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Indago Aſtrologica.
Sect. 1.
THe old Hypotheſis of the World according to Ptolemy is found to be falſe, and that new one of Copernicus (where the ☉ is the immovable Centre of the Univerſe, and the Earth moved in the ſaid Orb which Ptolemy gave the ☉) is evinced to be the onely true one.
Sect. 2.
Notwithſtanding this eviction in behalf of Copernicus, the Aſpects are by all Aſtronomers yet calculated according to the old Syſteme of Ptolemy, as if the Earth were the Center, which the motions of the Planets and by conſequence the Aſpects did reſpect. So that though Aſtronomy be corrected, yet Aſtrology (which judges moſtly by Aſpects) remains yet uncorrected. Inaſmuch as
Sect. 3.
The Aſpects ought to be calculated (as the Schools ſpeak) as they are; not quoad nos, but quoad naturam (A diſtinction that ſuits marvellouſly well with our preſent purpoſe, better a great deal then with their priority and notiority.) For
