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Book IV – Astrologia Munda Section III – Chapter XVI [What hail and snow are] Hail and snow are the same, only are drawn up higher; snow into the middle region and hail into the upper and there condensed and congealed into the body of a cloud, and being disposed by the configurations of fit significators descends. [What frost and dew are] In like manner, hoar frost and dew is also the same vapour and of the same nature as rain and the rest only not drawn so high by the Sun as to keep up, but when he withdraws himself from our hemisphere it falls down again, and is by the coldness of the earth congealed or resolved into water which we call dew in summer; but in winter by the sharpness of the air it is congealed into frost, and by reason of the hoariness 1 of it, it is called hoar frost. [What wind and the occasion of earthquakes are] Wind also is but a dry exhalation drawn up from the earth by the heat of the Sun also and dispersed here and there; and this is the reason of earthquakes, for through the gathering together of an abundance of these vapours in the concaves of the earth and from thence violently breaking out and the earth closing again, is the earth caused to shake or as it were tremble; and this is the forerunner of wars for the most part in those parts of the earth. 2 [What a comet is] Moreover, a comet is a flame caused of a dry, hot, slimy exhalation, drawn up by the Sun to the uppermost part of the air, the which being dispersed and broken causes high winds; but more of this in the last section. [What thunder and lightning are] Again, thunder is a quenching of fire in a cloud, or an exhalation hot and dry wrapped into a cloud where the meeting with moisture being of a contrary 1 I.e. hairy or furry 2 Without the knowledge we have today of these natural phenomena it is easy to understand how these residents of the 17 th century considered what makes a person belch or pass wind. His likeness of the earth belching or passing wind and causing an earthquake is congenial. 206
Book IV – Astrologia Munda Section III – Chapter XVI quality, it breaks out of the sides of the cloud, and by this its eruption causes a thundering noise in the air; and this flying out of the fire the vulgar call lightning; the which Aristotle says comes after thunder. But I am of the opinion they come both together, though the sense of seeing is more suddenly apprehensive of the light than the hearing is of the sound, because what is conveyed to the eye is by a direct line, but to the ear by an oblique; for at a distance we may discern a blow before we hear it, yet being hard by we shall hear it soon as it is given or can be seen, etc. Lightning as some authors say, is of marvellous efficacy and they have made mention of three sorts, dry, moist and clear. The dry does not burn but cleaves trees through, also houses, and the like. The moist does not burn either, but it alters colour. The clear both burns and destroys, and is indeed the most dangerous of all; for it breaks the bones and sword, and bruises not the skin nor breaks the scabbard; and melts money in the purse and yet does not melt wax, etc. [Signs of earthquakes to come] We are now to give the reason of the eclipsing of both the luminaries; but first I think it very requisite to set down some tokens of earthquakes to come, which are briefly six. The first is when the Sun is obscured and darkened without the presence of clouds or the body of the Moon; the second token that an earthquake is at hand, is when the Sun is as it were bloody and coloured in such a strange manner; the third, is when a fiery pillar, or cloud like pillar of fire appears in the heavens; the fourth, is when the air is very quiet both at land and sea for a long continuance and wind is absent; the fifth, is when waters are salt and troubled and of another taste than what usually and naturally they are; the sixth and last, is when strange unaccustomed and unusual noises of exclamations of men, howling, lamentations, and clattering of armour are heard and such sights seen in the air. [The cause of the Sun’s eclipse] And now as touching the eclipse of either of the luminaries, you are to know it is only a privation of their light; that of the Sun is occasioned at the conjunction of the luminaries, or more plainly at the change of the Moon, by the interposition of the body of the Moon between the Sun and the earth averting or turning his beams from us, and so the Sun becomes obscured or darkened for that time. 207
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