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Antipodes are those whose feet are directly against ours; as if a line were drawn from one through the centre of the earth to the other.
And this shall suffice for an explanation of things, which I have done as briefly as I could for the advantage of the reader; to whom possibly, these things so necessary to be known, may have hitherto been concealed.
Of the Planetary Days and Hours, and how to know what Planet a Man is born under.
The planetary hours are those hours in which each planet reigns, and has the chief dominion: of which the ancients gave the following account.
Saturn is lord on Saturday-Jupiter lord on Thursday-Mars is lord on Tuesday-Sol is lord on Sunday—Mercury on Wednesday-Venus on Friday-and Luna on Monday.
On Saturday, the first hour after midnight, Saturn reigns, the second Jupiter, the third Mars, the fourth Sol, the fifth Venus, the sixth Mercury, and the seventh Luna; and then again Saturn the eight, and so on to Mars the 24th; and then Sol beginneth the first hour after midnight on Sunday, Venus the 2d, and so on; Luna the first on Monday, and Saturn the 2d; Mars the first on Tuesday, Sol the 2d, and so forward, planet by planet, according to their order, by which every planet reigns the first hour of his own day; and so likewise the eighth, fifteenth, and twenty-second; as for instance Saturn reigns the first hour, the eighth, fifteenth, and twenty-second, on Saturday, Sol the same hours on Sunday, Luna the same on Monday, Mars the same on Tuesday, Mercury the same on Wednesday, Jupiter the same on Thursday, and so Venus on Friday, which I have thus set.
