A Briefe Introduction to Geography by William Pemble
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latitude 52.0. degrees longitude 24.0. In the table I finde that
52. degrees of Latitude lie in the 9th Climate wherein the day is 16. houres and a halfe longe. So much I say the Day is at Oxford in Summer. The place of Oxford in the Hæmisphere is at (_V_.) 3 Vpon Globes the Climats are not vsually described, but are noted out vpon the brazen Meridian. So also in vniversall mappes they are seldome drawne, to avoide confusion of many lines together, but they are many times marked out on the limbe or edge of the mappe. CAP. 6. _Of the measuring of the earth._ Wee are now come to the last point concerning the measuring of the Earth, which is two fold. Either of the { 1 Whole earth. { { 2 Severall parts thereof, and their distance one from { another. Concerning the first it is but a needlesse labour to recount the diversity of opinions that haue beene held from time to time by learned Geographers. What is the compasse and depth of the earth. This may be seene in _Hues de vsu Globi, part. 3. cap. 2._ and in _Clavius_ on _Sacrobosco_ with others. They all differ so much |
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