GEORGE BESTS DISCOURSE ad. 



1578. 

 of the clocke, and mooveth every houre 15. degrees, 

 and so high very neere will it be with us at London [III. 50.] 

 the said eleventh day of March at noone. And therefore 

 looke what force the Sunne hath with us at noone, the 

 eleventh of March, the same force it seemeth to have 

 under the Equinoctial at half an houre past eight in 

 the morning, or rather lesse force under the Equinoctiall. 

 For with us the Sunne had bene already sixe houres 

 above the horizon, and so had purified and clensed all 

 the vapours, and thereby his force encreased at noone; 

 but under the Equinoctiall, the Sunne having bene up 

 but two houres and an halfe, had sufficient to doe, to 

 purge and consume the cold and moyst vapours of the 

 long night past, and as yet had wrought no effect of 

 heate. And therefore I may boldly pronounce, that 

 there is much lesse heate at halfe an houre past eight 

 under the Equinoctiall, then is with us at noone : a 

 fortiori. But in March we are not onely contented to 

 have the Sunne shining, but we greatly desire the same. 

 Likewise the 1 1 of June, the Sunne in our Meridian 

 is 62 degrees high at London : and under the Equinoctiall 

 it is so high after 10 of the clocke, and seeing then it is 

 beneficial with us ; a fortiori it is beneficiall to them after 

 10 of the clocke. 



And thus have wee measured the force of the Sunnes 

 greatest heate, the hottest dayes in the yeere, under the 

 Equinoctiall, that is in March and September, from sixe 

 till after tenne of the clocke in the morning, and from 

 two untill Sunne set. And this is concluded, by re- 

 specting onely the first cause of heate, which is the 

 consideration of the Angle of the Sunne beames, by a 

 certaine similitude, that whereas the Sunne shineth never 

 above twelve houres, more then eight of them would bee 

 coole and pleasant even to us, much more to them 

 that are acquainted alwayes with such warme places. So 

 there remaineth lesse then foure houres of any excessive 

 heate, and that onely in the two Sommer dayes of the 

 yeere, that is the eleventh day of March, and the foure- 

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