Certaine briefe, and speciall instructions for gentlemen, merchants, students, souldiers, marriners, &c. employed in seruices abrode, or anie way occasioned to conuerse in the kingdomes, and gouernementes of forren princes
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- Certaine briefe, and speciall instructions for gentlemen, merchants, students, souldiers, marriners, &c. employed in seruices abrode, or anie way occasioned to conuerse in the kingdomes, and gouernementes of forren princes
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- Meyer, Albrecht, 1528-1603.
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- 1589.
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The first Section. Cosmographie, or the description of the worlde: wherein is to bee noted. (Book 1)
- 1 THe longitude and latitude of the place, not Geometrically, but by the de∣grees.
- 2 The declination of the pole, and of the loade-stone, from the pole of the worlde.
- 3 The variation of the compasse, both of the Marriner, and sunne dials, from the ” 1.1 Meridionall line.
- 4 Vnder what ” 1.2 Parallel the place is situated: whether vn∣der the Aequator, or betweene the ” 1.3 Aequator and a Tropike, or vnder one of the Tropikes, or be∣twixt a Tropike, and the circle ” 1.4 Artike: or vnder the Artike or ” 1.5Antartike circle: or betwixt the Articke circle and the pole, or vnder the pole it selfe.
- 5 Vnder what climate or portion of the firmament be∣twixt North and South.
- 6 In what ” 1.6 Zone, either temperate, or intemperate, cold, or burning.
- 7 In what Hemisphere, or halfe spheare, septentrionall, or southerly.
- 8 Whether the place be about vs, against vs, or vnder vs, as the Antipodes, which are people going with their feete to ours.
- 9 The manner of the shadowes, or the proportion be∣twixt the diall and the shadowe.
- 10 The quantitie of the day, and of the night.
- 11 The least and greatest lights of the sommer ” 1.7 Solstitiall nightes.
- 12 The rising and the setting of the sunne in the Solstitiall dayes.
- 13 The beginnings, and ending, of the morning and eue∣ning twylightes.
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” 1.1
Or South.
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” 1.2
Lines of e∣quall distance in the spheare.
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” 1.3
A circle wherein the sunne makes the daies and nightes of equall length.
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” 1.4
Or northerne
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” 1.5
Or southerne opposite to the Artike.
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” 1.6
Whereof the Astronomers make 5. in the spheare.
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” 1.7
So called of Solstitiam which signifi∣eth the stay of the sunne whē it can go nei∣ther higher nor lower.