5 The fifth distinction is of the Length and Breadth of the Earth
and places vpon it: these may bee considered two wayes

1 Absolutely, and so the
{ Longitude or Length of the Earth is its Circuit, and
{ Extension from East to west,
{
{ Latitude or breadth of it, is the whole Circuit and
{ Compasse of it from North to South.

2 Comparatiuely: comparinge one places scituation with
another, and so the
{ Longitud of a place, is the distance of it from the
{ first Meridian going through the Canary Ilands,
{ Eastward. Whereby wee know how farre one place lies
{ East or West from another.
{
{ Latitude of a place, is the distance of it from the
{ Æquator towards the North or South. Whereby wee know
{ how farre one Place lies Northward, or Southward of
{ another.

The Longitude must bee reckoned by the degrees of the Æquator,
the Latitude by the degrees of the Meridian.

For example, in these two Hæmisphæres, the longitude of the whole
earth is from (_C_) to (_A_) and (_B_) in the Æquator. The
latitud is from (_N_) to (_S_), and from (_Q_) to (_P_) the North
and South poles, and this reckoned in any meridian. The first