The mean motions of the Planets.
♄ 2 minutes, ♃ 5 minutes, ♂ 31 mi∣nutes, ☉ 59 minutes, ♀ 59 minutes, ☿ 59 minutes, ☽ 13 degrees.
Vox stellarum: or, the voyce of the stars being a brief and easie introduction to the knowledge of the number, names and characters of the planets and signs, aspects and anticions: the division of heaven, and how to erect a figure thereof, either by a table of houses or by a table of right and oblique ascentions: an exact and true description of the planets and signs, with the countries, cities or towns under them. Likewise, how to judge of the affairs of the world, by revolutions, eclipses, great conjunctions and blazing stars. Also, something touching the Popish Plot, and other remarkable affairs of the year, 1678. By William Knight, student in astrology and physick.
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- Vox stellarum: or, the voyce of the stars being a brief and easie introduction to the knowledge of the number, names and characters of the planets and signs, aspects and anticions: the division of heaven, and how to erect a figure thereof, either by a table of houses or by a table of right and oblique ascentions: an exact and true description of the planets and signs, with the countries, cities or towns under them. Likewise, how to judge of the affairs of the world, by revolutions, eclipses, great conjunctions and blazing stars. Also, something touching the Popish Plot, and other remarkable affairs of the year, 1678. By William Knight, student in astrology and physick.
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- Knight, William, fl. 1680-1699.
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- London :: printed by E.T. and R.H. for Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge,
- 1681.
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"Vox stellarum: or, the voyce of the stars being a brief and easie introduction to the knowledge of the number, names and characters of the planets and signs, aspects and anticions: the division of heaven, and how to erect a figure thereof, either by a table of houses or by a table of right and oblique ascentions: an exact and true description of the planets and signs, with the countries, cities or towns under them. Likewise, how to judge of the affairs of the world, by revolutions, eclipses, great conjunctions and blazing stars. Also, something touching the Popish Plot, and other remarkable affairs of the year, 1678. By William Knight, student in astrology and physick." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47548.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.
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♄ is near 30 years tracing through the 12 Signs, ♃ 12 years, ♂ 2 years, ☉ one year, ♀ one year, ☿ one year, ☽ almost a moneth, viz, she slips through them 13 times in a year.
The Magnitudes of the Planets, according to that Learned Astronomer Tycho Brahe.
- ♄ is bigger than the Earth 22 times.
- ♃ is bigger than the Earth 14 times.
- ♂ is less than the Earth 13 times.
- ☉ is bigger than the Earth 140 times.
- ♀ is less than the Earth 6 times.
- ☿ is less than the Earth 19 times.
- ☽ is less than the Earth 42 times.
The bigness or compass of the Globe or Ball of the Earth is 21600 English miles, from hence you may find how many miles each Planet is about; as for Example, the Moon which you see is the very least of all the Planets, will be found by this Rule near 500 miles round every way, which tells you the Heavens must be of a large Volumn, therefore considering this, toge∣ther with their Influences, with the Pro∣phetical King, you may say when we con∣sider the Heavens, ☉ ☽ and Stars, which God hath made, What is man that he is so mindful of him, &c.