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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	ancient_n	impossible_a	zone_n	15	3	13.0599	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51553	A tutor to astronomie and geographie, or, An easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, coelestial and terrestrial in six books : the first teaching the rudiments of astronomy and geography, the 2. shewing by the globes the solution of astronomical & geographical probl., the 3. shewing by the globes the solution of problems in navigation, the 4. shewing by the globes the solution of astrological problemes, the 5. shewing by the globes the solution of gnomonical problemes, the 6. shewing by the globes the solution of of [sic] spherical triangles : more fully and amply then hath ever been set forth either by Gemma Frisius, Metius, Hues, Wright, Blaew, or any others that have taught the use of the globes : and that so plainly and methodically that the meanest capacity may at first reading apprehend it, and with a little practise grow expert in these divine sciences / by Joseph Moxon ; whereunto is added Antient poetical stories of the stars, shewing reasons why the several shapes and forms are pictured on the coelestial globe, collected from Dr. Hood ; as also a Discourse of the antiquity, progress and augmentation of astronomie.	Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691.; Hood, Thomas, fl. 1582-1598.	1659 (1659)	Wing M3021; ESTC R23159	189,557	267

the number of degrees that the Sun Moon or any Star is distant from the Equinoctial towards either Pole and hath a double Denomination viz. North Declination and South Declination for if the Sun Moon or Star swarve towards the North Pole they are said to have North Declination if towards the South Pole South Declination The Right Ascension is the number of degrees of the Equinoctial accounted from the first point of Aries which comes to the Meridian with the Sun Moon or Star or any other point in Heaven proposed The Oblique Ascension is the number of degrees of the Equinoctial which comes to the East side of the Horizon with the Sun Moon or any Star The Oblique Descension is the degrees of the Equinoctial which comes to the West side of the Horizon with the Sun Moon or any Star The Ascensional Difference is the number of degrees after subtraction of the Oblique Ascension from the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●scension So many degrees as you are said to sail towards the Pole you are said to Raise the Pole and so many degrees as you sail from the Pole you are said to Depress the Pole Course is the point of the Compass you sail upon as if you sail East-wards it is an Easterly Course if West a Westerly Course c. Distance is the number of leagues you have sailed from any Place upon any Course A Zone is a space of Earth contained between two Parrallels The ancient Geographers made five Zones in the Earth Two Frozen Two Temperate and one Burnt Zone The two Frozen Zones are those parts of the Globe comprehended between the North Pole and the Arctick Circle and the South Pole and the Antarctick Circle by the Ancients called inhabitable because the Sun being alwaies far remote from them shoots its beams Obliquely upon them which Oblique beams are so very weak that all their Summer is but a continued Winter and the Winter as they thought impossible to be at all indured The Temperate Zones are the space of Earth contained between the Arctick Circle and the Tropick of ♋ and the Antarctick Circle and the Tropick of ♑ by the Ancients called Temperate and Habitable because they are composed of a sweet Mediocrity between outragious Heat and extremity of Cold. The Burnt Zone is the space of Earth contained between the Tropick of ♋ and the Tropick of ♑ called by the Ancients Unhabitable because in regard the Sun never moves out of this Zone but darts its Beames perpendicularly upon it they imagined the Air was so unsufferable Hot that it was impossible for any to inhabite in this Zone So that as you see they held the two Temperate Zones only habitable and the two Frozen Zones and one Burnt Zone altogether unpossible to be inhabited But their Successors either animated by industry or compeld by necessity have apparently confuted that Assertion for at this time many thousands can witness that their bloods are not so greasie as to be melted in the Scortching heat of the one or so watry as to be congealed in the Icy frosts of the other The Ancients have yet otherwise divided the Earth into four and twenty Northern Climates and four and twenty Southern Climates so that in all there is eight and forty Climates The Climates are altered according to the half hourly increasing of the longest daies for in the Latitude where the longest daies are increased half an hour longer then they are at the Equator viz. longer then 12 hours the first Climate begins and in the Latitude where they are increased an whole hour longer then in the Equator the second Climate begins where the daies are increased three half hours longer then in the Equator the third Climate begins and so onwards the Climates alter according as the longest day increases half an hour till you come to find the longest day 24 hours long Now the Ancients in those times knowing no more then nine Habitable Climates gave names only to nine The first they called Dia Meroes after the name of a famous Inland Iland which is scituate about the middle of that Climate and is now called Gueguere The second Climate they called Dia Syenes after the name of an eminent Citty in Egypt lying about the midst of that Climate The third Dia Alexanderas after the name of the Metropolitan Citty of Egypt The fourth Dia Rhodes The fifth Dia Romes The sixth Dia Ponton The seventh Dia Boristheneos The eighth Dia Ripheos The ninth Dia Daniam These names belong only to the Climates on the North side of the Equator But those on the South side in regard of the smal Discoveries those Ages had on that side the Equator were distinguisht only by the addition of the word Anti to the same Southerly Climate as the first Southern Climate which is that Climate that lies as many degrees to the South-ward as the first doth to the North-ward they called Anti Meroes The second Anti Syenes The third Anti Alexanderas and so on to the ninth In every Climate is included two Parallels which are of the same nature with the Climates save only that as the Climates alter by the half hourly increasing of the longest day the Parallels alter by the quarter hourly increasing of the longest day Furthermore in respect of the Horizon we find the Sphear constituted into a threefold Position as first into a Direct Sphear Secondly a Parallel Sphear Thirdly an Oblique Sphear A Direct Sphear hath both the Poles of the World in the Horizon and the Equinoctial transiting the Zenith In a Direct Sphear all the Circles Parallel to the Equator make right angles with the Horizon and are also divided into two equal parts by the Horizon and in a Direct Sphear the Sun Moon and Stars are alwaies twelve hours above the Horizon and twelve hours under the Horizon and consequently make twelve hours Day and twelve hours Night It is called a Direct Sphear because all the Celestial Bodies as Sun Moon and Stars c. by the Diurnal Motion of the Primum Mobile ascend directly above and descend directly below the Horizon They that inhabite under the Equator have the Sphear thus posited as in the Iland Borneo Sumaira Celebes St. Thomas a great part of Africk Peru in the West-Indies c. as you may see by the Globe it self if you move the Brasen Meridian through the notch in the Horizon till the Poles thereof touch the Horizon As in this Figure A Parallel Sphear hath one Pole of the VVorld in the Zenith the other in the Nadir and the Equinoctial line in the Horizon In a Parallel Sphear all the Circles Parallel to the Equinoctial are also Parallel to the Horizon and in a Parallel Sphear from the 10th of March to the 11th of September the Sun being then in the Northorly Signes and consequently on the North side the Horizon there is six Moneths Day