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A85921	The first lecture touching navigation read publiquely at Sr. Balthazar Gerbiers accademy. Imprimatur, Hen: Scobell, Cleric: Parliamenti.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1649 (1649)	Wing G560; Thomason E584_4; ESTC R206225	10,353	24

perfection to saile withall so that the famous Captaine Bias was seene in the Peloponensian War both with Ships Charricks and Gallies Solomon King of Jerusalem sent two Ships into Tharsis which both went and returned each third yeare and brought Gold Silver Ivory and divers other things Julius Solinus sayes that all the Meridian Sea which embraces Africa was sayled about from the Indies to Spaine Pliny writes in his second Booke the threescore and seventh Chapter that in his time all the circuit of Spaine and France was sayled about and likewise all the West Before Plato's time there were Vessels that sayled from the Isle of Cadiz which is at the entry of the Straits of Gibraltar to the East Indies When Tiberius Caesar did governe the Empire there were seene in the Arabian Sea ensignes of Vessels floating which the Spaniards had lost In the time of Augustus Caesar the greatest part of the Ocean Sea was sayled through When Seleucus and Antiochus did reigne all the coast of the Caspian Sea was sayled through and knowne by the Macedonian Armies The King of Switzerland gave to Metellus some Indians which sayling with Merchandises were driven by a Tempest from their Country to Germany In the time of the Teutonicall Emperours there were East Indian Embassadours found on the Germaine coast which were driven thither by the violence of the wind Some Authors write of great numbers and multitude of Ships which were in ancient times as those of the Assyrians Persians Grecians c. Homer writes that the Grecian Navie which came to Troy consisted of one thousand one hundred and fourescore Ships Xerxes King of Persia came with five thousand five hundred Ships seven hundred thousand men and three hundred thousand of his friends and allies to the destruction of Greece and being come to the Pontick Sea he made a Bridge of Ships over it on the which he passed with his Army The use of Navigation IS cheifly to descry the dangers which are by the way as Rocks Sands and such other like impediments and to know how to avoid them How far the places are distant what wind or point of the Compasse serves to fail unto them and also when the windes fall out crosse by the way to consider how to direct the Vessell and to take the most advantagious course to attaine unto the intended Port in a convenient time And if any stormes happen by the way to indeavour the preservation of both Ship and goods and to bring her safe unto the Port assigned How to fore-see Stormes by the Signes of the Sunne and Moone SEverall stormes both at high winds and troubled raging Seas often fall out whereby both the losse of ships and perill of the Sea mens lives are threatned and other eminent dangers We will declare by what signes they may bee foreseen and first by observations on the Sunne At the sunne rising if you perceive before it reddish Clouds and that they drive some towards the North and some towards the South signifies winds and great Raines If before the sunne rising you see some round clouds hover about it withdrawing towards the South after that the Sunne is risen it signifies great cold but if they doe withdraw towards the Sunne setting they signifie faire weather When the Sun spreads its beams far through the Aire and that there seems to be some hollownesse in it near the middle of the Sunne that signifies Raine When ere the Sunne rises its beames are perceived that signifies Raines and Winds When the Sun sets having its circle white that signifies stormes for the night insuing When the Sun is faire and cleare without casting any extraordinary heates at its rising that signifies a faire and cleare day If it seemes to be yellow it then signifies rain and Haile Severall signes by the Moone THe Egyptians observe the fourth day of the Moone and if then she is resplendent with a clear light they infer then that it signifies faire weather That when the Moon is red it then signifies winds That when she is browne and darkned it then signifies raine When at the Full Moone it is cleare and bright in the middle they say then that it signifies Faire weather When at the Full Moone it hath a Circle about it It s then a signe that the wind will proceed from that part where she is most resplendent At the New Moone and that her Hornes are thicke and dusky that signifies a storme If at the eleventh day of the Moones age she appears with a flamy colour it then signifies stormes Certiane other signes by which stormes at Sea are usually forefeene WHen from the top of woods or forrests a noise of wind is heard and that those who are out of the wood feele no wind it signifies infallibly a great ensuing storme When the sea being calme is heard to murmure within it selfe it signifies that great winds are towards When the Dolphins shew themselves and play above the waves it is the sign of an ensuing storm which you must expect from that part whence the Dolphin first appeared When the Sea Meews flye landward and abandon the Sea it is the signe of a storme When the Rain-Bow appeares in the South it signifies great showers Appearing towards the West it s only a signe of Dew or Mists But being seen in the East it is a signe of fair and cleare weather What the wind is its qualities and how it s ingendred THe wind is an evaporation of the Earth which asscends above the Aire whose vapour is hot and dry and the which pierces the Aire by its subtilty for as the wind in its species is of a subtle vapour and that the Nature of subtle things is to ascend therefore its ascents are made by the subtle vapours of the Earth from whence it is driven back again about the Earth by the coldnesse of the middlemost Regions ayre So that the off-Spring and motion of the wind proceeds from above and its matter from beneath At the beginning the winds have no great force but the farther they blow the more they increase in strength because of the new exhalations which are mingled with them As it happens in Floods which though but little in their births yet do augment and continually increase by the reception of new additionall waters When two contrary winds meet the weakest always yeelds unto the strongest and this makes a whirle-wind which causes the losse of Ships when they chance to be under the power of such a Whirle-wind The exhalations of which the winds are made do not on the suddaine yeeld to the Clouds which they meete with in the Aire but strive to overcome them and so to force their passage for their ascent and so it happens that ere they blow here beneath we see the Clouds above move by the agitation of the winds And because the winds are composed of different matters and qualities to those which forme the Raine they cannot last long together but alwayes struggle and strive untill they have overcome each other And Raine most commonly gets the better unlesse the wind be provided with a great quantity of matter and substance Nor can the winds maintaine it selfe against the vehemency of extreame heats nor against the rigour of extreame cold because the vehemency of heat disperses and dissipates it and the rigour of the cold congeales and closes it up with the Clouds and afterwards reduceth it into Raine The Divine providence of God in the creation and disposition of the winds is worthy to be admired not because the ambition of men have made thereof an Instrument and scourge to ruine themselves by abusing thereof as most men do most imprudently and vainly As Xerxes King of Persia did who though he passed the Seas to go to Greece yet could he not vanquish it though he had in a manner covered it with Souldiers So Alexander who having passed the Indies yet would have searcht for something more even beyond the great Sea and it greived him to heare that hee was at the worlds ends But as for the incomprehensible bounty of God who hath disposed of the windes into so many parts for the preservation of the Earth and Aire in a sweet temperance for the bringing in of Raines and afterwards the driving of them back both for the nourishing of Fruits Seeds and all fruit Trees which by the agitation of the winds and other causes are ripened giving likewise nourishment to the Corne which it ripens and preserves from drying and withering Usefull likewise to Man towards the discovery of Forraigne parts and remote Countryes unto which unlesse a man should travell he should be farre more ignorant then many bruite beasts wanting the experience of divers things which conduce towards the bettering of his understanding c. The End of the first Lecture concerning NAVIGATION