The fecond Booke of * 



is the very feat thereof i here wee feeke for honours knd dignities, here wee exetGife our ruleand 

 authoritie : here we covet wealth and richefTe : here all mankind is fet upon ftirres and troubles • 

 here wee raife civile watres ftill one after another; and,with mutuall inafTacres and murders v^ee 

 make more roume in the earth. And to let pafle the publick furious rages of nations abroad^this 

 is ifjwheiein we chafe and drive out our neighbour bordererSj and by ftealth dig turfe from our 

 neighbours foile to put it unto our owne ; and when a man hath extended his lands^ and gotten 

 whole countries to himfelfefarrc and necre^what a goodly dealeof the earth enjoieth bee? and 

 fay that bee fet out his bounds to the full meafure of his covetous defire^ what a great portion 

 thereof fhali he hold' when he is once dead^and his head laid. 



Chap. LXiXi 

 That th£ earth is in the middejl of the mrJd, 



Hatthecarthisinthemiddeflof the whqle Woild , itappearcth bymanifeftand un- 



' J. ' ^doubted rcafons:but moft evidently ^by the equall houres of die equino«5tiall. For^un- 

 "ileffe it were in the middeftjthe Aftrolabe and inltruments called D.oph^^ have proved^ 

 that nights and daies could not poffibly bee found equall : and diofe abovcfaid inftru- 

 ments above all otherjconfirm the fame : feeing that in the equinodiall by one and the fame line 

 bothrifingandfettingof the Sun are feenejbut the Summer Sunnerifing, and the Winter (et- 

 ting, by their owne feverall lines. Which could bynomeanes happen;, biu that the earth re- 

 ftethintheGenue, \ 



, Chap. lxx. 



}^ of the unequallr'tfrjg of the Starres : of the Eclipfey both when 

 and howitcommtth, 



pOwthree Circles there be enfolded within the Zones afore named, which diftinguifli 

 I che inequalities of the daies : namely, the Summer Solftitiall Tropicke/rom the higheft 

 ~ part oftheZodiacke in regard of us, toward the North clime. And againft it, another 

 called the Winter Tropicke, toward the other Southerne Pole; and in like manner the Equi' 

 notliallj which goeih in the mids of the Zodiacke circle. The caule of the reft,which we wonder K 

 at, is in the figure of the very earth, which together with the water, is by the fame arguments 

 knowne to be like a Globe : for fo doubtlefle it commeth to pafle^that with us the ftars about the 

 North pole,never go down 5 and thofecontrariwile ol the Meridi5m,ncver rife. And again^thefc 

 here be not feen of them, by reafbn that the globe of the earth fwelleih up in the mids between. 

 AgainjTrogloditineand i£gypt,confining next upon it,never fet eie upon the North pole ftars: 

 neither hath Italie a fight of Canopus,or that which they name Berenius haire,\J^xmiQ another, 

 which under the Empire of ^.v^//y//^,menfurnamedC^4r/^ Thronon : and yet they be ftarres 

 therejof fpeciall marke. Audio evidently bendeth the top of the earth in the rifing, that Cano- 

 pus at Alexandria feemeth to the beholders,elevate above the earth almoftone fourth part of 3 

 figne: butifamanlooke from Rhodes, the lame appeareth after a fort, to touch the very Hori- L 

 zon: and in Pontus, where the elevation of the North pole is higheft,notfeeneatall:yea,and 

 this fame Pole at Rhodes is hidden,but more in Alexandria. In Arabia, all hid it is at the fitft 

 watch of the night in November; but at thefecond, itfheweth. InMeroe, at Mid-fummer in 

 the evening, it appearech for a while ; but fome few daies before the rifing of Ardurus, feene ic 

 is with the very dawning of the day. Saylersby their voyages, find out and come to the know- 

 ledge of thefeitarres moft of any other, by reafon that fome leas are oppofice unto fome ftarres 5 

 but other lie flat and encline forward to other: for that alfo,thoie pole Ibrres appeareibdainly, 

 and rifing out of the fea,which lay hidden before under the winding compaflcjas it were of a baU. 

 For the heaven riTeth not aloft in this higher pols,as fome men have given out;elfe ("hould thefc 

 flats be ieene in every place: but thofe that unto the next Sailers are fuppofed to be higher, the M 

 rie fame feeme to them afarre off drowned in the fea. And like as this North pole feemeth to be 

 aloft unto thofe that are fituate ciredly under itjfo to them that be gone fo farreas the other 

 devexitie or fall of the earth, thofe abovefaid flats rife up aloft there, whiles they decline down- 

 ward which here were mounted on high. Which thing could not poffibly fal out but in the figure 

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