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the right line BbP. Next suppose the Earth to be moved from B to C, and Jupiter from B to C, in the same time; Iupiter shall appear to have passed in the Zodiack to Q, and to have moved straight forwards, according to the order of the signes PQ. In the next place, the Earth passing to D, and Iupiter to D, it shall be seen in the Zodiack in R, and from E, Iupiter being come to E; will appear in the Zodiack in S, having all this while moved right forwards. But the Earth afterwards beginning to interpose more directly between Iupiter and the Sun, she being come to F, and Iupiter to F, he will appear in T, to have already begun to return apparently back again under the Zodiack, and in that time that the Earth shall have pased the arch EF, Iupiter shall have entertained himself between the points ST, and shall have appeared to us almost motionlesse and stationary. The Earth being afterwards come to G, and Iupiter to G, in opposition to the Sun, it shall be visible in the Zodiack at V, and much returned backwards by all the arch of the Zodiack TV; howbeit that all the way pursuing its even course it hath really gone forwards not onely in its own circle, but in the Zodiack also in respect to the centre of the said Zodiack, and to the Sun placed in the same. The Earth and Iupiter again continuing their motions, when the Earth is come to H, and Iupiter to H, it shall seem very much gone backward in the Zodiack by all the arch VX. The Earth being come to I, and Iupiter to I, it shall be apparently moved in the Zodiack by the little space XY, and there it will seem stationary. When afterwards the Earth shall be come to K, and Iupiter to K; in the Zodiack he shall have passed the arch YN in a direct motion; and the Earth pursuing its course to L, shall see Iupiter in L, in the point Z. And lastly Iupiter in M shall be seen from the Earth M, to have passed to A, with a motion still right forwards; and its whole apparent retrogadation in the Zodiack shall answer to the arch SY, made by Iupiter, whilst that he in his own circle passeth the arch EI, and the Earth in hers the arch EI. And this which hath been said,Retrogradations more frequent in Saturn, lesse in Jupiter, and yet lesse in Mars, and why. is intended of Saturn and of Mars also; and in Saturn those retrogradations are somewhat more frequent than in Jupiter, by reason that its motion is a little slower than that of Jupiter, so that the Earth overtaketh it it in a shorter space of time; in Mars again they are more rare, for that its motion is more swift than that of Jupiter. Whereupon the Earth consumeth more time in recovering it. Next as to Venus and Mercury,The Retrogradation of Venus and Mercury demonstrated by Apollonius and Copernicus. whose Circles are comprehended by that of the Earth, their stations and regressions appear to be occasioned, not by their motions that really are such, but by the anual motion of the said Earth, as Copernicus exellently demonstrateth,
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