2. VVhat the Meridian circle is.
THe Meridian is a circle beginning due South, and so passing by youre Zenith that is right ouer the crowne
A regiment for the sea conteyning most profitable rules, mathematical experiences, and perfect knovvledge of nauigation, for all coastes and countreys: most needefull and necessarie for all seafaring men and trauellers, as pilotes, mariners, marchants. [et] c. Exactly deuised and made by VVilliam Bourne.
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- A regiment for the sea conteyning most profitable rules, mathematical experiences, and perfect knovvledge of nauigation, for all coastes and countreys: most needefull and necessarie for all seafaring men and trauellers, as pilotes, mariners, marchants. [et] c. Exactly deuised and made by VVilliam Bourne.
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- Bourne, William, d. 1583.
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- Imprinted at London :: By [Henry Bynneman for] Thomas Hacket, and are to be solde at his shop in the Royall Exchaunge, at the signe of the Greene Dragon,
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"A regiment for the sea conteyning most profitable rules, mathematical experiences, and perfect knovvledge of nauigation, for all coastes and countreys: most needefull and necessarie for all seafaring men and trauellers, as pilotes, mariners, marchants. [et] c. Exactly deuised and made by VVilliam Bourne." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16510.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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of your head, and so by the two Poles of the worlde: and if you doe trauell due South and North, you doe not chaunge youre Meridian: but in the going or trauelling any other way, you do chaunge it.
The vse of the Meridian circle.
THe vse of the Meridian circle is, to knowe the iust tyme of noone by the Sunne: for as soone as the middle of the Sunne is vpon the Meridian, then it is noone, and when the Sunne, Moone, or any Star is vpon the Meridian, then they be farthest from the Horizon, and it is a meete time to take their heigth for to know the altitude or heigth of the Pole of the worlde, whereby you may perfitly knowe howe farre you bee too the Southwardes or Northwardes of any place.