A.D. 



1578. 



Paris in 

 France is as 

 hote as under 

 the Equinoc- 

 tial! in June. 



In June is 

 greater heat at 

 Paris then 

 under the 

 Equinoctial, 



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teenth of September : for under the Equinoctiall they 

 have two Sommers, the one in March, and the other in 

 September, which are our Spring and Autumne : and like- 

 wise two Winters, in June and December, which are 

 our Sommer and Winter, as may well appeare to him 

 that hath onely tasted the principles of the Sphere. But 

 if the Sunne bee in either Tropicke, or approching neere 

 thereunto, then may wee more easily measure the force 

 of his Meridian altitude, that it striketh upon the Equi- 

 noctiall. As for example, the twelfth of June the Sunne 

 will be in the first degree of Cancer. Then looke what 

 force the heate of the Sunne hath under the Equinoctiall, 

 the same force and greater it hath in all that Parallel, 

 where the Pole is elevated betweene fourtie and seven, 

 and fourtie and eight degrees. And therefore Paris in 

 France the twelfth day of June sustaineth more heate of 

 the Sunne, then Saint Thomas Hand lying neere the 

 same Meridian doeth likewise at noone, or the Hands 

 Taprobana, Moluccas, or the firme lande of Peru in 

 America, which all lye underneath the Equinoctiall. For 

 upon the twelfth day of June aforesaide, the Sunne 

 beames at noone doe make an Isoscheles Triangle, whose 

 Vertex is the Center of the Sunne, the Basis a line 

 extended from Saint Thomas Hand under the Equi- 

 noctiall, unto Paris in France neere the same Meridian : 

 therefore the two Angles of the Base must needs be 

 equal per 5. primi, Ergo the force of the heat equal, 

 if there were no other cause then the reason of the 

 Angle, as the olde Philosophers have appointed. But 

 because at Paris the Sunne riseth two houres before it 

 riseth to them under the Equinoctiall, and setteth like- 

 wise two houres after them, by meanes of the obliquitie 

 of the Horizon, in which time of the Sunnes presence 

 foure houres in one place more then the other, it worketh 

 some effect more in one place then in the other, and 

 being of equall height at noone, it must then needs 

 follow to be more hote in the Parallel of Paris, then it is 

 under the Equinoctiall. 



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