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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19376	The arte of nauigation conteyning a compendious description of the sphere, with the making of certayne instruments and rules for nauigations, and exemplifyed by many demonstrations. Written by Martin Cortes Spanyarde. Englished out of Spanishe by Richard Eden, and now newly corrected and amended in diuers places.; Breve compendio de la sphera y de la arte de navegar. English	Cortés, Martín, 1532-1589.; Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576.	1589 (1589)	STC 5802; ESTC S111167	116,085	174

from the Tropike of Cancer to the Circle Artyke they called inhabited or habitable And to haue more perfect knowledge hereof it is to imagine that the earth is diuided proportionally into fyue Regions or Portions which answeare directly to the sayd fyue Zones as sayth the Poet Ouid in this Uerse Totidemque plage tellure praemuntur That is And so many Regions are on the earth beneath Euery of these Regions or portions of the earth is situate vnder one of the fiue Zones aforesayd But whereas certayne men of aucthoritie haue moued the question whether the earth vnder the Zone from the Tropike of Cancer to the Circle Antartyke is desart or no Ptolomie and the Astronomers affyrme that it is vnpeopled But Aristotle Ouid in the second of his Metamorphoses Plinie also and Iohn de Sacro bosco affyrme the contrary as for the more certaintie thereof we knowe the experience of such as goe and come dayly from those partes Moreouer then this we knowe that that lande is not onely well replenished with people of good corporature and of white colour but the same to be also very rych in Golde For they that sayle to the East Indies touch in the cape of Buena speranza or Caput bone Spei which is in this Zone Likewyse the land of Brasile and the confynes of Rio de la Plata with all the coast vnto the straights of Magalianes euen vnto the 54. degrees of the south part This lande was discouered by Magalianes in the yeere 1520● or 1521. whereby that is now we●l knowen by sight whereof Ptolome had no knowledge by heare say The ●●rnt Zone called Torrida Zona they also described to be vnhabitable by reason of the greate heate thereof as Aristotle P●inie and in maner all other ancient aucthors affirme whereof the Poet Virgil wryteth thus Quinque tenent coelum Zonae quarum vna corrusco Semper sole rubens torrida semper ab igne Which in the English tongue is thus much to say in effect In Zones fyue the heauens conteyned be Whereof the one with burning Sunne is red Scorching the Earth subiect to his degree That for the heate thereof it is vnhabited Lykewyse Ouide in his Metamorphoses toucheth the same saying Quarum quae media est torrida semper ab igne c. Yet that the burnt zone is inhabited and well replenyshed wyth people that lyue there we knowe so certaynely by the number of them that dayly passe too and fro the Indies of your Maiestie discouered in your most happie dayes that to say any thing to the contrary it should be a manifest errour and therefore is it greatly to be marueyled that certayne wise men haue affirmed these parts to bee vnhabitable whereas neuerthelesse they had knowledge of Arabia Foelix Aethiopia Tabrobana and dyuers other Regions situate vnder the burnt Zone Plinie wryteth that a Ship came from the sea of Percia by the Ocean round about Ethiope and came to the pyllers of Hercules which is now the Citie of Cadiz where at this present I write this briefe treatise They of Guinca Calicut Gatigara and Malaca lyue all vnder the burnt Zone and many of them lyue very long And doubtlesse many things ought to perswade vs that vnder the burnt zone the earth is furnished with all thynges perteyning to the lyfe of man for that in that region or portion of the earth is in maner continuall Equiuoctiall and the coldnesse of the night doth sufficiently temper the heate of the day Agayne they that inhabite vnder that Zone haue two Sommers and two Winters in the yeere whereby is concluded that the auncient aucthours erred not onely in affyrming this Zone to be vnhabitable by reason of the great heat thereof but in lyke maner erred in affyrming the Zone that is betweene the circle Articke and the pole Articke to be also vnhabited by reason of great cold The contrary whereof we may well affyrme knowing as we knowe that Island with part of Gothland Norway Russia and dyuers other Lands are inhabited and well peopled This is the figure and demonstration which foloweth The xvij Chapter of longitude and latitude and of the proportion which the lesse circles haue to the great circle THE Sphere or globe of the earth is also diuided in breadth and in length The breadth which is called latitude is by degrees for from the Equinoctiall to eyther of the two poles is 90. degrees The length which is called longitude is by the degrees of the Equinoctiall which is diuided in ●60 degrees The fyrst degree of longitude doth begin at a certaine Meridian which passeth by the Ilands of the Canares called the fyxed Meridian and the order of the numbring of the sayd longitude is alwayes toward the East By euery degree of the sayd longitude in the Equinoctiall may be vnderstanded a great circle called Meridian to passe eche one of them passyng and meeting the poles of the world so that the sayd great circles or meridians doth diuide euery paralel or lesse circle proportionally into 360. degrees but we must not vnderstand these degrees to be equall that is to say as great in one circle as in another for the greater the circle is the greater is the degree in it and the greater the paralel is the nearer it is vnto the Equinoctiall lyne Euery degree of the Equinoctiall conteyneth in longitude 60. minutes so likewise it is to be vnderstanded of the degrees of latitude which be diuided ech one into 60. minutes of latitude because the degrees and minutes in the great circles doo not differ in theyr bignesse the one from the other but the degrees in the paralels as they are distaunt from the Equinoctiall and come neare to eyther of the two Poles they diminish consequently so that one degree in the paralel of 7. degrees of latitude doth make in quantitie but 59. minutes and 33. seconds of the Equinoctial circle and to one degree in the paralel of 12. degrees of latitude goeth but 58. minutes and 41. seconds of the Equinoctial and to one degree in the paralel of 16. degrees of latitude there goeth 57. minutes and 41. seconds The Table of minutes which euery degree conteyneth in euery of the paralelles G M S G M S G M S G M S G M S G M S 1 59 59 16 57 41 31 51 26 46 41 41 61 29 5 76 14 31 2 59 58 17 57 23 32 50 53 47 40 55 62 28 10 77 13 30 3 59 55 18 57 4 33 50 19 48 40 9 63 27 14 7● ●2 2● 4 59 51 19 56 44 34 49 45 49 39 22 64 26 18 79 11 27 5 59 46 20 56 23 35 49 9 50 38 34 65 25 21 80 10 25 6 59 40 21 56 1 36 48 32 51 37 46 66 24 24 81 9 23 7 59 33 22 55 38 37 47 55 52 36 56 67 23 27 82 8 21 8 59 25