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fell not but in Janmry, and lye fecure without melting i 
The Sun alfo bieirig entred into another Sign, vl%.^ Capri' 
com. From all thefe things the Author thinks it clearly 
appears that the nature of the Signs, and the Names and 
Images given them, are fo ordered, that they (hew what 
muft be duly and orderly done by Husbandmen in each 
part of the year in their Oeconomical affairs, and this ac- 
cording to the nature of the Country : And as their Anci- 
ents thought nothing more neceffary for the fupport of 
Mortals than the Gultivation of the Earth, fo they thought 
nothiiig more conducing to that, than a diligent obferva- 
tion of the. Sun and Stars, as they ad on thefe Sublunary 
Bodies. 
The Author next proceeds to give an account of certain 
Monuments of Stone^ of the Mgyptia^s^ Greek^s and Ro- 
mans 5 from which he ftrengthens what he has faid con- 
cerning the 1 2 Coeleftial Signs, and the Oeconomical Rea- 
fons*of them ; And next confiders the later Almanacks^ 
both thofe that were written on Parchment by Monks, or 
others, us'd in their Country when Ghriftianity was firft 
introduc'd there, about the year 8oo: the ufe of the Run- 
Jiafs being then by degrees taken away. And alfo the late 
printed Almanach^ introduc'd with Printing, and (hews 
what is retain d in them of the Coeleftial Signs of their 
Anceftors, together with their explication, thereby to con- 
firm what he had faid before. From the Signs of the 
Zodiack he paffes to the other Geleftial Signs, and fays he 
has fliewn in liis precedent Volumes, that many of them 
had a Northern Original. As for the time that tiie know- 
ledge of the Celeftial Bodies, under the likenefs and feign*d 
figures of Men and other Animals, came to the Greekjy 
Chaldeans and Mgyptians^ fome think Hercnles^ the Son of 
Thor or Jupiter and Alcmefia carried it to them : But ///- 
cian in his Trafl: of Aftrology fays this Knowledge is anci- 
ent, and the Invention of the Ancient Kings, whom the 
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