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A85920	The first lecture, of geographie, (vvhich is a description of the terestriall globe) / read publickly at Sr. Balthazar Gerbier his accademy, at Bednall-Greene.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1649 (1649)	Wing G559; Thomason E573_6; ESTC R206201	5,151	14

because that the Sun making its course under it it is Midday in the Region of the which its said Meridien Zenith is the point which is directly over our heads It is evident that the Zeniths being infinite the Meridiens will be also infinite if they doe not meet many Zeniths under a same Meridien But the Geographers sets but one by every Town or Province It sheweth also the difference of the Longitudes which is the difference from one Meridien to another Of the Horizon THe Horizon is a great changeable Circle which hath the same Center as the Earth which it divides into two equall parts Superiour and Inferiour The Superiour part is called hemispheare of the day and the Inferiour hemispheare of the night The highest point in the Horizon is called Semith in the Arabian tongue or Pole of the Horizon It s opposite is said nathir It is evident that the Semith being infinite the Horizons will be also infinite But the Geographers doe put but one for every Town and Province Of the two imperfect Circles THe two imperfect Circles are two great Circles cutting one another in straight Angles at the Poles of the World The one is called Circle of Solstice and the other Circle of Equinox The Circle of Solstice is the Circle which passes by the Poles of the World and by the Solsticall points which are Cancer and Capricorn Circle of the Equinox is the Circle which passes by the Poles of the World and by the Equinoctiall Poles which are Aries and Libra They serve to cut the Spheare in foure equall parts and the year in foure seasons Of the foure little Circles THe foure little Circles of the Spheare are the two Tropicks of Cancer and of Capricorne The two Circles of the Pole Artick and Antartick The Trophick of Cancer is the Circle which the Sun marks when it is in the first point of Capricorne These Circles are distant 23 degrees 30 minutes from the Equinoctiall which is the greatest declining of the Sun The Circle of the Artick Pole is the Circle which is mark by the Pole of the Zodiack about the Pole of the world Artick The Circle of the Pole Antartick is the Circle which the Pole of the Zodiack marks about the pole of the world Antartick These Circles are 23 degrees 30 minutes distant from the Poles of the World These Circles divide the Earth into five Zones That which is between the Tropick is called Torride because of the continuall presence of the Sun and hath of breath 47 degrees Those which are between the two Circles of the Poles are called cold by the farnes of the Sun and are of 47 degrees Those which are between the Pole Circle and the Tropick are called temperate because they participate of the two others and have each one 43 degrees of breadth Of the Clymats A Climat is the space of the Earth in the which the daies vary of a half hour The Climats begin at the Equinoctiall and finish at the Circle of the Pole therefore it is that there are 24 Climats because that under the Equinoctiall the longest dayes are of twelve houres and under the Circle of the Pole the greatest day is of 24 houres which are 24 half houres and therefore 24 Climats Those that have set but 7 or 8 Climats have put but those of the earth which they knew Ptolomee hath put 48. but he hath made them of quarters of houres which are named Parallels Others have put 36 24. to the Circle of the Pole and 12. from the said Circle to the Pole but they have made the Climates of 15. to 15. dayes The Ancients named the Climates by the places where they did passe as by Meroes Syene Alexandria Rhodes Roma Boristhenes and the Montagnes of Riphaes The Degrees are of two sorts of Longitude and of Latitude The degrees of Longitude are innumber of 360. The degrees of Latitude in the same number The Inhabitants of the Earth are considered according to their shadowes or according to their positions and sears The Inhabitants according to their shadowes are Amphisciens in the Torrid Zone Heterosciens in the temperate Zone and Perisciens in the cold Zone all these names come from the Greek tongue The Amphisciens have two sorts of shadowes The Heterosciens have only the one or the other And the Perisciens have it round about them The considerations of the Inhabitants according the Positions are of three Sorts Periecians or cohabitants in a same Parallel and Meriden But at the points of the same opposed Paralled Anticiens and Contr ' habitants in a same half of Meridien and in divers Parallels equally distant of the Equator And Antipodes in the parts of the Earth diametrally opposed The Regions or Quarters of the world are foure principall Septentrio Meridies Oriens and Occidens The principall Winds are North South Est and West correspondent to the aforesaid Regions The Measures THE Point is the least partie The Line consists in many continued points The Line properly or according the Mathimaticiens hath no breadth The Surface consists in many Lines The Body or Solid in many Surfaces The Inch comprehends twelve Lines these Lines have the breadth of a grain of Corn. The Foot twelve Inches The Cubit a Foot and a half The Fadome six Foot The Pearch 18 or 20 Foot The Common Pace two Foot and a half The Geometricall Pace five Foot The Roman Mile is a thousand Geometricall Paces The Grecian Stade a hundred and five and twenty Paces The Persian Parasangne three thousand seven hundred and fifty The Egyptian Schene is of three different sorts two thousand five hundred five thousand and of seven thousand five hundred The Spanish league three thousand foure hundred The common French league two thousand five hundred The Switzers league five thousand The Italian mile a thousand The German league foure thousand The Swedish league five thousand The Hungarian league six thousand The English mile a thousand two hunderd The degree of latitude threescore thousand The degree of Longitude under the Equator threescore thousand The circumference of the Terrestriall Globe one and twenty millions six hundred thousand The Diameter of the Terestriall Globe seven millions one hundred seven an fifty thousand five hundred or there about The Surface is one hundred seventy foure thousand millions of millions two and forty thousand millions The solidity is the surface multiplied by the third of the Diameter For every degree of Latitude or of Longitude under the Equator is taken most commonly 60 minites 60 thousand Geometricall Paces Threescore Roman miles Four hundred and fourscore Grecian stades Sixteen Persian Parasangues Fifty ancient French leagues Seventeen Spanish leagues and a half Four and twenty or five and twenty common French leagues Twelve leagues of Switzerland Threescore miles of Italy Fifteen German miles or leagues Twelve Swedish leagues Ten Hungarian leagues Five and fifty miles of England Fifty miles of Scotland The proper terms belonging to Geographie are THe Sea Gulfe Strait Isle Peninsula Istmus Continent Promontory or Cape The Sea is the Infinite concourse of Water which covers an infinite space of the surface of the Earth which is divided into many parts and receives divers names according to the lands and people which joyns it as we shall shew hereafter Gulf is a great overture in the Earth longer then broader where the Sea enters Strait which is called in Latin fretum is a forced Sea between two Lands which maketh great noise by reason of its agitation Isle is a Portion of Earth invironed on all sides by the Sea Peninsula is a portion of Earth invironed by the Sea saving that by some little part it is fastened to another Land Istmus is the little part of Earth which fastens the Peninsula to the firme Land Continent is the firm Land which is neither Isle nor Peninsula nor Istmus Promontorie is the highest part of the point of the Earth which advances in the Sea and which is discovered far off it s that which is commonly called Cape The next Lecture of Geographie shall be the description of all the parts of the Terestriall Globe