10 To finde the houre of the Sunne his rising or setting in any latitude assigned.
FIrst find out the halfe length of the artificial day by the 9. pro∣position, and subtract the same from 12. houres, the remainder
M. Blundevile his exercises containing sixe treatises, the titles wherof are set down in the next printed page: which treatises are verie necessarie to be read and learned of all yoong gentlemen that haue not bene exercised in such disciplines, and yet are desirous to haue knowledge as well in cosmographie, astronomie, and geographie, as also in the arte of navigation ... To the furtherance of which arte of navigation, the said M. Blundevile speciallie wrote the said treatises and of meere good will doth dedicate the same to all the young gentlemen of this realme.
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- M. Blundevile his exercises containing sixe treatises, the titles wherof are set down in the next printed page: which treatises are verie necessarie to be read and learned of all yoong gentlemen that haue not bene exercised in such disciplines, and yet are desirous to haue knowledge as well in cosmographie, astronomie, and geographie, as also in the arte of navigation ... To the furtherance of which arte of navigation, the said M. Blundevile speciallie wrote the said treatises and of meere good will doth dedicate the same to all the young gentlemen of this realme.
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- Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561.
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- 1594.
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- Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594.
- Plancius, Petrus, 1552-1622.
- Blagrave, John, d. 1611.
- Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
- Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900.
- Trigonometry -- Early works to 1800.
- Early maps -- Early works to 1800.
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"M. Blundevile his exercises containing sixe treatises, the titles wherof are set down in the next printed page: which treatises are verie necessarie to be read and learned of all yoong gentlemen that haue not bene exercised in such disciplines, and yet are desirous to haue knowledge as well in cosmographie, astronomie, and geographie, as also in the arte of navigation ... To the furtherance of which arte of navigation, the said M. Blundevile speciallie wrote the said treatises and of meere good will doth dedicate the same to all the young gentlemen of this realme." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16221.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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will shew the houre of the sunnes rising, for example the sunne be∣ing in the beginning of Taurus to know the houre of his rising in the latitude of 52. degrées, by the ninth propositiō, the half length of the artificiall day I find to be 7. houres, which I subtract from 12. houres the remainder is 5. which sheweth that the sunne riseth at 5. of the clocke in the morning, but the halfe length of the day it selfe is the houre of the sunnes setting.