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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	light_n	night_n	rule_v	2,456	5	10.2979	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15724	A discouerie of sundrie errours and faults daily committed by lande-meaters, ignorant of arithmetike and geometrie, to the damage, and preiudice of many her Maiesties subiects with manifest proofe that none ought to be admitted to that function, but the learned practisioners of those sciences: written dialoguewise, according to a certaine communication had of that matter. By Edward Worsop, Londoner. Euery one that measureth land by laying head to head, or can take a plat by some geometricall instrument, is not to be accounted therfore a sufficient landmeater, except he can also prooue his instruments, and measurings, by true geometricall demonstrations.	Worsop, Edward.	1582 (1582)	STC 25997; ESTC S120271	43,934	78

with him the furie is not onely then qualified but turned vnto pleasantnes and in steade of great warres they prognosticate great adulteries insolences and vnchastities Thus these diuinors behight generally vnto the whol● worlde an vniuersall spending of the yere according to the dispositions and vsages of licentious persons The vniuersall people at their appointmentes must spend the whole yere either prouidently and vertuously or dissolutely and vitiously If any bee desirous to vnderstand at large the vanities contrarieties lyinges falsehoodes heresies and other abhominations proceeding from abused Iudiciall and Diuinatorie Astrologie let them read the treatise of Iohannes Picus Mirandula Cornelius Scepperus and Cornelius Agrippa against such Astrologie And also two English treatises the one intituled An inuectiue against Astrologie the other An admonition against Astrologie Iudiciall and other curiosities Abused Astrologie is a greater hinderer and depressor of lawful Astrologie and Astronomie and the other singular and lawfull mathematicall knowledges then rancke weedes of good corne We may reade in the first Chapter of Genesis wherefore God made the Celestiall bodies where it is thus written And GOD saide Let there bee lightes in the firmament of heauen that they may deuide the daie and the night and let them bée for signes and seasons and for daies and yeres And let them bee for lightes in the firmament of heauen that they may giue light vpon earth and it was so And GOD made two greate lightes a greater light to rule the day and a lesse light to rule the night and hee made starres also And God set them in the firmament of heauen to shine vppon the earth And to rule the day and the night and to make difference betweene the light and the darkenesse Here the worde of GOD sheweth for what causes the Sunne Moone and starres were made namely to diuide the day and the night and to bee for signes for seasons for daies for yeres to giue light vppon earth to rule the day and the night and to make a difference betweene light and darkenesse Lawfull Astrologie and Astronomie entreate not of the Sunne Moone and Starres nor of their courses and aspectes to further end then these Who so goeth further committeth as great euill as hee that addeth to the worde of GOD or maketh the worde of GOD a cloake to couer his wicked diuinings All sensible people perceiue that these lightes gouerne and deuide the day and the night for when the Sunne is aboue our horizon then is it day with vs when vnder then night They be signes vnto vs of Gods great power maiestie and goodnes By the courses which GOD hath giuen vnto these signes wee knowe the approching present and declining times of spring Summer Haruest and Winter Nauigation into farre Countries can not conueniently be without taking the height of the Sunne and certaine starres whereby men knowe in what parte of the worlde they are and by the age of the Moone they knowe when it is full sea or lowe water in any hauen or porte whereby the safest times of bringing in their vessels is knowen vnto them These and sundrie other greate commodities receiue we by these signes We see also that our seasons for plowing sowing setting planting shredding cutting felling reaping and gathering are knowen by the courses and influences of these lights and celestiall bodies When the Sunne is in the tropike of Capricorn then is it with vs winter season when in the Equinoctiall spring time when in the tropike of Cancer sommer These al other seasons are knowen to skilfull Astronomers by the courses of the celestial bodies The knowledge of the day naturall which is the space of foure and twentie howres and of the day artificial which is the time betwene Sunne rising and Sunne setting is of great necessitie in our humane affaires In like manner to knowe in what space of time the yere is accomplished is a thing of greate commoditie vnto vs. C C C lxv daies vi houres and a small portion more of time make the yere which Astronomers haue found out by obseruing the course of the Sunne through the whole zodiake If the reuolutions and courses of the celestiall bodies should not yerely be exactly obserued by Astronomers they could not set forth almanakes and if we had not almanaks great losses inconueniences and confusions in humane affaires would immediately ensue Philip Melanchton saith in an Epistle of his that it is a greate and manifest profitte to keepe a true and certaine account of the yere How great would the confusion be of present buisines of contracts of bargains of iudgements how great disorders would there be if there were not a distinction of yeeres and moneths If the numbring of yeares were taken awaye what greate obscuritie woulde there bee in Hystories The beginning of the Worlde coulde not bee thought on neyther the begynninges of religions discerned nor the alterations of kingdomes distinguished It is euident that the knowledge of these things are greatly necessarie to diuinitie and to many partes of our life Wherefore the ingratitude or rather the peruersenes of many can not sufficientlie be maruelled at which reproue this doctrine of the heauenly motions and description of the yere The greatnes of the profite the iudgements of the wisest Princes and of the best learned who with great labour searche and diligence haue set the yere in order ought to moue the ignorant to detest the hearing and vsing of such doltishe and scoffing reprofes as are vsed against good artes so excellently set out as it were by diuine inspiration The worthiest princes magistrates and philosophers haue had a great care rightly to describe the yere that times may be discerned the memorie of things set forth and conserued We must needs grant that our first fathers the Patriarks and Prophets who excelled in wisedome and godlines as it were by diuine inspiration enforced haue obserued and set forth the distinction of yeres We reade the Patriarke Abraham taught the Egyptians Astronomie and Geometrie And godly Iob nameth certaine starres by proper names Great reasons profes authorities as well from Diuinitie as from Philosophie and naturall reason might be brought howe worthie and needefull the Mathematicall knowledges are Therefore they are greatly too blame and much ouershoote themselues in bewraying their ignorance and ill disposition which scoffe at Mathematicians calling them fantasticall and vaine fellowes They which haue no vnderstanding in Mathematicall arts when they see a fellow with a running head or light braine especially if he be studious and giuen to solitarines say in way of scorning he hath a mathematicall head They thinke they speake finely and aptly but they make themselues more ridiculous vnto the learned by vsing this newe terme then the simple man that calleth an arbitrement a bikerment and him verie vnrude whom they would condemne for carterlines In their imagination a running or fantasticall head and a mathematicall head are of one signification which is farre