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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04334	The nauigators supply Conteining many things of principall importance belonging to nauigation, with the description and vse of diuerse instruments framed chiefly for that purpose; but seruing also for sundry other of cosmography in generall: the particular instruments are specified on the next page.	Barlow, William, d. 1625.	1597 (1597)	STC 1445; ESTC S100864	53,601	102

of Miaco in Iapan I questioned with them concerning their shipping and maner of sayling They described all things farre different from ours and shewed that in steade of our Compas they vse a Magneticall Needle of sixe ynches long and longer vpon a pinne in a dish of white China earth filled with water In the bottome whereof they haue two crosse lines for the foure principall windes the rest of the diuisions being reserued to the skill of their Pilots Vpon which report of theirs I made present triall howe a Magneticall Needle would stand in water and found it to proue excellently well not doubting but that many conclusions of importance in Marine affaires will thereby more readily be performed I finde that as the Portugals traueiled in their very first discoueries for the East Indies they got a Pilote of Melinde that brought them from thence in 33. dayes within the sight of Calecute and had euen then in vse the Compas the Carde and the sownding line Ludouicus Vartomannus testifieth that in his voyage from Bornco vnto Giaua the Pilots of those Countreys had the vse of both Compas and Carde and had skill to take direction from the South Pole as ours doe from the North euen in those dayes when it was a very daintie matter for any of our Pilots to haue performed the like being as then possessed with an opinion that the Compas would turne round assoone as euer they came vnder the Equator as some doe yet surmise it would doe vnder the Pole or neere the fantasticall Rocke of the purest Magnes Philander in his annotations vpon Vitruuius sheweth that some men deemed it not a newe but an olde inuention and tooke it to be that Nauticall instrument which is called by Plautus in Trinummo and Mercatore by the name of Vorsoria But this Adrianus Turnebus in no case will allowe affirming it rather to bee a kinde of tackle wherewith they turned their Sayle If of olde time they had not this Instrument it seemeth impossible that euer they could haue performed such voyages as they did And if euer they had it then were it as strange that all memorie thereof should be vtterly suppressed and that Ptolomey had not found some mention thereof made in Marinus Tyrius or other Cosmographers whose workes were extant in his time Experience testifieth that this began to be in common vse about the time that Printing was inuented and the making of Gunnes Both which although they are of very excellent vse and great wonderments to the world yet doeth this farre excell and exceede For all things performed by them are marshalled within the limittes and bounds of humane reason and therefore their causes being knowen their wonder ceaseth But this being incomprehensible vnto humane reason carieth it away captiue vnto the astonishment thereof and leadeth it to the admiration of him whose wisedome comprehendeth all things and distributeth knowledge and vnderstanding among men according to such measure times and meanes as seemeth best vnto himselfe opening the eyes of the blind and giuing vnderstanding to the simple destroying the wisedome of the wise and making the vnderstanding of the prudent for to hide it selfe Considering the fowle abuses and errors that dayly are committed in the making and framing of this worthie Instrument I haue thought good heere briefely to note the faults and therewithall to shew the way how they may bee amended Let no man mistake me I speake not saue onely of ordinarie Compasses being the most that euer I sawe such as are in common vse and are sale-ware for Masters and Pilots What some discreete skilfull men carefully doe prouide for themselues I speake not of First therefore for the most part the Carde of the Flie is negligently diuided not only in the Compas which they ordinarily saile by hauing the 32. common partes but as great negligence may be found in the double Flie for their Compasse of Variation where the vttermost Ring which they make moueable about the ordinary Flie is diuided into degrees and there a degree or two oddes breaketh no square with them The wyers of the Flie are as rudely set together hauing their ends not sitted euen and close as were meete but starting a side eache from other not somuch as filed smoothe but rough euen as they were broken whereby they are also disabled from taking so strong a touch as they would if they were made smoothe For remedie hereof it were good to drawe the ouale lines vpon the Carde of the Flie in such sort that the endes being euen with the circumference of the Flie both the middles and the endes may haue an equall distance from the Center Then according to those lines bow and cut the wyers fitting their endes smoothe and so closely ioyning them that they may both seeme to be but one After that holding them together dippe the endes in a little moulten Tinne or if at the first they be welded together it is the better and with the edge of a dull knife scrape off the Tinne againe asmuch as you can come by which will be all in a maner sauing onely a very little that keepeth the endes together and that will hold them so fast that you may conueniently handle them at your pleasure and fasten them on their place according to your desire But before they be set on let them be touched as abouesaid and being set on their touchings at the ends must be refreshed Thus shall your Flie stand and turne equally vpon his pinne if not in stead of the ordinary dawhing with waxe two or three drops at the most will counterpoyse any swaruing and many times you shall not neede any at all which is most commendable The Capitall is commonly wide from the Center of the Flie and likewise the pinne whereon the Flie standeth from the Center in the bottome of the Boxe both grosse and absurd faultes and yet easie to bee auoyded The glasse that couereth the Boxe is commonly crackeled and snarled by the sides and diuerse times also too little These faults they couer with their thicke border of Rosen but better were it to amend them with a little heede taking The Glasse ought therefore to be somewhat thinne smoothe and of euen thickenesse hauing the edges smoothed on a grinding stone or by some other meanes and made very fitte to the Boxe So shall you neede but little quantitie of Simmond onely to keepe out the ayre which is the better both for the clearer view of the Flie and that your Boxe may hang the steaddier and that will it not doe if your Glasse be much thicker on the one side then on the other or els being too little bee thrust neerer the one side then the other and the voide place filled vp with Rosen according to ordinary custome The Boxe is hanged in two Circles the one within the other hauing the pinnes that they turne on a quarter of a Circle in the one distant from the other But these Circles