Aftronomers obfenred alfo this new Fh^mmend y which was cal^ 
led by them Nehulofdin Cingulo Androm^d^\ Goneerning whiciia 
he notes, that thefame had been already feen many years before 
by Simon Umm^ vid. v^;;. i6'i 2. when with a T etefeop he fearch'd 
for the Sate Hits oifupiter , and obfervedtheir motions alledging 
for proof hereof, the faid Authors own words, out of his own Book^ 
Be Mmdo ^ovidi^ publiflit i5i4. And farther fhews , that 
it hath formerly appear'd (about 150. years ago) and been taken 
notice off by an expert, though Anonymous, Aftrdnomer 5 whofe 
#ords he cites our of ^Mmulcrift^ brought out of BolUn^^j 
the Excellent jacobus Auguflm Thuanus ^ returning from his Em- 
baflTy toP^r^ 5 wherein alfo was marked th^Figme oithzt Ehmo^ 
menon , reprefented in print by our Author r who from all this col- 
leds, that, whereas thisStar hath been feen formerly , andthat 
150. years fince , but yet neither obferved by i/z/f^^r^^x^, nor any 
other of the Antients, that we can find 5 nor alfo: in the former 
Age by T'jcho Brake , nor in our Age ^ by Bay er^s - and appear'd 
alfo in the Month of i\rf?w;f^^^rlaft fwherein he wrote this 
muchleflfened andobfcure, after it Ijad, two years ag0 5 flione ve- 
ry bright 5 that therefore it muft needs appear and dif- appear by 
turns 3 like thofe in the iNT^^-^i of the 1^^^/^ and 
II. E NTRI E N S fur les Fies et fur les Outrages Des". 
plus excellens Peintres y Anciens et Modernes par Monfeur 
F M LIBIEN, 
This Author, having firftdifcourfedof that Royal Pallace the - 
Louvre , and theDefignsof finilhing it 5 pafles on to the Art oft 
Picturing y and treats of the three principal things , whereijnagood i 
Mafter of the Art muft excel , vid, the Compofit ion , Defigning^ , 
and Laying on of Colours 5 which done, he ravels into the Ori- 
gine , and deduces the Progrefs of Painting , and relates what is 
moft remarkable in the Lives of the Antieuit Painters : And among 
many particulars, he obferves in the Life of Andreas deSartCy 
how difficult it is , to judge well of a Pidure 5 relating^that a Duke 
of Mantua , having obtained of Clement VI I. a Pourtrait of 
Leo X, which had been done, hy RafhaelUrhin ., and wasat J/c?- 
rence^ thofe of that Town being unwilling to lofe fo excellent 
piece,. 
