Foscarini, Paolo Antonio, An epistle to fantoni, 1661

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              depth of all the Myſteries that are couched in this moſt wiſe
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              diſpoſure of things: nevertheleſſe being amazed, and tranſported
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              with admiration, I will ſay; Who knows but that thoſe three
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              Bowls like unto Almonds to be repreſented on each of the
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              Branches of the Candleſtick may ſignifie thoſe Globes which are
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              apter (as is this our Earth) for the receiving than emitting of Influ­
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              ences? </s>
              <s>Perhaps alſo they denote thoſe Globes of late diſcovered
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              by the help of the Optick Teleſcope, which participate with
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              Saturn, Jupiter, Venus,
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              and poſſibly alſo with the other Planets?
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              <s>Who knows likewiſe, but that there may be ſome occult propor­
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              tion between theſe Globes and thoſe Myſterious Knops and
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              Lilies inſinuated unto us in the ſacred Scriptures? </s>
              <s>But this
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              ſhall here ſuffice to bound humane Preſumption, and to teach us
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              to exſpect with an Harpocratick ſilence from Time, the Indice of
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              Truth, a diſcovery of theſe Myſteries:
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              (g) Solomon
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              made ten
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              Candleſticks by the ſame Patern of
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              Moſes,
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              which he placed, five
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              on one hand and five on another, in the Temple erected by him
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              in honour of the moſt High God; which very thing doth alſo,
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              without all queſtion, contain moſt abſtruſe ſigniſications. </s>
              <s>More­
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              over, that Apple of the Knowledg of Good and Evil prohibited
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              our firſt Parents by God is not without a Myſtery; which ſome
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              ſay was an Indian Figg. </s>
              <s>In which theſe things are to be obſerv­
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              ed: Firſt, That it is replete with many Kernels, every one of
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              which hath a particular Centre. </s>
              <s>Secondly, Though of it ſelf it
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              be hard and ſolid, yet about its Circumference it is of a more rare
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              and tenuouſe ſubſtance; herein reſembling the Earth, which
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              though in its Centre, and thoſe parts which are neareſt to it, it
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              be ſtony, Metallick, and compact, yet the nearer one approacheth
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              to the Circumference, its parts are ſeen to be the more rare and
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              tenuouſe: and withall it hath another body, more rare than its
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              own, namely the Water, above which there is yet another, more
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              ſubtil than all the reſt of inferiour Bodyes, that is to ſay,
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              the Aire,</s>
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              (a) Exod. </s>
              <s>25. 31.</s>
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              (b)
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              My Authour
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              following the vul­
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              gar Tranſlation,
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              which hath an E­
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              ligance in ſome
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              things beyond ours,
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              cites the words
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              thus,
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              Facies Can­
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              delabrum ducti­
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              le de auro mun­
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              diſſimo, Haſtile
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              ejus, & Calamos,
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              & Sphærulas, ac
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              Lilia, ex ipſo pro­
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              cedentia.</s>
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              (c)
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              verſe
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              12.</s>
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              (d)
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              or Spheres.
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              (e)
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              Though our
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              Authour ſpeaketh
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              here poſitively of
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              nine Months,
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              &c.
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              Fathers are not a­
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              greed about the pe­
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              riod of this planet,
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              nor that of
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              Mercu­
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              ry,
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              as you may ſee
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              at large in
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              Riccio­
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              lus, Almageſt. </s>
              <s>nov.
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              Tom. </s>
              <s>1. part 1. l.
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              <s>7. ſect. </s>
              <s>3. cha. </s>
              <s>11.
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              num. </s>
              <s>11. page 627.
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              where he maketh
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              Venus
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              to conſum­
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              mate her Revolu­
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              tion in neer 225
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              dayes, or 7 1/2 Mon.
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              <s>and
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              Mecury
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              in a­
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              bout 88 dayes, or 3
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              Months: in which
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              he followeth
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              Kepl.
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              in Epitome Aſtro­
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              nom. </s>
              <s>p.
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              760.</s>
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              (f)
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              verſ.
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              33, 34.</s>
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              (g) 1 Kings
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              c.
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              7.
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              v.
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              49. 2 Chron.
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              c.
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              4.
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              verſ.
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              7.</s>
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              <s>The ſame Repreſentation with that of the Indian Figg is held
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              forth to us by the
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              Malum Punicum,
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              or Pomegranate, with its
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              innumerable poly centrick Stones or Kernels, all which in the parts
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              more remote from their Centre, and nearer approaching towards
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              the Circumference, are of a ſubſtance ſo ſubtil and rare, that being
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              but lightly compreſſed, they in a manner wholly convert into a
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              moſt tenuoſe Liquor or juice: Of which fruit it pleaſed Divine
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              Wiſdom to make mention, and ordained that its Figure ſhould be
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              imbroidered and wrought with a needle in the
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              ſacerdotal
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              Garment
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              of
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              Aaron: (h) Beneath
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              (ſaith God)
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              upon the hem of it thou
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              ſhalt make Pomegranates of blew, and of purple, and of ſcarlet,
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              round about the border thereof; and Bells of gold between them
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