Harmonicon coeleste: or, the coelestiall harmony of the visible world / conteining, an absolute and entire piece of astronomie. Wherein is succinctly handled the trigonometricall part, generally propounded, and particularly applyed in all questions tending to the diurnall motion. Especially respecting, and truly subservient to the main doctrine of the second motions of the luminaries and the other planets : together with their affections as eclipses &c. Grounded upon the most rationall hypothesis yet constituted, and compared with the best observations that are extant, especially those of Tycho Brahe, and other more modern observators ... By Vincent Wing, philomathemat.

  • Vincent Wing
Date:
1651
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Credit: Harmonicon coeleste: or, the coelestiall harmony of the visible world / conteining, an absolute and entire piece of astronomie. Wherein is succinctly handled the trigonometricall part, generally propounded, and particularly applyed in all questions tending to the diurnall motion. Especially respecting, and truly subservient to the main doctrine of the second motions of the luminaries and the other planets : together with their affections as eclipses &c. Grounded upon the most rationall hypothesis yet constituted, and compared with the best observations that are extant, especially those of Tycho Brahe, and other more modern observators ... By Vincent Wing, philomathemat. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    T O T H E J V D I C I O V S READER: ’A A H ® E N E I N. Od Almighty,whom the aiKicntPhilofopher Trif- migijl,did wittily dcCcnhctohc[^ifitelltgtlilii Sphd- ra,cujuscentrumuhique,circHmferentunullibf] as he is the firft beginning, fo is he the ultimate end of all created beings j aihongftwhich, by an harmonious fubordination of cnds,iome are dilpofed more im¬ mediately, others more remotely, to the Glory of his eternall Eflcnce, above all the rationall being, man may challeng the fupcriority,though much im¬ paired in his faculties by the primitive lapf, that he can naturally ke this Lream,infinitcbeingintheGla{reof the Creatures, which dorcfled to Hfmthat Infinitely Divine Wifdom, which he cannot perceive dited^^^^ but issMofes) his back parts ondy,& ex foftertort. A piincipall View hereof, the Stars, thofe heavenly Bodies, wUl eafily exhibit, that by difcourfe, contem¬ plation, and evident demonftration of their indefinite magnitude and raulti- iude, tranfeendent beauty andluftre,and their admirable order, can forcibly reafon us to conclude: « ©«. amoft Immenfe, Infinite, Beautifull and Wife God. For as he argues well of a curious Arcktac , from his admK r'^ihle artifice- ofa wKe Pater-famili/u from the fweet decorum ofhis family, o“~«nrLSm.hcgL.«^^^ poMons, tody buildings, &c. foby a more juft analogic cater is Paribus, upon the meditation of an ini- menfeextended Space,and heteina moreftatcly Fabrick the World, con- fifting of innumerSilc Variety, conftant and ftupendious Order, of vaft con- fpicious Bodies, I fay, fuch an Oeconomy deeply confidcred, cannot but fuffixa federal demenftrandum, to the Cimmpotency and tianfccn ent Glory olThe Creatour.Hence it ivhat PW. the Jew, in h.s ^ W cpificto faith, that man was placed here by his Maker, as upon a Theatre,!© lo<A upon thofe uniforme and various Spedacles hence Plate faith,we hav e our Eyes and Ovids: os kominifublimededitccelumquetueri. Thatthrougi thofe Cafements, the Coeleftiall Species b^ ttoeforetf ftandine toraife high meditationsofourGod. Truly,woithy,theieforeot yoiircn^crtainmentlthisSciencc, viz. Ajlrommy, which leads you by^dae Aa 3 ^