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A72217 A new and accurate map of the world drawne according to the truest descriptions, latest discoueries, and best obseruations that haue been made by English or strangers. VVith briefe and most plaine notes vpon the vvhole body of cosmographie, for the easie vnderstanding thereof: pleasant and vsefull for all such as desire to know further then of their owne home. Grent, William. 1625 (1625) STC 12360.7; ESTC S124962 11,470 9

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to the center of the Moone passeth through the center of the Earth For the body of the earth being thicke and not transparent casting his shadow to that point which is opposite to the place of the Sun will not suffer the Moon to receiue any light from the Sun from whom she alwayes borroweth her light And note that euery time she is at the full shee is opposite to the Sun and yet the Earth is not at euery such full diametrally betwixt her and the Sun for then she should be eclipsed at euery full which indeed cannot be vnless she be either in the head or taile of the Dragon Now the Moone is eclipsed in part when the Sun the Earth and the Moone be met in one selfe diametrall line but the Moon is declining either on the one side or on the other But note that eclipses of the Moone may be vniuersall because the Earth is far bigger then the Moone and thereby able to shadow her whole body The manner of the Sunnes Eclipse THe Eclipse of the Sun is shewed by that Figure at the foot of Asia against your right hand and happeneth When the Moone is betwixt the Sun and the Earth which chanceth in a Coniunction or new of the Moone and yet not in euery Coniunction but when it falleth either in the head or taile of the Dragon which may chance as is said before either totally or in part totally in respect of those parts of the Earth whereon the shadow directly falleth For sith the Moone is farre lesser then the Earth she cannot shadow all the Earth and therefore the eclipse of the Sun cannot be vniuersall but yet to some parts of the earth it may be totally to some partly and to others nothing at all as may appeare by the aforesaid Figure Of the Firmament and Constellations THe two Hemispheares in the middle aboue filled with figures of men beasts fishes and the like embost with starres doe represent the fate of the Firmament or Orbe of the fixed stars those that appeare euery night which were by ancient Astronomers diuided into and distinguished by certaine Constellations and each of these is knowne by a proper name Of these Constellations the number according to the ancient account is 48 that are diuided into three parts 1 Northerne Constellations being 21 in number 2 Zodiacke Constellations being 12 in number 3 Southerne Constellations being 15 in number The Northerne Constellations consist of 332. stars The Zodiacke Constellations which be also called the twelue Signes consist of 280 stars The Southerne Constellations containe 293 starres Some of these Constellations consist of more some of fewer stars according to their greatnesse or smalnesse Besides these there are 120 stars that are exempt out of all the Constellations so that the number of stars set vpon both Hemispheares are 1025 and diuers of them haue proper names But here is to be vnderstood that all the stars in heauen are not numbred nor cannnot for that diuers of them are so small but these 1025 are the principallest among them and all that haue yet euer beene accounted of The two first parts of all that is the Northerne and Zodiacke Constellations are contained in that part right against your left hand and placed ouer a piece of America The last that is the Southerne is comprehended in that other Hemispheare on your right hand and ouer the European Sea Of the Figure of the heauenly Orbes and Elements THe whole world is diuided into two parts viz. Elementall and Etheriall or coelestiall parts The Elementall part is fourefold viz. Earth Water Ayre Fire as may be seene in that round Figure of the frame of the heauens and elements one within another the inmost and middlemost circle containing Earth and Water intermixed together The next the three Regions of the Aire and immediately aboue that Orbe is the Element of Fire all which you may easily discerne by their seuerall names in their proper places The Etheriall or Celestiall parts doe compasse the Elementall parts and containe the ten vpper Spheares viz. 1 the Moone 2 Mercury 3 Venus 4 Sol 5 Mars 6 Iupiter 7 Saturne 8 the Starry firmament 9 the Christaline heauen hauing no stars at all the 10 is the Primum mobile or first Mouer containing all the rest within it and mouing from the East to the West carieth about with it in violence all the other Spheares The rest of the Spheares haue contrary motions euery one in his kind though far slower then the other and their motions are contrary from the West to the East and so are caried about oftentimes by the first Mouer before they make one perfect reuolution in themselues The Crystaline or ninth Spheare his motion is almost vnsensible and is called The trembling Motion and is performed according to the opinion of later Astronomers in 49000 yeares The eight Spheare being the Starry Firmament performeth his motion in 7000 yeares The rest of the Spheares are the seuen Planets each Spheare containeth in it but one Starre whereof the vppermost and slowest is Saturne which performeth his course in thirty yeares Iupiter being next vnder that makes his reuolution in twelue yeares Mars beneath him finisheth his course in two yeares Sol passeth through the Zodiacke in 365 dayes and sixe houres which is one whole yeare Venus ends her course in somewhat more then a yeare Mercury holds equall pace with the Sunne Luna courseth about the heauen once euery eight and twenty dayes Geography and the principles thereof Certaine termes of Land and Water plainly defined and described THe Terrestriall Globe is defined to be a sphearicall body proportionably composed of Earth and Water into which two parts it is diuided Whereof the earth comes first to view whose parts are either Reall Imaginary and the Reall parts either Continents Ilands Now a Continent is a great quantity of land not interlaced or separated by the Sea in which many Kingdomes and Principalities are contained as Europe Asia Africa America An Iland called in Latine Insula quasi in salo is a part of the earth enuironed round with waters as Britaine Iava St. Laurence I le Barmudas These againe are subdiuided into Peninsula Istmus Promontorium A Peninsula is almost an Iland that is a tract of Land which being almost encompassed round by water is ioyned to the firme land by some little Istmus as Poloponnesus Taurica Cymbrica and Peruana An Istmus is a little narrow neck of land which ioyneth any Peninsula to the Continent as the Straights of Dariene in Peru and Corinth in Greece Promentorium is some high Mountaine which shooteth it selfe into the Sea the vtmost end of which is called a Cape as that great Cape of good hope and Cape Verde in Africa Cape Comori in Asia and that of St. Michaels Mount in Cornwall the North Cape vp in Norway and diuers other There are likewise other reall parts of the earth as Mountains Vallies Fields Plaines Woods and the like The other generall