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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	north_n	pole_n	south_n	3,753	5	10.5697	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20443	Fata mihi totum mea sunt agitanda per orbem	Digges, Dudley, Sir, 1583-1639.	1611 (1611)	STC 6846; ESTC S105356	8,210	30

FATA MIHI TOTVM MEA sunt agitanda per Orbem Imprinted at London by W. W. for Iohn Barnes 1611. THough our particular opinion of the pro●…abilitie that after the vn-blest indeauours of so manie of our Countrimen sought for the North-west passage were reason good enough for our Aduentures to merite at the worst by making knowne th'impossibilitie the thankes of future Ages Yet now when persons of more e●…inence are interested in the prosecutio●… of that Action least after good successe as in like cases the enuy of the world commend the Fortune rather then the Iudgement of the Vndertakers we are aduised to shew some such as you a litle of our Reason by the sufficience whereof you as we wis●… will iudge vs and our Enterprize though an vnlook'd for ill e●…ent should surnish other men with stronger Arguments then yet they haue against vs. For yet setting aside some one It may be and that fortified especially with this the maine Obiection is that all our moderne Globes and Mappes doe either shew no pa●…sage or else fo high into the North and long into the West that Cold and Ice and Fogges and so foorth will make it of no vse To which wee iustly might reply that it hath euer been the Custome of Describers of the Wo●…ld in remote partes to set downe Land or Sea out of their owne imagination with Gian●…s Pigmies Monsters and miraculous reportes of fabulous Authors O●… if wee list to let them see how poore it is to trust in Pictures could tell them of those Globes that make America and Asia all one Continent euen vnder the Tropicke Or of those Maps that seuer them by a small Fretum onely that since is found to be a vaste and spatious Sea Or of those that ioyne America and Grond-land betweene which Dau●…s and other of our Countrimen discouered a large Passage Or of those that force the Backe of Brasill by the Streightes of Mag●…llan to trend so strangely Westward when M. Cauendish found that Coast to turne immediatly vp to the North inclining to the East Or of other as grosse errours which later Voyages haue mended By which those men might be perswaded from ours because it is a new Discouerie to rectifie their Cardes that make no mention of our Streightes found in a Latitude free from feare of danger cutting through the body of America 200. or 300. Leagues vnto an open Sea that shewed a great and hollow Billow and brought a Flood that rose 5. Faddome The rather for that it agreeth iustly with the Portingal Card taken in the late Queenes time out of a Carricke And with the intelligence which Sir Mar●…in Furbisher had long since from a Portingal in Gwinie that sayd hee had past it And with the generall confession of Pilots now at L●…shbon yeelding to the newes And with vnpartiall Stories telling that the Admirall of D. Garcia G●…offroy Loaysa of u●…-Real in the time of Cha●…les the fifth by the Coast of Bacalaos and 〈◊〉 went to the Moluccaes But because some that hold the place at least of good Sea-men and Maisters in the studie of Cosmographie deliuer their opinion without reasons that there yet remaine on the North of America many hundred leagues for vs to passe We hold it not amis to shew you why besides our late experience we thinke not so in this succeeding short discourse OF THE CIRCVMFERENCE of the Earth VNlearned men are now at length assured by the renowned Voyages of Sir Francis Drake and M. Cauendish and other worthy Persons that in the last age compassed the World As aunciently Mathematicians were by the roundnesse of the shadow in the Eclipse of the Moone That the forme or figure which God gaue vnto the Sea and Earth when his Wisedome set the Waters and dry Land apart was Gloabe-like or Sp●…aricall Wherein it is agreed there are two Poynts correspondent to the North and South Poles of the Heauens of ea●…ie Creation in a Solide of that Nature from which Centers by describing seuerall Circles we deriue our Paralells whereof the largest in extent must of necessitie fall iust in the mid'st the rest infallibly growing lesser and lesser as they draw neerer and neerer to those Poles Whereas our Meridians being Circles that doe euer meete in both those poyntes of North and South and so deuide the Orbe into iust 〈◊〉 though they be not aequidistant yet are euer of one equall Circuite to the greatest Paralell which we call the Aequinoctiall In which Line all men obseruing that the S●…nne in foure and twentie howers was carried round and the most Learned that one houre tooke vp 300. Leagues or 900. Miles It was concluded that the Sunnes whole course was 24. times so much so that the common best opinion of the greatest Compasse of the World became 7200. L or 21600. M. According to which Computation Sea-men and Trauelers that goe directly North or South doe find their Eleuation to alter one Degree of the 360. for 20. L. of way and ha●…ing sure meanes to tell how many Degrees or Partes of their M●…ridian they are gone N. or S. They can proportion well inough their Distaunce in Latitude to be so many L. or Miles But in their course of Longitude which is from East to West for want of Fixed helpes they are constrayned to turne backward and by reckoning their L. or M. of way to make accompt of so many parts or Degrees of their Paralell But hauing not had due consideration of the aboue saide lessening of Parale●…s to distribute consequently fewer Miles or Leagues to eac●… Degree besides the too vncertaine ground it hath fallen out that Lands sette foorth in Gloabes or Mappes from such erroneous Cardes or Computations as touching Longitude or Distance East and West are most extreamely false especially in new discouered Northerne Southerne Countries For which cause setting by the authority of Handy-workes the 〈◊〉 C●…erence of the Earth is to be lookt for in the Histories of such as traueld to describe the Worlde Among the which in auncient time the men that layde the firmest and most Artificiall grounds and neerest to the best of Modern●… were 〈◊〉 Alexandrinus And he whom 〈◊〉 confutes Marinus Tyrius the one of them by a Heauenly way of Eclips●…s most exact if well obserued thus argued Such an Eclipse happen'd at M. Hora 8. and at N. at 9. therefore M. and N. differ in Longitude one hower that is the 24. part of the Aequinoctiall that is 15. Degrees contayning euery one some 60. Miles But on th●… contrary Marinus Tyrius proceeded thus Such a man went from M. to N. Versus occasum or from N. to M. Versus exortum 7500. Stadi●… whereof 500. are about 60. Miles or one Degree of the Aequinoctiall from which experience he concluded therefore M. and N. did differ 15. Degrees that is one Hower in Longitude Which course how euer M●…chanicall as wee say and seldome or neuer exact Yet on firme Land by small helpes giuen to