Tycho Brahe “De Nova Stella”, parts of astrology, English version

Tycho’s Astrologyin
De Nova Stella
Tycho Brahe
Ken-ichi Kato (trans.)
December 2023_

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ASTROLOGICUM IUDICIUM DE EFFECTISSUS HUIUS NUPER NATAE STELLAE
ASTROLOGICAL JUDGMENT ON THE AFFAIRS OF THIS NEWLY BORN STARETSI de effectibus huius stllae aliquid certj constituere

ALTHOUGH it would be far beyond the aims of Astrology tolonge superet Astrologiae metas, & verisimile sit, Deum,establish something certain about the effects of this star, andmaius quippiam per hanc, mundo ostendere, quam

it is likely that God, through this, would show the world abeneficio vllius scientiae Physicae a quouis mortalium

greater presence than could be foretold by any mortal with thepraesciri possit :benefit of the knowledge of physics.

tamen breues coniecturas ab Astrologiae fontibus petitas

however, I will add short conjectures requested from thesubiungam, quatenus nonnulla huius artis beneficio

sources of Astrology, in so far as it is possible to predict some ofpraesciri possibile est, & mihi cognita pro temporis breuithem with the help of this art, and which I have learned for aoccasione in mentem veniunt:

short time come to mind:

nihil hac in parte derogantes Theologorum, vel aliorum

not derogating anything in this respect from the opinions of thequorumuis sententiae, nec nostras coniecturas pro Edictis

theologians or others, nor selling our conjectures for the Edicts

praetoriis aut oraculis vendentes.

of the praetoriums or oracles.

Verisimile est autem, quemadmodum huius stellae

It is probable, however, that the miracle of this star, above all

miraculum, prae omnibus, quae a mundj exordio factathat has been wrought since the beginning of the world, is thesunt, est rarissimum & maximum:

rarest and greatest:sic etiam rarissimos & maximos habituram hanc stellam

so this star will have the rarest and greatest effects.

effects.
Quapropter illam plus ostenti habere iudico, quam vlli

Wherefore I judge it to be more manifest than the meeting ofsuperiorum Planetarum congressus, etiam illj, quos vocant

all the higher planets, even those which are called the greatest:

maximos:or any luminary, any number of eclipses:

aut vllae luminarium quantaecumque eclipses:or any other, such as the meeting or configuration of the stars

vel vllae aliae, quouis modo stellarum in coelo congressus

in the sky.

aut configurationes.
Haec enim omnia, etsi magnas in hunc inferiorem

For all these things, even though they have great powers inmundum habeant potestates, vt indies veri experiuntur

this lower world, are experienced by the Artificers of truth:

Artifices:

however, because they occur more frequently, and in natural

tamen, quia crebrius fiunt, & naturali ordine, non tantas

order, it is not possible to have so many meanings as this newly

habere possibile est significationes, quantas haec recens

born star, which, apart from all the order of Nature, now firstnata stella, quae praeter omnem Naturae ordinem, nunc

existed in the heavens, and has greatly usurped all the otherprimum in coelo extitit, omnesque reliquas fixas, sua

fixed things, by its greatness and brightness of light.

magnitudine & luminis fulgore plurimum exuperat.
Qui vero & quales futuri sint huius stellae effectus,

But who and what will be the future effects of this star, it isadmodum difficile est ex Astrologiae fundamentis

very difficult to trace from the foundations of Astrology.

indagare.
Haec enim Ars, ex multiplici, & raro fallenti experientia,

For this Art, from a manifold and rarely misleadingsuas constituit Conclusiones, nec nisi semel, tempore

experience, established its Conclusions, and we read that it

Hipparchi factum esse legimus, quod noua in coelo

happened only once, in the time of Hipparchus, that a new starprodierit stella.

appeared in the sky.

Vnde ab experientia, iudicium hac in re petere, ambiguum

Hence, from experience, to ask for judgment in this matter ispeneque impossibile est.

ambiguous and almost impossible.

Verisimile tamen esse iudico, quod veluti circa Hipparchi

I judge it to be probable, however, that, as it were, about thetempora, qui floruit iuxta annum mundj 3840, antetime of Hipparchus, who flourished according to the year 3840,

Christumexnearly 125 years before Christ (as is gathered from theobseruationibus ab eo factis, & a Ptolomeo citatis colligitur)observations made by him, and quoted by Ptolemy), little bypaulatim post eius stellae apparitionem, quam obseruauit

little after the appearance of that star, which the said

didtus Hipparchus, mirabiles contigerunt, tum in populo

Hipparchus had observed, wonderful things happened , both

Dej, tum in vniuerso orbe habitabilj mutationes:in the people of Dej, and in the whole habitable world, changes:

ita hisce similiter temporibus, fatales ingruere periodos,

Thus, in these times, in the same way, there is no doubt that

non est dubium.

fatal periods will fall.

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annis

fere

125

(quemadmodum

In populo enim Dej, coepit lux verae doctrinae paulatim
deficere, & ab ingratis ludaeis negligi atque conculcarj.

For among the people of Dej, the light of true doctrine began
to fail little by little, and to be neglected and trampled upon byungrateful playmen.

Exortae sunt tum, Sectae illae tres, Pharisaeorum,

Then arose those three sects, the Pharisees, the Essenes, andEssaeorum & Saducaeorum. Concertabant inter se summj

the Sadducees. The supreme pontiffs conspired among

Pontifices, non largitionibus ac ambitione tantum, sed &themselves, not only by lavishness and ambition, but also bysanguine atque caede, pro aris & summo Pontificatu

blood and murder, in order to obtain the supreme pontificate,obtinendo, vt ex historia istius Iohannis apparet, qui a

as appears from the history of that John, who was slain by his

fratre, hac de caussa, in ipso templo occisus est.

brother, for this cause, in the very temple.

Paulo post, sceptrum etiam amisit Ianna Hyrcanus,

A little later, Janna Hyrcanus, the last of the tribe and house

vltimus ex tribu & domo Dauid:of David, also lost the scepter:& secutae sunt passim horrendae clades & funestae

and there followed here and there terrible and fatal calamities,

lanienae, ciuiles & externae, vsque dum gregem suum

civil and foreign, until, while his flock was small, and at thepusillum, tum temporis in oppido angustum redactum,

same time reduced to a narrow town, the leader of Bethlehem

Dux de Bethlehem ciuitate Iuda inuisit, & oriens ex altocame to the city of Judah, and rising from the high Star of

Stella Iacob, de qua Bileam vaticinatus erat, Lux vera toti

Jacob, about which Balaam had prophesied, a true light to all

orbi salutaris, illuxit:

saving the world, it dawned:

quam duce stella, Magi inuenerunt, & sublato postea

The Magi found that the star was their guide, and when theinterstitio, Iudaei pariter atque Gentes micantem

interval was removed, the Jews and the Gentiles alike saw itconspexerunt.

twinkling.

Circa haec etiam tempora, in Rebuspub passim magni

Around this time, too, great movements began to be madecoepere motus.

here and there in Rebuspub.

Graecorum Monarchia, crebris bellis, tam externis quam

The monarchy of the Greeks was undermined by frequentciuilibus labefactarj, & imperium Romanis indies magis

wars, both foreign and civil, and the empire of the Romans

magisque acrescere coepit, donec imperij fines Orbis inbegan to increase more and more, until the empire reached theVrbe forent :ends of the world in the world.

sic etiam hanc stellam, quae nostra aetate prodijt,

so also this star, which appeared in our age, the greatest

maximam Reipublicae mutationem, aliumque imperiorum

change in the Republic, and another state of empires and&kingdoms that followed some years before

regnorumstatumsequentibus

aliquotannis

praesignificare iudico:

I think it means:praesertim quia haec stella incidit in completam ferme

especially since this star falls in the complete phase of all the

periodum omnium Trigonorum totius zodiaci.

trines of the entire zodiac.

Nam post annos abhinc decem, congressus superiorum

For after ten years ago, the meeting of the superior planets, theplanetarum, prae coeteris maximus, in extremitate

greatest of the rest, at the extremity of Pisces, will put an end

Piscium, finem imponet Trigono aqueo, vnaque omnium

to the watery trine, and will close the circuit of all others (whichaliorum circuitum (qui vix octingentis annis absoluitur)is hardly absolved in eighty years), and the beginning of theclaudit, & nouum Trigonorum principium, ab Ariete, in

new trines will begin, from Aries, in the fiery triplicity.

ignea Triplicitate incipiet.
Quapropter haec recens nata stella, cum sequenti

For this reason this newly born star will conspire greatly with

Trigonorum nouo exordio plurimum conspirabit, idque

the following new beginning of the Trigons, and this especially

eam praesertim ob causam, quia locus stellae respectu

for the reason that the place of the star with respect to the poles

polorum mundi, in initium Arietis incidit, quo etiam in locoof the world falls on the beginning of Aries, in which place also

nouum Trigonorum exordium (vt dixi) celebrabitur.

the beginning of the new Trigons (vt dixi) will be celebrated.

Quantae igitur hinc portendantur Imperiorum &The experts in this art can easily understand how many

Monarchiarum, omniumque statuum per vniuersum

changes, therefore, are to be carried from this point on toorbem, immutationes, huius artis periti facile intelligunt.

empires and monarchies, and to all states throughout theworld.

Quod vero haec stella, quo ad polos mundi in principium

But this star, which falls at the poles of the world into theArietis, locum aequinoctialem, totiusque zodiaci nouum

beginning of Aries, the equinoctial place, and the newexordium, prope circulum, quem colurum aequinoctiorum

beginning of the whole zodiac, near the circle which they callvocant, incidat, post varios & graues tumultus variasquethe color of the equinoxes, after various and great tumults andomnium rerum in mundo immutationes, nouum quendam

various changes of all things in the world, a new kind and& diuersum a prioribus Monarchiarum statum, tum etiam

different from the former Monarchies state, and also of

Relligionis & Legum aliam administrationem portendere,

Religion and Laws to carry a different administration, it seems

ex loci ipsius insita vi & peculiari natura videtur.

from the innate power and peculiar nature of the place itself.

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Quantum vero ad ipsius stellae naturam attinet,

But as far as the nature of the star itself is concerned, sincequoniam ab initio, Iouis amicum lumen aemulabatur,from the beginning it rivaled Jupiter's friendly light, therefore

idcirco in initio etiam suorum effectuum, laeta & prospera

even at the beginning of its effects, it seems to guarantee allomnia spondere videtur, rerumque e terra crescentium &things happy and prosperous, and of things growing from the

vsibus humanis aptarum, vberem promittit copiam:earth and suitable for all human beings, it promises a richtum etiam animantium salubritatem, & aeris laetam

abundance:

amaenitatem, pacemque & concordiam.

and also the salubriousness of living beings, and the cheerfulpleasantness of the air, and peace and concord.

At quoniam, in medio, in rutilantem Martis feruorem

But since, in the middle, he has degenerated into the glowing

degenerauit, post haec laeta & auspicata initia,

ferocity of Mars, after these happy and auspicious beginnings,

subsecuturas minatur ingentes clades & calamitates,

great calamities and calamities threaten to follow, such as thequales Martis virulentum sidus, mundo peculiariter influit,

virulent star of Mars, especially flows into the world, viz. wars,

vt sunt bella, seditiones, captiuitates & mortes principum,

seditions, captivity and deaths of princes, kingdoms andregnorum&

depopulation , tyrannies, violence, injuries, fires, murders,violentiae,

iniuriae,

vrbiumdepopulationes,

incendia,tyrannides,

homicidia,

rapinae,robberies, robberies, and similar calamities.

latrocinia, & his affines calamitates.
In aere vero siccitates, flagrantes aestus, metheora ignita,

But in the air there are droughts, blazing heat, fiery meteors,atque hinc morbi pestiferi, & anhelantj veneno serpentes,

and hence pestilential diseases, and snakes gasping for poison,atque his fimilia.

and their kindred.

In fine vero, ex Saturnia natura, & lucida albedine,

In the end, however, from his Saturnian nature and brightportendit angustias, maerores, mortes, carceres, omniaquewhiteness, he carries distresses, sorrows, deaths, prisons, andinauspicata & funesta.

all things undesirable and fatal.

Quia vero momentum, quo haec stella primum

Because the moment at which this star first appeared

apparuit, sciri non potest, nec ex siderum positu, qui tunc

cannot be known, nor can a judgment be made from theerat, more Astrologorum, iudicium fieri :position of the stars, which was then, according to the mannerof the astrologers:tentabimus proximum quiddam, ex positu siderum, qui

we will try the next thing, from the position of the stars, which

temporeexisted at the time of Nouilunij immediately preceding theNouilunij

proximeantecedentis

stellaeapparitionem extitit:

appearance of the star:idque exemplo Halj commentatoris Ptolomej, qui idem inand this, according to the example of Halj the commentator

Cometa, cuius initium scirj non potuit, factitauit.

Ptolemy, who did the same in the Comet, whose beginning hecould not discern.

Sequitur igitur figura ccelj & siderum qualis fuit inThen follows the figure of the stars and stars as it was in

Nouilunio diei 5 Nouembris.

Nouilunio on the 5th of November.

Nam circa id tempus, vel non longe ante aut post, stellam

For about that time, or not far before or after, I think that theprimum apparuisse existimo.

star first appeared.

Nobis enim, vt ab initio testatus sum, primum die 11

For us, as I have witnessed from the beginning, it was observed

Nouembris conspecta est:

for the first time on the 11th of November:an vero aliquot prius diebus fulserit, quoniam in nostra

but whether it shone some days before, since in our region

Regione dies illj nubibus obductj, Siderum aspectum

those days were covered with clouds, and prevented the sightprohibebant, apud me incertum est:of the stars, I am uncertain.

non tamen vltra biduum vel triduum ad summum prius

I do not think, however, that it existed before two or three days

extitisse opinor.

at the most.

Dominatorem in hac coeli configuratione constituo

I place Mars as the ruler in this configuration of the sky.

Martem.
Is enim in loco luminarium Carpentum, in angulo sequente

For in the place of the luminary Carpentus, in the corner

Exaltationem, in Horoscopo insuper & coeli medio cardine

following the Exaltation, in the Horoscope, moreover, and in⚹ quoque aspectum existens, non longe ab angulo

in the reception of the houses, existing through the ⚹ aspect assequitur, remouetur:closely follows the conjunction of the luminaries:& ipsa stella, cum initio Arietis, eius domicilio & Carpento,

and the star itself, with the beginning of Aries, its home andMeridianum coelique culmen attingit.

Carpentus, reaches the summit of the Meridian and the

Triplicitatem obtinet, & cum ♄ in receptione domicilij, per
occidentis, qui proxime luminarium coniunctionem

the center of the sky, he obtains the Tripletness, and when ♄ iswell, he will be removed not far from the western corner, which

heavens.
Vnde tot concurrentibus causis, non dubium est, Martem

Whence, from so many concurrent causes, there is no doubt

in hac coeli figura praerogatiuas partes obtinere.

that Mars occupies a privileged part in this figure of the sky.

Adde quod omnes reliqui Planetae in ipsius domibus ♈

Add that all the rest of the Planets are to be found in his own

videlicet & ♏ reperiantur, excepta sola Venere, quae in
Libra, ipsi, quadrata radiatione associatur:houses ♈ & ♏, with the exception of Venus alone, which is
associated with square radiation in Libra itself:

ipse vero Capricornum propriam Exaltationem possidet.

but he himself possesses the exaltation proper to Capricorn.

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Cum igitur Mars, admodum potens in Dominio

When, then, Mars, very powerful in the Dominion of

Nouilunij hanc stellam praecedentis, & cum Arcturo stella,

Nouilunij, this previous star, and with Arcturus, the star, byde propria natura, admodum impetuosa, in eodem circulo

its own nature, very impetuous, kills in the same circle ofPositionis occidat, non longe a Lunae nodo, quem caudam

position, not far removed from the node of the Moon, which

Draconis vocant, remotus: plurimum ea significata

they call the tail of the Dragon: he intends most of thoseintendit, quae supra, ipsam stellam, ex propria natura,signifieds, which above, we have said that the star itself, fromquam Mauorti habet affinem, portendere diximus:

its own nature, which is akin to Mauorti:

vtpote tumultus, praelia, hostiles hominum insidias,

for tumults, battles, hostile plots of men, devastation andimperiorum & ciuitatum deuastationes ac depopulationes,

depopulation of empires and cities, and dry weather, andaerisque intemperiem siccam, & morbos venenatos ac

poisonous and pestilential diseases, and other similar evils

pestiferos, coeteraque his similia mala, quae Martis

which the fierce star Mars is wont to bring upon mortals.

feruens stella mortalibus inferre solet.

Quia vero Martis dominantis locus, incidit in sextam

But because the ruling place of Mars falls in the sixth house, it

domum, peculiariter videtur, noua & inusitata morborum

seems particularly to bring new and unusual kinds of diseases,

genera, & per vniuersas regiones grassantes aegritudines,

and illnesses that are rampant in various regions.

portendere.
…Quantum vero ad ipsius stllae positum attinet,... As far as the position of the statue itself is concerned, it isconsideratione dignum est:

worthy of consideration:

quod haec, tempore huius Nouilunij, in ipsum fere verticem

that this, at the time of this New Year, falls almost on the top

incidit, vnde in medio coelj & decima domo constituta,

itself, whence it is established in the middle of the church andpeculiarem super imperia, regna, & principatus, horumque

the tenth house, it has a special significance over empires,

administratores, Reges, Duces & Principes, aliosque in

kingdoms, and principalities, their administrators, Kings,

sublimi Reipublicae

Dukes, and Princes, and others placed in the sublime

administratione positos, habet

significationem.

administration of the Republic.

Cum illis autem praecipue consensum obtinet, quibus ♉

But he obtains agreement especially with those, with whom

signum in quo stella est, vel Aries cum quo culminat,the ♉ sign in which the star is, or Aries with which ithoroscopum mediumue coelj, aut loca luminarium cum

culminates, the horoscope medium and coelj, or the places ofnascerentur, obtinebat.

light when they were born, obtained…Regiones vero in quibus huius stellae effectus maxime... The regions in which the effects of this star will be mostsaeuient, erunt eae, quae ad Boream versus polum

intense will be those which are removed to Borea towards thearcticum remotae sunt.

Arctic Pole.

Illis enim haec stella per zenit capitis transit, cum in

For to them this star passes through the zenith of the head,

Meridiano supra polum exilo stit, idque praecise in locis

when it stands in the Meridian above the pole of exile, andaltitudinj polj 62 Graduum subiectis, vt sunt, medium

precisely in places subject to the altitude of the pole 62 degrees,

totiusthat is, the middle of the whole of Moscow, Livonia, Finland,

Moscouiae,

Liuonia,

Finlandia,

Suecia,&meridionalis Noruegiae pars.

Sweden, and the southern part of Norway.

Verisimile tamen est, effectus, etiam ad circumiacentes

It is likely, however, that the effect will also extend to theregiones se extensuros.

surrounding regions.

Nec immunes erunt hi populi, qui triangulo terreo

Nor will these peoples, who are subject to the terrible triangle,

subiacent:be immune:

eo quod longitudo stllae est in ♉, & ♂ dominj Nouilunij
praecedentis locus in ⵒ incidat, quae ambo signa, deTriangulo terreo sunt.

inasmuch as the longitude of the star is in ♉, & ♂ dominj
Nouilunij's preceding place falls in ⵒ, which are both signs, ofthe triangular triangle.

Sed vt vno verbo rem totam dicam:

But let me say the whole matter in one word:

quia huius stllae locus, respectu polorum mundi, in

because the place of this stella, with respect to the poles of theArietem cadit, super totam fere Europam significationes

world, falls in Aries, the meanings will be extended over almost

extendentur.

the whole of Europe.

Peculiariter vero illj homines, ab his communibus

Those men will be specially rebuked by these common

calamitatibus, quas stella portendit, corripientur, qui cum

calamities, which the star portends, who, when they were

nascerentur, in Genethliaca constitutione, horoscopi velborn, in their genetic constitution, had a horoscope or luminary

luminarium cum loco huius stllae, aut eius Dominj Martis,

in agreement with the place of this star, or its lord Mars.

habuere consensum.
Tempus autem effectuum, non in paucos aliquot annos

But the time of the effects will not end in a few years.

terminabitur:

but in the following it will be produced in the most numerous,

sed in sequentes plurimos producetur, eo quod rarissimum,by the fact that the most rare, the greatest, and beyond all the

maximum, & praeter omnem Naturae ordinem, huius

order of Nature, the miracle of this stella exists.

stllae existat miraculum.
Tunc vero maxime intendentur significata, quando cum

Then, however, the meanings will be most concentrated, wheneffectibus coniunctioms maximae superiorum Planetarum,

they are combined with the effects of the greatest conjunctionsquam dixi post decennium nouum Trigonorum exordiumof the higher planets, which I said would begin ten years after

inchoaturam, coniungentur.

the beginning of the new trines.

Atque haec, de nouae illius stellae effectibus, breuiter &generaliter annotare libuit.

And these things, concerning the effects of that new star,
he wished to note briefly and generally.

Licet autem non ignorem, ex hac ipsa, quamuis vulgari

Although I am not ignorant, from this very, however common

Astrologia, quaedam paulo specialius praedici posse:

Astrology, certain things can be predicted a little moretamen hoc loco tantum praecipua & maxime generalia

specifically:

dicenda iudicaui.

however, at this point I have judged only the most importantand most general things to be said.

In specie enim aliquid certi praedicere velle, nec sapientis

For in particular it is neither a wise nor a good astrologer to

nec boni est Astrologi, neque id satis tuto fieri posse

wish to foretell anything with certainty, nor do I think that thisarbitror.

can be done with sufficient certainty.

Intelligentibus huius Astrologiae secreta, satis dictum

For those who understand the secrets of this Astrology, I think

arbitror.

enough has been said.

Coeteris enim haec non scribimus, quemadmodum ab

For the rest we do not write these things, as I have testified

initio testatus sum.

from the beginning.

Tacebo interim ea, quae e verioribus & secretioribus

Meanwhile, I will be silent about those things which could be

quibusdam alterius Astrologiae fontibus, afferri possent.

brought from some more true and secret sources of other
Astrology.

Illa enim paucissimis cognita, & multis forte ob inscitiam

For she was known to very few, and to many she might beodiosa censeretur:considered odious because of ignorance:

imo per se talis ea est, vt nefas sit, eius Mysterianay, it is in itself such that it is wrong to harlot its Mysteries.

prostituere.

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INCLYTIS VTRIVSQVE ASTROLO-

GIAE ALVMNIS, VBICUNQUE LOCORUM, VNIUERSIS & SINGULIS, DOMINIS & AMICIS, PERPETUALAUDE DIGNISSIMIS, TYCHO BRAHE, DANUS,SALUTEM, & FAUENTEM PRECATUR VRANIAM.
TO ALL STUDENTS OF ASTROLOGY, IN EVERY PLACE, EVERYWHERE AND EVERYONE, TO MASTERS ANDFRIENDS, PERPETUALLY WORTHY OF PRAISE, TYCHO BRAHE, DANUS, HEALTH AND FAVOR IS ASKED FOR
URANIUM
UNIUERSUM hoc & amplissimum totius Machinae

This universal and vast theater of the whole worldly machine,

mundanae Theatrum, Viri inclyti, Coelos, Terram, Maria,

the famous men, the heavens, the earth, Mary, and what is& quae in his comprehenduntur, Solem, Lunam, Stellas,

included in these, the sun, moon, stars, animals, vegetables,

Animantia, Vegetabilia, & Mineralia, per Diuini numinis

and minerals, by the wisdom of the divine deity, not in himself,sapientiam, non in suimetipsius, sed hominis, quem suae

but in man, whom He rendered it conformable to his own

imagini conformem reddidit, commodum necessitatemque

image, that convenience and necessity had been created andcreata & instituta esse, nemo sapiens ire potest inficias.

instituted;

Deus enim, cum sit incorporeus, immensus, asternus,

For God, since he is incorporeal, immense, external,

incomprehensilibilis, vbique & nullibi, non indiget,

incomprehensible, everywhere and nowhere, does not need a

corporea, finita, temporanea, comprehensibili, & locali,

corporeal, finite, temporary, comprehensible, and local form ofMundi forma.

the world.

Sed hominem, Mundo, quo ad haec, consimilem, in terra,

But man, the world, to whom, similar to these things, on thecentro totius Vniuersitatis, propterea statuit, vt inde, quasi

earth, at the center of the whole universe, he therefore

ex specula, vniuersi orbis Naturam & constitutionem

established, that from there, as if through a mirror, the nature

contemplaretur:and constitution of the universe might be contemplated:eaque ratione Dei inuisibilis & incorporei, per visibilia &and by that reason the invisible and incorporeal God, throughcreata corpora, Maiestatem, Sapientiamque in hac mortali

visible and created bodies, would somehow recognize thevita quodammodo agnosceret.

Majesty and Wisdom in this mortal life.

Quapropter,postaeterni

Dei

Therefore, after the acknowledgment of the eternal andagnitionem, a semetipso, per Prophetas & Filium

inscrutable God, revealed to us by Himself, through theRedemptorem

Dei

Prophets and the Redeemer Son, and the spiritual worship ofspiritualem cultum, nihil magis homini necessarium, &God, nothing is more necessary for man, and to the end for

fini, propter quem constitutus est, magis conforme esse

which he was appointed, I judge that it should be moreiudico, quam perpetuo, in iucunda operum diuinorum,

conformable to the judgment than to be perpetual, in thequae in Mundi fabrica vndique elucent, consideratione

pleasantness of the divine works, which in the fabric of theversari.

world shine everywhere, to be focused on consideration.

Licet autem, vbique, tam in Elementari & inferiori, quam

It is true that everywhere, both in the elementary and lower,

superiori & coelesti Mundo, illustria extent diuini operis

as well as in the upper and heavenly worlds, there aremonumenta (nullum enim animal tam vile, nulla herba

illustrious monuments of the divine work (for no animal is so

tam exigua, nullum Metallum vel minerale tam abiectum,

vile, no plant so meager, no metal or mineral so rejected, except

quin singulare & euidens, Dei Opificis, in illis fingulis,

in the singular and evident, God the Worker, in (in thoseconspiciatur artificium) tamen, nullibi magis diuinae

moulders, let the artifice be seen) yet, I think nowhere are

nobis

&

imperscrutabilis

reuelatam,spiritualifquesapientiae testimonia, quam in superiori illa coelestis

more evidences of divine wisdom than in that superiormundi fabrica conspici existimo.

structure of the heavenly world.

Inferiora enim haec & sublunaria, exceptis hominum

For these inferior and sublunar things, except the souls of men,

Animabus, omnia, Dissolutioni & Alterationi obnoxia sunt:are subject to dissolution and alteration:

nec in illis, regularis & constans ordinis reperitur

nor in them is found the conformity of a regular and constantconformitas:

order:

Coelestia vero & supralunaria corpora, non solum

But the celestial body and the superlunar bodies, not only inmagnitudine, lumine, & forma, haec inferiora longe

size, light, and form, had far usurped these inferior ones:

exuperant:

but even with a kind of eternal and almost divine tenor, they

sed etiam aeterno quodam & diuino quasitenore, perpetuas

exercise the perpetual revolutions of their orbits, and do not

exercent suorum orbium reuolutiones, nec a sibi praefinita

deviate from the path predetermined by themselves, in any

via, vllam in partem, quicquam declinant, celeriusue aut

direction, in anything, faster or slower than what has beentardius quam constitutum est, motus sui periodos vnquamestablished, they never absolve the periods of their movement.

absoluunt.
Vnde, coelestium & supralunarium rerum cognitionem,Hence, I judge the knowledge of heavenly and superlunar

longe digniorem, harum inferiorum & terrenarum

things to be far more worthy than the contemplation of thesecontemplatione, iudico.

lower and earthly things.

Et nihil in hoc totius Mundi admirando opificio reperiri

And I think there is nothing to be found in this astonishingexistimo, quod magis hominem, exutum terrenis &work of the whole world, which can more affect a man, stripped

brutalibus curis, voluptate animi afficere, & in diuini

of earthly and brutal cares, with the pleasure of the soul, andnuminis admirationem ac cultum adducere possit, quam

lead to the admiration and worship of the divine deity, than toaethereae illius & coelestis Machinae harmoniam, sublimi

contemplate the harmony of that ethereal and heavenly

cogitatione animo versare.

Machine, with sublime thought.

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Cum vero ita hominum peruersitate comparatum sit, vt

But since it is thus compared with the perversity of men, thatquo excellentior Scientia aliqua existat, eo pauciores sui

the more excellent a science exists, the fewer its worshipers it

habeat cultores, eoque magis ab inscijs & indoctis

has, and the more it is despised by the ignorant andcontemnetur:

uneducated.

& quo difficilior ac fublimior, eo plus, ab ipsis cultoribus

And the more difficult and the worse it is, the more it will bedeprauata in abusum redigetur;

reduced to abuse by the worshipers themselves.

hinc faclo tum est, in hac etiam Diuina coelestis Mundi

hence it is that, in this also the Divine art of considering theconsideratrice Arte, quam Astronomiam appellarunt, vt

heavenly world, which they called Astronomy, it is not only

non solum a paucis excolatur, & ab imperito vulgo,

cultivated by a few, and is ridiculed by the ignorant common

multisque alias eruditis, derideatur:people, and by many who are otherwise educated:

sed etiam a propriis Artificibus & sectatoribus, perperam

but even by his own artists and followers, he will be treatedac indigne tractetur.

wrongly and unworthily.

Quid autem inscij & imperitum vulgus, quos propria

But what the ignorant and ignorant common people, whom

excusat ignorantia, de hac diuina Scientia iudicent,their own ignorance excuses, should judge of this divine

floccifaciendum, nec responsione dignum, arbitror.

Science, I think, is not worthy of an answer.

Hi enim, non artis vilitatem, sed propriam ostentant

For these show not the cheapness of art, but their own

inscitiam:

ignorance:

nec iudicium de Artibus, ex eorum opinione, qui eas

nor is a judgment about the arts to be established from theignorant, statuendum est.

opinion of those who do not know them.

Verum, quod haec excellens consideratio ccelestium

It is true that this excellent consideration of the heavenly

corporum, ab ipsis Artis cultoribus peruerse, nec ea, quabodies has been learned by the worshipers of the Art

par est diligentia, excolatur, non ferendum censeo.

themselves, and that it is not cultivated with equal care, I do
not think it should be borne in mind.

Multi enim, cum vix a limine diuinam Astronomiam

For many, when they have scarcely greeted the divine

salutauerint, se pro lummis Artificibus venditare non

Astronomy from the threshold, are not ashamed to sellerubescunt, hancque maxime (si quae alia) liberalem

themselves as mere Artificers, and lead this most (if anything

Scientiam, sui questus causa, deprauare, & negligenterelse) liberal Science, for their own gain, to disparage it, andexcolere, lucri & laudis loco ducunt.

neglect to cultivate it, instead of profit and praise.

Vt autem de ea Artis parte, quae motus & reuolutiones

But concerning that part of Art, which considers theorbium coelestium considerat (quae etsi a multis

movements and revolutions of the celestial spheres (which,excellentibus viris, summo & indefesso studio elaborata

although it has been elaborated by many excellent men, with

est:

great and tireless diligence:hactenus tamen exquisite & perfect a nullo inuenta) nihil

so far, however, exquisitely and perfectly found by no one) I will

hoc loco dicam:

say nothing in this place:altera sane, quae effectus & influentiam syderum, diuino

the other, of course, which examines the effect and influence of

potius quam humano ingenio scrutatur, Dij boni, quam

the stars, with divine rather than human intelligence, the God

indigne, quam negligenter, quam quesiuoso & turpi abusu,

of good, how unworthily, how negligently, how grudgingly andhodie, a plerisque tractatur.

basely abused, is treated by most people today.

Genethliaca enim consideratio, quas ex positu syderum

For the genethlic consideration, which depends on the position

pendet, hominem cum primum vitales imbibit auras,of the stars, when a man first imbibes the vital airs, receiving

excipiente, tota fere deprauata est, tota in abusum redacta,him, is almost entirely distorted, entirely reduced to abuse,

tota nulla experientia, vt par erat, sed futili authoritate

entirely without experience, as it was equal, but with a futile(quae, vt in aliis humanis cognitionibus:

authority (which, as in other human cognitions:

ita in Mathematicis, omnium minime locum habet) a suis

so in mathematics, it has the least place of all) practiced by his

cultoribus exercetur.

worshippers.

Metheorologica vero, quae coeli, in foecunda aeris regione,

Meteorology, on the other hand, which considers the various

varios foetus considerat, non solum non satis exculta est:

fetuses of the sky, in the fertile region of the air, is not only not

sed insuper etiam, ita hodie passim prostituitur, vt

sufficiently developed:

imperitum quoque vulgus non lateat, quam sint vani &but in addition, it is so prostituted today that the common

futiles annuorum Prognosticorum Artifices.

people do not hide how vain and futile are the Artificers of theannual Prognostics.

De harum vtriusque abusu & deprauatione, latius

Of the abuse and misrepresentation of both of these, we

aliquando disseruimus, in libello quem inscripsimus

discussed at length at some time, in the pamphlet which we

CONTRA ASTROLOGOS PRO ASTROLOGIA.

wrote AGAINST ASTROLOGERS FOR ASTROLOGY.

De posteriori vero, & Metheorologica, etsi nunc, perfecte

Of the latter truth, and Meteorological, even now, do not

omnia fundamenta, omnesque rationes non excutere:completely shake off all the foundations and all the reasons:tamen

nevertheless, I decided to set before my eyes the example thatexemplaraliis

insequendum(amicorum

follicitationibus impulsus) prae oculis ponere constitui.

others should follow (influenced by the persuasion of friends).

Quali autem ordine, & quibus rationibus, hunc laborem

But in what order, and by what reasons, I will complete thisabsoluerim, nunc commemorabo, vt melius nostri instituti

work, I will now mention, that the reason of our institution

percipiatur ratio.

may be better understood.

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Manifestum est, aeris qualitatem, post Luminarium

It is evident that the quality of the air, visible after theconfigurationes euidentes, sensibiliter alterari.

Luminarium configurations, is perceptibly altered.

Quapropter

Nouiluniorum,

Accordingly, at each moment, of the New Moons, Full Moons,

Pleniluniorum, & intermediarum Quadraturarum, coeli

and the intermediate Quadrature, placing the heavens and thesyderumque positus, ordinaui:stars, I ordered:& non solum ad haec:and not only to these:

sed etiam ad medias Quadraturas (quae octaua coeli partebut I also ventured to attempt the same at the mid-ad

singulamomenta,dissident) idem tentare ausus fui:quadratures (which differ by the eighth part of the sky):idque non solum, propria & mutiplici experientia, edoctus:

and not only that, he was taught by his own and many

sed , Veterum authoritate vna id comprobante, feci.

experiences:but, confirming this by the authority of the ancients, I did.

Testatur enim Plinius, naturalis Historiae libro secundo,

For Pliny testifies, in the second book of his Natural History,

Veteres, consideraffe quartam Lunam a Solis congressu, &the Ancients, that he considered the fourth Moon in

iuxta illam iudicium tulisse.

conjunction with the Sun, and according to it brought
judgment.

Ptolomaeus etiam asserit, ante tres fere dies, &Ptolemy also asserts that, before about three days, andnonnunquam post tres exaequati itineris Lunaris ad

sometimes after three equals of the Moon's journey to the Sun,

Solem, omnium tempestatum significationes existerethe meanings of all weathers usually exist.

solere.
Quae tempora, incidunt in configurationis Octogonicas

These times fall within the octagonal configuration.

loca.
Adde, quod veteres Astrologi, Lunae configurationes &In addition, the ancient astrologers determined that the

habitus, tunc praesertim considerandas esse statuerunt,configurations and habits of the Moon should be considered

quando Luna esset in Athacir, quo nomine, interualla

especially when the Moon was in Athacir, by which name theyipsius a Sole octogonica significabant:signified its octagonal intervals from the Sun:vt nihil dicam de Crisium Indicatione in morbis

for I shall say nothing of the Indication of the Crisis to beanimaduertenda, quae etiam dimidias quadraturas

observed in diseases, which also observes the half-quadratures

beneficio motus Lunaris obseruat.

with the benefit of the Lunar movement.

Et quamuis, quidam Medici, alias rationes Crisium, quam

And although some of the Medici determine other reasons for

ex Lunae transitu statuant, ab inferiori videhcet ipsius

the Crises than from the transit of the Moon, the Astronomy ofMicrocosmi Astronomia:

the Microcosm itself can be seen from below:

tamen non dubium est, hanc, cum superiori consensum

yet there is no doubt that this has an agreement with thehabere.

superior.

Tempora autem harum Solis & Lunae octogonicarum

But the times of these octagonal configurations of the Sun

configurationum, non ex vsitatis coelestium motuum

and the Moon, we have not borrowed from the regularity of the

Tabulis, siue Alphonsinis, siue Copernianis, aut vllis aliis,

celestial motions of the Tables, either of Alphonsus, or of

mutuati sumus:

Copernicus, or any other:sed per proprias, in vtriusque Luminaris cursu, aliquot

but through our own observations, made in the course of bothpraecedentibus

Luminaris, some previous years, we corrected them:annis,

factasobseruationes,

illa

emendauimus:

for I have no doubt that the times of the luminaries of thevt non dubitem, tempora Zysigiarum luminarium, a nobis

Zysiges, assigned by us, will be closer to the truth of theassignata, propius ad veritatem coelestis normae,

heavenly norms, than those which are sought from the Tablets

accessura, quam ea, quae ex Tabulis vel Ephemeridibusor the Journals in any way.

quibusue petuntur.
Quam enim sensibiliter, haec, a scopo aberrent, ostendunt

For how sensibly these things, straying from their aim, show

Eclipsium (vt de coeteris taceam) obseruationes, suisthe eclipse (not to mention the rest) by observations not exactly

calculis non exacte correspondentes.

corresponding to their calculations.

Quemadmodum nos CATALOGO OBSERVATIONUM

In the same way, we will at some time make manifest the

COELESTIUM, per integrum decennium elapsum,

CATALOG OF CELESTIAL OBSERVATIONS, during thefactarum,

entire decade that has passed, made, and (if it so pleases God)&

inposterum

(si

Deo

ita

placuerit)continuendarum, aliquando manifestabimus:

to be continued:& non solum in motu luminarium:and not only in the motion of the luminary:inerrantiumque

but also of the rest of the wandering and errant stars,

stellarum, Martis praesertim & Mercurij, multum adhuc

sed

etiam

reliquarum

errantium

especially Mars and Mercury, we will still show a great deal oflatere scrupuli, ostendemus.

scruples on the side.

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Ad haec autem tempora Nouiluniorum, Pleniluniorum,

And for these times we have determined the positions of& Quadraturarum, integrarum, mediarumque, coeli &the New Moons, Full Moons, and Quadratures, wholes, andstellarum positum defignauimus:

middles, of the heavens, and of the stars:

non per duodenariam ccelestis Machinae distributionem,

not by the twelve-denary distribution of the heavenly machine,

vt communiter fieri solet:

as is commonly done:

sedvelutioctogenariamluminarium

in

Zodiacobut as an octogenarian luminary in the Zodiac we have decided

configurationem perpendendam duximus:

to consider the configuration:

ita etiam singulis hisce Zysigijs, octogenariam totius cceli

so also it was considered a meritorious act to attribute to eachdiuisionem attribuere, operepraecium visum fuit:of these Zysigius the octogenarian division of the whole ccele.

idque ea ratione absoluimus, vt singuli coeli quadrantes,

and we absolved this by that reason, that each of the four

Meridiano & Horizonte intercepti, non trifariam, sed

quadrants of the sky, intercepted by the Meridian and thebifariam, secarentur.

Horizon, would intersect not threefold, but twofold.

Rationes autem huius diuisionis octogonicae, habemus

Now we have the most extensive reasons for this octagonal

amplissimas:

division:

inter

quas,

praeterquam

quod

loca

media

inter

among which, besides the fact that the middle places between

Horizontem, & Meridianum, post horum circulorum

the Horizon and the Meridian, after the limits of these circles,

limites, sint maximi roboris (dimidium enim angulum

are of the greatest strength (for they form half a right angle inrectum in centro Vniuersi efficiunt) quotidianus insuperthe center of the Universe), moreover, the daily influx and ebb

Oceani affluxus & refluxus, etiam non obscure testatur,of the Ocean, is also not obscurely witnessed, in the places

locis, Meridiano Horizontique intermedijs, multum inesse

between the Meridian and the Horizon, much to be effective.

efficacias.
Cum enim Luna, motu primi mobilis, eo quotidie

For when the Moon, by the motion of the first mobile, reaches

peruenerit, Oceanus statum suum obseruare solet.

it every day, the ocean usually observes its position.

Quamuis non ignorem, alios, alias causas huius reciproci

Although I am not ignorant of establishing other, other causes

maris fluxus, constituere, idque ex inferiori natura &of this reciprocal flow of the sea, and that from the lower natureelementari Astronomia:

and elementary Astronomy:eas tamen, cum superioribus, quibus omnia inferiora

I have no doubt, however, that they are in agreement with theparent, consensum habere ( vt supra quoque in Crisium

superiors, to whom all the inferiors are born (as I have alsomentione testatus sum) mihi dubium non est.

testified above in the mention of the Crisis).

Modum vero huius diuisionis octogonicae, non per

But the mode of this octagonal division, not by the Zodiac, as

Zodiacum, vt plerique Arabes, a suis polis:

most Arabs do, from their poles:

nec per Aequatorem a propriis polis, vt Albategnius:

nor through the Equator from the proper poles, as

nec

Albategnius:pereundemAequatoremabintersectionibus

Horizontis & Meridiani, vt nostra aetate Regiomontanus

nor did we proceed through the same Equator from thefactitauit, exequuti sumus:

intersections of the Horizon and the Meridian, as thesed veluti totum coelum hac in reconsiderandum venit, sic

Regiomontanus did in our age:etiam diuisionem toti coelo aequaliter & conformiterbut as the whole heaven comes to be reconsidered here, so also

competentem, instituimus, nulla habita ratione Zodiaci vel

we establish a division equally and conformably competent to

Aequatoris, tanquam imaginariorum, in coeli rotunditate,

the whole heaven, without taking into account the Zodiac or

circulorum.

the Equator, as imaginary, in the roundness of the heavens,
circles.

Absoluimus autem hanc diuisionem, per duos circulos in

Now we complete this division, by means of the two largest

sphaera maximos, mutuis Horizontis & Meridianicircles in the sphere, the mutual sections of the Horizon andsectionibus, inuicem ad angulos rectos, coincidentes, &the Meridian, in turn at right angles, coinciding, and thespacia coeli, eidem Horizonti Meridianoque intercepta,

spaces of the sky, intercepted by the same Horizon and thebifariam, in interualla aequalia diuidentes.

Meridian, bifurcate, dividing into equal intervals.

Similem quoque in duodenaria coeli distributione

Let us also observe a similar system in the twelvefold

obseruamus rationem, nisi quod hic, dicta spacia Horizonti

distribution of the sky, except that here, the said spaces

Meridianoque interiecta, non bifariam, sed trifariam,between the Horizon and the Meridian, it is necessary toaequaliter, per similes circulos intersectioni mutuae

establish a division, not bipartite, but tripartite, equally,

Horizontis

through similar circles coinciding with the mutual intersection

Meridianiqueinstituere oporteat.

coincidentes,

diuisionemof the Horizon and the Meridian.

De toto autem hoc negotio firmas & sufficientes

And concerning this whole matter we have brought forth firm

Demonstrationes attulimus, in tractatu, quem DE VARIIS

and sufficient Demonstrations, in the Treatise, which we wrote

ASTROLOGORVM IN COELESTIVM DOMORVM

ON THE DIVISION OF VARIOUS ASTROLOGORS IN THE

DIVISIONE,CELESTIAL

OPINIONIBVS,EARVMQVEINSVFFICIENTIA inscripsimus:
vbi

firmissimis

rationibus

HOUSES,OPINIONIBVS,EARVMQVEINSUFFICIENCY:

demonstrauimus,

coeli

by which we have shown by the most solid reasonings, that thediuisionem, tam per zodiacum modo aequali, quam perdivision of the heavens, both by the zodiac in an equal manner,

Aequatorem, siue Albategnij siue Regiomontani via, quamand by the Equator, either by the way of the Albategni or of thevocauit Rationalem, Mathematicae harmoniae consonam,

Regiomontani, which he called the Rational, is not in the least

minime esse:

consonant with the harmony of mathematics:

aliamque, sufficientibus rationibus & multa experientia

and another, established by sufficient reasoning and muchstabilitam, in harum locum restituimus, supputatis etiam

experience, we restore in their place, supposing also the

Tabulis, quarum beneficio, executioni numeratorise, hoc

Tables, with whose favor, the execution of the numerator, thisnegotium mandari possit.

task can be ordered.

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Infra has octogonicarum zysigiarum coeli figuras,
breuem&succinctam

singularum

figurarum,

Below these figures of the octagonal zysygies of the sky,
we have subjoined a brief and concise astrologicalAstrologicam considerationem, subiunximus.

consideration of the individual figures.

Et primo, dominantes stellas, quae videlicet, plurimas

And first, we noted the dominant stars, which obviously holdpraerogatiuas in loco Luminarium, & angulo sequente,

the most prerogatives in the position of the Luminary, and intum etiam Horoscopo, obtinent, annotauimus:

the following angle, as well as in the Horoscope:has, vno nomine, more Arabum, Almuten appellamus.

We call these by one name, after the Arab fashion, Almuten.

Adiunximus etiam Dominum horae inaequalis:

We have also added to the Lord of unequal hours:

eo quod veteres Astrologi, plurimum tribuebant dominis

because the ancient astrologers attributed a great deal to thehorarum, adeo, vt dierum denominationem ab illis mutuarilords of the hours, so much so that they did not hesitate tonon dubitarint.

borrow the denomination of days from them.

Sed dimensiones illarum horarum, non vulgari ratione

But the dimensions of those hours have not been worked out(quae diei artificialis duodecimam portionem vni horaeby the common method (which gives the artificial day thetribuit) exequuti sumus:

twelfth portion of one hour): for this method is founded on

hic enim modus, friuolis rationibus fundatur, parumquefrivolous reasonings, and accords with little experience:experientiae consonat:

but by a more precise way and by a particular method, having

sed subtiliori quadam via & peculiari Methodo, hanc

attacked this division, we rendered even the individual hours

diuisionem aggressi, singulas etiam horas, eiusdem diei,of the same day, successively collated, unequal.

inuicem collatas, reddidimus inaequales.
Atque haec diuisio, & firmioribus rationibus, & maiori

And this division is based on firmer reasonings and greater

experientia fundatur, quam prior, & vulgaris horarum

experience than the previous and popular unequal distribution

inaequahum distributio:of hours:

vt in tractatu nostro, De horis zodiaci inaequalihus, quas

For in our treatise, we have amply demonstrated the unequal

Planetarias vocant, abunde demonstrauimus:

hours of the zodiac, which are called Planetary:adiunctis insuper Tabulis, ex quibus singularum horarum

Tables are also attached, from which the quantity of individual

quantitas, per omnes totius anni dies, facile depromi, &hours, for all the days of the whole year, may be easily

negotium hoc numeris absolui possit.

calculated, and this task may be accomplished by numbers.

Post Planetas, figurae ipsius & horae Almuten existentes,

After the Planets, the figures of Almuten, and the hours ofascripsi etiam, cum quibus fixis, ☾, tempore eius Zysigiae
commoratur, & quorum Planetarum naturam illae
referant:
vnaque adiunxi defluxus & applicationes ☾:Almuten, I have also written, with which fixed, ☾, in his time
Zysigia resides, and the nature of which Planets they refer to:I have attached all the leaks & applications ☾:from which indeed the Planet recedes, and to which ita quo videlicet Planeta recedat, & cui proxime accedat, siue

approaches nearest, either in body or in any othercorpore, siue quauis configuratione alia.

configuration.

Demum, & mansiones Lunares, etsi a quibusdam

Finally, and the Lunar mansions, though rejected by some, yetrepudiatas, tamen non negligendas duxi:

I brought them not to be neglected:

eo quod omnes veteres Astrologi, mansiones Lunae, quas

because all the ancient astrologers always made great the28, ex diebus suae reuolutionis siatuerunt, magni semper

mansions of the Moon, which they occupied from the 28th day

fecerunt.

of their revolution.

Sed initium harum mansionum, non a 20 ♈ deduximus, vt

But we have not deduced the beginning of these periods from

communiter modernis Astrologis mos est:

20 ♈, as is generally the custom of modern Astrologers:

sed ab ipsa prima stella asterismi Arietis, a qua prima

but from the very first star of the asterism Aries, from which

mansio nomen habet, quae ab aequinoctio verno hoc anno

the first mansion takes its name, which will be removed fromremouetur 27 P 5/6, exordium coeterarum Mansionum

the spring equinox this year, 27 P 5/6, we establish theinstituimus.

beginning of the other Mansions.

Falluntur enim moderni Astrologi, qui vtuntur iisdem

For the modern astrologers are mistaken, who follow the same

hmitibus Mansionum, quibus Veteres, quorum tempore,rules of the mansions as the ancients, in whose time the firstprima stella Arietis, fuit in 20 fere gradu Arietis:star of Aries was at about the 20th degree of Aries:

at nunc, ob Aequinoctij praecessionem, nostra aetate, octo

but now, owing to the precession of the Equinoxes, in our age,fere gradibus ab initio Arietis nonae sphaerae remotior.

it is nearly eight degrees removed from the beginning of theninth sphere of Aries.

Postremo, ex his, breuem coniecturam, de aeris siatu, illi

Finally, from these, I have attached a short conjecture, about

Zysigiae competentem, subiunxi.

the brass siatus, which was competent to that of Zysigia.

Atque hactenus octogonicarum figurarum rationem,

And so far I think that the account of the octagonal figures, andeorumque quae his infra scripta sunt, satis explicatam esse

what is written below them, has been sufficiently explained.

arbitror.
Praemisimus
octogonicarum

autem

his,

configurationum

coeh,
Solis

ad

temporaNow we have preceded these, to the times of the octagonal

&

Lunae

configurations of the Sun and the Moon, with the octagonal

octogonarijs & aequalibus constitutionibus, figuras octo:

and equal constitutions, the eight figures:in quibus, positus coeli & syderum, ad tempora

in which, placing the heavens and the stars, we designated theSolstitiorum & Aequinoctiorum, item Nouiluniorum veltimes of the solstices and equinoxes, as well as the new moons
or full moons, immediately preceding these:

Pleniluniorum,

hasc

immediate

antecedentium,that the general state of the fourth year may be known fromdesignauimus:

these:

vt generalis Quartarum anni, ex his, status cognosci possit:

and in this part we retained the duodenary division:diuisionemque hac in parte retinuimus duodenariam:but it was instituted in the manner in which I said before that

sed ea ratione institutam, qua fieri oportere prius dixi.

it should be done.

Momenta vero temporum, cum Sol cardinalia puncta

But the moments of the seasons, when the Sun enters theingreditur, per nostras, in motu Solis obseruationes, etiam

cardinal points, we have also corrected by our observations oncorreximus.

the motion of the Sun.

Adeo quod non dubitauerim, Solstitium Hybernum,

So much so that I had no doubt that the Hibernian solstice,

Alphonsina supputatione decem ferme horis serius,according to Alphonsina's calculation, would be nearly ten

Prutenica vero, ad quintam vsque horam citius consittuere.

hours later, but that of the Prutines, would set at the fifth houror sooner.

Aequinoctium autem Vernum, nobis, Alphonsinam

But the vernal equinox, for us, exceeds the Alphonsine system

rationem ad dimidium ferme diem, excedit:by half a firm day:cum Prutenicam, septem horis anteuertat:with Prutenica, seven hours ahead:

Solstitium Aestiuum, plus quatuor horis vltra priorem

At the summer solstice, more than four hours later, we

Alphonsi calculum produximus:

produced Alphonse's previous calculus:

at Prutenicis Tabulis, duas ferme horas, detraximus.

at the Prutenic Tables, we took nearly two hours.

Aequinoctium demum Autumnale, Alphonsinis Tabulis

Finally, the autumnal equinox, Alphonsini's Tables six hours

sesquiahera hora vlterius:

later:

Prutenicis vero, dimidia circiter hora prius, constituendum

As for Prutenici, about half an hour before, we decided to set

iudicauimus.

up.

Horarum

minutias,inhis

differentijs

consulto

I deliberately pass over the details of the hours in these

praetermitto.

differences.

Vtinam enim eo vsque cursus solaris certitudo nobis

For if only the certainty of the course of the sun were known tocognita esset, vt vel in horis, certi esse possemus:

us by that time, even in hours, we could be sure:de minutijs certe non multum altercaremur.

We would certainly not argue much about the minutiae.

Quamuisvero, admodum sit difficile, imo pene impossibile,

However, it is very difficult, nay, almost impossible, to have theSolaris cursus normam adeo exquisite & scrupulose

course of the Sun so accurately and scrupulously known, thatcognitam habere, vt inde minutum temporis, quo aliquodfrom it the minute of time at which any point of the Zodiac

Zodiaci punctum ingreditur, sciri possit (Sol enim, etiam

enters can be known instrument, or the greatest, to be noticed)

velocissimus, spacio vnius horae, vix tria minuta absoluit,

I trust, however, that the times of the Solstices and Equinoxes

nullo instrumento, vel maximo, animaduertenda) tamen

observed by us, correspond more closely to the motion of theconfido, tempora Solstitiorum & Aequinoctiorum a nobis

Sun, than those which are generally sought from Tables orannotata, propius motui Solis correspondere, quam ea,

Journals.

quae communiter, ex Tabulis vel Ephemeridibus petuntur.

Nec iudicium figurarum illarum, tam ex cardinum coeli &Nor do we establish the judgment of those figures, both fromprimi mobilis constitutione, quam ex proprijs Planetarum

the hinges of the heavens and the constitution of the firstlocis & configurationibus, instituimus:

mover, and from the proper positions and configurations of theadmoniti ex dubio illo Aequinoctiorum Solstitiorumqueplanets:

tempore.

admonished from doubt at that time of the Equinoxes andSolstices.

Interim tamen, non desunt aliqui, summo risu excipiendi,

In the mean time, however, there are not lacking some, to bequi audent vsque ad scrupula prima, secunda, & tertia, &received with the utmost laughter, who dare to flaunt the first,

plus si velles, haec momenta iactare :second, and third scruples, and more, if you wish, thesecum saepe ad dimidium diem (si coelum introspicere

moments:

scirent) se aberrare cernerent.

when often for half a day (if they knew how to look into the sky)they saw that they were going astray.

Imo vero, nonnulli, congressus superiorum Planetarum,

Nay, indeed, some are not ashamed to predetermine theSaturni quidem & Iouis, in horas scrupulo praefinire, & exmeeting of the superior planets, indeed of Saturn and Jupiter,constitutione coeli, quae tunc est, de multis annis futuris,in hours scrupulously, and from the constitution of theiudicium ferre non erubescunt:heavens, which is then, to pass judgment on many years tocum calculus Alphonsinus in postrema, Saturni & Iouis,come.

magna coniunctione, per integrum mensem aberrauerit:when the calculation of Alphonsinus in the latter, by the great

Prutenicus, qui in horum motu est exactior, coeloqueconjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, went astray for a whole

propior, vix diem, nedum horam vel scrupulum attigit, vt

month:

diligenti obseruatione anno 1563. didicimus.

Prutenicus, who is more exact in his movement than these,and nearer to heaven, scarcely reached a day, let alone an houror a scruple, as we learned by careful observation in the year1563.

O audaces Astronomos.

O bold Astronomers.

O exquisitos & subtiles calculatores, qui Astronomiam in

O exquisite and subtle calculators, who practice Astronomy in

Tugurijs & popinis, vel post fornacem, in libris & chartis,

huts and restaurants, or behind the stove, in books and papers,

non in ipso coelo (quod par erat) exercent.

not in the sky itself (which was equal).

Plerique enim ipsa sidera (pudet dicere) ignorant.

For most people (he is ashamed to say) do not know the stars
themselves.

Sic itur ad astra.

So we go to the stars.

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Post

coeli

octogonicarum&siderumSolis&positus,

Lunae

competentes,

subiunximus

Plenilunij,

intermediarumquetemporibus

Placed after the heavens and the stars, competent at theconfigurationum

times of the octagonal configurations of the Sun and the Moon,

Ascendentis,

Nouilunij,

Quadraturarum,

we have joined the Ascendants, the New Moons, the Fullad

Moons, and the intermediate Quadratures, to the following

sequentia Planetarum loca, Aspectus, & Antiscias, nec nonplaces of the Planets, Aspects, and Antiquities, and also to

ad praecipua quaedam fixa sidera, Directiones:

certain principal fixed stars, Directions:vt diurnae tempestatum alterationes, hinc praesciri

for example, the daily changes of the weather could bepossent.

predicted from here.

Directiones enim, quantum in Astrologia habeant

For directions, as much weight as they have in Astrology, andponderis, quamque sint totius artis nucleus, neminem in ea

as they are the nucleus of the whole art, I think that no one

Mathematum parte versatum, ignorare arbitror.

engaged in that part of mathematics is ignorant.

Quemadmodum vero in Genethliacis praedictionibus,

Just as in Genethlia's predictions, the measurement of

Directionum mensura ita fieri solet, vt quantus sit motus

directions is usually done in such a way that the daily

Solis diurnus (qui fere semper vnum gradum attingit)

movement of the Sun (which almost always reaches one

tantum spacium de Aequatore, vni anno tribuatur:degree) is given only one space from the Equator in one year:

ita nos, hic, non quidem per Solem, sed ex Lunae motu

thus we, here, not indeed through the Sun, but from thediurno, arcum Aequatoris vni diei competentem, mutuati

diurnal motion of the Moon, the arc of the Equator competentsumus:

for one day:idque non iuxta aequalem & simphcem Lunae cursum, sed

and this not according to the equal and simple course of theverum, & singulis diebus diuersum ac inaequalem, vt

Moon, but true, and different and unequal each day, that is,etiam inaequalia, alijs atque alijs diebus oriantur

even unequal, on other days and on other days the intervals of

Aequatoris interualla.

the Equator rise.

In Directionibus enim, siue tempora ex motu Solis, siue

For in the Directions, whether we measure the times from the

Lunae, aut etiam reliquorum Planetarum metiamur,

motion of the Sun, or of the Moon, or even of the rest of theeorum verus motus & inaequalis, non simplex ille, abPlanets, their true and unequal motions, not that simple one,

Artificibus tantum, vt verus innotesceret, excogitatus,

must be observed only by the Artificers, as if they were known,obseruandus est.

contrived, and true.

His praemissis, ad singulos mensium dies, Solis ortum &With these preliminaries, for each day of the month, we notedoccasum, coorientesque & cooccidentes fixas, siue

the rising and setting of the sun, and the east and west fixed,

matutino, siue vespertino, ortu & occasu, annotauimus.

whether in the morning or in the evening, rising and setting.

Nec Planetarum & quarundam praecipuarum fixarum

Nor have we omitted the rising and setting of the Heliacos ofortus & occasus Heliacos praetermisimus:

the Planets and of some of the principal fixed points:

cum videlicet radios Solares ingressuri, quasi emori, vel abwhen, indeed, the solar rays are about to enter, they are seen,

his liberati, mundo denuo nasci, conspiciuntur.

as it were, to die, or, freed from them, to be born anew into theworld.

Arcus autem apparitionum & occultationum stellarum, ex

And the arc of the apparitions and concealments of the stars,

Ptolomaeo mutuati sumus.

we have borrowed from Ptolemy.

Quamuis non ignorem, hos, non satis certos esse, nec in

Although I am not ignorant of the fact that these are not quite

omnibus eiusdem etiam magnitudinis stellis locum habere,certain, nor that they have a place in all stars even of the same

propter variam earum ab Ecliptica remotionem, & insiti

magnitude, on account of their varying removal from theluminis diuersam capacitatem:

Ecliptic, and of the different capacity of the internal light:

noluimus tamen a Veterum sententia hac in parte

We do not, however, want to depart from the opinion of therecedere, cum ipsimet nihil certi per obseruationes hic

ancients in this respect, since we ourselves have found nothingcompertum habeamus.

certain by observation here.

Spero autem ortus & occasus heliacos stellarum, a nobis

I hope, however, that the rising and setting of the heliacal

assignatos, si non in ipsum diem, saltem, non diu ante velstars, assigned by us, will fall, if not on the day itself, at leastpost, incidere.

not long before or after.

Lunae quoque, ad singulos dies, ortus & occasus,

He did not hesitate to observe the rising and setting of thepraecipuasque fixas cum illa orientes & occidentes, nonmoon, and the rising and setting of the moon for each day, andpiguit annotare.

the principal fixed points with it, rising and setting.

Quae res non caruit molesto laboris taedio.

This matter was not wanting in the tediousness of labor.

Luna enim, ob triplicem in ortu & occasu insiabilitatem, ex

For the moon, because of its threefold instabilities in rising andmotu videlicet proprio inaequali longitudinis, & inaequalisetting, from its own motion of unequal length, and unequal as

quo ad latitudinem, diuersorumque eiusdem etiamto latitude, and of the various arcs of the Zodiac of the same

quantitatis Zodiaci arcuum, diuersa ascensione &size, with different ascent and descent, prognathized, renders

descensione, prognatam, tempora ortuum & occasuum

the times of rising and setting unequal, and a laborious

reddit inaequalia, & inquisitione laboriosa.

inquiry.

Nolui tamen hac in parte, ob laboris difficultatem, operam

However, I did not want to refuse to work in this part because

denegare.

of the difficulty of the work.

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Consentaneum enim est, quod veluti ortus & occasus

For it is consistent that the rising and setting of the stars,

stellarum cum Sole & reliquis Planetis, plurimum in

together with the sun and the rest of the planets, have a great

varianda aeris temperie, habent potestatis:

power in varying the temperature of the air:sic etiam earundem cum Luna ascensus & descensus, non

so also the same as the rising and setting of the Moon, do notcarere euidenti effectu.

fail to have an evident effect.

Luna enim Elementari mundo proxima, plurimum prae

For the moon, which is nearest to the elementary world, hascoeteris Planetis, in haec inferiora iuris habet, &much more authority than the rest of the planets, and is wont

reliquorum omnium, ad nos, tanquam internuncia, decreta

to bring the decrees of all the rest to us, as if it were anadferre solet.

intermediary.

Reliquarum

insupererrantium

stellarum,

cum

Moreover, we have ascribed to the rest of the wandering stars,

inerrantibus exortus occasusque, & nonnullibi, coeli etiamthe rising and setting of the wandering stars, and in somemediationes adscripsimus.

places also the mediations of the heavens.

Nam & hae, multum habent iuris in alteranda aeris

For these also have much power in altering the constitution of

constitutione.

the air.

Nec (vt in Sole fit) ad certas dies, singulis annis recurrunt,

Nor (it is done in the Sun) do they return to certain days every

vt neque in Luna, ob eius cursus instabilitatem, fieri

year, as it is not necessary to do it in the Moon, on account ofnecessarium est.

the instability of its course.

Demum etiam, mutuas Planetarum, tam interFinally, we have also assigned the interactions of thesemetipsos, quam ad praecipuas fixas, configurationes,

planets, both among themselves and to the main fixedsuis diebus correspondentes, assignauimus.

configurations, corresponding to their days.

Nec eorundem mutuas Antiscias, quas habent duplices,

Nor have we omitted the mutual Antiscias, which they havepraetermisimus.

twofold.

Nam Antisciarum non minor quam Aspectuum, est

For the effectiveness of Antiscience is not less than that ofefficatia.

Aspects.

Hae enim, cum sint loca, aequaliter a punctis Tropicis aut

For these, being places equally distant from the Tropic or

Aequinoctialibus, remota, eandem ab Aequatore obseruant

Equinoctial points, observe the same declination from thedeclinationem, similesque arcus diurnos & nocturnos

Equator, and describe similar arcs of day and night.

describunt.
Eas autem Antiscias quae respectu Aequinoctiorum

But Ptolemy called those Antiquities which are distant fromdistant,

the Equinoxes, Imperants and Obedients, whom we have

Ptolomaeus,

Imperantes&

Obsequentes

appellauit, quas nos tali charactere ⦶ insigniuimus:

distinguished by such a character:reliquas vero, a punctis Tropicis remotas, Intuentes dixit,

but the rest, removed from the points of the Tropics, he said toeasque hoc ⊖ signo notaui.

the Observers, and I marked them with this sign ⊖.

Hinc, Lunae quoque, cum singulis quinque Planetis,

Hence, to the Moon also, with each of the five Planets, I

Aspectus Oppositos, Quadratos, & Coniunctionem, vnaquehave placed Opposite Aspects, Squares, and Conjunctions, andAntiscias apposui.

each of the Antiquities.

Et tandem ex praedictis omnibus simul collatis causis,

And finally, from all the aforesaid causes put together, we haveaurae, consiitutionem, singulis diebus competentem,

ascribed to the wind, the assembly, competent for each day,probabili coniectura erutam, adscripsimus.

plucked from a probable conjecture.

Postremo, post mensium & dierum descriptionem,

Finally, after the description of the month and days, I

adiunxi Eclipsis Lunae calculum, quae in fine huius anni

added a calculation of the Eclipse of the Moon, which occurs at

contingit, ex Tabulis Prutenicis supputatum, vt studiosos

the end of this year, calculated from the Prutenic Tables, sohuius Artis, ad diligentiorem, quam ex Ephemeridibus,

that the students of this Art, I would invite a more careful

Eclipsium inquisitionem inuitarem.

investigation of Eclipses than from the Journals.

Adscripsi etiam tempora huius Eclipsis, tam iuxta

I also recorded the times of this eclipse, both according to the

Alphonsinam quam Purbachianam rationem:

Alphonsine and Purbachian accounts:& propriam quoque sententiam, de tempore huius deliquij,

And I have also attached my own opinion, as to the time of thisex obseruationibus nostris in motu luminarium, subiunxi.

error, from our observations on the movement of the luminary.

Tandem etiam breue iudicium Astrologicum de effectibus

Finally, I also added a brief astrological judgment about theipsius Eclipsis, addidi, ex Ptolomaei doctrina desumptum.

effects of the Eclipse itself, taken from the teaching of Ptolemy.

Retuli autem haec omnia, ad Longitudinem &And I returned all these things to the Longitude andLatitudinem DANIAE Patriae nostrae :Latitude of our Country DENMARK:

quia, etsi omne solum forti patria est, vt piscibus aequor :for although every soil is the country of the strong, I am equal
to the fishes:tamen nos plurimum debemus illi loco, & Reipublicae, vbi

yet we owe a great deal to that place, and to the Republic,

nati & educati sumus, & vnde alimur, nisi ingratitudinis

where we were born and brought up, and whence we are

vitium incurrere velimus.

nourished, unless we wish to run into the vice of ingratitude.

Praesupposui autem eleuationem Poli 56 praecise

And I presupposed the elevation of the Pole to be exactly 56

Graduum, eo quod Hasnia, Metropolis Regni, Latitudinem

Degrees, because Hasnia, the Metropolis of the Kingdom, has

obtineat 55 partium & 40 minutorum, iuxta nostrama Latitude of 55 parts and 40 minutes, according to ourobseruationem.

observation.

Longitudinem vero constitui esse, 35 Graduum.

I determined the length to be 35 degrees.

Tot enim sere gradibus, noster meridianus (meo iudicio)

For by so many steps, our meridian (in my opinion) will be

remouetur ab occasu.

removed from the west.

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Volo autem candidum Lectorem admonitum, ne nimis

But I would like to warn the candid reader not toexquisite, certis diebus, has Metheorologicas praedictiones

understand too precisely, on certain days, these meteorologicalintelligat:

predictions:tum quod muha desiderentur in ipsis motibus & effectibus

and that they were wanting in the very motions and effects ofsiderum inquirendis:

the stars;

tum etiam, propter materiei inferioris fluxibilitatem, &and also, on account of the fluidity of the lower matter, and theincertas Transplantationum vicissitudines :uncertain vicissitudes of the transplants:

vnde siderum resoluti fructus, nonnunquam tardius,

Whence the fruit of the star, which has been dissolved, ripens

aliquando vero celerius maturescunt.

sometimes more slowly, but sometimes more quickly.

Si vero, nonnunquam (vt facile in tam perplexo negotio fieri

If, indeed, we have sometimes been hallucinated (which is

potest) hallucinati fuerimus, nolo, vt quis Arti, sed nobis,

easily possible in such a complicated business), I do not want

culpam imputet.

anyone to impute the fault to Arti, but to us.

Quam enim sit difficilis, quam obscura, quam nondum

For how difficult, how obscure, how not yet thoroughly

penitus inuenta, haec, de aurae Mutationibus, Astrologiae

discovered, this part of Astrology, of the Changes of the Aura,pars, experiuntur illi, qui totam aetatem in hoc studiois experienced by those who have spent a whole age in thisabsumserunt, nedum nos, qui hasce laborum similium

study, not to mention we, who are now for the first time

Primitias, nunc primum edimus.

making the beginnings of such labors.

Cum insuper, inferiora & terrestria astra, quae non minus

When, moreover, the inferior and terrestrial stars, which noquam superiora, aeris alterationem inducunt (sunt enim

less than the superior ones, bring about the alteration of thetanquam matres a superioribus impregnatae) magnam, inair (for they are like mothers impregnated by the superioralijs atque alijs terreni orbis partibus, diuersitatem,ones), they obtain a great diversity in one and another part ofobtineant:the earthly world:

coelom vero vnicum & sibi simile:

but heaven is unique and similar to itself:necessarium erit, vnum & eundem siderum positum, in

it will be necessary that one and the same star be placed indiuersis terrae partibus, non vnum & idem operari.

different parts of the earth, and not one and the same work.

Cumque tota terra, respectu ipsius coeli, non habeat

And when the whole earth, with respect to heaven itself, has

sensibilem

inferiorum

no perceptible magnitude, it is difficult to have the agreement

Astrorum cum superioribus consensum vbique terrarumof the lower stars with the higher known throughout the world.

magnitudinem,

difficileestcognitum habere.
Atque hinc non minima difficultas (a paucis tamen

And from here arises not the least difficulty (noticed by a few)

animaduersa) in praedictione Metheorologica oritur.

in meteorological prediction.

Quapropter, non tam hunc laborem suscepimus, vt singulis

Therefore, we did not so much undertake this work, that we

diebus, aurae mutationes, nos, certo praedicere posse

would hope to be able to predict with certainty the changes of

speraremus, quam, vt annotatis, coeli & siderum ad

the air each day, as, that we would observe, that by observing

singulas dies, constitutionibus, obseruaremus, quomodo

the heavens and the stars for each day, the constitutions, howsuperiora astra hoc in loco cum inferioribus consentirent:

the higher stars agreed in this place with the lower ones:

qualesque effectus, hic vel ille siderum positus, in hac

and what effects the position of this or that star would produce

terrae parte produceret, disceremus:

in this part of the earth, we would learn:atque per hanc experientiam, in posterum, aliquid certius

and through this experience, in the future, we could predict

praedicere de aurae statu possemus.

something more certain about the state of the atmosphere.

Hortor autem omnes Metheorologiae deditos, vt simili

Now I exhort all those devoted to meteorology, viz., withsiudio & labore, singulis annis, siderum positus, suis diebus

similar diligence and labor, that each year, by the position ofcorrespondentes, quemadmodum nos fecimus, denotent.

the stars, they should indicate their corresponding days, justas we have done.

Hac enim ratione, obseruatione per aliquot annos facta,

For by this method, by observation made for several years,

discent, quid hi vel illi positus siderum, in sua regione,

they will learn what this or that position of the stars will do in

efficient :their region:& tali modo, praestantissimam hanc Astrologiae partem,

and in this way, they will be able to correctly cultivate thisquae aurae mutationes considerat, recte excolere, & a vulgi

most important part of Astrology, which considers the changes

calumnijs asserere poterint.

of the aura, and to assert that they are slandered by thecommon people.

Vobis autem, inclyti Heroes, Astrorum, quibus in

And to you, famous heroes, of the stars, to whom God has

patriam, sedesque beatas os posuit sublime Deus,

set a happy mouth in your country and abode, wherever you

quocunque sub axe degitis, & coelo labentia cernitis astra:

live under the axis, and see the stars moving in the sky:vobis inquam, hunc nostrum qualemcunque laborem

I tell you, we have dedicated this one of ours to any kind of

dedicauimus.

work.

Vobis enim solis, non imperito vulgo, alijsque huius

For you alone, and not the ignorant common people, and others

Scientiae ignaris, haec conscripsimus :ignorant of this science, have we written these things:

nec lucri aut nominis gratia, vt plerique solent, sed vt vos

nor for the sake of profit or fame, as most people are wont to

ad diligentiorem huius Metheorologicae artis cultum

do, but in order to arouse you to a more diligent worship of thisexcitaremus, hunc laborem suscepimus.

meteorological art, we have undertaken this work.

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Vobis, inquam, viri ingentes, & supra mortalium

To you, I say, great men, and born above the condition of

conditionem nati, hanc nostram sacrauimus operam, demortals, we dedicate this work of ours, of whom the Poet sangquibus non minus eleganter, quam vere haec cecinit Poeta.

no less elegantly than truly.

Foelices animae, quibus haec cognoscere primum, Inque

Blessed are the souls who were the first to know these things,

domos superas scandere cura fuit.

and were anxious to climb the upper houses.

Credibile est illos pariter vitijsque Iocisque, Altius humanis

It is believable that a higher man raised his head against themexeruisse caput.

as well as vices and jokes.

Non Venus aut vinum sublimia pectora fregit, Officiumue

Venus or wine did not break the lofty breasts, The duty of thefori, militiaeue labor.

market, the military labor.

Nec leuis ambitio perfusaque gloria fuco, Magnarumue

Nor did light ambition and glory drenched with paint, And thefames, sollicitauit opum.

hunger of the great, worry the riches.

Admouere oculis distantia sidera nostris, Aetheraque

To move the distance with our eyes to the stars, and to suppose

ingenio supposuere suo.

the ether with his wit.

Confido autem, hunc nostrum laborem, vobis non

I trust, however, that this labor of ours will not be

futurum ingratum, & plurimum adiumenti in reftituenda

displeasing to you, and that it will bring a great deal of

Metheorologia allaturum.

assistance in the reformation of Meteorology.

Dabo autem operam, vt plura nostri laboris monumenta,

But I will endeavor to have more records of our labors, and I

aliquando habeatis, & praecipue elaborabo, in restituendis

will work particularly hard in restoring the heavenly motions,motibus coelestibus, & fabricandis Tabulis, quarum

and in constructing Tables, with the help of which, the motions

beneficio,of the stars, corresponding to their appearances, may be

motus

siderum,apparentijs

exquisite

respondentes, indagari possint:

traced:quod nullae hactenus editae (ne illae quidem quas virithat none hitherto published (not even those which theillustres Copernicus & Reinholdus posteritati in aeternam

illustrious men Copernicus and Reinholdus consecrated tosui memoriam sacrarunt) ad amussim prastant.

posterity in eternal memory of themselves) are at present
satisfactory.

In altera etiam parte Astronomiae, quae effectus siderum

In the other part of Astronomy, which considers the effects ofconsiderat, elaborabo:

the stars, I will elaborate:

vt quantum in me est, a mendis & superstitionibus

as much as is in me, vindicated by lies and superstitions, may

vindicata, suo vigori atque experientiae restituatur.

be restored to its own vigor and experience.

Spero autem, me, Nutu Dei, hos & alios labores

But I hope, by God's grace, that I shall one day accomplish

Mathematicosthese and other mathematical labors, and consecrate them toaliquando

absoluturum,&

grataePosteritati consecraturum:a grateful Posterity:

Si mihi tranquillse concedant tempora vitae, Sidera, cultori

If the seasons of my life grant me peace, the stars are not

non inimica suo.

enemies to the worshiper.

Si non de sera bene posteritate mereri Obstiterit cceptis (vt

If it is not of late that posterity will earn well, he will refuse tosolet) Aula meis.

accept the reception of my Hall.

Si non barbaries arctoi frigida ccelj Reddiderit clausas

If not barbarism arctoi cold ccelj He returned the closed stars

sidera ad alta vias.

to the high roads.

Valete.

Goodbye.

Ex Musaeo nostro Herrizuadensi Anno 1572 Mense

From the Museum of Herrizuadensi in December 1572.

Decembri.
Exemplar Diarij, quod hoc loco subijciendum erat, propter

The copy of the Diary, which was to be submitted in this place,

multiplex & operosum schematum exprimendorum

is wanting, on account of the complicated and laborious art ofartificium, desideratur.

expressing the diagrams.

KK: Dec. 30, 2023