Selected quad for the lemma: world_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	circle_n	great_a	pole_n	2,915	5	11.6366	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57390	The merchants map of commerce wherein the universal manner and matter relating to trade and merchandize are fully treated of, the standard and current coins of most princes and republicks observ'd, the real and imaginary coins of accounts and exchanges express'd, the natural products and artificial commodities and manufactures for transportation declar'd, the weights and measures of all eminent cities and towns of traffick in the universe, collected one into another, and all reduc'd to the meridian of commerce practis'd in the famous city of London / by Lewis Roberts, merchant.	Roberts, Lewes, 1596-1640.; Mun, Thomas, 1571-1641. England's benefit and advantage by foreign-trade.; Marius, John. Advice concerning bills of exchange.	1700 (1700)	Wing R1601_PARTIAL; Wing M608_PARTIAL; ESTC R1436	687,097	516

of Traffick stand in his Road the limits and bounds of Kingdoms the disposition of the Inhabitants the alteration of the Climates the Laws of those several Regions the Commodities that those Countries do afford for Merchandizing the plenty and scarcity thereof and lastly how they are supplied with forein Wares and Merchandizes either by Lands Seas or navigable Rivers and all these besides many other needful lessons may be hence learned and observed which laid up in memory both in the course of his life and traffick may in after-times much profit and advantage him The benefit reaped thereby being thus briefly expressed the thing it self challengeth in the next place to be handled which according to my skill and insight I shall succinctly touch so far as is needful to my present purpose Geography demonstrated Geography in brief then is an Art that doth demonstrate by rules in a flat level or Plano the whole Sea and Earth and the division thereof setting down by a certain method the limits and extents of Countrïes Provinces and Dominions of Princes the situation of Cities Towns Hills Rivers Woods c. The bounds of Seas Capes Islands c. All which is performed and expressed by apt lines numbers and parts of the Heavens and lastly it giveth rules to know the distances of the said places either in leagues or miles from one Country City or place to another all which being also necessary to be known by the Merehant I will in few words declare the same Maps and Cards First then to make the same more evident the ground of this Art is ordinarily demonstrated and best expressed in Maps and Cards which do comprize both the Earth and Waters of which making one entire body the Cosmographers do environ with five Circles the first is the Equinoctial then the two Tropicks and lastly the two Polar Circles thereby dividing the whole which now we call the World into five Zones two whereof are found to be cold two temperate and one extreme hot all which in these our days are found to be habitable contrary to the opinion of some ancient Cosmographers of which Circles and their particular parts divisions demonstrations and descriptions it will not be unproper I should briefly handle as an entrance into this work and for the better understanding of what is to follow hereafter The use of Maps and Cards in general Every Map or Card then for the most part is commonly traced with two sorts of lines or circles that is Meridians and Parallels Meridian the Meridians are either Right or Circular lines passing through both the Poles of the World and are imagined to be drawn right up and down from the head to the foot of the Map and called Meridians because that when the Sun cometh to touch any of those lines it is mid-day to those that dwell under the same Parallel And Parallels are either right or circular lines imagined to be equally distant one from another which do cross the aforesaid Meridians with right Angles and in the very midst of these Universal Maps and Cards are most commonly drawn from head to foot a right line which signifieth not only the first Meridian but also the Axletree of the World Poles Artick and Antartick the upper end of which line is call'd the Pole-Artick or the north-North-Pole and the nether end is called the Pole-Antartick or the south-South-Pole Equinoctial and this line is crossed in the very midst betwixt the two Poles with another great circle or rather right line called the Equinoctial because that when the Sun cometh to touch this line or circle the day and night is equal throughout the whole World the one half of which line towards the right hand sheweth the East part and the other half towards the left hand sheweth the West part of the World so as those two lines the first Meridian and the Equinoctial do point out the four Quarters of the World East West North and South from whence the four principal winds do blow between which winds are set down in all general Maps and generally in all Sea-Cards the other division of the winds which as not much pertinent to my present purpose I willingly omit Further It is to be noted that both the Equinoctial and the Meridian Circles or Lines are divided each of them into 360 degrees so as every quarter of them containeth 90 degrees and in the Equinoctial are set down the degrees of Longitude which is the length of the World round about from West to East and from East by West home again The first degree whereof beginneth where the first aforesaid Meridian crosseth the Equinoctial in the very midst of all Universal Maps in general and so proceedeth Eastward unto the number of 180 degrees which is as far as you can go Eastward for from thence by reason of the roundness of the Earth you must needs turn back again Westward until you come to the 360 degrees which is the last degree of Longitude and endeth where the first degree beginneth Moreover In the said first Meridian are set down the degrees of Latitude that is breadth of the World both in Nor hern and Southern for from the Equinoctial to the north-North-Pole are contained in the aforesaid Meridian 90 degrees and that is called the North Latitude and from the Equinoctial to the South-Pole are contained in the said Meridian other 90 degrees which is called the South Latitude and in most Maps the Equinoctial Line is divided and crossed with 18 Meridians on each side of the first Meridian dividing the Equinoctial into 36 several distances every distance containing 10 degrees and every degree containeth 60 Italian miles of length Circles Artick and Antartick Again betwixt the Equinoctial and each of the Poles are drawn certain Circles or Lines which as I said before are called Parallels of which most commonly it is found that four are pointed with red Ink signifying the four lesser Circles the highest towards the North-Pole is called the Circle-Artick which is 23½ degrees distant from the Pole and the lowest towards the South Pole is call'd the Circle-Antartick which is also distant 23½ degrees from the Pole 2 Tropicks 1 Cancer 2 Capricorn and as touching the other two red Circles the one lying betwixt the Circle-Artick and the Equinoctial it is called the Tropick of Cancer and the other lying betwixt the Equinoctial and the Circle Antartick that is called the Tropick of Capricorn and each of these two Tropicks is distant from the Equinoctial 23 degrees 2. 8. ½ which is the greatest declination of the Sun for betwixt these two Tropicks the Sun continually maketh his course and returneth mounting never higher than the Tropick of Cancer nor descending never lower than the Tropick of Capricorn for which cause some do set down in their Maps betwixt the said two Tropicks an overthwart line signifying the Ecliptick line under which the Sun continually walketh Five