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A68252	The strange and dangerous voyage of Captaine Thomas Iames, in his intended discouery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea VVherein the miseries indured both going, wintering, returning; and the rarities obserued, both philosophicall and mathematicall, are related in this iournall of it. Published by his Maiesties command. To which are added, a plat or card for the sayling in those seas. Diuers little tables of the author's, of the variation of the compasse, &c. VVith an appendix concerning longitude, by Master Henry Gellibrand astronomy reader of Gresham Colledge in London. And an aduise concerning the philosophy of these late discouereyes, by W.W.	James, Thomas, 1593?-1635?; Gellibrand, Henry, 1597-1636.; W. W. (William Watts), fl. 1633.	1633 (1633)	STC 14444; ESTC S109089	103,433	150

discretion as to know That he that shall in your hearings oppose your Aristotle does like the Ship here spoken of runne against a Rocke endanger his owne bulge and the stauing of his vessell No I so farre honour the old Aristotle that I well allow him to bee Master and Moderator of the Schooles and that there is the same respect due to him in the Schooles which by Reason and long Custome is due to one of the Kings Ships in the Narrow Seas That in acknowledgement of a Soueraignty euery other name ought to strike sayle to him Aristotle it must be confest hath made all learning beholding to him no man hath learned to confute him but by him and vnlesse hee hath plowed with his heyfer He had the most incomparable wit and was the most Logicall and demonstratiue deliuerer of himselfe of all the Sonnes of nature One who best of all deserued to be cald Her Principall Secretary one who not onely adornes a Library but makes it Qui habet Aristotelem habet Bibliothecam is truer of him then of the Great Comparer This is my opinion of him and I wish him more studyed T is not therefore the name or the authority of the great Aristotle that my Propositions meddle withall but whether his obseruations gathered out of this part of the world alone could like a royall Passe or a Commission carry a man all the world ouer It must be confest That in respect of the Equinoctiall and the Latitude that Aristotle liued in hee was but a Northern man and t was his owne Rule that Nihil agit extra Sphaeram actiuitatis suae So then it would bee put to voyces to consider whether he that knew but these Northerne parts and the Mediterranean Sea could possibly make such collections by what was here to be learned as should bee vnfaileable in the Southern Haemisphere and the two Indyes Plainely those that are conuersant in the nauigations and bookes of voyages into those parts haue found so many contrarieties to obserue that it were rather tedious then difficult to fill vp a Note-booke with them The Ancients wee know as if they had measured the world by the Yeard-wand restrained the limits of temperature and habitation by the fiue Zones without consideration of any interloping or concurring causes which experience hath now found out to haue quite altered their obseruation I adde that a good leisure and diligence might obserue how in the contrary part of the world there be found cleane contrary Causes and Effects vnto those in this part of the world The South-wind there brings cold and Winter and the North is the rainy wind How will the Thunder and the Wind be made agree with Aristotles definition of a Meteore In some places of the Mountaines Andes by Peru it thunders euer The East-Indyes haue their Monsons and their steady winds constant for sixe moneths together and who shall assigne their causes Then the doctrine of the Tydes nothing so vncertaine which ebbe and flow in some places different and in others contrary to the Moone and her motions This as I remember is Aristotles definition of a Meteore That it is An imperfect mixt body generated out of an infirme and inconstant concretion of the Elements which therefore cannot be durable Now the Monson is both constant in his continuance this yeere and in his returne next yeere most constantly keeping his seasons halfe yeere one way and halfe yeere another way for all ages nothing more constantly or durably and therefore nothing like Aristotles Meteore And so for the Thunder vpon the Andes it is first perpetuall secondly not caused by a dry exhalation as Aristotle wills but hanging ouer such hils as are couered with snow and a perpetuall winter Witnesse the Thunder on the Alpes also yea and that in the middle of the Sea 500. leagues from shoare or any thing that is dry yea it frequently both Snowes and Thunders vpon the Andes at one instant and in dry places that are hard by scarce euer Thundering But not to passe the Line for it You see in this little Booke how Charlton Iland which is no more Northerly then your Cambridge is yet so vnsufferably cold that it is not habitable and that there encounter so many different at least so seeming occurrences of nature as were well worth the disquisition of a Philosopher I could in my smal reading instance in many many other particulars which I had rather should be found out by some industrious searchers after Nature in the Moderne Relations of our Discoverers then in this my short Proposition T is not to be doubted but that the carefull reading of our Books of Voyages would more elucidate the History of Nature and more conduce to the improuement of Philosophy then any thing that hath beene lately thought upon These Navigations haue in part fulfilled that of the Prophet Many shall passe to and fro and knowledge shall be encreased This I suppose might be obserued from this study That the great and infinite Creator hath so disposed and varied euery thing that it is impossible for mans reason and obseruation to conclude him and therefore though vulgar and receiued Philosophie may giue a man a generall hint all the world ouer yet no Vniuersall and vnfayling certainty This brings mee to my Second Proposition That seeing God will not haue his works no more then his Kingdome to come by obseruation Whether then ought any humane dictates to be so Magisteriall as to prescribe against all other examination No humane study more conduces to the setting forth of Gods glory then the contemplation of his great workes in Philosophie for though a smattering knowledge in Second Causes warps the mind towards Atheisme yet a higher speculation of them brings about againe to Religion No man I beleeue will thinke it fit for vs to haue a Pope in Philosophie one that no body shall presume to censure of but all be bound to aduance his Decretalls aboue the Holy Scriptures This is the scandall that my selfe and diuers good men take at the vndue authority in some heates pinn'd vpon the Stagerite I am sorry that the Israelites dotage vpon Salomons Philosophie should haue caused the zealous Hezekiah to call in and to suppresse those vnualuable Physicks for feare I suppose lest their credit should haue as much derogated frō the authority of the Holy Scriptures as the brazen Serpent which he destroyed about the same time had done from Religion None will beleeue that Salomons Philosophie was contrary to the Scriptures seeing the Scripture commends Salomon for them T was not Hezekiahs feare therefore or not onely lest there might haue beene a competition betweene them but a neglect of one of them he was iealous lest the Scripture might haue any writing set vp by it though not against it Can Diuines then be blamed for speaking when they heare Aristotles Philosophy to be solely magnified and the study of the Scripture