¶ The seconde Chapiter is of the Eclypses of the Sunne, and what tyme of the yeare it shal appeare, and of his operation i•• general.
A pronostycacyon practysed by master Mathias Brothyel of Rauensburgh. Anno. 1545
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- A pronostycacyon practysed by master Mathias Brothyel of Rauensburgh. Anno. 1545
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- Excudebat Londini :: Richardus Grafionus [sic] clarissimi principis Edouardi tipographus,
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"A pronostycacyon practysed by master Mathias Brothyel of Rauensburgh. Anno. 1545." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17360.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.
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[illustration] literal depiction of the Gemini twins (Castor and Pollux) astride the dragon's tail (the descending node of the moon's orbit with the ecliptic) encompassed by the hollow circle of a moon
THe syxt day of Iuly, the moone shall take awaye from vs the light of the sunne in thre poyntes .xliiii. ininutes in the .xxvii. degree of the sygne Gemini, in Cauda draconis, or dragones tayle, and wyll make a shadow vnto vs, it shal begynne at .viii. of the clocke and one mynute a∣fore noone, the mydest shalbe .xlix. minu¦tes after .viii. and it shal ende .xxxix. mi∣nutes after .ix. of the clocke, and so it shal endure from the beginnynge to the ende one houre .xxxvii. minutes before noone And the operacion of it shal extende and teache one yeare .xxxi. weekes and thre dayes. Also in the yeare passed, on the .xxiii. day of Ianuary in the sygne Aqua¦rius fel the Eclyps of the Sūne, whose operacion lasteth two yeares .xxxvi. we∣kes. And they that dwel in the East and
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towardes the South for the moost part shall feele the terrible operacion of thys Eclyps. And the operacion of it shalbe suche that scarsly I dare be so bolde to ex¦prese the terrible significacion of it with wordes. For of truth mooste myghtye prynce, euen those vnto whom power to gouerne and rule perteyneth, are not fre frō the peryl & operacion of this Eclips. For before that the terryble influence of the Eclyps passed, & the Eclyps that shalbe in this yeare shal leaue their ope∣racyons. Mars shall moue warre, and blowe his horne, chefely vnto the dystru¦ction and death of those carnal or fleshe∣ly persons that are fylled with vice and vncleanes.