The historie of the vvorld: commonly called, The naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke. The first [-second] tome

About this Item

Title: The historie of the vvorld: commonly called, The naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke. The first [-second] tome
Author: Pliny, the Elder.
Publication: London :: Printed by Adam Islip,; 1634.
Rights/Permissions: To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
Subject terms: Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works.
Cite this Item: "The historie of the vvorld: commonly called, The naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke. The first [-second] tome." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09763.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.

Pages

CHAP. LXXVII.

¶ How the dayes are obserued.

THe very day it selfe men haue after diuers manners obserued. The Babylonians count for day all the time betweene two Sun-risings: the Athenians, betweene the settings. The Vmbrians from noone to noone. But all the common sort euery where, from day light [unspec L] vntill it be darke. The Roman Priests, and those that haue defined and set out a ciuil day, like∣wise the Egyptians and Hipparchus, from midnight to midnight. That the spaces or lights are greater or lesse betwixt Sun risings, neere the Sunsteds, than the equinoctials, it appeareth by this, that the position of the Zodiake about the middle parts therof is more oblique and croo∣ked, but toward the Sunsted more streight and direct.