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from Eaft to Weaft, which we fee phinely in Comets 

 thatmoovc fromthe Eaft vnto the Weaft, mourning, 

 defcending , and finally turning in the hemifpheare in 

 the fame fort as the Starres move in thefirmament$ for 

 othcrwife thefe Comets being in the region & fphere 

 of the aire, whereas they ingender,appeares coafunui. 

 It fhould beimpoffible for them to moove circularly, 

 as they doe, if the element of the aire doth not moovc 

 with the fame motion that the firft motor dooth . For 

 thefe^elements being of a burning fubftance,by reafon 

 they Ihould be fixt,without mooving circularly, if the 

 fphere where they are did not moove-if it be not as \vp 

 faine , that forae Angell or intefle&uaH Spirite dooth 

 walke wkh the Comet , guiding it circularly . In the 

 yeere of our Lord God one thoufand five hundred fea- 

 vcnty and feavcn appeered that wondcrfoll Comet, (in 

 jformclikcvntoa feather) fromthehorizonalmoftto 

 the middeft ofheaven^, and continued from the firft of 

 November, vntill the eight of December : I fay from 

 the firft of November , for although in Sfalne it was 

 noted but the ninth of November ( according to the 

 tcftimony trf" Writers of that time) yet at Pwv, where 

 I was then, I rememberwcll, we did fee it, and oWervc 

 it eight dayes before,and all the time after. Touching 

 the caufe of this diverfity,fome may dilate vpon it par. 

 ticularfy , I wiH onely fncw , that during thofe fourtie 

 dayes whidi it continued, we all obferved (both fuch 

 as were in Spiinc , and we that lived then at the Indies) 

 that it mooved daily with an vniverfall motion , from 

 Eaft to Weaft, as the Mooneand other Planets, whcr- 

 by it appecres that the fphere of the aire,- being its Re 

 gion, the element it felfemuft of neceiTTtie moove aC 

 ler the fame fort . We noted alfo, that befides this vni- 



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