10. The Quarter of Heaven in which they arise, to which they are carried, and where extinct.
AS to this, we read of none that were moved by a direct Tract from any one Quarter of Hea∣ven to another opposite thereunto, but all obliquely, unless it was that observed by Haly, Anno 1200. be∣cause, he saith, the same was carried by the motion of the Primum Mobile from the East, Westward: Those of the Years 392. 405. 1471. 1475. 1532. 1533. 1539. 1556. and 1618. were moved from the East, Westward; but all of them obliquely, inclining North∣ward. So on the contrary, Those that move from the West, Eastward, incline either Southward, or North∣ward: As that great Comet of the Year 373. before Christ, (seen and described of Aristotle) which be∣gun in the West Aequinoctial point, and came thence to Orion's Girdle, where it extinguished.
In like manner, the Comet in September, 1607. began to shew it self betwixt the North and West Aestival point, having almost 50 degrees of Northern declination, and by a continual Motion (according to the Order of the Signs) the 10th. of October it was got beyond the Aequator, (ad Serpentarii Tibiam prae∣cedentem) where it vanished, having twelve degrees and upwards, of South declination.
Others have first appeared in the North, and been moved thence Eastward, as that, Anno 54. in Nero's time; others towards the South, as those of the Years