his Successors Antigonus and Seleucus Nicator; and accordingly
things fell out as they declar'd; which we shall relate
particularly hereafter in a more convenient time. They tell
likewise private Men their Fortunes so certainly, that those who
have found the thing true by Experience, have esteem'd it a
Miracle, and above the reach of man to perform. Out of the Circle
of the Zodiack they describe Four and Twenty Stars, Twelve
towards the North Pole, and as many to the South.

"Those which we see, they assign to the living; and the other
that do not appear, they conceive are Constellations for the
Dead; and they term them Judges of all things. The Moon, they
say, is in the lowest Orb; and being therefore next to the Earth
(because she is so small), she finishes her Course in a little
time, not through the swiftness of her Motion, but the shortness
of her Sphear. In that which they affirm (that she has but a
borrow'd light, and that when she is eclips'd, it's caus'd by the
interposition of the shadow of the Earth) they agree with the
Grecians.

"Their Rules and Notions concerning the Eclipses of the Sun are
but weak and mean, which they dare not positively foretel, nor
fix a certain time for them. They have likewise Opinions
concerning the Earth peculiar to themselves, affirming it to
resemble a Boat, and to be hollow, to prove which, and other
things relating to the frame of the World, they abound in
Arguments; but to give a particular Account of 'em, we conceive
would be a thing foreign to our History. But this any Man may
justly and truly say, That the Chaldeans far exceed all other Men
in the Knowledge of Astrology, and have study'd it most of any