An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

The stars (to come a little nearer the Text) observed and numbered by Students in this great volume of the heavens, are distinguished into forty and one images or representations, whereof some (for learnings sake) are fancied the images of men and women, others the images of beasts and fishes,¹ others the images of things without life. Of these images, twelve are in the Zodiac, commonly called the twelve signs. In the Southern part of the sphere eleven of those signs are placed, and in the Northern eighteen, which added to twelve in the Zodiac, make up the number of forty and one.

The stars (to come a little nearer the Text) observed and numbred by Students in this great volume of the heavens, are distinguished into fourty and one images or representations, whereof some (for learnings sake) are fancied the images of men and women, others the images of beasts and fishes,¹ others the images of things without life. Of these images, twelve are in the Zodiaque, commonly called the twelve signs. In the Southern part of the sphear eleven of those signs are placed, and in the Northern eighteen, which added to twelve in the Zodiaque, make up the number of fourty and one.

1. 1Omnes hae stellarum imagines non tantum ordine & situ, verum etiam certis nominibus inter se distinctae sunt.

Now, when it is said in the Text, That God makes Arcturus, Orion and Pleiades, and the chambers of the South. We are not to take them for so many distinct and particular stars, but for constellations, or configurations, because they stand in such a form or figure: ⟨p. 209⟩and so for the better knowledge of them they are called by the names of such creatures as they seem to represent.