Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	cold_a	dry_a	moist_a	4,796	5	10.4311	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85921	The first lecture touching navigation read publiquely at Sr. Balthazar Gerbiers accademy. Imprimatur, Hen: Scobell, Cleric: Parliamenti.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1649 (1649)	Wing G560; Thomason E584_4; ESTC R206225	10,353	24

transitory things We shall begin with the Sea and say first what it is and why it is called Ocean The Sea is all the vast extent of water which environs the earth The waters were created by God In principio creavit Deus coelum Terram Spiritus Domini ferebatur super aquas In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters This is confirmed by the writs of Moses in his generation or off-spring of this world The Water doth engender and maintaine it self in the Sea the Rivers come from it and return unto it The Aegyptians have supposed foure Elements of each one whereof they made two the one Male and the other Female they beleeve that the Aire which engenders the wind is the Male and that which is loaden with clouds and which doth not stirre to be the Female they call the Water male and all other Waters female they say that the fire the flame whereof burnes is male and that which shineth without doing harme is the female They doe beleeve that the hardest Earth as the Stones and Rocks are males and give the name of female to that which is manuable The Sea is called Ocean by reason of its quick and continuall motion for Oris in Greek is to hasten or else it 's called Ocean quasi Cianeus for it embraces the Rivers of the earth The Sea receives severall names from the diversity of places by the which it passeth as the Sea of China India Persia c. The Sea properly hath no colour for our sight doth not remaine on the superficies of the water but descends lower and at a great distance its colour is like that of Heaven but being disturbed by the Winds it is susceptible of divers colours It 's to be noted that the Sea riseth increasing seven dayes which is called quick water and seven other dayes it retires decreasing which is called dead water Aristotle treats of the causes of the increasing and decreasing in the second of the Meteors as also Hippocrates in the Booke of the Aire and Waters where he sayes that there is a proper cause of Astrologie viz. by the naturall vertue which the Moone hath on the Waters therefore we see all that 's in the Sea increaseth and decreaseth as the Moone doth for as the Moone happens to rise on the Horizon and that she toucheth the Sea with her beames so doth she raise a surging on the Sea which causeth its increase and decrease the which shall be more largely discus'd in its proper time and place How the Sea belongs to the Perfection of the world that it would have perished without the same and how the waters are ingendered by the Sea THe World could not have been perfect without the Sea for that if there were no beginning of waters there would bee no simple water and if there were no simple water there would be no mixt water and so there could not be any thing of that which is ingendered by water And if there were no water found nothing consisting of a body could bee continued or conglutinated If there were no beginning of Waters generation would be destroyed and consequently all the World Neither without the beginning of Waters could all the assemblings of contraries be performed though they are possible Thus nature would be deficient in those things which are unavoidably necessary and conducing to the same And its property and vertue failing the waters would be hindered in their action by which it would happen there being no beginning of waters that the workmanship of nature would perish and consequently the whole World Aristotle in the second of the Meteors sayes that the Waters of the Seas ingender in the North He would say that the greatest part of the waters of the Sea are ingendred in the North. As Albert the great declares in the second of the Meteors the sixth Chapter where he sayes that the Sea runs from the North to the South and the cause is that the Sea is higher in the North then towards the South and the reason why it is higher is because that the cold of the North ingenders more water than the Sea can contain in the space distance and height of its coast there The water which is in the South is consumed and diminished by the heat of the Sun therefore one part of the South water drives the other back towards the lowermost side yet neverthelesse either moveth accidentally from the place of their generation because that which is moist runs to be retained in the dry part The reason why the water consumes it selfe so much in the South is because the Sunne turnes alwayes in his excentrique circle and that its center is not the same with that of the Earth so that if the Diameter of the circle of the sun were passed between two Diameters its center and that of the Earth the greatest part of the Diameter would be at one side and the lesser at the other in consideration of the Center of the Earth And thus it is Geometrically demonstrated that the greatest length of the Diameter is neare the twentieth degree of Gemini and that the least length of it is at the twentieth degree of Sagitarius its opposite signe It appeares then that the Sunne approaches nearer unto the Earth in the Southerne parts then in the Northerne and thus by its approaching the South heats it so violently that it consumes the water and scorches the Earth which it doth not at the North. Wherefore the Water of the Sea is brinish and salt and that such Water is best for Navigation THe matter which causes the Sea to be brinish and salt is because that there are two sorts of vapours in the Sea viz. Hot and Moist and Hot and Dry The one whereof evaporates it selfe from the superficies of the Sea and the other raiseth it selfe from its bottome by force of the Sunne and Stars which are the efficient causes of its vapours and because that the vapour of the water is very subtle between these two therefore it elevates it self in the Aire and is consumed by the Sun and there remaineth nothing else but the exhalations of the Earth the which are dissipated extended and mingled among the water as appeares by the example of those who eate for the digested meat spreads and divides it selfe through the members and all the grosse and undigested substance remains In the like manner also the vapour of the Earth having extended it selfe remaines mixt with the substance of the Sea water and the coldnesse of the Water drives in so coldly as it consumes it selfe by its owne coldnesse because of its mingling by Antyperistasis which is to say that two contrary things joyned together become stronger then before for the heat of the exhalation which issues from the bottom of the Sea fortifies it self by the vertue of the Sun with its contrary to wit the coldnesse and