SECTIO ORDINIS. CARTA SUGGESTIONS. 175 



The beams of the stars have no sensible heat by 

 themselves; but are conceived to have an augmenta- 

 tive heat of the sun-beams by the instances follow- 

 ing. 



The same climate arctic and antarctic are observed 

 to differ in cold, vt. that the antarctic is the 

 more cold, and it is manifest the antarctic hem- 

 isphere is thinner planted of stars. 

 The heats observed to be greater in July than in 

 June ; at which time the sun is nearest the 

 greatest fixed stars, vt. Cor Leonis, Cauda 

 Leonis, Spica Virginis, Sirius, Canicula. 

 The conjunction of any two of the three highest 



planets noted to cause great heats. 

 Comets conceived by some to be as well causes as 

 effects of heat, much more the stars. 



The sun-beams have greater heat when they are 

 more perpendicular than when they are more oblique : 

 as appeareth in difference of regions, and the differences 

 of the times of summer and winter in the same region ; 

 and chiefly in the difference of the hours of mid-day, 

 morning, evening in the same day. 



The heats more extreme in July and August than in 

 May or June ; commonly imputed to the stay and con- 

 tinuance of heat. 



The heats more extreme under the tropics than un- 

 der the line ; commonly imputed to the stay and con- 

 tinuance of heat, because the sun there doth as it were 

 double a cape. 



The- heats more about three or four of clock than 

 at noon ; commonly imputed to the stay and continu- 

 ance of heat. 



