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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
end_n	point_n	south_n	west_n	1,337	5	9.1289	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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But the working by either of these is of more time and intricacie then was to bee wished The readiest of all and not much inferior to the certaintie of the rest is the Geometrical waie as Peter Appian one of the Fathers of this Art hath termed it and 't is no more but this Let the two Places bee the Isle of St Thomas and Tenariff in the Canaries Take your Compasses and set one Foot of them in Tenariff the other in S. Thomas and keeping the Feet of the Compasses at the same distance remove them to the Equator or Great Meridian and see how many Degrees they set off for that number multiplied by 60 is the Distance of the two Places in Miles The ground of this Rule is that the Distance of all Places not differing onely in Longitude are to bee understood to bee in a Great Circle and it was known before that the Degrees of such a one are severally answered by 60 of our Miles upon the face of the Earth You may do the like in the Quadrant of Altitude as will bee seen in the next Invention To finde out the Bearing of one Place from another and what is meant by the Angle of Position THe Zenith is the Pole of the Horizon through which the Astronomers imagin Circles drawn as the Meridians through the Poles of the World so dividing the Degrees of the Horizon as to mark out the Site of the Stars from this or that Coast of the World And becaus these Circles are supposed to bee drawn through the Semt or Semith Alros that is The Point over the Head or Vertical Point The Arabians called them Alsemuth we cal them stil Azimuths And for that the Zenith Point still altereth with the Horizon these Circls could not have been describ'd upon the Globes but are represented there by the Quadrant of Altitude which is the 4th part of anie one of those and most properly serving the other Globe yet upon the same ground is useful to the Geograher in setting out that Angle which is made by the meeting of the Meridian of anie Place with the Vertical Circle of anie other and of the same called therefore the Angle of Position or Site To finde this out you are to elevate the Pole to the Latitude of one of the 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 te 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

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 quàm in variis Tabulis Geographicis à 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. Michaël 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. Michaël 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 Oceän 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 by our own Describers especially wee may perhaps finde it otherwise then wee thought for Here it will not need to take much notice of those who have described the Situation of Countries by the Climes and Paralells Thus much onely That they had as good as said nothing I confess I conclude under this Censure the verie good Autor of the Estates du Mond translated by Grimstone But it was to bee noted For what if I saie that Great Britain lieth under the 9th and 13 Climates of the Northern Temperate Zone as 't is no otherwise Describ'd to the Site by a Geographer of our own is this to tell where England is No more then to tell where the Streights of Anian are much about the same Clime and Paralel and yet 160 Degrees distant and more They are not much more accurate who Describe the Situation of Countries by their Latitudes onely as the Gentleman in his Description of Huntingdon Shire inserted into M. Speed And the most learned Sir Henrie Spelman in his Description or Northfolk It is no more to saie the Situation of this or that place then of anie other in the Whole Sphere lying under the same Parallel But to saie the truth By reason of the Varietie of Meridians The Longitudes were grown to such an uncertain and confused pass that it was not everie man's work to set them down Mr Carew in his Survey of Cornwall setteth down that Shire in the Longitude of 6 Degrees I believ hee mean't 16 as most men account But what doe's hee mean by that or what manner of account is it which most men use in this case Norden in the Introduction to his Speculum Britanniae saith That the Center of this Land which hee taketh to bee about Titburie Castle in Stafford-Shire is 21 Degrees and 28 Minutes of Longitude But from what Meridian all this while for the Longitude may bee manie Degrees more or less or just so much as hee saith and yet all may bee true M. Speed more particularly professeth to follow Mercator as in assigning the Longitude of Oxford hee saith that it is distant from the West 19 Degrees 20 Minutes by Mercator's Measure So M. William Burton in the Description of Leicester-Shire But how are wee the wiser for this Mercator's Measure was not the same for in his Globe dedicated to the Lord Granvella the great Meridian passeth through the Canaries but in his great Map through the Azores M. Gabriel Richardson in the State of Europe yet more distinctly telleth his Reader That the Longitudes in his book shall bee