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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	air_n	earth_n	element_n	2,483	5	9.5484	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14030	A perfect and easie treatise of the vse of the cœlestiall globe written aswell for an introduction of such as bee yet vnskilfull in the studie of astronomie: as the practise of our countriemen, which bee exercised in the art of nauigaiton. Compiled by Charles Turnbull: and set out with as much plainnes as the author could: to the end it might of euery man be vnderstood.	Turnbull, Charles.	1585 (1585)	STC 24337; ESTC S118700	20,979	66

A perfect and easie Treatise of the vse of the coelestiall Globe written as well for an Introduction of such as bee yet vnskilfull in the studie of Astronomie as the practise of our Countriemen which bee exercised in the Art of Nauigation Compiled by Charles Turnbull And set out with as much plainnes as the Author could to the end it might of euery man be vnderstood Psalm xix The heauens declare the glorie of God and the firmament sheweth the worke of his handes Day vnto day vttereth the same and night vnto night teacheth knowledge ¶ Imprinted at London for Symon Waterson INSIGNISSIMO VIRO AC OMNI VIRtutum genere clarissimo Magistro Henrico Nocllo Carolus Turnbullus salutem ac foelicitatem perpetuam comprecatur CVM antiquissimorum scriptorum singularem industriam in studijs Mathematicis iam ante seriùs accuratiúsque cognouerim recentium quorundam deprauatam lectionem summa cura summáque diligentia viderim obseruauerim ne infestus error damnum inferret grauius curaui vir insignissime ea faciliùs explicare quae si fideliter discantur omnis erroris tollent difficultatem Eorum verò te patronum esse volui vt meo exemplo ad eadem vota multos inuitem tanquam indicem te in florentissimo hoc regno non solùm tanti negotij virum celeberrimum sed omnium regiarum virtutum laudúmque patronum Itaque minusculam opus hoc A●… qualecunque sit quod scio quam sit indignum tibi dedico vt qui imposterum non solum obseruationes astronomicas elaboratas magis minúsque vsitatas siue sint theorica siue horalogica sed opticas quoque qua sunt geometriae communis praecepta vt tempus postulat sis receptarus Quibus vt es spiritus nobilissimi ita mirificè quoque delectaris Vnum hoc interim precibus etiam atque etiam obsecrans vt qua humanitate erga me semper vsus es cum maxime possis eadem iam indies confirmata magis libertissime quoque velis patrocinari Vale. To the Reader MEn which are more desirous of publique Fame and Renow ne then studious of cōmon profit with great curiositie set a glasse vpō such things as being discouered would shew dismēbred mishapen As for my selfe I seeke no higher dignitie then to be reported to set forth a trueth and therefore without any wrested cloquence I make bold to offer the vse of the Globe to the exquisite vewe of your curious eyes though farre inferiour as I suspect to some mens expectation to the end such grosse enormities might bee amended as often times in diuers haue bene discouered Who for want of right conceat of things by them attempted haue in the ayer built such fortresses as haue without assalts wounded their louing enemies But happely such men wil now retire and arme them selues better against the next assault lest they be like to the dogs in the capitall of Rome which were placed to the end that if by night spoylers should ariue they might sound a warning For true it is that by night these barke out false Allaromes at their enimies but if by day they barke likewise at friends I hope ye wil iudge them worthy to haue their legs broken which things I leaue to your gentle interpretation Nothing misdoubting but if in this tract either anything bee escaped contrarie to my will or omitted not satisfying your expectation ye wil aequally suffer the same For if ye receaue the fruites of my labor and care of your commoditie I require no more Wherefore my trauaile I bequeath to your discreet consideration and your selues to the protection of almightie God Farewell DEFINITIONS to be praemised necessarie for the vnderstanding of the Globe THe Sphaere or Globe is a perfect round sollide bodie contained vnder one superficies or face in whose middle is a point from which point all lines that are drawne to the superficies and face of the same are aequall the one to the other The Center of the Sphaere is the middle point of the same The Axe of the Sphaere is a right line passing from one side of the same by his Center to the contrary side about which line the Sphaere is caried but the line it self standeth still The Poles of the Sphere be the endes of his Axe The Pole of any Circle is a point without the compasse of the same and yet is aequally distant from all points of the circuit or borders of the Circle whose Pole it is from which the same Circle is drawne OF THE NAME of the Sphaere and his diuers and sundrie kindes of diuisions together with the motion of ech one in his kinde THE NAME OF the Sphaere is taken either generally or particularly Generally and so it is said to containe all perfect round bodies whether they be sollide or not whether contained vnder one onely Superficies or moe And so may euery Orbe be called a Sphaere But if wee take the worde Sphaera in his particular and proper signification then nothing is a Sphaere but a perfect round bodie being sollide contained vnder one c. as the former definition declared This Sphaere is diuided either according to his substaunce or according to certaine properties and affections which he is capable of According to his substance he is diuided into two parts the one Elementall the other Aethercall The Elementall containeth the fower Elements Fire Ayre Water and Earth and is subiect to alterations by reason of their effectual working The Aethercall compasseth in round the Elementall part in his hollownesse and is lightsome by nature and vnchaungeable and containeth ten Sphaeres The first and highest from the earth being called the first moueable containeth in his hollownesse al the other and by his natural motion is moued directly from the East to the West and so to East againe in the space of 24. howers continually and carieth about with him by violence al the other Sphaeres The next vnder this is the ninth Sphaere called the Christall heauen and by his naturall motion is caried from West toward East but very slowly in many yeares passing but one degree and this motion hath caused the Starres to alter their Lōgitudes The third Sphaere is the Firmament or Sphaere of the fixed Starres whose motion by nature is vpon two little Circles the one being described about the head of Aries and the other of Libra which motion is called the motion of Trepidation The other seauen Sphaeres be of the seauen Planets the highest of Saturne which moueth by nature from West toward East and that in 30. yeares one perfect reuolution The next of Iupiter moouing frō West to East by nature and that in twelue yeares The other of Mars making his reuolutiō from West toward East in two yeares Vnder Mars is the Sunne moouing by nature from West toward East making one perfect reuolution in 365. daies and 6. howers almost Vnder the Sunne is Venus and then Mercurie moouing from West to East about the