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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    tb worfliip by the help of that miraculous Cymfure,i]i\c tnoft glorious Light that ever appeared to poorc mortals: untill about the 90 year fofi C hrtft urn ^ when Agriyta and Mendaw a Roman, who were contemporary, and arc fliarcrs in Honour, the firft, for obfervation of that 6 of the Moon with tl?e rUiades the other for many Aftronomicall experiments canonized '\n Pte- Icmk. Prcfcntly after arofe theon Alexandrinu^^Viho obferved the Motions of thePlancts, andis alledged by Claudius Ptolomeus the ^Egyptian, and Mafterof Aftronomy among the Greeks, who prefently fuccecdcd, and by his wondcrfull pains under Hadriany and M. Aurelius Antenius, Emperours, Ah anno Chrifttiz’iyad annum 141,together certainly with immenfc char¬ ges colledcd and compared Obfervations, whereby he made Tables of the Motion ofall the Planets, &c. we may give him this Charaacr. Vtrequidem tarn flubendi ingenii, ut AHronomerum Coryfheus quotquot hue ufque fuerum meriio afpellaretur. By this time Aftronomy, had got fo much perfcaion andmat urity, that one would have thought nothing more could be added to it-, una d ixtydiJM eiwrd^it ;fothat it kept this ftay, untill more-time and obfervation had difeovered the truth andworth of this Science more amply to all Nations, efpecially after that, famousnurferyof Urania was taken by the Mahumetan fadion, which caufed Learning together with its Prof eflburs, to fpread abroad as far as Arabia md Syna^ wherein Albategnius was founded about chrifti 880, whofe Obfervations a- ' bout the Luminaries obliquity of the Zodiack,and of the Fixed Stars are of very great moment, and are at this prefent fure proof of his admirable skill. From yr/r/V4 it was tranlported to Sfain, where one Arzahell a Spaniard, about anno Chrifti 1080, was much eftcemed, bccaufehefet forth publickly the obliquity of the Zodiaque obferved by himfclf. About the fame time, the Perfians by their great endeavours made Aftronomicall Tables, and the Emperour fixed the beginning of the year at the Vernall Equinox, which is yet ftridlly obferved. By this time, the Ptolemaick Tables did wonderfully, tetoquldem Cede errare-, from the truth of certain Obferva¬ tions, fbthat for thefupportand advancement of her felf, Urania ftirr’d up Alphonfus {ghom iiyz Chrifii) Sfain,vA\o invited an aftembly of the moft famous Aftronomers, that then were, confiftingof Jews, Arabians and Spaniards, and by their aid, and the expence of above 400000 Ducats, compofed new Tables,called AlfhonfinayVsYnchvmy juftly appro¬ priate to their Authour that of Horace, Exegi monumentum are ferennis, Eegalique fituPyramidum dtius. I’ve built him fuch a monument of fame. No bralTe, nor Pyramids, can yield the fame. Thefe Tables divers k^tonometSyBlanchinus Anno xa^'^ZyGauriem 1524, Hamelius 1545, Prngnerus 1553, augmented and put forth anew. Again, in the fame year 1553, Purhachius^vx. forth Tables of Eclipfes, grounded upon his own obfervations,after whom his Scholer, comparing, the Ptolemaick and Alphonfine Tables together, and correding them by his own Obfervations,put forth an £/'^e«»m'^«,bcginning i476,until 1505, \s\iokemwftic ^oh.Stofla followed, and from tke year 1507, to 1556,