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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    principles of Aftronomye thofe bookes can not bee Pnderjlahde. ^hen for vnhare artes ho\s> the knowledge cfebbes and puddeS doth iofite^ mam. men, but j}ecialhe mariners can tejtijieland mmeIy 'fucheasvnder/{ande,whaterrourcommethby the diffej, rence Jf the true accompte therein and the wlgare accompte.A^ aainehrloppmge of trees and wodde fill, anddmrs other ob., ferJtions in hufbandry, the confideration of thefinne and com> monheof themoone doth greatly healpe.WherfireJ mm con', elude, that in all artes and faiences, in tawe,phyjtckeanddiu,m', tie,inmrinersarteaHdhufbandrye,thtprofieofiAfr^^^^ exCedingnecejfarye.ButaboueallotherthingeSthe ■ Chrififin theferipture doth mojl appro,it, ^hen he dooth^' clarethatfignes of his Camming, andof other Jlraunge^tBes (hallbe feene in the Sottne, Moone andStarres. ^fofbralte', fiationoflstetkrheteflifiedthatmany „en, aJdpronouncedmiafthefwether , and therefire blan,eth them that theicoulde not marke and mdgetk Jtgncs of the com' mngof the Sonne of man. Buthmpofiiblye fom men mil ok iedthe ftynge of the prophetet Feare not the {tgnes ofhemm wherevhtoj maye duelye anfvere: that thofe woordes of Hte remye dofirbidde honouringe 'of them as goddes, as the^ tex^ is plaine.% oftentimes in theferiptwresfrar of God^ taken fir hLnre ofGod,andfo is it here.els other ^ayes might J anfscer that the Lfnuauntes of God whiche haue repofed the hue and fare of Cjodin their hearte's, are neuerafrdeifat^ t^ensthat '^God fendeth, but reioyce to fie them, andglorifie (fod fir them. ^ut bicaufeinthiscajetherebemanye diuines, that cm better de dare thofe thinges then Jfithiche am a man of an o6crprofit', on 1 Wd remitte that matter to them.only admonijhmg all men, ' that the Sonne, tk Moone and the Starrts ,ieere ordamd if Cod to feme all nations that be vnder the heattens, asMojis dooth teflifie. Thenfmge God hath made tkmfor mamescom moditie] and to bedifimflersftimes,andfoifi^es and tokens, J-QT -m
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