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To know where the effects of the stars shall take place, they have appointed unto every sign certain countries, as over Europe they have set the fiery Triplicity, over the Oriental and North parts of the Asia the airy Triplicity, the watery Triplicity over Africa, over the South parts of the Asia the earthy Triplicity: & so every peculiar sign hath his dominion over some parts of those. Now therefore, when a conjunction or Eclipse is in any of these signs the Cities and countries subject unto them feel the force of that constellation especially. This is a most manifest untruth and may be confuted by many reasons. 1. The nature of the signs is not the same now as it was in times past, and by the confession of the […] learned have other effects, now then they had in the days of […] […]: yet we see the nature of Countries and people ⟨image 47⟩to remain the same still, as may be seen by reading Tacitus, Pliny, Caesar, Strabo. 2. America which is half the world, hath no signs appointed over it: why? it was found out of late. True it is, but this is an argument that the rules of Astrology, are absurd, and were the bare inventions and imaginations of idle brains. For, there is no doubt, but that America his parts and Islands as Br•silea, Peru, Pari, Terra Florida, Java Major, Java Minor, Puloana, Pavilonga, Subath: Massana, Mattan, Ivvacana, Cozumella, Jamaica &c. Have felt the force of those Constellations, which they attribute to some parts of the old world. Because these Countries be about the middle Zone, and have both Planets and signs full over them, and therefore if the stars threaten any strange thing to come, they must especially feel it. 3. Experience the cause of all acts is against them, as is manifest in these examples. 47. years before the Nativity of our Saviour Christ there was a conjunction ⟨image 48⟩of the higher Planets in Scorpius. And then was civill war between Caesar and Pompey: And the change of the Empire was in Europe. But according unto the institution of Astrologers all these troubles should have been in Aphrike, because Scorpius hath his dominion there. In the year of our Lord. 34. there was a great conjunction of Planets in Leo, and then (saith one very profanely) was the Gospel preached through the world.

To know where the effectes of the starres shall take place, they haue appointed vnto euery signe certaine countreys, as ouer Europe they haue set the fiery Triplicitie, ouer the Orientall and North partes of the Asia the ayrie Triplicitie, the waterie Triplicitie ouer Aphrica, ouer ye South partes of the Asia the earthie Triplicitie: & so euery peculiar signe hath his dominion ouer some partes of those. Now therefore, when a coniunction or Eclipse is in any of these signes the Cities and countreys subiect vnto them feele the force of that constellation especially. This is a most manifest vntruth and may bee confuted by many reasons. 1. The nature of the signes is not the same now as it was in tymes past, and by the confession of the learned haue other effectes, now then they had in the dayes of : yet we see the nature of Countreys and people