Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... than at its waning. Also the trees which be hewn at full moon are harder Of trees hewn, against wormeating and longer lasting than they which are hewn at the new moon The sea and the moon match one another always; they are fellows in waxing and in waning; and according as the moon daily riseth Of tides, four points later than it did on the previous day, so also the sea floweth four points later. OF THE VABIOUS STABS. Some men say that stars fall from heaven; but it Meteors, is not stars that then fall, but it is fire from the sky, atrc nf.xetl '- ' stars falling. which springeth off the heavenly bodies as sparks do from fire. In fact, there are as many stars still in heaven as there were at the beginning, when God created them. They all, for the most part, are fast in the firmament, and will not fall thence, while this world standeth. The Bun and the moon, and the The planets. evening star and the day star, and three other stars, are not fast in the firmament, but they have their own career apart. These seven are hight the seven planets; and I know that it will seem very incredible to un-Their orbits, -in beyond tne learned men if we speak precisely 01 the stars and of unlearned. their course. Arctos hight a constellation in the north part, which hath in it seven stars, and it is by another Great bear, name hight septentrio, which laymen call the churls wain. It goeth never down under this earth, as other constellations do, but it turneth at whiles down and at whiles up, during day and night. There is in the A similar consouth part another constellation like this, which we tne south, are never able to see. Two stars also stand still, one South and in the south part, another in the north part, which in pole" Latin are hight axis. The south...