IV. NATIVITY, is of Sir William Petty's Double Bottom'd SHIP.
[illustration] astrological chart
Sir William Petty's Double-bottom'd Ship, Launched 1664
Astrologonaytis or, The astrological seaman directing merchants, mariners, &c. adventuring to sea, how (by God's blessing) to escape many dangers which commonly happen in the ocean. Unto which (by way of appendix) is added, A diary of the weather for XXI. years, very exactly observed in London: with sundry observations made thereon. By John Gadbury, student in physick and astrology.
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- Astrologonaytis or, The astrological seaman directing merchants, mariners, &c. adventuring to sea, how (by God's blessing) to escape many dangers which commonly happen in the ocean. Unto which (by way of appendix) is added, A diary of the weather for XXI. years, very exactly observed in London: with sundry observations made thereon. By John Gadbury, student in physick and astrology.
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"Astrologonaytis or, The astrological seaman directing merchants, mariners, &c. adventuring to sea, how (by God's blessing) to escape many dangers which commonly happen in the ocean. Unto which (by way of appendix) is added, A diary of the weather for XXI. years, very exactly observed in London: with sundry observations made thereon. By John Gadbury, student in physick and astrology." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A86001.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.
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In the Nativity of this curious, but uncouth Vessel, we find as well the Decanate as Terms of Saturn to as∣cend the Eastern Finitor; and the Pleiades, a violent tur∣bulent Costellation there. The Moon was in Opposition of Saturn and Mercury, and carrying their Light to the Sun, by the same unhappy Beam; and Venus Lady of the Ho∣roscope, is in Conjunction with Cauda Draconis, in Domo Saturni. All which, by Aphorisms the 4.6.17.18. before-mentioned, were dangerous, and denoted a short Life and a violent Death, to this neat built Vessel. And accordingly, notwithstanding the Rarity and Curiosity of her Contrivance, she was not suffered long to please the eyes of the World. For in, or about the middle of November 1665. viz. a Year and a Month from its first Launching, it was cast away in a violent Storm about Yarmouth-Road. — It is observable, That Saturn was then on the opposite Point of the Moon in the Nativity thereof. A Transit very dangerous indeed, because they are therein in Opposition Radically. — For Direction, the Moon you see was near the Opposite Points of Mercury and the Sun. And, I can tell you, that both in Men and Things, the Influence of Mercury is oftner felt than his Body is seen. And in this Nativity he may reasonable be esteemed an Enemy: Especially, as having the Sun and Saturn for his Co-partners.
Astrologers need not wonder that I do not trouble my self about the Alchocoden in his Geniture, any more than in the last mentioned one: It being, like unto that, a Na∣tivity of short Life.