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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section III – Chapter XVI
Chapter XVI
Demonstration the natural case of many Suns, of the rainbow, rain, hail, frost, snow,
dew, wind, earthquakes, comets, thunders, lightnings and the cause of the Sun and
Moons eclipse
Leaving our astrological discourse, I shall here a little step out of the way and
show my reader, who has not waded far into the ocean of nature, what hail,
snow, dew, wind, and the rainbow is and how it comes to pass we have many
Suns sometimes visible, and Moons; Also what thunder and lightning is, and
how we come to have such strange and new stars as are comets and the like,
and how the Sun and the Moon become sometimes eclipsed or darkened, that so
he may not be to seek in these ordinary and small matters, which I believe may
stumble some more than greater and higher things.
[The reason of many Suns and Moons]
We shall handle then in order each of these as they are set down in the contents.
And first then, we are to take this for an approved rule that there never appears
any parelii, or mock Suns, or mock Moons above or beneath the Sun or Moon,
but on each side, and that neither but at the suns rising or setting. And they are
thus occasioned when a thick cloud is gathered together toward the side of the
Sun or the Moon in which the broken beams of the Sun or Moon being
gathered, the very form or fashion of the Sun or Moon is represented unto us
therein.
[The cause of the rainbow]
As touching the rainbow, it is no more than the reflection of the Suns beams in
a cloud that turns to the contrary vapour.
[What rain is]
Rain is a cold vapour drawn up or exhaled by the attractive faculty of the Sun to
the nether part of the middle region of the air, where being thickened through
cold, it falls again to the earth.
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