_Here followeth the second part of Doctor Faustus his life, and
practices, until his end_
Doctor Faustus having received denial of his Spirit, to be resolved any
more in such-like questions propounded; forgot all good works, and fell
to be a Calendar maker by help of his Spirit; and also in short time
to be a good Astronomer or Astrologian: he had learned so perfectly
of his Spirit the course of the Sun, Moon, and Stars, that he had the
most famous name of all the Mathematicks[20] that lived in his time;
as may well appear by his works dedicated unto sundry Dukes and Lords:
for he did nothing without the advice of his Spirit, which learned
him to presage of matters to come, which have come to pass since his
death. The like praise won he with his Calendars, and Almanacs making,
for when he presaged upon any change, Operation, or alteration of the
weather, or Elements; as wind, rain, fogs, snow, hail, moist, dry,
warm, cold, thunder, lightning: it fell so duly out, as if an Angel of
heaven had forewarned it. He did not like the unskilful Astronomers
of our time, that set in Winter cold, moist, airy, frosty; and in the
Dog-days, hot, dry, thunder, fire, and such-like: but he set in all his
works, day and hour, when, where, and how it should happen. If anything
wonderful were at hand, as death, famine, plague, or wars, he would set
the time and place in true and just order, when it should come to pass.
[Footnote 20: i.e. Mathematicians.]