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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section IV – Chapter VII
Chapter VII
Showing the physical reasons of the horrid and terrible portences of comets and
blazing-stars
That they are the cause of inordinate heat is apparent by their ardent burning in
the air, and their matter of which they are made.
sterility 1 by reason of the fatness of the earth is 2
drawn out, and
the earth left dry and lean. And so the moisture and convenient humidity
whereby it fructified all things growing therein, is dried up by excessive heat
and consequently rendered barren, wherefore there must follow famine or
sterility in those regions and places where they are seen, or from where their
matter of substance was drawn.
pestilence and diseases, in that the air is by them infected through
hot, thick, cloudy exhalations, which being drawn in at the mouth of
living creatures, infects them and kills them. Also of excessive and
inordinate heat the radical humidity and moisture of living creatures, whereby
they subsist, is dried up; whereby they become no other than dead carcasses.
Wherefore it is necessary in such times to use cooling and moistening
preparatives which are of that nature as to restore and conserve radical
moisture.
Of wars and alterations of kingdoms, states, laws and customs, when
a comet or blazing-star appears, there are many exhalations in the air, and those
of hot and dry nature, which do so dry up the humours in men and increase
choler that they are easily excited to quarrels, after which follow blows,
wars and bloodshed; and so consequently alterations in states,
governments, laws, customs and empires.
Of winds, they are of the same matter whereof comets are, as you
have heard in the 16 th Chapter and 2 nd Section of this fourth book. And when
any comet or blazing-star appears, many such vapours are exhaled
besides, when they vanish, they become windy vapours.
1 I.e. bareness of the earth or unfruitfulness
2 NOTE BY RAMESEY: together with the exhaled matter whereof they are composed.
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