A defence of judiciall astrologie, in answer to a treatise lately published by M. John Chamber / [Sir Christopher Heydon].
- Christopher Heydon
- Date:
- 1603
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A defence of judiciall astrologie, in answer to a treatise lately published by M. John Chamber / [Sir Christopher Heydon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![duce both particular:and: generalleaccidents alike fromthe heauens,making no difference, butas the oneis ftronger then the other,and teaching how the one may be forefeene as well asthe other for the auoiding of errour. Wouldany manthen but thefe aduerfaries ,obieét this againft -Aftrologie ; whichis a maine point of the arteit felfeyaiid confirmeth the fame. as mich as any thing, confidering that thereby.the one is.as.well to be foretold as the other,and that in:iudging; the danger of re conftitutions, A ftrologers alwaies take their grotds rom the natiuitie it felfe?. i vodbe it ertotsbsay » Wherefore to let this paffe togither with that which, he fpeakes ofa 1c0.in a lhippe,/uppo/ed all to.be caft amay at once, (though by their natiaities they fhould: dieat feucrall times) -as falling vnder the compaffe of generall conftitutions, and before more at large anfwered inthe:s. chapters] am to.come forward with him to the laft place, which he vreeth out of Prolemie;though fallely cited : forthe: wordes following; are in the beginning of the fecond;and not ofthe third booke of the Quadripartite where indeed he faith: Ze vniner(allcanfes ‘are of more force and.efficacie then particnlar caufes + Lhele wordes of Prolemie,(he affirmeth) many learned. Mathema- tickes;Philofophers.,:and Aftrologets doe fo.interpret, as if ‘particular prediQions were. nothing worth: which.aflertion: is: very general ,and though be fpeaketh of many, yet Tdoe not fee that he is able to bring one interpreter; vpon, thefe wordes, that either doeth or. can fay, that Pralemic valueth particular predi@tions nothingat all .. For, the wordes herein this placearevitered as areafon why ‘Prolemiehandicth gene- #all coniftinutions before particular, and doe butimport 4 co~ parifonwhercin the vniuerfall caufes as the moreftrong,are for 200d reafon preferred beforethe other , yetthe particular not neele&ed: And therefore show fhould, any man vnder= ftarid that!Prosemie in thele words aceounteth particular pres di&tions to be nothing worth? Doth not Bsolemic himfelie be- Rowe both the z.and 4.bookes of the Quadripartite whol] in teaching how. tomdge particulars? and would ‘he loofe vA thar painesiifihey.were:of no worth? Atisabfyrd,.an dfarre ae Vuu 3... from](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30331031_0555.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
