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A44885	A learned treatise of globes, both cœlestiall and terrestriall with their several uses / written first in Latine, by Mr. Robert Hues, and by him so published ; afterward illustrated with notes by Jo. Isa. Pontanus ; and now lastly made English ... by John Chilmead ...; Tractatus de globis et eorum usu. English	Hues, Robert, 1553-1632.; Chilmead, Edmund, 1610-1654.; Pontanus, Johannes Isacius, 1571-1639.; Molyneux, Emery.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3298; ESTC R1097	145,949	311

For whereas in his lib. 6. cap. 22. having discoursed of the M●…gnitude of the Isle Taprobane which is now thought to be Sumatra and lyeth directly under the line out of Eratosthenes and Megasthenes he presently adds that besides the testimony of the Antients the Romans had better knowledg of the same in the time of the Em●…eror Claudiu●… there being Embassadors sent from thence to Rome who among other things should relate that with them Gold Silver was in high account and that they had greater wealth then the Romans themselves but yet that the Romans had greater use of riches then they Which words of Pliny with many other there at large set down by him if they be but compared with what himself elsewhere writeth in his 2d book chap. 68. he will be found manifestly to contradict himself For disputing in this place and inquireing how great a part of the earth is inhabited Tres saith he terrae partes abstulisse nobis coelum c. Three parts of the world the Heaveus have robbed us of to wit the Torrid or middle Zone ●…bat is whatsoever lieth betwixt the two Tropiques and the two outmost or Frigid Zones that is to say whatever ground lieth betwixt either Pole and the Arctique and Antarctique circles According to that which the Poët sung of old Quarum quae media est non est habita bilis aestu Nix tegit alta duos In English thus The midst of these is not inhabited Through heat and two with snow are covered For this is that which Pliny meaneth that those two outwardmost are not habitable by reason of extremity of ●…old nor the other through too violent heat But that which is more to be wondred at in so great an Author who not withstanding indifferently took up aswel the common popular fables as the extravagant fixions of the Poëts also is that which he very confidently relates out of Corlius Nepos how that one Eudoxus taking Ship in the Arabian gulf came as farr as the Gades two Isles upon the confines of Spain Which voyage if we should but throughly examine wil be found to be as much 〈◊〉 that all the Fortugals and our Countrymen at this day performe in their Sea voyage to the East Ind●… when as touching upon the Cape of good hope they twice crosse the line and passe through the whole Torrid Zone Not to speak any thing of that which he writes in his first book twenty third Chapter Namely that there is never a yeare that India doth not suck out of the Romane Empire at the least 500000. Sestercies by sending in such commodities as they sell to the Romanes for an hundred times as much as they are worth in India And that there is yearly Traffique by Shippe through the Red Sea betwixt them and the Romanes who are saine for their safer passage to defend themselves from Pirats by going provided with bands of Archers And here all that can be said in Plinies defence is tha●…those things which he relates in this second book were written by him long before the rest which followeh and that at that time these Indian voyages were not so frequently undertaken or the passages so well known unto the Romans especially for that in the bookes following as namely the sixth book 17. and 23. Chapters he saith that the whole course of the voyage from Egypt into India began but then first to be discovered when as he was writing the same and that Seneca having not long before begun a description of India reckoned up therein 60. great rivers and 122. Nations to be contained within the same The principall cause of the habitablenesse and fortility of the parts under the Torrid Zone i●… in that the Sun shineth upon them but 12. houres so that the nights beeing alwayes as long as the daies the coldnesse of the one doth very much attemperate the excessive heat of the other In like manner that both the Frigid Zones are habitable is to be attributed to the Sun which in his course through the six Northern signes of the Zodiaque never sets in six months space so those that live under 84 degrees of latitude so that by his continuall presene●… the extream rigidity of the Clime i●… mitigated and the cold by this meanes dispelled CHAP. V. Of the Amphiseij Hereroscij and Periscij THe inhabitants of these Zones in respect of the diversity of their noonshadowes are divided into three kinds Amphis●…ij Heteroscij and Periscij Those that inhabit betwixt the two Tropiqu●…s are called Amphiscij because that their noon shadowes are diversly cast sometime toward the South as when the Sun is more Northward then their Verticall point and sometimes toward the North as when the Sun declines Southwa●… from their Zenith Those that live betwix the Tropiques and A●…ct que circles are called Heteroscij because the shadowes at noon are cast onely one way and that ●…ither North or South For the Sun never comes farther North then our Summer Tropick nor more Southward then the Winter Tropick So that those that inhabit Northward of the Summer Tropique have their shadowes cast alwayes toward the North as in like manner those that dwell more Southward then the Winter Tropick have their Noon-shadows cast alwaies coward the South Those that inhabit betwixt the Arctique or Antarctique circles and the Poles are called Periscij because that the Gnomons do cast their shadowes circularly and the reason hereos it for that the Sun is carried round about above their Horizon in his whole diurnall Revolution PONT The Heterosciall Zone is therefore two fold either Northern or Southern The Northern is comprehended betwixt the Tropique of Cancer and the Artik circle and ●…s called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Septentrionalis because that in it the Sun beames at noon are alwayes cast to that part only that byoth toward the ●…ole Articks The Southern Hetorosciall Zone containeth all that space of ground that lieth betwixt the Tropique of Capricorn and u●…e Antarctique circle And it is call●…d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Meridonalis because the Noon shadowes are proje●…ed toward the South Pole only The properties of these severall Zones are these that follow First they that inhabit the midst of the Torrid Zone are in a Right Sphaere for with them both the Poles of the world lie in their Horizon and their Zenith or Verticall point falleth in the AEquinoctiall Circle So that their peculiar Accidents are these First All the S●…arres do rise and set in an equall space of time except the Arctique and Antarctique Poles as we have demonstrated out of Lerius in our notes upon the third Chapter Secondly They have a perpetuall AEquinoxe Thirdly They have the Sun verticall unto them twice in a yeare namely when hee entered into ♈ and ♎ Fourthly In the Suns periodicall motion through the Zodiaque look how much he goeth Southward from their Zenith in his returne hee declines as farr northward srom the same Fi●…thly They have

on every side ●…quidistant from the Horzion is commonly ●…ailed Zenith but the Arabians name it Se●…th But the former corrupted name hath yet ●…revailed so that it is always used among Wri●…ers generally And that point which is oppo●…ite to it in the lower Hemisphaere the Arabians●…all ●…all Nathire but it is commonly written Nadir These two points are called also the Poles of the Horizon Furtheremore upon the superficies of the Ho●…izon in a materiall Globe there are described first the twelve Signes of the Zodiaque and ●…ach of these is again divided into twenty lesser portions so that the whole Horizon is divided ●…nto 360. parts which they also call degrees And if every degree be div●…ded into sixty parts ●…lso each of them is called a Scruple or Minute and so by the like subdivision of Minut●…●…nto fixty parts will arise Seconds and of these Thirds and likewise Four h●… and Fifths c. by the like partition still of each into ●…xty parts PONT In the midst among these Signes are there described certain Characters to denote the particular Planet to whose dominion each Sig●… doth appertain Next to this there is another Section wherein are set down the severall day●… of every week after that followeth the number of the dayes of every Moneth throughout th●… whole yeare Besides this number of the day●…s each of them hath in their severall orders some one of these three letters affixed K. N. I. signifying the Kalends Nones and Ides which tearmes the Ancient Romans used in their accounts to sign●… fie the dayes of every Moneth For they did 〈◊〉 reckon as wee doe now from the first day of every Month to the 30. or 31. of the same but their account was according to the Kalendes None●… and Ides So that the first of each Month w●… the Kalends and the rest of the dayes of the same month were not reckoned forward but after a retrograde manner As for example The last day of December with us is the 31. They called the second of the Kalends or January and the 30. of the same month the third of the Kalends of January Thus reckoning backward till they came to the Ides which was the foureteenth of December and the nineteenth of the Kalends of January The like order they observed in the Ides and Nones also Now what months have more or fewer Kalends or Nones may be found upon the Horizon as we have said and as may be gathered also out of these old verses Majus sex Nonas October Julius Mars Quatuor at reliqui Tenet Idus quilibet octo Ind dies reliquos dic omnes esse Calendas There is also described upon the Horizon the Romane Calendar And that three several waies ●…o wit the ancient way which is still in use ●…ith us here in England and the new way ap●…ointed by Pope Gregory 13. Wherein the E●…uinoxes Solstices were restored to the same ●…laces wherein they were at the time of the ce●…ebration of the Councell of Nice and in the ●…hird the said Equinoctial and Solsticial points ●…re restored to the places that they were in at ●…he time of our Saviour Christs nativity The ●…onths in the Calender are divided into dayes ●…nd weekes to which are annexed as their pe●…uliar characters the seven first letters of the Latine Alphabet Which manner of designing ●…he dayes of the moneth was first brought in by Dionysius Exigum a Romane Abbot after the Councell of Niee The innermost border of the Horizon is divided into 32. parts according to the number ●…f the winds which are observed by our mode●…ne Sea-fareing men in their Navigations by ●…hich also they are wont to designe forth the ●…uarters of the Heavens the coasts of Coun●…ries For the Ancients observe but foure ●…inds only to which were after added foure ●…ore but after ages not content with this ●…umber increased it to twelve and at ●…ength they brought it to twenty foure as 〈◊〉 is notes And now these latertimes ha●…e ●…ade them up thirty two the names whereo●… ●…oth in English and Latine are set down in the ●…he Horizon of Materiall Globes PONT The true Horizon is either Rational or Sensible The Rationall or Intelligible Horizo●… divide th the Sphaere into two equall parts exactly and these are called the upper and the lower Hemisphaeres The sensible or apparent Horizon is s●… called because it only seemes to divide the Heavens into two equall parts or Hemisphaeres whereas indeed it doth not divide it so exactly but only seemeth so to doe The Rationall Horizon is also called the artificiall because that it was brought in for the use of Astronomy The use of the Horizon is manifold First it divides the Heavens into two Hemisphaeres Secondly it sheweth what Starres never set and so what never rise from under the Earth and so likewise what Stars do both rise and set Thirdly it shewes the cause of the equality and in equality of the artificiall dayes and nights Fourthly it condueeth to the finding out of the latitude of any place Fifthly it is the cause of the Rectitude and obliquity of the Sphare whereof we have occasion to speak more largely hereafter There is also let into this Horizon two notches opposite one to the other a circle of brasse making right angles with the said Horizon and placed so that it may be moved at pleasure up and down by those notches a●… need shall require This circle is called the Meridian because that one side of it which is in like manner divided in 360. degrees supplyeth the office of the true Meridian Now the Meridian is one of the greater circles passing through the Poles of the world and also of the Horizon to which when the Sun in his daily revolution is arrived in the upper Hemisphaere it is midday and when it toucheth the same in the lower Hemisphaere it is midnight at that place whose Meridian it is These two circles the Horizon and Meridian are various and mutable in the Heavens and Earth according as the place is changed But in the materiall Globe they are made fixed and constant and the earth is made moveable that so the Meridian may be applyed to the verticall point of any place PONT The us●…s of the Meridian are these especially First It determineth the paynt of mid-day and midnight whence the Astronomers begin the day alwayes from the Circle Secondly in the Meridian is observed the Zenith or v●…rticall point of places whence afterward the distances of Stars and Parallel circles are gathered Thirdly The Longitude and Latitude of places are taken from hence Fourthly It shewes the greatest elevation of the Sun and other Starrs which elevation is called their Meridian Altitude Fifthly By the Meridionall elevdtion of the Sun when hee is in the AEquinoctiall point may be found out the eleuation of thé Pole and habitude or position of the Sphaere For the quarter of a circle being 90. degrees if then we substract the Mer●…dionall Altitude of