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A03380	The schoole of skil containing two bookes: the first, of the sphere, of heauen, of the starres, of their orbes, and of the earth, &c. The second, of the sphericall elements, of the celestiall circles, and of their vses, &c. Orderly set forth according to art, with apt figures and proportions in their proper places, by Tho. Hill.	Hill, Thomas, b. ca. 1528.; Jaggard, William, 1569-1623.	1599 (1599)	STC 13502; ESTC S104125	144,541	253

bée here rehearsed by a similitude of one part as the whole The similitude of which matter conceiue by this example that experience dayly teacheth vs of the drops of water which although they bée small yet powred on drie wollen cloth run into a round or bunching forme which without doubt shoulde not be caused if the part folowed not the nature of the whole of his kind Now the example aboue promised doeth here appeare in which by the letter A. is the shippe ment to come vnto the marke C. In which being in the poynte A. that is in the bothom of the shippe cannot sée the marke standing in C. through the swelling of the water But he which is in the top of the mast as in the poynt B. without all impediment may sée the sayde marke That the selfe same or like to it may be on land as from the point D. none excepte hée bée foolish or starcke mad will affirme the like By the second it is manifest that the water by nature is caried and runneth downewarde and stideth or falleth from higher vnto lower places so long vntill it hath filled and bee euen with the earth through the staying of high heapes of earth hilles or such like mighty and high banks inclosing it about that it run no further nor make no hollownes in the middle of the earth as a Center of the earth Which therfore gathereth betwéene the empty places so long vntill it hath filled and be euen with the earth and that the whole togither through the hollownesse thus made equall doeth fashion and kéepe a round forme So that the earth with the sea and waters running about it do make one round body and fill all the whole vpper face the earth also gaping and open somewhere receiueth water into those hollow places but a parte of the earth appearing somewhere aboue it staying and inclo●●ng it about with strong inclosures and banks wrought by diuine myracle that the bare places of the earth might be a commodious dwelling and féeding for all beastes and other liuing creatures And y ● this is true shall bée prooued by other two reasons The first by sundry perygrinations in which many and most large parts of the earth are found toward all the quarters of the worlde which euidently witnesseth that the earth is not as Plinie and others writeth which imagined that the earth is compassed about with water and appearing so out of the water like an Aple or Ball swimming aboue the water whose one halfe sheweth out of the water and the other halfe hid in the water Which reason Ptholomie doeth not allowe but simply affirmeth that the earth with the sea and waters make one round body by filling of the empty places and both to haue one vpper face Also Vitruuius in his ninth booke writeth that the earth is placed in the middle of the world and is naturally ioyned together with the sea in the place of the Center But what the forme of the earth is aboue the waters is yet not throughly knowne by reason of the sea which runneth betwéene it in diuers partes and breaketh it into sundry parts like to gobbets or péeces Ptholomie affirmeth the earth to bée knowne vnto the longitude of the halfe Cyrcle that is 190. degrees without any running betwéene of the sea in that space for that the earth is wholy ioyning together But into latitude he affirmeth the space to be much lesser as 79. degrées and of this opinion is both Strabo and Aristotle By the second it appeareth that the water with the earth doeth equally make one hollow vpper face and the same to be perfect round but whether is bigger is greatly to be doubted although the learned Nouius and sundry other late writers doe affirme the face of the earth to bee bigger then the water By the third which is the Ecclipses In that of necesity the earth must haue such a forme with the waters running in it as the shadowe of the earth frameth and counterfeiteth in the Moones Ecclipses in that the shadowe sheweth and expresseth the forme of the bodie shadowed But the shadow of the earth to be included round aboute with a round vpper face the wise both sée know Therefore the whole Globe compounded of the earth and waters is comprehended with a round vpper face For it is manifest that the moone before and after the full is séene horned and the part shadowed of the whole cyrcle is easily to be descerned from that bright circumference So that the moone entring into shadow or going out of the same is likewise in the same maner horned and the part darkned is alwaies descerned from the cleare circumference of the whole Cyrcle imbossed Therefore of necessity must the beginning of the shadow which seperateth the parte lighted from the shadowed not bée fully straite nor vnequal nor vallied or winding but round and for that cause appeareth the vpper face of the shadowe not to bée plaine but round By these is also manifest as by the first that there is no difference betwéene the Centre of the earth and Centre of the water but that the one is the Centre of both the Elements ioyning togither into one round body and tending vnto the one and the same Centre of the earth For the earth séeing it is the heauier is opened and receiueth the waters falling into those places By the second it is euidente that the place of the water which ought to run ouer and couer the whole earth is otherwise chaunged and appoynted by the Diuine will for the benefit of all liuing creatures By the thirde appeareth that the opinion of certaine Peripateticans is false which affirmeth the water to bee ten times greater then the earth and that to one parte of the earth is ten portions of the water increased But seauen times greater then the earth it cannot be vnlesse the earth rounde about were wasted and impayred by the Centre of the grauity as it were setling and resting vpon should yéelde and giue place to the waters as the heauier Seeing the Spheres are togither in a triple reason of their measures then if the earth were an eight part to seuen parts of the water the diameter of it could not be the greater as from the Centre of the waters vnto the circumference of them that is by double so much vnto the diameter of the water as by this figure here vnder drawn appeareth where this letter A. is the Center both of the earth and water B. the Centre both of the magnitude and earth G. A. D. the diametre of the waters A. B. D. the diameter of the earth If the waters are seuen times bigger then the earth the diameter of them must néedes bée double so much vnto the diameter of the earth as héere from G. D. vnto A. D. By which example thus drawne the whole earth receiueth the Center of the waight gyuing place to the waters and all couered with waters to which generall

experience gainsayth and denieth muchlesse therefore can it be greater ten times By which is to be concluded that the water is but litle in quantity in respect of the earth although it may séeme very bigge being vp to the edges of the vpper face of the earth And if the waters had béene more bigger then the earth they had drowned or couered the whole earth euen of late yeares That the earth employeth the middle place of the Worlde and is the Center of the whole A Ristarchus Samius which was 261 yeares before the byrth of Christ tooke the earth from the middle of the world and placed it in a peculiar Orbe included within Marses and Venus Sphere and to bee drawne aboute by peculiar motions about the Sunne which hée fayned to stande in the myddle of the worlde as vnmoueable after the manner of the fixed stars The like argument doth that learned Copernicus apply vnto his demonstrations But ouerpassing such reasons least by the newnesse of the arguments they may offend or trouble young students in the Art wee therefore by true knowledge of the wise doe attribute the middle seate of the world to the earth and appoynte it the Center of the whole by which the risings settinges of the stars the Equinoctials the times of the increasing and decreasing of the dayes the shadowes and Ecclipses are declared The earth round about is equally distant from heauen therefore according to the definition of the Center the earth is the Center of the world That the stars haue alwaies one bignes in what place soeuer any shall beholde them therefore are they in an equall distance from the earth The roundnesse of the earthly globe hath a proportion vnto the roundnesse of heauen that is the certaine and proportionall parts in the earthly Globe doe answere to certaine proportionall partes of heauen therefore is the earth the Center of the world In that siftéene Germaine miles on earth doe answere to a degrée of the Meridian and that in euery houre doe fiftéene degrées arise of the Equinoctiall which coulde not be if the earth were not in the middle of the world For the vnequall Arks should otherwise appeare in the equal times and the equall partes of the Meridian shoulde the vnequall spaces on earth answere which experience dayly witnesseth vnto the contrary And hereof it ensueth that the earth stands in the middle of the world In euery Artificiall day doe sixe signes appeare and sixe like set vnder the earth therefore is the earth in the middle of the worlde and is also as a pricke to which the halfe doth regularly moue dayly The like is in the opposition of the Sunne and Moone when either light is in the Horizont which could not be if the earth should approch or come néerer vnto one part then vnto the other If it were néerer to eyther of the Poles then could not the vniuersall Equinoctials bee for that the one Arke alwaies either in the day and night time should be greater then the other The Eccclipses also coulde not bée in the changes and full moones For that there shoulde then bée vneuen spaces from the South vnto the North and from the East vnto the West If the earth were not as the Center of the worlde then of necessity shoulde these ensue that the earth shoulde approch either néerer to the East or West or South part and when any of the starres aswell the fixed as Planets shall come vnto that part they shall appeare nearer to vs then being in any other part of heauen and by that aboue saide they shall also appeare greater which is altogether vntrue and we also sée the contrary in that as aboue writen they alwaies appeare of one greatnesse eyther being in the East or in the West Also one halfe of heauen is alwaies aboue the earth and the other halfe vnder the earth and this is not onely found and knowne in one quarter of the earth but the like in euery place as the Equinoctials do witnes then which there can be no more euident tryal A third reason may bée alleadged if any imagined the earth vpon the Center to be parted into two equal halfes and that the eie is placed in the Center then shall the eie sée no more then the halfe of heauen By which appeareth that the swelling of the earth from the Center vnto his compasse about in making a comparison vnto heauen is as in a maner nothing And it is knowne to the learned in Astronomie that any of the fixed starres is by many times greater then the earth which if any behold them they appeare as poynts in heauen Now how much lesser would the earth appear if a man should behold it from his place Here learne by this demonstration following that the earth standing without the Center in the poynt B. being to the Meridiane as is the poynte A. nearer and when a star shall come vnto that poynte then shall it bée nearer to the earth and in the opposite poynt as is I. shall bee from the same much further than in any other place and shall euen there lesser appeare which by experience is quite contrary Further graunt that C. D. be the thwart Horrizont yet the contrary for the second reason E. B. K. being the Equatour which from the said Horrizont is deuided into two vnequall parts and by this consequent also must the Zodiacke bee deuided into two vnequall partes from the said Horrizont for that those two Cyrcles as hereafter shall bee taught doe crosse one another into equall parts Therefore when the sun by his proper motion carried from the East into the West shall come vnto the crossings of the Equatour and Zodiacke and that the greater part of these Cyrcles shall be vnder the earth it cannot be that the Equinoctium or a like day and night can bee through out the earth no not vnder the right Sphere much lesse can it be vnder the thwart Sphere IF this be vnpossible it shall be also as vnpossible that sixe signes may alwaies bee aboue the earth and the other sixe vnder the earth but rather that more of the signes shall be vnder the earth and more of them aboue euen as the earth is imagined to be deuided from the Horrizont aforesaid into two equall parts like as when it shall bée in the Center of the whole and that from each Center of the greater Cyrcles the earth is deuided into two partes As all these to any beholding the materiall Sphere are forthwith knowne at the first sight so by a third reason is to bee noted that when any imagineth by the lyne E. F. that the earth in the poynt G. standing as in the Center of the whole is deuided by the middle as well beeing in G. as H. for the excéeding distance from the Cyrcumference is vnpossible to sée alwaies the halfe heauen If the Earth be not in the middle of the Worlde then of necessitie shall it possesse some of these

image named Aquarius hath 24. stars and 3. without forme 12 The images named Pisces haue 34. stars The Summe of all the Starres except Berenices bush are 364. Of the Southerly _1 THe image named Coetus hath 22. stars 2 The image named Orion hath 38. stars 3 The image named the riuer or Eridanus or Potamos hath 34. stars 4 The image named the Hare hath 12. stars 5 The image named the Dog hath 18. stars of which that in the mouth is named Alhabor 12. without forme 6 The image named the little Dog or Caniculare star hath 2. stars of which the brightest is that named Proion or the Dog-starre 7 The image named the Ship hath 45. stars of which a bright star going before in temone 8 The image named the Water Serpent hath 25. stars and 2. without forme 9 The image named the Bucket or great Cup hath 7. starres 10 The Rauen or Crow hath 7. stars 11 The image named Centaurus being one halfe like a man and the other halfe like a horse hath 37. stars 12 The Beast which the Centaure doth holde being a Wolfe hath 19. stars 13 The image named the Aulter hath 7. stars 14 The Southetly Crowne hath 13. stars 15 The Southerly fish hath 11. stars and 6. without forme The Summe of all the starres are 316. THe milkie way which Ptholomie nameth Galaxian of the white and milkie colour is a heape of most small stars and dimme to sight of which is a certaine confused gathering together and abundance as it were encreased that no seuerall light is decerned and the same in the maner of a girdle compasseth and encloseth heauen about The same also is vnequal and differeth in the standing latitude haunt of stars and in the colour very much It is somewhere decerned clefte but the parte going before is neither whole nor maketh a whole swathe or inclosure about but lacketh about the swan and Aulter And the part folowing whole being in no place broken off with a space and stretched thwartly in heauen and from the partes of the Zodiacke Northerly it passeth by Gemini and Sowtherly by Sagitarius and Capricornus Of the Planets THe Planets named otherwise the erring and wandering starres not for that they erre by a wandering and vncertaine motion but in that they are caried aboute by a diuers and vnlike motion For sometimes they goe foreward and sometimes retrograde sometimes are hidden and cleane out of sight after they appear and shew themselues Againe they goe before and follow the Sun They are caried swift and their motions againe so stayed that they are moued in a maner nothing at all but séeme as they were stayed for a time From the sunnes way one while caried into the South and another while caried into the North and then vnto the same way drawne backe againe so that their iourneies being passed and finished they steadyly repeate their old courses by the like order Of these are seauen and each caried in their proper Orbs and compasse about the Zodiacke in vnlike spaces of time SAturne highest of the Planets and most slow in course being cold and dry pale to a leady colour and perfourmeth his course in 30. yéeres being ninty times with an eight part greater then the earth And the highest ascention or pointe of Saturnus Orbe which at this day is in the 29. degrée of Sagitarius is from the earth 20072. semidiametres with a fourth part almost and 15. minutes But the lowest point of Saturns Orbe is distant from the earth 14378. with a third part and 20. minutes IVpiter being next vnto Saturne temperate and so cleare or bright that he giueth in a maner a shadow especially when he is Perigeus or lowest discended to the earthward and he compasseth about the Zodiacke in twelue yeares But Iupiter giueth this proper shadowe when neither the lights bée aboue the earth nor Venus néere to him Hée is greater then the earth by ninty fiue times and a half part almost And the highest ascention of Iupiters Orbe which possesseth the seauenth degrée of Libra is from the earth 14369. with a fourth parte almost and 15. minutes but the lowest point of Iupiters Orbe is from the earth distant 8853. semidiametres with a ninth part and 45. minutes MArs béeing hot and dry and shining with a fiery colour doeth goe about the Zodiacke in the space of two yéeres He is named the fiery Planet of his shining with a fiery colour or of the effect which foloweth by him in that he burneth and dryeth vp He is one time greater then the earth and a little more then a third parte The highest ascention of Marses Orbe that obtaineth the 28. degrée of Leo is now distant after Albategnius from the earth 8022. semidiametres but the lowest poynt from the earth is 1176. semidiametres THe Sunne obtaineth the middle place betwéene the Planets wholy and throughly bright being the fountaine and Author of light which by his motion expresseth and deuideth the spaces of the Zodiacke and by his going about haue the signes their names He is greater then the earth after Ptholomie a hundreth thréescore and sixe times with thrée eight parts But after Capernicus the sun excéedeth the earth a hundreth thréescore two times with eight parts lesse The highest ascention or poynte of the suns Sphere which n●w possesseth the seuenth degrée of Cancer is from the earth distant 1179. semidiametres but the lowest poynt of the sunnes Orbe is from the earth distant 1065. semidiametres VEnus next to the Sun being cold and moist white in colour clearer and brighter shining then Iupiter and is caried about like the Sun in a yeares space and both goeth before and foloweth the sun nor is further distant in the spring of the morning from him then 46. degrées and 47. minutes but in the euening she is seene digrssed from him vnto 47. degrées and 35 minutes When she goeth in the morning before the sun thée is named the day star but when she followeth the sun in the euening shée is then named the euening star Lesser shee is then the earth but her true quantity is yet vnknowne for that some affirme her quantity to be the 28. part and others the 37. part of the earth The highest ascention of Venus Sphere that obtaineth the 18. degrée 20. minutes of Taurus is from the earth after Albategnius 1070. semidiametres but the lowest poynt is 166. semidiametres distāt from the earth MErcurie beeing lower then Venus is variable and apte to bée changed bright but not white in colour and is caried about the sunne like to Venus as one whiles mouing before and an other whiles following the sunne Nor is hee further distant in the morning from him then 29. degrées and 37. minutes and at the euening westwarde 27. degrées and 37. minutes He perfourmeth his whole course in the space of a yéere as the sun doth Also he is iudged to be the seauenth part of 2● or 22000. parte of