An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Secondly, When Astronomers answer these questions, Where is the way where light dwelleth? and where is the place of darkness? They say, The East is the place of light; and the West, the dwelling of darkness: And the reason given is this, Because the Sun riseth in the East, and goes down in the West, leaving ⟨p. 165⟩the World,¹ that half of the World upon which it shined in the day, over-shadowed with darkness. It is by the access and recess, by the rising and setting of the Sun, that we enjoy light or are wrapped up in darkness. And so East and West are called by the ancient Poets the houses or dwellings of the Sun.

1. 1Forvide Titan obitus pariter tecum Alcides vid it & Ortus; novitque tuas utrasque domos. Sen. in Herc. Act. 4. Alludere videtur ad signorum Zodiaci spatia, per quae Sol cursum suum perragit, quae ab astrologis Mansiones vel Domus solent appellari. Itáque Zona illa sive fascia Zodiaci in cujus medio protenditur eccliptica est via solis, qui in tot habitare domus dicitur, quot in illa sunt signa. Bold.

Astronomers have found out, according to their doctrine, twelve houses or dwelling places of the Sun; they imagine a girdle or bond passing quite through the heavens, which they call the Zodiac, and there a line which they call the Ecliptic, in which the Sun moveth, or which is the way of the light; and in this line, they place the twelve signs: the first of which the Sun entereth the first month of the year, and is called Aries, the second Taurus, the third Gemini, &c. These are only fictions by which they represent the gradual motions of the Sun in the several seasons of the year, and they call them Mansion Houses or Dwellings of the Sun.

Astronomers have found out, according to their doctrine, twelve houses or dwelling places of the Sun; they imagine a girdle or bond passing quite through the heavens, which they call the Zodiack, and there a line which they call the Ecliptick, in which the Sun moveth, or which is the way of the light; and in this line, they place the twelve signs: the first of which the Sun entreth the first moneth of the year, and is called Aries, the second Taurus, the third Gemini, &c. These are onely fictions by which they represent the gradual motions of the Sun in the several seasons of the year, and they call them Mansion Houses or Dwellings of the Sun.