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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85917	The first lecture concerning navigation. Read publickly at Sr. Balthazar Gerbiers academy, at Bednall-Greene.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1649 (1649)	Wing G556; Thomason E574_14; ESTC R206292	6,706	17

bottome for such a Motion doth not happen by accident but by the proper essence agreeing to its Forme Wherefore the Sea doth not overflow augment nor inlarge THe cause wherefore the Sea doth not overflow augment nor inlarge though ●o much water ingendreth in it and that it doth continually receive so many rivers and fountaine● Is that the Sea is the naturall receptable of all the waters and their retyring place and therefore it doth not overflow nor inlarge for a place cannot drive back nor hinder the en●rance of the thing which by nature ought to be in her since naturally the place ought to conforme it self with that which it incloses as the Sea which is capable to receive in her all the Rivers and neverthelesse ought not to overflow nor augment for their entrance Also the Sea doth not overflow because it is of such a vast extent that the Rivers are as nothing in consideration to it it s also because the heat of the Sun and the Air of the Wind consumes such a quantity of water that though the Sea continually eng●nders and that the Rivers incessantly enter into it God hath ordained that it should not lessen nor augment as it is written in Job Lord thou hast set a Limite the which it shall not passe The H●ly Writ sayes in Genesis that the water of the Deluge did rise 15 cubits over the highest Hils under the Heavens in so much that all the Earth was covered with water But though this increasing of water was so great yet neverthelesse the Sea did not overflow the earth going out of its Limi●es and bounds The increasing of the water did proceed of two causes the one wa● that the Windowes of Heaven were opened as the Text sayes and it rained on the earth fourty dayes and fourty nights exceedingly the Fountains Rivers and Currents did overflow in so much that the earth was covered therewith as beforesaid every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground except Noah who onely remained alive and they that were with him in the Ark and afterwards the same Text sayes That God made a winde to passe over the earth which abated the water The raine from Heaven was also restrained and the earth returned in its first being Of the Antiquity of Navigation GOD the Creator of the universall world did ordain the making of the first Vessell a● it is written in the six chapter of Genesiis that God commanded Noah to make an Ark of Gopher wood and to pitch it within and without with pitch The length of the Ark was of three hundred cubits the breadth of it fifty cubits and the height of it thirty cubits Those of Lydia were the first inventors of making of vessels but they had no other invention then to joyne one beam to another well nailled and well caulked Afterwards Epaminondas did set forth the vessels in perfection to Navigate The famous Captain Bias was in the war of Peloponesse with Ships Carricks and Galleyes S●lomon King of Jerusalem did send Vessels into Tharsis which went and came each third yeare and brought Gold Silver Ivory and divers other things Julus Solinus sayes that all the Meridien Sea which embraces Africque was navigated from the Indies to Spaine Plinie writes in the second Booke threescore and seven chapter that in his time all the circuit of Spaine and France was navigated and of all the Occident From the Isle of Cadiz which is at the entry of the Gibraltar straet to the Est Indian was navigated before Plato's time When Tiberius Caesar did govern the Empire there were seen in the Arabian Sea Ensignes of Vessels which the Spaniards had lost In the time of Augustus Caesar the greatest part of the Ocean Sea was navigated When Selucus and Antiocl●us did reign all the coast of the Caspien Sea was navigated and known by the Macedonian Armies The King of Switzerland gave to Metellus some Indians which navigating with Marchandiz●s were driven by a Tempest from their Country to Germany In the time of the Teutonickall Emperours there were Est-Indian Ambassadours found on the Germaine coast which were driven thither by the force of the wind Some Authors write of great number and multitude of Ships which were in the anc●ent times as those of the Assirians Persians Grecians c. Homer writes that the Grecian Navy which came to Troy had one thousand one hundred and fourscore ships Xerces King of Persia came with five thousand five hunderd Ships seven hunderd thousand men and three hunderd thousand of his Friends and Aliens to the Grecians destruction and when he came to the Ponticke Sea he made a Bridge of Ships over it on the which he passed with his Army The next Lecture concerning Navigation will be of its use How to foresee storms by the signes of the Sun and the Moon of Fires which appear when there are storms at Sea What the winde is and its qualities how it is engendered what the 32 points of the Compasse are to know by the Moon at what houre it doth flow or is full Sea And how to Saile by the Globe c. Saturday next God willing there shall be a Lecture of Fortification