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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28143	A voyage of the late King of Sweden and another of mathematicians sent by him : in which are discover'd the refraction of the sun which sets not in the northern parts at the time of the solstice, varition [sic] of the needle, latitudes of places, seasons &c. of those countries : by command of the most serene and most mighty Prince, Charles XI, King of Swedes, Goths and Vandals / faithfully render'd into English.; Midnats solens rätta och synlige rum uti Norrlanded effter. English	Bilberg, John, 1646-1717.	1698 (1698)	Wing B2889; ESTC R30235	33,096	118

A VOYAGE Of the Late King of Sweden And another of MATHEMATICIANS Sent by Him In which are discover'd The Refraction of the Sun which sets not in the Northern Parts at the Time of the Summer Solstice Var●●tion of the Needle Latitudes of Places Seasons c. of those Countries By Command of the Most Serene and Most Mighty Prince Charles XI King of Swedes Goths and Vandals Faithfully Render'd into English LONDON Printed for Edward Castle next Scotland-Yard-Gate by Whitehall 1698. TO THE Most Serene and Most Mighty Prince and Lord Charles XI King of Sweden Goths and Vandals Great Prince of Finland Duke of Schonen Estland Lifland Carelen Bremen Verden Stetin Pomerania Cassuben and Vandalia Prince of Rugen Lord of Ingria and Wismar Palsgrave of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria Juliers Cleves and Mons c. c. My most Gracious King and Master Most Serene KING AND MY Most Gracious LORD BECAUSE it Pleased Your Majesty most Serene Prince to lay Your Commands upon me to Write both in our own Language and Latin what we observed in a late Northern Journey concerning the Elevation of the Pole and other things of that Nature I have therefore for a few Weeks past since our Return daily deducted somewhat from my Publick Concerns that thereby I might most humbly Obey the Commands of Your Most Serene and Royal Majesty But as the Nature of Mathematical Sciences is such that they depend upon Easie Use and Exercise but require a more difficult Invention and Demonstration so our Observations are made in fewer Hours than Demonstrated The distinction of the little Wheel into its known Parts gives but small Trouble to the Clock-Maker but the manner of dividing is not his and but difficultly Invented Even Boys at present do mutually teach one another Arithmetick but the Practice of it hath been Intricate the Rules being altogether drawn from the very depths of Mathematicks The Masters of that Art will peradventure wonder that at this day the Mathematicians solve the more difficult Problems by the help of Addition solely but when they have gotten the Key they will cease any further to admire it For the Ignorant Plough-man will play you upon his Instrument any French Air just as well as the most excellent Musician provided he have but the Key of it In a word all Artifices which owe their Births properly to Mathematicks are of the same Nature And because very many not well skilled in this Learning and not sufficiently accustomed to distinguish the Truth of Sense and Reason have rendered Philosophy only sensible and by this Error of theirs have rendered the way to solid Learning in other Sciences also very abstruse and difficult therefore Mathematicians have resolved never to admit of any thing whatsoever without clear and perspicuous Demonstration How imperfect the knowledge of our Senses is when destitute of Reason the Sun being elevated above the Horizon in the whole World may teach us which yet reason dictates to be otherwise placed I have therefore expounded the Doctrine of Refraction and other things not altogether so unknown more at large than was absolutely needful And it is well that our Observations come forth in both Languages tho' our Mother-Tongue might have been sufficient for our Countrymen as it is now usual for the French English and other Nations of Europe to express Arts and Sciences to their Countrymen And yet because very many Foreigners have laid the Seat of their Fortunes in Swedeland and besides that there be divers People of the Subjects of Your Most Serene Majesty who speak a Language only proper to themselves the Latin Tongue being familiar to all in the European World wil best fit every one of them in Particular Lastly because Foreigners born under another Climate and Soil have a desire to learn such things from us as not long since both the French and Italians undertook this Journey not without the greatest labour so Great King something will redound to the Immortality of your Name from this Observation not only begun but likewise perfected under the Auspicious Influences of your most Serene Majesty The World is not ignorant that God hath adorned and accumulated your Majesty with Endowments of all sorts which we falling into the other Extreme do more sparingly commend whilst studiously shunning the Mob of Flatterers so much detested by your Majesty with a tacit Veneration only honour every Perfection drawn from the heap of your Imperial Vertues Outlandish Men will not be silent in it nor shall after-Ages neglect to extol it to Heaven with the justest Praises As for what concerns this little Work I ought not to conceal that it is not only below Mediocrity but I am sensible will be far beneath the Hopes of your most Serene Majesty For since the Time that your Majesty unexpectedly imposed the Province upon me of a most different Nature from this Affair for some Years together I threw away the Rule and Compass as unprofitable Instruments for the Course of Life which was then to be taken and hid those old Masters in a certain Corner of my Library which still fills up a little Room in my House at Upsal but now endeavouring to wipe off that filthy Rust from my Mathematical Instruments which they had contracted by lying by I have made it my Business that rather Power than Will shou'd be wanting in me so far distant from my Books and because a great Strife amongst your Subjects in the Veneration of your Serene Royal Majesty grows daily warmer as for me the least share of them if I cannot act equally to the rest yet certainly will never suffer my self to be out-done by any in Obedience Reverence Observance submissive Respects and a devoted Disposition To the very last I will humbly implore the Divine Majesty of the Supreme God that he will vouchsafe perpetually to preserve your Majesty the Glory of Kings given from Heaven to promote his Honour and conserve our Country healthful vigorous undisturbed and chearful to us and to them that are and shall be born of us So wishes and will ever pray Of Your most Serene and Royal Majesty The Eternally most Devoted Servant John Bilberg In Solstitium aestivum à Serenissimo Potentissimoque PRINCIPE CAROLO UNDECIMO Suecorum Gothorum Vandalorumque REGE In TORNEA Urbe spectatum expositumque à Celeberrimo Viro JOANNE BILBERG TOrna vetus septem sed nunc nova fama Trionum Ultima Botniaci quam maris unda ferit Grande tibi cessit praesens quod suspicit aevum Quodque canent semper postera secla decus Nuper Hyperboreum propius cum viserit axem CAROLUS Augusti sideris instar habens Quaque iit in plausus sese utraque solveret Arctos Et nova conciperet gaudia totus apex In te pervigilem nocturno tempore Phaebum Vidit pro patria pervigil ipse sua Vidit inocciduo radiantem lumine vultum Perpetuoque die tum sua Regna frui I nunc quicunque es nostris