The castle of knowledge / [Robert Record].

  • Robert Recorde
Date:
1556
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Credit: The castle of knowledge / [Robert Record]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mired by.'A)the as the (pace toward the one fide js (hor^ ter the the fpa'ce to the other' fide fro the earth, fo the ftars iroulde feeme biVacr in that. ^ nearer part,and kUer in that farther parte^ ■ i ^ < ' ^ - -> Mafter^Therfore ean not itbea true 6pfhibn,thatinferi-eth <b falfe’acoitclufion.And yettberctrouldefoUorobfitTrioreabfiirditieuhatfroinihe | Corning vntiU noone (hould bee (hortcr tyme, or els Ion- :: , ger then from ftbbhcvntill fiygbt* ' , ■ Scholar. Thatmuft needes foloW alio, frey ng that noorie iSthattimeof thedayejWhen thclonneis m the circle . which goeth right ouer our headdes from lotith to north ,whichc i herein this figure is reprefentedby theright line B E D,as Igatherby your former dodrine. ; ^ r ' r ''Mafter. Ybtigeirewellandbythe'contraryeof alkhele you may conclude thus; that feyng the> tyme before noone • t; mentof all is ecjualle to the tyme after nbone, atidtheftarres appear^ thcfrmi;^ nother bygget nor lefler in the weftc then they doo in i theeafte: Andthatwheh'thefbnneis.irithe Equinodialt lyne, the dayes are equalfrib the nightes , 'it folotrcth cer- - | tamly.e, thattheearthecatinebeenqwayesoutof the Axe i tree of the woride. ' ! - And now for the fecondeopinion I realon thus. -; •; 1 - jf theeafthetrereonthe Axe tree Of^the woride nyghcr i: /woiidopi. Pole-then tOthe«ther rthen Woidde the 'Ho- ; rizonte onlye. in the righte Sphere dyuMe the Iky’c into
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