Demonstration of astrology, or, A brief discourse, proving the influence of the sun, moon, stars, over this terraqueous globe grounded on the fundamental rules of the Copernican system and philosophy, and verified by practical examples and experience : illustrated by diagrams : whereby the art is rendered almost mathematically demonstrable : to which is added, an astrological and philosophical appendix, or second part, treating of this summer's effects, both in the macrocosm as well as microcosm : wherein we have great cause to fear, that the sword, pestilence, and famine will annoy our European territories this ensuing summer / by William Hunt, a lover of the mathematics and natural philosophy.
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Demonstration of astrology, or, A brief discourse, proving the influence of the sun, moon, stars, over this terraqueous globe grounded on the fundamental rules of the Copernican system and philosophy, and verified by practical examples and experience : illustrated by diagrams : whereby the art is rendered almost mathematically demonstrable : to which is added, an astrological and philosophical appendix, or second part, treating of this summer's effects, both in the macrocosm as well as microcosm : wherein we have great cause to fear, that the sword, pestilence, and famine will annoy our European territories this ensuing summer / by William Hunt, a lover of the mathematics and natural philosophy.
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Hunt, William, lover of the mathematics and natural philosophy.
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London :: Printed for the Author ...,
1696.
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Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
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"Demonstration of astrology, or, A brief discourse, proving the influence of the sun, moon, stars, over this terraqueous globe grounded on the fundamental rules of the Copernican system and philosophy, and verified by practical examples and experience : illustrated by diagrams : whereby the art is rendered almost mathematically demonstrable : to which is added, an astrological and philosophical appendix, or second part, treating of this summer's effects, both in the macrocosm as well as microcosm : wherein we have great cause to fear, that the sword, pestilence, and famine will annoy our European territories this ensuing summer / by William Hunt, a lover of the mathematics and natural philosophy." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A45203.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.
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descriptionPage viii
To his Ingenious Friend Mr. William Hunt, on his Demonstration of Astrology.
ASTROLOGY on the old System groundedOf Ptolomy, like lofty Building foundedOn a Foundation ruinous, decay'd;Sunk in Repute, with Rubbish overlaid:
Till, like bold Hercules, advent'rous Man,To cleanse the Augean Stable you began,And build it new on Frame Copernican,
And Principles Cartesian, whose brightConjunction adds new Lustre to the Light:Whose Monarch from his Throne, how he dispenses,By Vice-Roy Planets, various Influences;And by the sevenfold Cord of th' Heavenly Ball,Tuneth each Change by Force Mechanical,Heat, Cold, Fruit, Famine, War, Peace, Life and Death,Whence come enlivening Blasts, whence poisonous Breath:Whence Meteors above, Earthquakes below,Their hidden Causes thou dost clearly show.Go on, till solidly thy Pen has givenThe Frame and Workings of the Fluid Heavens.Go on with Lucky Planets, till thou be,Within our Vortex the fam'd Mercury.Go on, these hidden Wonders to explain,Till greater than thy self none doth remain.
Ita Precatur Thom. Gery, Sid. S. Col. Alumnus.
Notes
N. B. The Reader is desired to take notice, that the third Diagram; (in Pag. 27.) is, by Mistake, turn'd to one side.