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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41248	A description of the whole world with some general rules touching the use of the globe : wherein is contained the situation of several countries, their particular and distinct governments, religions, arms, and degrees of honour used among them ... / by Robert Fage, Esq.	Fage, Robert.	1658 (1658)	Wing F83; ESTC R16870	29,927	77

A Figure of the Heavens and Elements EARTH AER EYER 1 ☽ The Moone could and moist Benevolent silver 2 ☿ Mercury such as he is ioyned with quick silver 3 ♀ Could and moist Benevolent copper 4 ☉ The sonne hott and dry Benevolent Gould 5 ♂ Mars hott and dry Malevolent Iron 6 ♃ Iupiter hott and moyst Benevolent Tynne 7 ♄ Saturne could and dry Malevolent Lead 8 ♈ Aries 2 ♉ Taurus ♊ Gemini 4 ♋ Cancer 5 Leo 6 ♍ virgo 7 ♎ libra ♏ scorp 9 ♐ Sagita 10 ♑ Capri ♒ Aq*ar 12 ♓ Pisse 9 The Christaline Heaven 10 The first moveable Heavene A DESCRIPTION OF The whole World WITH Some General Rules touching the use of the GLOBE Wherein Is contained the situation of several Countries Their particular and distinct governments Religions Arms and degrees of Honour used among them Very delightful to be read in so small a Volume By ROBERT FAGE Esq. The earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof Psalm 24. vers. 1. LONDON Printed by I. Owsley and sold by Peter Stent at the White-horse in Guilt-spur-street between Newgate and Pye-corner 1658. A DESRIPTION OF The whole world WITH Rules for the use of the Globes and understanding of Maps THe Heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth the work of his hands Psalm 19. 1. In the Creation of which and the whole earth and sea and all things therein contained of meer nothing within the compass of six daies and in his wise and gracious ordering and guiding of all things is abundantly set forth his infinite and unutterable wisdom power greatness and goodness His end herein is first and chiefly for his own glory The Lord made all things for himself Prov. 16. 4. And secondly mens happiness unto whom the dominion of all things was under God committed Gen. 1. Psalm 8. 6. That men may come therefore to some understanding thereof I shall first speak of the Heavenly and of the Earthly Globes and the several matters incident thereunto Then I shall also make a brief description of the foure parts of the earth and the countries in each part the several Religions professed in them with their varieties of trade and commodities therein never yet set forth in a Treatise of this nature The whole wo●ld therefore is divided into two parts Ethereal or Celestial and Elemental Of which there are two Globes accordingly the heavenly and the earthly Now a Globe is a proportionable representation of the heavens or of the earth the Ethereal Celestial or heavenly part doth compass the Terrestial o● earthly and containeth the ten upper Spheres or neerest unto the earth the Moon 2. Mercury 3. Venus 4. the Sun 5. Mars 6. Iupiter 7. Saturn 8. the starrie firmament 9. the Chrystalline heaven having no stars at all 10. the Primum Mobile or first mover containing all the rest within it and moving from the east to the west carrieth about with it in violence all the other Spheres The rest of the Spheres have contrary motions every one in his kind though far slower then the other the motions are contrary from the west to the east and so are carried about oftentimes by the first mover before they make one perfect revolution in themselves The Chrystaline or ninth sphere his motion is almost insensible and is called the trembling motion pe●formed according to the opinion of latter Astronomers in four thousand nine hundred years The eight sphere being the starry firmament in seven thousand years the sphere of Saturn in thirty years of Iupiter in twelve years Mars in two years the Sun passeth the Zodiack in three hundred sixty five daies Venus ends her course in somewhat more then a year Mercury holds equal pace with the Sun and the Moon co●rseth about the heavens once every eight and twenty daies Thus much for the Celestial or heavenly part of the world wherein I shall need say nothing of the religion of Angels and the spirits of just men made perfect seeing it is manifest enough to every one that there they keep their first esta●e The religion also of the fallen Angels who are held by many to be thrust out of heaven and to abide in the Aire whereupon Sathan is called the Prince of the aire Eph. 2. 2. is so no●o●ious for enmity against God and all manner of wickedness that poor man is more sen●ient of ●orow for their tentations then 〈◊〉 with words to express their wickedness to the life The Elemental part of the world is fourfold earth water aire fire as may be seen in that round figure of the frame of the heavens and elements one within another the inmost and middlemost circle containing earth and water intermixed together the next the three regions of the air and immediately above that Orbe is the element of fire all which you may eas●ly discern by their seve●al names in their proper places And 〈◊〉 mu●h 〈◊〉 s●ffice to have spoken of the Glob● of 〈◊〉 whole world I shall now peak first generally and briefly of the Globe of the whole earth and things incident thereunto● th●n 〈◊〉 parti●ularly of the 〈…〉 and every remarkable co●n●y in each part as I promised in the beginning The Globe of the earth therefore is defined to be a sphe●ic●l body propo●tionably composed of ea●●h and water the two parts thereof The parts of the earth are either real or imagin●ry The real parts are either Continents or Islands A Continent is a great quantity of Land not interlaced or separated by the sea wherein many kingdoms and p●incipalities are con●ained as Europe Asia Africa and America An lsland called in La●ine insula quasi in sale is a part of the earth environed ●ound with waters as Brittain Iava St. Laurence Isle Bermoodes Now these again are sub-divided into a Peninsula Isthmos and a Promontory A peninsula is such a tract of land which being almost incompassed round by waters is nevertheless joyned to the firm land by some little Isthmus as Peloponesus Taurica Cymbrica and Pervana An Isthmus is a little narrow neck of land which joyneth any peninsula to the continent as the straits of Dariene in Peru and Corinth in Greece A Promontory is some high mountain which shooteth it self into the sea the utmost end of which is called a Cape as that great Cape of good hope and Cape Verde in Africa Cape Gomerie in Asia and that of Saint Michaels mount in Cornwal the north Cape in Norway and divers others There are also other reall parts of the earth as mountains valleys fields plains woods and the like The other general part of the Globe is the water divided into the Ocean Secondly the Sea Thirdly the Straits Fourthly Creeks The Ocean is the general collection of all waters which invironeth the whole world on every side The sea is part of the Ocean to which we cannot come but through some strait as the Mediterranean sea the Balti●k sea and the like These two take their names either

f●om the adjacent places as the British Ocean the ●erman sea the Atlantick sea and the like Or from the first Discoverer as the Magellanick sea Forbushers Straits● or from some remarkeable accident as the Red sea from the red colour of the ●ands and the like Thirdly a strait is a part of the Ocean restrained within narrow bounds and opening a way to the sea as the straits of Gibralter Hellespont Anian Fourthly A creek is a crooked shore thrusting forth as it were two arms to embrace and affectionately to hold the sea as the Adriatick Persian and Corinthian creek Hitherto belong Rivers Brooks and fountains engendred of congealed aire in the earths concavities and seconded by sea-sea-waters creeping through hidden crannies thereof Thus much of the real parts of the earth in general The compass of the whole earth is cast by our latest learned Geographers twenty one thousand six hundred English miles which we thus compute We see by continued experience that the Sun for every degree in the heavens gaines sixty miles upon the earth towards his circuit round and after three hundred sixty degrees returneth to the same point in respect of us as before it was Add the number of sixty so oft and you will find the account the same and so by proportion of the circumference to the Diameter which is tripla sesqui septima the same which twenty two hath to seven We may count likewise the earths thickness to the center The whole Diameter by rule being less then a third part of the circuit That in the proportion to twenty one thousand six hundred will be six thousand eight hundred seventy two halfe the number will reach the middle of the world and that is three thousand four hundred thirty six being considered with great exactness as the measure of such a great bulk as the earth is can easily be taken and comprehended Geographers attribute unto the earth five circles The first is the Equinoctial when the Sun in his course is come thereunto about the eleventh of March and September the day and the night are of equal length through the whole earth It is also termed the Equator and by the sea-faring men the middle Line because it divideth the earth into two equal parts of which the one lyeth towards the north the other towards the south And because it is in the middest between the two poles of the world one in the north the other in the south The second circle is called the Tropick of the Crabb because when the sun is come thither about the tenth of Iune it returneth by little and little unto the Equator And then unto them that dwell on the north-side of the Equator is the day longest and shortest to them that dwell on the southside thereof This circle is distinct from the Equinoctial twenty three degrees three minutes and an halfe Northward The third is called the Tropick of Capricorn because the sun being come thereto on the eleventh of December turneth his course backward to the Equator and then contrariwise to them who live on the north of the Equator is the day shortest and longest to them on the south thereof it is distant from the Equinoctial southward twenty three degrees thirty one minutes and an half The fourth is called the Arctick circle the fifth the Antartick of which the one is distant twenty three degrees thirty one minutes and an half from the no●th pole the other just so many from the south pole And are described by the revolution of heaven from the Poles of the Zodiack which is the sun Mercator the ancient Astronomer understood by the Arctick circle not onely that aforesaid but also every circle whose half Diameter answereth to the pole in any place whatsoever and containeth according to the Altitude of every countrey certain starrs which never set but alwaies are above the earth so that in all regions differing in Latitude this circle is diverse as also is the Antarctick Now the four lesser circles the two Tropicks and Polar circles do fitly part the earth into five Zones that is to say girdles because they compass like bands the round Globe of the earth The first of these Zones lyeth under the Artick or north circle and is called the cold north Zone the second lyeth under the Antartick or sourth circle is called the cold south Zone the third is situate in the middle between the two Tropicks called the scorched Zone the fourth lyeth under that which is between the north circle and the Tropick of Cancer and is called the temperate north Zone the fifth also is under that space which is between the Tropick of Capricorn and the south circle and is called the temperate south Zone Now to understand rightly the situation of countries their Longitude and Latitude according to the mind of Geographers is to be known The Latitude of places which with the height of the pole is alwayes one beginning at the Equinoctial is taken two manner of wayes either towards the south or towards the north unto the number ninety The Longitude is returned from the Meridian circle and about the west Islands called Carva and Flores beginning right at the Equator easterly and running forwards unto the number three hundred sixty As for example London lyeth from the Equinoctial northward fifty one decrees and a half which is the Latitude and the Longitude thereof is twenty degrees answering unto that degree of the Equinoctial reckoning from the Meridian And now that I have briefly touched upon the Longitude and Latitude of countries and having often spoke of the Meridian and Horizon I shall I hope not unprofitably take time in a word or two to tell you what each of them are The Meridian is a great circle rounding the earth from pole to pole There are many Meridians according to the divers places in which a man liveth But the chief and first Meridian passeth through the islands Saint Michael and of the Azores The Horizon is a great circle designing so great a space of the earth as a quick sight can ken in an open field the use of it is to discern the divers risings and settings of the starrs I shall now speak a little of the Climates and Parallels and then I hope I have done with things generally concerning the earth A climate is a space of the earth included within the space of two parallels The use of them is to shew the difference of length and shortness of daies over all the world as you may see in the midst of every climate the number of the longest day in the year under that climate the longest day in one climate differing half an hour from the longest of another so that there are twenty four climates consisting of forty eight parallels ere the day come to be twenty four houres of length which is twelve houres longer then the Equinoctiall day is Now under the Equinoctial line and thirteen degrees that is three parallels on either side