A prognostication of right good effect fructfully augmented, contayninge playne, briefe, pleasant, chosen rules, to iudge the wether for euer, by the sunne, moone, sterres, cometes, raynbowe, thunder, cloudes, with other extraordinarie tokens, not omitting the aspectes of planetes, with a brefe iudgemente for euer, of plentie, lacke, sickenes, death, vvarres &c. Openinge also many naturall causes, woorthy to be knowe[n]. To these and others, now at the last are adioyned, diuers general pleasaunte tables: for euer manyfolde wayes profitable, to al maner men of vnderstanding: therfore agayne publisshed by Leonard Dygges Gentylman, in the yeare of oure Lorde. 1555.

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Title: A prognostication of right good effect fructfully augmented, contayninge playne, briefe, pleasant, chosen rules, to iudge the wether for euer, by the sunne, moone, sterres, cometes, raynbowe, thunder, cloudes, with other extraordinarie tokens, not omitting the aspectes of planetes, with a brefe iudgemente for euer, of plentie, lacke, sickenes, death, vvarres &c. Openinge also many naturall causes, woorthy to be knowe[n]. To these and others, now at the last are adioyned, diuers general pleasaunte tables: for euer manyfolde wayes profitable, to al maner men of vnderstanding: therfore agayne publisshed by Leonard Dygges Gentylman, in the yeare of oure Lorde. 1555.
Author: Digges, Leonard, d. 1571?
Publication: Imprynted at London :: Within the blacke Fryars, by Thomas Gemini,; 1555.
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Subject terms: Metereology -- Early works to 1800.; Astrology -- Early works to 1800.; Almanacs, English -- Early works to 1800.
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The composition of an instrument, for the houre of the night: which is also a perfect Dial for the day.

THe takinge of an Altitude supposed, I coulde exactly in fewe (and that without an instrument) satisfie. And for want of that knowledge, make vpon a playn bourde, or rather fine plate, a circle: the byggar the better: part it into 360. porcions, thus.

The circle made, diuide it in 6. not mouing the compasse: then euery of them in 6: and eche of those last in 10: so haue you 360. par tes. Then Character it, begynning at the North thus, 10. 20. 30. &c. (as in the figure) towarde the East, ending with 360. Nowe laye a ru∣ler on the centre, euen with some diuisions, drawinge thorowe to the extremes of the circle, a lyne. Then crosse that with an other. These two must diuide your circle in 4. equal partes: which lynes shewe the verye Easte, VVest, Northe, and Southe, when by a Meridian or square Diall, with a nedel rectified, they are placed. Now to ende, set a small streyghte wyre, a foote or more long, plumme vprighte in the centre: and there fasten it. Thus this instrumente is finisshed, to be fixed about your house, equidistāt or leuil with the Horizon: ha∣uinge a nedell, yf ye lift, in it, trewlye to plage it, when and where you will. That it maye be also a Dial, you muste pull streyghte lynes from the centre, to euery fyf∣tēth part: decking them with Characters in the inwarde margent, conueniently as ye see the figure. Thus whan the Sunne shyneth, the shadow of the wyre, sheweth the trew houre &c. beynge trewly plaged, wel placed, and rered, as foloweth.