so many difficulties in the precise and exact observation of it; that wee may Well account this inquiry after the longitude of places, to be one of those things whereof wee must be content to be ignorant, & rather to gesse at it in Grosse, then in vaine to striue for exactnesse, which is the cause why the tables of the longitude and latitude of Citties, though they many times agree in the latitude, doe yet for the most part very much differ in the Longitude.

6 The sixth Distinction is by the Length or shortnesse of the Day in Summer time in seuerall Quarters of the earth.  And this diuision is by Climates ([Greek:  chlimata]) which are seuerall spaces of the earth contained betweene two Paralells, in the which the longest day in Summer excedes that in another Paralell by halfe an Houre.  There is a greate deale of Confusion and difference betweene the late and ancient Geographers about the distinction and diuers reckonings of the Climats.  It is not worth the labour to recount theire opinions and Calculations:  thus much is plaine, and easie to bee knowne.  There are 24.  Climats in which the Day encreaseth by halfe houres from 12. houres to 24.  There are likewise 6.  Climats in which the day encreaseth by moneths, from one moneth to sixe that is halfe a yeare.  Vnder the Aequator the day is alwayes twelue houres longe, but as you goe from it towards the Pole, the Day lengthens still till it comes to a day halfe a yeare long.[3] Now in what degrees of latitude euery on of these Climats beginne and end, shall appeare by this table following.

[Footnote 3:  Those that dwell vnder the Pole haue not past 3, or 4 moneths profound as tenebras darke night, for when the Sun is in Libra & Pisces being then nigh, the Horizon it sends forth to them a glimmering light not vnlike to the twilight or dawning of the day in a morning a little before the Suns rising Munster lib.  I. cap.]

7 The seaventh and last distinction of the earth is taken from the scituation of it in respect of the Heavens, and especially the Sunnes motion.  In regard whereof Some parts or inhabitants of the Earth are said to be or dwell in a Right Spheare, some in a paralell Spheare, and others in an oblique or crooked Spheare.

They dwell (in Sphaera recta) in a right or streight Spheare who dwell iust vnder the AEquinoctiall, whose Horizon is paralell to the Meridians, but cutts the AEquator at right Angles, they dwell in paralell Spheares, who dwell iust vnder either of the Poles, whose Horizon is parallell to the AEquator, but cuts all the Meridians at right Angles:  and the latter is sometime called a Paralell Spheare.

They dwell (in Sphaera obliqua) in a crooked Spheare, who inhabite any place betweene the AEquinoctiall and the Pole, whose Horizon cuts the AEquator, the Paralells, and the Meridians at oblique or vnequall angles.

A table of the climats.