DESCKIPTIO GLOBI INTELLECTUALIS. 821 



jam per duodecim ahnos integros duravit, 1 aetatem co- 

 i tjualis haK'tur) longo intervallo supergressa, nee 

 adhuc (liininuta aut adornans 2 fugam. Neque illud 

 rursus proprium et perpetuum est, ut veteres Stellas 

 mutationem prorsus non patiantur, sed tantum stellae 

 recentioris epiphaniae, in quibus nil mirum si mutatio 

 tr. cu in ipsa gcneratio et origo ipsarum imrnemo 

 rialis mm sit. Missa enim Arcadum fabula de prima 

 epiphania. lun;v, (|iia se jactant illi fuisse antiquiores, 3 

 non desunt exeinpla in rerum memoria satis fida, cum 

 sol per tr. . absque incidentia eclipsis aut inter- 



positione nubiuni, acre liquido et sereno, prodiit vultu 

 mutatu per multos dies, neque tamen similiter afFectus, 

 semel luce exili, bis subfusca. Talia enim evenerunt 

 anno er septendecim dies, et temporibus Jus- 



tiniani per annum dimidium, 4 et post mortem Julii 

 rifl per complures dies. Atque Julianas illius 



1 This star, which is of variable magnitude, was first observed bv Jansen 

 in 1600, so that the Descriptio Globi Intelkctualis must have been written 

 in lil-2. 



2 So in original. J. S. 



8 Orta prior Luna (de se si creditur ipsi) 



A magno tellus Arcade nomen habet. OVID, Fasti, L 469. 



rtation on this mythical story, Heyne, Opusc. ii. 332., and a 

 coininunication from Professor Franz given in the fourth volume of Hum- 

 boldt 

 4 These phenomena are mentioned in juxtaposition by Patricius, Pan- 



:>. 111., from whom Bacon probably derived hi- knowledge of them. 

 For the darkik-s in 7!'i) Patricius quotes Paul the Deacon, and for that in 

 Justinian's time IVtcr Messias or Mexia, who was almost a contemporary 



MI. Th.: i.ri^inal authority for it is Procopius, Sell. Vandal, ii. 14. 

 It is to this .larki'iiing of the sun that Bacon refers in the phrase " semel 



Ii." Compare a list of seventeen examples of obscuration of the 



-ht in the third volume of Humboldt's Cosmos. He does not men- 

 tion that which took place in 790; and the obscuration in the time of Justin- 



iM "ii th.- authority of Abul-Faragius to have lasted 14 months. 

 Humboldt compares it to that which took place in 1783. 



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