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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	degree_n	latitude_n	minute_n	5,380	5	11.8773	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03380	The schoole of skil containing two bookes: the first, of the sphere, of heauen, of the starres, of their orbes, and of the earth, &c. The second, of the sphericall elements, of the celestiall circles, and of their vses, &c. Orderly set forth according to art, with apt figures and proportions in their proper places, by Tho. Hill.	Hill, Thomas, b. ca. 1528.; Jaggard, William, 1569-1623.	1599 (1599)	STC 13502; ESTC S104125	144,541	253

and Orchades that be into the North and East which is distant from the furthest bound of Scotland but thrée dayes sayling if prosperous windes bée their helpe At this day men haue found beyond Thylen but somwhat into the East and most large bounds stretched and found beyond the articke or Northerly cyrcle these are whole without breaking of any sea betwéene and containe Suetia Norway Iseland Grunland and Lapeland The kingdome of Suetia appeareth most large and containeth sundry nations and people among which they are of most account the East and West Gutland people inhabiting neare to Norway And vnder the King of Suetia are the Lapeland people as the Finelapons and Dikilapons where are a wild and fierce people dwelling almost vnder the pole articke especially the Lapeland people to whome the sun neuer setteth in the summer for 40. dayes space Aboue these inhabit a people of a cubite long or high hauing small and crooked bodies named of some Pigmalions that liue vnder a very darke and bitter cold ayre or sky And aboue Scania néere to the West boundes of Suetia doeth Norway stretch into the North whose vttermost limit extendeth vnto the 71. degrée almost of the Northerly latitude Aboue this is the country named Iseland by reason of the frozen waters and sea where throughout the yeare it so bitterly fréezeth that through the ycie seas there thicke frozen it permitteth no ships to come vnto thē except in the thrée hottest months of the yeare It aboundeth with brimstone and burneth in many places through the sulphure brimstone veines Plinie writeth that the Occean sea in North is very large which in these our dayes is well knowne This also was learned of certaine skillfull sailers which inhabited and very much had traualed this coast that they knew not the limits or bounds of this sea toward the North but supposed that this sea did compasse the whole earth By this sea dwell many and mighty people as the Danes the Swedens Norwaies Gotelandes Finelands Russians and Pruchenians and vnder the pole artick the Laplands The reason why in these places such force of moysture aboundeth is for that a dayly and continuall cold of these places gathereth and thickneth the ayre and by a continual working resolueth into water For when the ayre is not throughly purged by the suns beames then the weaknes of them and far distance of the sun from these places must of necessity bee continually thicke and darke which afterwardes yéeldeth and giueth plentifull floodes by deawes and raines Albert mag in his booke de natura loci and 8. chapter assigneth a witty and laudable reason why the Northerly be inhabitable The cause he setteth downe in that sundry skillfull Mariners affirme that haue many times sailed into the Northerly partes of the Ocean sea that in those places is a continuall darknesse which when men sawe they returned for feare supposing nay rather doubting that none coulde saile any further in that quarter of the worlde through the darknesse and thicke mist which hindreth the direction of their iourney So that the nature of those places cannot bee sufficiently knowne to vs séeing no man as the learned report hath attempted thither through extremitie of colde their bearing sway And for that excéeding cold is a mortifying quality therefore a man may coniecture that few liuing creatures and beasts can there liue c. Yet the part of the Northerly Occean vnto the Easterly side is sufficiently knowne to many trauailers Although the vttermost boundes of the earth are not wholy knowne yet the nearest aprroaching to them shall here bee applied as the longitude of the earth distaunt betwéene Peru the Realme of America and Cathaya to expresse 315. degrées or if any minde to accompt the longitude from the fortunate Iles they may by a whole cyrcle containe them euen as the whole Orbe about in a maner doth partly giue place to the water and are partly dwellings for men beasts and other liuing creatures although some places of the earth bee more inhabited then others But as touching the latitude if towarde the North in the country of Lapous the south toward the vtmost coast of America shal end seing y ● vtmost distance of the earth hath very litle béene noted of this shall small errour be caused If two places offered or giuen be placed vnder the Equatour of which the space is sought then the arke of the difference of latitude is the same with the arke of the distance neither doth the verticiall cyrcle differ from the Equatour For the equatour of either place doeth containe the verticiall points as may appeare in this tryangle noted with A. B. C. Of which if 15. germain miles be wrought into parts of the difference of longitude and any scruples after remaine deuide those by 4. For by so many minutes of a degrée doth a Germain mile answere that the distance shall make As Ptholomie writeth of the places vnder the Equatour The high lande or mountaine of the Satyres in the country of Syna whose longitude is of 175 degrées and no minutes nor hath any latitude Myrica an Ile of Ethiope vnder Aegipt whose longitude is of 85. degrées the angle of the difference of longitude betwéene the meridians of these places is straight or right and containeth a whole quarter or 60. degrées The like are these places standing vnder the equatour Colipolis a citty of India beyond the riuer Ganges which hath the longitude 194. degrées and 20. minutes Essina the greate Mart-towne of Aethiope vnder Aegipt whose longitude is of 70. degrées and 3. minutes The angle of the differēce of longitude which the meridians of these compasse is blunte and containeth 94. degrées and 17. minutes Againe the same or the like meridians containe and make a sharpe angle of 43 degrées as of the citty Nubarta of Taprobane which at this day is Sumatra and Colipolis of Inde beyond or aboue Ganges for it is distant from the west 122. degrées and 20. minutes and this containeth 164. degrées and 20. minutes If two places be giuen the one standing vnder the Equatour and the other distant toward any other quarter from it The first that the angle of the difference of longitude is straight to these here placed In that if two places giuen the one shall be vnder the equatoure but the other distant from the same toward some quarter thē must the angle of the difference of longitude bee considered If the same shal be right then shal the distance of either place be the quadrant of the greatest cyrcle As in this tryangle A. B. C. where the letter A. representeth the Pole of the equatour and the places giuen that the one be standing in the point B. vnder the equatour and the arke A. B. be the quadrant and that the other consisteth in the letter C. the angle then of the difference of longitude being C. A. B. is right By Regio a montano de trangulis appeareth

hand with the Signes decently placed the Arks or roots of the declinations follow those numbers which rootes are no other then the arkes of the circle of the Latitude that is the circle passing by the Poles of the Ecliptike included betweene the Ecliptike and Equatour The generall Table of the Declinations ♈ ♎ Arkes ♉ ♏ Arkes ♊ ♐ Arkes G ●r m̄ ●r m̄ ●r m̄ G 0 0 0 12 16 20 38 30 1 0 26 12 37 20 40 29 2 0 12 12 37 21 0 28 3 1 18 12 58 21 11 27 4 1 44 12 58 21 21 26 5 2 10 13 19 21 31 25 6 2 36 13 40 21 40 24 7 3 2 14 0 21 49 23 8 3 28 14 20 21 58 22 9 3 53 14 40 22 6 21 10 4 19 14 50 22 14 20 11 4 45 15 18 22 21 19 12 5 10 15 37 22 28 18 13 5 25 15 55 22 35 17 14 6 0 16 ● 22 41 16 15 6 25 17 31 22 47 15 16 6 50 17 48 23 52 14 17 7 15 17 5 23 57 13 18 7 39 17 22 23 2 12 19 8 3 18 ●8 23 7 11 20 8 27 18 54 23 11 10 21 8 ●● 18 0 23 15 9 22 9 15 18 25 23 18 8 23 9 39 19 40 23 21 7 24 10 2 10 55 23 23 6 25 10 25 19 9 23 25 5 26 10 48 19 23 23 27 4 27 11 10 20 36 23 28 3 28 11 32 20 49 23 29 2 29 11 54 20 36 23 30 1 30 12 16 20 30 23 30 0 Ecli● ♏ ♓ ♌ ♒ ♋ ♉ Ecli● THe meridianes with the Horizont in any right or thwart in the other foure greater cyrcles doe distinguish all heauen into twelue spaces which they call the houses of heauen Of these foure which occupy the angles of heauen are called the quarters the foure nexte to these are named the succedents the last included by the succedentes and angles are named the declining houses and the cadent from the angles The meridian also hath a most great vse in Cosmographie for by it the describers of the world measure the longitudes and latitudes of places and cities which beeing knowne the distance of cities may easily be found That you may vnderstand what the longitude and latitude of a place is it behoueth you to know the distinctiō of the earth after the Geographers which is on this wise The Geographers doe assigne or imagine two points on the earth right vnder the poles of the world after that they deuise a cyrcle equally distant on either side frō these these two points right vnder the equinoctiall which deuideth the whole Globe of the earth and water into twoe equall halfes This cyrcle thus described on earth they distribute into 360. parts or degrées in procéeding from the West into the East by each degrées of this cyrcle and by the points right vnder the poles they imagine and draw 180. cyrcles which for that they are vnder the celestiall meridians they also call meridians and those they deuide into thrée hundred thréescore parts or degrées by which parts they imagine and draw the Parallell or equidistant cyrcles to the equinoctiall procéeding from the equinoctiall on either side towardes the pointes in the poles lying vnder these Parallels although they bee not of the same bignesse or largenesse for how much nearer the poles they are so much the narrower and strayter they run togither Contrariwise how farre of they bee from the Poles and nearer to the Equinoctiall so much the wider and larger they runne yet doe they deuide as the Equinoctiall or any other greate cyrcle into thrée hundreth and thrée score partes or degrées Howe this deuision of the earth beeing learned and vnderstoode a man may the more easily conceiue what the longitude and latitude of places is The longitude of a place as I haue afore written is the arke of the equinoctiall cyrcle or Parallell passing by the Zenith of the place which is sought after included betweene the two meridians as betwéene the first meridian which by the Zenith of the Iles of Canarie and further off is imagined to bee drawne and the Meridian of the place offered that is the longitude of any place is the distance thereof from that westerly point from which the beginning of lōgitudes is accounted toward the East They began to account the longitude from the west through the proper motions of the Planets which are caried vnto the contrary quarter from the West or rather for the Moone at whose Ecclipses it is well knowne that it more auaileth then the true finding out the longitudes of places or as some rather thinke likelier that the places which ende and stand furthest Westward inhabited haue bene sures and perfecter found For through the nearenesse and opportunity of the iourneyes which they in auncient time were mooued to f●aua●le and saile ●●●● as the twoe Iles named Gades which lie by the furthest parts of Spaine beyond Granade and since through the passage by West Occean men of later yeares haue sailed about the furthest partes without stop or impediment But vnto the Eastward they were stopped of their course by a great distance through the difficulty and perill of the iourney And since beyond the halfe circle almost thréescore degrées men haue sailed to Scythia besides Imaus which nowe is named the great Tartaria that reacheth bordering to the vpper India where the most large kingdome of Cathagia vnder the parallell of Thracia flourisheth where Bebeid Cham was gouernour And that is the part of Tartaria which beginneth from the riuer Tanais so that the largenesse of Schithia Asiatica from the West to the East doeth almost take vp 84. whole degrées America in the sea Atlanticus is of such greatnesse that the same is supposed to be a fourth part of the world inhabited the middle or halfe of it hath the longitude of 330. degrées and the latitude of tenne degrées Southward The sea Altanticus hath many large Ilands in it among which the most notable are Spagnolla Cuba Parias otherwise Chersouesus by the straight that reacheth vpward into the north The middle of the same hath the longitude of 285. degrées the latitude Northerly 44. degrées For from 11. vnto 50. almost it reacheih vnto America streacheth far into the South beyond the tropick of Capricorne although his bounde or furthest part Southerly bee not yet founde or knowne To the auncient it was no further knowne Southward then 17. degrées beyond the Equinoctiall and the furthest knowne to them Northwarde excéeded not thrée score and thrée degrées which as Ptholomie witnesseth was vnto the Iland Thylen So that the whole latitude found by them appeareth to be 80. degrées both of the one and the other side of the equinoctial and on earth the same containeth 40. thousand furlongs to which 50. hundred paces answere but Germaine miles two hundreth thousand agrée Also the Iland Thilen or Thulen standeth beyond Scotland and the Iles Hebrides