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ticularlyb, that there is no understanding their
poems, without some knowledge of the figures- of
them on the antient globes %
Our author, therefore, has considered each figure
apart on the Farnese globe, together with what
the poets have said in relation to any of them. To
this end he made use of a drawing of the two
hemispheres ; a copy of which is prefixed to this*
chapter.
Though the stars were thought by the. antients
to be innumerable, yet the constellations on their
Cicero calls them. Vir. Geo. ii. v. 342. Met. i. v. 75. Stat. 1.
iii. Sylv. 2. v. 15. Theb. viii. v. 274. Plautus introduces Arc- ‘
tbrus to speak the prologue to his Rudens.'
b Virgil in his Georgies, and Ovid in his Fasti, even make it
part of their proportion, Geo. i. v. 2. 207. Fast. i, v. 2. Ma-
nilius treats not only of the figures of the constellations, and their
bearing to each other, but the cfieCts they have on the temper
and fortunes of those who are born under such or such constella-
tion, which is so far of use, as he sits his predictions to the figure
or air of the constellation he speaks of. Thus, because Cepheus
looks severe, those (says he) who are born under him will be cen-
sorious. And so os the rest.
c This is become still more necessary at present; for we have
not only been unassisted by these antient figures, but have been
milled, by the modern ones : for though the constellations on both
globes are pretty much the same, yet either their characters or
dress, or air or attributes, have been changed in almost every one
of them; as will easily appear, by comparing the figures on the
barnese globe (the only ancient one perhaps in the world) with
the representations on the best os our modern ones# This has
been lo little regarded, that even some celebrated Mathematici-
ans told our author, they always imagined there was not any dif-
ference at all. Quint. Inst. 1. iv. c. 4.
globes*
ticularlyb, that there is no understanding their
poems, without some knowledge of the figures- of
them on the antient globes %
Our author, therefore, has considered each figure
apart on the Farnese globe, together with what
the poets have said in relation to any of them. To
this end he made use of a drawing of the two
hemispheres ; a copy of which is prefixed to this*
chapter.
Though the stars were thought by the. antients
to be innumerable, yet the constellations on their
Cicero calls them. Vir. Geo. ii. v. 342. Met. i. v. 75. Stat. 1.
iii. Sylv. 2. v. 15. Theb. viii. v. 274. Plautus introduces Arc- ‘
tbrus to speak the prologue to his Rudens.'
b Virgil in his Georgies, and Ovid in his Fasti, even make it
part of their proportion, Geo. i. v. 2. 207. Fast. i, v. 2. Ma-
nilius treats not only of the figures of the constellations, and their
bearing to each other, but the cfieCts they have on the temper
and fortunes of those who are born under such or such constella-
tion, which is so far of use, as he sits his predictions to the figure
or air of the constellation he speaks of. Thus, because Cepheus
looks severe, those (says he) who are born under him will be cen-
sorious. And so os the rest.
c This is become still more necessary at present; for we have
not only been unassisted by these antient figures, but have been
milled, by the modern ones : for though the constellations on both
globes are pretty much the same, yet either their characters or
dress, or air or attributes, have been changed in almost every one
of them; as will easily appear, by comparing the figures on the
barnese globe (the only ancient one perhaps in the world) with
the representations on the best os our modern ones# This has
been lo little regarded, that even some celebrated Mathematici-
ans told our author, they always imagined there was not any dif-
ference at all. Quint. Inst. 1. iv. c. 4.
globes*