The castle of knowledge / [Robert Record].

  • Robert Recorde
Date:
1556
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The castle of knowledge / [Robert Record]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    201/322 page 173
    THE CAJTLE knowledge; not one vniforme manner in a11 pl3ces,But are ditierflv chan -gednhat IS t»dl alleaged.Airo Pofidonius him felfe mhen he difl'intfteth the zones, doth fay, that hue zones are needefull and fufficient for celeftiall obferuacionsirohereof tiro tthich te vnder thepolcs,are caled PerifcicC,or Round fbadotred, bicaufe their fliaddoroes run roundabout them. And thefe Zones extend to that place,trhere the tropik circles and the Arelike circles are all one. After thefea there do follow two other, which reache from thence vnto thole partes , that arc dircdly vnder the tropiksiand thefe haue their noone (had- dowe running one waies ftyll, and therfore are called Hete- rblciar.or Single (hadowed.The fift zone lyeth'betwene the •tropikes;and cafteth thenoone lhadows waies, wherefore the Greekes-call if Amphifcion.that is doubfr (hadowed. Scholar.By this tranflation (which is worth a paraphra- •lis) I doo not onlye perceaue the fence of thefe wordes.whfr che before Were darke, partly for the hardnes of the matter,' and partlye for the hypallage, in changinge of the fpeakers perfon. but alfo I efpye the monftrous lhape of the old trait •flation. And.by this I gather alfo,that Strabo wouldenot haue the Temperat zones tO'be bounded by the Ardakand ‘ A ntardike circles* . ♦ His mytide appearetk more manifeft anon after .trheieheblameth Polybius, for'affigninge thofe circles as boundcs of thezones: whereof one (ho uld be mclofed with in that circle,andthe other (hould extend from it to thenext •tropike^thcn he concludeth thus:that. thofe Vneonftant cir-* cics, may be no boundes of certentye* > - - i: r. • ^ on cuiiiioic-2vx -A '• D/dum emm eft, quod per figna^tranfmigrantia,caqu;e non tantur, tenininarc non conuenitJ•' m ^ * • ' f ’ \ : '■t j r For I hauefaydebefore, thatchaungablelimites may not' ^ peappointed as boundes to vttchaungable places* ^ Sell* Thijs itappeareth, that the diftihdionofzonesby P.ii].- ‘ ^ 'the / ^ h \
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3