Chapter X. The periodital Divisions of Time（续 7）

7 shews its colour; the place of the Moon its time; and, if

“above the earth, it will be a novel thing; if below, old. The part of Fortune indicates its quantity, whether long or short, The lords of the terms, and of the lower heaven and mid-heaven, and of the Moon, shew its substance or value.

XCI. Should the ruler of a sick persof: be combust, it is an evjl portent ; and especially if the part of Fortune be afflicted.

XCII. Saturn, if oriental, is not so highly noxious to a sick person ; nor Mars, if. occidental.

XCIII. Judgement is not to be drawn from any figure until the next conjunction shall have been considered : for principles are varied by every conjunction ; and therefore, to avoid error, both the last and the next should be combined.

XCIV. The place of the more potent significator indicates the thoughts of the inquirer.

XCV. The stars rising with the tenth’ house prove how far the native may be fitted to the occupation which he follows.

XCVI. In an eclipse, such significations as are ante nearest the angles, shew the events decreed. The nature of the stars in accordance with the eclipse, planets as well.as fixed stars, and also the appearances co-ascending, are likewise to be considered, and judgement is to be given accordingly. .

XCVII. The event inquired about will be speedily accomplished, should the lord of the new or full Moon be in an angle.

XCVIII. Shooting stars, and meteors like flowing hair, bear a secondary part in judgements.

XCIX. Shooting stars denote the dryness of the air; and, if they are projected to one part only, they indicate wind therefrom: if to various parts, they indicate diminution of waters, a turbulent atmosphere, and incursions of armies.

C. If comets, whose distance is eleven signs behind the Sun, appear in angles, the king of some kingdom, or one of the princes or chief men of a kingdom, will die. If in a succedent house, the affairs of the kingdom’s treasury will prosper, but the governor or ruler will be changed. If in a cadent house, there will be diseases and sudden deaths. And if comets be in motion from the west towards the east, a foreign foe will invade the country: if not in motion, the foe will be provincial, or domestic.

~Tue Reader is desired to refer to the annexed Plate, containing diagrams, of the Zodiacal Planispbere, which has been spoken of in the Note in p. 146.

Fic. 1 is the Planisphere adjusted for the northern latitude of 30° 22’ (where the longest day consists of fourteen equatorial hours), agreeably to the ‘* Exemplification’’ given by Ptolemy in Chap. 15, Book 3. It represents that portion of the ccelestiak sphere which is contained between the tropics: — the central horizontal line is the equator; the curved line extending longitudinally from east to west 1s the ecliptic ; the central perpendicular line is the meridian, or cusp of the 10th house ; the other short lines, cutting the equator transversely, are the cusps of the other houses ; that of the first house being the eastern horizon ; that of the 7th, the western horizon. Hence, the distance from the Ist house to the meridian, or from the meridian to, the 7th house, shews the semi-diurnal arc of any parallel of declination in the ecliptic; and the distance of the 7th house to the 4th, or from the 4th to the Ist, shews the semi-nocturnal arc. The distance from the cusp of one house to that of the next, taken on the same parallel, is also equal to two temporal . hours ; thus, for instance, in the latitude above quoted, the. semi-diurnal arc of 0° o is 6h. 50m., or 102° 39’ of the equator ; consequently the diurnal temporal hour is equal — to one equatorial ‘hour and eight minutes, or to 17° 6’ of the equator.

In his first example, Ptolemy directs 0° Y to be placed on the ascendant, so that the beginning of ¥F may be on the mid-heaven : 0° = must, therefore, fall on the point A, distant from the mid-heaven 147° 44’ of the equator, as ~

measured by the line AB; because every point in the sphere

always preserves one and the same parallel with the equator;

and OP uw, in passing to the mid-heaven,/must proceed

along the line AB. In the present case, however, it is required to'know how long 0° 1 will be in coming to the ascendant, the given position of 0° y.. Now 0° o will beon

the ascendant when it arrives at the point C ; therefore the

distance ftom A to C is the amount of the prorogation betweem 0° ¢ (when posited on the ascendant) and 0 n, and it is equal to 45°5' of the equator. In the second . example, 0° ¥ is placed on the mid-heaven, which position . must be at D, so that 0° mo must necessarily be at E; and the distance from E to B, equal to 57° 44’ of. the equator, is the prorogation between 0° ¥ and 0° m1, when 0° » is on the mid-heaven. In the third example, 0° » is supposed ' to be on the 7th house, or descending, at F, so that 2 is on the mid-heavyen, and 0° m at the point G, in advance of the mid-heaven 32° 16’ of the equator, as shewn by the — distance BG. Now it is required to bring 0° m to the 7th house (the place of 0° w), and it will be there on arriving at H, distant from B 102° 39’ of the equator; but as 0° n is already at G, the distance from G to H, equal to 70° 23’ of the equator, is the amount of the prorogation between 0° y and 0° m, when 0° y is on the 7th house, The fourth example places 0° v at I, three temporal hours past the meridian ; 0° x therefore falls on the point K, at the distance of 13 equatorial degrees before the meridian or midheaven, and will be three temporal hours past the meridian (the position of 0? w) on arriving at L, distant 51 equatorial degrees from the mid-heaven : the whole distanee from K (the first position of @° m)to L, its second position, equal to 64 degrees of the equator, is therefore the prorogation between 0° y and 0° 1, when 0° ¥ is past the meridian at the distance of three temporal hours.—Ptolemy has also instanced two other positions for 0° ¥ ; viz. at two tem-

poral hours. past the meridian, ahd at two temporal hours before the occidental angle; or, in other: words, on the cusp of the 9th howMe, and on that of the 8th. Now, if 0° ¥ -be on the cusp of the 9th house, it must be at M, and 0° a will be at N, distant 62 equatorial degrees from Q, which is also on the cusp of the 9th. If 0° ¥ be on the cusp of the 8th, it must be at OQ, and 0° m will be at P, distant 66 equatorial degrees from R, which is also on the cusp of the 8th: these

_ two several numbers of degrees will be the respective prorogations between 0°. and 0° 11, when 0° ¥ is placed on the 9th and 8th houses.

.Ptolemy’s ‘* Exemplification”’ has been followed thus minutelyin order to shew how perfectly Mr. Ranger’s invention is adapted to assist (if not to supersede) arithmetical calculation; for, after the Planisphere has once been.accurately laid down, a line drawn. parallel to the equator, from the significator to the promittor,. or to the promittor’s pole of position, and measured by degrees of the equator, will accomplish the whole operation of ascertaining the amount of prorogation.

Fic. 2 is the Equator extended, in plano, on a scale proportionate to the planispheres in Figs. 1 and 3; it 1s divided into 360 degrees, and into equal time, as measured by the | 24 hours of the earth’s daily rotation on its agis, and by sinaller portions of four minutes each, corresponding with

Fic. 3 is the Planisphere set for the latitude of Southern Britain, 51° 30’ N., where the longest day is 16h. 30 m., the semi-diurnal arc of 0° m being consequently 7 h. 52 m., or 118° of the equator, and its diurnal temporal hour equal to one hour and nearly nineteen minutes of equatorial time, or - to 19° 40’ of the equator. |

In applying Ptolemy’s examples, given in Chap. 15, Book 3, to this latitude, it will follow that, when 0° y may

be on the ascendant, 0° 1 will be at A, and will subsequently arrive at the ascendant at C, after the passage of 29° 43’

ef the equator. When 0° ¥ may be on the mid-heaven ‘at D, 0° o will be at E, and will arrive at B, on the midheaven, after the passage of 57° 44’ of the equator, as in Fig. 1. “When 0° ¥ may be on the 7th house, at F, 0° a will be at G, and will come to the 7th house, at H, after the passage of 85° 45’ of the equator. If 0° y& be three temporal hours past the meridian, at I, O° m would be at K, again 13 equatorial degrees before the meridian, as in Fie. 1, and will be three temporal hours past the meridian, a position similar to that assumed for 0° ¥, on arriving at L, distant from the mid-heaven 59 equatorial degrees; thus making the whole distance, from K to L, #2 equatorial degrees.—If 0° y be on the 9th house, at M, 0° a will be at - N, distant from Q (also on the 9th house) about 67 equatorial degrees. If 0° op be on the 8th house, at O, 0° m