An Itinerary —— Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell Through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turky, France, England, Scotland Ireland

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ISBN: 9781331364481 出版年：2016 页码：535 Fynes Moryson Forgotten Books

The Geographers search out the greatness In general of of the Globe, and of all the parts in the Geography. superficies thereof, by the helpe of the Celestiall circles, fitted to the Convex or bending of the earth. The circles of heaven are of two sorts, the greater and the lesse.The greater are sixe in number, the. Æquator, Zodiake, two Coluri, Meridian and Horizon.Of which the Geographers in the description of the World, onely make use of the Æquator and Meridian.The Æquator compasseth the middle swelling of the Celestial Sphere betweene both the poles of the world, and the greatest convexitie or bending therof, from the East towards the West, to which circle when the Sun is come by his proper motion (in each yeere twice) it makes two Equinoctials (that is, day and night of equall length), one in the Spring, the other at the fall of the leafe.