experience gainsayth and denieth muchlesse therefore can it be greater ten times By which is to be concluded that the water is but litle in quantity in respect of the earth although it may séeme very bigge being vp to the edges of the vpper face of the earth And if the waters had béene more bigger then the earth they had drowned or couered the whole earth euen of late yeares That the earth employeth the middle place of the Worlde and is the Center of the whole A Ristarchus Samius which was 261 yeares before the byrth of Christ tooke the earth from the middle of the world and placed it in a peculiar Orbe included within Marses and Venus Sphere and to bee drawne aboute by peculiar motions about the Sunne which hée fayned to stande in the myddle of the worlde as vnmoueable after the manner of the fixed stars The like argument doth that learned Copernicus apply vnto his demonstrations But ouerpassing such reasons least by the newnesse of the arguments they may offend or trouble young students in the Art wee therefore by true knowledge of the wise doe attribute the middle seate of the world to the earth and appoynte it the Center of the whole by which the risings settinges of the stars the Equinoctials the times of the increasing and decreasing of the dayes the shadowes and Ecclipses are declared The earth round about is equally distant from heauen therefore according to the definition of the Center the earth is the Center of the world That the stars haue alwaies one bignes in what place soeuer any shall beholde them therefore are they in an equall distance from the earth The roundnesse of the earthly globe hath a proportion vnto the roundnesse of heauen that is the certaine and proportionall parts in the earthly Globe doe answere to certaine proportionall partes of heauen therefore is the earth the Center of the world In that siftéene Germaine miles on earth doe answere to a degrée of the Meridian and that in euery houre doe fiftéene degrées arise of the Equinoctiall which coulde not be if the earth were not in the middle of the world For the vnequall Arks should otherwise appeare in the equal times and the equall partes of the Meridian shoulde the vnequall spaces on earth answere which experience dayly witnesseth vnto the contrary And hereof it ensueth that the earth stands in the middle of the world In euery Artificiall day doe sixe signes appeare and sixe like set vnder the earth therefore is the earth in the middle of the worlde and is also as a pricke to which the halfe doth regularly moue dayly The like is in the opposition of the Sunne and Moone when either light is in the Horizont which could not be if the earth should approch or come néerer vnto one part then vnto the other If it were néerer to eyther of the Poles then could not the vniuersall Equinoctials bee for that the one Arke alwaies either in the day and night time should be greater then the other The Eccclipses also coulde not bée in the changes and full moones For that there shoulde then bée vneuen spaces from the South vnto the North and from the East vnto the West If the earth were not as the Center of the worlde then of necessity shoulde these ensue that the earth shoulde approch either néerer to the East or West or South part and when any of the starres aswell the fixed as Planets shall come vnto that part they shall appeare nearer to vs then being in any other part of heauen and by that aboue saide they shall also appeare greater which is altogether vntrue and we also sée the contrary in that as aboue writen they alwaies appeare of one greatnesse eyther being in the East or in the West Also one halfe of heauen is alwaies aboue the earth and the other halfe vnder the earth and this is not onely found and knowne in one quarter of the earth but the like in euery place as the Equinoctials do witnes then which there can be no more euident tryal A third reason may bée alleadged if any imagined the earth vpon the Center to be parted into two equal halfes and that the eie is placed in the Center then shall the eie sée no more then the halfe of heauen By which appeareth that the swelling of the earth from the Center vnto his compasse about in making a comparison vnto heauen is as in a maner nothing And it is knowne to the learned in Astronomie that any of the fixed starres is by many times greater then the earth which if any behold them they appeare as poynts in heauen Now how much lesser would the earth appear if a man should behold it from his place Here learne by this demonstration following that the earth standing without the Center in the poynt B. being to the Meridiane as is the poynte A. nearer and when a star shall come vnto that poynte then shall it bée nearer to the earth and in the opposite poynt as is I. shall bee from the same much further than in any other place and shall euen there lesser appeare which by experience is quite contrary Further graunt that C. D. be the thwart Horrizont yet the contrary for the second reason E. B. K. being the Equatour which from the said Horrizont is deuided into two vnequall parts and by this consequent also must the Zodiacke bee deuided into two vnequall partes from the said Horrizont for that those two Cyrcles as hereafter shall bee taught doe crosse one another into equall parts Therefore when the sun by his proper motion carried from the East into the West shall come vnto the crossings of the Equatour and Zodiacke and that the greater part of these Cyrcles shall be vnder the earth it cannot be that the Equinoctium or a like day and night can bee through out the earth no not vnder the right Sphere much lesse can it be vnder the thwart Sphere IF this be vnpossible it shall be also as vnpossible that sixe signes may alwaies bee aboue the earth and the other sixe vnder the earth but rather that more of the signes shall be vnder the earth and more of them aboue euen as the earth is imagined to be deuided from the Horrizont aforesaid into two equall parts like as when it shall bée in the Center of the whole and that from each Center of the greater Cyrcles the earth is deuided into two partes As all these to any beholding the materiall Sphere are forthwith knowne at the first sight so by a third reason is to bee noted that when any imagineth by the lyne E. F. that the earth in the poynt G. standing as in the Center of the whole is deuided by the middle as well beeing in G. as H. for the excéeding distance from the Cyrcumference is vnpossible to sée alwaies the halfe heauen If the Earth be not in the middle of the Worlde then of necessitie shall it possesse some of these
is so much the more increased as by how many degrées either of the Poles are néere to the earth and beeing further distant from the Equatoure is raysed and caried higher which is the cause of many obscure differences which that they may the plainer be expressed and vnderstanded the skillfull practisioners haue deuided Cyrcles in the first mouer by lynes drawn vnto certaine stars or prickes from the Center of the earth and drawn about either by a continuall or dayly motion by which they imagined them to be described That the Circles of the Sphere be some greater some lesser and the number of the Circles HEre it is not to be omitted that one Cyrcle is greater then another by foure meanes First by reason of the magnitude of the celestiall body in which it is imagined to be And of this is the Equinoctiall Cyrcle of the first mouer greater then the Equinoctial Cyrcle of the eight spher in that the first mouer is greatest of all the bodies And although the Equinoctiall of the eight Sphere doth deuide it into two equall halfes yet of the first mouer it is named the greater for that the same includeth all other bodies By the second it is euident that the Equinoctiall Cyrcle is greater by reason of the appearaunce in that the whole is séene aboue the Horizont And by the same reason the Northerly Cyrcle which is named the Arcticke Cyrcle is the greater for that it alwaies appeareth to vs aboue the Horizont By the thirde the Equinoctiall is accompted greater then the other in regarde of the influxiue vertue and for this cause also is the Zodiacke called greater then the others through his greater working into these inferior bodies For that vnder it the sun and all other Planets are drawne And Happarchus writeth that this Cyrcle is the life of all thinges which are in the world c. In that by the ascending of the sun to vs generation is caused and by his falling or going from vs diminishing that is corruption getteth the vpper hand By the fourth is a Cyrcle called greater then the other insomuch as it is one Sphere and thus the equinoctiall is greatest of all the Parallel Cyrcles in the first moouer which is euidently demonstrated by the diameter of the Cyrcle Therefore by the definitions and reasons aboue shewed the equinoctial is the greater Cyrcle described in the vpper face of the first mouer according to each part or the whole of it beeing equally distant from either Pole of the worlde And it is further to bee considered that all the Cyrcles of the Materiall Sphere are imagined to bee in the first mouer which also a materiall Sphere doeth especially represent So that these Cyrcles may also bee imagined in the other Spheres aswell as in the eight Sphere c. And although a man may enter into conference betwéene these Cyrcles and the diameter yet he shall be forced to confesse that they be on such wise vnto the sphere as the Cyrcle is vnto the diameter So that as the diameter deuideth the Cyrcle into two equall partes in that it passeth by the Center of the same euen so doeth euery of the greatest Cyrcles deuide the Sphere into two equal parts because the playne vpper face of it passeth by the Center And by this it may easily bee perceyued that those which are named the lesser Cyrcles of which is a farre greater number than is here set down haue diuers Centers from the Center of the Sphere and yet the playne vpper face of them passeth not by the Center of the same Sphere Of which ensueth that they cannot deuide the sphere into two equall halfes no more then the lyne drawne without the Center into a Cyrcle can deuide the same into two equal halfes And both the greater and lesser of these is mente according to the distance of his Center from the Center of the sphere The inward Cyrcles that be mouable are those which are descrybed in the first moouer and are drawne with it about as is the equinoctiall the Zodiacke the Colures the Tropickes the Polare Cyrcles and others descrybed from the poyntes of the first moouer But the outwarde Cyrcles are they that are as immoueable and not drawn about with the first mouer but abide steady The number of which are these the Meridiane the Horizont the houre Cyrcles the verticiall Cyrcles and Cyrcles of the progressions Further it is to bee noted that many are the Celestiall Cyrcles as is aboue declared whose vse partely vnto Astronomy and partly vnto Astrologie is necessary As the verticiall Cyrcles the Cyrcles of the altitudes the Cyrcles of the celestiall houses The Cyrcles with the which the materiall sphere is descrybed and to bee briefe there are so many celestiall Cyrcles as there may bée poynts ymagined in the first mouer Yet are there but onely ten Cyrcles which are required vnto this sphericall treatise whose names are the Equinoctiall the Zodiacke the two Colures the Meridian the Horizont the twoe Tropickes and the twoe Polare Cyrcles The greater Cyrcles are those which haue the same or a like Center with the earth whose playn vpper face doth passe by the Center of the earth so that they deuide the sphere into two equall parts and especially the equinoctiall which for that it is a greater Cyrcle doth cut the spher into two equall halfes so that his playne vpper face passeth by the Center of the earth according to the definition of the greater Cyrcles And by this consequent when the Sun is in the equinoctiall he falleth into the Center of the earth that is hée is in the vpper face which passeth by the Center of the earth And the sun is neuer in such an vpper face but when he is in y e two equinoctial poynts for other wise he runneth without that vpper face For the greater Cyrcles are a like vnto the Sphere as the diameters vnto the Cyrcle in that as the diameter cutteth the Cyrcle in two equall halfes for that it doeth passe by the Center of the same euen so doth the greater Cyrcle deuide the Sphere into twoe equall halfes in that the playne vpper face of the same doth passe by the Center of the sphere But the lesser Cyrcles are those which haue diuerse Centers from the Center of the sphere so that the playne vpper face of them doeth not passe by the Center of the sphere For how much nearer the Center of the same is to the Center of the sphere and somuch the greater is that Cyrcle as the Tropicke But the further it is from the Center euen so much â—he lesser in sight is the Cyrcle as are the Polare circle And here none may suppose that either these or other like cyrcles to be verily in the first moouer but only to be vnderstoode or imagined For the cause of deuiding heauen into certaine spaces and regions through the helpe of which the courses of the Planets are obserued brought vnto a rule Further the
where the places bound of colde and moysture be white of body hauing long heare on the head tall and comely of stature and personage cold of qualitie yet in maners or condicions wilde and cruell through the force of the cold in those places and agréeing with these is the greatnes of the winter and the greatnesse of fierce and cruel beasts and other liuing things there bréeding with a furious people inhabiting called generally the Scythians Last those dwelling vnder the temperate zones be a gentler and ciuiler people beeing some tawnie especially toward the South and others toward the North reasonable white of skin and bodie being meane of stature and temperate in nature and quality and of the same like in condicions and behauiuor c. And thus much for the second part of this Treatise FINIS The Table of all the speciall and seuerall points handled in this Booke OF the Rudiments of the Sphere of Heauen of the Stars of the Orbs of the Stars and of the Earth Folio 1 What a Sphere is 2 What the world is and into how many parts the same is deuided with the motion of the celestiall Orbs. 8 What the Stars are and that as to the motion of their Orbes they are caried about 11 That Heauen is drawne round 13 That there are but eight celestiall Orbs that may be seen 14 A generall figure declaring the number disposition and order of the Celestiall Spheres aboute the Globe of the earth 16 That there are two first motions of the celestiall Orbs. 17 That there are two kindes of Starres the fixed and the Planets 19 Of the celestiall images and of their diuers names being in number 48. 21 The 12. signes of the Zodiacke 22 Of the Southerly 23 Of the Planets 25 That Heauen hath a rounde fourme and is carried circularly 29 That the water and earth are round bodies and by a mutuall embracing doe make one body and one hollowe vpper face 31 An Instrument by which the roundnesse of the earth according to latitude may bee prooued and all those may easily bee shewed which are taught of the dayes Artificiall 33 That the water hath a like swelling and runneth round 36 That the earth emploieth the middle place of the world and is the Center of the whole 42 If the earth be not in the middle of the world then of necessity it must possesse some of the standings described in the figure there demonstrated 46 That the earth abideth fixed and vnmoueable in the middle of the world 49 The phisicke reasons 50 That the earth compared vnto heauen is as a point 52 To finde the compasse of the earth and by it the Dyameter 55 The second Part. What the summe of the second part is 59 That the Sphere of the world is either right or thwart 90 That the Circles of the Sphere be some greater some lesse with the number of the Circles 92 The description names and vtilities of the Equinoctiall 62 That this worthy Circle hath diuers names 71 What are the offices of the Equinoctiall 73 What are the Northerly images in respect of the Equinoctiall 78 The description names and offices of the Zodiacke and Ecclipticke line or way of the Sun 98 What are the names of this Circle 100 What is the cause of the thwartnesse of the Zodiacke 109 Of the Ecclipticke line or way of the Sun 113 What the latitude of a Planet is after two destinctions 115 What is the longitude of a Star where he beginneth 116 What are the vses and vtilities of the Zodiacke and Ecclipticke 124 The description names and offices of the Colures 125 What the offices and vtilities of the Colures are 133 The description names and offices of the meridian Circles and Horizon 135 What are the offices and vtilities of the meridian 144 A Table of the Suns declarations c. 155 The common way of measuring of places with their spaces by the rules of longitude and latitude 167 What is to bee done if places differ in the longitudes 169 Other briefe examples 171 The finding of the distances of places or Citties in a more easier manner 173 The first rule 174 An Example 175 Another Ibid Another Ibid Another 179 Another Ibid Another Ibid Another 177 The second Rule Ibid Another excellent Table c. 178 An example of the vse of this Table 179 The second Rule 180 An Example Ibid Another 183 Another Ibid Another 184 Another Ibid An easier working Ibid An Example 185 Another Ibid Another 186 If of two places c. Ibid. A third rule 190 An example of the third rule Ibid. Another 193 Another 124 Another 196 An easier working and lesse curious 197 An Example 198 Another Ibid Another 199 Another Ibid A demonstration of the third rule 200 The declaration of the first rule 201 The declaration of the second rule Ibid. The declaration of the third rule 202 The definition appellations diuision and offices or vtilities of the Horizon 204 The appellations and diuers names of the Horizon 205 The offices or vtilities of the Horizon 215 Of the verticall Circles 217 The Circles of the Altitude 219 The houre Circles 221 The Circles deuiding the twelue houses of heauen 226 The Circle of position 230 The definitions names and vtilities of the foure lesser Circles 231 Which Circles are called the Tropicks 235 Why they are called Tropicks Ibid. The offices or vtilities of the foure lesser Circles 245 The descriptions names qualities c. 247 What the longitude latitude of the celestial zones are 261 What is the longitude and latitude of the earthly Zones 263 Where the beginning and end of euery Zone according to latitude and which places are in which Zones 264 How the Zones and Clymates doe differ 267 What are the qualities of the Zones Ibid What be the vtilities of the Zones 268 FINIS
of the world which is contayned within the hollowe vpper face of the Moones Orbe and Sphere in which are all corruptible bodies and thinges harmed by diuerse alterations except the minde of man the causes of which are the contrary actions of the first qualities Also the foure Elements are simple bodies which into parts of diuers forms cannot be deuided yet through the mutuall commixion of these are diuerse kinds of bodies caused Therefore whatsoeuer bodies are in the Elementary region bee either simple myxt or compound bodies In that the mixt bodies are all those which may be deuided into parts of diuerse kinds To these of the foure Elements the next ioyning within the hollow vpper face of the Moones Orbe is the most thinne Ayre being the lightest of the Elements kindled through the dayly moouing about of the celestiall circles which for this congruency with the fire named the elemental fire that is dayly drawn about by the Orbs compassing it which may appeare by the Comettes and other fiery kindes ingendred in the same Element of a hot and dry vapoure that are likewise caried about The next within that doth the ayre runne being a heauier Element then the fire yet lighter then the water which also is drawne about by a like motion as may appeare by the clouds and other like impressions ingendred in the same but to the nether region of the same consist the laterall motions as wée dayly sée by the blowing of the windes Farther Vitellio in his tenth booke and 60. chapter affirmeth that the cloudes are distant from the vpperface of the earth 25000. paces or 13. Germayne myles But acording to same writers they are vnequally distant from the earth as somewhiles further off and somewhiles néerer to the earth For when the cloudes are furthest distant from the earth they are but 772000. paces and being nearest the earth are 288000. paces distant To conclude this Elemente compasseth and encloseth both the earth and water by his largenesse The nexte Element to the Ayre which mooueth is the water for the same is mooued by a motion of flowing and ebbing which it maketh after the motion of the moone in that it floweth sixe houres and ebbeth so many vntill the moone by the motion of the first moouer hath passed about all the quarters of heauen Also the water hath a motion and that downward into the earth so that these two ioynt ly annexed make as it were one body Yet the earth béeing the heauiest Elemente hath a motion attributed as it were simply downwarde vnto the middle notwithstanding agréed of all men that the same is immouable and the Centre of the world These foure that is the fire ayre water and earth are named to be the foure Elements and both the simple and Original matters of which all mixt bodies are compounded and made The proofe that there is onely fowre Elements is this that to each Element the two first qualities agrée and the Combynations the like of the foure qualities as of heate and dryeth which consist in the fire of moysture and heat which rest in the ayre of coldnesse and moysture which be in the water of drynesse coldnesse which is found in the earth By these it is euident that there are but foure Elements of which heate excéedeth in the fire moysture in the ayre coldnesse in the water and drynesse in the earth To conclude it appeareth that heat with colde and moysture with dryeth cannot aptly be ioyned What the Starres are and that as to the motion of their Orbes they are carried about THe Ethereall region contayneth the Starres which are the thicker parts of their Orbs perfit rounde cleare most pure and simple and frée of any mixture except the Moor which is darker then the others yea variable and shadowed And these fastened to their Orbes by which in certayne continuall and appoynted times and orders are drawne about and performe their returnes in the determinate spaces of times and those continually agréeing in themselues that they may so ingender the differences and orders of times and in the inferiour nature prepare and cause the first quallities and other effects The Sunne the fountaine of light doth not onely giue light and make shine cleare the inferiour bodies but the superiour also by the brightnesse and light of his beames But the Stars seeing with a borrowed light they shine which is far weaker then the sunnes therefore with that strange light which they take properly of the sun doe they shine although vnlike to the sun For into all the starres which by nature are rounde about thynne and penetrable is the sunnes light equally shed and pearceth and so filleth all that they are subiect to no times of encreasing and decreasing of light But the Moone séeing it is an vnperfit body and that it hath the partes some where thynne somewhere thicker and better compact therfore doth it not equally nor round about receiue the sunnes light So that the thynner parts take more of the sunnes light and of the same doe clearer shine But the lesser shadowed parts which also are seene appeare darker as the spots in the moone do shew That the bodies of the starres are round doe the round formes in the Eclipses of the sun and moone shew yea in what parts of the world those Eclipses happen doe the bodies also of the starres at that time appeare perfit round Although the bodies of the starres be knowne by sundry reasons to be round as a bowl yet by their great distance from the earth appeare to vs as playne or flat Nor the Starres are not moued by their owne proper motions but by the Accydentary as vnto the motion of the Orbs to which they hang as partes vnto the motion of the whole For to euery round body doe two proper motions onely belong as a moning to and fro and turning about Therefore the Starres séeing they be round are by some proper and principall motion caried round But the fixed Stars are not so moued rounde in that they turned about doe not altar the same face or body which they once turned and shewed to vs but that the same shoulde of necessity happen like being turned round in one place about their Exe-trée with the others in the same motion béeing in the parts far distant and the others then set and hidde vnder the earth Nor are they turned hither and thither in that they neuer change the standing and place which they haue in their Orbe which to those caried hither and thither woulde happen Therefore not by a proper and chiefe motion are they caried about but by an accidentary drawing about of their Orbes which what the same is shall after appeare That Heauen is drawne round THe Ethereal region do the Philosophers also name quinta essentia or as it were a fifte body constituted aboue the foure Elementes being incorruptible deuine consisting of the noblest and purest part of the ayre Which also is placed aboue
depressed So that the cause of the diuersity of this appearance is onely the swelling of the earth To be briefe the beginnings and spaces of the dayes and nights and that in diuers places of the earth do vary and yet following in a maner one order But this variety could not happen if the earth were not Sphericall and all about equally rounde herein excluding both vallies and the toppes of hilles which applied vnto the body of the earth cause no inequalitie or diuersity at all For the swelling of the earth causeth that the stars be not séene togither in all countries but drawne about by little and little by a certaine succession and order that they so appeare sooner to them in the East part then to them in the West through the swelling as yet not aboue caried which swelling being high betwéene both is a let and cause of the later appearing of them to the west and by that meanes also kéepeth and hideth the stars the longer from their sight So that by these it euidently appeareth that the onely cause is the swelling of the earth If the earth were fashioned with a déepe hollownesse and compassed round about with a light inclosure then should the stars risen be soonest séene to them in the West partes and much later appeare to them in the East For that the higher inclosure to the hollownesse as a wal built about should be a let and hinderance to the sight of the beholders in such sort that those starres arising it shoulde hinder their sight If the earth were formed with places standing in sharp piller forme or in right line vp then should the stars appeare set and be hidden alike to those places and no differences of dayes should be caused but that they shoulde haue one like day and the sun also appearing to that fide which they shewed so that whiles the Sun runneth and compasseth about the backe parts they should be without light of the sun and should remaine al the time in shadow and darknesse And if it should haue a Cubicke for me then should they sée the sun sixe houres and loose or be without light and sight of the sun other eightéene houres If in round piller-wise as if the howndes were playne vnto both the Poles and the hollow partes should decline vnto the East and West then should no stars continually appeare to them dwelling in the hollow but that certaine stars should arise vp and set in the West and other certain stars néere to both the Poles should alwaies be hid To conclude if the whole earth were framed with an equal playnesse throughout then should the stars appeare at one moment to all countries and setting againe should hide the like out of sight and by that meanes shoulde the dayes begin and end alike and no differences shoulde bée obserued To all such arguments seing experience onely doth repugne or contrary them It is therefore manifest that the earth from the West towarde the East riseth vp into an equall swelling If the earth also were plaine from the East vnto the West then shoulde the starres arise so soone to them in the West as to those of the East which is a manifest error Also if the earth wéere playne from the North vnto the South and like from the South vnto the North then the starres which were to some of a continuall appearance should alwaies séene the fame and like which way or into what quarter soeuer a man goeth which also is vntrue But the cause which maketh the earth séene plaine is through the ouer great quantity which causeth it so to appeare to euery mans sight But that the earth is round according to latitude the diuers eleuations of the Pole and stars eyther alwaies in sight or continually hidden doth euidently declare For from the Equatour in going forth easilie towardes the North and that the Pole Articke be higher raysed and the stars néere to the Pole raysed vp then are the Stares right against like depressed and as they were out of sight and so much the more as they go further from the Equatoure nor the Northerly stars neuer set but continually drawne about in sight with heauen But the contrarie happeneth by going from the saide Cyrcle or Equatoure vnto the contrary part So that there is no greater cause of this diuersitie than the swelling of the earth which if the same shoulde bee plaine the starres opposite or right against according to latitude about the Poles shoulde offer and appeare togither to all countries which the swelling of the earth hindreth to be séene An instrument by which the round nesse of the Earth according to latitude may be proued and all those may easily be shewed which are taught of the dayes Artificiall That the Water hath a like swelling and runneth round THis by two reasons is prooued the first is most certaine by a mark or marks standing on the sea banke like as a tower stéeple or such like erected of purpose so that a shippe sayling into the déepe and carried so far off that no more of the sides or bottom can be descerned sauing the top of the mast which only appeareth to the sight Or thus that a marke stoode on the sea banke and a ship passing forth of the hauen sayling so far into the sea that the eie of the beholder being néere the foote of the mast cannot decerne the marke the ship in the meane time staying or standing still so that his eie being in the top of the mast shall perfectly sée that marke but the others eie being néere the foote of the mast shoulde rather better sée the marke than he which is in the top of the mast as may more euidently appeare by lynes drawne from either place vnto the mark so that the manifest cause of this appeareth to bee none other then the swelling of the water But here are all other impediments excluded that may otherwise hinder as mists foggs and such like vapours ascending Also a like reason of the impediments of this aboue written is for that the water ariseth into a swelling which hindreth the sight of the bottom or sides of the ship that being in a high place doeth not hinder the sight of the same as the top of the mast which either excéedeth or is equall with the swelling of the water For men sayling on the mayne sea sée nothing round about but the Sky and the Sea but comming nearer the banks do by litle and litle descry and sée either high hilles or cliffes as if they were rising forth of the water Also to those that dwell on a high ground the sun first ariseth and last setteth And to this agréeth that out of the higher places both more and further may bée séene into the sea then in vallies or lower places By all these therefore it is euident that the vpper face of the water swelleth as by the example following more plainly shall appeare but an other example of the same shall
Equinoctiall poynt is then imagined to be drawne aboute with the motion of the first moouer that hath the same Center with the earth at that time by which the playne of the Equatoure is then noted to passe So that this is the cause why Plinie giueth that name to it séeing a like day and night is caused the sun then running vnder the Equatoure throughout the earth as no man of skill maketh doubt of It is named the cyrcle of the high solstice but this commeth to passe by reason of those which dwell vnder the equinoctiall and haue foure solstices as two on hie two below hauing foure shadowes in the yeare and the sun passing twise a yeare by the Zenith right ouer their heads as when the sunne is in the beginning of Aries and Libra And to them also dwelling vnder the Equinoctial are two summers and two winters and the heat is mightiest and strongest when the sun draweth from them into the North or South yet doeth the sun alwaies burne the earth right vnder it causing a burning Zone and not parteth far from their heades So that their winters are not perfectly and simply named winters as with vs which are cold seasons in déede bnt rather with them is a continuall summer yet for that the causes of heate with them are not vnformally and in a like maner alwaies for that the sun doth not approch equally the Zenith of that parte as the same is known to many whereof the heat to them is not vnifourme and a like in burning But sometimes hotter and sometimes slacker and meaner of heate So that when the sun is in the Zenith as in the beginnings of Aries and Libra and that they are in their high solstices then is the heate most vehement with them yet not without the sun this heate can bee called mighty But when as the sun is gone from their Zenith which happeneth in the beginning of Cancer and Capricorne where their low solstices are the heate is then slacker that is lesser burning So that the weaker heate hapning in the lowe solstices may in a manner bée named colde in respecte of the most burning heate hapning in the high solstices yet it hath the nomination of winter although no cold may bée felt What the offices or vtilities of the Equinoctiall are THe causes whie the skilfull practisioners tooke and vsed the Equinoctiall with the offices which they attributed to it and the mani fold vses that it offereth is herein declared 1 It measureth the motion of the first and vppermost Orbe and sheweth the same to bée drawne about by a continuall and equall swiftnesse For that in euery equall houre doe fiftéene of the thrée hundereth and thrée score degrées of the same arise and so many degrées right against set and are hidden vnder the Horizont and that all the thrée hundreth and thrée score degrées in 24. houres are turned about in the appoynted times and in their periods continually agréeing And as the Equatour from the Poles of the worlde about which the first mouer is drawne and is of either side distant by equall spaces nor the Angle which is comprehended fashioneth with the Horizont doth neuer change euen so by the same order and like motion doeth the first heauen or moouer euidently shew it selfe to be caried about For the Equinoctiall measureth and determineth the motion of the first mouer in declaring his reuolution and yeare which yeare of the first moouer is the time of 24. houres equall But by what meanes the auncient astronomers first found that the Equinoctiall is drawne about in so many houres and it is supposed they came to the knowledge thereof by the office of some starre either in the Equinoctiall or placed neare it they perceiued the same as that the Equinoctial from some note marked of them did returne to it in such a certaine space as afore shewed 2 The diuers motions of the Zodiack which hapneth to it through the twart standing or lying as a cannon or rule doth dyrect and point out the beginnings boundes and time with the which each parts or degrées of the Zodiacke arise or doe set and with which they touch these or those quarters of the worlde For all the arckes of the Equatoure are drawne by a certaine and agréeable motion continually The parts of the Zodiacke drawne thwartly the Equatoure doeth not varie or is distant by like spaces from the Poles of the world nor turned about his but the same Poles of the worlde which doe differ by a long space from his and drawn about by a most vnlike motion and nothing at all agréeing in it selfe For that some parts or degrées are caried vp sooner or quicker and others appeare slower and later So that these vseth a more space of time in the rising slower and those other passe vp by a shorter and quicker space But séeing that in the Zodiack the wandring stars or Planets doe wander continually hither and thither and from one side of it to another and that vnto the middle cyrcle of it or ecclipticke line the places of all the fixed stars are referred and applied therefore cannot the times of the rising or setting of the starres bée knowne and noted except they shoulde be guessed and attained by the next arks of the equinoctiall It also declareth the equinoctialles which are caused in those proper dayes in which the sun hapneth to come into the equinoctiall cyrcle For these are caused the sun being in the first degrées of Aries and Libra in that the Zodiacke and Equinoctiall doe crosse each other in those places whereof Manilius thus writeth That these signes Aries and Libra cause a right Throughout the earth a like day and night 3. It defineth and measureth the spaces both of the naturall and artificiall dayes And although the sun which drawne about with the motion of the first moouer and in the proper motion caried forth in the meane time by force into the contrary when as hee causeth the times of the daies and nightes so wel as the differences of the natural daies mooued and runneth in the Zodiacke yet of his motion the day and night spaces cannot bee gatherrd through the diuersity and vnlikenesse of the ascending or arising of diuers parts or degrées of the Zodiacke But seeing the same motion is of all the partes of the Equatoure therefore are the ascentions of the arcks of the Zodiacke caried vp with the ascending of the nighest parts of the Equatour like arising So that both the dayes and houres by the equall motion of these are not founde and distinguished by the vnlike and vnequall motion of them in that these ascentions can be of these two cyrcles The Greekes by no meanes like of the same in that by a stedfast order they do mark the day and night times therefore they parte and deuide them into equall houres which they named times that from the degrées of the Zodiacke they might distinguish them For euerie fiftéene
the sixt is learned that in the same Cyrcle as by the subiect is both the length of the whole earth and perticular places standing in diuers parts of the earth considered and measured For according to the exact doctrine of the sphericall tryangles the longitude or length of places and the difference of longitudes is alwaies the Equinoctiall Arke and not any Parallell By it also the declination of any degrée of the Zodiacke is knowne which being had in any day at noone the sun then shining cleare forth the Northerly latitude or eleuation of the Pole of any Towne may artificially be knowne It is besides the measure of time in that a naturall day is perfourmed by one whole returne of the Equinoctiall with an adition or inerease to that parte of the Ecclipticke which the sun in the meane whiles accomplisheth by his proper motion against the motion of the first mouer 7 By the seuenth it much auaileth and helpeth the doctrine of astrology in that by the guide and leading of the same are the beginnings of the twelue houses of heauen found when astrologiall figures are erected and fashioned to prognosticate or iudge by which can neuer so perfectly be searched and found without the Equatoure and this through the vnlike motion and ascention of the parts or signes of the Zodiacke By it also are all Townes according to their longitude and latitude easily placed and found in the earthly Globe so that by it a man may readily know which Townes are Northerly and which Southerly It hath besides a most great vse in Geography vnto finding the distances of places and vnto placing of Cities in the earthly globe in hauing the true longitude and latitude of them 8 The eight instruction that by it a man may attaine the knowledge of all the celestiall Parallell cyrcles and the earthly Zones lying vnder them As by this example the Parallel streached along by Rodes cannot otherwise be knowne but by his distance from the Equinoctial as by his principall fore noted Parallell which a man may learne and know to bée from the Equatoure toward the North 36. degrées The same knowledge may aptly be had of all the other Parallell cyrcles rightly knowne so that none otherwise can bee prompt and saillfull in Geographicall matters Cleonedes affirmeth prima Meteor that it afterwards behoueth to know how to discribe each turning about of the fixed stars with the first mouer about his Center cyrcle as that all the Parallell cyrcles are knowne Séeing among those cyrcles the Equinoctiall is greatest and those Parallell cyrcles least which are drawne about the Poles of the worlde euen the like are those the greater cyrcles according to proportion from them which are described vnto the Equinoctiall 9 The niuth sheweth that no description of the earth although in platefourme can bee expressed neither by straight nor crooked lines without the knowledge of the Equatoure 10 By the tenth appeareth what commodity of the same hath and serueth in the iudging of genitures is here by silence ouerpassed séeing with breuity it cannot bée vttered The description names and offices of the Zodiacke and Ecclipticke line or way of the Sunne AFter the ancient Astronomers had deuided heauen into twoe equall halfes by the Equinoctiall and diligently obserued and noted the thwart drawing and standing of the Zodiacke and a like forme of a larger Zone the diuers courses motions and wandrings both of the sun moone and other Planets which being drawne about with the first moouer kept no equall spaces in them selues agréeing to the first moouer nor a like distaunt in their motions from the Equatoure but that whiles they were dayly drawn by a contrary motion of the first moouer into the East they in the meane time wandered one whiles into the North and anotherwhiles into the South vnto a certaine elongation and distiance and so returned vnto that cyrcle They abserued also that the Planets kept alwaies one maner of iourney and way and that way cutting or cressing heauen and the Equinoctiall by a thwart manner the same of these they named the Zodiacke This cyrcle of the 12 signes commonly called the Zodiacke which also is a greater cyrcle and thwart lying hauing a latitude moueable vnto the motion of the sphere to which it fasteneth and euery where is a like vnder which the Planettes by a continuall motion are drawne and run This cyrcle also doe the Latines name thwart through the thwart standing of it for the Equatour doth compasse the sphere of the worlde by the iust middle space betwéen either Pole but the Zodiacke is thwartly drawn both to the sphere of the worlde and to the Equatoure so that in some partes it is nearer to the Poles of the same and in some parts further distance from it It is crossed also of the Equatoure into two eqnall halfe cyrcles of which the one is called the Boreall or Northerly halfe cyrcle and the other the Meridionall or Southerly halfe cyrcle therefore by the continuall turning of heauen drawne about vnto any right and thwart Horizont inclined according to the thwart Angles it doeth both chaunge and varie those Angles by the continuall motion and turning about For to certaine Arks it figureth and formeth righter and to certaine others thwarter Angels through that diuers inclination vnto the Horizont which ensueth after the standing of it And the diuersitie of the inclination of it vnto the Horizont doth also cause a varietie in the motion For those doe slower arise which make right Angles with the Horizont and those are sooner drawne vp and appeare which doe cause thwart Angles In the thwart Sphere with that thwartnesse of the Sphere and the Angles which the Horizont and Zodiack performe is the thwartnesse encreased What the names are of this Circle _1 THis Cyrcle is named the Zodiacke of this Gréeke worde zoes that is in English Life in that it is the path or the comming and going of the sun which is called the author of life causer of generations as Aristotle writeth Or of the Gréeke name zódion which in English is the figures of Beastes with the which this cyrcle is imagined to be formed by the concourse of stars 2 This Cyrcle is named thwart or bowing in that it crosseth thwartly the Equinoctiall and first moouer and doth appeare thwart in respect of the Poles of the worlde from which it is not equally distant Or for that it maketh not right but thwart Angles with the Equinoctiall and Colures or Tropickes Or for that it doeth not regularly ascend and discend according to his partes like as the Equinoctiall doth but that certaine parts or signes of the same doe righter and slower and certaine thwarter and swifter arise in either Sphere But the Zodiacke is not named thwart compared vnto the proper Poles séeing from them it is equidistant according to each parte as the Equinoctiall from the Poles of the world Yet compared vnto the Poles of the world in that the
the daies in the right Sphere and of the vnequalnesse in the thwart or bowing sphere and where the day spaces are encreased and lengthened there the night spaces be lessened and decreased and being otherwise they shew the contrary In the second the Parallels which the verticial points forme when they expresse the boundes of the latitudes of places then are they standing vnder by which their longitudes or distances from the West are accompted In the third the Parallels which either the Planets or the fixed stars describe referred vnto the Equatour do expresse the boundes of their drawings or motions from the equatour The others or rest which applied vnto the ecclipticke described doe shew the bounds of the latitudes and that for how long time they tarry aboue the earth or otherwise hid within the earth and vnder the Horizone doth either shew In the fourth the greatest and chiefest vtilities of the Parallels are that which on the habitable earth the practisioners seuer by such distances as by how much y e greatest artificiall daies are by a quarter of an houre longer increased and extended For they distinguish the habitable earth and that by obseruation into certain necessary spaces and doe iudicate the regular increasings of the daies and what is common to each dwelling vnder those parallels in asmuch as the quantities the increasings and deminishings of the dayes and nightes the risings and settings of the stars the Noonstéede shadowes and the nature of the Winter and Summer but those which are contrary as that there is a difference diuersity of the dwelling places being vnder diuers Parallelles they indéede bee necessary vnto the distribution and description of the clymate Although the number of these cyrcles bee so infinite as is the infinite variety of the stars and verticall points yet are there foure vsually rehearsed in these Elements or introduction that be especially noted and described by peculiar names and for the same cause as séemeth to mée in that they deuide the whole Globe of heauen and earth into fiue Zones and these applied vnto the plaine or flat of the equatour The tropicke of Cancer or summer tropicke The tropicke of Capricorne or winter tropicke The articke or Northerly Pole The antarticke or Southerly Pole Which Circles are called the Tropickes THe Sun according to the former words through the motion of the first mouer is in 24 houres drawn once about and for that hee is caried in the thwart Cyrcle and in the same by his proper motion chāgeth dayly vnto other places of the Zodiacke it must néeds ensue that he describeth in each day a new parallel And those doeth the sun repeat in the partes of the Zodiack which be equidistant from the solsticiall points in such wise that they be in the whole 182. cyrcles And these do they call the cyrcles of the natural daies of which the vttermost and furthest that include the suns way are named the Tropicks which is in English the sun boūds in that the sunne neuer passeth them neither toward the North nor toward the South but after his touching of each he returneth againe The one of these called the tropicke of Cancer and the other the tropicke of Capricorne Why these are called the Tropickes THey are named the Tropicks of the Gréeke word Tropikoi which is in English the turnings againe in that when the Sun is digressed from the Equatoure and come vnto those hee turneth backe againe Also the Tropicke cyrcles touch the Zodiack at the beginnings of Cancer and Capricorne of which the one is called the Tropicke of Cancer and the other of Capricorne the one being Northerly and the other Southerly And as to our dwelling the one is called the summer Circle and the other the Winter So that when the sun toucheth any of these he turneth againe and is carried toward the other As by this example further appeareth where all that season and time from the twelfth day of December vnto the eleuenth day of Iune a manne may perceiue the Sunne euery day arising higher and higher and when he is at the highest ouer our heades that day doth he by his course describe the summer Tropicke from which againe turning the sunne euery day after draweth lower and lower from our verticall pointe vntill he be come againe vnto the lowest In which twelfe day of December not going any further toward the South but being come vnto the beginning of Capricorne he describeth the winter Tropicke The Tropicke of Cancer is a lesser Circle which the sunne describeth at the entring into the beginning therof and is drawne by the daily motion whose plaine or flat passeth not by the center of the earth and it is one of the naturall Circles which is outermost described of the sun toward the North and drawne by the beginning of Cancer And it hath also his name of the standing in that the same is the bound of the sunnes iourney or course toward the North and the nighest comming vnto vs vnto which being brought he turneth backe and directeth his course into the South of which that place is called Trope It is continually distant from the Equatour by the quantity of the suns greatest declination which at this day is of 23. degrées 28. minutes and two fifts almost and it encloseth also the suns way and doth besides with the other 3. Parallels deuide the Zones of heauen and earth Further this is named the cyrcle of the summer solstice by the same reason in that it is drawne by the pointe of the summer solstice And the Northerly Tropicke in that it is the Northerly part of the world And the summer cyrcle for that the Sun in the summer falleth into this cyrcle Also this cyrcle in all the Northerly tract is on this wise that the greater part or portion is aboue the Horizone and the lesser part as to vs vnder the Horizon so that the sunne runing in that cyrcle causeth the longest day of summer And whiles the sun describeth these cyrcles the dayes bee longer then the nightes For the longest day increaseth from minute to minute from houre to houre and from the latitude of one degrée vnto the latitude of 66. degrées and 30. minutes In which the day artificial is of 24. houres and is thereof called a whole day For in the latitudes following and beyonde hee increaseth into many whole daies A like definition hath Proelus where hee writeth that the summer Tropicke is the furthest cyrcle Northwarde that the sun describeth into which when the sun is come he then maketh his summer turne and causeth also at that time the longest day and shortest night of the yeare from which turning backe he goeth againe toward the contrary coast of the world so that of the same Proclus it is called a Tropicke which is in English a returning cyrcle For it is euident to all men that after the sunne beginneth to turne he may in short time after or at the least within 5. dayes
but especially at Noone in euery wéeke be well perceiued to discend and go lower and lower vntil he become vnto the Tropicke of Capricorne or the winter cyrcle where he turneth againe as you may plainly learne and vnderstand by the former description of that cyrcle The Tropicke of Capricorne is a lesser cyrcle and one of the naturall cyrcles which is by the like space distaunt from the Equatoure into the South and described of the sun in the beginning of Capricorne as being vttermost toward the South which is the bound of the suns greatest departure from vs and of his longest digression vnto the South that he defineth and maketh This cyrcle also is called the winter Solstice and winter Tropicke in that when the sun coÌ„meth into this cyrcle it is presently winter that is the shortest day of the yeare Also the lessâ—â— portion of this cyrcle is to vs aboue the horizone and the greater beneath or vnder the Horizon Besides the suns iourney endeth at the south and crosseth or deuideth both the burning and temperate Southerly Zone The Brumall or winter tropicke as writeth Proclus that is furthest toward the South of all those which the sunne describeth by his drawing about of the first moouer into which when the sunne falleth he causeth his winterly returne so that the longest night of the yeare and shortest day is at that time procured From which he goeth no further toward the South but returneth vnto the contrary quarter of the world and hereof this Circle is called a Tropicke or circle of returne Now these thrée are principally noted the equatour and the two Tropickes for the course of the sunne That the instructions of the two Tropicks afore spoken of may more perfectly be vnderstoode conceiue this Figure heere demonstrated In which a h b e. is the meridian a d b. the right Horizone d. the Center of the principall a. the Northerly Pole b. the Southerly Pole g d c. the cyrcle of the Zodiacke h d e. the Equatour which here is ment to bée abatingly described when the sun shall bee in the center of the earth or in the true section of the Equatoure and Zodiacke as in the letter d. from which point when the sun returnes toward the Northerly pole a. vnder the cyrcle g d c. he then describeth in each day by the motion of the first mouer each Parallels vntill he be come in the Meridiane vnto the point g from which hee can not further ascend toward our Zenith in the meridian Of which in the same day the sun describeth g f. the parallell to the equatour which is called the Tropicke of Cancer in that the sun beginneth from this place to approach or draw nearer to the Equatoure vnto which when the sun shall come hee then descendeth vnto the neather halfe sphere in the halfe cyrcle d c. Hee being come againe vnto the point c doth from his center by the motion of the principall or first mouer in the Poles of the world describe the Parallell c i. that is the tropicke of Capricorne The Polare cyrcles are two of the lesser cyrcles neare to the Poles of the world being alike equall distant to the equatour which vpon the Poles of the equatour described are drawne by the Poles of the Zodiacke And these are named the Polare Cyrcles in that they bee neare to the Poles of which that neare to the Pole articke is called the arcticke cyrcle of the greater or lesser Beare drawne in it or for that this cyrcle is described about the pole articke the other that is right against is named the antarticke Cyrcle in that it is drawne aboute the Antarticke Pole Or thus the arcticke is a lesser cyrcle which the Northerly pole of the Zodiacke is so far distant from the Pole articke of the world as is the suns greatest declination or as Proclus writeth that the fore foote of the greater Beare by the dayly motion formeth The same cyrcle after the minde of the learned is distant from the equatour 66. degrées and 30. minutes almost To whome this altitude is higher by 23. degrées and almost 29. minutes To those parts of the earth is the pole arcticke extaunt in sight and continually appeareth It also secludeth and parteth the vntemperate Northerly Zone from the next temperate Zone where the Solsticiall Tropicke is made the Northerly cyrcle and in that place vnder this altitude of the pole 66. degrées and 31. minutes there all the stars and images contained from the solsticiall Tropicke vnto the Pole are seene as both the Beares the Dragon Cepheus Cassiopia Perseus Auriga or the Carter whole Bootes except from the knées downeward the crowne Hercules except the head and right arme the Harpe the Swan the great Horse Andromeda except the left Cubit the halfe of the Northerly Fish almost Deltoton a part of the backe of Taurus the necke and Northerly Horne a great parte of Gemini and the head and necke of Leo. And not vnlike to the former doth Proclus describe them where hee writeth that the Northerly cyrcle is the same which of al those that to vs continually be séen or appeare is for trueth the greatest and that also toucheth the Horizone at one onely point being wholy described aboue the earth And the stars that are inclosed within this cyrcle do neither rise nor set but are continually séen all the night drawn about the Pole The South or antarticke cyrcle is thus defined of him that the same is equal and equidistant to the Northerly or articke cyrcle and toucheth the Horizon at one point The whole of this cyrcle is hidden vnder our Horizone so that all the stars placed and drawn in it abide euer out of sight to vs. The like description that the antarticke Parallel is a lesser Cyrcle which the Southerly Pole of the Zodiacke draweth about as it were by the dayly motion doeth describe about the Southerly toppe of the world and is by a like space distaunt from the Equatoure and the antarticke pole of the world as the articke is from his opposite And doth seperate or deuide the vntemperate Southerly Zone from the next temperate Zone Further it is manifest that the distance of the Poles of the ecclipticke from the poles of the world doe agrée with the greatest bowing or declination of the ecclipticke or the sun In that the poles from their cyrcles bee alwaies distant a quarter of the cyrcle and the colure of the solstices is here taken for that which comprehendeth either Pole And when the quarters standing betwéene the poles and the cyrcles of the poles be in themselues or betwéene one the other equall as the arke of the same cyrcle then the middle arke common to both which as exempted goeth betwéene the poles of the world and the ecclipticke and so parteth and leaueth them equall For the one halfe of the other equall arks is from the poles of the ecclipticke vnto the poles of the world and the other is
Tropicks all heauen into fiue parts or Regions which they call zones The descriptions names qualities and vtilities of the Zones THe foure lesser cyrcles called Parallels that were afore described doe deuide the whole heauen towarde the Poles into fiue spaces which that heauen might bee compassed aboute with these larger swathes the astronomers of the same called them Zones or otherwise of the Latines Gerdils The Cosmographers by the same imagination applied doe also dispose and distribute the whole Globe of the earth into fiue roomes or spaces lying directly vnder and agréeable in proportion to them in heauen Wherefore a zone after the minde of the Gréekes is a portion tract or space of heauen or earth betwéene the two Parallels or lesser cyrcles being nighest equidistant or contained betwéene the roome equidistaunt and Pole of the world and gyrdeth or compasseth as it were the heauen or earth Or thus a zone is a space of earth like to the two Parallels or lesser cyrcles aboue which the astronomers imagine to run on the vpper face of the sphere And as the whole portion included by the two Tropicks called the burning zone doth compasse heauen as a gyrdle euen so imagine the roome of the earth lying right vnder the Tropicks The zones haue sundry names for of the Gréekes they be called zóne and of the Latines by a borowed word Zona as may appeare by Iulius Firmicus Macrobius Virgilius Ouide and other Latines That heauen or earth is imagined to bee gyrded about with these Martianus nameth them swathes Tully and Macrobius nameth them by the like reason gyrdles Ouide nameth them plagues that is roomes or spaces And how many zones they bee may easily appeare in that the astrologians Geographers Phisitions and Poets do deuide as well the heauen as earth into siue roomes or spaces by the foure Parallels or lesser cyrcles of which there bee two maner of zones the celestiall and the earthlie The celestiall are the cause of the earthly in that the earthly lie directly vnder them And of the zones the celestiall bee they which the astronomers by imagination describe and distribute in the hollow of heauen the earthly be they which lie perpendicularly vnder And both also be temperate and vntemperate zones The celestiall zones in that they haue nothing of the elementary qualities therefore doe they not by heat burne and scorch nor by cold make stiffe nor cause a temperate mixture of qualities or temperatnesse yet are they noted and descerned by the names of the qualities as the earthly zones which being the author of the sun and fountaine both of light and heate and running continually in the middle zone of heauen is diuersly felt according to the maner of the distance Or thus there are no qualities formally attributed to the celestiall zones but to them onely vertually which is on this wise to be vnderstoode as that the celestiall zones of themselues be neither cold hot nor temperate but are so called through the suns declination from the equatour as well into the North as into the South quarter of the world In the which declination is the like matter felte as well in the suns right sending downe of beames as in the thwart proiection of thē on the vpper face of the earth which diuersly changeth the heat 〈◊〉 The scorching or vntemperate middle Zone which through the heat and burning beames the sun there causeth when he is ouer the head or in the Noonestéed place is contained betwéene the boundes of the sunnes iourney which the two Tropicks make and includeth 47. degrées of heauen For the two Tropicks are on either side the equatoure so that it vseth the middle roome in the burning zone from which the sun towarde the North and South neuer declineth aboue 23. degrées and 29. minutes By which appeareth that it is there as hot in the middle of winter as it is in Spaine in the middle of summer and therefore not disagréeing to that which the auncient Cosmographers wrote that the countries lying vnder this space or rather vnder the equatour is vnhabited through the burning heate and of them for this cause named the burning or scorching zone But of later yeares it is found contrary in that at Molucca Good-hope Calicute and Samatra rich drugges and other fine spices haue beene there gotten by the Spantards and Portingals and yéerly haunted by them as at this day the same is throughly known to many which also confesse that the places vnder the Equinoctiall and the rich City Calecute being by the sea coast of Inde standing betwéene the equatour and our Tropicke of Cancer and vnto the other Tropicke South vnder the Burning zone that the places is habitable and peopled although very cumbersome with extremity of heat Also that space on earth containeth 685. Germaine miles or 23500. furlongs Ptholomie and Auicen affirme that the places betwéen the equatour and summer Tropicke is habitable and that many Cities bee there although the sunne in those places through his direct beames and especially vnder the equatour doth by the ouer much heat and continual heat burn and mightily scorch The like doe sundry others affirme which write that those places is conuenient for the life of creatures in that vnder the equatour there bee many waters which although resolued and run through the heate yet doe they breath and send vpward colde vapors which the sun continually maintaineth in drawing vp through his vehement heat and sending down mighty showers of raine which vapors in the night through the suns furthest distance vnder the earth and especially at midnight cause a mighty cold and chilling ayre which the sun after his rising vntill he be somewhat ascended aboue the earth cannot sodainly ouercome and put away that cold impression of the ayre So that the people there inhabiting bee monstrous of forme and haue rude wits wondrous wild and terible conditions like to wilde and furious beasts The countries which lie vnder the Southerly Parallels as those which are described by the Equinoctiall line vnto the summer Tropicke where the sun is drawne and runneth ouer the tops of them there through the aboundance of vapors rayne and night colde is the suns heate repressed mitigated and dulled so that the heades of the Ethiopians or Moores be litle hauing but litle and withered braines their bodies short hauing thicke crisped haire on their heades grosse and dull of senses blacke scorched or burned bodies withred or wrinckled faces crooked of stature being in a maner hot by nature and cruell condicions through the mightinesse of heat in those places And the constitution also of the ayre is there such that al liuing and cresent things on that earth are found and known to agrée with them Further it is to be noted and vnderstood that any there trauailing from the Northerly places the further they goe towarde the South somuch the stronger heat or burning they shalbe annoyed with The two temperate zones be next adioining to the burning zone the
one on the Northerly and the other on the Southerly side of it And the beginnings of either bee the hotter the ends colder the middle of them exquisitly temperate in the other parts doth the heat either so much the more excéede or the bitter colde ouercommeth and ruleth as howe much the nearer they approach or come vnto the burning Zone or otherwise vnto either of the extreame Zones which continually cause a bitter and an extreame colde The cause of this diuersity is through the suns beames for the sun continually moouing in the middle iourney of heauen described betwéene the two Tropicks and digressing or going beyond the prefixed bounds of nature doeth not shew his beames vnto diuers parts of the earth in one manner but vnto the places right vnder and in the burning zone the tractes or countries contained vnder them doth he send downe right beames which stretcheth to the vpper face of the earth at right angles And vnto the countries of either temperate zone doeth the sun send downe thwart or slope beames And vnto the places vnder either cold zone doth he streach long beames on the plaine of the earth euen the like as being neare to the Horizone which neither reach vnto the vpper face of the earth nor cause angles but kéep an equall distance vnto it do streach forth infinitely But those beames of the sun doe neither giue light nor heat but turne backeward in that the property of the reflexion which of the beame against a solider resistance prohibiting or letting the penetration is a certaine repercussion and reuerberation that increaseth and doubleth the force of the direct beame and by the reflexed beame to it adioyned or at the least by his vertue applied and communicated Séeing this reflexion is the especiallest cause of the heat and that the angles of the reflexions falling doe continually make or be equal in the angles for that cause do they much vnlike increase the force of the directe beames and their effectes doe notably varie So that in the burning zone the reflexion stretcheth vnto right angles séeing the straight or right beames are caried led into themselues in such sort that as direct and reâ—lexen they méete and bee mixed and in this doubling as it were the vertue and force of the direct beames is on such wise increased that it kindleth burneth and consumeth And in either temperate zone is the reflexion caused at right angles in that the sun beames doe thwartly reach to the vpper face of the earth and are turned and extended backward vnto thwart angles which how much the néerer and liker they bee to the right so much the nearer doe they ioyne either beames togither by which they procéed and come into the nearer parts of the burning zone But so much the blunter as they streach so much the longer do they seperate either beames as howe much the more they are extended vnto the extreame or outmost bounds And for this cause doe they more heat then the fore parts of the temperate zone whose heate is a litle gentler or milder then the heate of the burning zone and the beames a litle further of whose colde notwithstanding differeth somewhat from the extreame or outmost vntemperate zones And those which streach and fall into the middle region of either temperate zone doe cause a meane betwéene the right and very sharp angles and yet not directly matched or ioyned nor doe they by so neare a space communicate their vertue as in the beginning of it neither by so large a distance as in the end but in the middle in a maner So that they cause and increase a temperate heate in the same zone But in the extreame or colde Zones is no reflexion of beames caused for those beames equally distant from the earth are streached forth infinitely and for that cause doe those neither giue light nor moue or procure heat neither doe those zones at any time warme either perfectly cleare or appeare bright but that they continually be foggy misty darke and bitter or extreame cold through the continuall mists which more and more increase especially toward the northerly pole And yet many affirme a reasonable dwelling in those places yea and vnder the Northerly pole but far colder and bitterer dwelling through the far being from the way of the sun and beholding of the comfortabler starres For the Sunne through his ouer far distance cannot by his presence aboue the earth comfort and heate This now is the perfect cause of the diuers and vniuersall coustitutions of the ayre and chiefe qualities in each zones so that of the particular constitutions be other causes But to returne vnto the temperate Zones the latitude of either temperate Zone is of 43. degrées almost of Germaine miles 645. and of furlongs 21500. So that the Boreallor Northerly zone beginning from the Tropick of Cancer endeth at the arcticke cyrcle or at the degrée of latitude 66. and 31. minutes And the Southerly from the Tropicke of Capricorne is extended or reacheth vnto the antarcticke cyrcle or the degrée of the Southerly latitude 66. and 32. minutes The vntemperate cold zones that reach froÌ„ either temperate vnto the poles of the worlde doe mooue continuall cold and frosts So that the beames of the sun although they pearse and enter through yet seeing they extende not backward nor through the reflexion or streaching backeward be strengthned and sharpned therefore can they not so heate that by the thawing they dissolue the earth and yse nor put away or voyde the mist. Now the vntemperate Northerly zone beginning from the 66. degrée and 31. minutes of the Northerly latitude endeth at the Pole arcticke and the vntemperate southerly zone begun from the same bounde of the Southerly latitude extendeth and endeth at the pole antarcticke Those people which dwell vnder the burning zone bee named of the Gréekes Amphiskioi Amphiscij in that the Noone shadowes at diuers times of the yeare goe or be cast to them twoe waies as toward the South or North. And twise also in the year runneth the sun right ouer their heades as is demonstrated in the second Theorme of Euclide so that at Noone it commeth to passe that they haue almost no shadow for the sun being direct or in right line ouer their heades at Noone hee then sendeth downe right Beames which are cast or streached to the plaine of the earth at right angles so that their shadowe falleth and is right vnder the feete and not on any side of them So that the sun in any other time of the yeare beeing without the verticall pointes the shadowes at Noone are one whiles cast into the South and another whiles into the North vnto them euen as the sun digressing from their toppes or Noonstéed is either caried into the North or otherwise declineth into the South This sorte of people which bee vnder either temperate zone are called of the Gréeke Cosmographers Eteroskioi Heteroscij in that they haue a single
shadowe For with them the Nooneshadowes continually run or goe toward one quarter onely So that to them dwelling Northward the Noon shadow streacheth towarth the arcticke or Northerly quarter By which it appeareth that the sun neuer ascendeth ouer their heades but continually casteth or streacheth his beames thwartly into those contries which alwaies forme their thwart angles with the plaine of the earth or els fall a-slope vpon the earth Those people which possesse and dwel vnder either vntemperate or cold zones are named of the Gréeke writers Periskioi Periscij for that their shadowes in one artificiall day are caried and run rounde as it were about them on the plaine of the earth so that the sun vnto those places casteth or sendeth not straight thwart or sloape but long beames running on the horizone which as they streach along infinitly euen so the shadowes going and lying on the flat of the earth and extended along doe increase infinitly And these zones also vnder the poles extend to that proper place where the Tropicke cyrcles and the Arctick cyrcles be all one Strabo likewise writeth that the colde zone reacheth to that place where the Tropick is the arcticke cyrcle that is where this first Zone endeth and the temperate beginneth the Pole beeing 66. degrées and a halfe aboue the horizon so that this pole must be from the toppe of their heads in that place 23. degrées and a halfe Further these people that haue their shadowes running rounde about them dwell within the Polare cyrcles In that all people whose Zenith is within 23. degrees and a halfe of any of both the Poles haue their shadowes compassing aboute them but those people as afore written dwelling nearer vnder the Pole the longer is their day and by that reason doe the shadowes run the oftner about them For where the day is of 24. houres long the shadow doth run but once about yet where the day is of halfe a yeare long the shadowes doe run 183. times about Here conceiue that there be fiue zones on earth answering to the fiue celestiall zones both in the heat temperatnesse and cold which for a plainer vnderstanding vse this figure here following demonstrated Where the Orb or cyrcle described on the plaine of the earth is distributed by the two vnknown diameters into foure equall partes as to the outward points of the one diameter note the letters a b. To the points of the other diameter adde the letters c d. The letter c. the Northerly Pole and the letter d. representing the Southerly pole The arke of the Orbe a c. deuide after the common maner into 90. parts or degrées the number as the vse is noted by 5. 10. 15. 20. 25. c. And beginning to recken at the letter a. in ascending by the number 5. vnto the letter c. beeing the Northerly pole Againe set one foote of the compasse vnchaunged on the letter c. representing the Northerly Pole and with the other opened make a point of the one side and after on the other side in drawing a line besides from point to pointe and the ends of that line note with the letters â— k. that declare the arcticke cyrcle And likewise set one foote of the compasse on the note d. iudicating the Southerly pole and after the marking with points on either side draw a right line at the endes of which note these letters l m. that represent the antarcticke cyrcle These so finished you shall then sée on that plaine or flat the fiue earthly zones rightly described For the space here represented of the earth by the Tropicke lines e f. and g h. included doth demonstrate the burning zone In that the suns heat by his direct beams ouer it doth continually strongly heat and burne that space of the earth wherefore you may rightly draw a straight line from the letter g. vnto f. representing the suns iourney And the space of the earth included of the line i k. the articke cyrcle and the arke answering to the Northerly line i k doth iudiacate the cold and frozen zone Northerly And that other Region or space contained right against representing the antarcticke cyrcle doth demonstrate the colde Southerly zone And the tract or space of the earth included within the lines i k. and E F. doth iudicate our temperate zone Northward and that reasonably habitable and the other portion of the earth contained within the lines g h. and l m. doth manifestly shew the temperate southerly zone Where Ptholomie and other auncient Cosmographers write that the burning zone is vnhabited or as a desart Aristotle Plinie and Iohn de sacro bosco in his treatise of the Sphere write the contrary Besides these it is well knowne at this day yea by experience vnderstood of those that haue yearely gone and come from the countries lying vnder that zone that is betwéene the two Tropicks to be inhabited Further this burnt zone is inhabited and well replenished with people that there dwell as the same is throughly known to many that haue passed to and frothe Indies so that it may euidently appeare that the heate there is not extreame nor so distemperate séeing the time of the heate that they suffer continueth not long nor the heat sharply worketh or causeth his vttermost effect For the sun but a small time tarieth aboue the Horizone in the burnt Region or Zone as certain astronomers write as the space of twelue houres onely so that the heat there is much qualified and suppressed through the colde rising in the night time whereof it is manifest that he causeth not his extreame hotnesse there although hee streacheth his beames perpendicularly on the earth Therefore may many maruaile that sundry ancient men affirme these parts to be vnhabitable séeing they knew of Arabia Foelix Aethiopia Taprobana and diuers other contries lying vnder the burnt zone yea besides these are Guinea Calicute Muluca and Gatigara well knowne to lie or bee vnder the burning Zone and many of the people in those countries liue long and the same Region also is inhabited and replenished well with people A like affirmation hath Albertus and Auicen as afore written that the middle zone is habitable for they agrée coÌ„â—rary to the old writers that in the same Region of the world which the auncient Cosmographers named to bee the burnt Zone that it is a far temperater dwelling than vnder the Tropicks it can bee in any wise And that people dwell vnder the Tropickes the ancient neuer doubted Wherfore if so resonable dwelling be vnder the Tropicks it cannot be otherwise as affirmeth Petrus de apono that vnder the Equatoure notwithstanding the sunnes sharpe heate but that men may dwell there for all the vntemperatnesse of heate To bee briefe al the writers of later yeares agrée that the middle zone is not onely habitable but found and known by many reasons and by experience that the same is most temperate and the earth vnder it rich both of golde and rich drugges
and f g. be the latitudes of the temperate zones in heauen and s t a c r q. of them on earth The twoe outwarde zones to these here drawne bee by themselues noted as well in heauen as on earth Now that wee haue declared with the fiue cyrcles the latitudes either of the celestiall or terestriall zones are defined it shall therefore be necessary to write here of the latitudes of the earthly zones in miles And that you may readily find the latitude in miles multiply the degrées by 15. in that so many Germaine miles answere to one degrée of the great cyrcle in heauen as the 43. degrées of the burnt zone being the suns greatest declination multiplied by the 15. miles doe produce 705. Germain miles which is the latitude of the burning zone The latitude of either temperate zones containeth 646. Germain miles almost And from either Tropicke vnto the pointes right vnder the poles doeth the space or distaunce containe 352. Germaine miles Where is the beginning and end of euerie Zone according to latitude and which places are in which Zones THe middle of the burning zone is vnder the Equinoctiall line where either pole is in the Horizon And both be his bounds where the eleuation of the pole aswell Southerly as Northerly is of 13. degrées and 28. minutes For either temperate zone doeth there begin and streacheth vnto the same place where the eleuation of the pole is of 66. degrées and 30. minutes which place is the beginning of the cold zones By these nowe may a man easily conceiue which places are in which zone for if the eleuation of the Pole Northerly be lesser then 23. degrées and 28. minutes this place then is in the burning zone as the inner Libia Aethiopia a part of Arabia Felix and India But if the eleuation containeth precisely so many degrées and minutes the place then is in the bounde of the burnt and temperate zone as is Siene a city of Aegypt Further if the eleuation of the Northerly Pole bee greater then 23. degrées and 28. minutes yet lesser then 66. degrées and 30. minutes this place theÌ„ is in the temperate zone as Greece Italy Spaine Germanie France England c. But if the latitude be precisely of 66 degrées and 30. minutes the place is in the bound of the temperate and cold zone as is almost Lagenlaâ—us of Suetia Last if the eleuation of the pole excéedeth 66. degrées and 30. minutes the place is in the cold zone beyond which degrées hath Nicolaus Douis a Germaine added a table of Noreway Gothland Iseland Greenland Fineland and Lapeland c. How the Zones and Climats doe differ THe Zone is a space or roome of the earth froÌ„ the West into the East and from thence by the midnight pointe againe into the West But the Clymate is a space of the earth whose beginning is constituted in the west and ende in the East A Zone also is the space of earth betwéene two cyrcles equidistant but a Climate is the only space or roome of the habitable earth contained betwéene two lines equidistant What the qualities of the Zones are TO the celestiall Zones are qualities attributed not formally but onely vertually that is the celestial zones are neither cold hot nor temperate but of this named colde burning and temperate through the sunne which one whiles comming into this and another whiles declining into that parte of the worlde doâ—th send downe his beames to the earth in sundry maner as one whiles plum downe right when the sun runneth vnder the equinoctiall and another whiles by a thwart maner as in the thwart sphere which beames besides how right angles they make on earth so much the greater heate they cause and how thwarter angles they make somuch the weaker heat they procure So that vnder the Equinoctiall the beames most rightly and downe right falling doe make right angles on the vpper face of the earth which through the same causeth a most great heat Also the beames faling toward either poles doe cause thwarter angles and they make the angles more vneuen or thwarter and therof the same heat is the lesser And in the temperate zone especially in the summer the beames doe make almost angles falling vnto a rightnes but in the winter vnto a thwartnes so that in the same Region is a coÌ„modious dwelling But in the colde zones the angles are caused vnlike or vneuen thwartest or slopest as in the burnt Zone they are rightest and most downward in somuch that the cold zones euen as the burnt are commodious to dwel vnder For the beames falling and reflexed how much néerer they fal and be togither somuch the stronger and mightier they moue and cause the heat as we dayly sée that the sun in the noonstéed being as in the summer to cast or streach downe almost perpendicular or down right beames which beames also are almost reflected into theÌ„selues of which the greatest heat of the day then is caused And contrariwise the sun being in the East or west where y e beames streaching downward and reflexed are scatred and run abroade the effects be lesser and the heat much abated and féebled Euen so the beames in the burnt zone bee perpendicular or plum downright which reflexed into themselues do cause a most great heat In the temperate zone doe the beames bylitle and litle fall sloper and sloper of which they cause there a temperate heat But in the cold zones the beames furthest decline or fall slopest through which they procure no effect of the coÌ„sequent cause there a very weake heat What the vtilities of the Zones be _1 THe auncient considerers of the stars haue thus instituted the distribution of the zones for two causes The one is that by this reason they might shewe to vs which places of the earth be reasonably habitable most commodious to dwell vnder 2 The other is as wee learne by experience that the wits of men and nature of places by them appeare and are knowne in that the ayre compassing vs is a certaine cause of the temperatnes For the maners and condicions of men as writeth Galen doe for the most parte ensue the temperameÌ„ts of the bodies yea the nature of trées plants hearbs and beasts do like ensue the temperament of ayre Of which that we might bee the surer and certainer of the natures of the foresaid matter it pleased the ancient to deuide them into fiue zones Of which it is wel known that the bodies of men or people dwelling vnder the burning zone as the Moores be shorter of stature theÌ„ those people dwelling vnder the temperate zones wilder and crueler Also they bee crafty and subtill of nature hauing besides wrinkled faces thick crisped heare on the head and blacke scorched bodies and crooked of stature Also all liuing and cresent things are found to agrée according to the quality of the ayre in that Region Further the people dwelling vnder the Northerly Parallels or Polare cyrcles
the earth Albategnius affirmeth the Star of Mercurie to be least of all the starres and supposeth or accounteth him to be as one part of 19000. parts of the earth The highest ascention of Mercuries Sphere is from the earth after Albategnius distant 166. semidiametres but the lowest point in the same Orbe is 56. semidiametres distant from the earth THe Moone being lowest of all the Planets doth compasse about the whole Zodiack in 27. dayes 7. hours 43. minutes and 7. seconds She is lesser then the earth after the iudgement of Ptholomie by thrée hundreth nine times and a vnity more then eight parts For the triple proportion of the diametre of the earth vnto the moone by deuiding aboue the fift parts is euen the like as 27. vnto 5. But lesser she is then the sun by sixe thousand fiue hundreth thirty and nine times Copernicus by his obseruations founde the earth greater then the Moone by forty thrée times lesse then an eight part and of this the sunne also is founde greater then the moone by seauen thousand parts lacking thréescore seconds And the greatest distance of the new and full mòone from the earth after the mind of Ptholomie is 64. semidiametres and 10. scruples but after later obseruations 65. semidiametres and 30. scruples And the lowest to the earth is 55. semidiametres and 8. minutes THe Moone digressing from the Sun euery moneth and taking or receiuing a newe light as it were in that she is changed taketh a new light of the sun doeth after encrease by little and litle conceiuing dayly a bigger forme and light vntill shee come in right line against the sunne at what time she shineth with full light after returning againe vnto the sun she waxeth olde by loosing of her light by little and little and in the contrary maner cōmeth vnto the like formes of light vntil she comming vnder the beames of the sun bée quite out of sight Also for that the moone hath a body partly thin partly thicke solyde and shadowed therefore is she not equally filled round about with the beames of the sun but that the same halfe of her Globe or body which turned againe in heauen that beholdeth the sun is it which shineth and the other halfe turned away from the suns light is that which shineth not but remaineth shadowed That Heauen hath a round fourme and to be carried circularly FIrst heauen is equally distant roūd about from the earth and of this is heauen perfect rounde after the definition of the Sphere Which reason is thus proued that if heauen shoulde haue any other forme then perfect round then of necessity must the stars change their distances frō the earth what place vppon earth they shoulde purchase as somewhere more and somewhere lesse they shoulde bee distant and the standing of them changed should also alter their apparant bignesse in that they should appeare greater being séene néere hande and lesser being séene far off Yet neither of these happeneth but that they cōtinually kéeping a sunder are drawn about by vnchangeable spaces and holding a like bignesse and distance to all places of the earth That the stars about the quarters of the East or West appeare sometimes greater is not caused by reason of the shorter distance but for that their beams in the vapours which often times consist in the ayre betwéene the starres and our eie are then broken which breaking of them causeth the body of the star séene to appeare much greater in the eie then in déed it is That heauen is drawne circularly is thus knowne in that wée alwaies sée all the Stars from the East into the West to be drawne vpward and that the hemisphere in our sight is carried continually in distant cyrcles equidistant neuer changing the standing or distance one from another neither in bignesse as far as the iudgement of the eie can descerne neither any whit lessoned For they being drawue from the neather place as from the earth are caried by little and little And after they be thus come vnto the highest of their iourney as vnto the noon-stéede they decline again by little and little till they be brought down vnto the west quarter and there set and hidden vnder the earth and these places and times both of the risings and settings doe they repeate in certaine order Therefore by these it appeareth that they are drawne and carried by round By the second it is euident that the Starres which be néere the Pole Articke are neuer hidden out of our sight but are continually and vniformally drawn round about the Pole as the Centre in such sort that the stars neare to it make the lesser compasses and the stars further off doe define greater compasses So that the starres fastened to their proper Orbs as aforewritten are cyrcularly caried By which two motions of the stars as well tending vnto the West as otherwise it plainly appeareth that heauen is drawn about and caried round A manifest demonstration appeareth of the former argument by this figure here following That the Water and Earth are round Bodies and by a mutuall embracing doe make one Body and one hollovv vpperface THat the earth is round is thus proued Wheras in euery vpper face the length and breadth is considered The length of the vpper face of the earth is from the West into the East or contrariwise The bredth is from the South into the North or contrariwise That the earth also to bee rounde appeareth after length in that the Sun Moone and Stars doe neither arise nor set at one instant time alike to all persons dwelling in any parte of the earth But doe much sooner appeare and shine to them dwelling vnto the East and within a whiles after they shewe to them dwelling in the West By the second appeareth that one and the like Eclipse of the moone in diuers houres is séen both in the East and West For that which appeareth in the first houre of the night to them in the West is séene to them in the East parte in the second thirde or fourth houre euen as they come nearer vnto the East which would not be caused if the night to both places should happen and bée at one moment nor sooner woulde they appeare to them in the East part Againe there bée certaine stars which in their rising doe appeare sooner to them in the East parts then to them in the West as Plinie writeth of Arbelis being a towne in Asiria where an Eclipse of the Moone was séene in the second houre of the night which in Sicily was séene in the first houre of the night For the Assirians are more Easterly then the Sicilians and therefore doeth the sun set sooner with them then with the Siciliaus And when it was also the second houre of the night in Assiria the Sun first set in Sicilia about the first houre of the night Moreouer the Pole of the world acording to the diuersitie of places is eleuated and