Whether Comets or blazing Stars be generally of such terrible effects, as elder times have conceived them; for since it is found that many, from whence these predictions are drawn, have been above the Moon; why they may not be qualified from their positions, and aspects which they hold with stars of favourable natures; or why since they may be conceived to arise from the effluviums of other Stars, they may not retain the benignity of their Originals; or since the natures of the fixed Stars are astrologically differenced by the Planets, and are esteemed Martial or Jovial, according to the colours whereby they answer these Planets; why although the red Comets do carry the portensions of Mars, the brightly-white should not be of the Influence of Jupiter or Venus, answerably unto _Cor Scorpii_ and Arcturus, is not absurd to doubt. * * * * * Printed by T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: Contemporary spellings are variable (e.g., than/then, there/their, current/currant) and are retained. See p. 90: "were ever commended for there note". The modern 'itself' and 'myself', etc. were printed as separate words (e.g., "our selves" on p. 132.) This is retained. The following errors have been corrected, or noted: p. 25 (_ut scribit Aristoteles[)]_ ) | added ) | p. 57 Why some lamps include[d] in those | added 'd' bodies | | p. 70 the teeth of [Narhwales] | sic | p. 148 the information of reason or [f/s]ence | isolated instance | of 's' as 'f' | -- changed. | p. 220 [by/but] this only roasted | corrected | p. 256 Based on Juvenal's Satires, line 305, | where we see: "Dolia >nudi< non ardent | Cynici;" rather than >magni<. | sic | p. 272 The marginal note "_Dion._ Ep. 7. ... | replaced '3' in vit. [3/S] Dionys." was misplaced. | with 'S' The numeral '3' is also a misprint for | 'S'. | | p. 290 in the [] 730 of the _Julian_ period | sic | p. 376 lo[n]gitudine | 'n' added End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Works of Sir Thomas Browne (Volume 2 of 3), by Thomas Browne