A Briefe Introduction to Geography by William Pemble
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rising, and Setting of the Sunne, so it is distinguished into the
{ East where the Sunne ariseth. _Oreins_, _Ortus_ { [Greek: anatolê]. { West where the Sunne goeth downe. _occidens_. { North: betweene both fromwards the Sunne at Noone. { _Septentrio_. { South: betweene both towards the Sun at Noone. { _Meridies_. These foure are called the cheife or Cardinall quarters of the world. They with the others betweene them are easily knowne but are of more vse to Mariners then to vs. Wee may rather take notice of those other names which by Astronomers Geographers Divines and Poets are giuen vnto them. Who sometime call the East the right hand part of the world, sometime the West, sometime the North, & sometime South, the diuersity is noted in these verses, _Ad Boream terræ, Sed Coeli mensor ad Austrum,_ _Præco Dei exortum videt, occasumque Poeta._ That is Geographers looke to the North, Astronomers to the South. Priests turne them to the East, & Poets to the West. This serues for vnderstanding of Authors, wherein any mention is made of the right or left part of the World, if for example he be a poet, he means the South by the right hand, the North by the left: because a poet turnes his face to the West, and so reckons the quarters of Heauen and Earth. 2 The second distinction is by the notable differences of heat and cold, that are observed on the earth, this is the division of the Earth by Zones or Girdles, which are parts of the Earth, wherin heat and cold doe remarkably increase or decrease. Those |
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