Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	call_v	earth_n	sea_n	3,957	5	6.9260	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85533	The antiquity & excellency of globes what a globe is, and of the circles without the globe, what the horizon is ... moreover of the circles which are described on the superficies of the globes ... all which are proper to the celestiall and terrestiall globes, with their uses ...	Grant, W.	1657 (1657)	Wing G1524A; ESTC R42273	18,681	28

THE ANTIQUITY EXCELLENCY Of GLOBES What a Globe is and of the Circles without the Globe what the Horizon is with the things described thereon also what the Meridian is the Poles Axes Houre-Circle and Index Moreover of the Circles which are described on the superficies of the Globes of the equinoctiall circle Zodiack and Eccliptick of the Tropicks what the Artick and Antartick Circles are of the Verticall Circles and quadrant of Latitude of the Zones and their numbers of Climates and Paralels All which are proper to the Celestiall and Terrestiall Globes with their uses profitable for all that would be instructed in Geography He stretcheth out the North over the empty place and hangeth the Earth upon nothing Job 26. 7. LONDON Printed by M. S. and are to be sold by Tho. Jenner at the South-Entrance of the Old-Exchange 1657. Geographie and the Principles thereof Certaine termes of Land and Water plainly defined and described THe Terrestiall Globe is defined to be a Sphericall body proportionably composed of Earth and Water into which two parts it is divided Whereof the Earth comes first to view whose parts are either Reall Imaginary and the reall parts either Continents Islands Now a Continent is a great quantity of Land not interlaced or seperated by the Sea in which many Kingdomes and Principalities are contained As Europe Asia Africa America An Island called in Latine Insula quasi in salo is a part of the earth environed round with waters as Britaine Java St. Laurence Isle Burmudas These againe are sub-divided into Peninsula Istmus Promontorium A Peninsula is almost an Island that is a tract of Land which being almost encompassed round by water is joyned to the firme Land by some little istmus as Poloponnesus Taurica Cymbrica and Parvana An Istmus is a little narrow neck of Land which joyneth any Peninsula to the continent as the straits of Dariene in Peru and Corinth in Greece Promontorium Is some high mountaine which shooteth it selfe into the Sea the utmost end of which is called a Cape as that great Cape of good hope and Cape Verde in Africa Cape Comori in Asia and that of Saint Michaels Mount in Cornwall the North Cape up in Norway and divers others There are likewise other reall parts of the earth as mountaines vallies fields plaines woods and the like The other generall part of the Globe is the water which is Divided into 1 Oceanus 2 Mare 3 Fretum 4 Sinus 1 Oceanus The Ocean is that generall collection of all waters which invironeth the whole world on every side 2 Mare The Sea is part of the Ocean to which we cannot come but through some strait as Mare Mediterraneum Mare Balticum and the like These two take their names Either from the adjacent places as the British Ocean the German Sea the Atlantick Sea Or from the first discoverer as Mare Magellanicum Davis and Forbishers straits c. Or from some remarkable accident as Mare Rubrum from the red colour of the sands Mare Aegeum Pontus Euxinus and the like 3 Fretum a Strait is a part of the Ocean restrained within narrow bounds and opening a way to the Sea as the straits of Gibralter Hellespont Anian 4 Sinus a Creek is a crooked shoar thrusting out as it were two armes to imbrace the lovely presence of the Sea as Sinus Adriaticus Sinus Persicus and Corinthiacus To this also belong Rivers Brooks and Fountains which are engendred of congealed aire in the earths concavities and seconded by the Sea waters creeping through hidden crannies thereof Thus much of the real parts of the Globe in generall Of the Circle of the Map and their uses THe Earth and Sea composed themselves in a Sphericall figure and is caused by the proper inclination of each part which being heavy falls from every poynt of the circumference and claps about the center there settles as near as it may towards his place of rest we may illustrate both the figure and scituation by a familiar similitude to an ingenious apprehension Suppose we a knot to be knit in the midst of a Cord that hath many ends and those to be delivered to sundry men of equall strength to be drawn severall wayes round from every part above and below and on each side Questionelesse while every man draws in the boes of the knots it must needs become round and whilst they continue to pluck with equall strength it must rest immoveable in the middle betwixt them since every strength that would destroy hath a strength equall to resist it so it is in the bosome of the earth where every part wheeles upon equall priviledge of nature nor can any presse farther then the center to destroy this compacted figure for it must meet there with a body that will oppose it or if not yet could it not passe since every motion from the middle were to ascend which nature will not permit in a body of weight as the whole earth is The compasse of the whole is cast by our latest and most learned to be 21600 English miles which though none ever yet so pared as to measure them by the foot yet let not the ignorant reject this accompt since the rule by which they are led cannot faile for we see by continuall experience that the Sun for every degree in the Heavens gaines sixty miles upon the earth towards his circuit round and after three hundred sixty degrees returneth to the same poynt in respect of us as before it was repeat the number of 60 so oft and you will finde the accompt just and so by proportion of the circumference to the diameter which is tripla sesqui-septima the same which 22 hath to 7. We may judge likewise of the earths thicknesse to the center The whole diameter must by rule be somewhat lesser then a third part of the circuit that in proportion to 21600 will be 6872. halfe the number will reach the middle of the world and that is 3436. in this report both of the quantity and forme of the earth we must not require such exactnesse as cannot vary a haires breadth for we see the mountaines of the earth and oftentimes the waves of the Sea make the superficies unequall it will be sufficient if there be no difference sensible to be reckoned in so great a bulk for let us rudely hew a ball out of rough stone still it is a ball though not so smooth as one of Christal or suffer a mote to fall upon a sphear of glass it changeth not its figure far lesse are the mountains which we see in respect of the whole lumpe What a Globe is A Globe we may define to be an Analogicall representation either of the Heavens or of the earth and we call it Anagolicall not only in regard of its forme expressing the figure of the Heavens as also of the terrestiall Globe consisting of the earth it selfe together with the interflowing Seas but rather because that it representeth unto us in a just