CHAP. I. Containing Ptolomies method in judging Eclipses, and how to know the Regions to which the Effects belong.
AFter he had in the preceding Chapters declared the conditions and consti∣tutions of severall Nations of the World, and the occasion thereof from the nature of the Signs and Planets, he comes in the 4 Chapter to a more facil way of appropriating them unto the several signs of the Zodiack, the better to predict the most eminent accidents and casualties in all Nations, Kingdoms, and Re∣gions, &c.
* 1.1Wherefore herein there will be four things most worthy our consideration.
The first, The Places or Regions, Countreys, Kingdoms or Cities where the effects of any Eclipse will be manifest.
The second, The time when the Effects shall begin and how long continue.
The third, The kinds of the events.
The fourth, The quality of the events whither good or evill.
[unspec 1] Touching the first you have no more to do but thus; see what place of the Zodiack your Eclipse fals in, whither it be of the Sun or Moon, and what Cities, Countries, Kingdoms or Regions are subject to the sign wherein the Eclipse is, and such Cities that had the sign wherein the defect is, in the Horoscope or first House at the time of its first structure, or the place then of the Sun or Moon, and the places subject to the signs in Opposition and Square thereunto, you may say shall assuredly taste of its ef∣fects, as also such Regions wherein the Eclipse shall be visible; Kingdoms, Cities and Places subject to every sign of the Zodiack you have in the second Book.