The English globe being a stabil and immobil one, performing what the ordinary globes do, and much more / invented and described by the Right Honorable, the Earl of Castlemaine ; and now publish't by Joseph Moxon ...

OPERATION VI. To know what a Clock 'tis at any time, in any place of the World.

THere is no Operation perchance in the whole Treatise,* 1.1 more diverting and pleasant than this; nor scarce any more readily perform'd after a very little Reflection, even in the most difficult Cases. For having Compos'd your Globe, if it be then 12. a Clock with you, the standing Hour Circles or Me∣ridians already described, will (by the Common or little Figures which lye within or upon the Roman ones, that surround the Po∣lar Circles,) shew you exactly the Hour, wheresoever you cast your Eye; That is to say, that 'tis about 2. of the Clock at Con∣stantinople, 3 at Aleppo, &c. But now, if it be not 12. with you▪ but (v. g.) 3 in the afternoon, when you desire to know the then hour at Constantinople, add the said 3 a Clock to the Figure 2. (which you see lyes, as I now mention'd on the Meridian or Hour-Circle, that runs near that City) and 'twill tell you that 'tis about 5 a Clock there; and thus you must always do, un∣less the time of the Day with you, and the Figure that lies on the Meridian of the place in question make a greater number than 12; for then the Hour sought for, is what remains above 12; as for Example, if it be 11 with you, then this with 2, (i. e. the Figure near the Meridian of Constantinople) making

13, do but cast away 12, and you may conclude it there 1 in the Afternoon.

There are several other ways of performing this Operation;* 1.2 as finding the Difference of Longitude between you and the Place in Dispute, and so adding or substracting it (as need requires) from the true time of the Day, Or else by calling it always Mid day, there where the Hour Circle that shews your* 1.3 then true time of the Day (which by our Example is 3 in the Afternoon) crosses, for by counting from thence to the Me∣ridian of the Place in question, either forwards or backwards (as 1, 2, 3, 4, or 11, 10, 9, 8, &c.) according as the said Place lies East or West from 3, and all is done; I say there are several ways to perform this Operation, but seeing the first is the most clear and expedite, I solely insist on it: and now be∣cause you may be perchance running over with your Eye, the whole Globe, and considering how one Situation or Country differs from another in time, 'twill not be amiss to tell you that there are 3 Places, that have more particular Relation to your Dwelling or Habitation than any other.

The first is that, which lies opposite to you in your own* 1.4 Parallel, whose Inhabitants are called by the Antients PERIAECI, or Circumcolae, from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Circum & 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 habito, and though by the Word, all People are comprehended that dwell any where in the said Parallel, yet Geographers com∣monly mean those by it, that are thus Diametrically situated. These then live in the same Zone and in the same Clime, and cast the same kind of Shade with you: These enjoy your pro∣portion of Heat and Cold, your Seasons of the Year, your En∣crease of Days and Nights, and in short all things else of this kind, saving that your Hours are opposite; their six in the Evening being your six in the Morning; and your Noon their Midnight.

The Second Place lyes under your very Meridian, or 12 a* 1.5 Clock Hour Circle, which makes your Hours and theirs the same, but by being 51 g 30′. on the other side of the Aequator, it happens that tho you all agree in the Temperament of your Zones, number of Climes, in the Casting a Shadow on one side onely, and the like; yet their Zone and Clime are Southern, their Shade falls toward that Pole, their Summer is your Win∣ter; and your Spring their Autumn; so that from this con∣trariety

they are named ANTAECI or Adversicolae from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 contra, & 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Habito.

The Last is the Nadir or Point on which the Globe stands, whose Inhabitants are called ANTIPODES. i. e. opposita ha∣bentes vestigia, or men that walk Feet to Feet with you, from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Contra, & 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Pedes. These imply (even by the vulgar acception of the word) the height of Opposition; and since they are the very Antaeci of our Periaeci, participating thereby of whatever was opposite to you in either of the former Pla∣ces, it is no wonder that you enjoy together neither Day nor Night, nor Season of the Year, nor any thing else of this Na∣ture.

Notes

• * 1.1

  First way.
• * 1.2

  Second way.
• * 1.3

  Third way.
• * 1.4

  Of the Periae∣ci.
• * 1.5

  Of the Antae∣ci.