Speculum mundi: or, an exact account of the great and formidable eclipse of the sun, which will be visible, total, and central, in England, May 11, 1724 ... / [Anon].

  • Gaspar Schott
Date:
1723
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Credit: Speculum mundi: or, an exact account of the great and formidable eclipse of the sun, which will be visible, total, and central, in England, May 11, 1724 ... / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Weather is changed *, therefore it cannot be faid to be the Change of Weather that immediately affects them, but the lame Planetary Influence that afts upon the Weather, afts upon them, and that fo fenfibly and convincingly, that they can, to their great Difturbance, perceive it before it is perceived in the Air. And as our Diftempers and Difeafes, fo our Paflions and Inclinations, Tempers and Difpofi- tions are affected and influenced by the Planets and Stars, according to their particular Confti- tution. Thus Mars, a fiery Planet, is faid to move the Paffions and Inclinations of Men to rafh, hot and furious Undertakings} Saturn, to mord dull and flegmatick Inclinations and Performances, and flow and deliberate Councils *, Venus, to lewd, vicious Intrigues, and the like. And as in their particular Influences over Men2 fo in their general Influences over Kingdoms and States •, Thus Saturn ftirs up Confpiracies, Breach of Leagues, &c. while Mars creates Wars and Blood fhed and fo according to the .Nature and Pofition of the Planet, with his Strength, or Weaknefs, and the like, oftentimes follow ra¬ ging epidemical Diftempers, Plagues, Sweating- Sic-knefs, and infectious Difeafes, by the Harry Influence and Motions of the Planets, Comets, &c« From this, by a Climax of Inferences, may be deduced the evident Significance of the Plane¬ tary Motions and their Revolutions, and of their being what we call the Forerunners of great Events *, for it is more than rational to fay, fuch Motions may probably be the Forerunners of thofe things which it is more than probable they are the Caufes of. < * »; - ;
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