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The nauigators supply Conteining many things of principall importance belonging to nauigation, with the description and vse of diuerse instruments framed chiefly for that purpose; but seruing also for sundry other of cosmography in generall: the particular instruments are specified on the next page.
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Barlow, William, d. 1625.
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A B. from whence the degrees of the Quadrant beginne a line precisely equall vnto a namely D F. And from the points D and F. to the Semidiameter A C. raise two Paralleles D E. and F G. Againe from F. toward B. at a distance conuenient take the second line K H. equall vnto a. And from the points H K. rayse other Paralleles H I. and K L. equidistant to the former Afterwards applying the one ende of your Ruler to the Center A. and the other to euery the degrees of the Quadrant B C. drawe lines athwart betweene the Paralleles aforesaid so shall all the lines thus drawen cōteyned betweene the Paralleles be the degrees of the Meridian sought for taking their several Denominations of their correspondent degrees in the Quadrant as by the figure here ensuing is manifest Of what sort soeuer your Cardes be you must alwayes remember that the knowledge of the vse of the Globe must be a moderator vnto them and that thereby you shall still become master ouer your Card to espie and amend his faults whereas otherwise you shall be mastered by your Cards blindly embracing their errors By meanes hereof it was that the famous Nauigators of the World performed their discoueries renowmed voyages hauing no maner of Cardes to sayle by And an easie matter it is for a man that already hath ordinary skill and practise in sayling by vsuall Cardes to learne in one fourthnight so much of the vse of the Globe that vpon his obseruations he may either keepe or change his Points for his best aduantage And of any places whose Longitudes or Latitudes are knowen may tell without any Carde vpon what point they lie and howe farre they are distant from you Also vpon what Point they lie each from other the distance betweene them with diuerse other things that are necessarie and helde for rareties in that facultie For in very many of them Enuie doth so reigne that almost euery one keepeth his owne knowledge to himselfe without imparting it vnto others whereas they should all profite a great deale more if they would communicate their knowledges one with an other for the publique benefite But in so much as eache one affecteth to be singular disdayning the knowledge of others they haue farre lesse knowledge amōg them all then otherwise they might haue for of necessitie many mens practises must cōcurre to make experimental knowledge exact It were greatly to be wished that many of them might be founde so well minded towardes their owne trade as was that notable Pilot Steuen Burrowes who for his skill industrie and performance may iustly be reckoned among the chiefe of our Nation and of the world also if we respect that only in stead of al which he worthily atchieued in the first Moscouian discouerie by the Scythian Sea who if he had bin employed one Sommer more againe towardes the Riuer of Obbe I doubt not but proceeding with his former successe he would haue performed more in that Sommer for trial of a Passage any or none that way vnto Catthay then for the space of these 40. yeeres all Christendome hath done besides not hauing asitseemeth added vnto his 40. leagues of good discouerie euer since The good mind he bare towards his profession he testified herein that by his very earnest meanes he procured that learned and easie Treatise of Martine Curteise concerning the Arte of Nauigation to be translated into our English tongue The which doubtles hath giuen great light vnto all of skil in that faculty that euer were since of our Nation And is more almost then all our Nauigators haue holpen the Arte of Nauigation withall besides A great helpe also would it be for the furtherance of skill if those that are practisers in that Arte and such as are Students of the Mathematikes might often conferre together For except there be a vniting of knowledge with practise there can be nothing excellent Idle knowledge without practise ignorant practise without knowledge serue vnto small purpose But certaine it is that all the good partes which may be wished for or aymed at shall neuer absolutely concurre in one man And therefore if there be but some conuenient mixture of them in any that party is to be esteemed For although many things appertayning to Nauigatiō may be learned taught by rules of Arte yet some necessarie points without which all the rest is nothing are beyond the compasse of Arte As for a man to be of a ready and valiant mind to handle and order those things that are within the reache of his knowledge with dexteritie vpon euery present occasion These and such like are iustly termed the giftes of God For although all things tearmed by Arte are the giftes of God sith euen Arte it selfe is giuen by God who is the Authour and fountaine of all knowledge yet these are tearmed his giftes more peculiarly because the other are giuen by meanes and these without meanes Suppose that a man haue all the knowledge that may be wished for be notwithstanding faint hearted his wits as they say to seeke whē he hath most neede of them his knowledge will ayde him very little Againe if he be of neuer so bolda courage want discretion knowledge iudgement he is very vnfit for the gouernement of a Ship But if such a one be also as most cōmonly they are wilfull taking it for a glorie to be foolehardie this is as great a mischiefe as all other dangers of the Sea if they were all set together Where therefore boldnes of courage directed moderated by discretion iudgement also a body enhabled to brooke the Seas are matched with a willing mind vnto Marine affaires endued with the feare of God wheresoeuer I say these speciall giftes of God are to be found there the ornaments of Arte as necessary additaments will alwayes most effectually take place are most easily attained vnto But where those former at the least in some comperent measure are not al the rest is vanitie It is euen a most irkesome and wofull sight to behold a company of courageous yong Gentlemen to be led on blindfolded as it were in marine actions by such as haue no feare of God before their eyes and many times by those that are very ignorant of almost any thing that good is if any thing might be accompted good where the feare of God is not but onely can tell of their owne experience howe they haue dissimboched from Terra Stolida making their voyage toward the Isle of Pickery gracing themselues as they suppose with swearing and staring and wishly lookes A few such monsters hauing the chiefe gouernement in Ships and voyages are a great deale more dangerous then all the monsters in the Sea And for euery one that is bereft of life by these a hundred at the least are destroyed by the other The serious consideration of these things haue occasioned me of a friendly mind and entire good will wherein toward your profession I wil giue place vnto no man liuing to admonish you of these points which I haue thought necessary Beseeching Almighty God who is the Lord both of Sea dry Land by his holy Spirit of true wisedome to gouerne direct you in all your actions that employing your diligent endeuour in your Arte in his feare and calling vpon him in the time of trouble he may heare and deliuer you from all your distresses And that being deliuered you may accordingly glorifie him yeelding praise and thankes for his mercies before the sonnes of men Let Staffe Carde Compasse Ship and Skill Depend vpon Gods blessed will * * * Cap. 1. 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themselues cannot denie but being ouerpestered with enuie Vouchsafe therefore mine Honourable good Lord of your noble disposition fauourably to accept this small Treatise such as it is which of duetie and good will is offered vnto you protecting it so farre foorth and no further then the trueth of demonstration and commodiousnesse of the conclusions shall deserue And thus beseeching the Almightie to blesse your Lordship to encrease his good giftes in you and to prosper all your Honourable affaires I commend your Lordship and al yours in my humble and heartie prayers vnto the protection of him from whom all good giftes doe descend and with whom there is no variablenesse nor any shadowe of change but yesterday to day and is the same for euer Your Honorable Lordships in all duetie to be commanded VVilliam Barlowe Lectori S. PRaesulis eximij gnatus multisque verendis Patribus affinis pastor ipse pius Hunc foetum peperit quem si tu candide lector Excipias gremio suauis amansque tuo Dentibus haud metuet Criticorum rodier atris Quos tamen vt tener est non metuisse nequit Perlege pertenta bis terque quaterque licebit Quô mage creber eris crescet ille magis At simul hoc vsu matura adoleuerit aetas Iam benè tutus erit viribus ipse suis. To the Reader THis booke was written by a Bishops sonne And by affinitie to many Bishops kinne Himselfe a godly Pastour prayse hath wonne In being diligent to conquer sinne If to thee Reader it may welcome bee The Critickes censure it will feare the lesse For being young from feare it is not free Which otherwise more courage might professe Reade way and try but reade and often trye The rules of skill whereto it doth direct Triall may bring as much authoritie As newnesse hinder it of due respect But yet when time shall to it ripenesse giue It will haue credite of it selfe to liue Uotum Authoris SVmme Deus Coeli terraeque marisque tremende Conditor atque idem rector tersancte patenti Aure fauens facilis mea percipe vota precantis Ex vno veluti gens est humana Noacho Orta vnáque habitans linguâ celebrauit eâdem Te solum verumque Deum Babylonica turris Quum nondum aethereas caput attollebat in auras Sic iterum ô vtinam miseros miseratus in vnum Mortales redigas laceros vt corporis artus Quosfuror ille tuus dispersit ad vltima mundi Coniunctique ineant sancta vt commercia rursus Veliuolis iungas ratibus ceu pontibus ipsos Mobilibus quamuis disiunctos aequore vasto Foelici celeres vento impellente carinas Mirandaque agiles moderanti Pyxide clauos Inprimis tuus ille tuus qui cuncta gubernat Spiritus aspiret placidus Sic lampade diâ Verbo Euangelij toto noscaris in orbe F. 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O God whose power heauen earth sea declare Which being by thy word thy word obey And in their workes which Natures called are Worke but that will of thine which all doth sway Hearken O hearken for thy Christ his sake Vnto the prayer which in heart I make Looke downe with mercie from thy mercie-seate Vpon man-kinde dispersed here and there From Noahs familie which grewe so greate For at the first all but one people were Which but one law which but one language knew One God alone to serue God onely true As yet mans heart did seeke no name of prayse In stately towers which threaten might the skie When pride began great Babel for to rayse Speach was confounded with varietie Since then deuided tongues deuided heartes By sea and land into a thousand partes Yet since thy Spirit of true vnitie In clouen tongues did on Apostles sitte That so thy cursing might a blessing be And clouen tongues deuided people knitte Let that thy Spirit breathe in euery place That all may know the Gospel of thy grace And since the Sea doth some so farre deuide That they may seeme an other world to bee Teach vs our Ships like horses so to ride That we may meete in one and all in thee And as the Needle doth the North repect So all in Christ may onely thee affect A briefe discourse of the Sayling Compasse in generall THE merueilous and diuine Instrument called the Sayling Compasse being one of the greatest wonders that this World hath is a Circle diuided commonly into 32. partes tearmed by our Seamen Windes Rumbes or Points of Compasse which Circle by the touch of the Loadestone sheweth the aforesaid diuisions in all Horisons betweene the Poles according to one and the selfe same perpetuall position in respect of the true points of North and South in euery Horison This Circle is commonly described vpon Pastbord of 5. 6. 7. or 8. inches diameter And hath sometimes subdiuisions with the relation to the 32. and sometimes hath the ordinarie diuision of Circles namely 360. In the Center of this Circle is fastened a little Diamond as it were or a Capitall as some call it of Latten being cinquebored the point thereof appearing a conuenient space aboue the Circle and the hollowed part downeward to be placed vpon the pinne In the bottome of this Circle are glewed two wyars about ¼ longer then the Diameter bended proportionally the one toward the other in the forme of a loope so that the endes ioyne close and euen together in the circumference and the Circle in this maner finished is named the Flie of the Compasse The boxe wherein this Flie is placed must bee couered with cleare glasse made close round about with waxe mingled with Rosen or some other kind of Simmond The bottome of this boxe is to be taken off and on as occasion shall serue in the Center whereof standeth the pinne of Latten of a reasonable height for the Flie to haue sufficient scope This boxe is to be hanged in two Circles of Latten within an other greater Boxe that the Flie which way soeuer the Ship swayeth may alwayes stand vpon his pinne parallele to the Horizon to which end they fasten a piece of Lead to the bottome of the lesser boxe As for the touching of the wyars of the Flie with the Loade-stone I would wish it to be perfourmed after this sort First of all haue a great care of the goodnesse the quantitie and the forme of the Stone for if he be neuer so good and very small therewith he can giue but small force vnto the Compasse And againe though he be neuer so great yet if he be of base qualitie his Touche can be but faint An ouall forme or somewhat longer reteining a like proportion from the middle to each end is very good Alwayes prouided that the length of the Stone lie according to his owne line of North and South for a stone of this forme giueth foorth his vertue in the Touche a great deale more forcibly then it can if by reason of the euil shape thereof his force in himselfe be confusedly