Item Information | A prognostication of right good effect fructfully augmented, contayninge playne, briefe, pleasant, chosen rules, to iudge the wether for euer, by the sunne, moone, sterres, cometes, raynbowe, thunder, cloudes, with other extraordinarie tokens, not omitting the aspectes of planetes, with a brefe iudgemente for euer, of plentie, lacke, sickenes, death, vvarres &c. Openinge also many naturall causes, woorthy to be knowe[n]. To these and others, now at the last are adioyned, diuers general pleasaunte tables: for euer manyfolde wayes profitable, to al maner men of vnderstanding: therfore agayne publisshed by Leonard Dygges Gentylman, in the yeare of oure Lorde. 1555. | Early English Books Online | University of Michigan Library Digital Collections

How wether is iudged by the Oriental and Occi∣dental station of Planetes, with their com∣bustion in the. 12. signes-celestiall. Fyrst of the planetes in Aries.

Of the planetes in Tauro.

Of the planetes in Gemini.

Of the planetes in Cancer.

Of the planetes in Leone.

Of the planetes in Virgine.

Of the Planetes in Libra.

Of the Planetes in Scorpione.

Of the Planetes in Sagittario.

Of the Planetes in Capricorne.

Of the Planetes in Aquario.

Of the planetes in Pisces.

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A rule to prognosticate the aforesayd, by the fal∣lyng of Newyears daye.

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Naturall causes, conducynge to all the afore∣sayde, euer to be had in memorie of the wyse: and fyrst of the Raynbowe.

Of Rayne.

Of Frost and Dew.

Of Snowe.

Of Hayle.

Of wyndes.

Of earthquakes, in the most quyet tyme.

Tokens of earthquakes to come.

Of Thunders and lightninges.

There be thre kyndes of lightninges, drye, moyst and clere.

Of the Cometes, or flames in the night.

The natural cause of the Sunne eclypsed.

A Corollarie.

The cause of the Moone eclipsed.

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How many myles the Moone is from the earth: and euery planet from other.

The natural causes of many Sunnes or Moones.

Vvhat is to be chosen or auoyded, vnder euery aspect of, the moone: with her signification, in the. xii. signes, touchyug the same.

Now ensueth a Table shewing what signe the Moone is in, and shal be for euer: declaring also the me∣test tyme to let bludde, to purge, and to bathe.

How to fynde by this Table, the signe where the Moone is for euer.

To know what the Moone differeth from the Sunne.

The yeare hath. xxxiii. euyl dayes, generall for euer.

A conducible note for lettiug bludde.

The dominion of the Moone in mans bodye.

For to take purgations, and to bathe,

Of inundations, or fluddes: of tymbre fallinge: sowyng: planting: graffing: hear clipping: shauing: and geldinge.

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The vse is this.

Ensample.

How to know the age of the Moone: then the change, and quarter, for euer.

Now ensue two perfecte Tables, declaringe the trew houre and minute of Ebbing and Flowing, in moste coastes of Englande.

To know how longe the Moone shyneth.

Here foloweth for the goynge doune, and rysinge of the Moone: with her continuance on the earth.

Now shal folow a Table, at al tymes plainly and briefly declaring, what daye the Sunne is entred the first degre of euery signe. It sheweth the breake of the daye: the houre, and mi∣nute of the Sunne rysing: the iust length of the day: the lengthe of the night also; the very minute of the Sunne set∣ting: and the Twylight.

Ensample.

How to worke by proportion, when the day is not found.

To know the houre of the night, by the Moone: and that diuersly.

Another way.

Howe the houre of the day, by right shadow, that is by any thyng directly standing vp, is knowen: and by squyre shadow also.

The composition of an instrument, for the houre of the night: which is also a perfect Dial for the day.

❧ A perfecte instrument for the day, and the night.

To get the exact houre by two sterres of the fyrst light, with an instrument or circle, tofore diuided, first of me inuented, calculated and practised.

How these two bright sterres, beynge of the fyrst light are found: the one called Aldebaran: the other Alramech.

Or thus grossely.

❀ Nowe foloweth a brefe, pleasant, necessarie, general Kalendar: diuided in two partes. Vvherof the first conteineth six monethes, from Ianuarie to Iune: the seconde table the other six monethes, frome Iulie to December. In this Kalendar are sette forth the Festiual days: the entringe of the Sunne into the Signes celestial: the euel Dayes within euery moneth &c.

Necessary instrumentes, to finde exactly the houre of the day and night, diuerse wayes, with help of this peculiar Kalen∣dar.

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