Ouranoskopia, or, The contemplation of the heavens, in a perpetual speculum, or general prognostication for ever wherein is succinctly demonstrated the names and natures of the signs, planets and aspects, terms of art, order of the spheres, the colours, magnitudes, motions, solid proportions and distances of the seven planets from the earth ... / by Iames Corss ...

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Title: Ouranoskopia, or, The contemplation of the heavens, in a perpetual speculum, or general prognostication for ever wherein is succinctly demonstrated the names and natures of the signs, planets and aspects, terms of art, order of the spheres, the colours, magnitudes, motions, solid proportions and distances of the seven planets from the earth ... / by Iames Corss ...
Author: Corss, James.
Publication: Edinburgh :: Printed by a society of Stationers,; 1662.
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Subject terms: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.; Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
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Proposition 1. To find the Suns Declination.

As the Radius is to the sine of the Suns greatest Decli∣nation, so is the fine of his distance from the next Equi∣noctial Point, to the sine of his Declination required, which is North if the Sun be in Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo and Virgo, and south when he is in Libra, Scorpio, Sagitary, Capricorn, Aquary and Pisces.