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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    / rOVRTH T R I S H OF hce dothc go about the whole Zodiake^' Iiipiter hath a fwyfter courfe, for he pafleth the circuitc of heauen in lefle then li yea res* fo doth he cuery yeare run pucr one figne^and eucry two moneths he pafleth 5 degres*. tKw. ’ Mars is yet fwyfter in courfc then hee, and compafleth all the Zbdiake in i yeare, and euery moneth pafleth halfc a figne*whcrby for this point,he is more cafy to be marked, then anye of the others but yet are his motions difficulte to marke in other pointes: but this may iiiffice for tryall that he moucth eaftwarde, as all the other Planetes do: and ther ' fore muft he be iudged, as all the other alfo oughte to hauc r. r- fctierall fphercs in whichc they model And although theyr ^heres can notbee feenc; yet in as muche as their ftarres maye be fo well perceaued, it mufte heedes follow,that they ‘ hauefpheres alfo: except we (huld come to that abfurditie to fayc, that they moue in the Ayer as byrdes do, or as fy> flies in the wat^: whiche were to muche repugnante to any one ordrely motion,and much more difagreyng to fo ma^ ny diners motions as are-in the Planetes , but namely in Mars and Mercury* And to the intent that you may know them the better,' it (hall bee good that you learne their true places by the Ephemerides j and accuftome your felfe to loke for them, and.to marke their bignes and colours how they differ from other ftarres * whiche is ipoken by wayc of exhortation onlviand hot propouned as anye pccce of this booke,but ah other time IwiUinftruftc you better therein^ vgqhbhn But in the meane time; home (hall I know whe^ dier there be anye more ipheres or nbC - Maftcr* There is thoughtc to bein the $ (phere *or Fir>^ ^ • , of the ntth mament, tWo other motions, whiche: he difagrecable irom ^ dndtenthe all Other mouinges before mentionedi and therfore many fphcrc, fhinke that they mufte of neceflitye cbnfefle z other (pheres from: whiche thofe motions muft.procecde pcculiarly^ 1 Scholar* What motions arc thofe, and howe arc they knowen^^ -LiT'