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.

Of the moouing and shape of the starres. Chap. 22.

WHat moouing haue the starres?

The selfe same moouing that the hea∣uen hath wherein they are placed.

Whereby are the heauens moo∣ued?

Some saye that the first mooueable is turned by God himselfe, and all the rest of the heauens euery one by his proper intelligence, which though it turneth his heauen about, yet it giueth neither life, sense, nor vn∣derstanding thereunto, as some haue vntruely holden, affirming the heauens to be liuing and intelligible bodies.

If the starres haue no moouing of themselues, wherof com∣meth it then, that some seeme to our sight sometime nigher and sometime further off.

All the fixed starres of the firmament are alwayes of like di∣stance, notwithstanding by reason of the manifold moouing of the firmament, wherein they are placed, they séeme to change their places, and sometime to bee more towardes the East or West, North or South. And whereas the vii. Planets called the wan∣dring starres, do change their places now here now there, that chanceth not by their owne moouing, but by the moouing of the heauens wherein they are placed: for a starre being round of shape hath no members méete to walke from one place to another, but onely changeth his place through the motion of his Spheare or heauen wherein such Planet is fixed.