GEORGE BESTS DISCOURSE a.d. 



1578. 

 Also this is an other reason, that when the Sunne 

 setteth to them under the Equinoctiall, it goeth very 

 deepe and lowe under their Horizon, almost even to 

 their Antipodes, whereby their twilights are very short, The twilights 

 and their nights are made very extreeme darke and lone:, are / , er >, 



, . ° ill r 1 1 • 1 and the nights 



and so the moysture and coldnesse or the long nights ^ ar y r un % r 

 wonderfully encreaseth, so that at length the Sunne the Equinoc- 

 rising can hardly in many houres consume and drive *?*/ then at 

 away the colde humours and moyst vapours of the night "' 

 past, which is cleane contrary in the Parallel of Paris : 

 for the Sunne goeth under their Horizon but very little, 

 after a sloping sort, whereby their nights are not very 

 darke, but lightsome, as looking into the North in a 

 cleare night without cloudes it doeth manifestly appeare, 

 their twilights are long : for the Parallel of Cancer 

 cutteth not the Horizon of Paris at right Angles, but 

 at Angles very uneven, and unlike as it doeth the Hori- 

 zon of the Equinoctiall. Also the Sommer day at Paris 

 is sixteene houres long, and the night but eight : where 

 contrarywise under the Equinoctiall the day is but 

 twelve houres long, and so long is also the night, in 

 whatsoever Parallel the Sunne be : and therefore looke 

 what oddes and difference of proportion there is betweene 

 the Sunnes abode above the Horizon in Paris, and 

 the abode it hath under the Equinoctiall, (it being in 

 Cancer) the same proportion would seeme to be betweene 

 the heate of the one place, and heate of the other: [III. 51.] 

 for other things (as the Angle of the whole arke of 

 the Sunnes progresse that day in both places) are 

 equall. 



But under the Equinoctiall the presence and abode 

 of the Sunne above the Horizon is equall to his absence, 

 and abode under the Horizon, eche being twelve houres. 

 And at Paris the continuance and abode of the Sunne 

 is above the Horizon sixteene houres long, and but eight 

 houres absence, which proportion is double, from which 

 if the proportion of the equalitie be subtracted to finde 

 the difference, there will remaine still a double propor- 



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