Of OXFO'RS>'S Hl%E. 225 
heeded but the abatement of eight infix hundred, his true/fr/W 
confifting of 592 years, and that (according to Geminus) of whole 
jears^ whole months^ and whole dajs^ as a period ought to do', 
viz^ of 592 intire folar jenrs^ 7322 entire ?7?(9;z//;j- (whereof 218 
are intercalary') 216223 entire days^ and 30889 entire weekj^ 
defining every Lunar month to confift of 29 days, i2\ 44, 3 , 12 , 
44"", 3\ I 2^". And the filar year of 365 ^/^ji, 5^, 47', 50', 1 6 , & 
; or 5'' and ; or 365 days and part of a J^rj/ ; So that the 
whole period^ or $92 Lydiateanyears^ do anticipate fo many Julian 
ones by five i^/T)/^. 
19. According to this /^erzW found out in >l^o 1605. exceed- 
ingthe Dionyfian but 60 years^ he calculated the middle motions 
of the feven Planets for the ninefiri^ periods entirely, and the tenth 
fo far forth as it had gon in his time ; (fome MSo fragments uf 
which c^i/cwtoows- I hadlately inmy poiTeiTion, but now difpofed 
of to the WoriliipfulDr. Lanphire^ Principal of Hart -hall ^cd.r&- 
fulty to be preferved amongftthe reft of his writings. )And in An^ 
1620. viz^ in the laftyear of the firfthalf of his tenthperiod^ he 
put it forth, with his Menologium^ or reformation of the Caleii- 
daVj which he oppofed to the new ^ but confufed, abfurd, and 
f2Ll^e Pontifical Gregorian year ^ contrived by the fumptuous Col- 
lege of Mathematicians at Rome ; and defended itagainft the ob- 
tradations o^Jofeph Scaliger^^ a man, 'tis true, of great Learning, 
but withal fo confident and imperious, fo abufive and afluming, 
that whenever he wanted Arguments for the fupport of his 
caufe, he always fought revenge upon the perfon of his Ad- 
verfary, 
20. Whicli was manifeftly the cafe of modeft Lydiat^ whom 
in an Epiflle to Richard Thomfin (his correfpondent in England) 
he calls, the great eft jnonjier that ever England produced"" ; and in 
another to the fame Thomfin^ the veryeft fool in the whole world. 
and that 'twas below his dignity^ nor had he leifure to write againft 
fuch a Beetle But herein (as the Reverend Dr. Heylin very well 
notes in another cafe) we muft pardon Jofiph \for hadnotfiorn and 
contempt heenpart of his Effence^ he had neither been a Scaliger, nor 
the fin cf Julius", who fcrupled not to pafs this rafh cenfure on 
the whole EngUJh Nation ; that we are, Perfidi^ infilati^ fieri, con- 
' Periodus debet comprehendere, 'oXtt,? it^iipj,',, aAs? fi«»«<, j^cAsj cm«««^t»,'. Gem'mus hi libro ^MvofB/jav. 
k Vid. Lyd!atiSolis(^ Lunaperiodum, inTitu(o. ' J,if. Scaligeri Ejiifiolar.lil>. -3,. Eoijt. 22,0. * "^of Sea- 
^§er. EfiSlol. lib, 3. BpSi' 24.1. " Cojmogra^b. in CM- Ajfyr, <^ Mejopot. fub finem. 
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