Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	east_n	motion_n	west_n	1,864	5	9.5519	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09195	The compleat gentleman fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman. By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.	Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?; Delaram, Francis, 1589 or 90-1627, engraver.	1622 (1622)	STC 19502; ESTC S114333	134,242	209

both feceding the eye and minde with such incredible varietie and profitable pleasure that euen the greatest kings and Philosophers haue not onely bestowed the best part of their time in the contemplation hereof at home but to their infinite charge and perill of their persons haue themselues trauailed to vnderstand the Scituation of farre countries bounds of Seas qualities of Regions manners of people and the like So necessary for the vnderstanding of Historie as I haue said and the fables of Poets wherein no small part of the treasure of humane learning lyeth hid that without it we know not how the most memorable enterprises of the world haue bin carryed and performed we are ignorant of the growth flourish and fall of the first Monarchies whereat Historie taketh her head and beginning we conceiue nothing of the gouernment and commodities of other nations wee cannot iudge of the strength of our enemies distinguish the limits betweene kingdome and kingdome names of places from names of people nay with Mounsier Gaular● we doubt at Paris whether wee see there the same Moone wee haue at London or not on the contrary we know this and much more without exposing as in old time our bodies to a tedious trauaile but with much more ease hauing the world at will or as the saying is the world in a string in our owne chamber How praeiudiciall the ignorance of Geography hath beene vnto Princes in forraine expeditions against their enemies vnfortunate Cyrus will tell you ●h● beeing ignorant of Oaxis and the Streights was ouerthro●ne by Thomiris the Scythian Queene and of two 〈◊〉 thousand Persi●ns in his armie not one escaped through his vnskilfulnesse herein as Iustine reporteth And at another time what a memorable victorie to his perpetuall glorie carryed L●onidas from the Persians onely for that they 〈◊〉 vnacquainted with the Streights of Thermopylae And the foule ouerthrow that Crassus receiued by the Parthians was imputed to nothing else ●hen his ignorance of that Countrie and the passages thereof Alexander therefore taking any enterprise in hand would first cause an exact mappe of the country to bee drawne in collours to consider where were the safest entrance where he might passe this Riuer how to auoide that Rocke and in what place most commodiously giue his enemie battaile Such is the pleasure such is the profite of this admirable knowledge which account rather in the member of your recreations then seuerer studies it beeing beside quickly and with much ease attained vnto Prince Henry of eternall memory was herein very studious hauing for his instructour that excellent Mathematician and while hee liued my louing friend Master Edward Wright To the attaining of perfection herein as it were your first entrance you are to learne and vnderstand certaine Geometricall definitions which are first Punctum or a pricke a Line a Superficies either plaine Convexe or Concave your Angels right blunt and sharpe Figures Circles Semicircles the Diameter Triangles Squares of all sorts paralells and the like as Master Blundevile in his first booke of the Sphaere will shew you for you shall haue vse of many of these to the vnderstanding thereof Cosmography containeth Astronomie Astrologie Geography and Chorography Astronomie considereth the magnitude and motions of the coelestiall bodies The Coelestiall bodies are the eleuen heauens and Sphaeres The eleuenth heauen is the habitation of God and his Angels The tenth the first mooouer The ninth the Christall●ne heauen The eight the starry firmament Then the seuen Planets in their order which you may remember in their order by this verse Post Sim SVM sequitur vltima LVN Asub●st Would you count the Planets soo●e Remember SIM SVM and the MOONE The first Letter S for Saturne I for Iupiter M for Mars S for the Sunne V Venus M Mercurie lastly the Moone The Imperiall Heauen is immoueable most pure immense in quantitie and cleere in qualitie The tenth Heauen or first moouer is also most pure and cleare and maketh his reuolution in foure and twentie houres carrying with the swiftnesse the other Heauens violently from East to West from their proper reuolutions which is from West to East The ninth or Christalline heauen moueth by force of the first mouer first from East to West then frō West to East vpon his owne poles and accomplisheth his reuolution in 36000. yeares And this reuolution being finished Plato was of opinion that the world should be in the same state it was before I should liue and print such a book againe and you reade it in the same apparell and the same age you are now in Two Schollers in Germany hauing laine so long in an Inne that they had not onely spent all their Money but also ran into debt some two hundred Dollers told their Host of Plat●s great yeare and how that time sixe and thirtie thousand yeares the world should be againe as it was and they should be in the same Inne and Chamber againe and desired him to trust them till then Quoth mine Host I beleeue it to be true and I remember sixe and thirty thousand yeares agoe you were here and left iust such a reckoning behind to pay I pray you Gentlemen discharge that first and I will trust you for the next The eight Heauen or glorious starry Firmament hath a threefold motion viz from East to West in foure and twenty houres secundism primum Mobile then from West to East according to the motion of the ninth Heauen then sometimes to the South and somtime towards the North called motus trepidationis Touching the motions of the Planets since you may haue them in euery Almanacke I willingly omit them The Spheare of the world consisteth of ten Circles the Aequinoctiall the Zodiacke the two Colures the Horizon the Meridian the two Tropiques and the two polar Circles The Aequinoctiall is a circle diuiding the world as in the midst equally distant from the two poles it containeth three hundred and sixtie degrees which being multiplyed by sixtie the number of miles in a degree make one and twentie thousand and sixe hundred miles which is the compasse of the whole earth The third part of which being the Diameter about seuen thousand and odde miles is the thicknesse of the same Those who dwell vnder the Aequinoctiall hauing no Latitude either to the North or South but their daies and nights alwaies of an equall length The Zodiacke is an oblick circle diuiding the Spheare athwart the aequinoctiall into points viz the beginning of Aries and Libra In the midst whereof is the Eclipticke line the vtmost limits thereof are the two Tropiques Cancer and Capricorne the length thereof is three hundred and sixtie degrees the bredth sixteene It is diuided into twelue signes sixe Northerly and sixe Southerly the Northerne are Aries Taurus Cancer Gemini Leo Virgo Southerne Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius Pisces he turneth vpon his owne poles from West to East The