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A01073 The groundes of the longitude with an admonition to all those that are incredulous and beleeue not the trueth of the same. VVritten by Simon Forman, student in Astronomie and Phisique. 1591. Forman, Simon, 1552-1611. 1591 (1591) STC 11185; ESTC S113117 8,641 16

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THE GROVNDES OF the Longitude With an Admonition to all those that are Incredulous and beleeue not the Trueth of the same VVritten by Simon Forman student in Astronomie and Phisique 1591. Nihil Impossibile Deo Nil tam difficile quod non solertia vincat Veritas filia Temporis Imprinted at London by Thomas Dawson 1591 TO all true students of Geography and Cosmography and to all trauailers aswell by lande as Sea for the discouerie of straunge Places Ylandes or Countries to all students of Astronomy and to all those that are desirous to augment their skill and knowledge by the helpe of the Longitude and to all others well willours of Arte and fauourers of learning Simon Forman student in Astronomy and Phisique sendeth greeting in our Lord God euerlasting 1591. The groundes of the Longitude with an Admonition to all those that are incredulous and beleeue not the trueth of the same FOrasmuch as there hath beene diuerse Bookes written heretofore by diuerse and sundrie learned men of the arte of Nauigation and Cosmografical science the inuention helpe of the Compasse the making and vse of the Astralabie the practise of the Crosse staffe and Ballestile and diuers other instruments aswell profitable as necessarie for those that vse and practise the arte of Nauigation sometimes to take the height of the Sunne sometimes to take the height Longitude and Latitude of the Starres to know the height of countries and the Latitude of places Ilandes and cities from the Equinoctiall that thereby they may the better know in what place they bee and howe and whether to direct their voiage and their ship that thereby they may also attaine more espeedily and safely to the expected and wished place and come to the hauen they long for And in asmuch as the good Mariner wanteth yet one thing as one of the chiefe pillers of his Arte that is some meane or waie to finde aswell the Longitude which they most desire as the Latitude which they perfectly haue the which Longitude many men haue shot at and none vnto this daie could perfectly find by any instrument or by any other reason then Ptolomy setteth downe which is by the Ecclipses of the Sunne and Moone which Mariners and trauailers cannot haue at all times to helpe themselues after they are beaten and driuen with foule weather or with some vncoth storme or raging Sea vnexpected or else being in some straunge countrie or place to know whether they are gone so farre as they would bee where they suppose some vnknowen Ilande or lande lieth or where they are short of the same which is not to bee done by any of the instruments or meanes aforesaide But by a more secreete meane and way as yet vnknowen vnto all the world except to those to whom my selfe here before haue shewed it vpon the request of some which were very incredulous thereof and yet remaine because themselues as yet do not know the waie of dooing it because they that doe know it are sworne by a sacred othe not to manifest or teach the same to any without leaue before had of the Author And now because I knowe on the one side that men are as desirous of the knowledge hereof as my selfe haue beene sometimes of greater matters And on the other side they will still remaine incredulous of the trueth vntill they heare some reason for it or see the experience thereof as S. Thomas did of the resurrection of Christ which afterwarde said vnto him come hether Thomas and see the printe of the nayles in my handes and thrust thy hande into my side and be not faithlesse but belieue So doe I say vnto all that be incredulous and to those that thorough endlesse trauaile and hardinesse of heart and foolish persuasions are perswaded that there is no true way or means to finde and know the true Longitude of Countries Citties and places and to all those curious carpers whose wittes are intangled in vanitie that are euer searching and neuer finde reatching vp vnto the starres yet cannot attaine to the orbe of the Moone who thinkes none like vnto themselues and because they cannot themselues comprehend the mysterie of hidden and vnknowen things none else should doe it nor assay it As who should say that the omnipotent God the great Creator of all thinges the giuer of all wisdome and knowledge were tied vnto them that they should haue the preferment in things before others or that he should bestow his guiftes according to their direction and not according to his owne will But as he made not all things at one time so he ordeyned the knowledge of all things not to be found at one time nor by one man for if one man could doe euery thing and that his witte were so apte and prompt that he could finde out the knowledge of euery thing what neede had we then to seeke diuers men for diuers causes as Carpentars to build houses Smiths to make yron worke Coblers to mende shooes c. Therefore seeing that the great creator of all thinges disposeth his giftes of knowledge to euery man according to his will and the measure of faith as saith S. Paul and maketh vessels for honor and vessels for dishonor some for the chamber some for the kitching and maketh some poore and some rich and some wise and some foolish and pu●teth downe the mightie and setteth vp the humble and meeke making the foolish to confound the wise and giueth to one man the knowledge of one thing and to another the knowledge of another thing to some the gifte of prophecie to some the gift of healing to some of doing of wonders and miracle to some the interpretation of thinges and finding of hidden misteries yet al is the administration of one spirit and power of the holy Ghost as S. Paul saith of his free grace powred out vpon euery creature according to his diuine will and fore knowledge And if it be so why maruell you so at me that I should receiue so bountifull a gifte at the hande of God or by him to be indued with the knowledge hereof Am I a monster degenerated from kind or am I not a creature made and formed by his diuine wil and borne into the world and do liue to shewe forth and speake of his glorie and power as well as others Do not all the creatures of God manifest his power and glory each one in his kinde and nature as the birdes of the ayre the fishes of the Seas the beasts and wormes that feede on the ground and the hearbes and trees that grow therof doth not Rubarbe purge coller and is not Selledony good for the eies is there not fire in a flint stone and doth not the Sallamander liue in the fier did not Mercurie Tristnegistus find the Tables wherein was ingrauen the 7. liberal Sciences other secreet Artes in the valley of Hebron after the floud and talked he not with the holy Ghost as it is