIUS VALLA, an Italian, Native of Piacenza; among other his* 1.420 Learned Works, wrote a Treatise in four Books De tota Astrologia, In which, Fa∣brica Ususque Astrolabii exaratur, & quae Signorum in exhibendis Medicaminibus sit habenda Observatio. He writ likewise a Commentary in Almagestum & Quadripar∣titum Ptolemaei, and translated out of Greek into Latine, Proclus Diadochus his Hypotyposes Astronomicarum Positionum, and Cleomedes de Contemplatione Orbium Coelestium. V. Simler. in Biblioth. Gesner.

JOHANNES BAPTISTA AMICUS COSENTINUS, wrote* 1.421 De motu Coelestium, juxta Principia Peripatetica, Published in the year 1532.

PETRUS PITATUS, of Verona, wrote Isagogen ad Ephemerides, and De* 1.422 novo Calendario instituendo, which he addressed to Pope Paul III. He wrote like∣wise an Explication of the Rising and Setting, of the Fixed Stars, Printed at Basil, 1568.

JOHANNES LUCIDUS SAMOSATHEUS, about this time* 1.423 put forth his learned Chronological Labours, non sine Eruditae Caveae Applausu, sayes G. Vossius; in which are contained Emendationes Temporum ab Orbe condito, with Canons in perpetuam Temporum Tabulam; Of the true Day of our Saviour's Passion; And an Epitome of the Emendation of the Romane Calendar, Printed at Venice by Iunta, 1537.

BONETTUS a Iew, put forth a small Treatise De Annulo sive Instrumento* 1.424 Astronomico, Printed at Marpurg 1537.* 1.425

SYMPHORIANUS CAMPEGIUS (alias CHAMPERIUS)* 1.426 Eques Auratus Lugdunensis, a French-man, among other Learned Works of his in Physick and Philosophy, put forth several Mathematical Treatises, and particularly One of Astronomy, Printed by Henricus Petrus, at Basil 1537.

JOHANNES GIGAS STAINFORTENSIS, Published Enchiridi∣on* 1.427 Sphaericum, seu Systema Cosmographicum compendiosum. He wrote likewise, ac∣cording to the Testimony of Simler in Bibl. Gesner, an Elegy upon two notable Eclipses of the Moon, which happened in the year 1538. Whereof the former was on the fourteenth of May, the latter on the sixth of November. His Enchiridion Sphaericum was Printed at Oxford in the year 1664.

MAURUS FLORENTINUS, first, a Monk, of the Order of the Hu∣miliati,* 1.428 afterwards, of the Fraternity of the Servants of the Blessed Virgin, of whom Gerardus Vossius sayes, That he was most learned in the Latine, Greek, and Hebrew Tongues, and excellently well skilled in Cosmography, and other Sciences, Published in his own Language (the Italian) divers Pieces, as his Annotations in Sphaeram Sacrobosci; and (besides his Sphaera Theologica & Christiana) Sphaera Pla∣tonica, which he dedicated to Cosmo de Medicis. He wrote likewise De Arte Na∣vigatoria; and an Epitome of Musick.

GASPAR BORNERUS, Professour of Phylosophy at Leipsick, among* 1.429 other Tractates, put forth a Book, De Stellis.

JOHANNES PENA, a French-man, Regius Professor of Mathematicks in* 1.430 the University of Paris, translated Euclid's Opticks into Latine; to which he prefixed an Encomium of Opticks, wherein (to use Gesner's Words) there are Iucundissimae Disceptationes & imprimis arduae, touching the Epicycles, Excen∣tricks, Apsides, Apogaeums, and Perigaeum's of the Planets, as likewise of their Pa∣rallaxes; together with ingenious Arguments concerning the Earths Rest or Mo∣tion, drawn from the Principles of that Art. He first maintained the Heavens to consist of no other Substance than that diffused through the Aery Region, and discovered some Comets to have been above the Moon; as Gassendus, in the life of Tycho, observes.

JOHANNES PIERIUS VALERIANUS, the noble Authour of* 1.431 Hieroglyphicks, wrote and dedicated to Cardinal Alexander Farneze, being but yet young and much addicted to Astronomical Studies, an elegant Compendium Of the Sphere.

PETRUS CATENA a Venetian, Doctour in Theology and Professour of* 1.432 Mathematicks at Padua, about the same time with Pierius, wrote upon the same Sub∣ject of the Sphere; and other Mathematical Peeces.

JULIANUS RISTORIUS DE PRATO, a Carmelite Fryar, Do∣ctour* 1.433 in Theology, and an eminent Astronomer, Tutour to Iunctinus, by whom, in his Preface to his Tabulae Resolutae, he is reported to have observed the Planets for several years, viz. from the year 1536. to 1542.

PAULUS CRUSIUS published a Treatise, wherein he sets forth the* 1.434 Doctrine of the Sun's Revolutions, and Tables of the mean Conversions of

•…•…ime, and of the Sun's motion, in Annis Tropicis & Sideriis.* 1.435

ANGELUS FORTIUS Doctour of Physick, is by Gesner, in Biblioth.* 1.436 reckoned as an eminent Astrologer.

ANTONIUS DE MONTULMO, Doctour of Arts and Physick,* 1.437 published a Book De judiciis Nativitatum, illustrated with the additions of Io. Monteregi•…•…s; Printed at Norimberg, 1540.

JOHANNES MASSAEUS, put forth twenty Books of Chronology, from* 1.438 the beginning of the World to the year now mentioned, to which he prefixed a fourfold Calendar, to wit, the Egyptian, Hebrew, Macedonick, and Roman. Voss. De Scient. Mathemat.

FRANCISCUS MAUROLYCUS, Abbot of Messena in Sicily, whom* 1.439 Ricciolus calls Siciliae Lumen clarissimum, wrote three Books of Cosmography, in∣tended as a Comment upon Ptolemy's Almagest. To him we are beholding for Theodosius's Sphaerica, and those of Menelaus, which he first of all published. He put forth a Piece, De Lineis Horariis, Fabricam Astrolabii, and divers other Works, mentioned in the beginning of his Cosmography. He was the first that wrote of Secant Lines, as Blancanus affirms. He left likewise behind him a Posthume Work, entituled, De Lumine & Umbra, and many Treatises unprinted, as appears at the End of his Opus•…•…ula, and though it be beside our Argument, yet in regard it is not well known, we think fit to mention that Alphonsus Borellius published in Sicily about 1656. the Comment of Maurolycus on the first four Books of Apollonius his Conicks, with two more of the said Authours, of which if there were Copies they would be grateful to Students, and more acceptable than that of Commandinus, in which the Text and Comment lie dispersed, which Inconvenience is avoyded in that of Maurolycus; the said Borellius is likewise now about publishing Maurolycus his Archimedes at Rome.

JOHANNES ANTONIUS DELPHINUS, of Casal, Provincial* 1.440 of the Franciscan Order, wrote, and dedicated to Camillus Palaeottus, a Senator of Bologna; a Book, De Caelestibus Globis, & Motibus, full of Erudition, as Ricciolus affirms.

PHILIPPUS MELANCTHON, among other the numerous Volumes* 1.441 by him published, set forth Tabula de Mensibus Graecorum, & Descriptiones Eclip∣sium Solis & Lunae, annis jam aliquot visarum, usque ad Annum 1540. and transla∣ted out of Greek into Latine, Ptolemy's four Books, De Syderum effectionibus. V. Simler.

AUGUSTINUS NIPHUS PHILOTHEUS SUESSANUS,* 1.442 who by his great Learning gained to himself the Title of Philosophus Magnus, among other the various Works by him published, writ (as to our purpose) a parti∣cular Treatise, De figuris Stellarum Helionoricis, in two Books; Another, De Die∣bus Criticis, seu Decretoriis; a third, De falsa Diluvii Prognosticatione quae ex con∣ventu omnium Planetarum (qui in Piscibus contingeret anno 1524.) divulgata est, in three Books, addressed to the Emperour Charles the Fifth. He wrote likewise E∣ruditiones in Apotelesmata Ptolemaei, & Annotationes in Librum secundum Ejusdem Quadripartiti, mentioned, wi•…•…h the rest, by Simler, in Bibl. Gesner.

JACOBUS PELETARIUS, a French man, besides his Geometrical* 1.443 Works, wrote De Constitutione Horoscopi. He published likewise Astronomical Ta∣bles,

•…•…and a Compendium of Astronomical Fractions; as also of the Sun's place, and▪* 1.444 that of the Moon, in the Zodiack.

ERASMUS OSWALDUS SKREKENFUSIUS, of Austria, Dis∣ciple,* 1.445 according to Ricciolus, to Henricus Glareanus, according to Vossius, to Se•…•…∣stianus Munsterus, Professor, at Freiburg in Brisgaw, of the Hebrew Tongue and Mathematicks, wrote a Comment in Sphaeram Sacrobosci, Annotations on 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Almagest, put forth a Book De Primo Mobili, and of the Theory of the Plan•…•…▪ Another De Gentium Calendariis, and translated, out of Hebrew into Latine, the Sphere of Rabbi Abraham Cai.

JOACHINUS CAMERARIUS, of Bamberg, a Town in Franconia,* 1.446 put forth, at Norimberg, in the year 1532. several Greek Astrological Authours, by him translated into Latine, as 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, sive, Rationem Orbis Solaris; likewise, Excerpta ex Hephaestione Thebano, De Duodecim Signis & eorum effectis, also 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. e. Quid Stellae Erraticae, sive Quinque Planetae, in unoquoque Zodiaci Signo significent. These Pieces he set forth in Greek and Latine. And in Latine only, he published a Fragment of the first Book of Vettius Valens, his Florida; and in Greek only Mercurius Irismegistus his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. e. Medicationes rationibus Astrologicis convenientes. In the year 1535▪ he set forth, at Norimberg, in Verse, Tùm Phaenomena, sive Siderum ac Stellarum Histori∣olam, tùm Prognostica. And in the year 1541. he published the two first Books of Ptolemy, De Iudiciis Astrologicis, by him translated into Latine, and illustrated with Annotations. We are obliged to him likewise, for the first publication of Theon Alexandrinus, his eleven Books of Commentaries upon Ptolemy's Almagest, which he caused to be Printed at Basil, by Walderus, from a MS. of Cardinal Bessarion's, brought into Germany by Regiomontanus. See more of this eminently learned Person, in G. Vossius, L. de Scient. Mathemat.

RAINERUS GEMMA FRIZIUS, Physician and Professor of Ma∣thematicks* 1.447 at Lovaine, put forth a Book of the use of the Globe, and the Astrono∣mical Ring; De Principiis Astronomiae & Cosmographiae; De Astrolabio Catholico, &c▪ He left his Son Cornelius Gemma, his Successour in the Professor's Place.

JOANNES GUIDO wrote, De Observat. Temporis Astrorum, Printed at* 1.448 Paris 1543.

CLAUDIUS MARIUS ARETIUS a Patrician of Syracuse, and* 1.449 Historiographer to the King of Spain, wrote a Comment, by way of Dialogue, upon this Verse of Virgil's.

Defectus Lunae varios, Solisque labores.

BUCHARDUS MITHOBIUS, wrote a Piece entituled Compositi•…•… •…•…∣li* 1.450 Astronomici, Printed together with the Treatise of Iohannes Driander, De Annul•…•… Astronomicis; as Simler affirms.

MICHAEL ANGELUS BLONDUS, Doctour of Physick, w•…•…ote* 1.451 and dedicated to Pope Paul III. a Book De Diebus Criticis; and to Rudolphus Cardinal of Carpegna another, De Anticipatione Stellarum fixarum cu•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉 significationibus.

COELIUS CALCAGNINUS, among the various Works by him pub∣lished,* 1.452 set forth a Paraphrase on the three Books of Aristotle's Meteors; A Com∣mentation,

Quod Coelum stet, Terra moveatur; De Mensibus, & De Re Nautica▪* 1.453 See more of him in Simler. Bibl. Gesner.

GEORGIUS PILANDER published a Book De Annulo Astronomico,* 1.454 aut Sphaerico.

POMPILIUS AZALUS writ De omnibus Rebus naturalibus quae continen∣tur* 1.455 in Mundo, viz. De Coelestibus, de Terrestribus, & Mathematicis, Printed at Venice in Folio; as Simler in Bibl. Gesner. testifies.

JOHANNES STADIUS, Professour of the Mathematicks and History,* 1.456 first, at Paris, afterwards at Lovaine, put forth among other his Mathematical Works, Ephemerides, which he entituled Tabulae Bergenses, in honour of Robertus à Bergis, Bishop of Liege. He put forth likewise other Ephemerides, from the year 1654. to the year 1606. with an Isagoge in Astronomiam & Astrologiam. He left Tabulas aequabilis & apparentis Motus Coelestium Corporum, as G. Vossius stiles them, and Prognostica Stellarum fixarum, cum Tabulis, in the beginning whereof he hath prefixed the History of Astronomy.

NICHOLAUS SOPHIANUS CORCYRAEUS, wrote in Greek* 1.457 of the Astrolabe, and by Gesner is said to have flourished about this Time.

VICTORINUS STRIGELIUS of Kaufbeurn, a Town in Suaben,* 1.458 published, at Wittemberg, an Epitome of the Doctrine of the Primum Mobile, illustrated with Demonstrations. He was Scholar to Melancthon.

AUGERIUS FERRERIUS of Tholouse, Doctor of Physick, whom* 1.459 Scaliger the Father entirely loved and consulted in all his learned Designs, writ, as I find mentioned in Gesner Castigationes Practicae, & De Diebus Decretoriis secun∣dum Pithagoricam Observationem.

JOHANNES MERCURIUS MORSHEIMERUS, put forth at* 1.460 Heidelberg, a Dissertation of the Name of Astronomy, it's Division and Causes; to which he adjoyned a Table of the Species of •…•…ontinued Quantity, serving only for the use of young Beginners. He professes himself to have been Scholar to Me∣lancthon.

JOACHIMUS HELLERUS corrected and published several Astrologi∣cal* 1.461 Authors, before which he prefixed Prefaces of his own, at Norimberg.

ANDREAS GERARDUS HYPERIUS, Professor of Divinity in* 1.462 the University of Marpurg, writ, besides other various Tractates, Geometrica, Optica, Cosmographica quaedam, as Simler affirms, in Bibl. Gesner.

ERASMUS REYNOLDUS, Native of Salfieldt, a Town in Thuringe, a* 1.463 Province in the Upper Saxony, Son to Iohannes Reynoldus, and Scholar to Iacobus Milichius, was Professor of Mathematicks in the University at Wittemberg, and wrote a most learned Commentary on Purbacchius's Theory of the Planets. He compo∣sed likewise, and dedicated to Albert, Marquess of Brandeburg, and Duke of Prussia, Astronomical Tables, according to the Hypothesis of Copernicus, which he called Prutenick Tables, in honour of the said Prince, as also Tables of Directions. He endeavoured likewise to illustrate and establish Chronology from the Eclipses of the Luminaries, and the great Conjunctions of the Planets; but his Death prevented the finishing of that Work. He had also a Son, called after his own Name, an

eminent Mathematician and Physician, who wrote upon the new Star in Cassiopaea,* 1.464 as Tycho Brahe testifies; Progymnasm. Tom. 1.

ARIEL BICHARDUS put forth a Collection of Questions, In Sphaeram* 1.465 Iohannis De Sacro Bosco, which he dedicated to his Godfather, Antonius Mullerus, sayes Ricciolus, in Part. 2. Chronic. Astronom.

JOHANNES ROIAS wrote, and dedicated to the Emperour Charles the* 1.466 Fifth, certain Commentaries upon the Astrolabe or Planisphere.

JOHANNES MARIA TOLOSAS, of the Order of the Predicants,* 1.467 wrote something of the Sun's greatest Declination. He published likewise a short Correction of the Roman Calendar, touching the due celebration of Easter.

JOHANNES BAVARUS, Medicus & Mathematicus, put forth Ephe∣merides,* 1.468 beginning in the year 1551. and ending in the year 1560. This Bavarus, is different from Iohannes Angelus Bavarus, mentioned in the year 1494.

GEORGIUS JOACHIMUS RHETICUS, Disciple to Copernicus,* 1.469 and Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Wittemberg, where he inter∣preted and explained Alfraganus. But hearing of the new Hypothesis of Coperni∣cus, he quitted his Professor's place, and went to Copernicus, whom he ceased not to exhort to perfect his Work, De Revolutionibus, which after his death he made pub∣lick, illustrating his Hypothesis by a particular narration, which he dedicated to Io∣hannes Schonerus, published by Maestlinus, and annexed to Kepler his Mysterium Cos∣mographicum, in the year 1621. He likewise set forth Ephemerides, according to the Doctrine of Copernicus, until the year 1551. What other Astronomical or Astrological Works he had either perfected or designed, will appear by his Epistle written to Petrus Ramus.

LUCAS GAURICUS, a Neopolitan, first, Professor of Mathematicks at* 1.470 Ferrara, afterwards Bishop of Civita Reale, corrected the▪ Alphonsine Tables, as also those of Regiomontanus, and Blanchinus, and published Tables of his own of the Primum Mobile, commonly called Tables of Directions, and Laurentius Bonincontri∣u▪s his Book, De Rebus Coelestibus, and Zacutus his Tables, together with Astrologi∣cal Precepts and Problems. He illustrated with Annotations Ptolemy's Almagest, put forth a learned Dissertation touching the miraculous Defect of the Sun at the time of our Saviour's Passion, and composed a new Ecclesiastical Calendar, compiled out of the Sacred Scriptures, and Ancient Synods, which last was Printed at Venice 1552. at which time like wise he published at Venice a Book called Tractatus Astrolo∣gicus, wherein are many Astrological Judgments on the Nativities of the most emi∣nent Persons of his Time. V. Simler. Bibl. Gesner.

TOBIAS MARMORARIUS, a Florentine, and Monk of the Cistertian* 1.471 Order, Vir Mathesios studiis egregiè excultus, as Vossius sayes of him, wrote yearly Prognosticks, of the Seasons of the year, and future Events.

ANTONIUS MYZALDUS writ Phaenomena, sive, Tempestatum Signa,* 1.472 quatuor Aphorismorum Sectiunculis Methodicè concinnata; Cometographia; Aescula∣pii & Uraniae Conjugium; Planetologia; Three Books of the Sphere, illustrated with Figures and Demonstrations; Zodi•…•…cus, sive duodecim Signorum Coeli Hortu∣lus, Libris tribus concinnatus; Planetarum Collegium, and some other Tractates of like Argument, as Simler, in Bibl▪ Gesner.

JACOBUS HOMELIUS is, about this time, reckoned, by Ricciolus,* 1.473 in the Catalogue of Astronomers, but without any mention of his Works. There* 1.474 was also one Iohannes Homelius, who wrote concerning the New Star in Cassiopea, and is mentioned by Ticho Brahe, in Progymn. Tom. 1.

JOANNES STABIUS, of Austria, Poet Laureat, Cosmographer, and* 1.475 Historiographer, to the Emperour Maximilian the First, Professor of Mathematicks at Vienna, wrote a Piece entituled Horoscopicum Universale; and several other Works, mentioned by his Scholar Georgius Collimitius, in Gesner's Bibliotheca, Tom. 1.

PAULUS EBERUS KYTZINGENSIS, put forth Calendarium Hi∣storicum,* 1.476 in the Preface to which he treats, De ejus Utilitate, & de Mensium apud diversas Gentes varietate. See more of him in Gesner's Bibliotheca.

GASPAR PEUCERUS, Son-in-Law to Philip Melancthon, wrote of the* 1.477 Doctrine of the Celestial Circles, and the Primum Mobile, and De praecipuis Divi∣nationum generibus, and among them, De Praedictionibus Astronomicis, as it is affirm∣ed by Vossius, De Scient. Mathemat. He wrote also Hypotheses Astronomicas, seu The∣orias Planetarum, ex Ptolem•…•…i & aliorum Veterum Doctrinâ, ad Observationes Coper∣nici, & Canones Motuum ab eo conditos, accommodatas, Printed, as Draudius affirms, at Wittemberg, 1572.

JOHANNES SCHRAETERUS VINARIENSIS, published, at* 1.478 Vienna in Austria, Astrological Tables, designing to gain himself, a repute by his predictions; of whom see Gesner's Biblioth.

HIEREMIAS BROTHEIEL, put forth various Prognosticks mentio∣ned* 1.479 by Simler. in Addit. Bibl. Gesner.

ANDREAS PERLACHIUS of Stiria, Doctor of Physick and Profes∣sor* 1.480 of Mathematicks in the University at Vienna, set forth, as Gesner stiles them, G•…•…mentaria Ephemeridum, ita conscripta, ut quisque absque Praeceptore, ex sola Le∣ctione integram inde Artem consequi possit, Printed by Aegidius Aquila at Vienna 1551.

FRANCISCUS RAPALDUS, Doctor of Physick at Bruges in Flan∣ders,* 1.481 wrote against Astrology as altogether useless to a Physician, to whom Petrus Haschardus, of Lisle, a Chirurgeon, replied in a Discourse by him entituled, Clipe∣um Astrologicum.

ROBERTUS RECORD, a Learned Doctor of Physick, and an excel∣lent* 1.482 Mathematician, descended of a generous Family in Wales, illustrated by his learned Labours, Cosmography, Geometry, Musick and Astronomy. He published Cosmographiae Isagogen, wrote a Book, De Arte faciendi Horologium; and another, De usu Globorum, & de statu Temporum. All which with several others he writ in the English Tongue.

PETRUS NONIUS, a Portuguez, Professor of Mathematicks in the Col∣ledge* 1.483 at Conimbra, wrote 'De Crepusculis; De Erratis Orontii; Astronomical Pro∣blems, and Rules for Observation, together with Annotations in Theoricas Purbacchii, commendable, sayes Vossius, not only for their Acumen and Perspicuity, but for discovering divers things omitted, and detecting several Errors committed by others.

HIERONYMUS CARDANUS, a Native of Milan, Professor of Phy∣sick* 1.484

and Mathematicks at Bologna, commented upon Ptolemy's Quadripartitum, De* 1.485 Iudiciis Astrorum, and put forth several other Tracts, as 1. De Supplimento Al∣manach. 2. De Restitutione Temporum, & Motuum Coelestium. 3. De Iudiciis Genitu∣rarum. 4. De Revolutionibus. 5. De Exemplis Centum Geniturarum. Aphorismi Astronomici: Not to mention his many other Works, not relating to our purpose.

LEVINUS LEMNIUS, Medicus Zirizaeus, writ three elegant Tractates,* 1.486 in the first whereof he treats of Astrology, shewing the verity or falsity of that Art, in which, sayes Gesner, multae amoenissimaeque causae explicantur, and particularly the Original of the Proverb, Quartâ Lunânati.

MICHAEL NOSTRADAMUS, Physician to Henry II. Francis II. and* 1.487 Charles IX. Kings of France, is famous for the several Centuries of Prophetical Prognostications extant under his Name (lately Englished with large Annotations) which in his Epistle Dedicatory of some part of them to Henry II. he affirms to have calculated by Astronomical Doctrine. But whether he were a greater Trifler or Astronomer, is by some questioned; but especially by Iodelé an ingenious French Poet, who hath bestowed on him this Distich;

NOSTRA DAMUS cum falsa damus, nam fallere nostrum est, Et cum falsa damus, nil nisi NOSTRA DAMUS.

NICHOLAUS SIMUS, Professor of Mathematicks in the Univertsiy of* 1.488 Bologna, set forth the Theories of the Planets, reduced to a Compendium, illustrated with divers Sculps and Figures. He put forth likewise Ephemerides for 15. years, calculated for the Meridian of Bologna, with Canons expounding the use of the said Ephemerides.

MARCUS FRITSCHIUS LAUBANUS HEXAPOLENSIS,* 1.489 wrote a Book De Meteoris, with a Catalogue of Prodigies and Ostents; Printed at Norimberg, 1555. as Gesner attests.

ANDREAS SCHONERUS, Son of Iohannes Schonerus of Carolostadt,* 1.490 published Tables of the Primum Mobile, according to the Fundamentals of Regio∣montanus.

HADRIANUS JUNIUS HORNANUS, for his Learning merited* 1.491 to be stiled, Alterum ab Erasmo Hollandiae Lumen. He published a Commentary, De Anno & Mensibus, likewise Fastorum Liber sive 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, rerum Memorabilium qualibet Anni die actarum apud Hebraeos, Graecos, Romanos, gentesque exteras, also Ca∣lendarium Syllabicum, so called, because the dayes of the year, Vocabulorum Syllabis respondeant; besides these he put forth Fasti Caesariani & Calendarium. These as he writ them were from hand to hand presented to Edward the Sixth King of Eng∣land, afterwards being enlarged and corrected, dedicated to his Sister Queen Mary. See more of him in Meursius in Athen. Batav. and G. Vossius de Scient. Mathemat. p. 398.

JOANNES GARCAEUS, a Brandeburgher wrote a Piece entituled Metho∣dus* 1.492 Astrologiae, illustrated with 400. Genitures, as Ricciolus affirms. To which Vossius adds, that he put forth, at Wittemberg, a Commentary consisting of XXII. Propositions, in which he comprizes the Doctrine of erecting a Celestial Scheme, and computing the Motions of the Planets. Draudius sayes, he put forth a small Treatise, De Tempore, sive De Ortu & Occasu Stellarum, & De usu Globi Coelestis, Printed at Wittemberg 1565. He was Scholar to Gaspar Peucerus.

JOSEPHUS ZARLINUS, a Native of Fossa Clodia (commonly called* 1.493 da Chioggia) an excellent Musician, who in his Institutioni Harmoniche, published* 1.494 in Italian, treats likewise of the Harmonick System of the Spheres.

RODOLPHUS BATTINGIUS, a Friezlander, published Methodum* 1.495 Astrolabii, according to Vossius, De Scient. Math.

CORNELIUS VALERIUS VETERAQUINAS, Successor to* 1.496 Petrus Nonnius at Lovaine, in Collegio Trilingui, put forth an Encyclopaedia, in which he treats of the Sphere, and the Elements of Astronomy, and Geography, suc∣cinctly and elegantly.

JEAN PIERRE DE MESMES, a French Gentleman, writ in his own* 1.497 Language, Astronomical Institutions, Printed at Paris, in folio, 1557.

CONRADUS DASYPODIUS, Professor of Mathematicks at Stras∣bourg,* 1.498 put forth Astronomical Precepts, and wrote a brief Treatise of Comets and their Effects, famous for being Author of the Astronomical Horologe set up in the Great Church at Strasbourg, the Description whereof he published in the year 1578.

GULIELMUS XYLANDER, Successour to Iacobus Mycillus in the* 1.499 Greek Professor's place at Heidelberg, a Person of good repute for his Philosophical and Mathematical Studies, among other Tractates of the later kind, put forth a small Treatise, De usu Globi & Planisperii, Printed at Heidelberg.

DANIEL BARBARUS, a noble Venetian, and Patriarch of Aquileia,* 1.500 hath sufficiently manifested his excellent knowledge in all Parts of the Mathema∣ticks, and particularly in Astronomy, by his learned Commentary upon Vitruvius his ninth and tenth Books.

JOHANNES TEMPORARIUS wrote an Astronomical Treatise,* 1.501 which he entituled Organum Astronomicum, grounded upon the Prutenick Tables, in which the whole Work of Astronomical Calculation is contracted to two Operati∣ons, to wit, only Addition and Substraction. All Proportional Scruples are laid aside, in the search after which much time is fruitlesly spent. The true Precession of the Equinox, which by the Alphonsine Astronomers is called the Motion of the Auges of the fixed Stars, is exposed to view for some Ages to come. The places as well of the Planets as the fixed Stars are with little or no trouble found for any time given. The Conjunctions and Defects of the Luminaries, with their Quantities and Durations, are most exquisitely defined, not only •…•…n one Climate, but in any Parallel whatsoever. The Parallaxes, whose invention gives trouble to the most ex∣perienced Artists, are by a wonderful compendious way found out and cleared, as to Latitude and Longitude, without the trouble of Calculation. Whence any one may frame to himself Ephemerides without any pains or labour. The Original Ma∣nuscript of which Work is at present in the possession of my worthy Friend, George Wharton Esquire.

PHILIPPUS FANTONIUS, a Florentine Monk, afterwards Abbot of* 1.502 Camaldolat, published a Book in Italian, of the reason of reducing the Year, to its true Form and Measure; of whom G. Vossius sayes, that he was Matheseos Scientia egregius, which he publickly professed in the Academy at Pisa. See more of him in Simler. Bibl. Gesner.

CYPRIANUS LEOVITIUS, of the Leonitian Family in Bohemia,* 1.503

Mathematician to Otho-Henry, Prince Palatine of the Rhine, put forth Astronomical* 1.504 Observations, with Astrological Prognosticks, upon the new Star in Cassiopaea. He likewise accurately described (to render Vossius's words) several Eclipses from the year 1556. to the year 1606. and published Ephemerides, and several other Works, mentioned by Simlerus, in his Bibliotheca Gesneriana, among the rest, Brevis & perspicua Ratio judicandi Genituras ex Physicis Causis & vera Experientia extracta, &c. to which is prefixed Admonitio de vero & licito Astrologiae usu per Hierony∣mum Wolphium, Printed at London 1558. Of Him Tycho Brahe (in Progymnasm. l. 1.) writes at large, adding withall, that, Pleraque ipsius Manuscripta opera, ad supputationes Astronomicas, praesertim primi Mobilis Tabulas copiosiores & faciliores reddendas facientia; Augustae in Fuggeorum Bibliotheca non sine harum A•…•…ium pro∣movendarum Incommodo, detinentur.

JOHANNES DRIANDER, Doctor of Physick, and Professor of Ma∣thematicks,* 1.505 which he illustrated by his learned Writings, particularly by his Book of the various Composition of Sun-Dyals; by his Description of a nocturnal In∣strument, for taking the hour of the Night from the inspection of the Stars; Astro∣labial Canons, and the Explication of the Quadrant; with several other Astrono∣mical Inventions; as it is testified by the excellent Thuanus, and Draudius in Bibl▪ Classica.

GEORGIUS BUCHANANUS, that learned Scotch-man, hath written* 1.506 Five Books of the Sphere, in a Latine Poem; to which Iohannes Pincierus hath ad∣ded a Supplement of the fourth and fifth Books, and Arguments to them all.

RABBI ORI, filius Simeonis, a Iew of Palaestine, put forth Calendarium* 1.507 Palaestinorum, & omnium Iudaeorum, computed for forty years, first Printed at Ve∣nice, in Hebrew, afterwards translated into Latine, and illustrated with Annotations by Iacobus Christmannus; and published at Francfort, 1594.

FEDERICUS COMMANDINUS of Urbino, optimè meritus, si quis∣quam* 1.508 alius, de Mathematicis, sayes Blancanus. For besides the many other excel∣lent Monuments of Greek Learning, which we owe to his happy Traduction, we are beholding to him for Aristarchus Samius, De Magnitudinibus & Distantiis Solis a•…•… Lunae, which he illustrated by a Comment of his own. He put forth likewise Ptole∣my's Analemma, and wrote De Lineis Horariis.

MICHAEL BEUTHERUS, Native of Carolostadt in Westphalia, not* 1.509 far distant from Wurstburgh, Scholar to Erasmus Reinholdus, afterwards Professor of Poetry, History, and Mathematicks; in the University of Gripswaldt, in the Dukedom of Pomerania, read at Paris publick Lectures, De Annorum Supputatione. He wrote De Globo Astronomico; De Circulis; Of the Correction of the Gregorian Calendar; Of the seventy weeks in Daniel; Of the time of the World's Creation, and the day of our Saviour's Passion. He was Library-Keeper to Otho-Henry, Prince Pa∣latine of the Rhine, and of his Council in Ecclesiastical Affairs, and restored to the same Charges afterwards by Frederick the Third.

ELIAS VINETUS, Professor at Bourdeaux, besides his Notes on Pomponius* 1.510 Mela, De situ Orbis, wrote a Commentary in Sphaeram Sacrobosci; for which he just∣ly merits a room in this Astronomical Catalogue.

JOHANNES HONTERUS CORONENSIS, of Cronstadt (in* 1.511 Transylvania) anciently called Zarmigethusa, writ Four Books, in Verse, De Ru∣dimentis Cosmographiae, which he adorned with several Land-Tables or Maps. To

which he adjoyned, in Prose, a Treatise of the Principles of Astronomy and Geo∣graphy.* 1.512

PETRUS RAMUS, first Disciple to Orontius Finaeus, afterwards Regius* 1.513 Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Paris, besides his Two Books of Arithmetick, and XXVII. of Geometry, put forth XXXII. Scholarum Mathemati∣carum, in the first of which he treats of many things relating to the Rise and Ad∣vancement of Astronomy.

MICHAEL NEANDER, è valle Ioachimica, put forth Elementa Doctri∣nae* 1.514 Sphaericae, & Materiam Computi Astronomici, as Ricciolus affirms in Chronolog. Astron.

DANIEL SANTBECH, of Nimmeghen, put forth, according to Riccio∣lus,* 1.515 Praeclara Problemata Astronomica & Geometrica, in VII. Sectiones distributa: In the first whereof he treats of several Observations of the Phaenomena of the Sun, Moon, and fixed Stars; In the second, he exhibits Canons of the Primum Mobile, extracted from the Tables of Regiomontanus; The third is of the Reasons of Gno∣mons and Shadows. The other Four are upon Geometrical Subjects.

JOSEPHUS MOLETIUS Professor of Mathematicks at Padua, besides* 1.516 his Comment upon Ptolemy's Geography, composed out of the Prutenick Tables, others, which he called Tabulae Gregorianae; for which by the Senate of Venice, he was rewarded with 200. Ducats, and promised by Pope Gregory XIII. for the con∣tinuation of them 300. Crowns more. He published likewise Introductio ad Ephemerides, Printed together with the Ephemerides of Iosephus Scala, of Sicily, in the year 1589.

LUCILLUS PHILALTHAEUS, Doctor of Physick, wrote as Ricciolus* 1.517 terms them, Luculentos Commentarios, upon Aristotle, De Coelo.

LEONARDUS DIGGES, of a generous Family in Kent, besides his* 1.518 Stratiotices, and his Mathematical Discourse of Geometrical Solids, wrote an Astro∣nomical Prognostication, then Printed.

ALEXANDER PICOLOMINAEUS, of Siena, wrote Four Books,* 1.519 De Sphaera Mundi; as also a Treatise of the Fixed Stars in Italian, in which Lan∣guage he likewise published another, of the Theory of the Planets, and dedicated the same to Cosmus de Medicis; and farther another, De Magnitudine Terrae & Aquae; all rendred into Latine by Nicholaus Stupanus, and Printed at Basil, 1568.

SAMUEL SYDEROCRATES wrote De usu Partium Coeli, in Com∣mendationem* 1.520 Astronomiae, Printed at Strasbourg, as Draudius affirms, 1567.

TITUS à POPMA, a Friezlander, wrote Tabellas in Sphaeram, & Elemen∣ta* 1.521 Astronomiae.

EDO HILDERICUS writ a small Treatise entituled Logistice Astronomi∣ca,* 1.522 Printed at Wittenberg 1568. mentioned by Simler, in Bibl. Gesner.

CHRISTIANUS VURSTISIUS, of Basil, Professor of Mathematicks* 1.523 in the University of Zurich, wrote learned Questions in Theoricas Purbacchii; whereto he prefixed an Introduction of his own, Printed at Basil, by Henricus Petri, 1586.

ABRAHAMUS ORTELIUS, of Antwerp, Geographer to Philip II▪* 1.524 King of Spain, most deservedly challenges a place in this Catalogue, especially for* 1.525 that great Work of his, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, with it's Parergon, and his Thesau∣rus Geographicus.

GERARDUS MERCATOR, a Native of Rupelmonde in Flanders,* 1.526 made several Mathematical Instruments for the Emperour Charles the Fifth, particu∣larly a Globe, in which was comprized the Constitution of the Planets, and the Celestial Signs and Constellations. He likewise made for the said Emperour two other Globes; the one Celestial of Chrystal, the other Terrestrial, of Wood. He put forth a Cronology from the beginning of the World to the year 1568. exactly composed and calculated, as well from Eclipses, and other Astronomical Observations of all Times, as from the Sacred Scriptures, and other Authentick Authors, highly com∣mended by Onuphrius Panvinius. Not to mention his other Geographical Works.

HUGO, sive HUO HELTILIUS, of Groeningen, in Friezland, wrote* 1.527 in Spanish of the Planisphere.

HENRICUS BRUCAEUS of Alost in Flanders, Doctor of Physick and* 1.528 Professor of Mathematicks at Rome and Rostoch, put forth Three Books of the Pri∣mum Mobile, and the Institutions of the Sphere, of whom Vossius, De Scient. Math. gives an ample Account.

FRANCISCUS BAROCCIUS, a Patrician of Venice, wrote (besides* 1.529 his other Works in Mechanicks and Geometry) Four Books of Cosmography, in the Preface to which he detects no less than LXXXIV. Errors of Io. de Sacrobosco, and his Followers.

JOANNES LALAMANTIUS, of Antun in Burgundy, a Physician pub∣lished* 1.530 a Tractate entituled, Collatio Rationis Anni exterarum ferè Omnium & Prae∣cipuarum Gentium cum Romano Anno, Printed at Geneva apud Crispinum 1571. 8^o.

ADAMUS URSINUS, of Norimberg, wrote Prognosticks upon the new* 1.531 Star in Cassiopaea, touching which, see Tycho, Progymn. Tom. 1.

ANDREAS NOLTHIUS, of Embeck, wrote concerning the Star in* 1.532 Cassiopaea about the same time as the Landtgrave of Hesse, as is likewise noted by Tycho, Progymnas. Tom. 1.

BARTHOLOMAEUS RASACHERUS, Professor of Mathematicks* 1.533 at Vienna, wrote also touching the Star in Cassiopaea.

CORNELIUS GEMMA, of Lovaine, wrote likewise upon the same* 1.534 Subject: So also did

CORNELIUS FRANGIPANUS, whose Censure see in Tycho Brahe,* 1.535 Progymnas. Tom. 1.

HIERONYMUS MUNOSIUS, Professor of the Hebrew Tongue and* 1.536 Mathematicks in the University of Valentia, and Physician to the Emperor Maxi∣milian the Second, put forth his Observations upon the New Star in Cassiopaea.

ELIAS CAMERARIUS, Professor of Mathematicks at Francfort, upon* 1.537 Oder, wrote De Nova Stella Cassiopaeae.

GUL•…•…ELMUS POSTELLUS, Native of Barenton, a Town in Norman∣dy,* 1.538 about this time put forth his Cosmography, sive, De Universitate, and wrote,* 1.539 De Nova Stella Cassiopaeae.

JOHANNES DEE, Doctor of Physick and an excellent Mathematician* 1.540 (besides other his learned Works, whereby he hath honoured our Nation, not per∣tinent to our present purpose) wrote, upon occasion of the New Star in Cassiopaea, a small Treatise, by him entituled Parallacticae Commentationis & Praxeos nucleus, highly commended by Tycho Brahe, in Progymnasm. Tom. 1. He published in the year 1558. a Treatise entituled, De Praestantioribus quibusdam Naturae Virtutibus, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, containing several curious Astronomical and Astrological Aphorisms; In the Preface to which Piece, he makes mention of the several Astro∣nomical Tractates following, by him intended for the Publick, but whether ever yet Printed is uncertain; as first, De Planetarum, inerrantium Stellarum, Nubiumque à Centro Terrae Distantiis, & Stellarum omnium veris inveniendis Magnitudinibus in two Books, De praecipua Perspectivae Parte, quae de Radiorum Fractione tractat, in three Books, De Caelestis Globi amplissimis Commoditatibus, in two Books, De Nova Navigationum Ratione, in two Books, and one Book, De Annuli Astronomici multi∣plici usu, divided into a hundred Chapters, besides some other Mathematical Pieces, among which, his Apology for Fryar Bacon. A farther Account of the Works and Writings of this Stupendious Person the Reader may happily e're long meet with in his Life; intended to be written (if Providence second his Design) by my wor∣thy Friend Elias Ashmole Esquire, whose singular Affection to Astronomical and Astrological Studies may justly entitle him to a Place in this Catalogue.

PAULUS HAINZELIUS, Consul of Ausbourg, diligently observed, at* 1.541 Gegginge, near the City of Ausbourg aforesaid, the motions of the Stars and Pla∣nets, using in his Observations a Quadrant of fourteen Cubits, as Ricciolus, in Chro∣nol. Astron. affirms. His Prayses and Commendations may be seen in Tycho Brahe, Progymn. Tom. 1.

PAULUS FABRITIUS, a Mathematician and Physician to the Empe∣rour* 1.542 of Germany, wrote De Nova Stella Cassiopaeae 1572.

THEODORUS GRAMINEUS, Professor of Mathematicks at Colen,* 1.543 published a Prolix and tedious Commentary, or (as Tycho more truly terms it) Com∣mentum, upon the New Star in Cassiopaea.

MICHAEL MAESTLINUS GOEPINGENSIS, at first Parish-Priest,* 1.544 or Curate of a little Town called Bachnang, afterwards Professor of Mathe∣maticks in the Universities of Heidelberg, and Tubinge, and Master or Tutor to Kepler, wrote De Stella Nova Cassiopaeae, and of the Comet which appeared in the year 1576. as also Ephemerides according to the Prutenick Tables, and Additions to the first Narration of Rheticus, with an Appendix; De Dimensionibus Orbium Coele∣stium, according to the Opinion of Copernicus. He published likewise Theses De Eclipsibus, and an Epitome of Astronomy, and wrote against the Gregorian Calendar, in which he was opposed by Clavius; yet happy in this, that he was not only Ma∣ster to the learned Kepler, but first Motor to the famous Galilaeo (addicted before that time entirely to Aristotle and Ptolemy) of his embracing the Copernican Hypo∣thesis, perswaded thereunto by the force of his Arguments, which in a Publick Le∣cture upon that Subject he used at the time of his being in Italy.

GELLIUS SASSERIDES, a Dane, of Copenhagen, was one of those* 1.545 who assisted the noble Tycho Brahe in his Celestial Observations; some of whose Epistles are extant in Maginus, De Directionibus.

JOHANNES HECKIUS, of Daventer, Doctor of Physick, wrote a small* 1.546 Treatise upon the New Star in Cassiopaea, termed by Ricciolus, Opus non inelegans.* 1.547

TYCHO BRAHE, descended of an illustrious Family among the Danes,* 1.548 as being eldest Son to Otto Brahe, Lord of Knudsthorp, in the Island Schonen, not far from Elzinbourg, who was Son of another Tycho, Son of Axilius Brahe, Lord of the said Place; the Hipparchus of his Age, who even from his Childhood being addicted to Astronomical Studies, though diverted from them by the Advice of his Friends and morose humour of his Tutour, grew by his own Ingenuity and Indu∣stry without any Instructor, so great a Proficient therein, that in the time of his Mi∣nority, and without the help of other Instruments, than a small Globe little bigger than a Man's Fist, and a large pair of Compasses, with which by applying his Eye to the Head of the Compasses, and opening the shanks thereof, he used by stealth to take the Distances of the Stars, he made a shift to detect divers considerable Errors, both in the Alphonsine and Prutenick Tables. At length by his Studies and Travels, having consummated his Knowledge in Astronomy. He was by Frederick the Se∣cond King of Denmark (at what time he resolved to make his Retreat into Switzer∣land, the better to apply himself entirely to the Contemplation of the Stars) invi∣ted to fix his Studies at Home, and to honour his own Country with his Learned La∣bours and Observations. To which end the King gave him the Island Huena, com∣monly called Ween, between Scania and Zeland, in the Baltick Sound, as a Place for his Retirement and Studies. Where causing to be built a Stately Pallace, to which he gave the Name of Uranoburgum, procuring most costly and exquisite Instruments for observing, and calling to his Assistance the most learned Astronomers of that Age, he happily began and made his glorious Progress in the Instauration of Astronomy. In which Work he is said to have expended no less than two hundred thousand Crowns. And as Copernicus had corrected many things in Ptolemy, so did Tycho no less in Copernicus. So that from thence the Learned World began to look upon on∣ly three chief Sects of Astronomers, whereof the Tychonick was the mean and mid∣dle between the Pythagorean or Copernican, and the Aristolean or Ptolemaick. Of his Works there are published Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata, in three Parts; whereof the first treats of the Restitution of the Sun's Motion, as also of the Moon's, and the fixed Stars; chiefly of the new Star which appeared in the Constellation of Cassiopaea, 1572. The second of several new Phaenomena's of the Aetherial World, more particularly of the Comet which appeared in the year 1577. The third and last contains his Astronomical Epistles to divers Persons. There is extant likewise a Book of his entituled Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica, dedicated by him to the Empe∣ror Rudolphus the Second, describing the several stupendious and costly Instruments, by him used in his Astronomical Instauration. To these is to be added his Historia Coelestis, being a Collection of twenty years Observations preserved in MS. by three mighty Emperors, Rudolph the Second, Ferdinand the Second, and Ferdinand the Third, and lately by Command of his Imperial Majesty Leopold, made publick at Ausburg. Which said Observations are ushered by a Liber Prolegomen•…•…, compen∣diously representing the Observations made from the time of the Infancy of Astro∣nomy unto that of it's Restauration by the Illustrous Tycho, reduced into 7. Class. containing the Babylonian Observations, the Grecian, the Alexandrian, the Syro-Persian, the Norimbergian, the Borussian, and mixt Observations from the year 1529. to the year 1582. After which begin the Tychonick Observations in twen∣ty Books, containing as many Annual Observations ending in the year 1601. which was the last of Tycho's life: A correct Copy of these Observations (transcribed from the Original, by Erasmus Bartholinus) being now likewise in the Press at Pa∣ris. See more of him, in his life, written by the excellent Gassendus, in six Books.

PETRUS BEAUSARDUS, Doctor of Physick, and Regius Professor of* 1.549

Mathematicks in the University of Lovain, wrote of the Astronomical Ring, or the* 1.550 Armilla.

THADDAEUS HAGGECIUS of Haic, Disciple to Ioachimus Came∣rarius,* 1.551 and Physician to the Emperour Maximilian the Second, put forth a Piece, entituled Dialexis, touching the New Star in Cassiopaea, whose several Arguments see reported and examined by Tycho, Progymn. Tom. 1.

JOHANNES RASEH, at Munichen, wrote De Cometarum Significationi∣bus,* 1.552 about the year 1573. About the same time

GEORGIUS BUSCHIUS, Pictor & Astronomus Erfordiensis, as Riccio∣lus* 1.553 stiles him, wrote of the Star which appeared in Cassiopaea. And

ANTONIUS SANTUTIUS, Professor of Mathematicks at Pisa, wrote* 1.554 De Cometis, in which he treats of the same Star.

WOLFANGUS SCHULERUS, Professor of Mathematicks in the U∣niversity* 1.555 of Wittemberg, wrote upon the same Subject, in answer to Caspar Peucerus, the Younger, his Proposals touching the said New Star.

FRANCISCUS BORDINUS, of Correggio, Doctor of Arts and Phy∣sick,* 1.556 and Publick Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Bologna, published Chilias Quaestionum & Responsorum Mathematicorum ad cognitionem Universi perti∣nentium, divided into three Parts; the first treating of Geometry, the second of Geography, and the last in a more ample manner of Astronomy, Printed at Bologna.

JACOBUS SCHOL, of Strasbourg, Doctor of Physick, set forth a Book,* 1.557 wherein he reduces Theses aliquot rei Medicae simplicioris, Integritati Astronomicae. He published likewise a Book, De brevi applicatione Astrologiae ad Medicinam; with Canons of their conveniency and agreement; Extant in the King's Library at St. Iames's.

JOHANNES FRANCISCUS OFFUSIUS, wrote De Divina Astro∣rum* 1.558 Facultate, in Larvatam Astrologiam, Printed at Paris, in the year 1574.

HERMANNUS WITTEKINDUS, Professor of Mathematicks at* 1.559 Heidelberg, published a small Tractate, De Sphera Mundi, & Temporis Ratione apud Christianos, Printed at Newstadt, in the year 1590. He put forth also a Piece enti∣tuled, Conformatio Horologiorum in superficiebus planis utcunque sitis; with a Ho∣rological Quadrant, Printed at Heidelberg.

ADAMUS à BODENSTEIN, Son of Andreas, Doctor of Physick, at* 1.560 Basil, writ De Herbis duodecim Zodiaci signis dicatis, as Simler affirms, in Bibl. Gesner.

LUDOVICUS LAVATERUS, of Zurich, besides his Book, De Spe∣ctris,* 1.561 Lemuribus, & magnis atque insolitis fragoribus, variisque Praesagitionibus, quae plerunque Hominum magnas clades, mutationésque Imperiorum praecedunt, wrote a large Catalogue of Comets, published at Zurich, by Gesner.

ANDREAS ROSA SINGFURDENSIS MEDICUS, in his* 1.562 Prognostick, published 1574. made some Observations upon the Star in Cassiopaea.

JOSIAS SIMLERUS, Author of the Epitome of Gesner's Bibliotheca,* 1.563 put forth two Books, De Principiis Astronomiae.* 1.564

FRANCISCUS JUNCTINUS, a Florentine, Doctor in Theology, Pro∣fessor* 1.565 of Philosophy and Astronomy, put forth Speculum Astrologicum, Tabulis Astronomicis, & multiplici eruditione refertum, according to the Judgement of Ricciolus; and wrote accurate Commentaries in Sphaeram Sacrobosci, as Vossius calls them. He left likewise two Treatises, Ad judicandum De Revolutionibus Astrorum; and a large Commentary upon Ptolemy's Quadripartite, with a Catalogue of the most famous Persons of his Time, and some Ages before him, Printed together in folio.

GODESCALCUS EBERBACHIUS, wrote of the Eclipse of the* 1.566 Moon, which happened in December 1573. with a brief Prognostick thereupon according to the Doctrine of Ptolemy. He published likewise the Reason of ano∣ther Eclipse of the Moon, which happened in the year 1576. demonstrated Geo∣metrically, and Printed at Erford, as Draudius affirms.

SIXTUS SENENSIS, of the Order of Preaching Fryars, put forth, by* 1.567 way of Comment, upon the Scripture, one Book of Geographical; another of Astronomical Questions.

EGNATIUS DANTES, of Perugio, a Dominican, and publick Profes∣sor* 1.568 of Mathematicks in the University of Bologna, wrote of the use of the Astro∣labe, and the making of Astronomical Instruments, and reduced Astronomy, with other Mathematical Sciences, into a Compendium. He erected a Gnomon, in the Church of St. Petronio at Bologna, for observing the Sun's Declination, and Equi∣noctial Armillae in the Church-wall of St. Maria Novella at Florence, for the obser∣vation of the Equinox. He first published the Optick Fragments of Heliodorus La∣rissaeus in Italian, in which there is something Astronomical; of which, another E∣dition hath been published in Greek and Latine, at Paris in 1657. by Erasmus Bar∣tholinus in 4^o. and lately at Cambridge another in 8^o. Greek and Latine, ad Hetrus•…•…i Codicis fidem, ex Bibliotheca Fr. Lindenbrogii, Printed at the end of the Opucsula Mythologica Ethica & Physica, set forth by Mr. Tho. Gale, 1670.

THOMAS BLEBELIUS, wrote of the Sphere, and of the first Rudi∣ments* 1.569 of Astronomy, Printed at Wittemberg in the year 1576.

BARTHOLOMAEUS SCULTETUS GORLICIENSIS, wrote* 1.570 of the Comet which appeared in the year 1557. Astronomicè & Astrologicè; of which see Tycho's censure, lib. 2. p. 175.

JOHANNES MARIA FIORNOVELLUS, of Ferrara, upon oc∣casion* 1.571 of the Comet appearing in the year 1577. Published a small, but learned Treatise, De Cometis.

GUID' UBALDUS, or GUIDUS UBALDUS, a Noble Italian* 1.572 Marquess, of the Family DE MONTE, besides other Signal Monuments of his great Skill in Mathematicks, especially in Mechanicks, set forth a Treatise of the Astrolabe and Perspective, and left behind him (being a Posthume Work) divers Astronomical Problems, as Ricciolus in Catalog. Astron. and Vossius, De Scient. Mathemat. testifie.

NICHOLAUS WINKLERUS of Hall, or Hala, in Suabe, commonly* 1.573

called Schwabishe Hall, to distinguish it from a Town of the same Name in Saxony,* 1.574 wrote a small Piece, wherein he proposes to demonstrate the Parallax and distance of the former Comet from the Center of the Earth; but censured by Tycho, to be a work full of enormous absurdities.

JOHANNES PRAETORIUS JOACHIMICUS, wrote likewise* 1.575 upon the Comet appearing 1577. and occasionally upon the New Star in Cassiopaea happening not long before; of which Tycho, in Progymnas. Tom. 1.

HELIZAEUS ROESLINUS, Published a Treatise entituled Theoria Coe∣lestium* 1.576 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, in which (sayes Draudius in Bibl. Classica) from the Phaenomena of divers Comets, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, quaedam afferuntur de Novis cujusdam Miraculi Tertiae Sphaerae Circulis, Polis, & Axi; Printed at Strasbourg 1578. He assumed to him∣self, as Raimarus Dithmarsus had done, the Invention of the Tychonick System, to which he added the (exploded) Solidity of the Celestial Orbs, as Gassendus, in vita Tychon. testifies.

PAULUS CRUSIUS COBURGENSIS, put forth a Treatise, De* 1.577 Doctrina Revolutionum Solis, cum Tabulis Mediarum Conversionum Temporis, & Motuum Solis in Annis Tropicis & Sidereis, Printed at Iena 1567. and another, De Epochis seu Aeris, Printed at Basil in 8^o. 1578.

GEORGIUS CAESIUS, put forth a Catalogue, according to the Series of* 1.578 Time, of all the Comets which appeared from the Flood, until the year 1579. Printed at Norimberg the same year.

ANDREAS DUDITIUS, wrote a small Comment, De Cometarum signi∣ficationibus;* 1.579 to which is adjoyned the Opinion of Thomas Erastus, Printed at Basil 1579.

ALKAS CURIACUS, in the year of Hegira 950. and of Christ 1580.* 1.580 writ Tables, or Computus Astronomicus, now extant in the Publick Library at Oxford.

VALENTINUS NAIBODA, Professor of Mathematicks at Colen and* 1.581 Padua, wrote Three Books of Astronomical Institutions, and put forth an enarration of the Elements of Astrology, collected out of Alchabitius, and other Authors. He was found dead in his House, at Padua transfixed with many wounds, having pre∣dicted that he should die by the Sword. Vide Ricciol. in Append. ad Tom. prim. Al∣magest. Nov. & Campanellae Astrolog.

MARCUS ALBERTUS LONICERUS, wrote of the Theory of* 1.582 the Celestial Motions, according to the Hypothesis of Copernicus, Printed at Colen, 1583.

JOHANNES BAPTISTA CARELLUS, of Piacenza, wrote Ephe∣merides,* 1.583 together with a Treatise or Introduction to Astrology; as Ricciol. in Astron. Chron. affirms.

MAURITIUS BRESSIUS, put forth Four Books, Metrices Astronomi∣cae,* 1.584 Printed at Paris, 1581.

MATTHAEUS RICCIUS, Native of Macerata, a Town in Italy, a Iesuit,* 1.585 famous as well for his Travels into the East-Indies and China, as for his eminent Skill in the Mathematicks. To ingratiate himself with the Chineses, he is said to

have Composed a Cosmographical Map, of an Oval Form, in which he or∣dered* 1.586 the Kingdom of China to be placed at large in the midst, and the other Kingdoms and Territories about the skirts thereof in little, the better to humour that proud conceited Nation. He wrote likewise, in the Chinese Tongue, a Cosmo∣graphical Table, which he illustrated with a Comment, together with Cosmographi∣cal and Astrological Rules, and divers other things for the benefit of that Nation.

ALOYSIUS LILIUS; of Verona, Doctor of Physick, by Blancanus stiled,* 1.587 Alter nostri aevi Sosigenes, whose assistance Gregory XIII. made use of in correcting and reforming the Iulian Calendar. He invented a perpetual Cycle of the Moon, and established the immutable and fixed seats of the Aequinoxes.

THOMAS ERASTUS, an eminent Philosopher and Physician, writ some* 1.588 thing upon the Subject of Astrology, or rather against the Iudiciary Part, Quam va∣lidis Argumentis confutavit, sayes the excellent Thuanus, in Histor. ad Ann. 1583.▪

SIXTUS ab HEMINGA, called likewise by Vossius, Simon ab Heminga, a* 1.589 Native of Friezland, of a Noble Family, Doctor of Physick, and an excellent Astrono∣mer, in his Youth much addicted to Judiciary Astrology, but afterwards having de∣tected the falsity of that vain Study by his inspection into the Genitures of thirty most eminent Persons, he put forth a Book in confutation thereof; wherein he chiefly oppugns Cyprianus Leovitius, Hieronymus Cardanus, and Lucas Gauricus.

JOHANNES PADUANUS, wrote of the various Composition and use* 1.590 of Sun-Dials, together with a Method, or Tables for supputation of the Hours, according to the several Regions of the World, and distinguishing the Places of the Stars; Printed at Venice and Verona, in the years 1582. and 1583. as Draudius affirms.

ALBERTUS LEONINUS, sive LEUWIUS, a Groenwood, Native of* 1.591 Utrecht, of a generous Family, Doctor of the Civil Law, and eminently learned in the Mathematicks, put forth the Theory of the Celestial Motions, according to the Doctrine of Copernicus. In which he likewise treats of the true Quantity of the Tropical year, and of the Reason of the Reformation, or Restitution of the Civil year. In the same Work likewise he gives an Introduction to Astronomy, Geogra∣phy, and Horography. He wrote also against Judiciary Astrology.

REMBERTUS DODONAEUS, Published a Cosmographical Instituti∣on* 1.592 of the Sphere, comprehending the Principles of Astronomy and Geography; Printed at Antwerp, 1584.

JOANNES BAPTISTA BENEDICTUS, a Noble Venetian, invi∣ted* 1.593 from Parma to Turin, by the Duke of Savoy, in the year 1566. to answer se∣veral Questions proposed in Arithmetick, Geometry, Astronomy, Opticks, and Mu∣sick, to which he endeavoured to give satisfaction and solution, by his learned Epi∣stles, published in the year 1585. He was an Excellent Geometer and▪ Tutor to Clavius.

NICHODEMUS FRISCHLINUS, wrote Five Books, De Astronomi∣cae* 1.594 Artis cum Doctrinâ Coelesti, & Naturali Philosophiâ congruentiâ, Printed at Franc∣fori, in the year 1586.

SALOMON PLEPPIUS, wrote a new Explication of the Motion of the* 1.595 utmost Heaven, called the Prime Mover, Printed in the year 1587.

HENRICUS DECIMATOR, put forth a small Treatise, as well of the* 1.596 Fixed Stars as Planets, serving not only for the use of Astronomers, but also Poets;* 1.597 Printed at Magdeburg, 1587.

JOSEPHUS SCALA, a Sicilian, composed Ephemerides, continuing from* 1.598 the year of Christ, 1589. to the year 1600.

JOSEPHUS AURIA, a Neopolitane, whom Blancanus commends, as if he* 1.599 were another Commandinus, for his learned Labours, in translating divers of the Ancient Greek Mathematicians, in particular (and to our purpose) Autolycus De Sphaera Mobili, Euclidis Phaenomena, & Theodosius Tripolita, De Habitationibus, & De Diebus & Noctibus.

CHRISTOPHORUS ROTHMANNUS, was Mathematician to the* 1.600 Illustrious William, Landtgrave of Hesse. He made his Celestial Observations at Cassels, at the same time, as Tycho did his at Uranoburg; and besides his accurate Piece upon the Comet which appeared in the year 1585. There are extant in the first Tome of Tycho Brahe's Epistles, divers Letters of his to Tycho, with Tycho Brahe's Answers to him, touching several Controversies in Astronomy.

SIMON STEVINUS, of Bruges, Mathematician to Maurice▪ Prince of* 1.601 Aurange, put forth, among other Works of his, Theories of the Planets, and Tables of the Celestial Motions, in Three Books.

DAVID WOLKENSTEIN VRATISLAVIENSIS, a Silesian,* 1.602 writ an accurate Description of the Astronomical Horologe at Strasbourg, where he was Professor of Mathematicks, extant in Manuscript in the hands of my worthy Friend, Mr. Thomas Gale,

JACOBUS CHRISTMANNUS, Publick Professor of Mathematicks,* 1.603 and the learned Languages at Heidelberg, translated into Latine, out of a Manuscript in the Elector Palatine's Library, Alfraganus's Chronological and Astronomical Elements, which he supplied and illustrated with various Scholia; to which he an∣nexed a Comment, wherein he explained the Roman, Egyptian, Arabian, Persian, Syriac, and Hebrew Calendar. He put forth likewise divers Solar Observations, therein explicating the true Motion of the Sun in the Zodiack, accommodating the Doctrine of Triangles to the apparent motion of the Heavens. He wrote likewise of the Theory of the Moon, grounded upon a new Hypothesis, for finding out the Moon's true place in the Zodiack; and several other Pieces, as well in Astronomy and Chronology, as in Geometry.

JOHANNES BAPTISTA PORTA, a Noble Neapolitane, published* 1.604 an Interpretation of the first Book of Ptolemy's Almagest with the Commentary of Theon thereupon; not to mention his twenty Books of Natural Magick, Printed in most of the Europaean Languages. He writ also an Excellent Book of Opticks, and of Celestial Physiognomy.

FRANCISCUS VIETA, a French-man, Native of Fontenay, whom Ric∣ciolus* 1.605 entitles Gallicanae Matheseos insigne decus, besides his many other excellent Works in Geometry, and other Parts of the Mathematicks. He exhibited to Pope Clement VIII. a new form of the Gregorian Calendar, to which he added perpetual Canons, and an Explication thereof against Clavius, whom he accused to have Deformed the true Lilian Reformation, by not rightly understanding the Reason of it; touching which Controversie Thuanus, in the 129^th Book of his History,

writes more particularly. But the Work of his chiefly pertinent to our Subject,* 1.606 and whose Loss cannot be sufficiently deplored, was his Harmonicon Coeleste, which being communicated to Mersennus, was, by some perfidious Acquaintance of that honest-minded Person, surreptitiously taken from him, and irrecoverably lost or suppressed, to the unspeakable detriment of the Letter'd World. Vide Buliald. Pro∣legom. in Astron. Phil. The learned Golius had it, and Sir Alexander Hume from hence imparted another Copy; both which, 'tis feared, are lost, there being no Impression made thereof, and Golius being since dead, his Collections (whereof he had many in Arabick) are said to be dispersed, and (which is to be pitied) carried back by a Iew into Turkey.

JANUS DOUZA, the Learned Son of as Learned a Father, sometim•…•… Tu∣tor* 1.607 to Henry Frederick, Prince of Orange, and the first Keeper of the Publick Li∣brary in the University of Leyden. Published among other his Writings, Rerum Coelestium Libri, & De Umbra, sive Umbrae Encomium, Printed at Leiden apud Ra∣phelengium 1590. 8^o.

JOHANNES BUSAEUS NOVIOMA GENSIS, of the Society of* 1.608 Iesus, wrote an Apologetical Disputation in behalf of the Gregorian Calendar, a∣gainst Iacobus Herbrandus, a Divine of Tubingue; of whom more in Ribadeneira, lib. De Scriptor. Soc. Iesu.

GULIELMUS ADOLPHUS SCRIBONIUS, wrote a Spherical In∣stitution,* 1.609 published together with Zacharias Parthenius his Notes, at Francfort, 1591.

PETRUS RYFF, wrote concerning the Sphere, as also touching the Prin∣ciples* 1.610 of Astronomy and Geography, Published in the year 1591.

THOMAS DIGGES, Son of Leonard Digges, before mentioned, of* 1.611 whom Tycho Brahe (Progymnasm. l. 1.) gives this Elogy, that he was (•…•…nerosi Stemmatis Vir, & Eximius Mathematicus; wrote a Book entituled, Alae & S•…•…alae Mathematicae, being a Treatise about calculating Parallaxes, Printed 1573. He pub∣lished likewise his Pantometria, and some other Mathematical Tractates in the year 1591.

ANTONIUS LUPICINUS, an Italian, writ (in that Language) D•…•…lle* 1.612 Verghe Astronomiche, Printed at Florence 1591.

GEORGIUS BACHMANNUS, put forth an Epitome of the Do∣ctrine* 1.613 of the Primum Mobile; comprehending a brief exposition of all the Celestial Circles and Appearances; to which is added a small Treatise, De Doctrina Sphaeri∣ca, Printed at Wittemberg, 1591.

HENRICUS RANTZOVIUS, a Noble Dane, and Viceroy in the* 1.614 Dutchy of Schleswick, Holsatia, and Ditmars, put forth Calendarium, Romanum, Oeconomicum, Ecclesiasticum, Astronomicum, & fere perpetuum; and an Astrologi∣cal Treatise, collected out of the most ancient and best Authors of Judiciary Astro∣logy; Printed at Francfort, by Wechelius; also Locorum Hylegi•…•…lium ad quodvis Tempus datum Directiones. He writ also a Catalogue of Emperours, Princes, and other Illustrious Persons, who had either affected, promoted, or studied Astrology; A Treatise, De Veritate Astrologica, and another, De Annis Climactericis, &c. Printed at Leipsick 1584.

JOANNES PAULUS GALLUCIUS, Published Theatrum Mundi* 1.615 & Temporis, Printed at Venice 1589. Likewise Speculum Uranicum, there Printed in* 1.616 the year 1593. And Della Fabrica & Uso di diversi Stromenti di Astronomia & Cosmographia, Printed in the year 1597. Also, De Figura Coelesti erigenda, with some other Tractates of like Nature.

FEDERICUS BONAVENTURA, wrote, De Affectionibus Meteoro∣logicis;* 1.617 De vero Ortu & Occasu Siderum; De Stellarum significationibus, &c. Printed at Venice, 1594. He hath written also upon Theophrastus De Ventis, and up∣on Ptolemy De Siderum Ortu & Occasu, and in his Book, De Octomestri Partu, shews himself not ill affected to Astrology.

GULIELMUS HARTGILL, an English-man put forth Tabulae Astrono∣micae* 1.618 Universales, Printed at London 1594 and Reprinted 16 with Additions by Iohn Gadbury of London.

BERNARDINUS BALDUS, Disciple to Federicus Commandinus, of* 1.619 whom Vossius gives this Charecter, that he was Vir non solum Mathesios universae pe∣ritissimus, sed etiam, (ut Germanicam, Gallicam, & Slavonicam Linguam omittam) Latinè, Graecè, Hebraicè, Chaldaicè, & Arabicè Doctissimus. Not to mention his many curious Works in other Parts of the Mathematicks, well known to the Learned; We shall only insist on what more nearly relates to our present Subject; as his five Books, Novae Gnomonices, Horologium universale, & de Firmamento. He writ likewise upon the Phaenomena of Aratus; and hath composed a History of the Lives of all the famous Mathematicians from Thales Milesius to Commandinus, with a Chronology of the Times wherein they flourished, and their several Eulogies. Of which, if we may judge (as of Hercules by his Foot) by that Life he hath written of Hero, already published with his Belopoica. We cannot but conclude them wor∣thy of that Honour which they yet want, that is, a speedy Publication to the view of the Learned World. And if the Manuscript now in possession of some of his Family, or a Copy thereof may be obtained; we may have then hopes that er'e long the Work will be communicated to the Curious of this Nation.

GERARDUS RUPELMUND ANUS, set forth a Book, which he* 1.620 entituled Atlas, or Cosmographical Meditations, De fabrica Mundi, & fabricati figu∣ra; Printed at Duisberg, in the year 1595. according to Draudius, whom I con∣ceive to be the same with Mercator.

JOSEPHUS ACOSTA, in the year 1597. published the use of an Instru∣ment,* 1.621 called a Cylinder, together with Astronomical Tables; Printed at Colen.

GULIELMUS, Landtgrave of Hassia, merits an Elogium beyond what can* 1.622 be here given, for his assiduous Observations for many years of the Celestial Bo∣dies; to which end, at Cassells, he erected an Observatory, with excellent Instru∣ments, calling to his assistance two eminent Artists, Christophorus Rothmannus, and Iustus Byrgius. His Observations were published at Leyden, in the year 1618. by Willebrodus Snellius, and are in part mentioned by Tycho, as well in his Epistles, as in the second Tome of his Progymnasm. A signal example to all Princely and Hero∣ick Minds, to undertake the promoting and advancing of this truly Noble and Ce∣lestial Science.

NICHOLAUS RAIMARUS DITHMARSUS URSUS, one* 1.623 of Tycho Brahe's Scholars, published a Piece under the Title of Astronomical Hypo∣theses, with a Defence thereof, Printed at Prague, 1597. In which he endeavours

to prove himself Author, or at least first Reviver of the pretended Brahean Hypo∣thesis,* 1.624 which he will have to be ancient, ascribing the same to Apollonius Pergaeus, as its first Inventor, ingratefully seeking to deprive Tycho of the due honour there∣of. But he is answered by Tycho, who hath vindicated and asserted his own right.

JOSEPHUS SCALIGER, the Great Prince or Monarch of Univer∣sal* 1.625 Learning. As to what concerns our present Subject, his elaborate Work, De Emendatione Temporum, his exquisite Animadversions on Eusebius, with his Canon Isagogicus Chronologiae, and his accurate Comment upon Manilius's Astronomicks, sufficiently evidence his admirable knowledge, as well in Astronomy, as in other the Mathematical Learning of the Ancients; whom, if we may trust the Judgment of the incomparable Vieta, he alone, above all others, perfectly understood, as the same is reported by the Learned Casaubon, Epist. 586. He wrote likewise Cyclometrica, Et Diatriba De Aequinoctiorum Anticipatione.

FEDERICUS SAMINIATUS, published Astronomical Tables, at An∣werp,* 1.626 in the year 1599. 4^o.

CHRISTOPHORUS FEMILLUS, put forth Synoptical Tables, for* 1.627 finding out the true place of the Planets, derived from the Prutenick Tables; to∣gether with the Investigation of the Festival Dayes of either Calendar, Printed at Wittemberg, 1599.

MELCHIOR JOESTELIUS, published Observations of an Eclipse* 1.628 of the Moon, happening in the year 1599. for his Skill in Astronomy well esteem∣ed by Tycho Brahe, with whom he lived sometime a Domestick, and to whom he was an Assistant in his Astronomical Observations.

SIBRANDUS à SICCAMA, wrote, De Veteri Anno Romano Antitheses,* 1.629 and Fasti Calendar.

Having Successively deduced this Astronomical Catalogue thus far; I hold it fit, before I proceed to the next Century, to insert in this Place the Names of divers Jewish, Persian, Arabian, and some other Astronomers, whose Times are Dubious, and uncertain (at least to me) of whom yet Mention is made in Simler; Hottinger's Smegm. Orient. Abul-Pharagius his Dynasties; James his Eclog. Oxon-Cant. Labbee, and the Catalogue of Golius his Manuscripts, &c.

DANIEL surnamed SAPIENS, wrote an Astronomical Tractate in Syri∣ack, extant in the publick Library at Oxford.

RABBI JACOB BEN-MACHIR, wrote De Quadrante Astrolabii, Vestimentum Lucis, & Iter Stellarum.

R. JEHUDA BAR BARZILEI, wrote a Book, teaching the supputa∣tion of Times, according to the Celestial motions.

R. ISAAC BEN LATAPH, an eminent Philosopher, wrote of the Fi∣gure of the World.

R. ABRAZARTH, a learned Astrologer, mentioned by Gesner, from the authority of Pastregicus, lib. De rerum Inventoribus.

R. AB RUSAK, a great Astronomer, mentioned by Gesner.

R. ABRAHAM, an eminent Astronomer wrote a Treatise entituled, Liber Intercalationis; as also another, called Intercalatio Annorum; De Solstitiis & Aequi∣noctiis; De Lunae motu, & Mensibus, & totius Calendarii ratione. Quaere whether the same with R. Abraham, who wrote De Sphaera, mentioned by Christmannus in Alfraganum, of whom already, ad annum 1115.

R. ISAASCHAR BEN SUSAN, writ a Treatise entituled, Correctio vel Ordinatio Calendarii.

R. ISAAC ALCHADEB, published a Work entituled, Via Strata, De Calendario, De Festis, &c.

R. SALOMON, writ a Treatise, entituled Sex Alae; as also another, under the title of Talmid. Ephemerides, comprehended in six Tables, as Hottinger, in Smeg•…•…. Orient. There is likewise a Treatise under his Name, called Tabula Lunae, extant in MS. in the Library of Marcus Mantua Benavidius of Padua, mentioned by Thomasinus in Bibl. Patav.

ALGAZEL ABUHAMAD, a Iewish Philosopher and Astronomer, writ in Hebrew, a Book, De Luminibus, entituled Haoroth, as the same is cited by Riccio∣lus, in Catalog. Astron.

JOSEPHUS CHALDAEUS, wrote De Planetis, as testifies Habede-Iesu in his Catalogue of Chaldeé Ecclesiastick Writers, Printed at Rome.

R. SIMCHA, Disciple to R. Solomon, put forth an Astronomical Treatise.

KUSIANUS or KEUXIAN GILAEUS, composed Universal Astro∣nomical Tables, with Demonstrations of their Canons. He is cited by Golius in Alferganum.

ABU-SEHEL, published a Treatise touching the Demonstration of the Planisphere.

ABDORRACHMAN of Damascus, wrote Tabulae 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, sive Resolu∣tiones ex Tabulis Ulug Beigi, brought by the learned Golius from Constantinople. He wrote likewise, De Astrothesia, Imaginum formis variisque Nominibus.

IBN-JAHIA ABBASIDES AFER, published a Treatise, of the Doubts and Errors of Astronomers, and of the Astrolabe.

IBN-OMAR SOPHY, wrote of Horology, or Dialling.

ABU-SHUKER AFRICANUS, wrote of the Theory of the Planets, demonstrated and amended, according to the newest and latest Observations.

MAHUMEDES CHARIKAEUS, put forth a System of the Doctrine of the Sphere.

GEORGIANUS, wrote a Treatise of the Orbe or Circle called Aequans, and of the Obliquity, Inclination, or Reflection of Epicycles.

ABI ZELTUS DANITA, an Andaluzian, put forth an Astrological Treatise.

ABU MESUD, wrote De Corporum Coelestium Contemplatione, mentioned in Golius his Catalogue MS.

IB'N SINA, wrote touching the best Instruments, for making of Celestial Observations, perhaps the same with Avicenna.

ALKASRANUS; MAHMOUD IB'N MESAUD ASSIJTARI; IBRA∣HIM IB'N ALI ALABASHI ALGJMDE; OMMAR ALFARESKOU∣RI; ALI IB'N ALHAZEN IB'N IBRAHIM IB'N MAHAMMED IB'N ALHUMAM; HAKIM ALMUGJAREITI; CHALIN ALFAKI; IB'N SARCALI; SJAHAB ADDIN; ALI ALHAZEN IB'N ALI IB'N MU∣HAMMED IB'N IBRAHIM ALMERWAZI; all Arabian and Persian Authors, wrote upon the Subject of Astronomy, and are mentioned in Iacobus Golius his Catalogue of Manuscripts, to which may be added HELVENOR Astrologus, and GERGIRO De Significatione Planetarum, mentioned by Simler.

ABI'L ASSAKER ABDOL AZIZ IB'N KOBERSI, wrote an Astronomical Introduction, mentioned in the foresaid Catalogue of Golius.

OMAD EDDIN ALBOCHARI, an Arabian, wrote a Treatise of the Figure and Motion of the Moon and Mercury.

ABU'L ALI ALMARASKOSJI, wrote a most accurate Treatise of the use of the Astrolabe.

ALCAJIM put forth very exquisite Astronomical Tables.

MUHAMMED IB'N ALI CHAR ARMIOUNI, put forth an Astronomi∣cal Institution, touching the supputation of Time and the motion of the Sun.

There is also among the same Manuscripts of Golius an anonymous Treatise, in the Persian Language, Of the Figures and Motion of the Stars, together with a Latine Version thereof by JUSTUS RAPHELENGIUS.

ABEN MERGIOUR, wrote Virtutes Oppositionum & Conjunctionum Sa∣turni & Iovis juxta Sententias Antiquorum, mentioned in the Catalogue of Golius his Manuscripts.

NEDAMENIN, wrote a Treatise, De variis Annorum formis, & Rebus Coelestibus.

TEILESANUS published Astronomical Canons.

SIDIN SHERIFFUS, wrote Elementa Astronomica, perhaps the same with Ali Escheriff, who put forth likewise Tabulae expeditae Motuum Coelestium, extant among Golius his MS.

JOHANNES LEBDEBENHAZER, writ De Iudiciis Astrorum, said to be in his Majesties Library at St. Iames's.

JARDAGIRD ALEXANDRINUS, otherwise called CHILVE∣NUZ, wrote De Scientia Annorum Arabum, the Manuscript whereof is extant in Caius Colledge at Cambridge.

THOMAS, De Iudiciis Astrorum, a Manuscript extant in the Library of Merton Colledge at Oxford, and in that of Gonvil and Caius Colledge in Cambridge.

HELIODORUS LARISSAEUS, writ Optica, & De Septem Planetis, his Opticks lately Printed at Cambridge.

HERACLIDES his Apotelesmata, are by Labbeé said to be in Bibliotheca Cardinal Carpens. and that of the French King.

AEGIDIUS ROMANUS, wrote a Treatise De essentia, motu, & signifi∣catione Cometarum; extant in MS. in the Publick Library, as also in that of Pem∣broke-Hall, at Cambridge.

PETRUS LEMONIENSIS, a Canon of the Cathedral of York, wrote a Piece entituled, Iudicium De Stella Cometa, extant in MS. in the Publick Library at Cambridge.

CHRISTIANUS ROLIANUS, put forth totius Orbis Generalis De∣scriptio, & Sphaera, extant in the French King's Library.

BERNARDUS SYLVESTRIS, wrote a Treatise entituled Megacosmus, seu De Majori Mundo; as also of Cosmography, a MS. whereof is extant in Benet-Colledge in Cambridge.

JACOBUS ZALESE; wrote De Dierum Aequationibus contra Propositiones Bartholomaei De Valentia, extant in MS. in the Library of Nicolaus Trevisanus of Padua, and mentioned by Thomasinus in Bibl. Patavin.

JOHANNES DE INERIIS, a Picard, of the Dlocese of Amiens, wrote a Treatise, entituled Canones super magnum Almanach omnium Planetarum, calculated for the Meridian of Paris, of which a Manuscript is in Caius and Gon∣vil. Coll.

ARCANDAM, or ARCANDUM, and ALCANDRINUS, (as some name him) writa Book. De Veritatibus & Praedictionibus Astrologiae, Printed at Paris in the year 1542. 8^o. Published by Richard Roussat Canon of Lingon.

HABASH MERWAZENSIS, wrote three Books of Astronomical Ta∣bles; the first composed according to the Rules Send Hend; the second called Montahen, i. e. approved by experience; the last, Tabularum minorum, entituled Alshah, as Abulpharagius, in Histor. Dynast.

ABDALLA EB'N SAHEL EB'N NUBACHT, wrote likewise upon the same Subject.

ALEXANDER, an Astronomer, wrote De Influentia Planetarum in Herbas, extant in MS. in the Library of Io. Rhodius of Padua, of which Thomasinus in Bi∣bliothec. Patavin.

MAHOMED AL-BUZIANI, besides several Books, which he set forth in Arithmetick, composed a Treatise which he entituled Almagestum, sive Systema Astronomicum; as Abulpharagius attests.

MOSES EB'N MAIMON of Corduba, a Iew, together with Yuseph Eb'n Yahya, corrected the Astronomy of Eb'n Aphla Hispanus; as the same Abul∣pharagius affirms.

ANDALIUS DE NIGRIS, wrote De Sphaera, in Theorias Planetarum, Planisphaerium Ptolemei, and Astrolabium, mentioned by Thomasinus in Bibliothec. Patavin. yet extant among the MS. of Nicolaus Trivisanus.

GHAMINAEUS, an Arabian Astrologer, wrote in Arabick, of Astrology, with a twofold Prolix Commentary in the Moorish Character, a Book commended by Scaliger, and remaining in the Library at Leyden, among the Manuscripts by him bequeathed to that University; as Hottinger affirms in Append. Smegmat. Orient.

ABENHAM writ De Astronomia, now extant in MS. in the Cottonian Library.

JOANNES LAURATIUS, or LAURENTIUS DE FUNDIS, wrote De Sphaera, & Theorica Planetarum, extant in MS. in the Library of Io. Rhodius of Padua, of which Thomasinus in Bibliothec. Patavin.

AVIENUS, or as others, ABIENUS wrote a Tract, De Cometis, as Sim∣ler in Bibl. Gesner. affirms.

MICHAEL HAVEMAN put forth a Treatise entituled Astraea; in qua de Hypothesibus Astrosophorum disseritur.

AMBROSIUS LACHER, according to the Testimony of Ge•…•…ner, writ quaedam De Astronomia, who makes no mention of the Time wherein he flourished, nor of the particular Subject he wrote upon.

HENRICUS DOPELSTIN, or TOPELSTEIN, Doctor of Physick wrote a Book, De Iudiciis Astrorum, mentioned by Simler in Bibl. Gesner.

JOHANNES ZINERIS, is mentioned by Gesner among the Astro∣nomers, and he farther affirms, that his Astronomical Tables are extant, but assigns not the time wherein he flourished.

ALACENUS, a Mathematician, an ancient English Author, of whom Balae∣us writes, that he deserved Astrologi Peritissimi nomen, wrote Of Perspective, and De Ascensione Nubium Of the time wherein he flourished no Author, we can meet withal, gives any account.

ARNOLDUS DE VILLA NOVA, wrote Compendium Astrologiae ad Utilitatem Medicorum; extant in MS. in the Library of the Canons of St. Io. Lateran of Padua. See Thomasinus in Bibliothec. Patavin.

ALDILAZITH ASTROLOGUS, writ a Book entituled Archibia, as Gesner, from the authority of Gulielmus Pastregicus (L. De Inventoribus rerum) assirms; Printed at Venice, in the year 1547. by Nicholaus Bascorinus.

MASLEM, an Astronomer, translated Ptolemy's Planispaerium out of the Greek, into the Arabian Tongue, as Rudolphus Brugensis relates in the Preface of his Latine Translation of the same Work.

MORIENTES, a certain Greek Author, writ De Zonis & Climatibus Mun∣di, extant, as the Author Luminis Animae affirms, in his Preface, adding that it was by him translated out of Greek into Latine. See Simler. in Bibl. Gesner.

RAYMYRUS GADITANUS, wrote a Treatise, which he entituled, Divinatio Sideralis, mentioned by Gesner.

STANTONIUS, an expert English Mathematician, wrote In Canones Tabu∣larum Arzahelis, as Leland and Gesner affirm.

TRECHINDUS, an Astronomer and Astrologer, is often mentioned by Haly Aben-Ragel, as Simler testifies in Bibl. Gesner.

ZAHEL, sive ZAEL, or ZEEL BEBIS, an Arabian Astrologer, writ De Interrogationibus; De Electionibus; De Temporum Significationibus in Iudi∣ciis; Printed at Venice 1493. together with Ptolemy's Quadripartitum; vid. Ges∣ner's Biblioth. There is also under his name a Treatise, entituled De Revolutioni∣bus Annorum Mundi, extant in Manuscript, in the Publick Library at Cambridge, and in that of Pembroke-Hall.

MAHUMED BEN MALUD, wrote learned Commentaries on the Book of Tap Phatis Scihajah de Astronomia, extant in the Vatican Library, of which men∣tion is made by Labbeé in Bibliothec. MS.

NECTARIUS, Bishop of Hydrusa, turned the Book called Laxeuterion (treating of Astrological Predictions according to the Chaldaick Doctrine) into Greek, now extant in the Library of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, and in that of the French King. Scaliger (L. 1. Epist. 67.) gives to that Piece likewise the Name of Raboulion, and the Publisher of the Florentine Library makes an Author of it; citing him by the Name of Laxeuterius Pythagoricus, sive Rabolius.

GULIELMUS READ, sometime Fellow of Merton-Colledge in Oxford, (to the Library whereof he liberally contributed) afterwards Bishop of Chiche∣ster, writ Tables of the mean motions of the Planets, and Canons of those Tables, extant in the Publick Library at Oxford.

HALPERICUS, wrote a Treatise De Arte calculatoria, extant in Manuscript in Caius-Colledge in Cambridge.

JACOBUS ZALES, wrote De Dierum Aequationibus contrà Propositiones Bartholomaei de Valentia, as cited by Ia. Phil. Thomasinus, inter MS. Nicolai Trivi∣sani, biblioth. Patav.

BERNARDUS DE TRYLLIA, a Dominican Fryar, and a Spaniard wrote Quaestiones super Totam Astrologiam; as cited by Simler in Bibl. Gesner.

There is a Book entituled, NOVEM IUDICUM IN ASTRONO∣MIA, said to be sent by the Soldan of Babylon to Frederick the German Empe∣ror; Printed in the year 1509. and extant in his Majesty's Library at St. Iames's, and in the Bodleian at Oxford.

Proceed we now in our former Order and Method to the ASTRONOMERS flourishing in the Seventeenth Century, in which the first Author ap∣pearing is* 1.630

CHRISTOPHORUS CLAVIUS, of Bamberg, a Iesuit, Scholar to* 1.631 Io. Baptista Benedictus, and Master to Blancanus, and Griembergerus, a most pro∣found Mathematician and Astronomer. The Works whereby he hath signalized his Name upon the Subject of Astronomy, are these: His Commentary in Sphaeram Sacrobosci, & in Sphaerica Theodosii; De Forma & Usu Astrolabii; His Apology for the Gregorian Calendar, against the two Oppugners thereof, Michael Maestlinus, and Ioseph Scaliger, and his Problemata Astronomica, Printed at Rome 1599.

HUGO GROTIUS, the great Ornament of Learning, and of his Coun∣try,* 1.632 put forth Aratus his Phaenomena, & Diosemeia, in Greek, with Cicero, Germa∣nicus Caesar, and Avienus their Translations thereof, with Cuts of the several Con∣stellations; to which he added his own learned Notes, and the names of the Stars, in Hebrew, Arabick, Greek, and Latine, Printed in the year 1600.

THEODOSIUS RUBEUS Published Diarum Universale perpetuum,* 1.633 for finding out the Quantity of the Day or Night in any Part of the World, to∣gether with the Rising and Setting of the Sun, according to the Italick, Babylonian, and Astronomical Hours.

CHERUBINUS SAND•…•…LINUS, is likewise numbred amongst the* 1.634 Astronomers of this Time, as having written something upon the same Subject with the former.

HENRICUS SAMERIUS, of Luxemburg, a Iesuit, stiled by Ricciolus,* 1.635 Egregius Temporum Supputator, Published a Chronology from the beginning of the World to the time of our Saviour's Nativity, and is by Ricciolus inserted in his Catalogue of Astronomers.

JOHN CHAMBER, Prebendary of Windsor, and Fellow of Eaton-Colledge,* 1.636 put forth a Treatise against Iudicial Astrology, together with the Encomium or Praise of Astronomy, made by him some years before, upon Occasion of his Publick Le∣ctures on Ptolemy's Almagest in the University of Oxford, Printed in Latine and English 1601. 4^o. London.

ABRAHAMUS ROCHENBACKIUS, at Wittenberg, wrote De Come∣tis,* 1.637 of which he published a Catalogue.

NATHANIEL TORPORLEY, an English man born in Shropshire,* 1.638 set forth a Treatise, entituled Diclides Coelo-Metricae, seu Valvae Astronomicae Uni∣versales, in two Books, Printed at London. The first shewing the Composition of Astronomical Tables, with their Application, as to Directions; comprized in a new Universal and most easie Method. The second teaching to calculate the Prostaphae∣reses of the Planets Motions, without the Subdititious Aid of Proportional Scru∣ples; and setting forth the Doctrine of Spherical Triangles most fully and easily; the whole Artifice being reduced to Six Words in a Tractable Order, represented in the Form or Figure of a Mitre. He was sometime Amanuensis to the famous Vieta, and merits commendation for the Legacy he bequeathed of many choice Books toward furnishing the Library at Sion▪Colledge London.

ANTONIUS GREVENSTEIN put forth a Supputation of all the* 1.639 Eclipses which happened from the year of Christ 1593. to this year 1601. toge∣ther* 1.640 with the Tract of Proclus Diadochus, touching the signification of Eclipses, Printed at Breme, by Bernardus Petri.

JOHANNES BAYERUS RHEINANUS, Doctor of the Civil* 1.641 Law, and an eminent Astronomer, exhibited elegant Schemes of all the Stars and Celestial Constellations, with their several Situations, according to the Descripti∣ons of Hipparchus, Ptolemy, Alphonsus, and Copernicus, reduced to the Scale of Truth by Tycho Brahe, together with their distinct Denominations in Latine, Greek, Arabick, Chaldee, Persian.

Sir CHRISTOPHER HEYDON Knight, a Person of great Worth* 1.642 and Learning, wrote a Defence of Iudicial Astrology, in Answer to the Treatise of Chambers published against it, a Work full of no common Reading, and carried on with no mean Arguments, Printed at Cambridge 1603. 4^o.

THOMAS LYDYAT, an English man, in the year 1605. Published a* 1.643 Book entituled Praelectio Astronomica, De Natura Coeli & Elementorum; and the same year another Piece, De variis Annorum formis, &c. cum refutatione Anni No∣vitii Gregoriani. In the year 1607. he writ Defensio Tractatus de variis Annorum Formis, praesertim Antiquissima & Optima, contra Iosephi Scaligeri Obtrectationem, Unà cum Examine Ejus Canonum Chronologiae Isagogicorum. Another Book called Solis & Lunae Periodus Eruditae Antiquitati Appellatus ANNUS MAGNUS constans Octodesexcentis Annis vertentibus, Printed at London 1620. Epistola Astro∣nomica ad D. H. Savilium Equit. Auratum de Anni Solaris Mensura pro Confirmatione Periodi Octodesexcentenariae Solis & Lunae, 8^o. Lond. 1621.

BALTHAZAR CAPRA Published at Padua, a Book entituled Tyroci∣nia* 1.644 Astronomica.

ADRIANUS ROMANUS Published in the year 1591. a Book entitu∣led* 1.645 Ouranographia, sive de Coelorum Numero & Ordine, Printed at Antwerp. He set forth likewise in the year 1595. Theoria Calendariorum in five Parts, Printed at Wirteberg. 4^o. And in the year 1602. Universae Mathesis Idaea, Printed Herbipol. In the year 1606. he published Speculum Astronomicum, wherein he represented the Motions of the Primum Mobile, Printed at Lovaine, 4^o. See more of him in Andreas Desselius his Bibliotheca Belgica.

JOANNES RUDOLPHUS CAMERARIUS, a learned Physician,* 1.646 and descended from the Great Ioachimus, a good Astronomer, though he chiefly applied himself to Astrological Studies, Published a Century of Genitures, wherein he spoke of the violent Death of Henry the Fourth King of France, and in 1610. published another Century with Iudgments thereupon.

JOHANNES TALENTONIUS, besides his Thesaurus Rerum Recondi∣tarum,* 1.647 published a Treatise, of which Draudius gives this Character, that it was, De Supremae Sphaerae loco Disceptatio gravissima.

HENRICUS LINDOUGHT, of Brussels, Doctor of Physick, and Pro∣fessor* 1.648 of Philosophy, set forth a Book which he called, Speculum Astrologiae, being an Introduction in Scientiam Genethliacam, sive Physicam Iudiciariam; in which he endeavours to distinguish between the vanity and the verity of Astrology; Print∣ed at Francfort, with a Preface of Gothardus Arthurus of Dantzick, De Astrologiae praestantia & utilitate, in the year 1608.

BERNARDINUS SALINUS, a Iesuit, wrote among other things, De* 1.649 variis Problematibus Astronomicis; which with other his Works are preserved in* 1.650 the Iesuits Library at Genua.

GEORGIUS HENISCHIUS, Doctor of Physick, and Professor of* 1.651 Mathematicks at Ausbourg, put forth Proclus De Sphaera, in Greek and Latine, which he illustrated, (to use Ricciolus's expression) with an egregious Commentary.

JOHANNES BASSANTINUS, a Scotch-man, published a Treatise* 1.652 of Astronomy, in French, though he scarce understood that Language, much less Latine or Greek, and yet, In Astronomia ita excelluit, ut inter primos Aetatis suae habitus sit, sayes Ioannes Tornaesius, who translated that Work of his into Latine, and published the same at Geneva.

DAVID ORIGANUS, born at Glatz, a Town in Silesia, Professor of* 1.653 Mathematicks at Francfort upon Oder, set forth New Ephemerides, in Three Tomes, continuing from the year 1595. to the year 1654. with a most ample Preliminary Introduction, in which are explained the Grounds or Principles of Chronology, Astronomy, and Astrology.

JOANNES ANTONIUS MAGINUS, of Padua, Professor of Ma∣thematicks* 1.654 in that University; as also at Bologna, was Author of the several Works hereafter mentioned: Ephemerides, according to the Prutenick Tables for fifty years. Tables Secundorum Mobilium Coelestium. New Theories of the Planets, according to the Copernican Hypothesis. Tables of the Primum Mobile, or of Di∣rections. De Astrologica ratione & usu Dierum Criticorum; as also (though he was a severe Impugner of the common Judiciary Astrology) De legitimo Astrologiae in Medicina usu. He commented upon Galen De Diebus Decretoriis, in the Astrolo∣gical Part, Printed at Venice 1607. He wrote likwise a Book against Scaliger's Dia∣triba, De Aequinoctiorum Processione, and several other Pieces in Cosmography, and Geography, being stiled by Ricciolus, Insignis Astronomus & Cosmographus.

BARTHOLOMAEUS KECKERMANNUS wrote among other* 1.655 things Systemata Astronomiae, and Problemata Nautica, Printed at Hannov. 1610.

JOHANNES FABRICIUS put forth a Treatise entituled, De Macu∣lis* 1.656 in Sole, & Modo Eductionis Specierum Visibilium, Dubitatio, Printed at Witteberg. 4^o. 1611.

NICHOLAUS MULLERUS, of Bruges, Doctor of Physick, and* 1.657 chief Moderator of the School at Leovard, afterwards Publick Professor of Ma∣thematicks in the University at Groningen, put forth hi•…•… Tabulae Frisicae Lunae-Sola∣res Quadruplices, Printed at Alcmaire; which Title he gave them, because compo∣sed in Friezland, and fitted to the Meridian of Leovard, containing the Calculati∣on of the Conjunctions and Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, in Four Parts, accord∣ing to the Ptolemaick, Alphonsine, Copernican, and Brahaean Astronomy; toge∣ther with an Introduction and Appendix thereunto; represented by Vossius to be Opus omnino eruditum atque accuratum. He published likewise Solis totidem Ta∣bulae, wherein he proves the Iewish year to be Luni-Solaris, that of the Turks me∣rè Lunaris, Printed at Groning. 1630. He set forth also Calendarium vetus Roma∣num cum Methodo Paschali emendata.

JOSEPHUS LANGIUS, Professor of the Greek Tongue and Mathema∣ticks* 1.658 in the Arch-Duke's Academy at Friburg in Brisgaw, put forth a Work enti∣tuled,

Elementale Mathematicum, in which, besides Vulgar Arithmetick, Geometry* 1.659 and Geography, he treats De Logistice-Astronomica, Astronomica Sphaerica, & Theo∣rica Planetarum. Which Work Isaac Habrechtus not only enlarged, but also ex∣plained with Annotations, and illustrated with Figures, causing the same to be Printed at Strasbourg.

CHRISTOPHORUS GRIEMBERGERUS, a Iesuit, native of* 1.660 Hale in Tiroll, at first Scholar to Clavius, afterwards his Successor in the Mathema∣tical Chair in the Roman Colledge, put forth a Catalogue of the Longitudes and Latitudes of the Fixed Stars according to the Ancients, compared with the Mo∣dern; together with a new Perspective of the Heavens. He wrote likewise a Book, De Speculo Ustorio Elliptico, and a new Invention of delineating all sorts of hours; as also a Treatise for the describing of all manner of Astrolabes, in which Argument Clavius acknowledged the assistance of this his Scholar. What is found Geometri∣cal in Villalpandus of Solomon's Temple, Claudius Rickardus, and others ascribe to Griembergerus, of whose worth and commendation Bettinus, in Aerario, hath made a Digression, Philip Alegambe, in his Catalogue of Iesuit-Writers affirming, that he left Elementa Conica, and other Geometrical Pieces, not proper for this place.

JOANNES PAULUS RESENIUS put forth Initia Geometrica, Arith∣metica,* 1.661 Astronomica, Printed at Wittemberg 1612. 8^o.

JULIUS CAESAR LA GALLA Published a Discourse touching the* 1.662 New Phaenomena discovered in the Moon by the help of the Telescope.

OCTAVIUS PISANUS Published in a very large but thin foli•…•…, a T•…•…a∣tise* 1.663 entituled Astrologia, seu Motus & Loca Syderum. In which Astrology, or •…•…a∣ther Astronomy is reduced to Method, and Ocular Demonstration by the Means of a Planisphere, and an Instrument which he calls Sphaera Materialis & Instrumen∣talis. Whose •…•…se is exprest by several Chartaceous Instruments exquisitely cut and printed; the whole grounded upon the Ptolemaick Hypotheses; the Industry, Labour and Pains of which costly Design (if you will take his own Word for it) he conceives may be reputed Archimedis Laboribus non Dissimiles. He dedicated his Works to Cosmus the Second Duke of Florence, being printed at Antwerp ex Officina Roberti Brunea•…•….

JOHANNES NEPERUS, Lord of Merkinstone in Scotland, Inventor of* 1.664 Logarithms, or Artificial Numbers, which, by bare Substraction or Addition, per∣form the Rule of Three, and by a wonderful facility of operation, resolve as well Plain, as Spherical Triangles, an incredible help to Astronomical Calculations, and for that respect alone, meriting a place in this Catalogue, and eternal Commen∣dations.

PETRUS LAURENBERGIUS is mentioned by G. Vossius, to have* 1.665 published at Hamborough a Book, entituled Amphilychus, being a Dissertation of the Nature of Twilights.

JOSEPHUS BLANCANUS, of Bologna, a Iesuit, Professor of Mathe∣maticks* 1.666 at Parma, wrote (besides his Book, In Loca Mathematica Aristotelis, & De Natura Mathematicarum, and his Chronology of Mathematicians) a Book De Sphae∣ra Mundi, according to the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and most recent Observations, with an Introdu∣ction to Geography, and an Apparatus ad Mathematicas Artes. He wrote likew•…•…e De Echometria, and another 〈◊〉〈◊〉, entituled, Instrumentum Horologiorum, first pub∣lished by Ricciolus▪ (his Scholar.)

GALILAEUS GALILAEI, the most excellent Philosopher and Mathema∣tician* 1.667 of his Time, was Son of Vincentius Galilaeus, a Gentleman of Florence, whose* 1.668 Ancestors for many Descents had the Honour to be reckoned among the Patricii of that City; to which Name of Galilaeus Authors usually add that of Linceus, from a famous Academy of Noble and Ingenuous Persons, calling themselves the Lyncei (instituted by the Illustrious Prince, and Generous Maecenas Angelo Caesi, Duke of Aqua Sparta) of which he was a Member and singular Ornament. The Works and Writings, by which he hath eternized his Name are many, both in Philosophy and Mathematicks; of which, such as are Pertinent to our Purpose, we shall brief∣ly enumerate. He first applied the Belgick Perspective Glass, by him meliorated, to Celestial Objects, by which he discovered that Iupiter was invironed with four smaller Stars or Planets, commonly called his Guards or Satellites; to whom in Ho∣nour of his Prince and Patron, the Grand Duke of Thuscany, he gave the Names of Sidera Medicaea. By that he likewise discovered the different Phases of Saturn appearing now round, now in an oblong form, with two Handles or Ansae: That Venus, like the Moon, had her waining, and increasing; and that the Moon's Su∣persicies was like that of the Earth rising with Mountains, and deprest into Vallies and Seas; that the Fountain of Light the Sun had its Spots, by which likewise he evinced that the Sun had a Circular Motion about its own Axis. That the Via La∣ctea was a Congeries of numberless Lights or small Stars; and that the nebulous Stars, as that in the Head of Orion, and that in the Praesepe, or Manger of the Aselli, are composed of such. For which admirable Inventions, and many more, altoge∣ther unknown to the Ancients, he merits eternal Honour, especially for having communicated them to Posterity, and so excellently and clearly demonstrated them by his learned Writings; particularly by his Nuncius Sidereus, and its Conti∣nuation, by his History and Demonstration of the Solar Spots, in three Letters to Marcus Velserus, by his Letters to Signore Alfonso Antonini, touching La Titubati∣one Lunare. To which is to be added his Systema Cosmicum, asserting the Coperni∣can Hypothesis, with his Defence thereof in Answer to the Objections brought from Scriptures, Fathers, and School-men, written first in Italian, and addressed to Katherine of Lorrain, Grand Dutchess of Thuscany, and since published in Latin and Italian together. Not to mention his many other exquisite Tractates in Phi∣losophy, Geometry, and other the most abstruse Parts of Mathematicks, as not im∣mediately relating to our Subject. A farther Account of his Inventions or Dis∣coveries is to be had in his life, published, by his Scholar Signore Viviani, which we have not yet seen.

RUDOLPHUS GOCLENIUS, Doctor of Physick, and Professor in* 1.669 the University of Marpurg, published in the present year 1615. his Urania, with her two Daughters, Astronomy and Astrology. He likewise put forth a Cosmogra∣phical Treatise, seu Sphaerae Mundi Descriptionis Rudimenta, Printed at Cologne 1605.

JOHANNES MICRAELLIUS Published a Manuduction to the use of* 1.670 the Celestial and Terrestrial Globe, &c. as Vossius affirms.

DAVID FABRICIUS, a Friezlander, Professor of Astronomy, wrote* 1.671 Prognosticks of the years 1615, 1616, and 1617. mentioned by Kepler in his Ephemerides.

DOMINIQUE JAQUINOT, a French-man, writ in his own Lan∣guage* 1.672 of the Use of the Astrolabe, together with a small Treatise of the Sphere, Printed at Paris.

FRANCISCUS AGUILONIUS, a Iesuit of Brussels, was Professor* 1.673 of Philosophy at Doway, and of Theology at Antwerp, and one of the first that in∣troduced* 1.674 Mathematical Studies into Flanders. How far (though not directly & ex professo) he contributed to Astronomy, may appear by his six Books of Opticks, and his Excellent Treatise of Projections of the Sphere.

REDEMPTUS BARANZANUS, of Serravalle, Professor, at Annesi∣um,* 1.675 in Savoy, of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy. He wrote a Book entituled, Uranoscopia, sive Universa Coelorum Doctrina.

EMANUEL DIAZ, a Iesuit, at Cochine in India, observed the Comet,* 1.676 which appeared in the year 1618. and set forth a Treatise against the Opinion of those, who conceive Comets to be sublunary and elementary Bodies.

JOHANNES LEUTECHOMIUS, a Lorrainer, of the Society of Ie∣sus,* 1.677 wrote Hilaria Mathematica, De Horologiis, & De Cometa.

CAROLUS PISO, a French man, wrote in his own Language, Speculum* 1.678 Cometae, Anno 1618.

WILLEBRODUS SNELLIUS, à Royen, Son of Radolphus Snellius,* 1.679 published, besides divers other Mathematical Treatises, Eratosthenes Batavus, sive De mensura Terrae; and Tiphys Batavus, sive Histiodromice. He wrote like∣wise of the Comet which appeared in the year 1618. and published the Hessian and Bohemian Observations, with his own Notes thereupon; together with the Obser∣vations of Regiomontanus and Waltherus.

HORATIUS GRASSUS, a Iesuit, Native of Savona, sometime Professor* 1.680 of Mathematicks in the Iesuits Colledge at Rome, put forth an Astronomical Dis∣putation, touching Three Comets in the year 1618. And a Book, entituled Li∣bra Astronomica & Philosophica, wherein he undertakes to weigh and censure the Opinion of Galileo, concerning Comets.

CAMILLUS GLORIOSUS, Professor of Mathematicks at Padua, wrote* 1.681 learnedly in a Treatise entituled Dissertatio Astronomico-Physica de Cometis, and in another Piece, entituled, Responsio ad Controversias de Cometis Peripateticas, and in some other things written against Claramontius and Licetus.

BENJAMIN URSINUS, Mathematician to the Elector of Branden∣burg,* 1.682 put forth a new Canon of Logarithms and Trigonometry; of which Work Crugerus gives this Character, that it is Opus aestimationis immensae.

JOANNES DEKERIUS, a Iesuit, Native of Haesbruch, in Flanders,* 1.683 Professor of Philosophy sometime at Doway, and of Divinity at Lovaine, and Chan∣cellour of Gratz, wrote Theorems, touching the year of our Saviour's Birth and Passion; and Chronological Tables from the taking of Ierusalem by Pompey, to its final eversion by Titus; and several other Chronological Works not published.

ALEXANDER DE ANGELIS, of Spoleto, a Iesuit, Professor of* 1.684 Theology, and Prefect. of the Schools in the Roman Colledge, wrote Five Books, In Astrologos Conjectores.

LIBERTUS FROIDMONT, sive FROMONDUS, vindicated his* 1.685 Name from Oblivion, by his Dissertation upon the Comet which appeared in the

year 1618. He writ likewise a Book entituled Anti-Aristarchus, sive De Orbe Terrae* 1.686 immobili, against Philippus Lansbergius; as also a Reply, entituled Vesta, sive Anti-Aristarchi Vindex, in answer to Lansbergius.

DAVID HERLICIUS, lately Doctor of Physick at Stetin in Pomerania,* 1.687 hath published many things relating to Astronomy and Astrology in the German Tongue. In the Latin there is nothing of his come to my Notice more than his Prognosticon Astrologicum for the year 1619. which is done with so much Skill and Pains, that it shews •…•…e does not write like one of your Common Prognosticators.

JOHANNES BAPTISTA CYSATUS, a Iesuit of Lucerne in Swit∣zerland,* 1.688 and Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Ingolstadt, published Mathematica Astronomica, upon the occasion of the Comet which appeared in the year 1618.

VINCISLAUS PANTALEO, a Iesuit of Austria, travelled into Chi∣na,* 1.689 and put forth the several Observations made by those of that Society in the East-Indies, upon the Comets appearing in the year 1618.

SIMON MARIUS wrote a Book, of the Satellites of Iupiter, to which he* 1.690 gave the title of Mundus Iovialis, as Ricciolus affirms, in Chronic. Astronom.

JOHANNES TARDE, Canon of the Cathedral Church of Sarlat, in* 1.691 Aquitaine, wrote a Treatise, by him entituled Bourbonia Sidera, in which he endea∣vours to prove, that the Solar Spots are Planets, moving by a proper and regular Motion about the Sun, and not inherent in the Body thereof, as the Telescopes re∣present. To which Work are subjoyned Optical Demonstrations teaching the way of making those Instruments fit to discover Objects more distinctly at a great di∣stance. He wrote another Treatise of the Use of the Magnetical Quadrant, by which he resolves divers Astronomical Problems.

MICHAEL ZANARDUS put forth a Tractate containing Universum* 1.692 Coeleste; wherein he disputes and concludes, De omnibus & singulis, quae ad Natu∣ram Coelestium Sphaerarum, ab Empyraeousque ad Sphaeram Elementorum faciunt, Print∣ed at Colen.

CHRISTOPHORUS LONGOMONTANUS, Son of Severinus* 1.693 Longomontanus, a Dane, Assistant to Tycho Brahe in his Celestial Observations, for the space of eight years together; afterwards Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Copenhagen. The Work, by which he signalized his Name, was his Astrologia Danica; the first part whereof treats, in Two Books, of the Doctrine of the Sphere; and the latter, in as many of the Theory of the Planets, accord∣ing to the threefold Hypotheses of Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Tycho Brahe, together with an Appendix of Adscititious Phaenomena, as New Stars, and Comets.

JOANNES KEPLERUS WITTEMBER GICUS, Disciple to* 1.694 Maestlinus, and Principal Mathematician to three Emperours, Matthias, Rudolphus, and Ferdinand the Second, stiled by Ricciolus, Sagacissimi & ardentissimi Vir Inge∣nii, & Astronomicarum Subtilitatum scrutator acutissimus. In the year 1596. he put forth his Prodromus Dissertationum Cosmographicarum, seu Mysterium Cosmogra∣phicum: In the year 1604. Paralipomena ad Vitellionem, seu Astronomiae Pars Optica. In which he gives Directions for using of Instruments in making of Ob∣servations. In the year 1605. De Nova Stella Serpentarii. In the year 1609. he published Astronomica Nova, seu Physica Coelestis, cum Commentariis Stellae Martis,

ex Observationibus Tychonis; in which, according to the Judgment of the knowing* 1.695 Mr. Flamstead, he hath so well considered the Motions of that Star, and ordered his Numbers so well, that though his method of Calculation be troublesome, no Tables answer his Appearances and Transits by Fixed Stars half so well as his. In the year 1610. he set forth Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sydereo Galilaei. In the year 1616. he published Ephemerides Nova, cum Fundamentis earum, from the year 1617. to the year 1620. In the year 1618. he set forth the three first Books of his Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae; and in the year 1619. Five Books De Harmonia Mundi, and three Books De Cometis. In the year 1621. he reprinted his Mysterium Cosmographicum, illustrated with Annotations; and the year following, he publish∣ed the IV. V. and VI. Books of his Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae. In the year 1625. he set forth, in vindication of Tycho Brahe, against Scipio Claramontius, a Treatise, entituled, Hyperaspistes, cum Appendice ex Trutinatore Galilaei, and in the year 1627. Tabulae Rudolphinae Tychonicis Observationibus superstructae. In which Work he had spent no less than 26. years study. The Appendix which is added to the first Tome of Tycho's Progymnasmata, is likewise his. He writ also Eclogae Chro∣nologicae, a Book, De vero nati Christi Anno, Stereometria & Trigonometria Loga∣rithmetica. The first in somethings censured by Guldinus in Centrobaricis. There is extant a Posthume Piece of his, called Somnium, sive Lunaris Astronomia, which whilst he endeavoured to publish at Zeigan in Silesia, he died, as did also his Son∣in-Law Iacobus Bartschius, prosecuting, at the same place, the same Design. But it was afterwards happily compassed, by his own Son Ludovicus Kepler, and we could have wished he had done the like by other the Learned Remains of his incompara∣ble Parent. But 'tis hoped that Defect will be now supplied, and made good by the Care and Industry of the Learned Hevelius, into whose Hands all the Remains of that Admirable Person are at last happily fallen. And among them all his Epistles written (upon the Subject of Astronomy, and other Mathematical Arguments) to divers Eminent and Learned Persons, together with their Answers; more Particular∣ly his Book entituled Hipparchus, containing (according to the Testimony of He∣velius, Praefat. Machin. Coelest.) plurimùm Laboris, ac Ingenii Acuminis; though wanting in many Places the finishing Hand of the Author, upon which yet, in his other Works he seems to set a very valuable esteem. The Publication whereof, the studious in Astronomy earnestly expect.

THOMAS CAMPANELLA, a Calabrian; of the Order of Preaching* 1.696 Fryars, put forth seven Books Astrologicorum, in which Astrology, separated from Iewish and Arabian Superstitions, is Physiologically handled. He set forth like∣wise four Books De sensu Rerum, & Magia, in the third of which. he treats of the Heavens, and the Celestial Bodies.

GEORGIUS SCHOMBERGERUS, Professor of Mathematicks in* 1.697 the University of Freiburg in Brisgaw, a Iesuit, put forth a Book, entituled Sol illustratus, wherein he treats of the several Accidents of the Sun, of the Solar Stars, and of the liquidity of the Heavens. He published likewise a Century of Optical Problems, and a new way of Dialling, as well by direct, refracted, as reflected Rayes.

SIMEON PARTLICIUS put forth Astronomici Apologetici Pars prior,* 1.698 Printed in 8^o. 1623. as I find in Iames his Appendix to the Catalogue of the Bod∣leian Library.

JOHANNES ADAMUS, a German, of the Society of the Iesuits, tra∣velled* 1.699 into China, and in the Language of that Country wrote a Table of all the Stars. He put forth likewise a Treatise, De Calculo Eclipsis Lunae, in the year 1624.

HENRICUS BRIGGIUS, Savilian Professor of Geometry in the Univer∣sity* 1.700 of Oxford, pursuing what Nepier had invented and begun, put forth two Books* 1.701 of Logarithms, after a more commodious Method; the first, entituled Arithmetica Logarithmetica; the other Trigonometria Britannica; the former shewing the Con∣struction of Logarithmetical Tables; the latter, the Construction of the Tables of Sines, Tangents and Secants, and the Doctrine of Triangles, to the great advantage of Astronomy, and Astronomical Operations.

Mr. EDWARD WRIGHT, Contemporary with Mr. Briggs before men∣tioned,* 1.702 having spent sometime in Cambridge, and being naturally addicted to Mathe∣matical Studies, was perswaded to accompany, and went along with the Right Honou∣rable George Earle of Cumberland, in his Expedition to the Azores, in the year 1589. on purpose to add the Practice of Navigation to the Theory; and in the year 1599. he published his Book called the Errors in Navigation. A most excellent Work for the true describing a Sea-Chart; which Invention of his, Gerardus Mercator pub∣lished without owning the Author. Before the Publication of this Work, in the year 1594, 1595, and 1596. He, by a large Quadrant of six foot Radius, made Ob∣servation of the Sun's Meridian Altitude, and thereby not only left the best Theory of the Sun's Motion at that Time, but new made exquisite Tables, for the Sun's De∣clination. He held Intelligence with the most Able Artists abroad, and being cho∣sen Tutor in the Mathematicks to Prince Henry, he, by the help of some German Workmen, caused to be made for that hopeful Prince, a large Sphere with curious Movements, which by the help of Spring-Work, not only represented the Motion of the whole Celestial Sphere, but shewed likewise the Particular Systems of the Sun and Moon, and their Circular Motions, together with their Places, and possibilities of eclipsing each other. There is in it a Work by Wheel and Pinion for a Motion of 17100 years, certainly effected, if the Sphere should be so long kept in Motion. This Sphere, though thus made at a great Expence of Mony and ingenious Industry, was in the late Times of Devastation, cast aside among other Rubbidge, and had been utterly lost and destroyed, had it not in the year 1646. been found out by Sir Ionas Moore Knight, my worthy Friend, and at his great cost and charge restored to its Pristine Perfection, remaining now at his House in the Tower, among other Mathematical Instruments and Curiosities in his Possession. Besides the Book of the Errors in Navigation before mentioned, the said Mr. Wright writ a Book of the Use of the Sphere; a Piece of Dialling, and a Book of Navigation, called the Ha∣ven finding Art; in all which he hath shewn himself not only a Sedulous, but a Knowing Astronomer.

MARTINUS HORTENSIUS, of Delpht in Holland, Professor of Ma∣thematicks* 1.703 at Amsterdam, Companion and Adjutor to Philippus Lansbergius, in his Astronomical Studies, and no mean Observator of the Stars, undertook to answer something which Kepler had inserted in the Preface to his Ephemerides, and put forth a Dissertation, De Mercurio sub Sole viso, & Venere invisâ; which he ad∣dressed to Gassendus, who had written upon the same Subject.

ROBERTUS HUGHES Professor of Mathematicks in Gresham-Colledge* 1.704 London, set forth a Treatise of the Use of the Celestial and Terrestial Globes, illu∣strated with Figures and Annotations, by Iohannes Isaac Pontanus, Professor of Phi∣losophy at Harderwick in Gelderland.

ANDREAS ZERGOL, Native of Sancta Cruce in Carniola, a Iesuit,* 1.705 Professor of Mathematicks and Theology at Gratz in Styria, put forth Chronological Theorems, of the year of our Saviour's Nativity and Passion.

CAROLUS ANTONIUS MANZINUS, Professor of Philosophy* 1.706 at Bologna, a learned Mathematician, put forth Tables of the Primum Mobile, cum* 1.707 nova Arte dirigendi, with a compendious Method of Directions. He writ likewise of the Theory of the Planets; and was, at the time Ricciolus published his Alma∣gest; a diligent Observer of the Celestial Motions.

D. HENRION, Professor of Mathematicks at Paris, put forth in French the* 1.708 Problems of Regiomontanus touching the Use and Practise of his Tables of Directi∣ons, to which he added large Annotations and Explications of his own, together with Regiomontanus his Tables, by him corrected and augmented. In the Preface to which Work he hath laid down the Doctrine of Spherical Triangles: He set forth in French Theodosius his Sphericks, published a Treatise of the Use of the Globes, and Compass of Proportion, of Cosmography, and a Canon Manuel des Sinus, &c. besides his Mathematical Collections, and Euclid's Elements.

JULIUS SCHILLERIUS, of Ausburg, Dr. of the Laws, put forth Coe∣lum* 1.709 Stellatum Christianum, reducing the fabulous Morphoses of the several Con∣stellations, and changing their Profane Names into those of Christian Saints and Martyrs; Bayerus adding thereto a new and more accurate Uranometria.

ALBERTUS CURTIUS, a Iesuit, Native of Munichen in Bavaria, pro∣posed* 1.710 in the year 1627. a New System of Heaven to be disputed on at Dining; whose ingenuity in the Theory of the Moon, his Aemulator Kepler not only ad∣mired, but commended, in his Rudolphine Tables, c. 25.

ADRIANUS ULACK, of Gouda, challenges a place in this Catalogue,* 1.711 for his Chiliads of Logarithms, resolving, by an admirable Compendium, Astronomical, Geometrical, and Arithmetical Problems.

JACOBUS ROSIUS BIBERACENSIS put forth Ephemerides,* 1.712 or a General Calendar Astronomical and Astrological, in which the rising and setting of the Stars, with their several Effects for every Day of the Moneth are set forth; A Work collected out of Ancient and Modern Authors, with no mean Industry, as G. Vossius sayes of it. He stiles himself Mathematician, and Publick Imperial Notary, which Office he executed at Biennae, or Biel, a Town in Switzerland.

GULIELMUS JANSONSIUS CAESIUS, alias BLAEU, of* 1.713 Amsterdam, an Excellent Artist, as well for his Geographical Tables, as his Celesti∣al Globes and Spheres, whereof he was the first Composer, according to the Coper∣nican System; of which G. Vossius affirms the World not to have seen the like since Archimedes's. time. He likewise put forth a twofold Astronomical Institution, ac∣cording to the Ptolemaick and Copernican Hypothesis, which being written in his own Language, was translated into Latin by Martinus Horten•…•…ius.

JACOBUS BARTSCHIUS of Lauban, a City in the upper Lusa•…•…ia o•…•…* 1.714 Lausnitz, a Province adjoyning to Bohemia, now under the Dominion of the Duke of Saxe, Doctor of Physick, and Son-in-Law to the famous Kepler, set forth Uran•…•…∣burgum Strasburgicum sive Motuum Coelestium Ephemeris, Printed at •…•… eipsick in the year 1629. He published likewise Planisphaerium Stellatum seu vice-globus Coelestis in Plano Delineatus. He wrote also another Treatise, De Indice Astronomico cum se•…•…tem Rotulis Planetarum aliisque figuris, imprimis Phases Lunares, Eclipses, & apparentes Planetarum Magnitud•…•…es adumbrantes, Printed at Norimberg in 4^o, 1661.

CAROLUS MALAPERTIUS, a Flemming of Montz, and a Iesuit,* 1.715 Professor of Mathematicks at Doway, among other his Mathematical Works, put* 1.716 forth a small Piece, De Maculis Solaribus, which he stiled Sidera Austriaca.

LE SIEUR BOULENGER, a French-man, Reader in Ordinary to the* 1.717 late King of France, hath written a Treatise, in his own Language, of the Sphere, in four Books, to which he hath added a fifth, touching the use thereof; the third Edi∣tion whereof was Printed at Paris, 1648.

CHRISTOPHORUS SCHEINERUS, of the Society of Iesus, a* 1.718 Native of Mundeilhen in Swaben, Professor, sometime of the Hebrew Tongue and Mathematicks at Fribourg and Ingolstadt, afterwards Rector of the Colledge of Nisse or Nissa in Silesia, observed, about the same time with Galilaeo, the Spots in the Sun. The most Eminent Pieces by which he hath signalized his Name, are these; Oculus, seu Fundamentum Opticum; Sol Ellipticus, Disquisitiones Mathematicae, De Controversiis & Novitatibus Astronomicis, Apelles post Tabulam; and lastly Rosa Ur∣sina, in which he hath so excellently and learnedly written of the Solar Spots, that, according to the Judgment of Des Cartes and Hevelius, nothing can be expected in that kind more satisfactory.

DIONYSIUS PETAVIUS, Native of Orleans in France, of the Society* 1.719 of Iesus, the Varro of our Age, as Ricciolus stiles him, hath not only merited much by his Studies in Theology, but in Chronology likewise, and the Reason of Times, and particularly in Astronomy; as his two Volumes, the one, De Doctrina Tempo∣rum, the other Rationarium Temporum, and his Uranologium sufficiently evidence.

JOANNES BAPTISTA MORINUS, Regius Professor of Mathema∣ticks* 1.720 at Paris, put forth several Astronomical Tractates; as first, Nova Mundi Sub∣lunaris Anatomia; Another with this Title, Famosi Problematis De Telluris Motu vel Quiete, hactenus optata Solutio. A third was entituled, Arae Telluris fractae, written in opposition to Gassendus's Book, De Motu impresso à Motore Translato. Three Books of the Doctrine of the Sphere. Tabulae Rudolphinae ad accuratum & facile Compendium redactae, to which is annexed a Compendium of Trigonometry, Plain and Spherical. Constructio Figurae Coelestis; Nova Dirigendi Methodus; Et de Planetarum Revolutionibus tàm Mundanis, quàm Genethliacis. He published a Book in French called Remarques Astrologiques, being a Commentary on Ptole∣my's Centiloquium. He put forth likewise Nine Books of Longitude, under the title of Astronomia à Fundamentis integrè & exactè restituta. To which is to be added his long-studied Work, entituled, Astrologia Gallica, published after his death.

HENRICUS PHILIPPI, a Iesuit, Professor of Philosophy and Theolo∣gy* 1.721 at Gratz, Vienna and Prague, of whom Ricciolus reports, that Plurimis Operibus, Chronologiam Universam, praesertim sacram, illustravit. The Works by him put forth are, first, Chronological Questions, for reconciling the Iulian years of our Lord, and those of Nabonassar, with the Iewish Aera: Likewise Chronological Questi∣ons, touching the year of our Saviour's Birth and Passion; in the first of which is explained the Roman Calendar, with the Epacts, Calends, Ides, Nones, and Begin∣nings of the Moneths, as well of the Greeks, Syro-Chaldeans, and Aegyptians; as also of the Feriae, Cycles of the Sun and Moon, and of Indictions, &c. G. Voss.* 1.722

ADAMUS TANNERUS, a Iesuit of Inspruck, Professor of Mathema∣ticks at Munichen, Ingolstadt, and Vienna, wrote a most learned dissertation De Caelo; as also another Piece, entituled Astrologia Sacra.

PHILIPPUS LANSBERGIUS, of Gaunt, put forth at Middleburgh,* 1.723 Tables of the Celestial Motions, fitted to the Meridian of Goese; together with* 1.724 a Thesaurus of Observations, and the Theory of the Planets. He put forth also Progymnasmata▪ Astronomiae restitutae, and three Books Uranometriae. Whereto may be added his Commentationes in Motum Diurnum & Annuum, grounded partly on his own, partly upon Martinus Hortensius's Observations.

JACOBUS LANSBERGIUS, Doctor of Physick, wrote an Apology* 1.725 for Philippus Lansbergius his Commentary In Motum Diurnum & Annuum Terrae, against Fromondus.

MELCHIOR INCHOFER, a Iesuit, sometime Professor of Mathema∣ticks,* 1.726 Philosophy, and Theology, at Messina in Sicily, wrote a Treatise entituled, Tractatus Syllepticus De Statione Terrae, & Motu Solis, secundum Sacram Scripturam, & SS. Patres: And an Examen Thematum Coelestium variorum Astronomorum usque ad Tychonem; the Reason of calculating Eclipses, and of the Theory of the Pla∣nets; these three last published not under his own Name, but that of Academicus Vertumnius.

EVERARDUS WELPERUS, of Strasbourgh, put forth a Compendium* 1.727 of Astronomy, as well Spherical as Theorical, collected out of various Authors, from whom (says G. Voss.) much more might have been expected, had he not been opprest by a low and necessitous Fortune.

PETRUS CRUGERUS, Professor of Mathematicks at Dantzick, and* 1.728 Master to Hevelius, besides his Logarithmical Tables, undertook to write Astrono∣mia Dantiscana, which yet he lived not to finish, as his Scholar Hevelius testifies. He wrote likewise another Piece, entituled Uranodromus Cometicus.

ANDREAS ARZET, a Iesuit of Constance, put forth a Mathematical Cla∣vis,* 1.729 and diligently observed the Stars, as Ricciolus affirms, as long as either his Oc∣casions or the Gout would permit; many of whose Observations, especially about Eclipses, he freely communicated to Ricciolus.

BONA VENTURA CAVALLERIUS, Iesuatus Mediolanensis, Dis∣ciple* 1.730 to the Excellent Galilaeo, and Primary-Professor of Mathematicks in the Uni∣versity of Bologna, put forth Directorium Generale Uranometricum, Practica Astro∣logia, and a Century of Mathematical (and among them Astronomical) Problem•…•… a Person of an acute Wit and Judgment, and by Ricciolus acknowledged to have been no mean Assistant and Promotor of his Astronomical Studies. He w•…•… Trigonometria, wherein are some Astronomical Problems more exquisitly demonstra∣ted than are else where to be met with.

PAULUS GULDINUS, Native of S. Gal, of the Society of Iesu•…•…,* 1.731 taught Philosophy and Mathematicks at Rome, Gratz and Vienna. He wrote in de∣fence of the Roman Calendar, against Sethus Calvisius; in which Work he also opposes Scaliger's Diatriba, De Aequinoctiorum Praecessione. He also published a Geographical Problem, touching the difference in numbring the dayes, between those that sail hence to the New World, and those that inhabit there. Not to mention his Centrobarica, and other Geometrical Pieces, of which Ricciolus in Chronolog•…•… Astronom.

HUGO SEMPILIUS, by Birth a Scotch-man, by Profession a Iesuit in the* 1.732 Colledge at Madrid, writ twelve Books De Mathematicis Disciplinis. In the three▪

last of which he treats distinctly, De Astronomia, De Astrologia, & De Calendario,* 1.733 Printed at Antwerp in folio in the year 1635. and dedicated to Philip the Fourth King of Spain. In the End of which Work he hath annexed several Catalogues of Mathematical Authors, and among them of Astronomers and Astrologers, but giving no more of them than their bare Names.

NATHANIEL CARPENTER, sometimes Fellow of Exeter-Colledge* 1.734 in Oxford, put forth Geography Delineated-in two Books; in the first of which (containing the Spherical Part) among other things, he treats of the Magnetical Affections and Motion of the Earth, of its Site and Proportion in respect of the Hea∣vens; of the Longitudes and Latitudes of Places, and their several Wayes of In∣vention. In the second (containing the Topical Part) he treats likewise among o∣ther things of the Adjuncts of Place in relation to the Heavens, either North∣ward, Southward, Eastward, Westward, with the Differences of the respective Hemispheres.; and several other things worthy the Knowledge of a young Student in Astronomy, Printed at Oxford 1635.4^o. Upon the same Accompt may be here inserted Varinius his Geography, being much after the same Method, and a very useful Piece, especially since lately reprinted at Cambridge, with the Addition of the several Schemes wanting in the former Edition..

JOHANNES PHOCYLLIDES HOLWARDA wrote an Epi∣tome* 1.735 Astronomiae Reformatae, and a succinct Examen of Lanbergius's Astronomy.

ABDIAS TREW, Professor of Mathematicks at Nuremberg, Astronomiae* 1.736 partem Sphaericam accurata ibidem Methodo consignabat, sayes G. Vossius, L. De Scient. Mathemat. to which is to be added his Nucleus Astrologiae correctae, written in High Dutch, and Printed at Norimberg 1651.4^o. and his Tota Mathesis there like∣wise Printed in the year 1657.4^o.

JACOBUS HUMIUS, a Scotch-man, Professor of Mathematicks at Paris,* 1.737 liath published, besides divers other Mathematical Pieces, a Treatise of the Sphere, according to the Hypotheses of Ptolemy and Copernicus; and another, of the The∣ory of the Planets, according to the Doctrine of Ptolemy, both written in French.

ANDREAS ARGOLUS; Professor of Mathematicks in the University of* 1.738 Padua, put forth Ephemerides, continuing from the year 1630. to the year 1700. and another Work, entituled Pandosium Sphaericum. He writ likewise De Diebus Criticis, De Decubitu Aegrorum, with above a hundred Genitures of Popes, Cardinals and Princes. Also a Piece of Genethliacal Astrology called Ptolemaeus Parvus Ara∣bibus junctus. Tables of oblique Ascensions, and the whole Art of Direction, he calls it Tabulae Primi Mobilis; some Astrologick Aphorisms, and others, under the Title of Astrologia Aphoristica.

FORTUNIUS LICETUS, of Genua, an eminent Philosopher, among* 1.739 other his learned Works, put forth a Treatise De Novis Astris & De Cometis. Item, Controversiae. De Cometis, De Motu & Parallaxi Cometarum; of the Comet seen in the years 1642. and 1643. De Lucidis in Sublimi; De Regulari Motu Planeta∣rum; De Lunae subobscuurâ luce, prope Conjunctiones, & in Eclipsibus observatâ; De Terrae unico Centro Motûs, &c.

CAROLUS GONTRANUS, Doctor of Sorbonne, and General of the* 1.740 Oratorian Order, put forth a small Piece, Pro Astrologia, sed sana, as Ricciol. in Chro∣nol. Astron. affirms.

BALTHAZAR GONRADUS, a Iesuit, born at Nisse, Professor of* 1.741 Philosophy and Mathematicks at Olmutz, the Metropolis of Moravia, published a* 1.742 New Reason of Cosmographical Tables, Described in a right Angled Cone, whose Basis is the Aequator; and made some Observations of Eclipses, which he communi∣cated to Ricciolus.

HADRIANUS METIUS, of Alcmaire, wrote learnedly of the Use of the* 1.743 Globe, saies Ricciolus, and in the first Book of his Geometry resolves divers Astro∣nomical Problems, Geometrically and Arithmetically. He published likewise his Primum Mobile, wherein he treats De Sphaera, Planisphaerio, sive Astrolabio, &c. His Brother Iacobus Metius being one of the first Inventors of the Telescope. G. Voss.

Doctor JOHN WILKINS, sometimes Warden of Wadham Colledge in* 1.744 Oxford, afterward Bishop of Chester, wrote about the year 1638. Two Tractates, in one indeavouring to prove the Moon a World, in the other the Earth a Planet, without putting his Name to either of them; yet they were so well known to be his, that Langrenus in his Map of the Moon (dedicated to the King of Spain) names one of the Spots of his Selenographick Map after his Name. He highly promoted the Study and Perfecting of Astronomy both at Oxford, whilst he was Warden, and at London whilst he was Bishop, and Fellow of the Royal Society; he died in November 1672.

NICOLAUS CABAEUS, a Native of Ferrara, of the Society of Iesus,* 1.745 Professor of Philosophy at Parma, besides his Magnetick Philosophy, wrote a Comment In Aristotelis Meteora, and other Pieces of abstruse Learning, wherein he treats of many things well deserving the Knowledge of an Astronomer or Cosmographer, especially touching Comets, the Galaxie, &c. He died at Genua, where also with great applause he had publickly taught and professed Mathematicks.

NICHOLAUS CAUSSINUS, a Iesuit, Native of Troyes in France,* 1.746 wrote a particular Treatise De Domo Dei, that is, of the Heavens, and the Celestial Bodies, wherein he learnedly and acutely argues against the Professors of Judiciary Astrology.

JOHANNES ANTONIUS ROFFENUS, of Bologna, Disciple to* 1.747 Maginus, and an eminent Astronomer and Astrologer, whom Ricciolus affirms to have published many Astrological Discourses, but gives not the particulars thereof.

GULIELMUS SCHICKARDUS, Professor of the Oriental Langua∣ges* 1.748 and Astronomy at Tubinge, put forth a little Piece, entituled Astroscopium, with a Synoptical Table, for the easier investigation of the Places of the Planets. He published likewise a Dissertation, addressed to Gassendus, De Mercurio sub Sole viso, with other Celestial Observations, and particularly touching Eclipses. His Astro∣scopium was published by Iohannes Ruffius, at Nordling in the year 1655.

WILLIAM MILBOURN Master of Arts, Curate at Brancespeth near* 1.749 Dunham, aged about forty years, was very knowing in Arithmetick, particularly in Algebra (having in the year 1628. extracted the Root of this Equation, 1,000 = aaaaa − aaaa − 4aaa + 3aa + 3a. before he had seen Hariott's Praxis) and in Geometry. But his greatest Labours were in Astronomy, and in his Observa∣tion of the Stars, he used a good Cross Staff, and a Sextans of five foot Radius, he discovered the weakness of Lansbergius his Astronomy, and verified Kepler's Tables, which he turned into Decimals, and made Tables after Kepler's subsidiary way

(pag. 97. Tab. Rudolph.) which were sent to his Brother Mr. Milbourn a Stationer in* 1.750 London, to be Printed; but never passed the Press, being yet preserved in MS. in the hands of Sir Ionas Moore Knight. All his Observations and other Papers, &c. were most unhappily lost, by the coming in of the Scots, in the year 1639.

HIEREMIAS HORROX, born at Toxteth, a small Village near Liver∣poole* 1.751 in •…•…ancashire, after some time of Study at Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, about the year 1633. first applied himself to Astronomical Observations, having by his industry considerably advanced that Science; as first by his excellent Tractate of Venus discovered in the Sun, an Observation which never had been made by any be∣fore, published by the famous Hevelius, together with his own Mercurius in Sole vi∣sus, and illustrated with his accurate Annotations. His other Posthume Works, or rather his imperfect Papers were lately digested and published, by the great care and labour of that learned Mathematician, Doctor Iohn Wallis, Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford. Wherein he first asserts and promotes the Keplerian Astronomy, against the Hypotheses of Lansbergius, which he proves to be inconsistent among themselves; not agreeable with former Observations exactly made; nor the Precepts of them well demonstrated. He likewise disputes of the Celestial Bodies and their Motions, and answers the Cavils of Hortensius against Ty•…•…ho; gives a new Theory of the Moon, to which are added the Lunar Num∣bers of Mr. Flamstead. There are also Extracts of several Letters of his to his Friend and Associate in Study Mr. Crabtree, upon divers Astronomical Subjects, with a Catalogue of Astronomical Observations made by the said Horrox, without allow∣ance of the Excentricity of the Eye, which he afterwards castigated by a correcti∣on fairly written with his own hand.

WILLIAM CRABTREE, a Clothier of Broughton near Manchester, in* 1.752 Lancashire, was a diligent Observer of the Stars, as appears by his Observations printed by Doctor Wallis 1673. in the Edition of Mr Horrox his Works, which amount not to the tenth part of what he had made. He converted Kepler's Rudol∣phine Tables into Decimals, for his own use whereof there is now a MS. Copy re∣maining with the said Sir Ionas Moore. Mr. Horrox and this Mr. Crabtree died in the year 1641. having about a year before had the happy accquaintance of the most incomparable and ingenious Gentleman,

WILLIAM GASCOYGNE of Middleton in the County of York Esquire,* 1.753 who for some years before, had taken much pains in Astronomical Observations, and invented wayes to grind Glasses. He was the first that used two convex Glasses; had at that time a Tube that drew out fifteen foot in length, of his own working. The Object-glass was a Meniscus. He invented wayes to measure small Angles by the Prospect-Glass to a second; and had he lived, he had certainly brought great perfection to Telescopes. Mr. Crabtree taking a Journey into York shire in the year 1639. writ thence to Mr. Horrox, as followeth. The first thing Mr. Gascoygne shewed me was a large Telescope amplified and adorned with new Inventions of his own, whereby he can take the Diameters of the Sun or Moon, or any small Angle in the Heavens, or upon the Earth most exactly through the Glass to a second. A device much desired, but little expected, &c. In the year 1641. Mr. Gascoygne writ to Mr. Crab∣tree, that he questioned not to provide an Instrument to take at once the Distances of three Points in the Periphery of the Earth's shade of the Moon, the Diameters of the Planets, &c. But he and all his excellent Inventions and Labours were lost by his Death, which was in his late Majesty's Service, in the Fight at Marston Moore.

These Four, were Lights of the first Magnitude, in the Northern Hemisphere, who were happily brought to the Acquaintance of one another by the means of

Christopher Townley of Carr in Lancoshire Esquire, who stuck not for any cost o•…•…* 1.754 labour to promote as well Astronomical as other Mathematical Studies by a dili∣gent Correspondence kept and maintained with the learned Professors in those Sciences,; upon which Account he was very dear to All the Four; and for which Reason, as for the Particular respect I owe him, he merits to be named in thi•…•… Catalògue. The others that follow, though they were not so conspicuous as the former, were yet of considerable Lustre, and afforded no mean Influence towards carrying on the Work of Astronomy in those Parts.

In the first Place, Sir JONAS MOORE Knight, Surveyor General of His* 1.755 Majesty's Ordnance, my Worthy Friend and Collegue, born at Whitebee, in Lanca∣shire, by his diligent endeavours, contributed not a little to the advancement of the Astronomical Design, so well begun and prosecuted by the much deserving Persons before mentioned. He turned Bulialdus his Tables into Decimals, after Mr. Mil∣bourn's Method, and writ of the Sphere, and its several Projections; which Work he hath now by him, though it were to be wished, he would rather, by the publication thereof, afford the ingenious Lovers of these Studies an opportunity at once of witnessing, and receiving the benefit of his Labours.

GEORGE WHARTON Esquire, born at Kirby-Kendal in the County* 1.756 of Westmerland, my ancient kind Friend, and now Treasurer and Pay-master to the Office of His Majesty's Ordnance, complying with the incitements of the said Mr. William Milbourn, addicted himself very assiduously to the Calculation and Observa∣tion of the Celestial Motions; till the late Rebellious Times, deprived him of his Liberty; and since that, the frequent Accesses of the Gout, have taken from him, the opportunity of prosecuting those Studies with that Assiduity as formerly.

Mr. JEREMIAH SHACKERLEY a great Pains-taker in calculating* 1.757 and comparing several Observations, he writ Tabulae Britannicae grounded chiefly upon the Theories and Observations of Mr. Horrox, which were Printed in 8^o. about the year 1647. he dyed in the East-Indies.

Mr. NATHAN PIGHELLS, a very diligent Observer, &c. to whom may* 1.758 be added some others, which for Brevities sake I here omit. All which Examples may serve as very inducive Arguments to perswade the learned Doctor Wallis to be of another Opinion than that, which (I presume through want of due Informa∣tion) he declared in his Preface to Mr. Horrox his Works, where he saith; •…•…aten∣dum est paucissimos tunc Dierum in Anglia, partibus saltem Borealibus, Studiis illis Animum sedulo applicuisse; when as it is more than probable, that if some of the Persons before mentioned had not been overtaken by too untimely Death, others of them by the fatal Calamities of the late horrid Rebellion, Astronomy had by their Labours been most considerably advanced. And I question whether so many Able Artists were to be met with again at the same time, in any one Province in England, beside.

FRANCISCUS MONTEBRUNUS, a Noble Genouese, and Doctor* 1.759 of the Civil and Canon Laws, composed out of Lansbergius's Tables, Ephemeri∣des, calculated for the Meridian of Bologna, commencing in the year 1641. and ending in the year 1660.

JOHANNES GEORGIUS HERVARTUS, of Howenburgh,* 1.760 Doctor in the Laws, set forth a new kind of Chronology, grounded upon the Cal∣culation of Eclipses; which yet both Petavius and Ricciolus have undertaken to refute.

EMANUEL PORTUS set forth a Treatise, entituled Dipluranologia,* 1.761 giving an account of the going back of the Sun in the time of Hezekias, and of* 1.762 the standing still of the Luminaries in the time of Ioshua; Printed at Padua in the year 1642.

ANTONIUS DEUSINGIUS writ a Dissertation De vero Systemate* 1.763 Mundi, Printed at Amsterdam in the year 1643. In which the Copernican System is reformed; and those numberless Orbs in that of Ptolemy, by which human Appre∣hension is so distracted, are quite taken away.

GEORGIUS FOURNERIUS, a Iesuit, Professor of Mathematicks at* 1.764 Paris, published about this time his famed Piece of Hydrography; out of which saies Ricciolus, Doctrina profundior hauritur, quàm Mare ipsum, quod Monumento ad∣eo nobili illustravit. Of his skill in observing the Celestial Phoenomena, especially Eclipses, Ricciolus gives ample testimony.

PETRUS HERIGONUS, Professor of Mathematicks at Paris, wrote a* 1.765 Cursus Mathematicus, in several Tomes; in the Fourth of which he treats De Sphaera Mundi, and De usu Mappae Geographic•…•…; and in the Fifth, of the Theory of the Planets.

JOHANNES SELDENUS sometime the Great Dictator of Learning* 1.766 in this Nation, besides his other Works of admirable value, hath gained no mean Esteem by his Dissertation De Anno Civili, & Calendario Veteris Ecclesiae seu Rei∣publicae Iudaicae, Printed at London by Richard Bishop 1644. 4^o.

MICHAEL FLORENTIUS LANGRENUS, Cosmographer and* 1.767 Mathematician to Philip IV. King of Spain, wrote a Treatise of the Observation of the Longitude by Sea and Land, from the Obscuration, or Illumination of the Spots of the Moon. To which end he designed a New Selenography, under the Ti∣tle of Selenographia Langreniana, sive Lumina Austriaca Philippica; of whom see more in Ricciolus, Chron. Astronom.

JOHANNES GREGORY, Native of Amersham in Buckinghamshire,* 1.768 and sometime Chaplain of Christ-Church in Oxford, merits a place in this Catalogue, for his learned Tractates De Aeris & Epochis, and his Description and Use of the Terrestial Globe, and of Charts and Mapps, published in his Posthume Works, a∣mong other Pieces of exquisite erudition, and some Astronomical and Astrological Discourses in his Annotations upon the Scripture, in which he shews no Vulgar Learning.

GEORGIUS POLACCUS, a Venetian, set forth Anticopernicum Catho∣licum,* 1.769 in which he maintains the Stability of the Earth, and the Sun's motion.

ALBERTUS LINEMANUS of Prussia, Professor of Mathematicks in* 1.770 the Academy of Konningsberg, put forth a small Tract of Astronomical Observati∣ons, especially of Eclipses, to which he gave the Title of Memoria Saecularis, as Ricciolus affirms.

JACOBUS GRANDAMICUS, a Iesuit, put forth a Treatise, entitu∣led* 1.771 Nova Demonstratio Immobilitatis Terrae petita ex virtute Magnetica, Printed at La Fleche in France 4^o. He writ likewise a Treatise of the Nature, Motion, and Ef∣fects of the Comet, which appeared in the year 1665. mentioned in the Iournal des Seavants.

EMANUEL MAIGNANUS, a Fryar of the Order of St. Francis de* 1.772 Paula, put forth an excellent Piece, under the Title of Perspectivae 〈◊〉〈◊〉; in* 1.773 the First and Fourth Book whereof, he treats of many things touching Refracti∣ons, Scitu digna & Astronomis Utilia, sayes Ricciolus.

LAURENTIUS EICHSTADIUS, Doctor of Physick, Native of Ste∣tin,* 1.774 in Pomerania, and Professor of Mathematicks at Dantzick, reckoned by Bulial∣dus, (in Prologo Astro Philol.) among the most eminent Astronomers of his Time, put forth among other his Works Paedia Astrologica, and Ephemerides of thirty years, ending in the year 1665. to which he added a Compendious Canon of Lo∣garithms and Mesologarithms; together with Tables of the Primum Mobile, Calcu∣lation of Eclipses, and the like. He likewise published Tabulae Harmonicae Coelesti∣um Motuum, tum Primi, tum Secundorum, chiefly grounded upon the Observations and Hypotheses of Tycho Brahe. Likewise a Century of Astrologick Aphorisms.

MARINUS MERSENNUS, a French-man, a Minime Fryar, of the Or∣der* 1.775 of St. Francis de Paula, hath, in his learned Comment upon Genesis, added many curious Astronomical Observations; and in his Mathematical Synopsis, not only by his own Industry, but also by the publication of others learned Labours, hath much contributed to the advancement of Astronomy.

PETRUS GASSENDUS, Dean of the Cathedral Church of Digne in* 1.776 Provence, and Regius Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Paris, the learned Restorer and Vindicator of the Epicurean Philosophy, among other the eternal Monuments of his Erudition, hath left divers Astronomical Tractates; as first, four Epistles, De apparente Magnitudine Solis humilis & sublimis; three, De Motu impresso à Motore translato, wherein he defends the Copernican▪ Hypothesis, of the Earth's motion; another De •…•…arheliis, seu Solibus quatuor spuriis Romae circa verum visis, Anno 1629. He put forth also, about the time of his admission into the Mathematical Chair at Paris, an Astronomical Institution, Printed lately at Lon∣don, with the addition of Kepler's Dioptricks; and hath left, among other his Works, a Volume of Celestial Observations, which from the year 1621. to the year 1655. he made with assiduous care and accurate speculation. A Treatise also enti∣tuled, Mercurius in Sole visus & Venus invisa, Printed at Paris in the year 1631. His Judgment about nine pretended Satellites of Iupiter, in Answer to Rheita. Solstitialis Altitudo Massiliensis, seu Proportio Gnomonis ad Solstitialem Umbram ob∣servata Massiliae, 1636. in an Epistle to Vendelinus. The Lives of Purbacchius and Regiomontanus, as likewise those of Copernicus and Tycho Brahe, the most illustri∣ous Astronomers of their Times; and a Compendious Exposition of the Roman Calendar. Besides the Life of the incomparable Peireskius; and his Epistles to di∣vers eminent and learned Persons, wherein he frequently treats, upon occasion given, of Astronomical Subjects.

RENATUS DES CARTES, Native of La Hay en Touraine, a Town on* 1.777 the Confines of Poicton in France, of a Generous Extraction (his Father having been President of the Parliament at Rennes in Britanny) one of the most Signal Philoso∣phers and Mathematicians, which this last, or (happily) former Ages have produ∣ced. Who having given new Life and Light to Philosophy; added likewise no mean Lustre to Mathematical Arts, and particularly to that of Astronomy. For in the third Part of his Principles of Philosophy, (the Subject whereof is De Mun•…•… Aspectabili.) He treats of the Distances and Magnitudes of the Sun, Moon, and the other Planets; examins the several Hypotheses of Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Ty•…•… Brahe, Discourses of the Maculae and faculae Solares, of Comets, and their several Phaenomena, of the Moon, her various Phases, and different Motions, with divers

other Particulars relating to Astronomy; to which likewise he contributed in his* 1.778 Dioptricks by his curious Inventions for the more exact polishing of Glasses, and bringing Telescopes to a greater Perfection, for the Contemplation and Observati∣on of the Celestial Bodies. Of which Subject likewise he sometimes treats in his Epistles, particularly in the 67^th Epistle of his Second Tome (to Mersennus) the Argument whereof is, De Astrorum Observatione, & utilitate quae indè capi potest. See more of this Excellent Person in the brief Summary of his Life drawn by the accurate Pen of Lipstorpius in his Specim. Philosoph. Cartes; and in that written by Petrus Borellius, wherein he gives a particular Catalogue of all his Works and Writings.

ANTONIUS MARIA SCHYRLAEUS DE REITHA, a Ca∣pucine* 1.779 Fryar, & Astronomus non ignobilis, according to Ricciolus, wrote an Astrono∣mical Treatise, entituled Oculus Enoch & Eliae, seu Radius Sydereomysticus, Printed in the year 1645.

ISMAEL BULIALDUS, Son of Ismael Bulialdus, and Native of Lou∣dun,* 1.780 a Town in the Province of Poictou in France, by Ricciolus stiled, Astronomus pro∣fundae indaginis, hath highly merited, as well by his publication of several ancient Mathematical and Astronomical Authors (some of whom we have already mentio∣ned) as by his own most learned Labours, having first published his Dissertation, entituled Philolaus, sive De vero Systemate Mundi. Afterwards in the year 1645. he set forth his Astronomia Philolaica, grounded upon the Hypothesis of the Earth's motion, and the Elliptical Orbit described by the Planets motion about a Cone; illustrated with solid Demonstrations, to which he hath added Tables, by him enti∣tuled Tabulae Philolaicae, in which the motions of Saturn, Iupiter, and Mercury are more accurately represented than in the Rudolphine Tables, being for the most part much easier than those, a Work, sayes Ricciolus, Omnibus Astronomiae studiosis, sed non sine attentione, legendum. He likewise published about the year 1666. Moni∣ta duo ad Astronomos; the first, touching a New Star, in the Neck of the Whale, appearing at some times, at others, disappearing; the other, touching a cloudy Star in the Northern part of Andromeda's Girdle, not discovered by any of the Ancients, sometimes appearing, and sometimes not. Which Phaenomena he recom∣mends to the Observation of all curious Astronomers.

FRANCISCO GENERINI set forth in Italian the Design of a* 1.781 Moving Globe, composed by him, to demonstrate the diurnal and annual motion of the Moon, together with the inequality of dayes; to which is annexed a Discourse of Natural and Artificial Houres, declaring the meaning of the said Author touch∣ing the said Invention, and an account of many other Operations to be wrought by the said Globe, besides those before mentioned, Printed at Florence, in 4^o. 1645.

JOHANNES BAINBRIDGE, sometime Savilian Professor of Astro∣nomy* 1.782 in the University of Oxford, writ a Treatise, of the Dog-Star, and of the Canicular dayes, (published by Mr. Graves, together with a Demonstration of the Heliacal Rising of Sirius, or the Dog-Star, for the Parallel of the Lower Egypt) Printed at Oxford in the year, 1648. He writ likewise of the Comet in 1618. and published Procli Sphaera, with Ptolemy's Chronological Canon.

ATHANASIUS KIRCHERUS, a Iesuit, Native of Buchon, within* 1.783 the Territories of the Abbot of Fulda, in Germany, sometime Professor of the Ori∣ental Languages (in which, by Ricciolus, he is said to be ad stuporem usque peritus) as also of Mathematicks at Wirtsberg, and Avignon, afterwards Ordinary Professor of Mathematicks in the Iesuits Colledge at Rome, hath in most of his Works

treated largely upon the Subject of Astronomy; as in his Oedipus Aegyptiacus, where* 1.784 he displayes Systematica Mundorum, sive de Mundo, Mundorúmque varietate ex men∣te Aegyptiorum; De Astrologia Aegyptiorum & Chaldaeorum Hieroglyphica; and more particularly in his Musurgia, where he treats De Coelorum Symphonismo; De admi∣randa Mundanorum Corporum ad invicem proportione; De particulari Symphonismo Planetarum; De Choro Ioviali; De Choro Solari & Martio; De Harmonia Stella∣rum Fixarum; In his Book De Magnete, where he fully handles the Subject of Magnetick Astronomy, under the several Heads of Sphaera Magnetica, Uranographia Sciotherico-Magnetica, and Horologiographia Magnetica; In his Book entituled Ars magna Lucis & Umbrae; wherein besides his various Horography he treats De Astrolabiographia, & Geographia Gnomonica, Gnomonica Physico-Astrologica; De Arte Anacamptica, sive Astronomia Reflexa; De Arte Anaclastica, sive Astronomia Re∣fracta, & De Cosmometria Gnomonica, hoc est, De Mundi Lucumbris Dimensione, &c. as also in his Itinerarium Ecstaticum Coeleste, in which to express him in his own words, Mundi Opificium, i. e. Caelestis Expansi, Siderúmque tàm errantium quàm fixo∣rum natura, vires, proprietates, singulorumque compositio & structura, ab infimo Tellu∣ris Globo usque ad ultima Mundi confinia perfecti Raptus Integumentum explorata novà Hypothesi exponitur ad veritatem, Printed at Rome 1656.

JOHANNES DE EPIERES, Doctor of Divinity and Grand Prior of* 1.785 the Monastery of Aquicintinum, put forth an Universal Calendar, wherein he pro∣poses an easie Method for finding out the Golden Number, Epact, Dominical Let∣ter, Moveable Feasts, and Indictions, for any year proposed, and promises a larger Work under the Title of Astronomia Aquicinctina, which whether ever published, does not yet appear to me.

DIRK REMBRANTZ, in his Netherlandish Astronomy, treats of Pla∣net-Wisers,* 1.786 and gives the Reader an Eclipsigraphia, shewing when an Eclipse of the Sun happens, what and how great a part of the Earth will be obscured thereby.

ROBERTUS DUDLEY, an English-man, known abroad, especially in* 1.787 Italy, by the pretended Title of Duke of Northumberland, published three Volumes in folio, entituled Arcano del Mare, in which are Sea-Charts, Directions for the building of Galleys, and a Description of many Planetary Instruments.

SAMUEL FOSTER, a learned Professor of Astronomy in Gresham-Colledge,* 1.788 contrived several ingenious Planetary Instruments, published afterwards in his Posthumous Miscellanies.

SILVIO PHILOMANTIO, an Italian, under that feigned Name, and* 1.789 in that Language put forth Ruota Planetaria, which Ricciolus ascribes to Bonaven∣tura Cavallerio.

PHILIPPUS LABBEE, a learned French Iesuit, Native of Bourges en* 1.790 Berry, put forth, in his own Language, L'Abbregé de la Sphere, being a compendi∣ous Treatise of the Sphere, reduced by an easie and short Method into XII. Chap∣ters, with some important Advertisements thereupon, Printed in the year 1647.

JACOBUS USSERIUS, the late most learned and Reverend Archbishop* 1.791 of Armagh, published a Dissertation of the Macedonian and Asiatick Solar year, to∣gether with a Parapegma of Greek Astronomers, accommodated to the Reasons of the Macedonian and Iulian years; Vide Voss. L. De Scient. Mathemat.

GOTHOFREDUS WENDELINUS, Canon of the Collegiate* 1.792

Church of Conde in Flanders, published Idaea Atlanticarum Tabularum, grounded* 1.793 upon the Observations of divers Eclipses. He set forth likewise Lampas Arcano∣rum Coelestium, and wrote upon several other Astronomical Subjects, as may appear by his Epistles to Gassendus, and those of Gassendus to him, published in his Works.

AEGIDIUS MATROPTUS composed something of the Sphere, &* 1.794 Machinationem conversionibus Secundorum Mobilium repraesentandis, commended by Gassendus, in his Epistles.

CLAUDIUS SALMASIUS having signalized his Name by divers* 1.795 learned Works, hath also endeavoured to give honour thereto by his Diatribes De Annis Climactericis, & De Antiqua Astrologia, Printed at Leiden 1648. He hath interspersed likewise in his Plinian Exercitations sundry Astronomical Arguments, and some Critical Observations upon Manilius, but such as are now and then severe∣ly met with by Petavius in Uranolog.

Mr. WILLIAM OUGHTRED, a learned Divine, and most eminent* 1.796 Mathematician; famous for his Clavis Mathematicae; at the End whereof is a Treatise of Dialling, which is an Astronomical Subject. He was likewise the Au∣thor of the Circles of Proportion, where (not to mention the Double Horizontal Dial) there is a Treatise of Navigation, besides divers Astronomical Propositions. He likewise published a Treatise of Trigonometry, being the first Author that demon∣strated two Proportions for finding both the Angles, at the Base of an oblique Spherical Triangle, at two Operations, when two Sides with the Angle are given.

PHILIPPUS FINELLA wrote in Italian Planetaria Physionomia, Print∣ed* 1.797 at Naples 1649. 4^o.

SCIPIO CLARAMONTIUS, of Caesena, a Knight, and formerly Pro∣fessor* 1.798 of Philosophy in the University of Pisa, a most expert Mathematician, put forth many learned Pieces, among which the chief are these; Anti-Tycho, in de∣fence of the Sublunary Place of Comets, with its Apology, and Supplement; but answered by Kepler, in his Hyperaspistes. Of three New Stars, against the Opinion of Tycho Brahe, which is yet defended by Galilaeo, in his Mundane System; And XVI. Books De Universo Anno, published in the year 1644 as also a particular Treatise, De Phasibus Lunae, Geometrically demonstrated; and another entituled Anti-Philolaus. He wrote also against the truth of Telescopes, asserting that the Earth cannot reflect a Light to the Moon; but is answered by Zucchius, in his Opticks.

MARIUS BETTINUS, a Native of Bologna, of the Society of Iesus,* 1.799 Professor of Moral Philosophy and Mathematicks at Parma, among other his Works, published Apiarium, seu Paradoxa universae Philosophiae Mathematicae, in the Eighth Book whereof he treats chiefly touching matters Astronomical; which Subject he also handles in his Aerarium Mathematicum. He writ likewise in Vindication of himself, being accused by Ricciolus, of committing many Errors in Astronomy, a thin folio Book published in Latin.

JOHANNES MARCUS MARCI, Counsellor and Physician to the* 1.800 Emperor Ferdinand the Third, and primary Professor of Physick in the University of Prague, wrote, among other Physico-Mathematical Tractates, a Particular Trea∣tise, De Longitudine, seu Differentia inter duos Meridianos, unà cum Motu vero Lunae. inveniendo ad tempus datae Observationis, Printed at Prague in the year 1650. 8^o.

JOHANNES GRAVES sometime Savilian Professor of Astronomy in the* 1.801 University of Oxford; A Person who as well by his Forraign Travels, as his learn∣ed* 1.802 Labours, hath gained to himself an unperishing Reputation; as his Pyramide∣graphia, & de Pede & Denario Romano sufficiently testifie, and as to our present Subject, his Discourse or Demonstration of the Heliacal rising of Sirius, or the Dog-star for the Parallel of the Lower Egypt, published together with Doctor Bam∣bridge his Canicularia likewise evinces; to which is subjoyned out of Ulugh Beigh the Longitudes and Latitudes of the chiefest of the fixed Stars. He published like∣wise in Arabick and Latin, Epochae Celebriores Astronomis, Historicis, Chronologis Chataiorum, Syro-Graecorum, Arabum, Persarum, Chorasmiorum Usitatae, ex Traditio∣ne Ulugh Beigh, together with Abul Feda's Geographical Tables, both which Pieces he illustrated with his learned Notes. In like manner he set forth Astronomica Shah Cholgii Persae unà cum Hypothesibus Planetarum, to which likewise he subjoyned the Geographical Tables of Nassir Eddinus the Persian, and of Ulugh Beigh. And from whom the learned World might justly have expected yet greater things, had not Death by a too hasty End of his Life, put a stop to the Course of his Ingenious Studies.

LEO ALLATIUS, a Graecian, of the Isle of of Chios, lately Keeper of* 1.803 the Vatican Library at Rome, a Person most eminently learned, hath published (a∣mong other his various Works of most profound and diffusive Reading) an Exerci∣tation, proper to our present Subject, entituled, Mensura Temporum Antiquorum, & praecipuè Graecorum. He likewise designed another Treatise, under the Title of Historia Astrologica, and Three Books De Magnete, as I find in the Catalogue of his Works, as well already Printed, as to be Published, set forth by Bartoldus Nihusius; but whether the two last have yet passed the Press, is to me uncertain. He translated the Paraphrase of Proclus Diadochus upon Ptolemie's Quadripartite, and caused it to be elegantly Printed.

JOHANNES BECHET put forth a new Theory of the Planets Geo∣metrically* 1.804 demonstrated, by Concentrick and Excentrick Circles, Printed at Paris.

MARIA CUNITIA, Daughter to Henricus Cunitius Doctor of Physick,* 1.805 by Birth a Silesian, highly meriting for her excellent Skill in Languages, and Histo∣ry, more especially for her admirable Knowledge (like another Hypatia) in Mathe∣matical Learning, particularly in Astronomy and Astrology; of which she hath given Signal Testimony by her Exquisite and curious Work, entituled Urania Propitia, wherein she hath set forth Astronomical Tables, of wonderful facility and exact∣ness, grounded upon Kepler's Hypotheses, and satisfying the Celestial Phaenomenae by a most easie and Compendious way of Calculation; expressing and perform∣ing by explicite Numbers, what the Rudolphine Tables contain implicitely in Lo∣garithmical Numbers, and thence require to be effected. Dedicated by her Self and Husband, Elias à Leonibus, to Ferdinand the Third Emperor of Germany, and Printed in fol. (Bicini Silesiorum) 1650. in Latin and High Dutch.

JOHANNES GARIBUS writ De Phaenomenis Ostentis, from the year* 1.806 1641. to the year 1650.

VINCENTIUS MUTUS, of Majorca, a most expert Astronomer, and* 1.807 sedulous Observer of the Stars, hath added honour to his Name by his signal Work, De Sole Alphonsino.

JOHANNES DRIENES, of Dieppe, a Iesuit, and Professor of Ma∣thematicks* 1.808 at Paris, wrote Tabulae Canorienses, seu Doctrina Luminarium.

NICOLAUS ZUCCHIUS, Native of Parma, of the Society of Iesus,* 1.809 was an eminent Philosopher and Divine. He, at Rome, assisted Scheinerus in his Ob∣servations* 1.810 of the Solar Spots; having published his Philosophia Optica, in which he treats of Refractions, and Celestial appearances by the Telescope.

JOANNES BAPTISTA RICCIOLUS, of Ferrara, a Learned* 1.811 Iesuit, sometime Professor of Rhetorick and Poetry, then of Philosophy and School-Divinity, partly at Parma, partly at Bologna; but being chiefly addicticted to Geo∣graphical, Chronological, and Astronomical Studies, hath ennobled his Name by his excellent Work, entituled Almagestum Novum, divided into three Tomes; in the first whereof he treats of the Sphere, of the Sun and Moon, and their Eclipses, of the fixed Stars, of the lesser Planets; of Comets and New Stars, of the several Mundane Systems, &c. In the second, he handles Trigonometry, or the Doctrine of Plain and Spherical Triangles, promises a Treatise of Astronomical Instruments, and the Optical part of Astronomy; (which yet he never published) of Latitude and Longitude, and Hydrography, the Reason of Times, with a Chronological Epi∣tome confirmed by Astronomical Characters. In the third he comprehends Obser∣vations of the Sun, Moon, Eclipses, of the fixed Stars and lesser Planets, with Pre∣cepts and Tables, Primi & Secundorum Mobilium, and other Astronomical Tables. He put forth likewise another Work, entituled Astronomia Reformata; the design of which is (considering the various Hypotheses of several Astronomers, and the difficulty thence arising of concluding any thing certain) by comparing together all the best Observations, and examining what they have most certain in them, to reform upon that measure the Principles of Astronomy. Not to mention his Chro∣nology, Published likewise by him, in folio.

FRANCISCUS MARIA GRIMALDI of an Illustrious Family,* 1.812 a Iesuit of Bologna, partly by his joynt Indeavours and Observations with Ricciolus, partly by his own Inventions and Discoveries, hath greatly illustrated and improved Astronomy. The chiefest of his joynt Observations are these, De Quantitate Cre∣pusculi, De Dimensione Ambitus Terrae, De Solis Distantia per Dichotomiam Lunae, De Solis Diametro apparenti, De Obliquitate Eclipticae seu maxima Solis Declinati∣one, De Altitudine Lunarium Montium, De Parallaxibus Lunae, De Diametro Apparen∣ti Lunae, De Fixarum Distantiis inter se, De earum Ascensione recta & Declinatione, De Venere falcata, De Iovis Fasciis ac earum Parallelismo cum Aequatore, De Diame∣tris apparentibus Planetarum Minorum; & Fixarum. Those of his proper Invention are these; his Problema aemulum Aristarchi pro Distantia Solis; Opinio de Lunae Macu∣lis; Modus observandi Parallaxes. His Selenographia, his Industrious and Select Observations of the Motions of the Moons Spots, and his Detection of Hevelius his double Error touching the Moon's Libration: All which with several others, are mentioned in the first Tome of Ricciolus his Almagest: He writ likewise a Treatise, De Lumine, Coloribus & Iride, mentioned in the Iournal des Scavans, Tom. 3. p. 175.

JOHANNES WENDELINUS writ De Hora Passionis & Triduo Mor∣tis* 1.813 Christi, Printed at Leipick in the year 1651.

HONORATUS DE MEYNIER, a French-man, besides his Paradoxes* 1.814 (wherein he maintains, that Experience ought to precede Science, and Theorical Learning to be acquired by Practice) put forth a small Treatise of the Sphere.

PETRUS COURCIER, a French Iesuit, put forth a Treatise, entituled* 1.815 Astronomia Practica, containing Practical Observations of the Celestial Motions by certain Astrolabes; by which the Places and Motions of any Star may easily, at any time be known.

DANIEL LIPSTORPIUS, Professor of Philosophy, and the Liberal* 1.816 Sciences at Lubeck, put forth a Treatise, entituled Copernicus Redivivus seu de ve∣ro* 1.817 Systemate Mundi, wherein his Design is, not by new Astronomical Calculations, or Geometrical Demonstrations to confirm and establish the Copernican Hypothesis, but by rational, explanatory, and Physico-Astronomical Arguments to lead the Lovers of Truth to an easie and clear understanding of what is delivered by Coper∣nicus, Galilaeo, Longomontanus, Kepler, Bulialdus, in their more diffusive Writings; answering all the Objections of the Adversary Party, and clearing what ever may seem difficult in the Doctrine proposed by the Assertors of that Hypothesis, and that chiefly to this End, (to use his own Words) Ut Stabilitâ & suppositâ Nova hac Mundi Dispositione Copernicanâ, Verissimâ & Solidissimâ, Omnes promiscuè ad ve∣ram Philosophandi Rationem & Nobilissima Cartesiana Monumenta legenda inviten∣tur. Of which he gives the Specimina in a particular Tractate explained 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Philosophandi Ratione; whereunto is annexed an Appendix, in which there are divers Arguments relating to Astronomical Hypotheses of no vulgar strain.

MONSIEUR P. PETIT, Surintendant of the Fortifications of his most* 1.818 Christian Majesty Lewis XIV. published, in his own Language, a Dissertation touching Comets, and particular Observations of the Comets appearing in the year 1654. &c. And upon the Eclipse of the Sun, which happened in the same year, 1654. Of the Exact Method of taking the Diameters of the Planets in a Letter to Monsieur Auzout mentioned in the Iournal des Scavants.

The Reverend Doctor SETH WARD, sometime Savilian Professor of* 1.819 Astronomy in the University of Oxford, afterwards Bishop of Excester, and at pre∣sent Lord Bishop of Salisbury, and Chancellour of the most noble Order of the Garter, hath honoured and illustrated Astronomy by his learned Labours, having published first, his Prelection De Cometis, wherein the Nature of Comets is discour∣sed of, a new Theory of them proposed, and the History of a late Comet, which appeared between the 19^th. and the 30^th. of December, 1652. declared. He put forth likewise a brief Inquision into the Grounds of Bulialdus his Philolaical Astronomy, wherein is detected Bulialdus's Error, in the Method of the Calculating the double Inequality of the Planets Motion, Geometrically evinced. But the Work, by which he hath chiefly (on this Subject) signalized his Name, is his Astrono∣mia Geometrica, wherein a Method is proposed of Geometrically resolving the A∣stronomy of the Primary Planets, either Elliptical or Circular.

And having mentioned this learned Prelate, we cannot but here subjoyn his wor∣thy Friend,

Sir PAUL NEILE Knight, one of the Gentlemen Ushers of His Majesty's* 1.820 Privy Chamber; who, by his Liberal Expences, great Ingenuity, vigilant Observati∣ons, excellent Erudition, and Indefatigable Study (for I cannot speak him better than by repeating this Signal Character already given him) hath exceedingly contribu∣ted toward the Advancement of Astronomy. To which may be added his exquisite Skill in fitting and ordering of Glasses for Telescopes, thereby discovering many new Phaenomena hitherto unknown to others; his not contenting himself with the ex∣act Knowledge of the ancient Systems and Hypotheses, but indeavouring a Plus ultrae by moulding and framing New Ones of his own for the future Benefit (as is hoped) and Improvement of Astronomy; if at least he shall be pleased by the Publication of these and other his worthy Indeavours in this kind, to do himself that Honour, which cannot be given him by this Imperfect Commemoration.

LEONARDUS DU LIRIS, a French-man, and a Recollect-Fryar, put* 1.821

forth in the year 1655. in his own Language, a Treatise entituled Ephemeride Ma∣ritime,* 1.822 calculated for the Observation of the Latitude and Longitude at Sea, with a new Method of perpetuating the Ephemeris of the Sun, by which, at all times, his Declination may be exactly found. To which is added the Invention of an In∣strument, termed La Spire Solaire, for finding out, at any hour of the day, by the Sun-beams, the Height of the Equator, and the Elevation of the Pole.

Doctor JOHN PELL, sometime Professor of Mathematicks in the Colledge at* 1.823 Breda, and before that, in the Colledge at Amsterdam, where his learned Collegue Ger. Io. Vossius (as he testifies, De Scientiis Matth. c. 10.) heard him with Admiration read his Publick Lectures upon Diophantus; by whom likewise he is stiled a Person of various Erudition, and a most acute Mathematician; published his Refutation of Longomontanus his Quadratures of the Circle, in which he hath a Digression or Ex∣ercise, showing the Errors or Failings of the greatest Part of Astronomers for want of better Knowledge in Geometry. He published likewise a little Anonymous Exer∣citation concerning Easter. And he would further extreamly oblige the Learned World, by making good what he propounds in his Idea of Mathematicks, viz. by laying down such a Method, as by that, in an orderly way to deduce not only all that ever is to be found in our Antecessors Writings, and whatsoever they may seem to have thought on, but also all the Mathematical Inventions, Theorems, Problems or Precepts, that it is possible for the working Wits of our Successors to light upon; and that in one certain unchanged Order from the first Seeds of Mathematicks to their highest and no∣blest Applications, as well as to the meanest and most Ordinary. See his Idea of Mathe∣maticks, Printed at the end of Durie's and Hartlib's Reformed School, in 12^o.

JOHANNES CARAMUEL LOBKOWITZ, Bishop of Cam∣pagna* 1.824 and Satrianum, in the Kingdom of Naples, hath written largely through the whole course of the Mathematicks, particularly, as to our purpose, the several Tractates following; Pandoxium Physico-Ethicum, in three Tomes, in the second whereof, besides Philosophy, Physick, and the Law, he treats of Astronomy. Solis & Artis Adulteria, in which he treats of Dialling. Coelestes Metamorphoses, where∣in he resolves the Circular Theories of the Planets into other Forms. Mathesis Bi∣ceps, Vetus, & Nova, in two Volumes, fol. wherein among other various Mathema∣tical Subjects, he handles Astronomical Trigonometry, and gives a particular Trea∣tise, which he entitles Interim-Astronomicum, comprizing the Theory of the Planets in three Parts; the first describing the same by Circles; the second, by Perpendicu∣lar Oscillations; the third, by right Lines. To which, by way of Appendix are add∣ed three Tractates; the first exhibiting most easie Tables of the Celestial Motions, as well of the Planets as of the fixed Stars; the next, teaching the composing of Ephemerides, and demonstrating that an Astronomer may attain to the exact know∣ledge of the Planets Places, both as to Longitude and Latitude, without Calculati∣on; the last shewing to delineate upon a Plane, by a pair of Compasses only, the Eclipses of either the Sun or Moon; thereby (at least as pretended) freeing Astro∣nomers from the tedious trouble of Supputation.

GEORGIUS HILARIUS, a Dane, published Praecepta Doctrinae Sphae∣ricae,* 1.825 Printed at Copenhagen, 1656.

JOHANNES BAPTISTA HODIERNA, a Sicilian, and Mathe∣matician* 1.826 to the Duke of Palma, first of any, published Theories of the Satellites of Iupiter. He writ likewise De admirandis Phasibus in Sole & Lunâ visis ponde∣rationes Opticae, Physicae, & Astronomicae; Protei Coelestis vertigines, seu Saturni Systema; Il Microcosmo del Sole; Rerum Coelestium peculiares Observationes; De Magnitudinibus Stellarum inerrantium Visis; Il Coelo Stellato distinto in cento Mappe,

O Tavole, doue con faciltà si insegna à conoscer tutte le Costellationi stellificati nel Fir∣mamento.* 1.827 He published some other pretty Tractates in Italian, among which some thing erroneous in a Treatise of his, wherein he makes the Earth bigger than all the other Planets, the Sun only excepted.

JOHANNES NEWTON D. D. and at present one of His Majesty's* 1.828 Chaplains, set forth a Treatise entituled Astronomia Britannica, exhibiting the Do∣ctrine of the Sphere, and Theory of the Planets decimally by Trigonometry, and by Tables according to the Copernican System, as it is illustrated by Bullialdus. He published likewise a Mathematical Institution, shewing the Construction and Use of the Natural and Artificial Sines, Tangents, and Secants, in Decimal Numbers, and also of the Table of Logarithms, in the general Solution of any Triangle, whether Plain or Spherical; with their particular Application in Astronomy, Dialling, and Navigation.

BLASIUS FRANCISCUS COMES PAGANUS writ, among* 1.829 other Mathematical Tractates (as his Fortifications and Geometrical Theorems.) Of the Theory of the Planets, with very neat Tables upon the Foundation of the Ru∣dolphine, in which all the Motions of the Celestial Bodies (to use his own terms) are ranged within the limits of pure Geometry; Printed at Paris, in the year 1657. He published likewise a Book of Spherical Triangles, as also Astrologie Naturelle; all in French; he writ likewise a little Discourse of the Longitude, and promises Geo∣graphical Tables.

ERHARDUS WEIGELIUS Professor of Philosophy and Mathema∣ticks* 1.830 in the University of Iena, put forth Astronomia Sphaerica, digested into the Method of Euclid, and Astronomical Exercitations, De Motu & Tempore. He wrote likewise Cosmologia, a Treatise succinctly handling the Principles of Astrono∣my, Geography, the Use of the Globe. And is Author of divers Mechanical Engines and Instruments, serving to the Use and Advancement of Astronomy, as his Pancosmus, being a large Engine or Machine, capable to receive a Man on Horse-back, representing the whole Mundane System, together with the Motions of the Celestial Spheres, Stars, and Planets; Astrodicticum Majus, being another great Machine, able to receive at once 200 Observers, and so fitted with Dioptrick Instruments, that the several Obser∣vers may at one instant take the view of one and the same Star. Astrodicticum Mi∣nus, a Rule to be applied to the Celestial Globe for the pointing out of any Star aimed at, as likewise Goniometrum, Horographum, Topometrum, Globus Hydrostati∣cus, and Astrocosmus, being the Names of several Engines and Instruments (among others) by him invented for Astronomical Uses, which for Brevities sake we forbear to explain, particular mention and description of them being made at the end of the third Volume of the Miscellanea Medico-Physica Academiae Naturae Curiosorum German. Printed 1673.

GABRIEL DULLENDIUS put forth Astronomical Tables, to which* 1.831 he gave the title of Tabulae Ambianenses, seu, Theoriae Planetarum, tàm in forma Ty∣chonica quàm-Copernicana, per unicam cujusque Ellipsim ex proprio Centro Descriptam, Plano-Geometrica Delineatio; Printed at Paris in 4^o. 1658.

CHRISTIANUS HUGENIUS (Son of Constantinus Hugenius of* 1.832 Zulichem) a Gentleman of great Worth and Reputation for his singular Know∣ledge in all manner of polite Literature, especially in the Mathematicks, as not on∣ly his excellent Book of Pendulums, and some Essayes in Dioptricks, but what re∣lates more nearly to our present Subject, his Systema Saturnium sive de Causis mi∣randorum Saturni Phaenomenôn, & Comite ejus Planetâ novo, sufficiently declare. In

which Work are detected the various Phases of that Celestial Proteus, shewing that* 1.833 his Brachia or Ansae are no other than a Luminous Annulus or Ring about the Body of that Planet, every way alike distant from it, whose Plane•…•… keeps in a certain and constant inclination to the Ecliptick, appearing (according to its diversity of Aspect) now like a large Ellipsis, now like a more contracted one, at other times like a streight Line; discovering likewise a Lunula or small Planet to move about Saturn, and to finish its Course in sixteen dayes, and that Saturn in a less space of Time turns about his own Axis, carrying about with him the whole Aetherial Body or Matter interjected between him and the said Satellite or Planet, together with the said Annulus, in a Motion not much slower than his own. Printed by Adrian Ulacq at the Hague 1659. To which is to be added his Brevis ejusdem Systematis Asser∣tio, Printed at the Hague 1660.

Mr. VINCENT WING born at North Luffenham in the County of Rut∣land,* 1.834 a very Industrious Mathematician and Astronomer; as the several Works, by him published, declare, of which we shall mention only such as relate to our pre∣sent Design, as his Urania Practica, or Practical Astronomy, published by Him, and Mr. William Leiburn, about the year 1649. wherein (contrary to his Later Senti∣ments) is asserted the Earth's Stability: Against which Mr. Ieremy Shakerley writ; to which Mr. Wing replied in a small Treatise entituled Ens fictum Shakerlaei. A∣bout the year 1652. He published his Harmonicon Coeleste, therein asserting, contra∣ry to his former Opinion, The Earth's Mobility. He put forth likewise Astronomia Instaurata in four Parts; and Ephemerides of the Celestial Motions, for twenty years, with an Introduction to the Knowledge of all Mundane Alterations; also Examen Astronomiae Carolinae. Having likewise left two Posthume Works, viz. Astronomia Britannica, Printed in fol. in Latin, and Computatio Catholica, published about a year after his Death, which was in September 1668. See more of him in the Remarks on his Life and Death, published by Mr. Gadbury.

GASPAR SCHOTTUS REGISCURIANUS, a Iesuit, some∣time* 1.835 Professor of Mathematicks in the Iesuits Colledge at Palermo, in Sicily, after∣wards at Wirtsberg in Franconia, set forth Cursus Mathematicus, sive absolut a omnium Mathematicarum Disciplinarum Encyclopaedia, in 28 Books. In the seventh, eighth and ninth of which Books he treats of Astronomy; the first comprizing Astronomia Elementaris, or the Description of the Sphere, the Celestial Circles, &c. the next handling Astronomia Theorica, the Theory of the Planets; the third Astronomia Practica, resolving divers Astronomical Problems, as well Organically as Geometri∣cally. The whole Work Printed in folio, at Wirtsberg 1661. He published like∣wise Kircher's Iter Ecstaticum Coeleste, adorned and augmented with several Prelusi∣ons, Scholia's and Schemes, and promises the Edition of a greater Work by him en∣tituled Mundus Mirabilis, which whether it were ever finished or published I know not.

THOMAS STREET Student in Astronomy and Mathematicks, put forth* 1.836 a New easie Geometrical and Harmonious Theory of the Celestial Motions, under the Title of ASTRONOMIA CAROLINA, with Astronomical Tables, and their Uses, exhibiting most plain and easie Examples of finding the true Places, of the fixed Stars and Planets, and the Eclipes of the Luminaries at all times; the se∣veral Calculations therein being compared with all the best and most certain Obser∣vations both Ancient and Modern. In which likewise more particularly is asserted the Verity of the Equation of Time for the inequality of Natural Dayes, and the near Agreement of the Lunar Theory (therein proposed) to the Phaenomenon, whence the Science of the Longitude, or Difference of Meridians as well at Sea as Land, may be far more truly obtained than formerly it hath been, Printed at London 1661.

4^o. To which he added an Appendix in the year 1664. and in 1667. put forth* 1.837 Memorial Verses on the Ecclesiastical and Civil Calendar, with an Epitome of the Heavenly Motions. He is now about publishing Planetary Instruments.

PLACIDUS DE TITIS of Perugio, Professor of Astronomy in the* 1.838 University of Pavy, in Italy, put forth Ephemerides of the Celestial Motions, be∣ginning in the year 1661. and continued to the end of the year 1675. calculated according to the Lansbergian Hypotheses, for the Longitude of 35°. together with a Treatise of the Efficient, Proximate, and Remote Causes of the Transmutation of the Elements, with a Method of erecting a Celestial Scheme or Figure, and some Observations upon Earth-Quakes, Printed at Pavy 1661.

Mr. LAURENCE ROOK, first Astronomy and then Geometry Professor* 1.839 of Gresham Colledge, and Fellow of the Royal Society; had begun to make exact Observations of the Immersions and Emersions of the Satellites of Iapiter, besides many others of other Celestial Bodies, but was snatched away from his Studies and Labours in th•…•… year 1662. shortly after the Establishment of the Royal Society, whose Institution he had zealously promoted, and it was a Deplorable Accident in his Death (as is noted by the ingenious Authour of the History of the Royal So∣ciety) that he deceased the very Night, which he had for some years expected, wherein to finish his accurate Observations on the said Satellites. His Loss was re∣gretted by all that knew his Extraordinary Worth both for Knowledge, and Pro∣bity; deservedly celebrated by that excellent Prelate the now Lord Bishop of Sa∣rum, Doctor Seth Ward, (at the Time of Mr Rook's Decease Lord Bishop of Exon) by this Sepulcral Monument.

M. S.

Hìc subtùs sive dormit, sive contemplatur, Qui jamdiu Animo metitus est Quicquid aut Vita aut Mors habet, Vir Cl. LAURENTIUS ROOK è Cantio Oriundus, In Collegio Greshamensi Astronomiae primò, deìn Geometriae Professor, Utriusque Ornamentum, & Spes Maxima, Quem altissima Indoles, Artesque Omnifariae, Mores pellucidi, & ad amussim probi, Consuetudo facilis & accommoda, Bonis, Doctisque Omnibus fecere Commendatissimum. Vir totus Teres, & sui Plenus, Cui Virtus & Pietas, & summa Ratio Desideria Metusque omnes sub pedibus dabant. Ne se penitus seculo subducere mortuus possit Qui iniquissima Modestiâ vixerat, SETHUS WARD Episcopus Exoniensis Sodalis, & Symmystae desideratissimi Longas suavesque Amicitias, Hoc Saxo prosecutus est.

Obiit Iunii 27^o. A. D. MDCLXII Aetat. XL.

There is extant in the Philosophical Transactions N^o. 22. p. 388. his Method for observing the Eclipses of the Moon free from the common Inconveniencies. His

Astronomical Papers are (if I am not misinformed) in the Hands of the above men∣tioned* 1.840 Lord Bishop of Sarum, who will doubtless take care of seeing them digested and published.

ANDREAS CELLARIUS PALATINUS, Scholae Hornanae in* 1.841 Hollandia Boreali Rector, set forth a large Work in folio with this Title, Harmonia Macrocosmica, seu Atlas Universalis, & Novus, totius Universi Creati Cosmographi∣am Generalem exhibens. In qua Omnium totius Mundi Orbium Harmonica Constructio secundum diversas Diversorum Authorum Opiniones; Ut & Uranometria, seu toti∣us Orbis Coelestis, ac Planetarum Theoriae, &c. ob oculos ponuntur; Printed at Amster∣dam, with curious Sculps, and dedicated to his present Majesty Charles the Second.

JOHANNES HECKERUS, of Dantzick, set forth Ephemerides of the* 1.842 Celestial Motions, beginning in the year 1666. and continued to the year 1680. calculated for the Meridian of Uranoburgum, from the correct Observations of the Noble Tycho Brahe, the Physical Hypotheses of Kepler, and the Rudolphine Tables. To which he prefixed an Introduction, Printed at Dantzick, 1662. Having gained good Repute among the most nice and skilful Astronomers.

CORNELIUS MALVASIA, Marquess of Bismantua, and General of* 1.843 the Artillery to the Duke of Modena, set forth Ephemerides of the Celestial Mo∣tions, by him stiled Ephemerides Novissimae, calculated according to the Hypothesis of Philippus Lansbergius, for the Longitude of Modena, being 34°. 5′. beginning in the year 1661. and ending with the year 1666. together with the Author's own Observations of Saturn, Iupiter, Mars, Venus, the Sun and Moon for the year 1662. reduced to Calculation, wherein he shews the Excess or Defects of the Lansbergi∣an Tables. To which are added Ephemerides of the Sun, and Tables of Refracti∣ons, according to the latest Hypotheses of the famous Cassini, at present Regius Professor of Mathematicks at Paris.

JACOBUS GREGORY, a Scotch-man, Professor of Mathematicks in the* 1.844 University of St. Andrew's in Scotland, put forth his Optica Promota, Printed at London, in the year 1663. in which Work there are divers difficult useful Problems relating to Astronomy. The same Author hath prepared a Treatise of Dioptricks and Astronomy, which may supply and doubtless much exceed a second Edition of the forementioned Optica Promota.

NICHOLAUS MERCATOR published a Piece entituled Hypothesis* 1.845 Astronomica nova; Printed at London, in a thin folio, in the year 1664. And two Diatribes De Emendatione Annua; and hath prepared for the Press a Treatise of Astronomy, in which his design is to render Astronomy Geometrical. He hath likewise prepared for the Press, at Cambridge, an Astronomical Institution or Intro∣duction resembling that of Gassendus, but much more to the Purpose, as not only discovering the several Theories of the Planets, but leading a Tyro to the Calculati∣on of their Places, upon the Principal Hypotheses both Ancient and Modern.

FRANCISCUS LEVERA a Roman, put forth Prodromus Universae* 1.846 Astronomiae Restitutae de Anni Solaris & Siderei ac Dierum Magnitudine in Omni Aevo, & de reliquis Periodis, Motibus & Circulationibus Solaribus admirandis ad∣huc incognitis, ac etiam Sideriis, ab Authore exploratis, & inventis, ac plenè diluci∣datis, per Demonstrationes Arithmeticas, aliasque plures Probationes; with the Ra∣dixes, and divers Tables of the said Motions, calculated for the Longitude of Rome, with a new Method of Supputation. He put forth likewise a Treatise, De Inerran∣tium Stellarum Viribus & Excellentia, with a Table of their Declinations and

right Ascensions, &c. Printed At Rome by Angelo Bernabo.* 1.847

SAVINIUS MUTUS put forth a Treatise by way of Dialogue, in which* 1.848 he replies to two Letters, the one of Ricciolus, the other of Cassini, written against the aforesaid Prodromus of Levera; wherein the Doctrine and Use of the said Pro∣dromus is asserted, Printed at Rome, Typis Angeli Bernabo 1664.

PETRUS PALATIUS BRIXIENSIS published Novae Ephemerides* 1.849 Motuum Solis ab Anno 1664. usque ad Annum 1670. calculated for the Longitude of Rome according to Levera's Tables, Printed at Rome in fol. 1664. Typis Angeli Bernabo.

SAMUEL DANTFORTH, Master of Arts, set forth an Astronomical* 1.850 Description of the Comet in 1664. as it appeared in New-England; Printed at Cambridge there.

PIETRO MARIA MUTOLO, published at Pisa a small Tractate of* 1.851 the Motion and Place of the Comet which appeared in December 1664. shewing that the said Comet was above the Moon, it having been found without a sensible Paral∣lax. For the observing of which he shews an easie way, which needs no Quadrants or Sextants curiously made; nor a precise taking of the Meridian Altitudes, nor the Situation of the Comet in the Zodiack; nor the noting of the Precise Time of the Observation; nor lastly, needs to fear to be prejudiced by the Consideration of the various refractions; for as much as he works not by the way of taking several Altitudes from the Horizon; but by observing the Position of the Comet among some neighbouring fixed Stars; for the doing of which, he employed only a Sim∣ple Thread stretched out by an Arch, to make it Evident whether this Comet had a sensible Parallax or no. See Philos. Transact. N^o. 53. p. 1070.

ANTONIUS FRANCISCUS PAYEN, an eminent Mathematician* 1.852 and Astronomer, hath published all or most of the several Treatises ensuing. Para∣doxon Astronomicon, De Tabularum Omnium à Coelo dissensu; Aenigma Astronomicum, Adulterium Solis & Lunae; Emblema Astronomicum, Sol Larvatus; Monopolion Coe∣leste, Conjunctio Saturni & Iovis 1663. Et alia Conjunctio Saturni & Martis 1666. Tabulas omnes enormiter fallens; Selenelion, ou Apparition Luni Solaire ob∣servée en l' Isle de Gorgonne, le 16. Iuin 1666. Eclipse du Soleil, observée à Paris, l•…•… 1. Iuillet, 1666. Specula Parisiensis Astronomica; De Tabularum Motibus ad Obser∣vationum trutinam observandis; Nova Dissertatio adversus Astrologiam Gallicam, cum Mantissa Astronomica, De Plagio Morini circa Doctrinam Longitudinum Indicata uni∣ca Possibili Methodo Universali. He writ likewise these following Treatises, by him intended for the Press, viz. Sportula Ecliptica Compendiaria, cum Appendice Prae∣ceptorum supputandi Selenelii Phases, Durationem & Digitos Lunae deficientis in ortu visibili; Paradoxa Physico-Astronomica Spiralis Systematis Prodroma, circa na∣turam Atmosphaerae & causarum Physicarum Astronomica Phaenomena alterantium; Catacrisis Cometica, statuens Cometoidas inter Meteora sublunaria, Cometas verò inter superlunaria, viamque non Linealem vel Circularem, aut Conicam, sed spiralem & flexuosam Meteoris Coelestibus propriam, variis Observationibus comprobatam; Ecloge Prostaphaeretica, De Quadruplice Aequatione Astronomica temporis Meridianorum Cen∣tri & Orbis Planetarum, cum novis ad Calculum Locorum Planetarum & Eclipsium ta∣bulis, exulatâ cruciformi parte proportionali. Upon the occasion of an Eclipse of the Moon happening near Sun-set, in Iuly 1666. both Luminaries appearing visibly above the Horizon, elevated by Refractions, the Author published his Treatise en∣tituled Selenelion, from whence this account was taken, which being about six or se∣ven years since, and divers of these Tractats then extant, as appears by the Iournal

S•…•…avans, it is probable the rest, or most of them are since published.* 1.853

The Right Honourable the Late EARL OF SANDWICH, even in the* 1.854 midst of his weighty State Negotiations was pleased sometime to imploy himself in making considerable Observations both Astronomical and Physiological, and to com∣municate the same to the Royal Society; as his Observation of an E•…•…lipse of the Sun, Iune 22. 1666. at Madrid; the Sun's Height in the Solstice; also the Lati∣tude of Madrid; esteeming by the Sun's Altitude in the Solstice, and by other Me∣ridian Altitudes; the Latitude of Madrid to be 40 Degrees, 10 Minutes, which dif∣fers considerably from that assigned by others; the General Chart of Europe, giving to it 41°. 30′. the General Map of Spain 40°. 27′. A large Provincial Map of Castile 40°. 38′. He likewise made some Observations of the Immersions of the Satellites of Iupiter, and on December 25^th. old style 1666. observed at Madrid a great Halo a∣bout the Moon, the Semidiameter whereof was about 23°. 30′. Aldebaran being just in the North-East Part of the Circle, and the two Horns of Aries just enclosed by the South-West of the Circle, the Moon being in the Center: and about five or six years before, viz. Nov. 21. old stile 1661. an hour after Sun-set, he observed a great Halo about the Moon, of the same Semidiameter, at Tangier, the Moon being very near the same Place. See Phil. Transact. N^o. 21. p. 390.

ERASMIUS BARTHOLINUS, a Dane writ on the Comets which ap∣peared * 1.855 in the years 1664. and 1665. He put forth like wise Astronomical Considera∣tions of the great Conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter, happening in the year 1663. Printed at Copenhagen. He published likewise Heliodorus Larissaeus his Optical Fragments in Greek and Latin, with his Learned Animad versions thereupon, Printed at Paris by Cramoisy 1657. 4^o.

JOHANNES ALPHONSUS BORELLIUS, published a Trea∣tise * 1.856 of the Satellites of Iupiter, about fitting Theories to their Motions, and some Contestations, about the nature of that curve Line, that is described by the falling of a Stone from the Earth's surface to its Center, supposing the Earth's motion.

PETRUS GALTRUCHIUS, of Orleans, a Iesuit, put forth (to use* 1.857 his own Terms) Clara, Brevis, & Accurata Institutio Mathematicae totius, in gratiam studiosae Iuventutis adornata. In which among the rest he treats De Sphaera Mundi, De Astronomia & De Principiis cognitionum Caelestium, De Chronologia, & Cnomo∣nica, Printed lately at Cambridge.

HIERONYMUS VITALIS, of the Order of the Regulars commonly* 1.858 called Theatins of Capua, put forth Lexicon Mathematicum, Astronomicum, Geome∣tricum, containing a Collection, and Explication of all Things relating to either of those Parts of the Mathematicks, more especially as to Astronomy, with a brief Consi∣deration, and Declaration of divers new Theorems, and a Dilucidation of several exotick Terms therein used. Printed at Paris 1668.

ANDREAS TACQUET, a Iesuit, sometime Professor of Mathematicks* 1.859 in the Roman Colledge, put forth, in his Works, entituled Opera Mathematica, Eight Books of Astronomy, in which he explains the whole Doctrine of that Sci∣ence, in such a gradual Scientifick Order, that a Student, without the aid of a Ma∣ster, may learn the whole by his own Study, not formerly attained by the best In∣structions. He therein likewise argues against Ricciolus his Opinion, touching the Farth's rest, from the Descent of heavy Bodies; and shews that the Eclipses of the Sun may be calculated without the aid of Parallax, and that the Sun's Parallax, as to the determination of Celestial Motions, may be safely neglected. He rejects also

the sensible inequality of the Solar or Tropical Years, and the irregularity of the* 1.860 Obliquity of the Ecliptick, of the Procession of the Equinoxes and Excentricity. To the end of which Eight Books are annexed Propositions for twenty eight Cases of Sphaerical Trigonometry.

PIETRO M. CAVINA of Fienza, in Italy, published in the Language* 1.861 of that Country, Congietture Physico-Astronomiche della Natura dell Universo, Printed at Faenza 1669. in 4^o. Which Conjectures were raised by the Author upon some Observations made about the fixed Stars at Faenza; the whole Tractate con∣sisting of three Parts, Considerations, Observations, and Reflections. In the first, he considers the unreasonableness of the Aristotelean Opinon, touching the Ingenera•…•…i∣lity, and Incorruptibility of the Celestial Bodies; whence he proceeds to the second Part containing the Observations themselves; whereby he affirms to have found considerable Changes in divers of the fixed Stars, from what Baye•…•…s, and others have remarked of them as to Magnitude and Number, instancing in Ursa Major and Minor, in the Dragon, Cepheus, Bootes, Corona Septentrionalis, Hercules, Lyra, Cygnus, Cassiopaea, Perseus, and the Via Lactea. From which he deduceth these Conjectures; First, that the Heaven of the sixed Stars is liquid; Secondly, that it is generable and corruptible; Thirdly, that the Motion of the Earth is (as he fancies) improba∣ble; Fourthly, that the Changes and Variations of the fixed Stars, are Effects of the Sun, from which (he conceives) they are but moderately distant; Fifthly, that those Stars are of a Matter easily Dissipable and like unto Lamps which for want of Aliment are extinguished, and by Accession of Aliment are magnified; Sixth∣ly, that all the fixed Stars are in the Concave Superficies of their Heavens; with some other (such like) Conjectures: Of which see further in Phil. Transact. N^o. 65. p. 2112 and p. 2113.

FRANCISCUS TRAVAGINI, an eminent Venetian Philosopher put* 1.862 forth a Tractate entituled Physica Disquisitio super Observationibus à Se factis Tem∣pore ultimorum Terrae Motuum, seu Gyri Terrae Diurni Indicium. In which (from the Observations by him made in some late Earthquakes, especially in the last about Ragusa) he affirms, that he noted, besides a Subsulting Perpendicular Motion, a Con∣comitant Lateral Vibration of the Earth from West to East, whence he conceive•…•… it may validly be inferred that the Earth hath a progressive Motion from West to East. See Phil. Transactions N^o. 6. p. 1084. and 1085. The Tractate itself was Printed at Leyden in Holland 1669. in 4^o.

AEGIDIUS STRAUCH, Publick Professor of History and Philosophy* 1.863 in the University of Wittemberg, besides his Breviarium Chronologicum, set forth a small Treatise entituled, Astrognosia, Synopticè & Methodicè, in usum Academi•…•…um adornata. To which are added Schemes of the several Asterisms cut in Brass, Print∣ed at Wittemberg, in the year 1669.

JOHANNES OTT, of Schafhuysen, an Helvetian, in a small Treatise of* 1.864 Vision, Printed at Heidelberg, in the year 1670. asserts this Thesis; Motus Medius Siderum Astronomorum est figmentum, in rei natura non existens, neque in Hypothes•…•… Elliptica super altero focorum peragitur; Quocirca computi Astronomica Geometrica accuratio, in Problemate adhuc nondum determinato sita est; viz. Datum Circulum ex Puncto extra Centrum dato, in data ratione secare; & quamvis ope Cycloidis construi suo modo possit, attamen cum Punctum, per quod Perpendicularis ad Axes du∣citur, indeterminatum sit, etiam ipsa Sectio indeterminata manet, ejus tamen Proble∣matis Solutionem ex supposito Tetragonismo tam accuratè D. Stephanus Spleissius Gym∣nasii Scaph Rector, & Astronomus Subtilssimus expediit, quam certae sunt Sinu•…•… Tabulae, quarum accuratio ad Astronomicum Calculum abundè sufficit. But if Spleissius

solve the Problem no otherwise than by tentative work, by ayd of a Table of Sines* 1.865 (and Arks) he hath done no more than what was well known here. But however, without the use of any Tables, the Problem is solved by Mr. Iames Gregory, Professor of Mathematicks in the University of St. Andrews in Scotland; as I am informed by the Ingenious and Industrious Promoter of Mathematical Studies, Mr. Iohn Collins.

GABRIEL MOUTONUS published Observations of the apparent Di∣ameters* 1.866 of the Sun and Moon, and of the Meridian Altitudes of the Sun, and some few of the fixed Stars; together with a Table of the Sun's Declinations, calculated to each prime scruple of a Degree. To which is annexed a brief Dissertation of the Inequality of Natural Dayes, and of the Equation of Time, with a new Idaea of Geometrical Measures; and a new Method of communicating and preserving them, for the future, without any alteration.

JOHANNES CHRISTOPHORUS STURMIUS, Professor of* 1.867 Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy in the University of Altdorf in Franconia, published a brief Treatise in folio, entituled, Scientia Cosmica, sive Astronomia tam Theorica quam Sphaerica, paucis Tabulis in usum Incipientium comprehensa, Printed at Altdorf in the year 1670.

JOHANNES HEVELIUS, Consul of Dantzick, an Excellent Mathe∣matician* 1.868 and Astronomer, hath ennobled his Name by several curious and learned Works; as his Selenographia, or Description of the Moon, containing an accurate Delineation of the several Spots therein visible, and of the various Motions, Chan∣ges, and Appearances discovered by the Telescope, as well in that as in the Sun, and other Planets. His Cometographia, representing the whole Nature of Comets, their Situation, Parallaxes, Distances, diverse Appearances, and admirable Motions; with a History of all the Comets, from the beginning of the World to this present, either noted by Historians, or observed by Philosophers or Astronomers; both the said Works being enriched with exquisite Sculps of his own Graving. To these is to be added his Treatise of Mercury discovered in the Sun at Dantzick in the year 1661. May 3. stilo novo, with the History of a New Star appearing in the Neck of Cetus, and another in the Beak of Cycnus, and his Illustration of our Countryman Horrox his Tractate upon Venus seen in the Sun, in the year 1639. on the 24^th of November, old style; being the Noblest, and since the beginning of the World till then, unpractised Observation; with a Discourse of some rare Paraselenae, and Par∣helii, by him discovered at Dantzick; as likewise two Epistles to Ricciolus, De Lu∣nae motu Libratorio in certas Tabulas redacto, and other Astronomical Pieces, whereof mention is made in the Philosophical Transactions. He put forth this present year 1673. The first Part of his Machina Coelestis, containing an accurate Delineation and Description of all the Astronomical Instruments by him used in his Celestial Ob∣servations fairly cut in Brass; the Construction of Telescopes, and Direction for the most commodious Way of managing those of Extraordinary Length; with the Reason of grinding Glasses of an Hyperbolical Form. He promises likewise Prodro∣mus Astronomiae cum Integro fixarum Catalago, atque Globis Coelestibus reformatis; As likewise the latter Part of his Machina Coelestis (of which that published is but the first Book) containing the second, third, and fourth Books; the second compri∣zing all his Celestial Observations, as well of Eclipses, as of the Occultations of the Planets and fixed Stars from the Year 1630. to this Present; the third shewing his Observations of the Meridian Altitudes of the Sun, and of the Equinoxes and Sol∣stices from the year 1632. hitherto; as likewise special Observations of every Pla∣net; the fourth and last exhibiting a Catalogue or Index of the Distances of the fixed Stars taken by his great Brass Sextants and Octants; together with those noted

by the Landt-Grave of Hesse, Tycho, Gassendus, and Ricciolus. All which are now* 1.869 in the Press, and will e're long ('tis hoped) come to Publick View.

PIETRO MENGOLI an Italian; Prior of Sancta Maddalena, and* 1.870 Reader of Mechanicks, in the Bolognan Academy; published among other ingenious Pieces in the Mathematicks, a small Quarto Treatise in Italian, entituled Refra•…•…tio∣ni, & Parallasse del Sole. In which, besides his Observations and Tables of the said Refractions, Parallaxes, Declinations of the several Points of the Ecliptick, and right Ascensions; these several following Conclusions, are by him undertaken to be demonstrated, viz. First, The Sun's Horizontal Refraction to be 1′. 58″. 6‴. Secondly, The Estival Horizontal Parallax thereof 38″. 49‴. Thirdly, It's Hiber∣nal Horizontal Parallax 40″. 4‴. Fourthly, The Height of the Pole at Santo Petro∣nio in Bologna in the beginning of the year 1656. to have been 44°. 28′. 56″. Fifthly, The Height of the Pole at Uraniburgh in the beginning of the year 1582, to have been 55°. 53′. 27″. Lastly, The Obliquity of the Ecliptick, or the Sun's great∣est Declination to be 23°. 28′. 24″.

LE PERE CHERUBIN a Capuchin Fryar in the Convent of that Or∣der* 1.871 in Orleans, put forth a large and elegant Volume in French, entituled La Di∣optrique Oculaire; the Ocular Dioptrick, concerning the Theory, Use, and Mecha∣nism of Telescopes, divided into three Principal Parts; the first contai•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Doctrine of Opticks, and Dioptricks, or of simple Vision Direct, and that 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 made by Rays refracted; the second delivering the Theory of the Telescope in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 kinds, which is ushered in by a History of the Invention, and Antiquity of Telescopes, and by a Discourse concerning the Difference of the Antient Glasses from the Mo∣dern. The third and last Part, being doubly divided into the Positive and Mecha∣nical: The Positive teaching the actual Construction of Telescopes, and their Uses in the Observations of Celestial Objects: The Mechanical shewing the way of po∣lishing and forming all sorts of Glasses that serve for Telescopes; giving likewise an Account of many excellent Discoveries that by their means have been made by Modern Astronomers. The Work adorned with most curious and elegant Cuts, and Printed in an answerable Letter in folio at Paris 1671.

OTTO DE GUERRICK, Councellor to the Elector of Brandenburg,* 1.872 and Consul of the City of Magdeburg, or Meydburg, put forth Experimenta nova Magdeburgica, De vacuo spatio, in which he occasionally treats of the several Mun∣dane Systems, of the Planets, and of the Fixed Stars, their Magnitudes and Di∣stances, Printed at Amsterdam in folio 1672.

Doctor JOHN WALLIS Savilian Professor of Geometry in Oxford, Fellow* 1.873 of the Royal Society, and Chaplain to His Majesty, famous for his many learned Ma∣thematical Works, as his two Volumes of Arithmetick, the latter whereof is entituled Arithmetica Infinitorum, his Commercium Epistolicum, his Tract De Cycloide, his Treatises of Mechanicks, & De Calculo Centri Gravitatis, at the latter end of A∣rithmetica Infinitorum, is a Scheme and a Narrative concerning an Eclipse of the Sun 2. August 1654 by him observed at Oxford; to whom likewise we are beholding for his Care in digesting and publishing Mr. Horrox and Crabtrec's Astronomical Re∣mains. He hath likewise a learned desirable Treatise of Angular Sections ready for the Press, a due Knowledge of which Doctrine cannot but conduce much to the facilitating of difficult Sphaerical Problems, and consequently to the Advancement of Astronomy.

AEGIDIUS DE GOTTIGNIES the Scholar of the eminent Geometer* 1.874 Gregory of St. Vincent; is the Author of a Treatise of Dioptricks concerning the

Foundation, Construction, and Use of Telescopes in order to Astronomical Observati∣ons,* 1.875 as also of Microscopes. The Treatise (written in Latin) is common in MS. in Italy: whereof a Copy came over lately into England, and here meets with the Applause of the learned, which we hope will e're long be translated and published in English.

Sir CHRISTOPHER WRENN Knight, sometime Astronomy Professor* 1.876 in Gresham Colledge, afterwards Savilian Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford, and now Surveyor General of His Majesty's Works and Buildings, is here deservedly to be remembred; whose learned Labours, and curious Discoveries both in Philosophy and Mathematicks, being already recorded by the excellent Pen of the Ingenious Author of the History of the Royal Society, I shall from thence col∣lect such Particulars as are pertinent to our present purpose, and whose mention may give Honour to this Catologue. He hath invented many Wayes to make Astrono∣mical Observations more accurate and easie, hath fitted and hung Quadrants, Sex∣tants, and Radii more commodiously than formerly, hath made two Telescopes to open with a joynt like a Sector, by which observers may infallibly take Distances to half a Minute, hath added many Sorts of Retes skrews, and other Devices to Te∣lescopes for taking small Distances, and apparent Diameters to Seconds. He hath added much to the Theory of Dioptricks; much to the Manufacture it self of grind∣ing good Glasses: He hath made constant Observations on Saturn, and a Theory of that Planet truly answering all Observations, and that before the Printed Discourse of Mr. Hugenius on that Subject appeared He hath essayed to make a true Seleno∣graphy by Measure; the World having nothing yet but Pictures, rather than Sur∣veys or Maps of the Moon. He hath stated the Theory of the Moon's Libration as far as Observations could carry him. Hath composed a Lunar Globe, represent∣ing not only the Spots and various degrees of Whiteness upon the Surface, but the Hills Eminencies and Cavities moulded in solid Work; the Globe thus fashioned into a true model of the Moon, as you turn it to the Light, represents all the men∣strual Phases with the variety of Appearances that happen from the Shadows of the Mountains and Valleys. Hath made Maps of the Pleiades and other Telescopi∣cal Stars, and proposed Methods to determine the great Doubt of the Earth's moti∣on or rest, by the small Stars about the Pole to be seen in large Telescopes; which few Instances may serve in part (at present) to shew his exquisite Skill and Indea∣vours in Astronomy, until such Time as he shall please on that Score further to ob∣lige the World by other excellent Productions of his great Industry and Learning.

Doctor ISAAC BARROW, formerly Geometry Professor in Gresham Col∣ledge,* 1.877 afterwards Lucasian Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Cam∣bridge, and now Master of Trinity Colledge there; hath lately published eighteen Op∣tick Lectures; Theodosius his Sphericks, and hath other Lectures concerning the Pro∣jections of the Sphere, ready for the Press. All which conduce much to the Ad∣vancement of Astronomy, as his Geometrical Lectures already published, together with his Apollonius, and Archimedes ready to come forth, besides others which we hope may follow, do to the Advancement of Geometry; which not to mention (though somewhat beside our Purpose) were very Injurious to a Person that hath so much enriched the Commonwealth of Learning.

Mr. ROBERT HOOK the Learned and Ingenious Curator of the Royal* 1.878 Society, and Professor of Geometry in Gresham Colledge, exceedingly well versed, as in all Mathematical and Mechanical, so particularly in Astronomical Knowledge. He was the first that discovered in the year 1664. (May the ninth) a permanent Spot in the biggest of the three obscurer Belts of Iupiter, and by observing it for some Hours together, found that within two hours after, the said Spot hadmoved from

East to West, about half the length of the Diameter of Iupiter. See Philosophical* 1.879 Transactions, N^o. 1. p. 3. and N^o. 8. p. 143. which Discovery of a Permanent Spot in Iupiter was since confirmed by that famous Astronomer Cassini, of which see Phil. Trans. N^o. 8. p. 143. and N^o. 10. p. 171.

The same Mr. Hook discovered in the Month of February and March, Anno (1665 / 6) in the face of Mars several Maculae or spotted Parts changing their Place, and not returning to the same Position 'till the next ensuing Night, near about the same time: See Ph. Transact. N^o. 11. p. 198. and N^o. 14. p. 239.

He also made divers considerable Observations concerning the Planet Iupiter, his apparent Diameter, the various Degrees of Light in the Parts of his Phasis, his se∣veral Belts, &c. See Phil. Transact. N^o. 14. p. 245. 246. where also are to be found his Observations of the Body of Saturn, his Shape, Ring of a brighter Light than that of his Body, and some black Lines crossing the Ring and others crossing the Body.

The same was the Proposer of that Method (inserted in N^o. 9. p. 151. of the Phil. Transactions) directing how a Correspondency may be setled for the finding out the true Distance of the Sun and Moon from the Earth by the Parallaxes ob∣served under or near the same Meridian.

Nor is to be passed by what contrivances he hath made of measuring the Dia∣meters of the Planets to the exactness of a Second by the help of a Telescope, as also of taking the Position and Distance of the small fixed Stars one from another, or from any of the less bright Planets, if the Distance be not above two or three Degrees. See N^o. 25. of the Phil. Transact. p. 459.

He published his Micrographia in the year 1664. wherein amongst other Astrono∣mical Matters, he hath explained the Reason of the Redness, Oval Figure, and Un∣dulation of the Sun and and Moon, and the twinckling of the Stars by a new Pro∣perty of the Air called by him Inflection, differing from Refraction and Reflection. He hath mentioned several wayes of improving Telescopes; he hath given two Spe∣cimina of the Discovery of a fifteen Foot Glass among the smaller Stars; one, by a Description of the Pleiades, and the second by a Declination of one small spot in the Moon described by Hevelius and Ricciolus. He hath made many Astronomi∣cal Instruments, by which an Angle may be taken to the Exactness of 1 / 10 part of a Minute. He in the year 1670. detected the Parallax of the Orb of the Earth a∣mongst the fixed Stars by observing the Transits of several Stars near our Zenith, and comparing the Measures so found. He first observed the Stars with a Telescope at the the same time that the Sun shone above the Horizon and into the Room where the Observation was made; of which see more in his Excellent Attempt to prove the Motion of the Earth lately published.

Doctor WALTER POPE Professor of Astronomy in Gresham Colledge▪* 1.880 the Successor of Sir Christopher Wrenn and Mr. Rook; with whom he hath spent much Time in observing the Motions and Appearances of the Heavens; the Re∣sult of which he hath delivered in his Astronomical Lectures there read, which 'tis hoped he may be prevailed with to make publick hereafter.

Mr. JOHN GOAD, late of St. Iohn's in Oxford, hath an Elaborate Trea∣tise* 1.881 now in the Press, entituled Astro-Meteorologica, i. e. Aphorisms Physical and Astrological in two Parts: The first whereof inquires into the Natures of the Pla∣nets, Sun, Moon, &c. The second observes the Nature also of the fixed Stars in their

several Asterisms, as they are clearly found to be joynt Producers of the Meteors* 1.882 below, Storms, Tempests, &c. The whole Discourse founded on sacred Authority, Reason, and the Experience of twenty years last past.

RICHARD TOWNLEY of Townley in Lancashire Esquire (whom for* 1.883 Honours sake I here mention) Nephew to the before named Christopher Townley; hath, among other his much commendable Indeavours in the Mathematicks, perfe∣cted the Instrument of Mr. Gascoyns before-mentioned▪, now called a Micrometer, and fitted it that any small Angle may be taken by his Tube to a Second. Having for some years past been a diligent Observer of the Satellites about Iupiter, whose Motions he hath reduced to Exactness of Rule and Order. He is an Excellent Arithmetician and Geometer, and from whom great Things may justly be ex∣pected.

MONSIEUR ADRIAN AUZOUR, a very ingenious and candid* 1.884 Philosopher and Astronomer of Paris, Fellow of the Royal Society of London, published his Ephemerides concerning the Motion of the two Comets which ap∣peared Anno 1664 / 5) and of which he predicted the Places, through which they should pass, and where they should cease to appear, after he had seen them but four or five times.

The same Person entertains hopes that a Motion of Comets exactly observed may in time clear that grand Question, whether the Earth moves or not. He also hath taken Notice, by making Reflections upon former Comets, that more of them en∣ter into our System by the Sign of Libra, and about the Spica Virginis, than by all the other Parts of the Heavens: See the Phil. Transact. N^o. 1. p. 3. N^o. 2. p. 18, 19. N^o. 3. p. 36, 39. And being very well versed in Opticks and Dioptricks, he hath given us the Proportions of the Apertures of Telescopes, and reduced them to Tables ibid. N^o. 4. p. 55. as he hath also delivered a Means to illuminate an Object in what Proportion one pleaseth ibid. N^o. 4. p. 68. And we doubt not, but he will upon his Return out of Italy where he hath spent some years of late, impart to the World as well the Astronomical as other the learned Observations, he-hath there made.

SIGNOR GIOVANNI DOMINICO CASSINI a deser∣vedly* 1.885 Famous Astronomer of Italy; now entertained by His most Christian Maje∣sty in the Royal Observatory at Paris, and withall a Member of the Royal Socie∣ty of London; doth continually oblige the learned World by his excellent and most important Astronomical Observations, of which there are recorded in the Phil. Transact. First, that of the permanent Spot in Iupiter arguing the Rotation of that Planet about it's Axis; Secondly, those of the Shadows cast by the Satellites of Iupiter upon his Disque, and Ephemerides of their Motions. Thirdly, those of the Spots in Mars arguing the Conversion of that Planet also about it's Axis. Fourthly, those of the Spots in Venus evincing the Revolution of that Body like∣wise about it's Axis, as well as that of Iupiter and Mars. Fifthly, those of the Spots in the Sun. Sixthly, those of the change of Saturns Figure. Seventhly, those of some new Stars discovered by him, and especially of the two new Planets about Saturn. Of all which, see the Phil. Transact. N^o. 4. p. 75. N^o. 8. p. 143. N^o. 10. p. 171. N^o. 12. p. 209. N^o. 14. p. 242. N^o. 32. p. 615. N^o. 78. p. 2201. N^o. 78. p. 2250. N^o. 78. p. 3020, 3024. N^o. 102. p. 4039. N^o. 92. p. 5175. To which add his Calculations for the Eclipses of the Satellites of Iupiter for Anno 1671. in N^o. 74. p. 2238. Neither ought we to pass by his three excellent Letters concerning the Hypothesis of the Sun's Motions and his Doctrine of Refraction, of which an Ac∣count is given in N^o. 84. p. 5001. What other Observations and Discoveries he

hath made concerning the Heavens, we hope he will in due time likewise publish.* 1.886

SIGNOR GEMINIANO MONTANARI the learned Professor of* 1.887 Mathematicks at Bologna hath taken particular Care and Pains in acquainting us with the Total Disappearance of divers Stars that appeared formerly▪ and intends to write upon this Argument a Book to be entituled Firmamentum Instabile. See Philosoph. Transact. N^o, 73. p. 2202. and N^o. 89. p. 5125. Where 'tis intimated that this Author doubts not but to make it out to the Assertors of the Incorrupti∣bility of the Visible Heavens, that even in the Stars anciently described there are observed such Changes as would be sufficient to make Aristotle himself, if alive, change his Opinion in this Point.

Mr. JO. FLAMSTED of Derby, an Industrious and accurate Astrono∣mer,* 1.888 and Observer of the Heavens; hath of late endeavoured to advance Astro∣nomy, by publishing yearly his Calculations of the more notable Celestial Ap∣pearances conspicuous in these Parts; of which see the Phil. Transactions N^o. 55. p. 1099. N^o. 66. p. 2029. N^o. 77. p. 2297. N^o. 79. p. 3061. N^o. 89. p. 5118. To which may be added his Observations of the Transits of Iupiter and Mars near certain fixed Stars, N^o. 82. p. 4036. N^o. 86. p. 5034. As also those for determi∣ning the Inclination of Iupiter to the Ecliptick, N^o. 94. p. 6033. together with those lately described in a Letter of his to Signor Cassini, that were made by Him after a New and exquisite Way, about the farthest Elongations of the Medicean Stars from the Centre of Iupiter, and others concerning the Diameters of the Pla∣nets and their Distances from the fixed Stars, as also the Parallax of Mars, N^o. 96. p. 6094. which Communications were with much Applause received by the said Signor Cassini, Witness his Answer, which we hope will also be published e're long, toge∣ther with the sequel of more Letters lately exchanged between these two eminent Astronomers.

Mr. EDWARD BERNARD Successor to Sir Christopher Wrenn, in the* 1.889 Savilian Professor's Place of Astronomy in the University of Oxford, merits here a due Remembrance; from whom, besides those future Improvements Astro∣nomy is like to receive by his learned Lectures, and Observations; we are incoura∣ged to expect the Publication of the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or (as Pappus terms it) 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, of the Alexandrian School, restored to it's Pristine Splendor, being a Book so called by way of Distinction from Ptolemy's Almagest, commonly by the Alexandrians call'd 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, which two Books were the only or at least the chief Astronomical Pieces usually read in that University. The first whereof consists of nine Books, containing

• Theodosii Sphaerica, (with Euclids Opticks and Phaenomena) in three Books.
• Theodosius de Habitationibus, & de Diebus & Noctibus in two Books.
• Autolycus de Sphaera Mota, & de Ortu & Occasu siderum inerrantium in two Books,
• Aristarchus Samius de Magnitudinibus & Distantiis Solis & Lunae, &
• Hypsicles▪ his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 sive de Ascensionibus.

Which nine Books collected into one Volume, and remaining in several Libra∣ries in Italy and France, were by Sir Henry Savile, partly in Print, partly in MS. given to the University of Oxford, and now hope for New Life from this learned Persons Hand, who intends (as I am informed) further to oblige the learned World by publishing the three remaining Books of Apollonius Pergaeus from the MS. Co∣pies of Beni Musa, and Aldelmelech, with the Annotations of Eutocius upon one of them, whereas the Copy used in the Version of Abraham Ecchellensis, and illu∣strated with the learned Annotations of Alphonsus Borellius seems to be a Stream

from a more impure Fountain: and this Supplement is to be subjoyned to the first* 1.890 four Books put forth, or ready to be put forth by the most Learned and Reverend Doctor Isaac Barrow.

Mr. ISAAC NEWTON Lucasian Professor of Mathematicks in the Uni∣versity* 1.891 of Cambridge, and Fellow of Trinity Colledge, hath lately published his reflecting Telescope; New Theories of Light and Colours; hath •…•…ready for the Press a Treatise of Dioptricks, and divers Astronomical Exercises, which are to be subjoyned to Mr. Ni∣cholas Mercator's Epitome of Astronomy, and to be Printed at Cambridge. From him besides is to be expected a New General Analytical Method by infinite Series for the Quadrature of Curvilinear Figures, the finding of their Centers of Gravity, their Round Solids, and the Surfaces thereof, the straitning of curved Lines; so that giving an Ordinate in any Figure as well such as Des Cartes calls Geometrical, as others, to find, the Length of the Arch Line, and the Converse; Such an Invention, to wit, but in one particular Figure the Circle, the Learned Snellius thinks transcen∣dent to any thing yet published; and how much conducing to the Benefit of Astro∣nomy, and the Mathematical Sciences in General, such an Universal Method is, I leave others, together with my self to admire, and earnectly expect.

Mr. JOHN COLLINS Accomptant, and a Member of the Royal Society,* 1.892 published in the year 1658. his Treatise entituled The Sector on a Quadrant, in which there are very curious Prints of two great Quadrants, and of two small Quadrants with particular Projections on them, serving for the Latitude of London; Albeit by Aid of other Lines each of those Quadrants is rendred Universal for Astronomical Use, as, finding the Hour and Azimuth, and all other Spherical Proportions; The Author's chief Design in publishing such Prints, was to shew the World that the said Prints might be pasted on Copper or Brass, and so varnished, as to be rendred pre∣servable from Dirt, or sullying, and sold at a cheap Rate, as now they are.

In 1659. he published his Treatise of Navigation, entituled the Mariners Plain Scale new Plained. In which, besides Projections of the Sphere, there are Constructi∣ons for many Astronomical Problems, and Spherical Proportions. The Book hath found good Acceptance, and is now like to become a Common Theme to the Scholars of Christ's Hospital London, whereof forty (by His Majesty's Bounty, and to His Im∣mortal Renown in Establishing a Lecturer to instruct them) are constantly to be taught Navigation, and e're long 'tis to be hoped the Author will reprint the same with considerable Additions.

The same year he published a Treatise of Geometrical Dyalling, of good Esteem, both for the Newness and easiness of Method in situating the Requisites, and draw∣ing the Hour-Lines. In which there being Spherical Proportions, and some Astrono∣mical Problems, it deserves to be remembred in this Catalogue.

In the year 1667. he published in the Philosophical Transactions the Solution of a Problem concerning Time, to wit, about the Iulian Period, with divers Perpetual Almanacks in single Verses; a Chronological Problem, and divers other Things since, in the said Transactions, which we mention not, as being irrelative to the Sphere or Astronomy (viz. concerning Merchants Accompts, compound Interest, and Annui∣ties, &c.)

We should be injurious to him, if we did not farther inlarge, by telling the World how much it is obliged for his Pains in exciting the Learned to publish their Works, and in acting the Part of an Ingenious Obstetrix at the Press, in correcting and in drawing of Schemes; So that he hath been Instrumental in furnishing

the World with the many learned Mathematical Books here lately published* 1.893 (for which, his chief Reward hitherto hath been to obtain from the Learned the Title of Mersennus Anglicanus) and many more may be expected, if moderate Encouragements towards Printing such Works, and Leisure for such an Affair be not impeded through the necessary Avocations for a livelyhood, and though it be besides my Design, yet I cannot but digress in giving him and others like minded (which are very rare to be found) their due commendations, in promoting the lau∣dable Design of getting Learned Men to impart their Labours to be Printed; and exciting others to encourage the same, as being of singular Use and advantage to the Republick of Learning; through the want whereof many Learned Mens Works of much worth have been lost, suppressed or long delayed. As those of Maurolycus, Abbot of Messina, a large Catalogue whereof is to be seen at the End of his Opuscula, but by the Care of the learned Mathematician Alphonsus Borellius some of them have been published in this Age, ninety years after the Author's Death; as his Apollonius at Messina in 1656. containing the substance of the four first Books of the Apollonius of Commandinus, and two more Additional Books of Maurolycus, and all in less Room, and at a much cheaper price. And now by the like Diligence the said Borellius is publishing Maurolycus his Archimedes in Latin, re∣puted a Good one, after we have been long tired with the Common Latin bad one.

Through want of such care the many learned Works of Vernalion of Naples, Master to Iosephus Auria, have not hitherto come to light, as his Commentaries up∣on all Archimedes, Apollonius, Serenus, Euclid, Ptolemaeus, and divers others of the Ancients; which is much to be lamented; seeing he was, according to the Testi∣mony of the said Auria, Vir, Divinitate quadam Ingenii Ornatus.

Nor those of the learned Bernardinus Baldus, Abbot of Guastalla, mentioned at the End of his Comment on Aristotle's Mechanicks, amongst which are two Vo∣lums of the Lives of Mathematicians, whereof Bartholinus in his Preface to the Edition of the Optick Fragments of Heliodorus Larissaeus, Printed at Paris 1657. gives an honourable Elogium.

Varenius could find no Stationer or Printer in Holland to undertake his Treatise of Conicks and curved Lines. See the Preface to his History of Iapan.

If Sir Charles Cavendish deceased, Brother to the present Duke of Newcastle, had not (as 'tis credibly reported) given liberally toward the Printing of Mydorgius his four first Books of Conicks, they had never come to publick view; the four last, as likewise those of Paschal the Younger, yet remaining unprinted upon the same Accompt, of whom Mersennus gives this Censure, quòd Unicâ Propositione Uni∣versalissimâ, quadringentis Corrolariis armatā, totum Apollonium complexus est. The Manuscript as yet remaining unprinted (as I am informed) in the Hands, or at the Disposal of Monsieur Du Prez a Bookseller in Paris; the want whereof is the most considerable in regard the Author (besides the ordinary method) treats of the Conick Sections, as projected from lesser Circles of the Sphere-

Erasmius Bartholinus well known by his Additions to the second Volume of Des Cartes, as it is commonly termed; could find none to undertake the Printing of De Beaunes Treatise De Angulo solido, and other Treatises both of that Authors, and his own.

Iungius his Phoranomicks, and Treatise De locis Planis, &c. and other Algebrai∣cal Tractates; have remained at Hamborough above ten years since the Author's Death unprinted, for want of due Encouragement: Albeit a Iesuit, who writes

his Life, makes him, although a Physician, equal in Mathematical Knowledge to* 1.894 Des Cartes.

On the like Reasons we may conceive we want the many learned Algebraical Works of our famous Countryman Mr. Thomas Harriot, (and of Mr. Warner, into whose Hands they fell) who is esteemed by some of the most knowing Persons alive to have been much Superiour to all that ever writ; and, that equivalent to what of his might have been forty or fifty years since known, is not readily to be expected.

For want of the like Encouragement, we have lost that most excellent Piece of the incomparable Vieta, his Harmonicon Coeleste; as likewise the Remains of Alex∣ander Anderson the Scot, as his Conicks, Stereometria Solidorum, & Triangul. Sphae∣rie. the want whereof Guldinus much bewails and excites the ingenious to enquire after them.

On the same Accompt the Remains of Griembergerus, as his Conicks, Dialling, and Projections of the Sphere have not come to light; and for the very same Reason the second Tome of Galilaeus in English doth, and is like to remain, unprinted.

With the like Remora in France, have met the Works of the Excellent Monsieur Fermat, viz. Euclidis Porismata restituta; his Treatise De Locis Planis Solidis Li∣nearibus & ad Superficiem, and his Treatise De Contactibus Sphaericis.

As also the Remains of the much knowing Lalovera, as his Geometrical Dictio∣nary▪ sive Explieatio vocum Geometricarum, four Books Problematum Illustrium, four Books Problematum Physico-Mathematicorum, and a Collection of Letters between him and the learned, containing the Solution of many Problems of great Curiosity and Difficulty, which seeing they are not like to get Printed there, they have written over to know if they would be undertaken here; promising to send the MS. Copies. And having hinted thus much at the Instance of this Ingenious and Industrious Per∣son, to the Curious, and Generously learned; I come now again further to acquaint the Reader, that we have more particularly obtained from him an Accompt of two of his own Designs, relative to the Sphere and Astronomy.

The one of Geometrical Dialling, whereby reflex Dyalling is rendred Geometri∣cal, and reduced to a Method of Calculation; so that if a Glass were placed at Ran∣dom, and •…•…ines drawn on the Plain by chance, by either Method, Points might be found in the said Lines which joyned should be the Hour Lines; and the like when the Gl•…•…ss is so placed, that the Hour Lines may be drawn in that Part of the Room which is most capable of them; and as a Corollary of this Doctrine a Dial for any Latitude may be suddainly divided from a Line of Tangents parallel to any Line proposed, and that without any Calculation for the Horary Divisions.

The other a Treatise of Projections of the Sphere, and concerning Spherical Trigono∣metry; in which many extraordinary Cases will be solved; those Proportions men∣tioned before in the Narrative concerning Mr. William Oughtred, several wayes more easily demonstrated, and all Spherical Triangles measured by a new Method (not by him formerly insisted on) after the manner of Plain Triangles; all which perchance may be handled in some little Tractates concerning the Use of Prints of several other Instruments designed to be cut, pasted, and varnished, as before menti∣oned; viz. the Analemma, the double Horizontal Dial, the Logarithmical Serpen∣tine Line, Prints of Logarithmical Rulers; whereof if there be three, they may be so placed as to lie still all Day, and as fast as the Hight of the Sun is given, shall find either the Hour or Azimuth universally by bare Inspection.

The hasty Collection, and uncorrect transcribing of the foregoing CATALOGUE, hath occasioned the omission of some considerable Persons, and Authors, which should therein have been inserted in their Proper Times, and Places, The Reader therefore is desired to take Notice of them as We have here set* 1.895 them down (according to Order of Time) in the following SUPPLEMENT.

FOHIUS the first Emperor of China, was greatly addicted to the Study of* 1.896 Astronomy, and first (of all the Chineses) reduced the Motions of the Celestial Bodies into Tables, as Martinius in his History of China affirms.

TANAUS chief Minister of State to Hoantgius the third Emperor of China,* 1.897 contemporary with Methusalem (as Martinius in his History of China reports) com∣posed a Solar Cycle of sixty years, which the Chineses use at this Day.

YUMCHINIUS another chief Minister of State to the former Emperor* 1.898 about the 28^th year of his Reign, first of all observed the Pole and the Stars about it, and composed a Sphere or Globe representing that of the Heavens.

CHUENHIOUS the Fifth Emperor of the Chineses was the first who* 1.899 published a Calendar for the common Use of his Subjects. He wrote likewise Ephemerides of the five Planets, which he saw at one time all in Conjunction, upon the same Day that he observed a Conjunction of the Sun and Moon (which Day he ordered to be observed as the first Day of the Year) in the Sign or Constellation Xe, which is now reckoned from the eighteenth Degree of Pisces to the fourth of Aries. This Admirable Conjunction of the Planets, is perhaps the same with that which the European Chronologers affirm to have hapned in the Time of Noah sayes Martinius in his History of China, p. 33.

ANDUBARIUS a certain Indian of the Race of Arphaxad is said to have* 1.900 flourished near the Time of the Building of the Tower of Babel, and to have been very knowing in Astronomy, and first of all to have taught the same to the Indians, as the Chronicon Alexandrinum attests.

JAUS the seventh Emperor of China, whom Kepler (in Commentatiune. in* 1.901 Epistolium R. Patr. Terrentii ex Sinar. Regn. Miss.) supposes the same with Ion, or Iavan, or Iaon Son of Iaphet, is reported to have been extreamly addicted to Astro∣nomical Observations, and to have corrected the Chinese Calendar; to have caused di∣vers Instruments to be made for observing the Motions of the Celestial Bodies, and to have exactly noted the Winter Solstice, which the Chinese Writers affirm to have then been in the first Degree of the Sign or Constellation Hiu, which at present is about the first Degree of Aquarius. V. Martin. Histor. Sinic. p. 25.

XUNUS the Eighth Emperour of China, caused to be made out of the Gold and* 1.902 Jewels of his Imperial Treasury a Sphere of Admirable Workmanship, shewing the Motion of the seven Planets, each of which were represented by a precious Stone resembling their respective Natures, in the midst of which was a large Jewel placed representing the Earth. See Martinius Histor. Sinic.

CHUMKANG the Fourth Emperor of China, of the Family of Hia, about a* 1.903 year after Noah's Death, observed a Memorable Eclipse of the Sun to have hapned in the Sign or Constellation called Fang, which now (sayes Martinius) is about the

28^th Degree of Scorpio; he put to Death the Astronomers of that Time for their* 1.904 Negligence in not observing the same.

CHEUCUNGUS a great Astronomer and Mathematician among the Chine∣ses* 1.905 caused to be made an Ample Instrument or Rule erected perpendicularly upon a large Plain of Brass, and divided into certain Parts, upon the Superficies of which Plain was likewise a Line drawn divided into several Parts, by which Instrument he used to take the Meridian Altitude of the Sun, as likewise the Elevation of the Pole, and made other such kind of Observations. The said Instrúment being still preserved in the City Tengfang, where likewise is yet standing a Tower, on which he used to make his Observations, called Quensing Tai, or the Starry Specula, as Mar∣tinius in his Atlas attests.

By which several Instances it may appear, that the Chineses of all the Asiaticks, have seemingly the most Reason to claim Precedence and Priority in Point of Anti∣quity as to the Study of Astronomy and Celestial Observations, even before the Egyptians and Chaldeans themselves: If any Credit may be given to the Histories and Chronologies of that Nation.

GERYON a famous Trojan Augur, Companion to Brutus or Britus at his first* 1.906 Entrance into this Island, as Pitsaeus (from the Authority of Ponticus Virunnius) affirms, wrote, among other things De Astronmia.

PERDIX a Britain, surnamed PRAESAGUS, by Pitsaeus stiled Mathema∣ticus* 1.907 Insignis, atque Observatione Stellarum ac Coelestium Corporum supra quam dici potest Curiosus. Of his Writings I find no other mention than of one Book of Pre∣dictions.

HESIODUS ASCRAEUS a Poet supposed contemporary with Homer,* 1.908 by Ioseph Scaliger stiled the most Ancient Astrologer, and Theologue of the Greeks. (A Specimen of his Astrology, yet remaining in his Poem entituled 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, of his Theology, in that entituled 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉) merits a Place in this Catalogue; and there∣fore, being omitted by the oversight of the Transcriber in his due Place; we have inserted him in this Supplement.

DEMOCRITUS besides what we have already mentioned, is said to have* 1.909 written the several Works following relative to our present Subject, although no Remains of them be now left; as his Magnus Diacosmus, and Parvus Diacosmus, in which he not only treated of the Fabrick of this Visible World; but of other Worlds, which he held to be innumerable; De Sideribus Vagis seu Planetis, which he assert∣ed to be more than the Seaven commonly observed and taken notice of; which Asser∣tion of his, Modern Experience hath since confirmed Phanae Causae, i. e. De Sole vel Apparentiis, wherein he took Cognizance of the Solar Maculae, or Spots, as Magnenus (in his life) affirms; for Phana or Phanes is the same with the Sun, so cal∣led quòd maximè appareat; of which Macrobius. Certamen C•…•…epsydrae, which Magne∣•…•… stiles a most subtle Piece, because he thereby examined the Motion of the Hea∣•…•…ns, and made as it were a commensuration, or Comparison of Motion and Time, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, sive Poli Descriptio, qua voce nihil aliud intelligitur, sayes Salmasius Exercit. Plin. p. 740) quam 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Descriptio; for these An∣cient Sorts of •…•…ials, if we may relie upon Salmasius his Authority, were called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, à rotunda Poli Forma, cujus Medio Gnomon infigebatur.

ORONIUS a Britain, surnamed MODESTUS is by Pitsaeus from the Authority of Ponticus Virunnius about this time affirmed to have flourished; of

whom he thus writes; Dicunt eum in Astronomia & in Poesi Plenidium superasse.* 1.910 (Plenidius was a learned British Philosopher, of the same time) He writ both in Greek and Latin several Works, among them divers Poems, not now extant.

PROTAGORAS ASTROLOGUS (not the same with Protagor•…•…* 1.911 the Philosopher of Adbera) is celebrated by Euphorion Chaleidensis (who was Keep∣er of the famous Library of Antiochus Magnus King of Syria, and a great Histori∣an and Poet) in an Epicedium which he wrote upon his Death, mentioned by Diogenes Laertius in the Life of Protagoras Abderit.* 1.912

HYPSICLES of Alexandria in Egypt, Disciple to the great Isidorus, flou∣rished* 1.913 in the Reign of Ptolemaeus Physion. He writ De Dodecaedri & Icosaedri in eadem Sphaera Descriptorum comparatione atque inter se Proportione, as likewise a Treatise entituled 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, sive de Ascensionibus, or as some MS. entitle it, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 this last published in Greek and Latin, by Iacobus Mentelius, Printed at Paris by Cramoisy, together with Heliodorus Larissaeus his Opticks, 1657. in 4^o.

ATHELSTAN King of England was learned in Astronomy, and among o∣ther* 1.914 Writings, of which he was Author, wrote one Book De Rebus Astrologicis, as Pitsaeus testifies.

MICHAEL PSELLUS of Constantinople, is by some conceived to be Au∣thor* 1.915 of those Astronomical Pieces ascribed to Enthymius, of whom before among the Authors of uncertain Times (who perhaps is the same with Euthymius Zyga∣benus Monachus, who was in a manner Contemporary with Psellus) viz. Synopsis Astronomiae. De Sphaera; & Quod Rotunda sit Terra.

AVERROES, besides what he wrote upon Ptolemy's Almagest already menti∣oned;* 1.916 writ likewise Astrologica translated into Hebrew by R. Iacob Ben Samson ex∣tant in the French King's Library. See Labbée Bibliothec. MS.

NICHOLAS TREVET, already mentioned in the Catalogue at this* 1.917 year, wrote besides what is there exprest) Canones de Conjunctionibus, Oppositionibus & Eclipsibus Solis & Lunae; as they are cited by Pitsaeus.

GEORGIUS MEDICUS CHRYSOCOCCA, is by us already* 1.918 mentioned in the year 1240. But Scaliger (l. 1. Epist. 80.) places him in the year 1346. at which time he published his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, sive 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, at Tibena Chasariae, quae Regio erat in finibus Imperii Trapezuntici in the longitude of 72°. ac∣cording to the said Scaliger, whose Authority we willingly submit to.

ROGERUS SWINSETTUS, or rather Swineshead, vulgarly (but er∣roneously)* 1.919 Suisset; surnamed for his Eminent Skill in Algebra, Calculator, Fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford, afterwards, Monk of the Cistertian Order, a most subtle Mathematician; of whom the great Master of Subtlety, Iul. Caesar Scaliger (Exercitat. 324.) thus wrtes, pene Modum excessit Ingenii humani. And (Exercitat. 340.) gives this further Elogy of him, Dignus profectò quem neque Senium Senem fa∣ceret, neque Naturae Lex vitâ privaret, nisi meliorem Vitam apparasset. He wrote two Books De Coelo & Mundo, one Book entituled Descriptiones Motuum Coel. stium, said to be extant in MS. in the Library of Caius and Gonvile Colledge in Cambridge. He put forth likewise Ephemerides and Calculationes Astronomieae, this last said to have been Printed by Iohannes de Cypro at Padua. Vide Pitsaeum.

GUALTERUS BRITHUS, or BRITTE, an English-man, Fellow* 1.920

of Merton Colledge Oxon; of whom Leland sayes, Celebre sibi Nomen acquisivit* 1.921 maximè quod Astrorum Motus & Corporum Coelestium Naturas, Proprietates, Affectio∣nes, curi•…•…sissima Sedulitate scrutatus fuerit. He writ Theoremata Planetarum, & de Rebus Mathematicis, &c. Vide Pitsaeum.

JOANNES DE SACRO FONTE; Anglicè HOLYBROOK,* 1.922 an English man born in Surrey, reduced Alphonsus his Astronomical Tables into a clear and easie Method, and published Tabulae Novae Mediorum Motuum & Aequatio∣nis Dierum; according to the Testimony of Leland very accurately computed. He put forth likewise Canones Astronomici, said by Pitsaeus to be extant in the Pub∣lick Library at Oxford.

ALBERTUS DE PRUSA POLONUS writ a Book of Commenta∣ries* 1.923 upon Peurbachius his Theory of the Planets, and another upon Regiomontanus his Ephemerides, and some other Pieces, as Simler in Epitom. Gesner. attests.

JOANNES PENA, besides what is already mentioned of him, published* 1.924 Theodosius his Sphaerica in Greek and Latin, with Explanations and Notes, Printed at Paris 1558. in 8^o.

FRANCISCUS SANCTIUS BROCENSIS, a Spaniard, Professor* 1.925 of Rhet•…•…ck and the Learned Languages in the University of Salamanca, pu•…•… forth (among other Works) a Treatise De Sphaera Mundi, collected out of various Authors, of which mention is made by Peregrinus in his Bibliotheca Hispaniae p. 578.

JOANNES MENA CORDUBENSIS, a learned Spanish Poet is about thi•…•… time (by the said Author Bibliothecae Hispan.) reported to have written in Latin, De Planetis, which Ferdinandus Pintianus, the worthy Commentator up∣on Pliny, in his younger dayes translated into Spanish.

JOANNES BENEDICTUS, besides what we have already mentioned* 1.926 wrote De Gnomonum, Umbrarumque Solarium Usu, Printed Augustae Taurin. 1574.

SEBASTIANUS VERRO HELVETIUS wrote ten Books Physi∣corum,* 1.927 in the second whereof he treats particularly of Astronomy, Printed at Lon∣don 1590. in 8^o.

JOSEPHUS AURIA over and above the Works by him published, and* 1.928 of which we have already spoken; promises the publication of the two Books of Autolycus de Ortu & Occasu Siderum Inerrantium, which, whether he ever perform∣ed I yet know not.

To PETRUS RYFFE his Elementa Sphaerae Mundi sive Cosmographiae, is* 1.929 added a Treatise De Structura & Usu Planisperii, by Ludovicus Lucius of Bafile; and there Printed 1598. in 8^o.

NICHOLAUS RAIMARUS published in the year 1588. before he put forth his Astronomical Hypotheses (already mentioned) a Treatise entituled Fundamentum Astronomicum, i. e. Nova Doctrina Sinuum & Triangulorum; to which among other things is adjoyned Hypotheses Novae ac Verae Motuum Corporum Mundanorum.

ASCANIUS MARTINENGUS Brixianus, Canonicorum Lateranensi∣um* 1.930 Generalis Abbas, is by Ricciolus about this Time inserted in the Catalogue of

Astronomers; of whom he thus writes; Praeter Ea quae in Glossa Magna de Coelo &* 1.931 Sideribus à Deo conditis, eruditissimè vulgavit Anno circiter 1600. scripsit etiam Geographiam Terrae Sanctae, & Chronologiam insignem adornavit.

Doctor HOOD Publick Professor of Astronomy and Mathematicks in London, published two Celestial Hemispheres projected upon the Poles of the Ecliptick, and laid down in two large Schemes; together with a Treatise annexed of the Uses of the said Hemispheres, touching the Longitude and Latitude of the Stars; and a Table of their right Ascensions, Declinations, Culminations, coming to the Me∣ridian, Horary Distance, &c. He writ likewise of the Cross Staff.

GUILLAUME DE NAUTONIER, a French-man, wrote a Treatise* 1.932 entituled La Mecometrie de l' Aimant, ou la Maniere de mesurer les Longitudes par le Moyen de l' Aimant, Printed at Vence. 1603.

ANTHONY LINTON, sometime Parson of Worth in Sussex, set forth* 1.933 a small Treatise, by him entituled, News of the Complement of the Art of Navigati∣on, &c. In which among other things; he offers in 26 Propositions, by means of the Magnet to discover the secret of perfecting the said Art of Navigation; and particularly for finding out of Longitudes, which according to his Project depends upon the Poles of the Magnetical Globe, for the finding out the Places of which Poles he pretends to have devised a Way, how any Man having some Knowledge and Practice in the Mathematicks, may by his own Observations exactly find-out the true Longitude and Latitude of the said Poles, and may also fit the same most Commodiously unto the Art of Navigation, and it unto them; as likewise (be∣sides the Magnetical Globe and Chard by him proposed) how all other the Instru∣ments commonly used in the Art of Navigation, as the Compass, the Astrolabe, the Quadrant, the Cross Staff, and the Traverse Board may be excellently well amended and perfected. But these his Commendable Designs dying with him left Posterity deprived of the Benefit intended by them, which yet in these Dayes seems to be re∣vived, and is promised with advantage to be made good, by

HENRY BOND Senior, an Ancient and Industrious Professor of the Ma∣thematicks in this City, who undertakes to shew the Cause of the Varietating of the Variation of the Magnetical Needle or Compass by the Motion of two Magne∣tical Poles, how these Poles are found, and what their distance is from the Poles of the Earth.

What their Annual Motion is, and from whence it proceeds.

By Calculation he finds all the Variations that have been observed at or near Lon∣don for above Ninety years past, and so by Consequence it may be found at London to the End of the World.

He hath calculated a Table to every five Minutes of the Inclination of the Inclina∣tory Needle; so that by the Needles Inclination, that Table, and the Latitude of the Place he can find the Longitude of any Place in the World.

Also by that Table he finds Mr. Robert Normans Inclination that he found in the year 1576. And can shew what will be the greatest and least Inclination of the In∣clinatory Needle in any Latitude in the World.

He hath four Examples of finding the Longitude by the help of the Inclinatory Needle; One at Balsore, in East-India in the year 1657. Another at Cape Charles, on the Coast of Virginia, before that Time; another at the Cape of Good Hope; an∣other at the Straits of Magellan. This is the Conclusion of thirty eight years Magnetick Study spent with much Pains in Supputations grounded on the Observa∣tions of himself, and of others (not easily procured) and the Author is willing and ready (as we are credibly informed) to impart the Result of these his many years

Thoughts on this Subject, upon moderate and reasonable Encouragement for the* 1.934 same.

SETHUS CALVISIUS published Elenchus Calendarii Gregoriani in quo* 1.935 Errores qui passim in Anni Quantitate & Epactis committuntur, manifestè demon∣strantur, Printed Francofurti Marchionum 1612.

JOANNES TERRENTIUS a Iesuit, wrote from the City of Changt∣scheu* 1.936 in China in the year 1623. an Epistle to the Mathematicians of Ingolstadt in Germany, wherein he gives an Accompt of some Astronomical Designs of the Chine∣ses, more particularly touching the Emendation of their Calendar, Praediction of Eclipses, and Procession of the Equinoxes, desiring the Assistance of the European Astronomers in promoting the Progress of that Science among those People. Which Epistle Kepler published in Print in the year 1630. with his own brief, but learned Comment thereupon, Printed at Sagan in Silesia in 4^o.

SAMUEL PETIT a learned French-man, among other Works by him* 1.937 published, set forth Eclogae Chronologicae, in quibus de variis Annorum Iudaeorum, Samaritanorum, Graecorum, Macedonum, Romanorum Typis, Cyclisque Veterum Christia∣norum Paschalibus, disputatur, Printed at Paris 1632.

OCTAVIANUS MARINIUS put forth a Treatise entituled Statera* 1.938 Temporum, sive de Praestantia Kalendarii Gregoriani, & ejus facili Usu, Printed at Bologna, 1633.

DAVID GOUBARD put forth Perpetual Tables of the Celestial Motions,* 1.939 in French, Printed at Middleburgh, 1634.

NATALIS DURET a French-man, published New Ephemerides of the* 1.940 Celestial Motions, to which he gave the Title of Tabulae Richelianae, Printed at Pa∣ris, 1637.

ERICUS OLAUS TORMIUS Publick Professor of Mathematicks* 1.941 at Copenhagen, published a small Treatise with this Specious Title, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Sive Disquisitio Mechanica, wherein he Disputes of, and asserts the Necessity, and Possibility of Instruments, their Number, and Amplitude, re∣quisite in Astronomical Observations, Printed Hafniae, 1643. in 4^o.

JACOB RAVENSPERG Professor of Mathematicks in the University* 1.942 of Utretch, published about the years 1640. and 1643. divers small Latin Astro∣nomical and Meteorological Disputations of the Spots of the Sun, Moon, and Planets, as likewise several Theses about Light, Lightning, Thunder, and some concerning Optical Problems, and Telescopes.

BENEDICTUS HEDRAEUS a Swede, put forth Nova & accurata* 1.943 Astrolabii Geometrici Structura, ubi Gradus horumque singula Minuta prima, nec non Quadrantis Astronomici Azimuthalis, quo non solum prima, sed & singula minuta secunda distinctè observari possunt; together with a Treatise of the Use of the same illustrated with clear and perspicuous Examples, Printed at Leyden, 1643. in 8^o.

GEORGIUS FROMMIUS set forth a Dissertation Astronomical De* 1.944 mediis quibusdam ad Astronomiam restituendam necessariis, Printed at Copenhagen, 1642. in 4^o. He published likewise an Answer to Io. Baptista Morinus his Defence of his Astronomia restituta, Printed at the same Place 1645. in 4^o.

JOANNES BECHETT Professor of Mathematicks in the University of* 1.945 Paris, to his Theory of the Planets before mentioned, hath added Tables of the mean* 1.946 Motions, and a Parecbasis explaining the Doctrine of Directions according to the Ra∣tional Way; as also an Appendix for finding out and computing the Lunary Periods.

JOHANNES JACOBUS HAINLINIUS Superintendant General* 1.947 of the Diocess of Aldeberg in Saxony; put forth a Mathematical Synopsis, wherein the chief Parts of the whole Mathematicks, both abstract and Concrete, that is to say, Arithmetick, Geometry, Astronomy, Geography, Opticks, &c. are methodically proposed by Definitions, Axioms, Postulates, Theorems, Problems, &c. very useful not only for young beginners, but for those also who have already made some Pro∣gress in those Sciences. In the Astronomical Part he treats particularly and distinct∣ly De Astronomia Sphaerica, Theorica, & Chronologica, adding withall the Praxis and Use of those Parts Problematically laid down, and briefly and clearly explained, Printed at Tubinge 1653. in 8^o.

JACOBUS DU BOIS, published by Way of Dialogue, a Theological-Astronomical* 1.948 Treatise, Printed at Leiden, 1653. in 4^o. wherein he opposes Coperni∣cus his Hypothesis, and Des Cartes his Philosophy. Against which

AN ANONYMUS Author put forth a Reply under this following Tide, Demonstratio Mathematica Ineptiarum & Ignorantiae Iacobi du Bois Ecclesiastae, Leidensis, in Oppugnanda Hypothesi Copernicana, & Philosophia Cartesiana, Printed at Roterdam 1656. in 4^o.

JOANNES HERBINIUS a Silesian, Master of Arts, and Professor of Phi∣losophy* 1.949 at Utrecht, undertook the like Controversie as Du Bois, and published a Treatise thereupon entituled, Famosae de Solis vel Telluris Motu Controversiae Exa∣men, Theologico-Philosophicum, ad S. Sanctam Normam institutum, to which he hath annexed the Grounds of his said undertaking, in an Epistle addressed to the Excel∣lently learned Maria Cunitia.

GEORGIUS HILARIUS, besides what we have already mentioned,* 1.950 put forth Enchiridion Progymnasmatum Mathematicorum, containing, first, Apospas∣mation Primi Elementi Euclidaei Gr. Lat. Secondly, Praecepta Sphaerica. Thirdly, Globi Coelestis & Terrestris Explicatio & Usus. Fourthly, Geographiae Rudimonta. Fifthly, Computi Ecclesiastici Epitome, Printed at Copenhagen 1656. in 12^o.

PETRUS BORELLUS, Councellour and Physician to the King of France,* 1.951 put forth a Treatise De vero Telescopii Inventore, wherein he treats of the History of Telescopes, and other Optick Glasses, their Matter, Fashion, Working, several Kinds or Species, and Uses; as also of several Discoveries made by the said Author, as well with Telescopes as Microscopes; (of the later of which, he gives a Century of Observations) and treats of what may yet be further found out by the means of Telescopes, where occasionally he speaks of the finding out of Longitudes, Printed at the Hague 1655. and 1656. in 4^o.

EUSTACHIO DIVINI, an Excellent Worker of Telescopical Glasses* 1.952 at Rome, put forth something against Monsieur Hugens his Systema Saturnium, Printed at the Hague in Holland in 4^o.

The Reverend and Learned Mr. WILLIAM BEVEREGE, late of St.* 1.953 Iohn's Colledge in Cambridge, is to be added to the number of those whose mention gives Honour to this Catalogue, for his excellent Piece of Chronological Institutions

in two Books. In the first whereof he treats of the Nature of Chronology, and its* 1.954 Parts, of Time, and its various Distributions into Scruples, Hours, Dayes, Weeks, Moneths, Years; in the second, of the Syzygies, and Eclipses of the Luminaries, of the Equinoxes and Solstices, Cycles of the Sun and Moon, Indictions, Epacts, and of the several Periods, Aera's and Epocha's of the Ancients, to which he hath likewise added two Books of Chronological Arithmetick; all which are of great Use and Advantage to the Students in Astronomy, Printed at London 1669. in 4^o.

AN ANONIMOUS French-man about this Time published in his own* 1.955 Language a Treatise entituled Discours sur les Influences des Astres selon les Princi∣pes de Monsieur des Cartes, Printed at Paris in 12^o.

GUARINUS GUARINUS, of the Order of Clerks regular (commonly* 1.956 called Theatins) of Mutina; Professor of Philosophy and Divinity, and Mathe∣matician to the Duke of Savoy, published and Dedicated to the said Prince a large Mathematical Treatise in folio, entituled Euclides adauctus, & Methodicus, Mathema∣ticaque Universalis: In which with great Perspicuity, and exactness of Method, he treats of all things falling under the Notion of Quantity, as well Discrete, continuous, as abstracted; divided into 35. Tractates. In the 23^th whereof he handles the Do∣ctrine of the Sphere, in two Parts; the first, treating De Sphaerae Contactibus & Se∣ctionibus in Genere; the second, De Sectionibus Maximorum Circulorum Invicem, which being of great Use in Astronomical Operations, we have for that Reason in this Place made mention thereof.

Mr. PATRICK MATHEWS Arch-Beadle to the Universiry of St. An∣drews,* 1.957 published a small Treatise in 12^o. (lately come up from Scotland) under the Title of the Great and New Art of weighing Vanity, written against a Book intitu∣led, Ars Magna & Nova Gravitatis & Levitatis. To which are annexed some Ten∣tamina de Motu Penduli & Projectorum; In which there being some Ingenious De∣bates about Astronomical Affairs, and the Theory of Pendulums for the exact measu∣ring of Time, and Analytical Series's or Equations of great Ingenuity suited to the Motion thereof, and of Projects; We thought the same worthy to be mentio∣ned in this Catalogue, the said Treatise was Printed at Glasco 1670.

JOHN GADBURY of London, Student in Physick and Astronomy, put* 1.958 forth Ephemerides of the Celestial Motions for ten years, beginning Anno 1672. and ending Anno 1681. compared with the most correct Observations of Tycho, Kepler, Mr. Wright, and other approved Astronomers, with an Introduction to the Use thereof, Printed 1673. in 4^o.

By late Letters from Paris Information is given that the SIEURS AVO∣CATE and DE ROYER intend to write fully of Astronomy, and of the Theories of the Planets.

And here, for a Close, we cannot but acquaint the learned World with the most praise-worthy Design of the BISHOPS, NOBLEMEN, and GENTRY of Scotland, who have nobly and liberally contributed toward the erecting an Astro∣nomical Observatory in the University of St. Andrews, and furnishing the same with Books and Instruments for Observation to the value of above 500 l. Sterling, which Heroick Example we hope may animate those of like Condition and Abilities in this Nation to incourage the promoting of the same Laudable Design amongst us.

And thus much of the Original and Progress of Astronomy, and of Astrono∣mers.

Notes

• * 1.1

  ANNI ANTE CHRISTUM juxta LXX.
• * 1.2

  5600.
• * 1.3

  5200.
• * 1.4

  4400.
• * 1.5

  3400.
• * 1.6

  ANNI ANTE CHRISTUM.
• * 1.7

  2847.
• * 1.8

  2346.
• * 1.9

  2069.
• * 1.10

  1990.
• * 1.11

  1800.
• * 1.12

  1750.
• * 1.13

  1593.
• * 1.14

  1590.
• * 1.15

  1590.
• * 1.16

  1480.
• * 1.17

  1445.
• * 1.18

  ANNI ANTE CHRIST•…•….
• * 1.19

  1360.
• * 1.20

  1345.
• * 1.21

  1238.
• * 1.22

  1205.
• * 1.23

  1200.
• * 1.24

  1012.
• * 1.25

  716.
• * 1.26

  660.
• * 1.27

  660.
• * 1.28

  ANNI ANTE CHRISTV•…•…
• * 1.29

  600.
• * 1.30

  590.
• * 1.31

  560.
• * 1.32

  544.
• * 1.33

  540.
• * 1.34

  540.
• * 1.35

  530.
• * 1.36

  520.
• * 1.37

  〈…〉〈…〉.
• * 1.38

  5•…•…9.
• * 1.39

  490.
• * 1.40

  480.
• * 1.41

  470.
• * 1.42

  470.
• * 1.43

  450.
• * 1.44

  432.
• * 1.45

  432.
• * 1.46

  432.
• * 1.47

  430.
• * 1.48

  430.
• * 1.49

  ANNI ANTE CHRISTUM.
• * 1.50

  420.
• * 1.51

  410.
• * 1.52

  410.
• * 1.53

  405.
• * 1.54

  404.
• * 1.55

  390.
• * 1.56

  368.
• * 1.57

  •…•…NI ANTE CHRISTUM.
• * 1.58

  366.
• * 1.59

  360.
• * 1.60

  350.
• * 1.61

  340.
• * 1.62

  322.
• * 1.63

  322.
• * 1.64

  300.
• * 1.65

  300.
• * 1.66

  294.
• * 1.67

  282.
• * 1.68

  ANNI ANTE CHRISTUM.
• * 1.69

  280.
• * 1.70

  280.
• * 1.71

  280.
• * 1.72

  270.
• * 1.73

  〈…〉〈…〉
• * 1.74

  270.
• * 1.75

  270.
• * 1.76

  270.
• * 1.77

  270.
• * 1.78

  26•…•….
• * 1.79

  168.
• * 1.80

  140.
• * 1.81

  ANNI ANTE CHRISTUM.
• * 1.82

  86.
• * 1.83

  86.
• * 1.84

  86.
• * 1.85

  83.
• * 1.86

  60.
• * 1.87

  80.
• * 1.88

  52.
• * 1.89

  45.
• * 1.90

  45.
• * 1.91

  30.
• * 1.92

  〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉.
• * 1.93

  30.
• * 1.94

  20.
• * 1.95

  20.
• * 1.96

  20.
• * 1.97

  15.
• * 1.98

  ANNI ANTE CHRISTUM.
• * 1.99

  〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉
• * 1.100

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.101

  10.
• * 1.102

  14.
• * 1.103

  14.
• * 1.104

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.105

  15.
• * 1.106

  25.
• * 1.107

  34.
• * 1.108

  34.
• * 1.109

  50.
• * 1.110

  60.
• * 1.111

  80.
• * 1.112

  90.
• * 1.113

  90.
• * 1.114

  90.
• * 1.115

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.116

  91.
• * 1.117

  92.
• * 1.118

  95.
• * 1.119

  120.
• * 1.120

  130.
• * 1.121

  132.
• * 1.122

  134.
• * 1.123

  135.
• * 1.124

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.125

  135.
• * 1.126

  140.
• * 1.127

  140.
• * 1.128

  160.
• * 1.129

  171.
• * 1.130

  230.
• * 1.131

  238.
• * 1.132

  283.
• * 1.133

  298.
• * 1.134

  314.
• * 1.135

  320.
• * 1.136

  〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉
• * 1.137

  325.
• * 1.138

  340.
• * 1.139

  36•…•….
• * 1.140

  375.
• * 1.141

  378.
• * 1.142

  390.
• * 1.143

  390.
• * 1.144

  395.
• * 1.145

  •…•…99.
• * 1.146

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.147

  400.
• * 1.148

  400.
• * 1.149

  400.
• * 1.150

  410.
• * 1.151

  434.
• * 1.152

  437.
• * 1.153

  460.
• * 1.154

  466.
• * 1.155

  467.
• * 1.156

  ANNI POS•…•… CHRISTUM.
• * 1.157

  469.
• * 1.158

  470.
• * 1.159

  480.
• * 1.160

  490.
• * 1.161

  490.
• * 1.162

  500.
• * 1.163

  500.
• * 1.164

  500.
• * 1.165

  500.
• * 1.166

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.167

  500.
• * 1.168

  500.
• * 1.169

  520.
• * 1.170

  526.
• * 1.171

  550.
• * 1.172

  550.
• * 1.173

  574.
• * 1.174

  580.
• * 1.175

  600.
• * 1.176

  636.
• * 1.177

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM
• * 1.178

  640.
• * 1.179

  680.
• * 1.180

  700.
• * 1.181

  709.
• * 1.182

  770.
• * 1.183

  770.
• * 1.184

  790.
• * 1.185

  827.
• * 1.186

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.187

  446.
• * 1.188

  860.
• * 1.189

  879.
• * 1.190

  880.
• * 1.191

  890.
• * 1.192

  930.
• * 1.193

  936.
• * 1.194

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.195

  950.
• * 1.196

  956.
• * 1.197

  970.
• * 1.198

  980.
• * 1.199

  980.
• * 1.200

  984.
• * 1.201

  995.
• * 1.202

  996.
• * 1.203

  1004.
• * 1.204

  1030.
• * 1.205

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.206

  1032.
• * 1.207

  1035.
• * 1.208

  1050.
• * 1.209

  1050.
• * 1.210

  1060.
• * 1.211

  1070.
• * 1.212

  1070.
• * 1.213

  1071.
• * 1.214

  1072.
• * 1.215

  A•…•…I 〈◊〉〈◊〉 CHRISTUM.
• * 1.216

  1090.
• * 1.217

  1100.
• * 1.218

  1115.
• * 1.219

  1130.
• * 1.220

  1132.
• * 1.221

  1140.
• * 1.222

  1142.
• * 1.223

  1144.
• * 1.224

  1149.
• * 1.225

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.226

  1150.
• * 1.227

  1150.
• * 1.228

  1160.
• * 1.229

  1160.
• * 1.230

  1160.
• * 1.231

  1164.
• * 1.232

  1166.
• * 1.233

  1170.
• * 1.234

  1170.
• * 1.235

  1170.
• * 1.236

  ANNI POST CH•…•…ISTUM.
• * 1.237

  1190.
• * 1.238

  1199.
• * 1.239

  1200.
• * 1.240

  1200.
• * 1.241

  1210.
• * 1.242

  1224.
• * 1.243

  1240.
• * 1.244

  1240.
• * 1.245

  1252.
• * 1.246

  1252.
• * 1.247

  1253.
• * 1.248

  1255.
• * 1.249

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.250

  1255.
• * 1.251

  1256.
• * 1.252

  1256.
• * 1.253

  1260.
• * 1.254

  1260.
• * 1.255

  1269.
• * 1.256

  1270.
• * 1.257

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.258

  1272.
• * 1.259

  1272.
• * 1.260

  1275.
• * 1.261

  1282.
• * 1.262

  1290.
• * 1.263

  1290.
• * 1.264

  1293.
• * 1.265

  1300.
• * 1.266

  1310.
• * 1.267

  1320.
• * 1.268

  1320.
• * 1.269

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.270

  1320.
• * 1.271

  1320.
• * 1.272

  1322.
• * 1.273

  1322.
• * 1.274

  1326.
• * 1.275

  1330.
• * 1.276

  1330.
• * 1.277

  1335.
• * 1.278

  1340.
• * 1.279

  1340.
• * 1.280

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 POST CH•…•…ISTUM.
• * 1.281

  1340.
• * 1.282

  1341.
• * 1.283

  1342.
• * 1.284

  1347.
• * 1.285

  1350.
• * 1.286

  1350.
• * 1.287

  1350.
• * 1.288

  1350.
• * 1.289

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.290

  1360.
• * 1.291

  1360.
• * 1.292

  1360.
• * 1.293

  1363.
• * 1.294

  1370.
• * 1.295

  1370.
• * 1.296

  1370.
• * 1.297

  1370.
• * 1.298

  1370.
• * 1.299

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.300

  1378.
• * 1.301

  1385.
• * 1.302

  1390.
• * 1.303

  1390.
• * 1.304

  1390.
• * 1.305

  1390.
• * 1.306

  1396.
• * 1.307

  1400.
• * 1.308

  1400.
• * 1.309

  1402.
• * 1.310

  1410.
• * 1.311

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.312

  1410.
• * 1.313

  1410.
• * 1.314

  1419.
• * 1.315

  1434.
• * 1.316

  1436.
• * 1.317

  1437.
• * 1.318

  1437.
• * 1.319

  1437.
• * 1.320

  1437.
• * 1.321

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.322

  1438.
• * 1.323

  1440.
• * 1.324

  1440.
• * 1.325

  1440.
• * 1.326

  1450.
• * 1.327

  1450.
• * 1.328

  1460.
• * 1.329

  1460.
• * 1.330

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.331

  1460.
• * 1.332

  1460.
• * 1.333

  1462.
• * 1.334

  1470.
• * 1.335

  1473.
• * 1.336

  1474.
• * 1.337

  〈…〉〈…〉
• * 1.338

  1475.
• * 1.339

  1475.
• * 1.340

  1475.
• * 1.341

  1478.
• * 1.342

  1480.
• * 1.343

  1480.
• * 1.344

  1480.
• * 1.345

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.346

  1480.
• * 1.347

  1480.
• * 1.348

  1482.
• * 1.349

  1488.
• * 1.350

  1490.
• * 1.351

  1490.
• * 1.352

  1490.
• * 1.353

  1490.
• * 1.354

  1490.
• * 1.355

  1490.
• * 1.356

  1491.
• * 1.357

  ANNI POST. CHRISTUM
• * 1.358

  1492.
• * 1.359

  1493.
• * 1.360

  1494.
• * 1.361

  1494.
• * 1.362

  1494.
• * 1.363

  1494.
• * 1.364

  1495.
• * 1.365

  1495.
• * 1.366

  1495.
• * 1.367

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.368

  1497.
• * 1.369

  1500.
• * 1.370

  1500.
• * 1.371

  1500.
• * 1.372

  1507.
• * 1.373

  1507.
• * 1.374

  1508.
• * 1.375

  1509.
• * 1.376

  1510.
• * 1.377

  1513.
• * 1.378

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.379

  1514.
• * 1.380

  1514.
• * 1.381

  1515.
• * 1.382

  1515.
• * 1.383

  1516.
• * 1.384

  1518.
• * 1.385

  1521.
• * 1.386

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.387

  1522.
• * 1.388

  1523.
• * 1.389

  1524.
• * 1.390

  1524.
• * 1.391

  1525.
• * 1.392

  1527.
• * 1.393

  1528.
• * 1.394

  1528.
• * 1.395

  1528.
• * 1.396

  ANNI POST, CHRISTUM
• * 1.397

  1528.
• * 1.398

  1530.
• * 1.399

  1530.
• * 1.400

  1530.
• * 1.401

  1530.
• * 1.402

  1530.
• * 1.403

  1530.
• * 1.404

  1530.
• * 1.405

  1530.
• * 1.406

  1531.
• * 1.407

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.408

  1532.
• * 1.409

  1533.
• * 1.410

  1533.
• * 1.411

  1534.
• * 1.412

  1535.
• * 1.413

  1535.
• * 1.414

  1536.
• * 1.415

  1536.
• * 1.416

  1536.
• * 1.417

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.418

  1536.
• * 1.419

  1536.
• * 1.420

  1536.
• * 1.421

  1537.
• * 1.422

  1537.
• * 1.423

  1537.
• * 1.424

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.425

  1537.
• * 1.426

  1537.
• * 1.427

  1538.
• * 1.428

  1538.
• * 1.429

  1539.
• * 1.430

  1540.
• * 1.431

  1540.
• * 1.432

  1540.
• * 1.433

  1540.
• * 1.434

  1540.
• * 1.435

  〈…〉〈…〉
• * 1.436

  1540.
• * 1.437

  1540.
• * 1.438

  1540.
• * 1.439

  1540.
• * 1.440

  1540.
• * 1.441

  1540.
• * 1.442

  1540.
• * 1.443

  1540.
• * 1.444

  ANXI POST CHRISTUM▪
• * 1.445

  1541.
• * 1.446

  1541..
• * 1.447

  1542.
• * 1.448

  1543.
• * 1.449

  1544.
• * 1.450

  1544.
• * 1.451

  1544.
• * 1.452

  1544.
• * 1.453

  ANNI POST 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• * 1.454

  1544.
• * 1.455

  1544.
• * 1.456

  1545.
• * 1.457

  1548.
• * 1.458

  1548.
• * 1.459

  1548.
• * 1.460

  1548.
• * 1.461

  1548.
• * 1.462

  1548.
• * 1.463

  1549.
• * 1.464

  〈…〉〈…〉
• * 1.465

  1549.
• * 1.466

  1550.
• * 1.467

  1550.
• * 1.468

  1550.
• * 1.469

  1550.
• * 1.470

  1550.
• * 1.471

  1550.
• * 1.472

  1550.
• * 1.473

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 POST CHRISTUM
• * 1.474

  1550.
• * 1.475

  1550.
• * 1.476

  1550.
• * 1.477

  1551.
• * 1.478

  1551.
• * 1.479

  1551.
• * 1.480

  1551.
• * 1.481

  1552.
• * 1.482

  1552.
• * 1.483

  1552.
• * 1.484

  1553.
• * 1.485

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM
• * 1.486

  1554.
• * 1.487

  1555.
• * 1.488

  1555.
• * 1.489

  1555.
• * 1.490

  1556.
• * 1.491

  1556.
• * 1.492

  1556.
• * 1.493

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.494

  1557.
• * 1.495

  1557.
• * 1.496

  1557.
• * 1.497

  1557.
• * 1.498

  1557.
• * 1.499

  1558.
• * 1.500

  1559.
• * 1.501

  1560.
• * 1.502

  1560.
• * 1.503

  1•…•…60.
• * 1.504

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.505

  1560.
• * 1.506

  1560.
• * 1.507

  1560.
• * 1.508

  1560.
• * 1.509

  1560.
• * 1.510

  1560.
• * 1.511

  1560.
• * 1.512

  ANNI POST. CHRISTUM
• * 1.513

  1560.
• * 1.514

  1561.
• * 1.515

  1561.
• * 1.516

  1562.
• * 1.517

  1563.
• * 1.518

  1564.
• * 1.519

  1565.
• * 1.520

  1567.
• * 1.521

  1568.
• * 1.522

  1568.
• * 1.523

  1568.
• * 1.524

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.525

  1570.
• * 1.526

  1570.
• * 1.527

  1570.
• * 1.528

  1570.
• * 1.529

  1570.
• * 1.530

  1571.
• * 1.531

  1572.
• * 1.532

  1572.
• * 1.533

  1572.
• * 1.534

  1572.
• * 1.535

  1572.
• * 1.536

  1572.
• * 1.537

  1572.
• * 1.538

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM▪
• * 1.539

  1572.
• * 1.540

  1572.
• * 1.541

  1572.
• * 1.542

  1572.
• * 1.543

  1572.
• * 1.544

  1572.
• * 1.545

  1572.
• * 1.546

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.547

  1572.
• * 1.548

  1572.
• * 1.549

  1573.
• * 1.550

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.551

  1573.
• * 1.552

  1573.
• * 1.553

  1573.
• * 1.554

  1573.
• * 1.555

  1573.
• * 1.556

  1573.
• * 1.557

  1573.
• * 1.558

  1574.
• * 1.559

  1574.
• * 1.560

  1574.
• * 1.561

  1574.
• * 1.562

  1574.
• * 1.563

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.564

  1574.
• * 1.565

  1574.
• * 1.566

  1576.
• * 1.567

  1576.
• * 1.568

  1576.
• * 1.569

  1576.
• * 1.570

  1577.
• * 1.571

  1577.
• * 1.572

  1577.
• * 1.573

  1577.
• * 1.574

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.575

  1577.
• * 1.576

  1578.
• * 1.577

  1578.
• * 1.578

  1579.
• * 1.579

  1579.
• * 1.580

  1580.
• * 1.581

  1580.
• * 1.582

  1580.
• * 1.583

  1580.
• * 1.584

  1581.
• * 1.585

  1532.
• * 1.586

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.587

  1582.
• * 1.588

  1583.
• * 1.589

  1583.
• * 1.590

  1583.
• * 1.591

  1583.
• * 1.592

  1584.
• * 1.593

  1585.
• * 1.594

  1586.
• * 1.595

  1587.
• * 1.596

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.597

  1587.
• * 1.598

  1589.
• * 1.599

  1590.
• * 1.600

  1590.
• * 1.601

  1590.
• * 1.602

  1590.
• * 1.603

  1590.
• * 1.604

  1590.
• * 1.605

  1590.
• * 1.606

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.607

  1590.
• * 1.608

  1590.
• * 1.609

  1591.
• * 1.610

  1591.
• * 1.611

  1591.
• * 1.612

  1591.
• * 1.613

  1592.
• * 1.614

  1593.
• * 1.615

  ANNI POST. CHRISTUM.
• * 1.616

  1593.
• * 1.617

  1594.
• * 1.618

  1594.
• * 1.619

  1595.
• * 1.620

  1595.
• * 1.621

  1597.
• * 1.622

  1597.
• * 1.623

  1597.
• * 1.624

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.625

  1598.
• * 1.626

  1599.
• * 1.627

  1599.
• * 1.628

  1599.
• * 1.629

  1599.
• * 1.630

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.631

  1600.
• * 1.632

  1600.
• * 1.633

  1600.
• * 1.634

  1600.
• * 1.635

  1600.
• * 1.636

  1601.
• * 1.637

  1602.
• * 1.638

  1602.
• * 1.639

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.640

  1603.
• * 1.641

  1603.
• * 1.642

  1603.
• * 1.643

  1605.
• * 1.644

  1606.
• * 1.645

  1606.
• * 1.646

  1607.
• * 1.647

  1608.
• * 1.648

  1608.
• * 1.649

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.650

  1608.
• * 1.651

  1609.
• * 1.652

  1609.
• * 1.653

  1609.
• * 1.654

  1610.
• * 1.655

  1610.
• * 1.656

  1611.
• * 1.657

  1611.
• * 1.658

  1612.
• * 1.659

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.660

  1612.
• * 1.661

  1612.
• * 1.662

  1612.
• * 1.663

  1613.
• * 1.664

  1614.
• * 1.665

  1615.
• * 1.666

  1615.
• * 1.667

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.668

  1615.
• * 1.669

  1615.
• * 1.670

  1616.
• * 1.671

  1617.
• * 1.672

  1617.
• * 1.673

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.674

  1617.
• * 1.675

  1617.
• * 1.676

  1618.
• * 1.677

  1618.
• * 1.678

  1618.
• * 1.679

  1618.
• * 1.680

  1619.
• * 1.681

  1619.
• * 1.682

  1619.
• * 1.683

  1619.
• * 1.684

  1619.
• * 1.685

  1619.
• * 1.686

  ANNI POST CHRI•…•…TUM
• * 1.687

  1619.
• * 1.688

  1619.
• * 1.689

  1620.
• * 1.690

  1620.
• * 1.691

  1620.
• * 1.692

  1620.
• * 1.693

  1620.
• * 1.694

  〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.695

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.696

  1620.
• * 1.697

  1622.
• * 1.698

  1623.
• * 1.699

  1624.
• * 1.700

  •…•…NNI •…•…OST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.701

  1624.
• * 1.702

  1624.
• * 1.703

  1624.
• * 1.704

  1624.
• * 1.705

  1625.
• * 1.706

  •…•…NNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.707

  1626.
• * 1.708

  1626.
• * 1.709

  1627.
• * 1.710

  1627.
• * 1.711

  1628.
• * 1.712

  1628.
• * 1.713

  1628.
• * 1.714

  1629.
• * 1.715

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.716

  1630.
• * 1.717

  1630.
• * 1.718

  1630.
• * 1.719

  1630.
• * 1.720

  1630.
• * 1.721

  1630.
• * 1.722

  1632.
• * 1.723

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.724

  1632.
• * 1.725

  1633.
• * 1.726

  1633.
• * 1.727

  1634.
• * 1.728

  1634.
• * 1.729

  1634.
• * 1.730

  1635.
• * 1.731

  1635.
• * 1.732

  1635.
• * 1.733

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.734

  1635.
• * 1.735

  1635.
• * 1.736

  1637.
• * 1.737

  1637.
• * 1.738

  1638.
• * 1.739

  1640.
• * 1.740

  1640.
• * 1.741

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.742

  1640.
• * 1.743

  1640.
• * 1.744

  1640.
• * 1.745

  1640.
• * 1.746

  1640.
• * 1.747

  1640.
• * 1.748

  1640.
• * 1.749

  1640.
• * 1.750

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM
• * 1.751

  1640.
• * 1.752

  1640.
• * 1.753

  1640.
• * 1.754

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.755

  1640.
• * 1.756

  1640.
• * 1.757

  1640.
• * 1.758

  1640.
• * 1.759

  1641.
• * 1.760

  1642.
• * 1.761

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.762

  1643.
• * 1.763

  1643.
• * 1.764

  1643.
• * 1.765

  1644.
• * 1.766

  1644.
• * 1.767

  1644.
• * 1.768

  1644.
• * 1.769

  1644.
• * 1.770

  1644.
• * 1.771

  1645.
• * 1.772

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.773

  1645.
• * 1.774

  1645.
• * 1.775

  1645.
• * 1.776

  1645.
• * 1.777

  1645.
• * 1.778

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.779

  1645.
• * 1.780

  1645.
• * 1.781

  1645.
• * 1.782

  1645.
• * 1.783

  1645.
• * 1.784

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.785

  1645.
• * 1.786

  1646.
• * 1.787

  1646.
• * 1.788

  1646.
• * 1.789

  1646.
• * 1.790

  1647.
• * 1.791

  1648.
• * 1.792

  1648.
• * 1.793

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.794

  1648.
• * 1.795

  1648.
• * 1.796

  1648.
• * 1.797

  1649.
• * 1.798

  1650.
• * 1.799

  1650.
• * 1.800

  1650.
• * 1.801

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.802

  1650.
• * 1.803

  1650.
• * 1.804

  1650.
• * 1.805

  1650.
• * 1.806

  1650.
• * 1.807

  1651.
• * 1.808

  1651.
• * 1.809

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM
• * 1.810

  1651.
• * 1.811

  1651.
• * 1.812

  1651.
• * 1.813

  1651.
• * 1.814

  1652.
• * 1.815

  1653.
• * 1.816

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.817

  1653.
• * 1.818

  1654.
• * 1.819

  1654.
• * 1.820

  1654.
• * 1.821

  1655.
• * 1.822

  ANNI •…•…OST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.823

  1655.
• * 1.824

  1655.
• * 1.825

  1656.
• * 1.826

  1656.
• * 1.827

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.828

  1657.
• * 1.829

  1657.
• * 1.830

  1657.
• * 1.831

  1658.
• * 1.832

  1659.
• * 1.833

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM
• * 1.834

  1660.
• * 1.835

  1661.
• * 1.836

  1661.
• * 1.837

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.838

  1661.
• * 1.839

  1661.
• * 1.840

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.841

  1661.
• * 1.842

  1662.
• * 1.843

  1662.
• * 1.844

  1663.
• * 1.845

  1663.
• * 1.846

  1663.
• * 1.847

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.848

  1664.
• * 1.849

  1664.
• * 1.850

  1657.
• * 1.851

  1665.
• * 1.852

  1666.
• * 1.853

  ANNI POST 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.854

  1666.
• * 1.855

  1666.
• * 1.856

  1666.
• * 1.857

  1668.
• * 1.858

  1668.
• * 1.859

  1669.
• * 1.860

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.861

  1669.
• * 1.862

  1669.
• * 1.863

  1669.
• * 1.864

  1670.
• * 1.865

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.866

  1670.
• * 1.867

  1670.
• * 1.868

  1670.
• * 1.869

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.870

  1670.
• * 1.871

  1671.
• * 1.872

  1672.
• * 1.873

  1672.
• * 1.874

  1672.
• * 1.875

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.876

  1673.
• * 1.877

  1673.
• * 1.878

  1673.
• * 1.879

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.880

  1673.
• * 1.881

  1673.
• * 1.882

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.883

  1673.
• * 1.884

  1673.
• * 1.885

  1673.
• * 1.886

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.887

  1673.
• * 1.888

  1673.
• * 1.889

  1673.
• * 1.890

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.891

  1673.
• * 1.892

  1673.
• * 1.893

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.894

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.895

  Anni Ante Christum se∣cundum vul∣gatam Epo∣cham.
• * 1.896

  2952.
• * 1.897

  2697.
• * 1.898

  2513.
• * 1.899

  2513.
• * 1.900

  2400.
• * 1.901

  2357.
• * 1.902

  2258.
• * 1.903

  2158.
• * 1.904

  ANNI ANTE CHRISTUM.
• * 1.905

  1120.
• * 1.906

  1100.
• * 1.907

  960.
• * 1.908

  760.
• * 1.909

  470.
• * 1.910

  ANNI ANTE CHRISTUM.
• * 1.911

  224.
• * 1.912

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.913

  140.
• * 1.914

  930.
• * 1.915

  1100.
• * 1.916

  1160.
• * 1.917

  1320.
• * 1.918

  1346.
• * 1.919

  1350.
• * 1.920

  1390.
• * 1.921

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.922

  14•…•….
• * 1.923

  1494.
• * 1.924

  1558.
• * 1.925

  1583.
• * 1.926

  1585.
• * 1.927

  1590.
• * 1.928

  1590.
• * 1.929

  1598.
• * 1.930

  1600.
• * 1.931

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.932

  1603.
• * 1.933

  1609.
• * 1.934

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.935

  1612.
• * 1.936

  1623.
• * 1.937

  1632.
• * 1.938

  1633.
• * 1.939

  1634.
• * 1.940

  1637.
• * 1.941

  1648.
• * 1.942

  1643.
• * 1.943

  1643.
• * 1.944

  1645.
• * 1.945

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.946

  1650.
• * 1.947

  1653.
• * 1.948

  1653.
• * 1.949

  1655.
• * 1.950

  1656.
• * 1.951

  1656.
• * 1.952

  1660.
• * 1.953

  1669.
• * 1.954

  ANNI POST CHRISTUM.
• * 1.955

  1671.
• * 1.956

  1671.
• * 1.957

  1672.
• * 1.958

  1673.