The rules and righte ample documentes, touchinge the vse and practise of the common almanackes, which are named ephemerides A briefe and shorte introduction vpon the iudiciall astrologie, for to prognosticate of thinges to come, by the helpe of the sayde ephemerides. With a treatise added hereunto, touchinge the coniunction of the planets, in euery one of the. 12. signes, and of their prognostications and reuolutions of yeres. The hole faithfully, and clerely translated into Englyshe by Humfrey Baker.

For to knowe the quantitie of the arti¦ficial daye and of the nighte, and at what houre the sunne rysethe and setteth. 16. rule (Book 16)

ANd too the ende that all menne maye knowe, if they canne see the eclipses of the sunne or of the moone which happen nere vnto the hori∣zont

aboute the sunne settinge, or the sun risinge, it is necessarye to knowe the quā¦titie of the dayes and of the nightes arti∣ficiall, and at what howre the sunne ry∣seth and setteth. There is than before the table of the Ephemerides, a table intituled Tabula quantitatis dierum, that is to saye a table of the quantitye of the dayes: the whyche conteyneth in the hedde the lati∣tudes, or eleuations of the pole of al pla¦ces vpon the earth, from. 36. degrees, vn¦till. 55. degrees: and at the left hand there are. 6. sygnes of the zodiack & other. 6. at the righte hande, whyche are distributed from. 3. degrees to. 3. in the middes of the sayd table are comprehended the houres and mynutes of the halfe of an artificial daye, whyche are from the sunne risyng vntyll noonetide, or from noonetide vn¦tyl the sunne settyng, when the sunne is in the signes septrentionalles: or eles the howres & minutes of half of the nyghte whyche are from the sunne settynge vntyll mydnyghte, or from mydnyghte vntyll the sunne rysyng, whan the sōne is in the sygnes meridionalles, knowe then in what signe, and degree the sunne is, and howe muche the poole is eleuated aboue your horizont, as before hath be••∣sayd.

And take the sayde sygne and degre at the ryghte, or lefte syde of the aboue sayde table, and procede ryghtelye in the same table, vntyll that you be ••ustelye at the nombre of youre pole: and there you shall finde the howers, and minutes of the halfe of the artificiall day if the sunne be in the septentrionall parte of the zodi∣acke: or elles of the haife of the nyghte, if he bee in the meridionall parte: what syg¦nes are septentrionalles, and what me∣ridionals hath beene declared in the fifte Rule. The whiche is likewise euident by the sayde table, by these woordes, Sig▪ Bor. fig. Aust. Yf you double then, the sayde ho¦wres and minuttes of the halfe of the ar¦tificiall daye, you shall haue the whole day: and if you do substra them from. 24. howres, there resteth the nyghte. Or yf you double the howres and mynutes of the halfe of the nyghte, you shall haue the nyghte wholye: and if you substra them from. 24. howres, there restethe the artyfyciall day, and by thys meanes you maye knowe at what howre the Sunne rysethe, or settethe euerye daye in the yeare.

For the daye artificial dureth from the sunne risinge to noone, vntill the sunne setting: and the night artificial, from the sunne setting vnto midnight, and so vn∣til the sunne rising. And the natural day of. 24. houres dothe comprehend them both.