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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

of the world which is contayned within the hollowe vpper face of the Moones Orbe and Sphere in which are all corruptible bodies and thinges harmed by diuerse alterations except the minde of man the causes of which are the contrary actions of the first qualities Also the foure Elements are simple bodies which into parts of diuers forms cannot be deuided yet through the mutuall commixion of these are diuerse kinds of bodies caused Therefore whatsoeuer bodies are in the Elementary region bee either simple myxt or compound bodies In that the mixt bodies are all those which may be deuided into parts of diuerse kinds To these of the foure Elements the next ioyning within the hollow vpper face of the Moones Orbe is the most thinne Ayre being the lightest of the Elements kindled through the dayly moouing about of the celestiall circles which for this congruency with the fire named the elemental fire that is dayly drawn about by the Orbs compassing it which may appeare by the Comettes and other fiery kindes ingendred in the same Element of a hot and dry vapoure that are likewise caried about The next within that doth the ayre runne being a heauier Element then the fire yet lighter then the water which also is drawne about by a like motion as may appeare by the clouds and other like impressions ingendred in the same but to the nether region of the same consist the laterall motions as wée dayly sée by the blowing of the windes Farther Vitellio in his tenth booke and 60. chapter affirmeth that the cloudes are distant from the vpperface of the earth 25000. paces or 13. Germayne myles But acording to same writers they are vnequally distant from the earth as somewhiles further off and somewhiles néerer to the earth For when the cloudes are furthest distant from the earth they are but 772000. paces and being nearest the earth are 288000. paces distant To conclude this Elemente compasseth and encloseth both the earth and water by his largenesse The nexte Element to the Ayre which mooueth is the water for the same is mooued by a motion of flowing and ebbing which it maketh after the motion of the moone in that it floweth sixe houres and ebbeth so many vntill the moone by the motion of the first moouer hath passed about all the quarters of heauen Also the water hath a motion and that downward into the earth so that these two ioynt ly annexed make as it were one body Yet the earth béeing the heauiest Elemente hath a motion attributed as it were simply downwarde vnto the middle notwithstanding agréed of all men that the same is immouable and the Centre of the world These foure that is the fire ayre water and earth are named to be the foure Elements and both the simple and Original matters of which all mixt bodies are compounded and made The proofe that there is onely fowre Elements is this that to each Element the two first qualities agrée and the Combynations the like of the foure qualities as of heate and dryeth which consist in the fire of moysture and heat which rest in the ayre of coldnesse and moysture which be in the water of drynesse coldnesse which is found in the earth By these it is euident that there are but foure Elements of which heate excéedeth in the fire moysture in the ayre coldnesse in the water and drynesse in the earth To conclude it appeareth that heat with colde and moysture with dryeth cannot aptly be ioyned What the Starres are and that as to the motion of their Orbes they are carried about THe Ethereall region contayneth the Starres which are the thicker parts of their Orbs perfit rounde cleare most pure and simple and frée of any mixture except the Moor which is darker then the others yea variable and shadowed And these fastened to their Orbes by which in certayne continuall and appoynted times and orders are drawne about and performe their returnes in the determinate spaces of times and those continually agréeing in themselues that they may so ingender the differences and orders of times and in the inferiour nature prepare and cause the first quallities and other effects The Sunne the fountaine of light doth not onely giue light and make shine cleare the inferiour bodies but the superiour also by the brightnesse and light of his beames But the Stars seeing with a borrowed light they shine which is far weaker then the sunnes therefore with that strange light which they take properly of the sun doe they shine although vnlike to the sun For into all the starres which by nature are rounde about thynne and penetrable is the sunnes light equally shed and pearceth and so filleth all that they are subiect to no times of encreasing and decreasing of light But the Moone séeing it is an vnperfit body and that it hath the partes some where thynne somewhere thicker and better compact therfore doth it not equally nor round about receiue the sunnes light So that the thynner parts take more of the sunnes light and of the same doe clearer shine But the lesser shadowed parts which also are seene appeare darker as the spots in the moone do shew That the bodies of the starres are round doe the round formes in the Eclipses of the sun and moone shew yea in what parts of the world those Eclipses happen doe the bodies also of the starres at that time appeare perfit round Although the bodies of the starres be knowne by sundry reasons to be round as a bowl yet by their great distance from the earth appeare to vs as playne or flat Nor the Starres are not moued by their owne proper motions but by the Accydentary as vnto the motion of the Orbs to which they hang as partes vnto the motion of the whole For to euery round body doe two proper motions onely belong as a moning to and fro and turning about Therefore the Starres séeing they be round are by some proper and principall motion caried round But the fixed Stars are not so moued rounde in that they turned about doe not altar the same face or body which they once turned and shewed to vs but that the same shoulde of necessity happen like being turned round in one place about their Exe-trée with the others in the same motion béeing in the parts far distant and the others then set and hidde vnder the earth Nor are they turned hither and thither in that they neuer change the standing and place which they haue in their Orbe which to those caried hither and thither woulde happen Therefore not by a proper and chiefe motion are they caried about but by an accidentary drawing about of their Orbes which what the same is shall after appeare That Heauen is drawne round THe Ethereal region do the Philosophers also name quinta essentia or as it were a fifte body constituted aboue the foure Elementes being incorruptible deuine consisting of the noblest and purest part of the ayre Which also is placed aboue

hand with the Signes decently placed the Arks or roots of the declinations follow those numbers which rootes are no other then the arkes of the circle of the Latitude that is the circle passing by the Poles of the Ecliptike included betweene the Ecliptike and Equatour The generall Table of the Declinations ♈ ♎ Arkes ♉ ♏ Arkes ♊ ♐ Arkes G ●r m̄ ●r m̄ ●r m̄ G 0 0 0 12 16 20 38 30 1 0 26 12 37 20 40 29 2 0 12 12 37 21 0 28 3 1 18 12 58 21 11 27 4 1 44 12 58 21 21 26 5 2 10 13 19 21 31 25 6 2 36 13 40 21 40 24 7 3 2 14 0 21 49 23 8 3 28 14 20 21 58 22 9 3 53 14 40 22 6 21 10 4 19 14 50 22 14 20 11 4 45 15 18 22 21 19 12 5 10 15 37 22 28 18 13 5 25 15 55 22 35 17 14 6 0 16 ● 22 41 16 15 6 25 17 31 22 47 15 16 6 50 17 48 23 52 14 17 7 15 17 5 23 57 13 18 7 39 17 22 23 2 12 19 8 3 18 ●8 23 7 11 20 8 27 18 54 23 11 10 21 8 ●● 18 0 23 15 9 22 9 15 18 25 23 18 8 23 9 39 19 40 23 21 7 24 10 2 10 55 23 23 6 25 10 25 19 9 23 25 5 26 10 48 19 23 23 27 4 27 11 10 20 36 23 28 3 28 11 32 20 49 23 29 2 29 11 54 20 36 23 30 1 30 12 16 20 30 23 30 0 Ecli● ♏ ♓ ♌ ♒ ♋ ♉ Ecli● THe meridianes with the Horizont in any right or thwart in the other foure greater cyrcles doe distinguish all heauen into twelue spaces which they call the houses of heauen Of these foure which occupy the angles of heauen are called the quarters the foure nexte to these are named the succedents the last included by the succedentes and angles are named the declining houses and the cadent from the angles The meridian also hath a most great vse in Cosmographie for by it the describers of the world measure the longitudes and latitudes of places and cities which beeing knowne the distance of cities may easily be found That you may vnderstand what the longitude and latitude of a place is it behoueth you to know the distinctiō of the earth after the Geographers which is on this wise The Geographers doe assigne or imagine two points on the earth right vnder the poles of the world after that they deuise a cyrcle equally distant on either side frō these these two points right vnder the equinoctiall which deuideth the whole Globe of the earth and water into twoe equall halfes This cyrcle thus described on earth they distribute into 360. parts or degrées in procéeding from the West into the East by each degrées of this cyrcle and by the points right vnder the poles they imagine and draw 180. cyrcles which for that they are vnder the celestiall meridians they also call meridians and those they deuide into thrée hundred thréescore parts or degrées by which parts they imagine and draw the Parallell or equidistant cyrcles to the equinoctiall procéeding from the equinoctiall on either side towardes the pointes in the poles lying vnder these Parallels although they bee not of the same bignesse or largenesse for how much nearer the poles they are so much the narrower and strayter they run togither Contrariwise how farre of they bee from the Poles and nearer to the Equinoctiall so much the wider and larger they runne yet doe they deuide as the Equinoctiall or any other greate cyrcle into thrée hundreth and thrée score partes or degrées Howe this deuision of the earth beeing learned and vnderstoode a man may the more easily conceiue what the longitude and latitude of places is The longitude of a place as I haue afore written is the arke of the equinoctiall cyrcle or Parallell passing by the Zenith of the place which is sought after included betweene the two meridians as betwéene the first meridian which by the Zenith of the Iles of Canarie and further off is imagined to bee drawne and the Meridian of the place offered that is the longitude of any place is the distance thereof from that westerly point from which the beginning of lōgitudes is accounted toward the East They began to account the longitude from the west through the proper motions of the Planets which are caried vnto the contrary quarter from the West or rather for the Moone at whose Ecclipses it is well knowne that it more auaileth then the true finding out the longitudes of places or as some rather thinke likelier that the places which ende and stand furthest Westward inhabited haue bene sures and perfecter found For through the nearenesse and opportunity of the iourneyes which they in auncient time were mooued to f●aua●le and saile ●●●● as the twoe Iles named Gades which lie by the furthest parts of Spaine beyond Granade and since through the passage by West Occean men of later yeares haue sailed about the furthest partes without stop or impediment But vnto the Eastward they were stopped of their course by a great distance through the difficulty and perill of the iourney And since beyond the halfe circle almost thréescore degrées men haue sailed to Scythia besides Imaus which nowe is named the great Tartaria that reacheth bordering to the vpper India where the most large kingdome of Cathagia vnder the parallell of Thracia flourisheth where Bebeid Cham was gouernour And that is the part of Tartaria which beginneth from the riuer Tanais so that the largenesse of Schithia Asiatica from the West to the East doeth almost take vp 84. whole degrées America in the sea Atlanticus is of such greatnesse that the same is supposed to be a fourth part of the world inhabited the middle or halfe of it hath the longitude of 330. degrées and the latitude of tenne degrées Southward The sea Altanticus hath many large Ilands in it among which the most notable are Spagnolla Cuba Parias otherwise Chersouesus by the straight that reacheth vpward into the north The middle of the same hath the longitude of 285. degrées the latitude Northerly 44. degrées For from 11. vnto 50. almost it reacheih vnto America streacheth far into the South beyond the tropick of Capricorne although his bounde or furthest part Southerly bee not yet founde or knowne To the auncient it was no further knowne Southward then 17. degrées beyond the Equinoctiall and the furthest knowne to them Northwarde excéeded not thrée score and thrée degrées which as Ptholomie witnesseth was vnto the Iland Thylen So that the whole latitude found by them appeareth to be 80. degrées both of the one and the other side of the equinoctial and on earth the same containeth 40. thousand furlongs to which 50. hundred paces answere but Germaine miles two hundreth thousand agrée Also the Iland Thilen or Thulen standeth beyond Scotland and the Iles Hebrides