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B09574 A new and accvrate map of the world drawne according to the truest descriptions, latest discoveries, and best observations, that have been made by English or strangers : with briefe and most plaine notes upon the whole body of cosmology of cosmographie for the easie vnderstanding thereof pleasant and usefull for all such as desire to know further than of their owne home. 1641 (1641) Wing N537; ESTC R180874 11,487 6

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through the center of the Earth For the body of the Earth being thick and not transparent casting his shadow to that point which is opposite of the place of the Sun will not suffer the Moon to receive any light from the Sun from whom she alwaies borroweth her light And note that every time she is at the full she is opposite to the Sunne and yet the Earth is not at every such full diametrally betwixt her the Sun for then she should be eclipsed at every full which indeed cannot be unlesse 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 universall because the Earth is far bigger than the Moone and thereby able to shadow her whole body The manner of the Sunnes Eclipse THe Eclipse of the Sunne is shewed by that figure at the foot of Asia against your right hand and happeneth When the Moone is betwixt the sunne and the Earth which chanceth in a Conjunction or new of the Moone and yet not in every Conjunction 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 far lesse than the Earth she cannot shadow all the Earth and therefore the eclipse of the sun cannot be universall but yet to some part 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 about filled with Figures of men beasts fishes and the like embost with starres doe represent the face of the Firmament or Orbe of the fixed starres those that appeare every night which were by ancient Astronomers divided into and distinguished by certain 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 divided 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. starres The Zodiacke Constellations which be also called the twelve signes consist of 280 starres The Southerne Constellations containe 293 starres Some of these Constellations consist of more some of fewer starres according to their greatnesse or smalnesse Besides these there are 1205 stars that are exempt out of all the Constellations so that the number of stars set upon both Hemispheares are 1025 and divers of them have proper Names But here is to be understood that all the starres in Heaven are not numbred nor cannot for that divers of them are so small but these 1025 are the principallest amongst them and all that have yet ever beene accounted of The two first parts of ●ll that is the Northerne and Zodiack Constellations are contained in that part right against your left hand and placed over a piece of America The last that is the Southerne is comprehended in that other Hemispheare on your right hand and over the European Sea Of the Figure of the heavenly Orbes and Elements THe whole world is divided into two parts viz. Elementall and Etheriall or Coelestiall parts The Elementall part is four-fold viz. Earth Water Ayre 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 Aire and immediatly above that Orbe is the Element of Fire all which you may easily discerne by their severall names in their proper places The Etheriall or Coelestiall parts doe compasse the Elementall part and containe the ten upper Spheares viz 1 the Moone 2 Mercury 3 Venus 4 Sol 5 Mars 6 Iupiter 7 Saturne 8 the Starry firmament 9 the Christaline heaven having no stars at all the 10 is 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 Spheares The rest of the Spheares have contrary motions every one in his kinde though far slower than the other and their 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 Christaline or ninth Spheare his motion is almost immensible 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 seven Planets each Spheare containeth in it but one starre whereof the uppermost and slowest is Saturne which perfecteth his course in thirty yeares Iupiter being next under that makes his revolution in twelve yeares Mars beneath him finisheth his course in two yeares Sol passeth through the Zodiacke in 365 dayes and six houres which is one whole yeare Venus ends her course somewhat more than a yeare Mercury holds equall pace with the Sunne Luna courseth about the Heaven once every eight and twenty dayes Geographie and the Principles thereof Certaine termes of Land and Water plainely defined and described THe Terrestriall Globe is defined to be a Sphericall body proportionably composed of Earth and Water into which two parts it is divided Whereof the Earth comes first to view whose parts are either Reall Imaginary and the reall parts either Continents Islands 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 Island called in Latine Insula quasi in salo is a part of the earth environed round with waters as Britaine Java S. Laurence Isle Barmudas These againe are subdivided into Peninsula Istmus Promontorium A Peninsula is almost an Island that is a tract of Land which being almost encompassed round by water is joyned to the firme Land by some little Istmus as Poloponnesus Taurica Cymbrica and Pervana An Istmus is a little narrow necke of Land which joyneth any Peninsula to the Continent as the Straights of Dariene in Peru and Corinth in Greece Promontorium is some high Mountaine which shooteth it selfe 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 Comori in Asia and that of S. Michaels mount in Cornwall the North Cape up in Norway and divers other There are likewise other reall parts of the Earth as Mountaines Vallies Fields Plaines Woods and the like The other generall part of the Globe is the Water which is