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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Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.
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London :: printed by Matthew Street,
MDCXCVII. [1697]
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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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VIII. ELECTION, is of a Fleet of Merchant-Men, that Sailed out of the Downs, &c.
[illustration] astrological chart
A Fleet of Ships set sail from the Downs ☉ Sept. 10h, 7h. mane. 1671.
Under the above-said Position of Heaven, the good Ship called the Providence, with sixty or seventy Sail of Merchant-Men more, being then in the Downs, weighed Anchor for their intended Voyage. But, upon the Oppo∣sition of Saturn and Mars, just following, (those Planets having great Dignities in the Ascendant and Seventh An∣gle) were strangely separated one from the other, and un∣happily shattered and distressed by the badness of the weather; and the most of them, thereby suffered very great dammage and prejudice, several ways.
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Behold the effects of an Opposition of the Moon and Mercury from Angles, and Cardinal Signs! The rugged Influence thereof being aggravated and increased by the Opposition of Saturn and Mars.
It is not for nothing, that Astrologers have assigned an equal Government to Mercury with Saturn in the Airy Trigon. Had not Venus been in Trine of Saturn, and in Sextile of Mars and Jupiter; and that the Sun (though in the Twelfth Angle by Position) had ruled the hour, at the time they first set Sail, they might all have perished in the Ocean.
Thus we see, there may be Naumachies or Conflicts at Sea, without one Nation or Kingdom contending against another by the power of their Fleets.
And, Navies, as well as Persons, are preserved, and advantaged, by a little Armour in the right place.
These are Truths, yet fresh in every Man's memory, and easie to be contradicted, if I should but dare to im∣pose upon the World in my recording of them.
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