Catastrophe mundi, or, Europe's many mutations until the year 1701 being an astrological treatise of the effects of the triple conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1682 and 1683, and of the comets 1680 and 1682, and other configurations concomitant : wherein the fate of Europe for these next 20 years is ... more than probably conjectured ... : also, an ephimeris [sic] of all the comets that have appeared from ... 1603 to the year 1682 ... : whereunto is annexed the hieroglyphicks of Nostrodamus ... / by John Holwell.
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- Catastrophe mundi, or, Europe's many mutations until the year 1701 being an astrological treatise of the effects of the triple conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1682 and 1683, and of the comets 1680 and 1682, and other configurations concomitant : wherein the fate of Europe for these next 20 years is ... more than probably conjectured ... : also, an ephimeris [sic] of all the comets that have appeared from ... 1603 to the year 1682 ... : whereunto is annexed the hieroglyphicks of Nostrodamus ... / by John Holwell.
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- Holwell, John, 1649-1686?
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- 1682.
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"Catastrophe mundi, or, Europe's many mutations until the year 1701 being an astrological treatise of the effects of the triple conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1682 and 1683, and of the comets 1680 and 1682, and other configurations concomitant : wherein the fate of Europe for these next 20 years is ... more than probably conjectured ... : also, an ephimeris [sic] of all the comets that have appeared from ... 1603 to the year 1682 ... : whereunto is annexed the hieroglyphicks of Nostrodamus ... / by John Holwell." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A44233.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.
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The Proeme.
IT hath been the Divine Will of the Creator, from the Foundation of the World, That all things below the Moon should be subject to Change, and that their Mutation should be govern'd by a Cause above them, which are the Coelestial Bodies, they being set in a due Order from their Creation, and do keep their Courses in the several Stations, without the least alteration, and by their se∣veral Motions, some moving swifter then others, by which means they come sometimes to be in Conjunction one with the other.
Saturn, the Highest of the 7 wandring Stars, and conse∣quently the slowest, is very near 30 Years a going through the 12 Signs: Next unto Saturn is Jupiter, and he is near 12 Years going through the 12 Signs; and Mars is next to Jupiter, and is near 2 Years a compleating his Revolution about the 12 Signs; the Sun being in the middle of the Ʋni∣verse, is a Year a going through the 12 Signs, or the Earth in his stead. Venus compleateth her Revolution in less than a Year; and Mercury is near a Year passing through the 12 Signs; the Moon finisheth her Course in about 28 days.
Among these 7 Wandring Stars, Saturn and Jupiter are the principle Subject of this ansuing Discourse; they being the higher, and come to a Conjunction one with the other, but once in Twenty Years; but Astrologers advise all those that would
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understand any thing relating to Mundane Affairs to consider divers other Motions: Viz.
- First, The Motion of the Aphelions of the Planets.
- Secondly, The several Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupi∣ter.
- Thirdly, New Stars that have lately appeard, or been with∣in a Hundred Years before.
- Fourthly, The several Comets that hath appeared in this last Age.
- Fifthly, The Eclipses of the Luminaries, and the several Revolutions for the Years then in being.
And from these Five several Causes any Artist may give a probable Conjection of what Mutations are approaching upon most parts of the Word.