|are accounted by +---------+-----------+ to passe by diverse Ilands | |the months from | 1 | 67 15 | within the Articke circle | |66 Degr. 31 min. +---------+-----------+ as Groenland, Island, | |where the day is | 2 | 69 30 | Greenland:  wherein as yet | |24 houres vnto +---------+-----------+ for the narrownesse of | |the Pole it selfe| 3 | 73 20 | these climats comming | |set at 90 Degrees+---------+-----------+ neere together, and the | |where the | 4 | 78 20 | vncertainty of | |artificiall day +---------+-----------+ observation no | |is sixe Months. | 5 | 84 0 | speciall places haue beene | | +---------+-----------+ assigned as to the other. | | | 6 | 90 0 | | +-----------------+---------+-----------+-------------------
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1 The vse of this table is easie.  In the first Culumne are contained the names and number of the Climats.  In the second the Paralells which enclose it on each side, and deuide it in the middest.  For the paralells here are drawne by euery halfe houres encrease.

The third Columne is the length of the Day in Summer, in euery Climate, which from 12. houres encreaseth by halfe houres to 24. houres after by moneths, from one moneth to sixe.

The fourth containes the degrees of latitude, how farre euery climate lies from the AEquinoctiall.

The fift contaynes the space or breadth of euery Climate, how many degrees or minutes it takes vp vpon the Earth.

The sixt containes some notable places by which the Climats passe.

2 Hereby it is easie to know what the longest Day is in any Place of the worlde whose latitude is knowne.  Or contrarily the longest Day being knowne to know the latitude.  For example Oxford hath 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 Haemisphere 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 one from another, that there is no certainty in trusting any of them.  The most common and received opinion is that the circuit of the earth is 21600 miles, reckoning 60 miles for every degree, and then the depth or Diameter of the Earth shall be 6877 English miles, containing 5000 foote in a mile.