Popular treatises on science written during the Middle Ages, in Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and English / Edited from the original manuscripts by Thomas Wright.

  • Thomas Wright
Date:
1841
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Credit: Popular treatises on science written during the Middle Ages, in Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and English / Edited from the original manuscripts by Thomas Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lande ne cymb naefre nan winter ne ren-scuras ; ac on mid- dan urum wintra beob hyra feldas mid weortum blowende, o hyra orcerdas mid aepplum afyllede. JEfter heora ge-ripe gaeb seo ea up Nil us, j ofer-fled eall f Egiptisce land, -j stent ofer-flede hwilon monab hwilum leng, ^ sybban to twelf mon¬ bum ne cymb p>aer nan ober scur, ob p seo ea eft up-abrece, swa swa hyre ge-wuna is, aelce geare aene. j hi habbab )mrh p cornes swa fela swa hi maest recceab. De Mundo. Middan-eard is ge-haten eall p binnan J?am firmamentum is. Firmamentum is ]?eos roderlice heofen, mid manegum steor- rum amet. Seo heofen j sae y eorbe synd ge-hatene middan- eard. Seo firmamentum tyrnb symle onbutan us, under ]?ys- sere eorban 3 bufan, ac peer is un-ge-rim fac betweox hyre j peeve eorban. Feower j twentig tida beob agane, p is an daeg 0 an niht, aer ]?an be heo beo ymb-tyrnb. j ealle ba steor- ran pe hyre onfaeste synd turniab onbutan mid hyre. Seo eorbe stent on aele-middan, ]?urh Godes mihte swa ge-faest- nod, p heo naefre ne byhb ne ufor ne nybor J>onne se aelmih- tiga scyppend pe ealle bing hylt buton swince hi ge-stabe- lode. iElc sae ]ieah heo deop sy haefb grund on baere eorban, seo eorbe abyrb aelce sae, j )?one miclan garsecg, j ealle wyll-springas, j ean, ]?urh hyre yrnab. Swa swa aeddran lic- geab on baes mannes lichaman, swa licgab ]?as waeter aeddran J?urh bas eorban. Naefb naber ne sae ne ea naenne stede bu¬ ton on eorban. De JEquinoctiis. Manegra manna cwyddung is, p seo lenctenlice ymniht ge- byrige rihtlice on octava kl. April., p is on Marian maesse daege. Ac ealle ]?a Easternan j Egiptiscan, pe selost cunnon In Egypt there comes never any winter or rain-showers ; hut in the midst of win¬ ter their fields are blowing with plants, and their orchards full of apples. After their harvest, the river Nile rises, and overflows all Egypt, and the overflow stands sometimes a month, sometimes more, and then for twelve months there comes no shower again, until the river again break up, as its custom is, every year once. And they have thereby corn as much as they care for. All that is within the firmament is called the world. The firmament is the ethereal heaven, adorned with many stars ; the heaven, and sea, and earth, a e called the world. The firmament is always turning round about us, under this earth and above, and there is an incalculable space between it and the earth. Four and twenty hours have passed, that is one day and one night, before it is once turned round, and all the stars which are fixed in it turn round with it. The earth stands in the centre, by God’s power so fixed, that it never swerves either higher or lower than the Almighty Creator, who holds all things without labour, established it. Every sea, although it be deep, has its bottom on the earth, and the earth supports all seas, and the ocean, and all fountains and rivers run through it; as the veins lie in a man’s body, so lie the veins of water throughout the earth. Neither sea nor river has any position but on earth. Many men say that the vernal ecpiinox falls rightly on 8 Kal. April., that is on St. Mary’s day. But all the Orientals and Egyptians, who are best acquainted