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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42072	Gregorii Opuscula, or, Notes & observations upon some passages of Scripture with other learned tracts / written by John Gregory ...; Works. 1650	Gregory, John, 1607-1646.; Gurgany, John, 1606 or 7-1675.	1650 (1650)	Wing G1921_PARTIAL; Wing G1925_PARTIAL; Wing G1927_PARTIAL; ESTC R14029	370,916	594

Places then bring the Place to the Meridian and it will fall out directly to bee in the Zenith of that Elevation upon this ground That the Elevation is alwaies equal to the Latitude then fasten the Quadrant of Altitude upon the Zenith and turn it about till it fall upon the other Place and the End of the Quadrant will point out the Situation upon the Horizon Let the Places bee Oxford and the Hill in Tenariff set the Globe to the Elevation of Oxford that is 51 Degrees of Elevation above the Horizon then bring Oxford to the Meridian and it falleth under 51 Degrees of Latitude from the Equator therefore it is found in it's own Vertical Point 90 Degrees equidistantly removed from the Horizon Fasten there the Quadrant and move about the Plate till it fall upon the Hill in Tenariff and the end of the Quadrant where it toucheth the Horizon will shew that the Hill in Tenariff beareth from Oxford South south-South-West and if you multiplie the the Degrees of the Quadrant intercepted betwixt the two Places by 60 you have the Distance in Miles which was promised before If you finde as you needs must that the Proportion of Miles upon the Globe doth not alwaies answer to that which wee reckon upon in the Earth you are desired not to think much for when it is promised that 60 of our Miles shall run out a Degree of a Great Circle above it is intended upon this Supposition as if the Earth wee tread upon were precisely round as the Globe it self is and not interrupted with Rivers Hills Vallies c. which though they bear no proportion otherwise yet becaus it cometh to pass by this that wee cannot set our cours in a Streight Line upon the Earth as the Demonstration is forced to presuppose wee must bee contented if som difference fall out The more unhappie Difference will bee found in the Longitudes themselvs The Difference of Longitude betwixt Rome and Norenberg as M. Gellibrand hath already made the Observation is according to Kepler but 4 Minutes of Time Lansbergh reckoneth it at 10 Degrees Mercator at 12 Stadius at 18 Longomontanus at 16 Stoffler at 18 Maginus at 26 Werner at 32 Origan at 33 Appian at 34 Regiomontanus at 36 with discouragement enough it may bee noted for the Places are verie eminent and of a near Distance the Men professed able and for the most part reckoning from the same Great Meridian and yet the less to bee wondred at if wee consider how much in this case must bee taken upon trust even by these Men themselvs Wee must not think they all spake this of their own Knowledg for it is certain the thing might have been and is don though not without anie at all yet without anie considerable disagreement I saie the Longitudes for a very great part are exactly enough agreed on The perfection is not one Man 's nor one Ages Work and must bee waited for It must not seem strange if I tell you that you may distinguish the more certain from the doubtful by their dsconvenience for where you finde them to agree you have caus to suspect for the most part that they have lien long upon the Lees of Time not as yet enquired into But if you finde them to disagree you may conclude that they have been brought to a new Examination And of these you are to take the latest and from such if it may bee as have don it by their own Observation as out of the Tables of Tycho before others The difference of Longitude by Tycho's Tables betwixt Rome and Norenberg is under 4 Degrees which cometh nearest to Kepler who also took it himself from two several observations of the Moon There will still seem to bee som want of satisfaction but it is sufficient for anie man to know in this as much as anie other man doth If you would convert the Degrees of Longitude into Hours for this also may bee don as well into Miles you are to allow 15 Degrees to one Hour upon the Reasons taught before and that which will bee gained by this is to know by how much sooner or later the Sun Riseth or Setteth to one Place then to another As the Difference of Longitude betwixt Oxford and Charlton is 79 Degrees 30 Minutes that is 5 Hours 18 Minutes and becaus Charlton lieth West from London the Sun Riseth so much sooner here then there To finde out the several Positions of Sphere Clime Parallel c. THe Latitude and Longitude of a Place once resolved upon the other Accidents of Sphere will follow of themselvs the Position of Sphere you cannot miss of for if the Place you trie for have no Latitude at all you know alreadie that it must of necessitie lie under the Line it self and therefore in a right Position If it have less or more the Position is oblique If it have as much as it can have that is the Whole Quadrant or 90 Degrees the Position is Parallel the reasons were told before and may evidently bee discerned upon the Globe For the Climes and Parallels and consequently the length of the longest Daie The fore-knowledg of the Latitude leadeth you directly in case the Climes bee set down upon the Brass Meridian or in anie void part of the Globe otherwise it is but entring the Table of Climes and Parallels proportioned to everie Degree of Latitude and you have your desire And as by the Latitude you may finde out the Clime so if it happen that you knew the Clime before as it may in the reading of the Estats du Monde or the like Describers you may by the Clime finde out the Latitude And you cannot know either of these but you must needs know the Zone And if you know that you can as easily conclude upon the Distinction of Shadows for you knew before that the Inhabitants of the Mid Zone are alwaies Ascii or Amphiscii those of the two Extreme Periscii those of the two Temperate or Intermedious Heteroscii To finde out the other Distinction of Habitation you may do thus Let Oxford bee the Place bring it to the Meridian where you finde it to bee 51 Degrees lifted up above the Equator account so manie Degrees of Southern Latitude below the Equator and you meet with the Antaeci if anie bee in the Terra Australis incognita remove Oxford from the Meridian 180 Degrees and you shall finde your Periaeci under the Meridian where Oxford was before about the Bay of S. MichaÃ«l in the Kingdom of Quivira and your Antipodes in the place where their Antaeci stood before but they are not for the Place is covered over with Water There yet remaineth one waie of Description but out of Curious Art and of no great Instruction yet becaus it is made use of by som Geographers and not left out by M. Camden himself in his Britannia I may tell what it meaneth Of Astrological Geographie and to tell under what Sign or Planet a

other Geographie but not contented with the Greek Arabian or any Magnetical Meridian must needs reckon their Indies from that of Toledo But they are verie few that take this cours and this Pragmatical Meridian is onely found upon a Map or two but hath not as yet gotten nor is it like to do any relation to the Globe The Greek Meridian again As the case standeth with the Great Meridian the advice and counsel of Stevinus a Dutch Geographer is very much to the purpose That the Great Meridian should bee brought back to the Fortunate Isles again that one certain Isle of the seven should bee chosen and in That one certain place Exiguus quidem sed notabilis perpetuus As smal but as notable and perpetual as 't is possible The Island hee assigned was Teneriff thought to bee the same with Ptolomie's Hera or Junonia The place Pico de Teide or el pico The Peak a Mountain so called from the sharpness of the top and therefore the place is Locus exiguus as Smal as could bee and 't is Perpetual for Hils are everlasting and as notable for by the reports of som in Julius Scaliger it riseth above threescore Miles in height which though it bee more then is generally believed yet thus much is That it is the highest Mountain in the World This Johnson a great Master of this Art considering with himself though in his lesser Globe of the year 1602 hee had made the Great Meridian to pass through the Isles Corvo and Flores yet since that in his Greater of the year 1616 hee hath it drawn upon the Peak in Tenariffe as hee expresseth himself in a void place of the Globe Onely whereas hee addeth that by this means the Arabick Meridian and That of Ptolomie will bee all one upon the matter which hee saith was fit to bee admonished it must needs bee mistaken 'T is true that the Canaries lie near upon the Coast of Affrick But the Arabians mean not this so much by the uttermost Shore as the uttermost Points of the Western Land runing along by the Streights of Gebal Taric or Taric's Hill as they rightly wee Gibralter call it where the Pillars of Hercules were set of old as our Stories deliver but of Alexander they saie to whom and not to Hercules the Arabick Nubian Geographer asscribeth this Labor naming there the verie Artificers which that great King provided himself of to force out the Streight which may possibly bee the reason why the Arabians over and above their ambition of Change draw their Great Meridian by this Part in honor to Alexander whom therefore they call not so but Dhilcarnain that is The man of the two Horns for that hee joined the Ends of the Known World together by those Pillars in the East upon one side and these in the West on the other Which seeing it is so the Reduceing of the Great Meridian to Tenariff again will bee so far from closing with that of the Uttermost Western Shore that according to the Account of som they will stand at 15 Degrees distance one from the other which also maketh show of som reason of the Disagreement betwixt Abulfeda the Prince and the King Alphonsus in assigning the difference of the Arabick Meridian from the Greek the Prince allowing but 10 The Catalogue 17 Degrees which was noted before For any concurrence therefore of the Greek and Arabick Meridians by this means wee are not to take the Geographer's word but nevertheless to embrace this Alteration of his Cours in bringing the Greek Meridian to his place again The same advice of Stevinus is commended and taken by Wil. Bleau a man very like to if not the very same with Johnson himself Cap. 4 of his first Part which teacheh the Use of the Globes according to the Improper Hypothesis of Ptolomie as the Title termeth it per terram quiescentem For the second Part maketh good the same Use of the Celestial and Terrestrial Spheres by the Supposition of Copernicus per terram mobilem His words are Longitudo alicujus loci c. The Longitude of anie place is an Arch of the Equator comprehended between two half Meridians the one passing through the Place it self the other through the High Mountain called Pico de Teide in Tenariffe Qui tam in maximo nostro Globo Terrestri saith hee quÃ m in variis Tabulis Geographicis Ã nobis editis pro Initio Longitudinis terrae assumptus est pro eo in bac descriptione semper assumatur c. And 't will never bee well with Geographie till this bee believed in and made the common and unchangeable Practice What Cours is to bee taken with this Varietie of Meridians and how followed or neglected by the Geographers ANd now if one may make so bold as to give Law to the Geographers it cannot bee denied but that the readiest and least entangling waie of reckoning the Longitudes is to meet again upon the first Meridian in Tenariffe but for want of this and til it can bee rellish't universally the likest waie to the Best is for the Describers either of the Whole or any Part of the Earth not to fail of setting down the several Meridians obteining as then Also the Difference of Longitude betwixt these Meridians and lastly which of those they mean to go by If I were to draw up If I could a New Geographie of the Whole Earth This or the like to this ought to prepare to the Description That the Great Meridian by the most Antient Greek Geographers was made to pass through the Fortunate Islands now called The Canaries That from thence it was translated by the Arabians to the uttermost Point of the Western-Shore That our own Geographers removed it into the Azores placing it som of them in S. MichaÃ«l others in Corvo That the Best of them brought it back to the Canaries again and drew it upon the Pico in Tenariffe The same or thought to bee the same with Ptolomie's Junonia That the Difference of Longitude from El Pico to the Arabick Meridian is 10 Degrees more East according to Abulfeda the Prince From Pico to the Isle of S. MichaÃ«l 9 Degrees From Pico to Corvo 15 and both so much more West And such or such a Meridian I mean to follow To this very purpose the same Abulfeda in the Introduction to his Geographie It is received by Traditon saith hee that the Inhabited Earth begineth at the West in the Fortunate Isles as they are called and lying waste as now From these Islands som take the Begining of Longitude Others from the Western Shore The Difference of Longitude is 10 Degrees accounted in the Equator c. As for the Longitudes reckoned in this Book they are all taken from the Shores of the Western OceÃ¤n and therefore they are 10 Degrees short of those which are taken from the Fortunate Isles c. If wee now exact as I think wee may to this Rule which hath been lately don

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