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A42079	Gregorii posthuma, or, Certain learned tracts written by John Gregorie. Together with a short account of the author's life and elegies on his much-lamented death published by J.G.	Gregory, John, 1607-1646.; Gurgany, John, 1606 or 7-1675.	1649 (1649)	Wing G1926; ESTC R2328	225,906	381

in Athenaeus relateth that hee was a Luxurious Prince 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Sic Ctesias Diodorus also maketh mention of this Zames Ninias in whom see further That this Ninias spent his time otherwise then became a Prince Trogus relateth in Justine in these words Filius ejus Ninus contentus elaborato à parentibus imperio belli studia deposuit veluti sexum cum matre mutâsset rarò à viris visus in foeminarum turba consenuit Posteri quoque ejus exempla sequuti responsa gentibus per internuncios dabant Synchronismi ABout the time of this Ninias happened that remarkable Judgment of God upon Pentapolis or the five Cities to wit Sodome Gomorrah Admah Zeboïm and Segor which deserv's to bee remembred as well by us as a profane Historian Cornelias Tacitus whose attestation to Moses in this matter is well worth our consideration The Autor having described the Lake of Sodom addeth as followeth Haud procul indè campi quos olim uberes magnísque urbibus habitatos fulminum jactu arsisse manere vestigia terrámque specie torridam vim frugiferam perdidisse Nam cuncta sponte edita aut manu sata sive herbâ tenus aut flore seu solitam in speciem adolevere atra inania velut in cineres evanescunt Ego sicut Judaïcas quondam urbes igne coelesti flagrâsse concesserim ità halitu lacûs infici terram corrumpi superfusum spiritum eóque foetus segetum Autumni putrescere reor Solo caelóque juxtà gravi Tacitus Hist lib. 4. pag. 619. Lipsianae editionis in octavo The Autor of the Abstract before mentioned when hee cometh to Ninus setteth down to succeed him one Thourias who was called Ares to whom hee saith they made the first Statue and called it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Lord God of which saith hee the Prophet Daniel hath made mention Suidas either had this from this Autor or hee from Suidas who hath written the same for as I know not the Autor so neither his time It was after Eusebius how long I yet cannot tell whereas they cite Daniel wee are to understand not that Man of desires but his name's sake intitled to the Storie of Bell and the Dragon which who will may read more at large in Hebrew then 't is found in Greek if they will patiently revolv the Stories of Josippus the Jew called also Gorionides After Thourias the Abstract placeth Lames then Sardanapalus omitting that whole succession of Affricanus without recompens more then of Thourias and Lames neither of which are known Thus far the better hand of pure Antiquitie hath helped us Julius Affricanus reckoneth up ●he Kings from Zames to Sardanapalus and after him Eusebius and amongst the Moderns Funccius Angelocrator Henningius Reyneccius and divers others Those that deserv greatest commendation are first and chiefly Sethus Calvisius in his judicious Chronologie After him Salian in his Annals so Joseph Scaliger in his Isagogical Canons However I might have both their help and Autoritie yet I forbear so to fill up the great Chasm in this part of our Monarchie yet it shall not bee said that I refus'd to follow such great Leaders for a little reason Amongst others these two have principally persuaded First becaus the Account of Africanus reckoned per 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is summing up the years of each King together agreeth not with the Computation of the years in general Secondly becaus wee finde in Autors of undoubted Credit som Kings of Ashur whom notwithstanding wee finde not in the succession of Africanus as for Example Moses maketh mention of Amraphel whom the Hebrews would have to bee Nimrod grounding their conceit upon a fabulous Etymologie becaus they say Abraham was brought before Nimrod for burning his Father Terah's Idols and beeing then but three years old discoursed before the Tyrant concerning the Creätor of Heaven and Earth Nimrod proudly replied that it was hee that made the Heavens and the host of Heaven if so said Abram then say thou to thy Sun that hee should rise in the West and set in the East and I will believ thee Nimrod thus exasperated with the childes audacitie and discretion command's that hee should bee cast into the fire therefore the Jews saie that hee was called Amraphel from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 amar and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 phul that is dixit descende hee said to Abraham go go down into the fire and this saie they is Vr of the Chaldees out of which God brought Abraham This Storie is in the Book of Maase Torah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 postea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See Munster's Annotations upon Genesis where these words and the entire Storie is set down out of the aforesaid Book but this discours is idle Again Suidas maketh mention of one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who rained after Ninus and Macrobius of one Deleboris but of these or either of them Africanus saith nothing Som would have that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Suidas to bee Arius in Affricanus their reason is a Conjecture from another name which this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 had for which see Suidas in this word Thurias Besides all this Diodorus reckoneth but thirti● Kings from Ninias to Sardanapalus But Affricanus accounteth more This disorder and disagreement in the matter hath mooved us to break of the Succession in this place from Ninias to Sardanapalus interposing one onely Prince of whom Diodorus maketh mention that in his time happened the Noble Expedition of the Argonautes and the wars of Troie The King's name was Teutames but in what place to rank him I finde not not following Affricanus So doth the Abstract leaving out all those Kings which in Affricanus and the fals Berosus were suspected adulterine a thing in this nameless Autor much to bee regarded for certainly he took it for granted that this part of the Succession was meerely lost and without hope of recoverie I will add one reason more which at this instant take's mee up that the maintainers of these Kings reciting their names put 's the Readers off so slenderly that wee cannot but suspect them for of each King they still disgracefully report that hee did nothing worthie of memorie a likely matter that all those Kings were idle The Trojan war is famous and a great part thereof Fabulous For the Historie see Dictys the Cretian and Dares the Trojan translated the one out of the Phoenician Language Or rather our own Josephus Iscanus the other out of the Greek tongue by Cornelius Nepos though som have called in question the credit of both these See also Valerius Flaccus in Latine and Apollonius in Greek for these Argonautes The last King therefore of the first state of this Monarchie was Sardanapalus as Diodorus and Trogus make mention Diodor. lib. 2. Justin ex Trogo libro 1. Sardanapalus HEe was the son of Anacyndraxis A most obscene and most

taken from that Meridian which passeth through the Azores But whether from that in S. Michaël or from the other in Corvo is not set down and yet the Difference is 7 Degrees and more But hear lastly the Kingdom 's Geographer in the Preface to his Britannia At insimulabunt jam Mathematici in crimen vocabunt quasi in Geographicis Latitudinis Longitudinis Dimensionibus toto Coelo aberrârim Audi quaeso Tabulas Astronomicas novas antiquas manuscriptas Oxonienses Cantabrigienses Regis Henrici Quinti diligenter contuli In Latitudine à Ptolomeo plurimùm discrepant inter se ferè conspirant nec tamen Terram è suo Centro dimotam esse cum Stadio existimo His igitur usus sum In Longitudine autem nullus consensus concentus nullus Quid igitur facerem Cum Recentiores perpendiculum navigatoria pyxide Magnete illitum inter Azores insulas rectà Polum Borealem respicere deprehenderim indè Longitudinis Principium tanquam à Primo Meridiano cum illis dixi quam nec ubique 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 permensus sum So the Learned Cambden Where note by the waie that if the Translator hath rendered the Book no better then hee hath this Claus of the Preface the best cours will bee for those that can to read it in the Latine The Autor's meaning I think was this But now saith hee the Mathematicians will accuse and call mee in question as if I were altogether out in my Geographical Dimensions of Latitude and Longitude But praie heare mee I diligently compared the Manuscript Astronomical Tables of Henrie the Fifth as well the old as the new Calculated for the Meridians som of Oxford others for that of Cambridg In Latitude I found them to differ from Ptolomie very much but well enough agreeing among themselvs and yet I cannot think that the Earth is any whit startled aside from it's Center as Stadius did These Tables therefore I made use of But in the Longitude I found no agreement at all What should I do Considering that the Modern Geographers had found that the Needle of the Mariner's Compass touched with the Loadstone directly pointeth to the North-Pole by the Azorian Isles I did as they did and took the begining of Longitude from thence as from the First Meridian but which I have not alwaies set down exactly or to a Minute And now the least that can bee exspected is that the Longitudes of all Places in the Britannia are accounted from the Meridian which passeth by the Azores But from which of the Meridians If it bee as the book expresseth ab Vltimo Occidente 't is from that of Corvo then the Mathematicians have caus to complain for all the Longitudes are fals But I can perceiv that the Geographer though otherwise most accomplished yet was not so well seen in this piece of the Skill for though it bee pretended in the Preface that all the Longitudes in the Description shall bee taken from the Azores yet in setting down the Longitude of Oxford hee saith That as hee hath it from the Mathematicians of the Place it is 22 Degrees from the Fortunate Islands which can never bee true for 't is but 19 from the Azores reckoning by S. Michaël But this is not all In assigning the Longitude of Pen-von-las or The Land's-end in Cornwall Hee saith that is 17 Degrees à Fortunatis Insulis vel potiùs Azoris from the Fortunate Islands or rather from the Azores But is is the Difference so small did hee think But 9 Degrees at least But I finde by the Longitudes that Mercator was the Man that set up all these for Geographers Mercator first of all kept himself to the Greek Meridian as Appian Gemma Frisius Maginus and others but understanding by Francis of Deip an experienced Mariner that the Compass had no Variation in the Islands of Capo Verde And by others that it had very little in Tercera and S. Marie of the Azores but not anie at all in the Isle Corvo that hee might go a mean waie to work and compile with the Common Meridian of the World as hee took it to bee Hee made his Great Meridian to pass as himself saith betwixt the Isles of Capo Verde and the Azores that is Through the Isles of S. Michaël and S. Marie which was afterwards taken for Example by Plancius Saunderson and the common sort of others so that little or no notice at all was taken of the Meridian by Corvo no not by those of the biggest exspectation as M. Carpenter M. Camden M. Speed and the rest although this also was the known Meridian of som Globes of the very same Times and before that that is before they had set their last hand to their Descriptions And 't is no mervail for Mercator's Longitudes were more exactly accounted then before and therefore they might well take his Meridian along with them And 't was not amiss to go by the most received but then they should have said so and withall have set down the three severall Meridians at least and the difference of Longitude betwixt them and all this with more distinction then so that another man should com after them to tell themselvs what Meridian they went by And thus much of the First or Great Meridian Of the Lesser Meridians THe Lesser are those Black Circles which you see to pass through the Poles and succeeding to the Great at 10 and 10 Degrees as in most Globes or as in som at 15 and 15 Degrees Difference Everie place never so little more East or West then another hath a several Meridian Shot-over hath a distinct Meridian from Oxford becaus more East Osney hath not the same as near as it is for it lieth West of the Citie The exact Meridian whereof must pass directly through the middle yet becaus of the huge distance of the Earth from the Heavens all these Places and Places much further off may bee said to have the same Meridian as the almanac-Almanack-makers Calculate their Prognostications to such or such a Meridian where they pretend to make their Observations But saie too that it may generally serv c. And indeed there is no verie sensible Difference in less then 60 Miles upon which ground the Geographers as the Astronomers allow a New Meridian to everie other Degree of the Equator which would bee 130 in all but except the Globes were made of an Extreme and Unuseful Diameter so manie would stand too thick for the Description Therefore most commonly they put down but 18 that is at 10 Degrees distance one from the other the special use of these Lesser Meridians beeing to make a quicker dispatch in the account of the Longitudes Som others as Mercator set down but 12 at 15 Degrees difference aiming at this That the Meridians might bee distant one from the other a full part of time or an hour for seeing that the Sun is carried 15 Degrees off the Equinoctial everie hour as was said before