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The longitude found, or, A treatise shewing an easie and speedy way, as well by night as by day, to find the longitude, having but the latitude of the place and the inclination of the magnetical inclinatorie needle by Henry Bond ...
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Bond, Henry.
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The Longitude Found OR A TREATISE SHEWING An Easie and Speedy way as well by Night as by Day to find the Longitude having but the Latitude of the Place and the Inclination of the Magnetical Inclinatorie Needle By HENRY BOND Senior Teacher of Navigation and other Parts of the Mathematicks in Store-house Yard in Ratcliff Printed by the Kings Majesties special Comâ—â—â—â— LONDON Printed by W. Godbid and are to be sold by the Author HENRY BOND at his House aforesaid Robert Greene at the Rose and Crown in Budge-Row Godfrey Richards at the Golden-Ball in Cornhill over against the Royal Exchange John Thornton at the Dial in the Great Minories TO HIS Most Excellent MAJESTY Charles II. King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. Dread Soveraign I Humbly beseech Your Gracious Majesty that you would be pleased to pardon my boldness in presuming to present any thing to Your Majesty But understanding that Your Clemency is very great and besides knowing that the thing that I here humbly present unto You is that which hath not been known to former Ages here in our Nation nor to Foreign Nations is not yet known to this day That hath Imboldened me to presume humbly to present it to Your Majesty And that as Almighty God was pleased that the beginning of it should be in this Kingdom so now he is pleased that the Conclusion and chiefest use of it which is to find the Longitude is made known in the time of Your Reign for the Honour of Your Majesty and Your Kingdoms And You have given Command for the Publishing of it that it may be not only for the benefit of Your own Subjects but also for the benefit of all the Christian Nations in the World for which Your Majesty will be acknowledged by the present Generation and recorded to after Generations to be the Rectifier and Setler of the Geography and Hydrography of the whole World The Lord God Almighty bless and prosper Your Majesty with a long and prosperous Reign here and an everlasting Reign in Glory hereafter So prays Your Majesties most Humble and Loyal Subject Henry Bond Sen. HENRY BOND TO THE COURTEOUS READER Courteous Reader HEre is presented unto thee a Mysterie of a Motion that out of all Question hath been ever since the Creation of the World which Almighty God hath been pleased to conceal until this time And now be is pleased that it shall be made known for his own Glory and the benefit of men in the World and hath been pleased to make me an Instrument in his hand to declare it to the World And Our Gracious Kings Most Excellent Majesty hath commanded the Publishing of it that it may be not only for the benefit of his own Subjects but for an Vniversal benefit to all the Christian Nations in the World I shall not enlarge my self in many words to commend its rare and excellent Vse for the easie and speedy finding of the Longitude as well by night as by day having the Latitude of the place which is sufficiently manifested and demonstrated in the Treatise it self By which means the Geography and Hydrography of the whole World will be rectified and setled for which they are all beholding to Our Gracious King's Majesty So Courteous Reader farewell Charles THere are several malitious unworthy Ignorant persons to the number of Fourteen who scandalize the Almighty Jehovah and give him the lie to his face and do much dishonour our Gracious Kings Most Excellent MAJESTY their Ignorance so much superseding their understanding as to speak against the truth of this Treatise thereby bringing a disrepute upon our English Nation and unworthily abusing those Six Honourable and Learned Men who were appointed by the Kings MAJESTY to Examin the truth of the same some of whom gave the Report thereof to His MAJESTY a year and a quarter e're this Treatise was made publick ERRATA PAg 28 last line save one 67. deg 30 min. r. 8 deg 30 min. p. 59. Cape Blanco r. Lat. 51. 32. p. 60. Bermudas r. Lat. 32. 25. Longit. 60. 00. p. 57. Trinity Bay r. Lat 48. 55. THis Treatise Entituled The Longitude Found hath been Examined by Six Commissioners appointed by Order of the Kings Most Excellent MAJESTY and by some of them Reported to His MAJESTY The Commissioners were viz. The Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Brouncker Chancellor to the Queens Most Excellent MAJESTY President of the Royal Society and one of His MAJESTIES Commissioners for the Navy c. The Right Reverend and Learned Father in God Seth Lord Bishop of Sarum the Right Worshipful and Learned Sir Samuel Morland the Honourable and Learned Collonel Titus one of His MAJESTIES Bed-Chamber the Worshipful and Learned Doctor Pell one of His MAJESTIES Chaplains and the Learned Mr. Hook Professor of Geometry at Gresham-College in LONDON And hath been further Confirmed to the Kings MAJESTY by Captain John Wood's Observation in the Streights of Magellan C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT Charles R. CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all Our loving Subjects of what Degree Condition and Quality soever within Our Kingdoms and Dominions Greeting Whereas we have been given to understand That Our Trusty and Well-beloved Subject Henry Bond hath for several years past applyed himself to the finding out the Longitude of any place by the use of the Magnetick Inclinatory Needle and hath at his great Charge and Expence of time Composed a Book Entituled A Treatise wherein is shewed and Demonstrated an easie and speedy way as well by Night as by Day to find the Longitude having the Latitude of the place by the use of the Magnetick Inclinatory Needle whose pains therein as it is greatly to Our Satisfaction so can we no less for his past Industry and future Encouragement in his further Progress of these Studies but express Our good liking and Approbation thereof Know ye therefore That it is Our Royal Pleasure and We do by these presents upon the humble Request of the said Henry Bond not only give him full leave License and Authority to Print the said Book but strictly charge prohibit and forbid all Our Subjects to Reprint within any Our Kingdoms the said Book in any Volume or any part thereof or to import buy vend utter or distribute any Copies or Exemplaries of the same Reprinted beyond the Seas within the term of fifteen years next ensuing the Publishing thereof without the consent and Approbation of the said Henry Bond his Heirs Executors or Assigns as they and every of them so offending will answer the contrary not only by the forfeiture of the said Books Copies or Exemplaries but at their utmost peril Whereof as well the Wardens and Company of Stationers of Our City of LONDON as all and singular Our Officers of the Customs in this Port of LONDON or
to October when Mr. Burrowes did Observe was Four Months which took away the Twelve Minutes Mr. John Kepler that was Mathematician to the Emperor of Germany by his Chronology of Time accounts it from the Creation of the World to the Year of our Lord 1657 to be 5650 years and this motion of the Magnetick Poles notwithstanding it be many times swifter than that motion he accounts upon yet gives the same time with his which makes me much to admire it I doubt not but the Learned in Astronomy will in time collect something more from it than I have done or than hath been formerly known Their motion is by Sixes Six Tenths of a Degree in one year Six Degrees in Ten years Sixty Degrees in a Hundred years and Six times Sixty Degrees in Six Hundred years I have heard that some Divines in former Dayes have been of opinion That as the World and all the Creatures were Created in Six Dayes so the World would continue Six Thousand Years but I will not meddle with that These Magnetick Poles are now in their Tenth Revolution and as I said before agree in Time with Kepler's Motion They will be in June 1674. Ten Degrees and Twelve Minutes to the Westwards of the Meridian of London and Four Degrees and Forty Eight Minutes to the Westwards of the Meridian of the Lizard The use of the Horizontal Needle is admirable yet the motion of it is a forc'd motion and not natural as it appears very plain by Robert Norman a Compass-maker in Ratcliffe above Ninety Years past in his New Attractive who was the first that ever we read or heard of that found out the Inclinatory motion of the Magnetick Needle whose Name ought to be remembred for this thing and Mr. William Burrowes for the Variation of the Compass Almighty God was pleased by these two men so to honour our Nation that the Variation and the Inclination of the Magnetick Needle should be first found in this Nation above all the Christian Nations in the World And now Almighty God is pleased above Ninety years after them to make me an Instrument in his Hand to put it to an use not formerly thought of that is to find the Longitude that as the beginning of it was in this Kingdom so the conclusion of it should be here for the Honour of our Gracious King's Majesty and his Kingdoms unto whom I humbly beseech Almighty God to grant a long a prosperous a happy Reign and Victory over all His Enemies Amen Robert Norman in his New Attractive◠mentions one Petro de Medina that in a Book of his concerning Navigation did hold it for an Absurdity for men to say that the Magnetick Needle had any Variation at all He said it was an Errour in the misplacing of the Wires But leaving him and his Errour I shall shew how Mr. Norman came to find the Inclination of the Inclinatory Needle as he himself writes and how he came to think of such a Needle he had made a large Horizontal Needle and bestowed much time and pains in fitting and polishing of it and had equally poized it on its Pin and when he had touch'd it with the Loadstone and put it on its Pin again the North end of it inclined so low that it was not fit for use he thought to mend it by cutting off some of the end of it and cut off so much that he spoiled the Needle which brought him into a Passion with himself After his Passion was over he considered with himself whether there might not be such a motion of the Needle and then made one and found it so from whence it appears plainly that the Inclinatory motion of the Needle is the Natural motion and that the Horizontal motion although it be of admirable use in the world yet it is a forced motion Some years since I saw an Inclinatory Needle of one Doctor Meret's of the Physicians Colledge in London which was made by Robert Norman in 1578 it being out of order I fitted it for him The use of the Inclinatory Needle I shall hereafter shew to find the Longitude which is a use that our former Learned Magnetick Philosophers did not think of in their time because they knew not the Variating of the Variation We are to take notice that as there is a Magnetick Sphere that hath two Poles so there are other Circles belonging to it as to the other Spheres an Aequator two Colures and Parallel Circles to the Aequator The Aequator for distinctions sake I call the Magnequator the Colure wherein the Poles are the Magnestical Colure the other the Magnoctial Colure the Magnequator doth in a manner represent the Moons Difference because the Magnoctial Intersections with the Aequator of the Earth have a Retrograde motion as the Head and Tail of the Dragon hath Also the Magnequator doth in a manner represent the Ecliptick having a form of situation to the Aequator of the Earth that the Ecliptick hath to the Aequator of the Heavens the greatest obliquity being but 8 d. 30. m. as appeareth in the first Scheme As by the Latitude and Declination of a Star in the Heavens and knowing on which side of the Solstitial Colure it is the Right Ascension may be exactly Calculated So in this if the Latitude of any Place be given with the Inclination of the Needle and on which side of the Magnetical Solstitial Colure it is the Longitude of the Place may be found from the Magnetical Colure and from that the Longitude from any place in the world as I shall make it appear by Examples following But before I go further I shall say something of the Decrease of our Variation here at London since the time of Mr. William Burrowes's Observations in October 1580 and shall set down what the Variations have been found then and since by Observations and by my Calculation according to the motion of the Magnetical Poles  d. ′ ″  d. ′ ″  In 1580 M. W. Burrowes 11-15-00 Bond 11-15-00 East In 1622 M. Edm. Gunter 05-55-37 Bond 05-57-00 In 1634 M. H. Gellibrand 4-03-00 Bond 4-01-00 In 1640 Bond others 3-06-40 Bond. 2-59-00 In 1665 Mr. Robert Hooke the Professor of Geometry in Gresham College in London with Mr. William Mar Mr. Richard Shortgrave and a Gentleman since Deceased and Henry Bond Sen. on the 8th of June in the King's Majesties Private Garden at White-Hall observed the Variation and found it to be 1 d. 22 m. 30 sec West By Bond 's Calculation it was then 1 d. 25 m. 00 sec I have set down these both by Observations and also by my Calculations to give the World satisfaction that I do not delude them to make them think that I know such things and cannot prove them When any that understand themselves have made trial by exact Observations and my Calculations they will acknowledge me to be honest in that which I have written There is one that puts it out