Aftronbmers obferved alfo this new fUmmem l which Was cal- 
led by them Nebnkfa in Cingulo Andromeda, C oncerning which© 
he notes , that the fame had been already feen many years before 
by Simon Marius^ vid, An. 1612. when with a Tele [cope he fearch’d 
for the Sate Hits of Jupiter , and obferved their motions ; alledging 
for proof hereof, the faid Authors own words, out of hisownBook, 
Be Mundo Joviali^ publifbt An. 1614 . And farther fhews , that 
it hath formerly appear’d (about 150 . years ago) and been taken 
notice off by an expert, though Anonymous, Aftronomer 5 whofe 
words he cites our of a Manufcript , brought out of Holland by 
the Excellent Jacobus Augustus Thuanus , returning from his Em- 
bafty to P ar is 5 wherein alfo was marked the Figure of that Phano - 
reprefented in print by our Author : who from all this cob 
menon , 
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lefts., that, whereas this Star hath been feen formerly, and than 
150, years fince , but yet neither obferved by Hipparchus , nor any 
other of the Antients, that we can find 5 nor alfo in the former 
Age by Tycho Brahe , nor in our Age , by Bayer us 5 and appear’d 
alfo in the Month of November laft (wherein he wrote this 7h?fr) 
much leffened and obfcure , after it had, two years ago , flione ve- 
ry bright 5 that therefore it muft needs appear and dif- appear by 
turns , like thofe in the Necks of the Whale and Swan. 
I I. E N T RI E N S fur les Vies et fur les Outrages Des 
plus excellens Peintres Anciens et: Modernes , par Monfieur, 
ME LIB IEN. 
This Author, having firft difcourfed of that Royal Pallace the 
Louvre , and theDefignsof ftniffiing it $ paffes on to the Art o£ 
Picturing y and treats of the three principal things , wherein a good 
Mafter of the Art muft excel , vid. the Compofition , Designing, 
and Laying on of Colours, which done, he ravels into the Ori- 
gine , and deduces theProgrefs of Painting , and relates what is 
raoft remarkable in theLives of the Antieit Painters : And among 
many particulars, he obferves in the Life of Andreas de Sarte y 
how difficult it is , to judge well of a Pifture 5 relating, that a Duke 
of Mantua , having obtained of Clement VII. a Pourtrait of 
Leo X, which had been done by RaphaclUrbin , and was at Eld* 
re nee } . thofe of that Town being unwilling to lofe fo excellent a 
