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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    ^3 the Latitude cf the^ Moon, and how to compute the farm, of the Motion of the Fixed Stars. of the Theorie and Motions of the three S uperiour Planets, Saturn, Jupiter, arrd Mars. ji Geometricall Demonftration of the true Motion 0/Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, ac~ :6rding to the Bodrine 0/ Trigonometry. , Of the Motion of the Star o/Saturn. . of the Motion of the Star of Jupiter. 7^ OftheMoiionoftheStiir ofyidixs. 7S Of the Motion of the two Inferiour Planets, Venus avtd Mercury. ^ 79 J Scheme /hewing how the two Planets Venus Mercury are moved within the Orbe I our Earthy Star towards the Center. of. the Calculation of the true Motion of the Star 0/Venus. 81 A Demonftration of the true Motion ofthe Star of Mercury. 86 of the Semidiameters of the Sun, Moon, and Shadow of the Earth. . j Having the true Semidiameter of the Sun, and his difiance from the Earth , to finde hti \pparent Semidiameter. . ToApparent SemidiameterMoon. . To rk Apparetit Semidiameter 0/Earths fliadow, the Longitude. ^emiangle0/Cone, &c. ^ vyr ‘ flu O f the Vw^omon and ]Mignmdc of the three great Bodies, the Sun, Moon and the Earth. ' . MagnitudeProportion0/ the 5 Planets; Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury. . . . To finde their Magnitude and Proportion to the Earth. 97 To finde the Apparent Semidiameters of the Planets at any time. \To finde theDifdmcQ of the Sun,Moon^ andother Vhnets from the Eznh at any tme, Italian, German miles. , . 1 r j OftheEcYi^ks of the Sun and Moon to Calculate Quantity, and to finde the mi- nmsoflncAdtnciahdEmtrkontngom ] Ofke Redudion o/Time from the true Oppofition or Conjundion of Sun and Moon tothegreatefiOhkuizXxoii, , The Fourth Book. the Epocha, or Radix of the middle Motions of the Planets, and of the ^Equation of time for the difference of ykndi\2Lns, To C^XQuXdXt the true place of the Sun, ^c. ■ - ToredsicetheyYMkumtintothe k^^dirtn\:,andcontrariwif€. ^ 107 ‘ - To Calculate the true motion of the Moon in Longitude for any ume afiigne^. _ 108 To compute the true Latitude of the Moon, and to reduce her place from her Orbite to the Ed[iptique,&contra. . ' t T0 Calculate the true motions of the three Superiour Planets; Saturn, Jupi , an MarsLongitude. ■ ' To Calculate the true Motions of the two Inferiour Planets; Venus W Mercury. 11 ^ recalculate Latitude5 Planets,Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mer- cury. “ ^ .... .. ^ ^ ^ : To finde the trueVhets of theViXQdSt^YS at any rime given. ^ 11/ To finde the RcLteidiion efthe St3iYS, andi6 CorreB their Altitude objervedr^ 11S To finde the middle time of the Conjundion or Oppofition of the Luminaries. ibvd. To finde the time of the true conjundion or Oppofition of the Snn and Moovu ^ 119 To finde the apparent femidiameters of the Sun^ Moon, andYh^dow of the^ Earth, tnt e 'New Full Moons. * . , To finde whenthcUoonwSllheEc\\^Ytd,andwhenn6t. ^ - pf the Redudion of Time from the true conjundion o?* Oppofition of the Sun and Moon to the apparent time thereof. ' ^7