ia a few hours, his Houles (feven in number/ with all 
therein (his mony, plate, gold. Silver, and allhishoul- 
hold goods, his Printing-houfes, with the furniture there- 
of, and great part of his Library ; and the remaining co- 
piesof all his printed works fet forth at hisown charge 
from the year 164.7 to 1579,) and particularly his dear 
Vrania, and all its ObfervatorieSi with all his Inftru- 
ments, JJironomical and Optical, (defcribed in the former 
i^2irt oi h\s Machina Cesleflis,) and many other things of 
great worth, were in a manner wholly confumed, and 
turned to Afhes and himfelf well nigh deprived of all. 
And doth withall complain of the unkindnels of lome 
whom he had taken for friends 5 who, inftead of pitying 
his Calamity or affifting him therein, did rather infult 
over it (ov tacitly pleafe themfelves therein J and, by 
giving him new troubles, added to his ajffiidion, 
But acknowledgeth and gratulates Gods goodnefs, 
that (before this Calamity) he had ("the fame yearj fi- 
nilhed and publiflied the latter part of Machina Coe^ 
lejHs, containing the obfervations of almoft fifty years i 
("which are thereby preferved.-j That fome of his Pa- 
pers, ('particularly his newT^^../^^^^^ of the fixed 6V^r/,) 
were ftraogely preferved f rom the fire : And, that (with- 
out being wholly deipondent) Qod hath; yet given him 
life and courage, to refurae his forme?- ftudies, to rebuild 
his Obfervatory, and furnifli it with neceflary Inftru- 
ments ("though much inferiour to thofe incomparable 
ones that periftied by the fire 0 and to apply himfelf to 
deduce a-new Cfrom their firft originals) much of what 
he had written (^which was wholly d-ftroyed) relating to 
his Frodromus Ajironomice^ his Corre^^ici oftheTables^ his 
Vranograp hi a, and his new Celejaal Globes, which he 
hopes {through Gods affiftance) in a fbort time to fic for 
the publik. 
This piece (the firft by him publifhed after that dread- 
fuil Conflagration ) he calls his Annus ClimaMericus, as 
D d d 3 being 
