The arte of nauigation wherein is contained all the rules, declarations, secretes, & aduises, which for good nauigation are necessarie & ought to be knowen and practised: and are very profitable for all kind of mariners, made by (master Peter de Medina) directed to the right excellent and renowned lord, don Philippe, prince of Spaine, and of both Siciles. And now newely translated out of Spanish into English by John Frampton. 1581.
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The arte of nauigation wherein is contained all the rules, declarations, secretes, & aduises, which for good nauigation are necessarie & ought to be knowen and practised: and are very profitable for all kind of mariners, made by (master Peter de Medina) directed to the right excellent and renowned lord, don Philippe, prince of Spaine, and of both Siciles. And now newely translated out of Spanish into English by John Frampton. 1581.
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Medina, Pedro de, 1493?-1567?
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Imprinted at London :: By Thomas Dawson, dwelling at the three Cranes in the Vinetree, and are there to be solde,
[1581]
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"The arte of nauigation wherein is contained all the rules, declarations, secretes, & aduises, which for good nauigation are necessarie & ought to be knowen and practised: and are very profitable for all kind of mariners, made by (master Peter de Medina) directed to the right excellent and renowned lord, don Philippe, prince of Spaine, and of both Siciles. And now newely translated out of Spanish into English by John Frampton. 1581." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07388.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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The seconde of December I tooke
the sunne in sixtie seuen degrees, this
day he had of declination twentie three
degrees, ioyne the declination, and the
altitude they amounted to nientie de∣grees,
and being so I was in the equi∣noctiall,
for because the sunne at south,
the shadowes going from me towards
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the north, I was more towardes the
north then the sunne, the sunne this day
was distant of the line twentie three
degrees which was his declination, so
that taking the altitude in sixtie seuen
degrees, there was from me to the sun
twenty three degrees, in such sorte that
the same twentie three degrees which
the sunne was distant of the line, the
same was I distant of the sun towards
the line, so thereby I knew that I was
in the saide line.
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