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temperate, it resteth to declare where the hottest part 

 of the world should bee, for we finde some places more 

 hote then others. 

 Greatest heate To answere this doubt, reason perswadeth, the hotest 

 under the Tro- pj ace \ n t h e WO rld to bee under and about the two 

 * Tropickes ; for there more then in any other place doe 



both the causes of heate concurre, that is, the perpen- 

 dicular falling of the Sunne beames, at right angles, and 

 a greater continuance of the Sunne above the Horizon, 

 the Pole there being elevated three or foure and twentie 

 degrees. And as before I concluded, that though the 

 Sunne were perpendicular to them under the Equinoctiall, 

 yet because the same continued but a small time, (their 

 dayes being short, and their nights long) and the speedie 

 departure of the Sunne from their Zenith, because of the 

 suddeine crossing of the Zodiake with the Equinoctiall, 

 and that by such continuall course and recourse of hote 

 and colde, the temperature grew moderate, and very well 

 able to bee endured : so nowe to them under the two 

 Tropickes, the Sunne having once by his proper motion 

 declined twentie degrees from the Equinoctial, beginneth 

 to draw neere their Zenith, which may bee (as before) 

 about the eleventh day of May, and then beginneth to 

 sende his beames almost at right Angles, about which 

 time the Sunne entreth into the first degree of Gemini, 

 and with this almost right Angle the Sunne beames will 

 continue untill it bee past Cancer, that is, the space of 

 two moneths every day at noone, almost perpendicular 

 over their heades, being then the time of Solstitium 

 Aestivale : which so long continuance of the Sunne about 

 their Zenith may cause an extreeme heate (if any be in 

 the world) but of necessitie farre more heate then can 

 bee under the Equinoctiall, where the Sunne hath no 

 such long abode in the Zenith, but passeth away there- 

 hence very quickly. Also under the Tropickes, the day 

 is longer by an houre and a halfe, then it is under the 

 Equinoctiall ; wherefore the heate of the Sunne having a 

 longer time of operation, must needes be encreased, 



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