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TmgnoJlick^Vi\i\c\\ he gives^ is grounded upon the Vulgar 
Suppofition that Comets are Signs c£ fuch mifchiefs and 
iBiieries> as happen to men after a diffolute and irregular 
Vxky and upon this g ound he believeth that the Vtfion 
fliewn to the Vrophet Jeremiah Chap. i. l/'erfe n to the 13 
was nothing eife but nie light of a CoiT?^^; And though fas 
he faith Jhe doth nor like the common Aftr iogicajy^/^^^//;;^- 
Turfe {fohecallsif) whereaccording to the Divifion of the 
heaven m twelve Houfes^ and the Diftdbution of the 
Countries^ to the Signs of the Z^diack. the Supcrftltious 
Fonune-TeUers doprogfiofticate ihmg^^ which have no rea^ 
fon nor g- ounds neither in nature or experience, yet it 
feems he cannot forbear hinfiieif 10 make ufeoithefame 
Trifles, when he fays that Virgo bt ir.g a Sign of S^m&j^j 
Libra a Sign of Ju/iice md Death, Scorpio mhovK of Mars 
and Sign of Poyfons^ the Comet mnfi figniiy War, Famine, 
SickneCs, or a grcaic Plague. As for the Natural caufe of 
this comet, he thinks^ chat in the Cme manner, as the 
great Conjunfiion of Planet sin Sagitarius did produce a Comet 
m the year 1603. - So by a ne A ConjunUion of Soh Venus ^ 
Mercury and Luna in the fame Sign^ and in oppofition to 
Jupiter the like might be taken notice of. 
The fccond Comet asfbme sflrommers do bdieve or rather 
the Rid Comet only continued in the f^mt motion (as the 
thinks^ did appear again Seventeen days after, that 
is the it December 1^80 but more clear and evidently the 
#f-of i)^^^>72^fr when the Author by his Orthogonium fan 
'Inftrdment made of good ftrong wood, whofe J{adius was 
fi)^ foot loDgj obferved for many days the diftance of the 
Comet f^om (everal stars^ and found by Calculation its Lon- 
gitude and LatUude, according as he puts them down in 
the Table Pag, 93. The laft nmelie made his Obfervation 
was the Thirtieth of January lb that the Comet, taking all 
"its duration together, did laft about 8aor84days: and 
confidering its motion in which it part thro almoft nine 
signs of the Z^diach^ its Angle oi Inclination to \S\tEclip' 
