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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    THE CASTLE OJ KNOWLEDGE; 175 three varieties offhaddowes before mentioned, whiche is a certaine and notable difference, not imagined by men whi- che may erre.but wrought by the fonne,which can not erre. But heere mufte I admoniih you of an other erroure,gathe An other rednotofgroundedreafon.butof phantafticall i'magina> erroure. non, by occafion of whiche,thi's fonde diftmdipn of zo¬ nes was im a gined^ “Bicaufe the elder Grekes had no trade into the fbuth parts of Afrike, nother the Ethiopians again into Grece,and far¬ ther by reafpn the fonne runneth ftill ouer their headdes, that dwell betweene the ‘tropikes, manye of the Ladnes as Well as of the Grekes phantafied that there did dwell no in- h^bitantes,neither could dwell there for the vehement heat: trherforethey called it the B urned Zone^ And of lyke oc- cafion where they moued to accompt ttro other zoaes, that benighthepolesjfobevninhabitedforeoldjbyreafo'nthat ^ the fonne doth neuer come nigher to them then the Tropik ■ ^ circles: but ho w muche herein they were deceaued, it piaye be declared nott)nly by reafon, and by experience; but alfo by autorityof -fnanyof their owne writers,as namely Era- tofthehes,PoGdoniiis,Polybius,andPtolemye.butas this is a fnatter m^re agreeable to the treatifepf Geographye or' Cofmography /then’of the Sphere/o will I ouerpaffe it for thife time, and'Will refufne'tO'it he refte of the circles of the fphcre,amongeft which the Zodiake as pfincipalfdotH of- T'^e zoii freit felfe,aS the COtiimdn theatre and ftage of all the planets rnotidn, and'pf fehe chiefe figrtes and celeftiall figures*. -; ' . ^ ^^Scholarl^At^there I pra^ fou fuche figttfesin the Zodu ake,as Aftronbmers dodeferibeC lo: ^ v-u. - ?^ Maffer^ There are fome that afErme no leflejand teftifye ' that they hade fn a cleere ayre'peirceaued them: but for the refte of the form^V I wiU fay rtothinge now: onlye this I doo ^ affirme whichb l lcyibw; that all the' ftarres whiche aftrono- Wers do nametdbe theres maye-eafily be feene there, and in lyke forme as they doo place them* ' • P*iiij* SchoU
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